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The Fading of the Flesh and the Demand for a Surety
My ruach is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
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Iyub 17
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The Provocation of the Mockers
Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?
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The Demand for a Surety
Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?
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The Blindness of the Philosophers
For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.
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He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
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The Byword of the People
He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
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The Dimming of the Eye
Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
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The Astonishment of the Upright
Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
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The Perseverance of the Righteous
The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
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The Dismissal of Earthly Wisdom
But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.
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The Broken Timeline
My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
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They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.
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The Bed in the Darkness
If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
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The Family of Corruption
I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.
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The Question of Hope
And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
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The Descent to the Dust
They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.