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If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: [if I say], I [am] perfect, it shall also prove me perverse (9:20) [Though] I [were] perfect, [yet] would I not know my soul: I would despise my life (9:21) This [is] one [thing], therefore I said [it], He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked (9:22) If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent (9:23) The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, [and] who [is] he? (9:24) Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good (9:25) They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle [that] hasteth to the prey (9:26) If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort [myself]: (9:27) I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent (9:28) [If] I be wicked, why then labour I in vain? (9:29) If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean; (9:30) Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me (9:31) For [he is] not a man, as I [am, that] I should answer him, [and] we should come together in judgment (9:32) Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, [that] might lay his hand upon us both (9:33) Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me: (9:34) [Then] would I speak, and not fear him; but [it is] not so with me
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