| 1 | My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will
speak in the bitterness of my soul.
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| 2 | I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest
with me.
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| 3 | Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest
despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?
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| 4 | Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth?
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| 5 | Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man's days,
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| 6 | That thou enquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin?
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| 7 | Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver
out of thine hand.
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| 8 | Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou
dost destroy me.
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| 9 | Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt
thou bring me into dust again?
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| 10 | Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?
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| 11 | Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones
and sinews.
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| 12 | Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved
my spirit.
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| 13 | And these things hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that this is
with thee.
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| 14 | If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine
iniquity.
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| 15 | If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not
lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;
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| 16 | For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou
shewest thyself marvellous upon me.
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| 17 | Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation
upon me; changes and war are against me.
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| 18 | Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had
given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!
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| 19 | I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried
from the womb to the grave.
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| 20 | Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take
comfort a little,
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| 21 | Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness
and the shadow of death;
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| 22 | A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death,
without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
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Chapter 9
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Job
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Contents
Chapter 11
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