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Then his wife said to him, “Are you still holding firmly to your integrity? Curse God, and die!”
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Let those who curse the day curse it— those who are prepared to rouse Leviathan.
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There the wicked cease from turmoil, and there the weary are at rest.
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Small and great are there, and the slave is free from his master.
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who rejoice even to jubilation, and are exultant when they find the grave?
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But now the same thing comes to you, and you are discouraged; it strikes you, and you are terrified.
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By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his anger they are consumed.
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There is the roaring of the lion and the growling of the young lion, but the teeth of the young lions are broken.
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The mighty lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
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how much more to those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth?
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They are destroyed between morning and evening; they perish forever without anyone regarding it.
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His children are far from safety, and they are crushed at the place where judgment is rendered, nor is there anyone to deliver them.
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but people are born to trouble, as surely as the sparks fly upward.
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he sets the lowly on high, that those who mourn are raised to safety.
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You will come to your grave in a full age, As stacks of grain are harvested in their season.
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For the arrows of the Almighty are within me; my spirit drinks their poison; God’s sudden terrors are arrayed against me.
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I have refused to touch such things; they are like loathsome food to me.
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They are dark because of ice; snow is piled up over them.
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When they are scorched, they dry up, when it is hot, they vanish from their place.
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For now you have become like these streams that are no help; you see a terror, and are afraid.
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How painful are honest words! But what does your reproof prove?
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The Brevity of Life
“Does not humanity have hard service on earth? Are not their days also like the days of a hired man?
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My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle and they come to an end without hope.
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I loathe it; I do not want to live forever; leave me alone, for my days are a vapor!
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“How long will you speak these things, seeing that the words of your mouth are like a great wind?