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Should not your piety be your confidence and your blameless ways your hope?
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So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts its mouth.
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“Oh, that I might have my request, that God would grant what I hope for,
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“What strength do I have, that I should still hope? What prospects, that I should be patient?
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The caravans of Tema look for water, the traveling merchants of Sheba look in hope.
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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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Such is the destiny of all who forget God; so perishes the hope of the godless.
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You will be secure, because there is hope; you will look about you and take your rest in safety.
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But the eyes of the wicked will fail, and escape will elude them; their hope will become a dying gasp.”
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Though he slay me, yet will I hope in him; I will surely defend my ways to his face.
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“At least there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its new shoots will not fail.
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as water wears away stones and torrents wash away the soil, so you destroy a person’s hope.
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For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of those who love bribes.
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If the only home I hope for is the grave, if I spread out my bed in the realm of darkness,
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where then is my hope— who can see any hope for me?
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He tears me down on every side till I am gone; he uproots my hope like a tree.
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All my intimate friends detest me; those I love have turned against me.
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For what hope have the godless when they are cut off, when God takes away their life?
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Yet when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, then came darkness.
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He brings the clouds to punish people, or to water his earth and show his love.
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Any hope of subduing it is false; the mere sight of it is overpowering.
