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Rh :Even that it would please God to crush me;
 * That He would let loose His hand, and cut me off!
 * Then should I yet have comfort;
 * Yea, I would exult in pain, though He spare not;
 * For I have not denied the words of the Holy One.


 * What is my strength, that I should wait?
 * And what is mine end, that I should be patient?
 * Is my strength the strength of stones?
 * Or is my flesh of brass?
 * Is it that I have no help in me,
 * And that sound wisdom is driven quite from me?


 * To him that is ready to faint kindness is due from his friend,
 * Even to him that forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.
 * My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook,
 * As the channel of brooks that overflow,
 * Which are black by reason of the ice,
 * And wherein the snow hideth itself;
 * What time they wax warm, they vanish,
 * When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
 * The paths of their way do wind,
 * They go up into the waste, and are lost.
 * The caravans of Tema looked,
 * The companies of Sheba waited for them—
 * They were ashamed because they had hoped;
 * They came thither, and were confounded.
 * For now ye are become His;
 * Ye see a terror, and are afraid.
 * Did I say: 'Give unto me'?
 * Or: 'Offer a present for me of your substance'?
 * or: 'Deliver me from the adversary's hand'?
 * Or: 'Redeem me from the hand of the oppressors'?


 * Teach me, and I will hold my peace;
 * And cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
 * How forcible are words of uprightness!
 * But what doth your arguing argue?
 * Do ye hold words to be an argument,
 * But the speeches of one that is desperate to be wind?
 * Yea, ye would cast lots upon the fatherless,
 * And dig a pit for your friend.
 * Now therefore be pleased to look upon me;
 * For surely I shall not lie to your face.
 * Return, I pray you, let there be no injustice;
 * Yea, return again, my cause is righteous.
 * Is there injustice on my tongue?
 * Cannot my taste discern crafty devices?


 * Is there not a time of service to man upon earth?
 * And are not his days like the days of a hireling?
 * As a servant that eagerly longeth for the shadow,
 * And as a hireling that looketh for his wages;
 * So am I made to possess—months of vanity,
 * And wearisome nights are appointed to me.