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V] :Shall a man be more pure than his maker?
 * Behold, he put no trust in his servants;
 * And his angels he charged with folly:
 * How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay,
 * Whose foundation is in the dust,
 * Which are crushed before the moth?
 * They are destroyed from morning to evening:
 * They perish for ever without any regarding it.
 * Doth not their excellency which is in them go away?
 * They die, even without wisdom.


 * now, if there be any that will answer thee;
 * And to which of the saints wilt thou turn?
 * For wrath killeth the foolish man,
 * And envy slayeth the silly one.
 * I have seen the foolish taking root:
 * But suddenly I cursed his habitation.
 * His children are far from safety.
 * And they are crushed in the gate,
 * Neither is there any to deliver them.
 * Whose harvest the hungry eateth up,
 * And taketh it even out of the thorns,
 * And the robber swalloweth up their substance.
 * Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust.
 * Neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
 * Yet man is born unto trouble,