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God will not withdraw his anger; the helpers of Rahab do stoop under him.

There is no daysman betwixt us, that might 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 as one that is a laughing-stock to his neighbour, a man that called upon God, and he answered him: the just, the perfect man is a laughing-stock.

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

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

Shall not his excellency make you afraid, and his dread fall upon you?

Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with thee, and thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;

Look away from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.

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

His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.

But his flesh upon him hath pain, and his soul within him mourneth.

Should a wise man make answer with vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?

Behold, he putteth no trust in his holy ones; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.

The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.

A sound of terrors is in his ears; in prosperity the spoiler shall come upon him:

He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand:

Because he hath stretched out his hand against God, and behaveth himself proudly against the Almighty;

He runneth upon him with a stiff neck, with the thick bosses of his bucklers: