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God giveth them to be in security, and they rest thereon; and his eyes are upon their ways.

How then can man be just with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?

As God liveth, who hath taken away my right; and the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul;

(For my life is yet whole in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;)

God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not put away mine integrity from me.

For what is the hope of the godless, though he get him gain, when God taketh away his soul?

Will God hear his cry, when trouble cometh upon him?

Will he delight himself in the Almighty, and call upon God at all times?

I will teach you concerning the hand of God; that which is with the Almighty will I not conceal.

This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty.

For God shall hurl at him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.

God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.

Oh that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me;

As I was in the ripeness of my days, when the secret of God was upon my tent;

For what is the portion of God from above, and the heritage of the Almighty from on high?

(Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity;)

What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?

For calamity from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his excellency I could do nothing.

This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judges: for I should have lied to God that is above.

Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram: against Job was his wrath kindled, because he justified himself rather than God.