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Behold, this we have searched out; it is true. Hear, and know it for your good.”
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When they melt, they disappear; when it is hot, they vanish from their place.
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“Truly I know that it is so: But how can a man be in the right before God?
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If it is a contest of strength, behold, he is mighty! If it is a matter of justice, who can summon him?
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It is all one; therefore I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’
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The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; he covers the faces of its judges— if it is not he, who then is it?
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It is higher than heaven—what can you do? Deeper than Sheol—what can you know?
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In the thought of one who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune; it is ready for those whose feet slip.
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yet his food is turned in his stomach; it is the venom of cobras within him.
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It is drawn forth and comes out of his body; the glittering point comes out of his gallbladder; terrors come upon him.
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For when they are humbled you say, ‘It is because of pride’; but he saves the lowly.
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The murderer rises before it is light, that he may kill the poor and needy, and in the night he is like a thief.
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If it is not so, who will prove me a liar and show that there is nothing in what I say?”
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If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword, and his descendants have not enough bread.
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As for the earth, out of it comes bread, but underneath it is turned up as by fire.
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Man does not know its worth, and it is not found in the land of the living.
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The deep says, ‘It is not in me,’ and the sea says, ‘It is not with me.’
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It is hidden from the eyes of all living and concealed from the birds of the air.
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But it is the spirit in man, the breath of the Almighty, that makes him understand.
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It is not the old who are wise, nor the aged who understand what is right.
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“Do you think this to be just? Do you say, ‘It is my right before God,’
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“And now no one looks on the light when it is bright in the skies, when the wind has passed and cleared them.
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It is changed like clay under the seal, and its features stand out like a garment.