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that you turn your spirit against God and bring such words out of your mouth?

Behold, God puts no trust in his holy ones, and the heavens are not pure in his sight;

Because he has stretched out his hand against God and defies the Almighty,

Surely now God has worn me out; he has made desolate all my company.

God gives me up to the ungodly and casts me into the hands of the wicked.

My friends scorn me; my eye pours out tears to God,

that he would argue the case of a man with God, as a son of man does with his neighbor.

Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous, such is the place of him who knows not God."

know then that God has put me in the wrong and closed his net about me.

Have mercy on me, have mercy on me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me!

Why do you, like God, pursue me? Why are you not satisfied with my flesh?

And after my skin has been thus destroyed, yet in my flesh I shall see God,

He swallows down riches and vomits them up again; God casts them out of his belly.

To fill his belly to the full, God will send his burning anger against him and rain it upon him into his body.

This is the wicked man's portion from God, the heritage decreed for him by God."

Their houses are safe from fear, and no rod of God is upon them.

They say to God, ‘Depart from us! We do not desire the knowledge of your ways.

"How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? That their calamity comes upon them? That God distributes pains in his anger?

You say, ‘God stores up their iniquity for their children.' Let him pay it out to them, that they may know it.

Will any teach God knowledge, seeing that he judges those who are on high?