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if I lifted my hand against an orphan, trusting that my strength was far superior to his:

For the fear of the Lord constrained me, and I cannot bear up by reason of his burden.

And if too my handmaids have often said, Oh that we might be satisfied with his flesh; (whereas I was very kind:

And his three friends also ceased any longer to answer Job: for Job was righteous before them.

And he was also very angry with his three friends, because they were not able to return answers to Job, yet set him down for an ungodly man.

And Elius saw that there was no answer in the mouth of the three men; and he was angered in his wrath.

and I shall understand as far as you; and, behold, there was no one of you that answered Job his words in argument,

to turn a man from unrighteousness, and he delivers his body from a fall.

He spares also his soul from death, and suffers him not to fall in war.

And again, he chastens him with sickness on his bed, and the multitude of his bones is benumbed.

And he shall not be able to take any food, though his soul shall desire meat;

until his flesh shall be consumed, and he shall shew his bones bare.

His soul also draws nigh to death, and his life is in Hades.

Though there should be a thousand messengers of death, not one of them shall wound him: if he should purpose in his heart to turn to the Lord, and declare to man his fault, and shew his folly;

he will support him, that he should not perish, and will restore his body as fresh plaster upon a wall; and he will fill his bones with morrow.

And he will make his flesh tender as that of a babe, and he will restore him among men in his full strength.

And he shall pray to the Lord, and his prayer shall be accepted of him; he shall enter with a cheerful countenance, with a full expression of praise: for he will render to men their due.

For if he would confine, and restrain his spirit with himself;

Because they turned aside from the law of God, and did not regard his ordinances,

And he will give quiet, and who will condemn? and he will hide his face, and who shall see him? whether it be done against a nation, or against a man also: