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- And Job again took up his parable, and said:
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- As God liveth, who hath taken away my right;
and the Almighty, who hath dealt bitterly with me;
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- All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils,
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- Surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, neither shall my tongue utter deceit;
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- Far be it from me that I should justify you;
till I die I will not put away mine integrity from me.
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- My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go;
my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.
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- Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and let him that riseth up against me be as the unrighteous.
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- For what is the hope of the godless, though he get him gain, when God taketh away his soul?
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- Will God hear his cry, when trouble cometh upon him?
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- Will he have his delight in the Almighty, and call upon God at all times?
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- I will teach you concerning the hand of God;
that which is with the Almighty will I not conceal.
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- Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it;
why then are ye become altogether vain?
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- This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty.
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- If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword;
and his offspring shall not have bread enough.
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- Those that remain of him shall be buried by pestilence, and his widows shall make no lamentation.
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- Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;
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- He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.
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- He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth which the keeper maketh.
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- He lieth down rich, but there shall be not to gather;
he openeth his eyes, and his wealth is not.
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- Terrors overtake him like waters;
a tempest stealeth him away in the night.
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- The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth;
and it sweepeth him out of his place.
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- Yea, it hurleth at him, and spareth not;
he would fain flee from its power.
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- Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.
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