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Then Satan answered him and said, "Skin for skin! All that that man has he will give for his life.

So he took for himself a potsherd with which to scrape himself, and he sat in the midst of the ashes.

Then they sat with him on the ground for seven days and seven nights, but no one spoke a word to him because they saw that his suffering was very great.

Let the stars of its dawn be dark; let it hope for light but there be none, and let it not see the eyelids of dawn

For now I would lie down, and I would be at peace; I would be asleep; then I would be at rest

with kings and counselors of the earth, who rebuild ruins for themselves,

who wait for death, but it does not come, and search for it more than for treasures,

For my sighing comes before my bread, and my groanings gush forth like water

For vexation will slay the fool, and jealousy will kill the simple.

So there is hope for the powerless, and wickedness shuts its mouth.

for he himself wounds, but he binds up; he strikes, but his hands heal.

For your covenant will be with the stones of the field, and the wild animals of the field will be at peace with you.

for then it would be heavier than the sand of the seas; therefore my words have been rash,

for the arrows of Shaddai are in me; my spirit drinks their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.

But it will still be my consolation, and I would recoil in unrelenting pain, for I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

"Loyal love should come for the afflicted from his friend, even if he forsakes the fear of Shaddai.

The caravans of Tema looked; the traveling merchants of Sheba hope for them.

"For now you have become such; you see terrors, and you fear.

Is it because I have said, ‘Give to me,' or, ‘Offer a bribe for me from your wealth'?

Like a slave he longs for the shadow, and like a laborer he waits for his wages.