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Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it

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What ye know, do I know also; I am not inferior unto you

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Notwithstanding I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with G-d

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But ye are plasterers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value

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Oh that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it would be your wisdom

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Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips

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Will ye speak unrighteously for G-d, and talk deceitfully for Him

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Will ye show Him favour? Will ye contend for G-d

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Would it be good that He should search you out? Or as one mocketh a man, will ye mock Him

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He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly show favour

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Shall not His majesty terrify you, and His dread fall upon you

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Your memorials shall be like unto ashes, your eminences to eminences of clay

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Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will

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Wherefore? I will take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand

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Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him; but I will argue my ways before Him

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This also shall be my salvation, that a hypocrite cannot come before Him

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Hear diligently my speech, and let my declaration be in your ears

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Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified

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Who is he that will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and die

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Only do not two things unto me, then will I not hide myself from Thee

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Withdraw Thy hand far from me; and let not Thy terror make me afraid

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Then call Thou, and I will answer; or let me speak, and answer Thou me

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How many are mine iniquities and sins? Make me to know my transgression and my sin

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Wherefore hidest Thou Thy face, and holdest me for Thine enemy

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Wilt Thou harass a driven leaf? And wilt Thou pursue the dry stubble

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That Thou shouldest write bitter things against me, and make me to inherit the iniquities of my youth

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Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; Thou drawest Thee a line about the soles of my feet

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Though I am like a wine-skin that consumeth, like a garment that is moth-eaten