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30:17. In the night my bone is pierced with sorrows: and they that feed
upon me, do not sleep.
30:18. With the multitude of them my garment is consumed, and they have
girded me about, as with the collar of my coat.
30:19. I am compared to dirt, and am likened to embers and ashes.
30:20. I cry to thee, and thou hearest me not: I stand up, and thou dost
not regard me.
30:21. Thou art changed to be cruel toward me, and in the hardness of
thy hand thou art against me.
30:22. Thou hast lifted me up, and set me as it were upon the wind, and
thou hast mightily dashed me.
30:23. I know that thou wilt deliver me to death, where a house is
appointed for every one that liveth.
30:24. But yet thou stretchest not forth thy hand to their consumption:
and if they shall fall down thou wilt save.
30:25. I wept heretofore for him that was afflicted, and my soul had
compassion on the poor.
30:26. I expected good things, and evils are come upon me: I waited for
light, and darkness broke out.
30:27. My inner parts have boiled without any rest, the days of
affliction have prevented me.
30:28. I went mourning without indignation; I rose up, and cried in the
crowd.
30:29. I was the brother of dragons, and companion of ostriches.
Brother of dragons, etc... Imitating these creatures in their lamentable
noise.
30:30. My skin is become black upon me, and my bones are dried up with
heat.
30:31. My harp is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of
those that weep.
Job Chapter 31
Job, to defend himself from the unjust judgments of his friends, gives a
sincere account of his own virtues.
31:1. I made a covenant with my eyes, that I would not so much as think
upon a virgin.
31:2. For what part should God from above have in me, and what
inheritance the Almighty from on high?
31:3. Is not destruction to the wicked, and aversion to them that work
iniquity?
31:4. Doth not he consider my ways, and number all my steps?
31:5. If I have walked in vanity, and my foot hath made haste to deceit:
31:6. Let him weigh me in a just balance, and let God know my
simplicity.
31:7. If my step hath turned out of the way, and if my heart hath
followed my eyes, and if a spot hath cleaved to my hands:
31:8. Then let me sow and let another reap: and let my offspring be
rooted out.
31:9. If my heart hath been deceived upon a woman, and if I have laid
wait at my friend's door:
31:10. Let my wife be the harlot of another, and let other men lie with
her.
31:11. For this is a heinous crime, and a most grievous iniquity.
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