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So now ye are nothing; ye see a terrible object and are afraid.

So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.

The cloud consumeth and vanisheth away; so he that goeth down to Sheol shall not come up.

So that my soul chooseth strangling, death, rather than my bones.

Have I sinned, what do I unto thee, thou Observer of men? Why hast thou set me as an object of assault for thee, so that I am become a burden to myself?

So are the paths of all that forget God; and the profane man's hope shall perish,

Of a truth I know it is so; but how can man be just with God?

[Then] I will speak, and not fear him; but it is not so with me.

If I were wicked, woe unto me! and righteous, I will not lift up my head, being [so] full of shame, and beholding mine affliction;—

So man lieth down, and riseth not again; till the heavens be no more, they do not awake, nor are raised out of their sleep.

Drought and heat consume snow waters; so doth Sheol those that have sinned.

If it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?

He lieth down rich, but will do so no more; he openeth his eyes, and he is not.

For he hath loosed my cord and afflicted me; so they cast off the bridle before me.

If my heart have been enticed unto a woman, so that I laid wait at my neighbour's door,

Or have eaten my morsel alone, so that the fatherless ate not thereof,

And my heart have been secretly enticed, so that my mouth kissed my hand:

Because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and went not out of the door, …

So that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto him, and he heareth the cry of the afflicted.

What I see not, teach thou me; if I have done wrong, I will do so no more?