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Is not your reverence your confidence? And the integrity of your ways your hope?
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The paths of their way turn aside, They go nowhere and perish.
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“Behold, this is the joy of His way, And out of the earth others will grow.
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For when a few years are finished, I shall go the way of no return.
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Yet the righteous will hold to his way, And he who has clean hands will be stronger and stronger.
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Yet they say to God, ‘Depart from us, For we do not desire the knowledge of Your ways.
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Is it any pleasure to the Almighty that you are righteous? Or is it gain to Him that you make your ways blameless?
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Will you keep to the old way Which wicked men have trod,
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But He knows the way that I take; When He has tested me, I shall come forth as gold.
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“There are those who rebel against the light; They do not know its ways Nor abide in its paths.
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“They should be swift on the face of the waters, Their portion should be cursed in the earth, So that no one would turn into the way of their vineyards.
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He gives them security, and they rely on it; Yet His eyes are on their ways.
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They are exalted for a little while, Then they are gone. They are brought low; They are taken out of the way like all others; They dry out like the heads of grain.
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Indeed these are the mere edges of His ways, And how small a whisper we hear of Him! But the thunder of His power who can understand?”
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I chose the way for them, and sat as chief; So I dwelt as a king in the army, As one who comforts mourners.
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At my right hand the rabble arises; They push away my feet, And they raise against me their ways of destruction.
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If my step has turned from the way, Or my heart walked after my eyes, Or if any spot adheres to my hands,
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“For His eyes are on the ways of man, And He sees all his steps.
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Because they turned back from Him, And would not consider any of His ways,
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“Where is the way to the dwelling of light? And darkness, where is its place,
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By what way is light diffused, Or the east wind scattered over the earth?
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He is the first of the ways of God; Only He who made him can bring near His sword.
