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(40-23) Will he make a covenant with thee, and wilt thou take him to be a servant for ever,

(40-24) Shalt thou play with him as with a bird, or tie him up for thy handmaids?

(41-1) I will not stir him up, like one that is cruel, for who can resist my countenance?

(41-18) For he shall esteem iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.

Take unto you therefore seven oxen and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer for yourselves a holocaust, and my servant Job shall pray for you: his face I will accept, that folly be not imputed to you: for you have not spoken right things before me, as my servant Job hath.

The Lord also was turned at the penance of Job, when he prayed for his friends. And the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.

For the Lord knoweth the way of the just: and the way of the wicked shall perish.

Ask of me, and I will give thee the Gentiles for thy inheritance, and the utmost parts of the earth for thy possession.

Many say to my soul: There is no salvation for him in his God.

For thou hast struck all them who are my adversaries without cause: thou hast broken the teeth of sinners.

for David.> (4-2) When I called upon him, the God of my justice heard me: when I was in distress, thou hast enlarged me. Have mercy on me: and hear my prayer.

(4-5) Be ye angry, and sin not: the things you say in your hearts, be sorry for them upon your beds.

(4-9) In peace in the self same I will sleep, and I will rest: (4-10) For thou, O Lord, singularly hast settled me in hope.

for her that obtaineth the inheritance. A psalm for David.> (5-2) Give ear, O Lord, to my words, understand my cry.

(5-4) For to thee will I pray: O Lord, in the morning thou shalt hear my voice.

(5-8) But as for me in the multitude of thy mercy, I will come into thy house; I will worship towards thy holy temple, in thy fear.

(5-10) For there is no truth in their mouth: their heart is vain.

(5-11) Their throat is an open sepulchre: they dealt deceitfully with their tongues: judge them, O God. Let them fall from their devices: according to the multitude of their wickednesses cast them out: for they have provoked thee, O Lord.

(5-12) But let all them be glad that hope in thee: they shall rejoice for ever, and thou shalt dwell in them. And all they that love thy name shall glory in thee.

(5-13) For thou wilt bless the just. O Lord, thou hast crowned us, as with a shield of thy good will.