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Rh :For the shadow of death is to all of them as the morning;
 * For they know the terrors of the shadow of death.


 * He is swift upon the face of the waters;
 * Their portion is cursed in the earth;
 * He turneth not by the way of the vineyards.
 * Drought and heat consume the snow waters;
 * So doth the nether-world those that have sinned.
 * The womb forgetteth him; the worm feedeth sweetly on him;
 * He shall be no more remembered;
 * And unrighteousness is broken as a tree.
 * He devoureth the barren that beareth not;
 * And doeth not good to the widow.
 * He draweth away the mighty also by his power;
 * He riseth up, and he trusteth not his own life.
 * Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth,
 * Yet His eyes are upon their ways.
 * They are exalted for a little while, and they are gone;
 * Yea, they are brought low, they are gathered in as all others,
 * And wither as the tops of the ears of corn.
 * And if it be not so now, who will prove me a liar,
 * And make my speech nothing worth?

Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said:


 * Dominion and fear are with Him;
 * He maketh peace in His high places.
 * Is there any number of His armies?
 * And upon whom doth not His light arise?
 * How then can man be just with God?
 * Or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
 * Behold, even the moon hath no brightness,
 * And the stars are not pure in His sight;
 * How much less man, that is a worm!
 * And the son of man, that is a maggot!

Then Job answered and said:


 * How hast thou helped him that is without power!
 * How hast thou saved the arm that hath no strength!
 * How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom,
 * And plentifully declared sound knowledge!
 * With whose help hast thou uttered words?
 * And whose spirit came forth from thee?


 * The shades tremble
 * Beneath the waters and the inhabitants thereof.
 * The nether-world is naked before Him,
 * And Destruction hath no covering.
 * He stretcheth out the north over the empty space,
 * And hangeth the earth over nothing.
 * He bindeth up the waters in His thick clouds;
 * And the cloud is not rent under them.
 * He closeth in the face of His throne,
 * And spreadeth His cloud upon it.
 * He hath described a boundary upon the face of the waters,
 * Unto the confines of light and darkness.