Job 30:1-31 - Job's Final Defense Continued
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Whose fathers I disdained to put with the dogs of my flock.
Vigor had perished from them.
Who gnaw the dry ground by night in waste and desolation,
And whose food is the root of the broom shrub.
They shout against them as against a thief,
In holes of the earth and of the rocks.
Under the nettles they are gathered together.
They were scourged from the land.
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I have even become a
And they do not
They have cast off
They
They profit
No one restrains them.
They pursue my
And my
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Days of affliction have seized me.
And my gnawing pains take no rest.
It binds me about as the collar of my coat.
And I have become like dust and ashes.
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I stand up, and You turn Your attention against me.
With the might of Your hand You
And You dissolve me in a storm.
And to the
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Or in his disaster therefore
Was not my soul grieved for
When I waited for light,
Days of affliction confront me.
I stand up in the assembly and
And a companion of ostriches.
And my
And my flute to the sound of those who weep.
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How then could I gaze at a virgin?
Or the heritage of the Almighty from on high?
And disaster to
And
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And my foot has hastened after deceit,
And let God know
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Or my heart
Or if any
And let my
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Or I have lurked at my neighbor’s doorway,
And let
Moreover, it would be
And would
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When they filed a complaint against me,
And when He calls me to account, what will I answer Him?
And the same one fashion us in the womb?
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Or have caused the eyes of
And
And from
Or that
And if he has not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep,
Because I saw
And my
And because of
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And called fine gold my trust,
And because my hand had secured so much;
Or the moon going in splendor,
And my hand
For I would have
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Or
By asking for his life in
‘Who can
For I have opened my doors to the
By hiding my iniquity in my bosom,
And the contempt of families terrified me,
And kept silent and did not go out of doors?
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Behold, here is my
And the indictment which my
I would bind it to myself like a crown.
Like
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And its furrows weep together;
Or have
And stinkweed instead of barley.”
The words of Job are ended.