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that I may speak, and let come on me what
will.
14
Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and
put my life in mine hand?
15
Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine
own ways before him.
16
He also
shall be
my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.
17
Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.
18
Behold now, I have ordered
my
cause; I know that I shall be justified.
19
Who
is
he
that
will plead with me? for now, if I hold my
tongue, I shall give up the ghost.
20
Only do not two
things
unto me: then will I not hide myself
from thee.
21
Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.
22
Then call
thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.
23
How many
are
mine iniquities and
sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.
24
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest
me for thine enemy?
25
Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
26
For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
27
Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a
print upon the heels of my feet.
28
And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth
eaten.
CHAPTER 14
Man
that is
born of a woman
is
of few days, and full of trouble.
2
He cometh forth like a flower,
and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
3
And dost thou open thine eyes
upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee?
4
Who can bring a clean
thing
out of
an unclean? not one.
5
Seeing his days
are
determined, the number of his months
are
with thee,
thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
6
Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall
accomplish, as an hireling, his day.
7
For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout
again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.
8
Though the root thereof wax old in the
earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;
9
Yet
through the scent of water it will bud, and bring
forth boughs like a plant.
10
But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and
where
is
he?
11
As
the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:
12
So man
lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens
be
no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of
their sleep.
13
Oh that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, 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 appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
15
Thou
shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands.
16
For now
thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?
17
My transgression
is
sealed up in a
bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.
18
And surely the mountain falling cometh to nought, and
the rock is removed out of his place.
19
The waters wear the stones: thou washest away the things
which grow
out
of 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
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