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Rh :Oh that Thou wouldest hide me in the nether-world,
 * That Thou wouldest keep me secret, until Thy wrath be past,
 * That Thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!—
 * If a man die, may he live again?
 * All the days of my service would I wait, till my relief should come—
 * Thou wouldest call, and I would answer Thee;
 * Thou wouldest have a desire to the work of Thy hands.
 * But now Thou numberest my steps,
 * Thou dost not even wait for my sin;
 * My transgression is sealed up in a bag,
 * And Thou heapest up mine iniquity.
 * And surely the mountain falling crumbleth away, And the rock is removed out of its place;
 * The waters wear the stones;
 * The overflowings thereof wash away the dust of the earth;
 * So Thou destroyest the hope of man.
 * Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth;
 * Thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.
 * His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not;
 * And they are brought low, but he regardeth them not.
 * But his flesh grieveth for him,
 * And his soul mourneth over him.


 * Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said:
 * Should a wise man make answer with windy knowledge,
 * And fill his belly with the east wind?
 * Should he reason with unprofitable talk,
 * Or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?
 * Yea, thou doest away with fear,
 * And impairest devotion before God.
 * For thine iniquity teacheth thy mouth,
 * And thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
 * Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I;
 * Yea, thine own lips testify against thee.


 * Art thou the first man that was born?
 * Or wast thou brought forth before the hills?
 * Dost thou hearken in the council of God?
 * And dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?
 * What knowest thou, that we know not?
 * What understandest thou, which is not in us?
 * With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men,
 * Much older than thy father.
 * Are the consolations of God too small for thee,
 * And the word that dealeth gently with thee?
 * Why doth thy heart carry thee away?
 * And why do thine eyes wink?
 * That thou turnest thy spirit against God,
 * And lettest such words go out of thy mouth.
 * What is man, that he should be clean?
 * And he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
 * Behold, He putteth no trust in His holy ones;
 * Yea, the heavens are not clean in His sight.