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"If one ventures a word with you, will you be offended? But who can keep from speaking?

But now it has come to you, and you are impatient; it touches you, and you are dismayed.

It stood still, but I could not discern its appearance. A form was before my eyes; there was silence, then I heard a voice:

I have seen fools taking root, but suddenly I cursed their dwelling.

but human beings are born to trouble just as sparks fly upward.

But he saves the needy from the sword of their mouth, from the hand of the mighty.

For he wounds, but he binds up; he strikes, but his hands heal.

How forceful are honest words! But your reproof, what does it reprove?

"But now, be pleased to look at me; for I will not lie to your face.

When I lie down I say, ‘When shall I rise?' But the night is long, and I am full of tossing until dawn.

Why do you not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For now I shall lie in the earth; you will seek me, but I shall not be."

for we are but of yesterday, and we know nothing, for our days on earth are but a shadow.

"Indeed I know that this is so; but how can a mortal be just before God?

Look, he passes by me, and I do not see him; he moves on, but I do not perceive him.

he will not let me get my breath, but fills me with bitterness.

But O that God would speak, and open his lips to you,

But a stupid person will get understanding, when a wild ass is born human.

But the eyes of the wicked will fail; all way of escape will be lost to them, and their hope is to breathe their last."

But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?

Those at ease have contempt for misfortune, but it is ready for those whose feet are unstable.