I hear a rebuke(A) that dishonors me,
    and my understanding inspires me to reply.

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I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.

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My words come from an upright heart;(A)
    my lips sincerely speak what I know.(B)

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My words shall be of the uprightness of my heart: and my lips shall utter knowledge clearly.

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I will open my mouth with a parable;(A)
    I will utter hidden things, things from of old—
things we have heard and known,
    things our ancestors have told us.(B)
We will not hide them from their descendants;(C)
    we will tell the next generation(D)
the praiseworthy deeds(E) of the Lord,
    his power, and the wonders(F) he has done.
He decreed statutes(G) for Jacob(H)
    and established the law in Israel,
which he commanded our ancestors
    to teach their children,

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I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:

Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.

We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.

For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:

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My mouth will speak words of wisdom;(A)
    the meditation of my heart will give you understanding.(B)

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My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding.

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11 “I will teach you about the power of God;
    the ways(A) of the Almighty I will not conceal.(B)

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11 I will teach you by the hand of God: that which is with the Almighty will I not conceal.

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“My troubled thoughts prompt me to answer
    because I am greatly disturbed.(A)

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Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.

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29 you should fear the sword yourselves;
    for wrath will bring punishment by the sword,(A)
    and then you will know that there is judgment.[a](B)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 19:29 Or sword, / that you may come to know the Almighty

29 Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.

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Ten times(A) now you have reproached(B) me;
    shamelessly you attack me.

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These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.

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