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JOB
- Or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;
- If I rejoiced because my wealth was great,
- And because mine hand had gotten much:
- If I beheld the sun when it shined,
- Or the moon walking in brightness;
- And my heart hath been secretly enticed,
- Or my mouth hath kissed my hand:
- This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge:
- For I should have denied the God that is above.
- If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me.
- Or lifted up myself when evil found him:
- Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin
- By wishing a curse to his soul.
- If the men of my tabernacle said not,
- Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.
- The stranger did not lodge in the street:
- But I opened my doors to the traveller.
- If I covered my transgressions as Adam,
- By hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:
- Did I fear a great multitude,
- Or did the contempt of families terrify me,
- That I kept silence, and went not out of the door?
- Oh that one would hear me!
- Behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me.
- And that mine adversary had written a book.
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