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For you shall be in covenant with the stones of the field; and the beasts of the field will be at peace with you.

Consider this. We have searched it out; it is so. Hear it, and know it for yourself.

For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas; on account of this my words have been rash.

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me; their fury is drinking my spirit; the terrors of God are set against me.

And it is yet my comfort; and I would exult in pain not spared; for I have not hidden the words of the Holy One.

To the faint, mercy is due from his friend; for he forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

The troops of Tema looked; the travelers of Sheba hoped for them;

Did I indeed say, Give to me? Or, Offer a bribe for me from your wealth?

And now, please look on me. For if I lie, it is before your face.

Turn back, I beseech you; let there be no wrong. Yea, return again, for my righteousness is in it.

As a servant pants for the shade, and as a hireling looks for his wages,

I despise them ; I will not live always. Let me alone, for my days are vanity.

I have sinned; what do I do to You, O Watcher of man? Why have You set me as a target for You so that I am a burden on myself?

And why do You not lift up my transgression, and make my iniquity pass away? For now I shall lie down in the dust, and You shall seek me; but I will not be.

if you were pure and upright, surely now He would rise for you, and make whole the abode of your righteousness.

For now ask of the former generation, and prepare to the search of their fathers;

for we are but of yesterday, and we know nothing because our days on earth are a shadow.

Though I were righteous, I could not answer Him ; I seek mercy for my judgment.

For He is not a man, as I am, that I should answer Him; that we should come together in judgment;

then I would speak, and not fear Him; for I am not so in myself.