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Why is life given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?
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Should not your piety be your confidence and your blameless ways your hope?
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They lean on the web, but it gives way; they cling to it, but it does not hold.
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Though he slay me, yet will I hope in him; I will surely defend my ways to his face.
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Nevertheless, the righteous will hold to their ways, and those with clean hands will grow stronger.
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He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; he has shrouded my paths in darkness.
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Yet they say to God, ‘Leave us alone! We have no desire to know your ways.
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What pleasure would it give the Almighty if you were righteous? What would he gain if your ways were blameless?
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“Submit to God and be at peace with him; in this way prosperity will come to you.
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What you decide on will be done, and light will shine on your ways.
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But he knows the way that I take; when he has tested me, I will come forth as gold.
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My feet have closely followed his steps; I have kept to his way without turning aside.
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“There are those who rebel against the light, who do not know its ways or stay in its paths.
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He may let them rest in a feeling of security, but his eyes are on their ways.
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“I will teach you about the power of God; the ways of the Almighty I will not conceal.
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God understands the way to it and he alone knows where it dwells,
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I chose the way for them and sat as their chief; I dwelt as a king among his troops; I was like one who comforts mourners.
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Does he not see my ways and count my every step?
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He was also angry with the three friends, because they had found no way to refute Job, and yet had condemned him.
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For God does speak—now one way, now another— though no one perceives it.
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“His eyes are on the ways of mortals; he sees their every step.
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because they turned from following him and had no regard for any of his ways.
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Who has prescribed his ways for him, or said to him, ‘You have done wrong’?
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This is the way he governs the nations and provides food in abundance.
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God’s voice thunders in marvelous ways; he does great things beyond our understanding.
