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respondens autem Iob dixit

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nunc quoque in amaritudine est sermo meus et manus plagaemeae adgravata est super gemitum meum

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quis mihi tribuat ut cognoscam et inveniam illum et veniamusque ad solium eius

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ponam coram eo iudicium et os meum replebo increpationibus

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ut sciam verba quae mihi respondeat et intellegam quidloquatur mihi

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nolo multa fortitudine contendat mecum nec magnitudinissuae mole me premat

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proponat aequitatem contra me et perveniat ad victoriamiudicium meum

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si ad orientem iero non apparet si ad occidentem nonintellegam eum

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si ad sinistram quid agat non adprehendam eum si me vertamad dextram non videbo illum

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ipse vero scit viam meam et probavit me quasi aurum quodper ignem transit

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vestigia eius secutus est pes meus viam eius custodivi etnon declinavi ex ea

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a mandatis labiorum eius non recessi et in sinu meoabscondi verba oris eius

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ipse enim solus est et nemo avertere potest cogitationemeius et anima eius quodcumque voluerit hoc facit

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cum expleverit in me voluntatem suam et alia multa similiapraesto sunt ei

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et idcirco a facie eius turbatus sum et considerans eumtimore sollicitor

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Deus mollivit cor meum et Omnipotens conturbavit me

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non enim perii propter inminentes tenebras nec faciem meamoperuit caligo

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023:001
Then Job answered and said,

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Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.

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Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!

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I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.

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I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.

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Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me.

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There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.

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Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:

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On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him:

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But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

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My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.

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Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

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But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.

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For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him.

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Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.

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For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:

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Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face.

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