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Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,
2
As
God liveth,
who
hath taken away my judgment;
and the Almighty,
who
hath vexed my soul;
3
All the while my breath
is
in me, and the spirit of
God
is
in my nostrils;
4
My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.
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God
forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity fromme.
6
My righteousness
I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach
me
so long as I live.
7
Let mine enemy
be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous.
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For what
is
the hope of the
hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?
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Will God hear his cry when
trouble cometh upon him?
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Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon
God?
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I will teach you by the hand of God:
that
which
is
with the Almighty will I not conceal.
12
Behold, all ye yourselves have seen
it;
why then are ye thus altogether vain?
13
This
is
the portion
of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors,
which
they shall receive of the Almighty.
14
If his children be multiplied,
it is
for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
15
Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep.
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Though he
heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;
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He may prepare
it,
but the just shall
put
it
on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.
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He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth
that
the keeper maketh.
19
The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he openeth
his eyes, and he
is
not.
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Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the
night.
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The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his
place.
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For
God
shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.
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Men
shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.
CHAPTER 28
Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold
where
they fine
it.
2
Iron is taken out of
the earth, and brass
is
molten
out of
the stone.
3
He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out
all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.
4
The flood breaketh out from the
inhabitant;
even the waters
forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.
5
As for
the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.
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The stones of it
are
the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold.
7
There is
a path which no fowl knoweth, and
which the vulture’s eye hath not seen:
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The lion’s whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion
passed by it.
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He putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he overturneth the mountains by the roots.
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He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing.
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He bindeth the
floods from overflowing; and
the thing that is
hid bringeth he forth to light.
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But where shall
wisdom be found? and where
is
the place of understanding?
13
Man knoweth not the price thereof;
neither is it found in the land of the living.
14
The depth saith, It
is
not in me: and the sea saith,
It
is
not with me.
15
It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed
for
the price thereof.
16
It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
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The gold
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