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so a man lies down and rises not again; till the heavens are no more he will not awake or be roused out of his sleep.

the waters wear away the stones; the torrents wash away the soil of the earth; so you destroy the hope of man.

He has walled up my way, so that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness upon my paths.

or darkness, so that you cannot see, and a flood of water covers you.

Thick clouds veil him, so that he does not see, and he walks on the vault of heaven.'

Drought and heat snatch away the snow waters; so does Sheol those who have sinned.

The womb forgets them; the worm finds them sweet; they are no longer remembered, so wickedness is broken like a tree.'

If it is not so, who will prove me a liar and show that there is nothing in what I say?"

He goes to bed rich, but will do so no more; he opens his eyes, and his wealth is gone.

He dams up the streams so that they do not trickle, and the thing that is hidden he brings out to light.

because I stood in great fear of the multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and did not go out of doors—

So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

so that his life loathes bread, and his appetite the choicest food.

His flesh is so wasted away that it cannot be seen, and his bones that were not seen stick out.

so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him, and he heard the cry of the afflicted—

No one is so fierce that he dares to stir him up. Who then is he who can stand before me?

One is so near to another that no air can come between them.

So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went and did what the Lord had told them, and the Lord accepted Job's prayer.

And in all the land there were no women so beautiful as Job's daughters. And their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers.

The wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away.