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And I desire to reason with God.

4 But ye are forgers of lies,

Ye are all physicians of no value.

5 Oh that ye would altogether hold your peace! And it should be your wisdom.

6 Hear now my reasoning,

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And hearken to the pleadings of my lips.

Will ye speak unrighteously for God,

And talk deceitfully for him?

8 Will ye 'respect his person?

Will ye contend for God?

9 Is it good that he should search you out?

1 Or, shew him favour

Or as one 'deceiveth a man, will ye 'deceive him? Or, mocketh

10 He will surely reprove you,

If ye do secretly 'respect persons.

II Shall not his excellency make you afraid,
And his dread fall upon you?

12 Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes,
Your defences are defences of clay.

13 Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, And let come on me what will.

3 Or, mock

4 Or, shew

favour

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14 Wherefore should I take my flesh in my teeth, Or, At all

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And put my life in mine hand?

15 Though he slay me, yet will I wait for him:

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adventures I will take &c.

6 Or, Behold,

Nevertheless I will 'maintain my ways before he will slay me;

him.

16 This also shall be my salvation;

'For a godless man shall not come before him.

17 Hear diligently my speech,

And let my declaration be in your ears.

18 Behold now, I have ordered my cause;

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I know that I am righteous.

19 Who is he that will contend with me?

For now "shall I hold my peace and give the ghost.

20 Only do not two things unto me,

Then will I not hide myself from thy face:

21 Withdraw thine hand far from me;

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And let not thy terror 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 harass a driven leaf?

And wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?

For thou writest bitter things against me,

And makest me to inherit the iniquities of my
youth:

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Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and 27
markest all my paths;

Thou drawest thee a line about the soles of my

feet:

Heb. And he 1Though I am like a rotten thing that consumeth, 28
Like a garment that is moth-eaten.

is like.

2 Or, withereth

Or, Oh that a clean thing could come out

of an unclean!

not one can

4 Heb. cease. Or, have pleasure in

Man that is born of a woman

Is of few days, and full of trouble.

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He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down : 2
He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, 3
And bringest me into judgement with thee?
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? 4

not one.

Seeing his days are determined, the number of 5
his months is with thee,

And thou hast appointed his bounds that he
cannot pass;

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Look away from him, that he may 'rest,
Till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.
For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, 7
that it will sprout again,

And that the tender branch thereof will not cease.
Though the root thereof wax old in the earth,
And the stock thereof die in the ground;
Yet through the scent of water it will bud,

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Yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?

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II As the waters fail from the sea,

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And the river decayeth and drieth up;

12 So man lieth down and riseth not:

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Till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake,

Nor be roused out of their sleep.

Oh that thou wouldest hide me in 'Sheol,

That thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past,

That thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!

14 If a man die, shall he live again?

All the days of my warfare 'would I wait,
Till my 'release should come.

15 'Thou shouldest call, and I would answer thee:
Thou wouldest have a desire to the work of

thine hands.

16 But now thou numberest my steps: Dost thou not watch over my sin?

17 My transgression is sealed up in a bag, And thou fastenest up mine iniquity.

1 Or, lieth low

2 See Is. xix. 5. 3 Heb. are

gone.

• Or, the grave

5 Or, will...
shall come

6 Or, change
7 Or, Thou
shalt call, and

I will &c.

18 And surely the mountain falling cometh to Heb. fadeth

nought,

And the rock is removed out of its place;

19 The waters wear the stones ;

The overflowings thereof wash away the dust

of the earth:

And thou destroyest the hope of man.

20 Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth;

Thou changest his countenance, and sendest

him away.

21 His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; And they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.

away.

1 Or, Only for himself his flesh hath pain, and for himself his soul mourneth

2 Heb. knowledge of wind.

1But his flesh upon him hath pain,
And his soul within him mourneth.

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Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and 1 15 said,

Should a wise man make answer with "vain 2 knowledge,

Should he reason with unprofitable talk,

And fill his belly with the east wind?

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Or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?
Yea, thou doest away with fear,

And restrainest 'devotion before God.

3 Heb. diminishest.

4 Or, meditation

5 Or, thy

mouth teacheth

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For thine iniquity teacheth thy mouth,
And thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I; 6

thine iniquity Yea, thine own lips testify against thee.

hearken in the council

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Art thou the first man that was born? Or wast thou brought forth before the hills? Or, Dost thou Hast thou heard the secret counsel of God? And dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself? What knowest thou, that we know not? What understandest thou, which is not in us? With us are both the grayheaded and the very 10 aged men,

7 Or, Or is

there any secret
thing with
thee?

8 Or, that which is

Much elder than thy father.

Are the consolations of God too small for thee, 11 "And the word that dealeth gently with thee? Why doth thine heart

carry thee away

And why do thine eyes wink?

That thou turnest thy spirit against God,
And lettest such words go out of thy mouth.
What is man, that he should be clean?
And he which is born of a woman, that he
should be righteous?

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Behold, he putteth no trust in his holy ones;
Yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
How much less one that is abominable and 16
corrupt,

A man that drinketh iniquity like water! 17 I will shew thee, hear thou me;

And that which I have seen I will declare:

18 (Which wise men have told

From their fathers, and have not hid it; 19 Unto whom alone the land was given, And no stranger passed among them :)

20 The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days,

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'Even the number of years that are laid up for Or, And

the oppressor.

21 A sound of terrors is in his ears;

In prosperity the spoiler shall come upon him :

22 He believeth not that he shall return out of

darkness,

And he is waited for of the sword:

23 He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it?

He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand:

24 Distress and anguish make him afraid;

They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle:

25 Because he hath stretched out his hand against

God,

years that are numbered are

laid up &c.

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defiance to

And 'behaveth himself proudly against the Al- Or, biddeth mighty;

26 He runneth upon him with a stiff neck,

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27 Because he hath covered his face with his fat

ness,

And made collops of fat on his flanks;

28 And he hath dwelt in 'desolate cities,

In houses which no man "inhabited,
Which were ready to become heaps.

29 He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance
continue,

Neither shall their produce bend to the earth. 30 He shall not depart out of darkness;

3 Or, Upon

4 Heb. cut off.

5 Or, would inhabit

6 Or, their possessions be extended on the earth

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