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| 1 My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. |
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| 2 I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; show me wherefore thou contendest with me. |
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| 3 Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine 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 man? are thy years as man's days, |
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| 6 That thou inquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin? |
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| 7 Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand. |
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| 8 Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me. |
Thine hands – Power. R4519:6*, R4059:2
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| 9 Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou 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 hast fenced me with bones and sinews. |
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| 12 Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.
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| 13 And these things hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that this is with thee. |
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| 14 If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity. |
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| 15 If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction; |
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| 16 For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou showest thyself marvellous upon me. |
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| 17 Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me. |
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| 18 Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had expired, and no eye had seen me! |
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| 19 I should have been 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 take comfort a little, |
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| 21 Before I go whence I shall not return, even 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 darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness. |
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