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  13:1 ¶
Lo, mine eye hath seen all [this], mine ear hath heard and understood it. |
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13:1 ¶
Lo, mine eye hath seen all [this], mine ear hath heard and understood it. |
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13:2
What ye know, [the same] do I know also: I [am] not inferior unto you. |
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13:2
What ye know, [the same] do I know also: I [am] not inferior unto you. |
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13:3
Surely I would speak to Shaddai, and I desire to reason with El. |
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13:3
Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God. |
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13:4
But ye [are] forgers of lies, ye [are] all physicians of no value. |
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13:4
But ye [are] forgers of lies, ye [are] all physicians of no value. |
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13:5
O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom. |
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13:5
O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom. |
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13:6
Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips. |
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13:6
Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips. |
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13:7
Will ye speak wickedly for El? and talk deceitfully for him? |
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13:7
Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him? |
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13:8
Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for El? |
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13:8
Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God? |
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13:9
Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye [so] mock him? |
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13:9
Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye [so] mock him? |
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13:10
He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons. |
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13:10
He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons. |
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13:11
Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you? |
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13:11
Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you? |
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13:12
Your remembrances [are] like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay. |
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13:12
Your remembrances [are] like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay. |
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13:13
Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what [will]. |
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13:13
Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what [will]. |
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13:14
Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand? |
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13:14
Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand? |
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13:15
Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him. |
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13:15
Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him. |
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13:16
He also [shall be] my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him. |
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13:16
He also [shall be] my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him. |
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13:17
Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears. |
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13:17
Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears. |
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13:18
Behold now, I have ordered [my] cause; I know that I shall be justified. |
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13:18
Behold now, I have ordered [my] cause; I know that I shall be justified. |
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13:19
Who [is] he [that] will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost. |
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13:19
Who [is] he [that] will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost. |
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13:20
Only do not two [things] unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee. |
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13:20
Only do not two [things] unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee. |
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13:21
Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid. |
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13:21
Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid. |
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13:22
Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me. |
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13:22
Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me. |
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13:23
How many [are] mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin. |
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13:23
How many [are] mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin. |
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13:24
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy? |
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13:24
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy? |
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13:25
Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble? |
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13:25
Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble? |
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13:26
For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth. |
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13:26
For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth. |
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13:27
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. |
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13:27
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. |
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13:28
And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten. |
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13:28
And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten. |
