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He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him again.

Whose confidence shall be cut off, and his reliance is a spider's web.

He shall lean upon his house, and it shall not stand; he shall lay hold on it, but it shall not endure.

He is full of sap before the sun, and his sprout shooteth forth over his garden;

His roots are entwined about the stoneheap; he seeth the place of stones.

If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him: I have not seen thee!

Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the dust shall others grow.

Who removeth mountains, and they know it not, when he overturneth them in his anger;

+God withdraweth not his anger; the proud helpers stoop under him:

There is not an umpire between us, who should lay his hand upon us both.

Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his terror make me afraid,

But oh that +God would speak, and open his lips against thee;

I am to be one that is a derision to his friend, I who call upon +God, and whom he will answer: a derision is the just upright [man].

With him is strength and effectual knowledge; the deceived and the deceiver are his.

Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?

Shall not his excellency terrify you? and his dread fall upon you?

This also shall be my salvation, that a profane man shall not come before his face.

If his days are determined, if the number of his months is with thee, [and] thou hast appointed his bounds which he must not pass,

Look away from him; and let him rest, till he accomplish, as a hireling, his day.

Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth away; thou changest his countenance, and dismissest him.