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Have pity on me, my friends, have pity on me, for the hand of God has struck me.

As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, and that as the last he will stand upon the earth.

whom I will see for myself, and whom my own eyes will behold, and not another. My heart grows faint within me.

Fear the sword yourselves, for wrath brings the punishment by the sword, so that you may know that there is judgment."

if he retains it for himself and does not let it go, and holds it fast in his mouth,

For he has oppressed the poor and abandoned them; he has seized a house which he did not build.

For he knows no satisfaction in his appetite; he does not let anything he desires escape.

"Nothing is left for him to devour; that is why his prosperity does not last.

For, when I think about this, I am terrified and my body feels a shudder.

You may say, ‘God stores up a man's punishment for his children!' Instead let him repay the man himself so that he may know it!

For what is his interest in his home after his death, when the number of his months has been broken off?

For you say, ‘Where now is the nobleman's house, and where are the tents in which the wicked lived?'

No one denounces his conduct to his face; no one repays him for what he has done.

"For you took pledges from your brothers for no reason, and you stripped the clothing from the naked.

Thick clouds are a veil for him, so he does not see us, as he goes back and forth in the vault of heaven.'

then the Almighty himself will be your gold, and the choicest silver for you.

Whatever you decide on a matter, it will be established for you, and light will shine on your ways.

For he fulfills his decree against me, and many such things are his plans.

Like wild donkeys in the desert they go out to their labor, seeking diligently for food; the wasteland provides food for them and for their children.

From the city the dying groan, and the wounded cry out for help, but God charges no one with wrongdoing.