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JOB
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- Hear diligently my speech,
- And my declaration with your ears.
- Behold now, I have ordered my cause;
- I know that I shall be justified.
- Who is he that will plead with me?
- For now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.
- Only do not two things unto me:
- Then will I not hide myself from thee.
- Withdraw thine hand far from me:
- And let not thy dread make me afraid.
- Then call thou, and I will answer:
- Or let me speak, and answer thou me.
- How many are mine iniquities and sins?
- Make me to know my transgression and my sin.
- Wherefore hidest thou thy face,
- And holdest me for thine enemy?
- Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro?
- And wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
- For thou writest bitter things against me,
- And makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
- Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths;
- Thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.
- And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth,
- As a garment that is moth eaten.
- Man that is born of a woman
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