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For I am full of words; the spirit inside me pressed on me;

For I do not know how to eulogize; else after a little my Maker will take me away.

Behold, you are not right in this. I will answer you, for God is greater than man.

Why do you contend against Him, since He does not give account to you for any of His matters?

For in one way God may speak, and in a second, but one does not regard it.

If there is a messenger for him, a mediator, one among a thousand, to declare for man his uprightness,

then let Him be gracious to him and say, Deliver him from going down to the Pit, for I have found a ransom!

He will pray to God, and He will accept him, and he will see His face with exultation; for He will restore to man his righteousness.

If you have anything to say, answer me; speak, for I desire to justify you.

for the ear tries words as the palate tastes food.

Let us choose for ourselves what is right; let us know among ourselves what is good.

For Job has said, I am righteous; also, God has taken away my right;

For he has said, It is no benefit for a man when he is accepted with God.

For He repays man's work to him; and according to a man's way, He causes him to find.

How much less to Him who does not lift up the face of rulers, nor regard the rich before the poor; for all of them are the work of His hands.

For His eyes are on the ways of a man, and He sees all his steps.

For He does not still impose on man to go before God in judgment.

He strikes them for evil deeds in the place of the spectators,

for so they turned from following Him, and they did not consider all His ways so as

to cause the cry of the poor to come to Him. For He hears the cry of the afflicted.