But Job answered and said,
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Hear ye, hear ye my words, that I may not have this consolation from you.
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Raise me, and I will speak; then ye shall not laugh me to scorn.
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What! is my reproof of man? and why should I not be angry?
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Look upon me, and wonder, laying your hand upon your cheek.
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For even when I remember, I am alarmed, and pains seize my flesh.
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Wherefore do the ungodly live, and grow old even in wealth?
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Their seed is according to [their] desire, and their children are in [their] sight.
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Their houses are prosperous, neither [have they] any where [cause for] fear, neither is there a scourge from the Lord upon them.
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Their cow does not cast her calf, and their [beast] with young is safe, and does not miscarry.
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And they remain as an unfailing flock, and their children play before [them], taking up the psaltery and harp;
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and they rejoice at the voice of a song.
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And they spend their days in wealth, and fall asleep in the rest of the grave.
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Yet [such a man] says to the Lord, Depart from me; I desire not to know thy ways.
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What is the Mighty One, that we should serve him? and what profit is there that we should approach him?
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For their good things were in [their] hands, but he regards not the works of the ungodly.
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Nevertheless, the lamp of the ungodly also shall be put out, and destruction shall come upon them, and pangs of vengeance shall seize them.
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And they shall be as chaff before the wind, or as dust which the storm has taken up.
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Let his substance fail [to supply] his children: [God] shall recompense him, and he shall know it.
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Let his eyes see his own destruction, and let him not be saved by the Lord.
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For his desire is in his house with him, and the number of his months has been suddenly cut off.
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Is it not the Lord who teaches understanding and knowledge? and does not he judge murders?
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One shall die in his perfect strength, and wholly at ease and prosperous;
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and his inwards are full of fat, and his marrow is diffused [throughout him].
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And another dies in bitterness of soul, not eating any good thing.
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But they lie down in the earth together, and corruption covers them.
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So I know you, that ye presumptuously attack me:
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so that ye will say, Where is the house of the prince? and where is the covering of the tabernacles of the ungodly?
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Ask those that go by the way, and do not disown their tokens.
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For the wicked hastens to the day of destruction: they shall be led away for the day of his vengeance.
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Who will tell him his way to his face, whereas he has done [it]? who shall recompense him?
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And he has been led away to the tombs, and he has watched over the heaps.
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The stones of the valley have been sweet to him, and every man shall depart after him, and [there are] innumerable [ones] before him.
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How then do ye comfort me in vain? whereas I have no rest from your molestation.
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