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For you will have a pact with the stones of the field, and the wild animals will be at peace with you.

Look, we have investigated this, so it is true. Hear it, and apply it for your own good."

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me; my spirit drinks their poison; God's sudden terrors are arrayed against me.

"Oh that my request would be realized, and that God would grant me what I long for!

Then I would yet have my comfort, then I would rejoice, in spite of pitiless pain, for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.

The caravans of Tema looked intently for these streams; the traveling merchants of Sheba hoped for them.

For now you have become like these streams that are no help; you see a terror, and are afraid.

"Teach me and I, for my part, will be silent; explain to me how I have been mistaken.

Yes, you would gamble for the fatherless, and auction off your friend.

Relent, let there be no falsehood; reconsider, for my righteousness is intact!

Like a servant longing for the evening shadow, and like a hired man looking for his wages,

The eye of him who sees me now will see me no more; your eyes will look for me, but I will be gone.

I loathe it; I do not want to live forever; leave me alone, for my days are a vapor!

And why do you not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? For now I will lie down in the dust, and you will seek me diligently, but I will be gone."

if you become pure and upright, even now he will rouse himself for you, and will restore your righteous abode.

"For inquire now of the former generation, and pay attention to the findings of their ancestors;

For we were born yesterday and do not have knowledge, since our days on earth are but a shadow.

While they are still beginning to flower and not ripe for cutting, they can wither away faster than any grass!

It wraps its roots around a heap of stones and it looks for a place among stones.

Although I am innocent, I could not answer him; I could only plead with my judge for mercy.