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ecce omnia et vidit oculus meus et audivit auris mea etintellexi singula

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secundum scientiam vestram et ego novi nec inferior vestrisum

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sed tamen ad Omnipotentem loquar et disputare cum Deo cupio

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prius vos ostendens fabricatores mendacii et cultoresperversorum dogmatum

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atque utinam taceretis ut putaremini esse sapientes

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audite ergo correptiones meas et iudicium labiorum meorumadtendite

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numquid Deus indiget vestro mendacio ut pro illo loquaminidolos

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numquid faciem eius accipitis et pro Deo iudicare nitimini

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aut placebit ei quem celare nihil potest aut decipietur uthomo vestris fraudulentiis

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ipse vos arguet quoniam in abscondito faciem eiusaccipitis

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statim ut se commoverit turbabit vos et terror eius inruetsuper vos

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memoria vestra conparabitur cineri et redigentur in lutumcervices vestrae

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tacete paulisper ut loquar quodcumque mihi menssuggesserit

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quare lacero carnes meas dentibus meis et animam meamporto in manibus meis

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etiam si occiderit me in ipso sperabo verumtamen vias measin conspectu eius arguam

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et ipse erit salvator meus non enim veniet in conspectueius omnis hypocrita

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audite sermonem meum et enigmata percipite auribus vestris

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si fuero iudicatus scio quod iustus inveniar

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quis est qui iudicetur mecum veniat quare tacens consumor

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duo tantum ne facias mihi et tunc a facie tua nonabscondar

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manum tuam longe fac a me et formido tua non me terreat

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et voca me et respondebo tibi aut certe loquar et turesponde mihi

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quantas habeo iniquitates et peccata scelera mea etdelicta ostende mihi

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cur faciem tuam abscondis et arbitraris me inimicum tuum

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contra folium quod vento rapitur ostendis potentiam tuamet stipulam siccam persequeris

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scribis enim contra me amaritudines et consumere me vispeccatis adulescentiae meae

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posuisti in nervo pedem meum et observasti omnes semitasmeas et vestigia pedum meorum considerasti

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qui quasi putredo consumendus sum et quasi vestimentumquod comeditur a tinea

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013:001
Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it.

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What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.

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Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.

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But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.

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O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.

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Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.

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Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?

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Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?

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Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?

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He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.

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Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?

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Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.

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Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.

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Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?

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Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.

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He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.

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Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.

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Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.

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Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.

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Only do not two things unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee.

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Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.

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Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.

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How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.

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Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?

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Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?

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For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.

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Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.

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And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.

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