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You shall come to your grave in ripe old age, like a sheaf gathered up in its season.
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Behold, this we have searched out; it is true. Hear, and know it for your good.”
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For then it would be heavier than the sand of the sea; therefore my words have been rash.
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Am I the sea, or a sea monster, that you set a guard over me?
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“For inquire, please, of bygone ages, and consider what the fathers have searched out.
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who commands the sun, and it does not rise; who seals up the stars;
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who alone stretched out the heavens and trampled the waves of the sea;
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who does great things beyond searching out, and marvelous things beyond number.
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that you seek out my iniquity and search for my sin,
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Its measure is longer than the earth and broader than the sea.
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or the bushes of the earth, and they will teach you; and the fish of the sea will declare to you.
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Will it be well with you when he searches you out? Or can you deceive him, as one deceives a man?
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my transgression would be sealed up in a bag, and you would cover over my iniquity.
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Oh, that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even to his seat!
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By his power he stilled the sea; by his understanding he shattered Rahab.
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Man puts an end to darkness and searches out to the farthest limit the ore in gloom and deep darkness.
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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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then he saw it and declared it; he established it, and searched it out.
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When I went out to the gate of the city, when I prepared my seat in the square,
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I was a father to the needy, and I searched out the cause of him whom I did not know.
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“Behold, I waited for your words, I listened for your wise sayings, while you searched out what to say.
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Behold, he scatters his lightning about him and covers the roots of the sea.
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He seals up the hand of every man, that all men whom he made may know it.
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“Or who shut in the sea with doors when it burst out from the womb,
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It is changed like clay under the seal, and its features stand out like a garment.
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“Have you entered into the springs of the sea, or walked in the recesses of the deep?
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Can you lead forth the Mazzaroth in their season, or can you guide the Bear with its children?
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He ranges the mountains as his pasture, and he searches after every green thing.
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His back is made of rows of shields, shut up closely as with a seal.
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He makes the deep boil like a pot; he makes the sea like a pot of ointment.
