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| 1 My soul doth loathe my life,–I let loose my complaint, I speak, in the bitterness of my soul. |
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| 2 I say unto GOD, Do not hold me guilty, Let me know, on what account thou contendest with me! |
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| 3 Is it seemly in thee, that thou shouldst oppress? that thou shouldst despise the labour of thine own hand, when, upon the counsel of the lawless, thou hast shone? |
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| 4 Eyes of flesh, hast thou? or, as a mortal seeth, seest thou? |
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| 5 As the days of a mortal, are thy days? or, thy years, as the days of a man? |
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| 6 That thou shouldst seek for mine iniquity, and, for my sin, shouldst make search: |
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| 7 Though it is, within thine own knowledge, that I would not be lawless, and, none, out of thy hand, can deliver? |
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| 8 Thine own hands, shaped me, and made me, all in unison round about, and yet thou hast confounded me. |
Thine hands – Power. R4519:6*, R4059:2
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| 9 Remember, I pray thee, that, as clay, thou didst make me, and, unto dust, thou wilt cause me to return. |
Hast made me – The "wind" cannot fashion a created organism, but God's invisible creative power can. R4520:1*
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| 10 Didst thou not, like milk, pour me forth? and, as cheese, curdle me? |
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| 11 With skin and flesh, clothe me? and, with bones and sinews, interweave me? |
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| 12 Life and lovingkindness, thou didst bestow upon me,–and, thy watchful care, preserved my breath. |
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| 13 Yet, these things, thou didst hide in thy heart, I know that, this, hath been with thee! |
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| 14 If I have sinned, then couldst thou watch me, and, from mine iniquity, thou wouldst not acquit me: |
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| 15 If I have been lawless, alas for me! Or, if I am righteous, I will not lift up my head, Surfeited with shame, look thou then on my humiliation. |
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| 16 When it is lifted up, like a howling lion, thou dost hunt me, Then again thou dost shew thyself marvelous against me. |
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| 17 Thou renewest thy witnesses before me, and dost increase thy vexation with me, Relays–yea an army, is with me. |
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| 18 Wherefore then, from the womb, didst thou bring me forth? I might have breathed my last, and, no eye, have seen me. |
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| 19 As though I had not been, should I have become,–from the womb to the grave, might I have been borne. |
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?–then forbear, and set me aside, that I may brighten up for a little; |
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| 21 Before I go, and not return, unto a land of darkness and death-shade: |
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 obscurity, like thick darkness, of death-shade and disorder, and which shineth like thick darkness. |
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