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The same night also I returned from the burial, and slept by the wall of my courtyard, being
polluted and my face was uncovered:
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And I knew not that there were sparrows in the wall, and mine eyes being open, the sparrows
muted warm dung into mine eyes, and a whiteness came in mine eyes: and I went to the physicians,
but they helped me not: moreover Achiacharus did nourish me, until I went into Elymais.
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And my wife Anna did take women's works to do.
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And when she had sent them home to the owners, they paid her wages, and gave her also
besides a kid.
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And when it was in my house, and began to cry, I said unto her, From whence is this kid? is
it not stolen? render it to the owners; for it is not lawful to eat any thing that is stolen.
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But she replied upon me, It was given for a gift more than the wages. Howbeit I did not believe
her, but bade her render it to the owners: and I was abashed at her. But she replied upon me, Where
are thine alms and thy righteous deeds? behold, thou and all thy works are known.
CHAPTER 3
Then I being grieved did weep, and in my sorrow prayed, saying,
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O Lord, thou art just, and all thy works and all thy ways are mercy and truth, and thou judgest
truly and justly for ever.
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Remember me, and look on me, punish me not for my sins and ignorances, and the sins of my
fathers, who have sinned before thee:
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For they obeyed not thy commandments: wherefore thou hast delivered us for a spoil, and unto
captivity, and unto death, and for a proverb of reproach to all the nations among whom we are
dispersed.
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And now thy judgments are many and true: deal with me according to my sins and my fathers':
because we have not kept thy commandments, neither have walked in truth before thee.
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Now therefore deal with me as seemeth best unto thee, and command my spirit to be taken
from me, that I may be dissolved, and become earth: for it is profitable for me to die rather than to
live, because I have heard false reproaches, and have much sorrow: command therefore that I may
now be delivered out of this distress, and go into the everlasting place: turn not thy face away from
me.
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It came to pass the same day, that in Ecbatane a city of Media Sara the daughter of Raguel
was also reproached by her father's maids;
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Because that she had been married to seven husbands, whom Asmodeus the evil spirit had
killed, before they had lain with her. Dost thou not know, said they, that thou hast strangled thine
husbands? thou hast had already seven husbands, neither wast thou named after any of them.
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Wherefore dost thou beat us for them? if they be dead, go thy ways after them, let us never
see of thee either son or daughter.
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