To Be Determined

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Behold, the hope of him is in vain. Won’t one be cast down even at the sight of him?

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None is so fierce that he dare stir him up. Who then is he who can stand before me?

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Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? Everything under the heavens is mine.

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“I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, nor his mighty strength, nor his goodly frame.

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Who can strip off his outer garment? Who shall come within his jaws?

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Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth is terror.

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Strong scales are his pride, shut up together with a close seal.

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One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.

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They are joined one to another. They stick together, so that they can’t be pulled apart.

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His sneezing flashes out light. His eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.

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Out of his mouth go burning torches. Sparks of fire leap forth.

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Out of his nostrils a smoke goes, as of a boiling pot over a fire of reeds.

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His breath kindles coals. A flame goes forth from his mouth.

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There is strength in his neck. Terror dances before him.

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The flakes of his flesh are joined together. They are firm on him. They can’t be moved.

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His heart is as firm as a stone, yes, firm as the lower millstone.

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When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid. They retreat before his thrashing.

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If one attacks him with the sword, it can’t prevail; nor the spear, the dart, nor the pointed shaft.

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He counts iron as straw; and brass as rotten wood.

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The arrow can’t make him flee. Sling stones are like chaff to him.

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Clubs are counted as stubble. He laughs at the rushing of the javelin.

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His undersides are like sharp potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.

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He makes the deep to boil like a pot. He makes the sea like a pot of ointment.

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He makes a path shine after him. One would think the deep had white hair.

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On earth there is not his equal, that is made without fear.

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He sees everything that is high. He is king over all the sons of pride.”

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Then Job answered Yahweh,

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“I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be restrained.

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You asked, ‘Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?’ therefore I have uttered that which I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I didn’t know.

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You said, ‘Listen, now, and I will speak; I will question you, and you will answer me.’

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I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you.

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Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”

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It was so, that after Yahweh had spoken these words to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.

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Now therefore, take to yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept him, that I not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.”

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So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did what Yahweh commanded them, and Yahweh accepted Job.

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Yahweh turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends. Yahweh gave Job twice as much as he had before.

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Then came there to him all his brothers, and all his sisters, and all those who had been of his acquaintance before, and ate bread with him in his house. They comforted him, and consoled him concerning all the evil that Yahweh had brought on him. Everyone also gave him a piece of money, and everyone a ring of gold.

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So Yahweh blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys.

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He had also seven sons and three daughters.

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He called the name of the first, Jemimah; and the name of the second, Keziah; and the name of the third, Keren Happuch.

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In all the land were no women found so beautiful as the daughters of Job. Their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers.

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After this Job lived one hundred forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, to four generations.

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So Job died, being old and full of days.

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For the Chief Musician, with the flutes. A Psalm by David.

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Give ear to my words, Yahweh. Consider my meditation.

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Listen to the voice of my cry, my King and my God; for to you do I pray.

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Yahweh, in the morning you shall hear my voice. In the morning I will lay my requests before you, and will watch expectantly.

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For you are not a God who has pleasure in wickedness. Evil can’t live with you.

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The arrogant shall not stand in your sight. You hate all workers of iniquity.

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You will destroy those who speak lies. Yahweh abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.

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But as for me, in the abundance of your loving kindness I will come into your house. I will bow toward your holy temple in reverence of you.

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Lead me, Yahweh, in your righteousness because of my enemies. Make your way straight before my face.

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For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.

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Hold them guilty, God. Let them fall by their own counsels; Thrust them out in the multitude of their transgressions, for they have rebelled against you.

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But let all those who take refuge in you rejoice, Let them always shout for joy, because you defend them. Let them also who love your name be joyful in you.

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For you will bless the righteous. Yahweh, you will surround him with favor as with a shield.

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For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments, upon the eight-stringed lyre. A Psalm by David.

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Yahweh, don’t rebuke me in your anger, neither discipline me in your wrath.

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Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am faint. Yahweh, heal me, for my bones are troubled.

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My soul is also in great anguish. But you, Yahweh–how long?

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Return, Yahweh. Deliver my soul, and save me for your loving kindness’ sake.

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For in death there is no memory of you. In Sheol, who shall give you thanks?

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I am weary with my groaning. Every night I flood my bed. I drench my couch with my tears.

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My eye wastes away because of grief. It grows old because of all my adversaries.

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Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for Yahweh has heard the voice of my weeping.

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Yahweh has heard my supplication. Yahweh accepts my prayer.

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May all my enemies be ashamed and dismayed. They shall turn back, they shall be disgraced suddenly.

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A meditation by David, which he sang to Yahweh, concerning the words of Cush, the Benjamite.

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Yahweh, my God, I take refuge in you. Save me from all those who pursue me, and deliver me,

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lest they tear apart my soul like a lion, ripping it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.

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Yahweh, my God, if I have done this, if there is iniquity in my hands,

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if I have rewarded evil to him who was at peace with me (yes, if I have delivered him who without cause was my adversary),

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let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it; yes, let him tread my life down to the earth, and lay my glory in the dust. Selah.

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Arise, Yahweh, in your anger. Lift up yourself against the rage of my adversaries. Awake for me. You have commanded judgment.

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Let the congregation of the peoples surround you. Rule over them on high.

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Yahweh administers judgment to the peoples. Judge me, Yahweh, according to my righteousness, and to my integrity that is in me.

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Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous; their minds and hearts are searched by the righteous God.

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My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart.

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God is a righteous judge, yes, a God who has indignation every day.

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If a man doesn’t relent, he will sharpen his sword; he has bent and strung his bow.

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He has also prepared for himself the instruments of death. He makes ready his flaming arrows.

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Behold, he travails with iniquity. Yes, he has conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.

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He has dug a hole, and has fallen into the pit which he made.

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The trouble he causes shall return to his own head. His violence shall come down on the crown of his own head.

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I will give thanks to Yahweh according to his righteousness, and will sing praise to the name of Yahweh Most High.

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For the Chief Musician; on an instrument of Gath. A Psalm by David.

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Yahweh, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth, who has set your glory above the heavens!

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From the lips of babes and infants you have established strength, because of your adversaries, that you might silence the enemy and the avenger.

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When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained;

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what is man, that you think of him? What is the son of man, that you care for him?

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For you have made him a little lower than God, and crowned him with glory and honor.

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You make him ruler over the works of your hands. You have put all things under his feet:

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All sheep and cattle, yes, and the animals of the field,

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The birds of the sky, the fish of the sea, and whatever passes through the paths of the seas.

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Yahweh, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!

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For the Chief Musician. Set to “The Death of the Son.” A Psalm by David.

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I will give thanks to Yahweh with my whole heart. I will tell of all your marvelous works.

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I will be glad and rejoice in you. I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.

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When my enemies turn back, they stumble and perish in your presence.

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For you have maintained my just cause. You sit on the throne judging righteously.