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| 1 My soul is weary of my life: I will give free course to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. |
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| 2 I will say unto +God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou strivest with me. |
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| 3 Doth it please thee to oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thy hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked? |
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| 4 Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth?
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| 5 Are thy days as the days of a mortal? are thy years as a man's days, |
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| 6 That thou searchest after mine iniquity, and inquirest into my sin; |
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| 7 Since thou knowest that I am not wicked, and that there is none that delivereth out of thy hand? |
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| 8 Thy hands have bound me together and made me as one, round about; yet dost thou swallow me up! |
Thine hands – Power. R4519:6*, R4059:2
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| 9 Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as clay, and wilt bring me into dust again. |
Hast made me – The "wind" cannot fashion a created organism, but God's invisible creative power can. R4520:1*
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| 10 Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese? |
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| 11 Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews; |
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| 12 Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy care hath preserved my spirit; |
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| 13 And these things didst thou hide in thy heart; I know that this was with thee. |
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| 14 If I sinned, thou wouldest mark me, and thou wouldest not acquit me of mine iniquity. |
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| 15 If I were wicked, woe unto me! and righteous, I will not lift up my head, being so full of shame, and beholding mine affliction; -- |
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| 16 And it increaseth: thou huntest me as a fierce lion; and ever again thou shewest thy marvellous power upon me. |
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| 17 Thou renewest thy witnesses before me and increasest thy displeasure against me; successions of evil and a time of toil are with me. |
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| 18 And wherefore didst thou bring me forth out of the womb? I had expired, and no eye had seen me. |
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| 19 I should be as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave. |
I had not been – Death, destruction. R1039:6, R1878:6
The wicked (all who, after coming to a clear knowledge of the truth, still wilfully disobey it) shall be cut off in the Second Death. E387
To the grave – Qebar, tomb, the grave. E348
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| 20 Are not my days few? cease then and let me alone, that I may revive a little, |
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| 21 Before I go, and never to return, --to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; |
Land of darkness – Instead of a place of blazing fire it is described as a state of "darkness." R2599:2; CR209:2*; HG335:2
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| 22 A land of gloom, as darkness itself; of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as thick darkness. |
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