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[Are] the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee?

That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest [such] words go out of thy mouth?

For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.

God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.

My friends scorn me: [but] my eye poureth out [tears] to God.

O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man [pleadeth] for his neighbor!

Surely such [are] the dwellings of the wicked, and this [is] the place [of him that] knoweth not God.

Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath encompassed me with his net.

Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.

Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

And [though] after my skin [worms] destroy this [body], yet in my flesh shall I see God:

He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.

[When] he is about to fill his belly, [God] shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain [it] upon him while he is eating.

This [is] the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed to him by God.

Their houses [are] safe from fear, neither [is] the rod of God upon them.

Therefore they say to God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.

How oft is the candle of the wicked put out? and [how oft] cometh their destruction upon them? [God] distributeth sorrows in his anger.

God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know [it].

Shall [any] teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high.

Can a man be profitable to God, as he that is wise may be profitable to himself?