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if you are so honest and pure, then God will come and help you and restore your household as your reward.

God is so wise and powerful; no one can stand up against him.

So how can I find words to answer God?

Is it right for you to be so cruel? To despise what you yourself have made? And then to smile on the schemes of wicked people?

You were watching to see if I would sin, so that you could refuse to forgive me.

Will no one answer all this nonsense? Does talking so much put you in the right? <

I've lost all hope, so what if God kills me? I am going to state my case to him.

Water will wear down rocks, and heavy rain will wash away the soil; so you destroy our hope for life.

Or with a chisel carve my words in stone and write them so that they would last forever.

But now, be afraid of the sword— the sword that brings God's wrath on sin, so that you will know there is one who judges.

They may grow great, towering to the sky, so great that their heads reach the clouds,

Evil tastes so good to them that they keep some in their mouths to enjoy its flavor. <

No, it's because you have sinned so much; it's because of all the evil you do.

So now there are pitfalls all around you, and suddenly you are full of fear.

It has grown so dark that you cannot see, and a flood overwhelms you.

So the poor, like wild donkeys, search for food in the dry wilderness; nowhere else can they find food for their children.

The adulterer waits for twilight to come; he covers his face so that no one can see him.

As snow vanishes in heat and drought, so sinners vanish from the land of the living.

Can anyone deny that this is so? Can anyone prove that my words are not true?

But no, after all, you have seen for yourselves; so why do you talk such nonsense?