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not live alway: let me alone; for my days
are
vanity.
17
What
is
man, that thou shouldest magnify
him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?
18
And
that
thou shouldest visit him every
morning,
and
try him every moment?
19
How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone
till I swallow down my spittle?
20
I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men?
why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?
21
And why dost thou
not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and
thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I
shall
not
be.
CHAPTER 8
Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
2
How long wilt thou speak these
things?
and
how
long shall
the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?
3
Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the
Almighty pervert justice?
4
If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away
for their transgression;
5
If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the
Almighty;
6
If thou
wert
pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the
habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
7
Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end
should greatly increase.
8
For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the
search of their fathers:
9
(For we
are but of
yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon
earth
are
a shadow:)
10
Shall not they teach thee,
and
tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?
11
Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?
12
Whilst it
is
yet in his
greenness,
and
not cut down, it withereth before any
other
herb.
13
So
are
the paths of all that forget
God; and the hypocrite’s hope shall perish:
14
Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust
shall
be
a spider’s web.
15
He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it
shall not endure.
16
He
is
green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.
17
His
roots are wrapped about the heap,
and
seeth the place of stones.
18
If he destroy him from his place,
then
it
shall deny him,
saying,
I have not seen thee.
19
Behold, this
is
the joy of his way, and out of
the earth shall others grow.
20
Behold, God will not cast away a perfect
man,
neither will he help
the evil doers:
21
Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing.
22
They that hate
thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.
CHAPTER 9
Then Job answered and said,
2
I know
it is
so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?
3
If
he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.
4
He is
wise in heart, and mighty
in strength: who hath hardened
himself
against him, and hath prospered?
5
Which removeth the
mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger.
6
Which shaketh the earth out
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