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Have you not put a hedge around him and his house and all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.
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But stretch out your hand and touch all that he has, and he will curse you to your face.”
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And the Lord said to Satan, “Behold, all that he has is in your hand. Only against him do not stretch out your hand.” So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord.
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Does the wild donkey bray when he has grass, or the ox low over his fodder?
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If your children have sinned against him, he has delivered them into the hand of their transgression.
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“With God are wisdom and might; he has counsel and understanding.
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Because he has stretched out his hand against God and defies the Almighty,
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because he has covered his face with his fat and gathered fat upon his waist
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Surely now God has worn me out; he has made desolate all my company.
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And he has shriveled me up, which is a witness against me, and my leanness has risen up against me; it testifies to my face.
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He has torn me in his wrath and hated me; he has gnashed his teeth at me; my adversary sharpens his eyes against me.
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“He has made me a byword of the peoples, and I am one before whom men spit.
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His memory perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the street.
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He has no posterity or progeny among his people, and no survivor where he used to live.
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He has walled up my way, so that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness upon my paths.
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He has stripped from me my glory and taken the crown from my head.
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He has kindled his wrath against me and counts me as his adversary.
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“He has put my brothers far from me, and those who knew me are wholly estranged from me.
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For he has crushed and abandoned the poor; he has seized a house that he did not build.
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Who declares his way to his face, and who repays him for what he has done?
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But he knows the way that I take; when he has tried me, I shall come out as gold.
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He has inscribed a circle on the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness.
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He has not directed his words against me, and I will not answer him with your speeches.
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He has redeemed my soul from going down into the pit, and my life shall look upon the light.’
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For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should take delight in God.’