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21 He said, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return there; the Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.”(A)

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“Let the day perish in which I was born,
    and the night that said,
    ‘A male is conceived.’(A)

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10 because it did not shut the doors of my mother’s womb
    and hide trouble from my eyes.

11 “Why did I not die at birth,
    come forth from the womb and expire?(A)

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14 “A mortal, born of woman, few of days and full of trouble,(A)

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14 What are mortals, that they can be clean?
    Or those born of woman, that they can be righteous?(A)

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14 if I say to the Pit, ‘You are my father,’
    and to the worm, ‘My mother’ or ‘My sister,’(A)

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18 for from my youth I reared the orphan[a] like a father,
    and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 31.18 Heb him
  2. 31.18 Heb her