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Who can say, "I have made my heart pure; I am clean from my sin"?

is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, "I am only joking!"

The words of Agur son of Jakeh. The oracle. The man declares, I am weary, O God; I am weary, O God, and worn out.

Surely I am too stupid to be a man. I have not the understanding of a man.

one person who has no other, either son or brother, yet there is no end to all his toil, and his eyes are never satisfied with riches, so that he never asks, "For whom am I toiling and depriving myself of pleasure?" This also is vanity and an unhappy business.

She I am very dark, but lovely, O daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon.

Do not gaze at me because I am dark, because the sun has looked upon me. My mother's sons were angry with me; they made me keeper of the vineyards, but my own vineyard I have not kept!

I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys.

Sustain me with raisins; refresh me with apples, for I am sick with love.

My beloved is mine, and I am his; he grazes among the lilies.

I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, that you tell him I am sick with love.

I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine; he grazes among the lilies.

I am my beloved's, and his desire is for me.

Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates; they have become a burden to me; I am weary of bearing them.

And I said: "Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!"

And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?" Then I said, "Here I am! Send me."

Behold, I am stirring up the Medes against them, who have no regard for silver and do not delight in gold.

The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish; the wisest counselors of Pharaoh give stupid counsel. How can you say to Pharaoh, "I am a son of the wise, a son of ancient kings"?

Therefore my loins are filled with anguish; pangs have seized me, like the pangs of a woman in labor; I am bowed down so that I cannot hear; I am dismayed so that I cannot see.

Then he who saw cried out: "Upon a watchtower I stand, O Lord, continually by day, and at my post I am stationed whole nights.