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I chose their way and sat as chief, and I lived like a king among his troops, like one who comforts mourners.
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“And now I have become their song; I am a byword to them.
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I am a brother of jackals and a companion of ostriches.
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And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said: “I am young in years, and you are aged; therefore I was timid and afraid to declare my opinion to you.
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I gave you my attention, and, behold, there was none among you who refuted Job or who answered his words.
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For I am full of words; the spirit within me constrains me.
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Behold, I am toward God as you are; I too was pinched off from a piece of clay.
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You say, ‘I am pure, without transgression; I am clean, and there is no iniquity in me.
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Let us choose what is right; let us know among ourselves what is good.
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For Job has said, ‘I am in the right, and God has taken away my right;
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in spite of my right I am counted a liar; my wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.’
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that you ask, ‘What advantage have I? How am I better off than if I had sinned?’
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They die in youth, and their life ends among the cult prostitutes.
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“Behold, I am of small account; what shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.
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And in all the land there were no women so beautiful as Job's daughters. And their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers.