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Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
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For now should I have
lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
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With kings and counsellors
of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
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Or with princes that had gold, who filled
their houses with silver:
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Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants
which
never
saw light.
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There the wicked cease
from
troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
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There
the
prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
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The small and great are there;
and the servant
is
free from his master.
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Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life
unto the bitter
in
soul;
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Which long for death, but it
cometh
not; and dig for it more than for hid
treasures;
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Which rejoice exceedingly,
and
are glad, when they can find the grave?
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Why is light
given
to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
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For my sighing cometh before
I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
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For the thing which I greatly feared is come
upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.
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I was not in safety, neither had I rest,
neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.
CHAPTER 4
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
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If
we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be
grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking?
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Behold, thou hast instructed many, and
thou hast strengthened the weak hands.
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Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou
hast strengthened the feeble knees.
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But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth
thee, and thou art troubled.
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Is
not
this
thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of
thy ways?
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Remember, I pray thee, who
ever
perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous
cut off?
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Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.
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By
the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.
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The roaring of
the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
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The old
lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion’s whelps are scattered abroad.
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Now a thing was
secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof.
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In thoughts from the visions of the
night, when deep sleep falleth on men,
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Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my
bones to shake.
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Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up:
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It stood
still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image
was
before mine eyes,
there was
silence,
and I heard a voice,
saying,
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Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure
than his maker?
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Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly:
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How much less
in
them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation
is
in the dust,
which
are
crushed before the moth?
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They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever
without any regarding
it.
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Doth not their excellency
which is
in them go away? they die, even
without wisdom.
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