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“Can papyrus grow where there is no marsh? Can reeds flourish where there is no water?
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the land of gloom like thick darkness, like deep shadow without any order, where light is as thick darkness.”
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But a man dies and is laid low; man breathes his last, and where is he?
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He wanders abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’ He knows that a day of darkness is ready at his hand;
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Job Continues: Where Then Is My Hope?
“My spirit is broken; my days are extinct; the graveyard is ready for me.
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where then is my hope? Who will see my hope?
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he will perish forever like his own dung; those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’
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For you say, ‘Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?’
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Job Replies: Where Is God?
Then Job answered and said:
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Job Continues: Where Is Wisdom?
“Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold that they refine.
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“But where shall wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding?
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“From where, then, does wisdom come? And where is the place of understanding?
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There is no gloom or deep darkness where evildoers may hide themselves.
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But none says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,
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“Where is the way to the dwelling of light, and where is the place of darkness,
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What is the way to the place where the light is distributed, or where the east wind is scattered upon the earth?
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to bring rain on a land where no man is, on the desert in which there is no man,
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His young ones suck up blood, and where the slain are, there is he.”
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Look on everyone who is proud and bring him low and tread down the wicked where they stand.
