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But I, when I waited for good things, behold, days of evils came the more upon me.

(for I am weighed in a just balance, and the Lord knows my innocence:)

For the rage of anger is not to be controlled, in the case of defiling another man’s wife.

For it is a fire burning on every side, and whomsoever it attacks, it utterly destroys.

(for I nourished them as a father from my youth and guided them from my mother’s womb.)

For the fear of the Lord constrained me, and I cannot bear up by reason of his burden.

(do we not see the shining sun eclipsed, and the moon waning? for they have not power to continue:)

let this also then be reckoned to me as the greatest iniquity: for I should have lied against the Lord Most High.

for the stranger did not lodge without, and my door was opened to every one that came:)

(for I did not stand in awe of a great multitude, so as not to declare boldly before them:) and if too I permitted a poor man to go out of my door with an empty bosom:

And his three friends also ceased any longer to answer Job: for Job was righteous before them.

And he was also very angry with his three friends, because they were not able to return answers to Job, yet set him down for an ungodly man.

Hearken to my words; for I will speak in your hearing, until ye shall have tried the matter with words:

I waited, (for I had not spoken,)because they stood still, they answered not.

for I am full of words, for the spirit of my belly destroys me.

For truly I will not be awed because of man, nor indeed will I be confounded before a mortal.

For I know not how to respect persons: and if otherwise, even the moths would eat me.

For behold, I have opened my mouth, and my tongue has spoken.

I am blameless, for I have not transgressed.

For how sayest thou, I am righteous, yet he has not hearkened to me? for he that is above mortals is eternal.