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There is not, between us, a mediator, who might lay his hand upon us both.

Let him take from off me his rod, and, his terror, let it not startle me:

Since thou hast said, Right is my doctrine, and pure am I in his eyes.

But, in very deed, oh that GOD would speak, that he would open his lips with thee:

At peace are the tents that belong to the spoilers, and there is security to them who provoke GOD, To him who bringeth a god in his hand.

Shall not, his majesty, overwhelm you? and, the dread of him, fall upon you?

Lo! he may slay me, yet , for him, will I wait, - Nevertheless, my ways - unto his face, will I show to be right:

Even he, will be on my side - unto salvation, For, not before his face, shall any impious person come.

If determined am his days, the number of his months, is with thee, Fixed times for him, thou hast appointed and he cannot go beyond.

Look sway from him, that he may rest, Till he shall pay off, as a hireling, his day.

Thou dost overpower him utterly, and he departeth, Disfiguring his face, so, hast thou sent him away.

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

But, his flesh, for himself, is in pain, and, his soul, for himself, doth mourn.

Should, a wise man, answer unreal knowledge? or fill, with the east wind, his inner man?

Lo! in his holy ones, he putteth not confidence, and, the heavens, are not pure in his eyes:

A noise of dreadful things, is in his ears, In prosperity, the destroyer cometh upon him;

A wanderer, he, for bread, saying Where is it ? He knoweth that, prepared by his own hand, is the day of darkness;

Because he had stretched out - against GOD - his hand, and, against the Almighty, had been wont to behave himself proudly;

He used to run against him with uplifted neck, with the stout bosses of his bucklers;

For he had covered his face with his fatness, and had gathered a superabundance on his loins;