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My breath is strange to my wife, though I entreated for the children's [sake] of my own body.

Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.

That they were graven with an iron pen in lead, in the rock for ever!

For I know [that] my redeemer liveth, and [that] he will stand at the latter [day] upon the earth:

Whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another; [though] my reins be consumed within me.

Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath [bringeth] the punishments of the sword, that ye may know [there] is a judgment.

Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for [this] I make haste.

That the triumphing of the wicked [is] short, and the joy of the hypocrite [but] for a moment?

[Yet] he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they who have seen him shall say, Where [is] he?

That which he labored for shall he restore, and shall not swallow [it]: according to [his] substance [shall] the restitution [be], and he shall not rejoice [in it].

There shall none of his food be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.

As for me, [is] my complaint to man? and if [it were so], why should not my spirit be troubled?

Therefore they say to God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.

God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know [it].

For what pleasure [hath] he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?

For ye say, Where [is] the house of the prince? and where [are] the dwelling places of the wicked?

Will he reprove thee for fear of thee? will he enter with thee into judgment?

For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for naught, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

But [as for] the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honorable man dwelt in it.

Who said to God, depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them!