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| 1 My soul hath been weary of my life, I leave off my talking to myself, I speak in the bitterness of my soul. |
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| 2 I say unto God, 'Do not condemn me, Let me know why Thou dost strive [with] me. |
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| 3 Is it good for Thee that Thou dost oppress That Thou despisest the labour of Thy hands, And on the counsel of the wicked hast shone |
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| 4 Eyes of flesh hast Thou As man seeth seest Thou |
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| 5 As the days of man [are] Thy days Thy years as the days of a man |
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| 6 That Thou inquirest for mine iniquity, And for my sin seekest |
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| 7 For Thou knowest that I am not wicked, And there is no deliverer from Thy hand. |
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| 8 Thy hands have taken pains about me, And they make me together round about, And Thou swallowest me up!
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Thine hands – Power. R4519:6*, R4059:2
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| 9 Remember, I pray Thee, That as clay Thou hast made me, And unto dust Thou dost bring me back. |
Hast made me – The "wind" cannot fashion a created organism, but God's invisible creative power can. R4520:1*
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| 10 Dost Thou not as milk pour me out And as cheese curdle me |
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| 11 Skin and flesh Thou dost put on me, And with bones and sinews dost fence me. |
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| 12 Life and kindness Thou hast done with me. And Thy inspection hath preserved my spirit. |
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| 13 And these Thou hast laid up in Thy heart, I have known that this [is] with Thee. |
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| 14 If I sinned, then Thou hast observed me, And from mine iniquity dost not acquit me, |
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| 15 If I have done wickedly wo to me, And righteously I lift not up my head, Full of shame then see my affliction, |
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| 16 And it riseth as a lion Thou huntest me. And Thou turnest back Thou shewest Thyself wonderful in me. |
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| 17 Thou renewest Thy witnesses against me, And dost multiply Thine anger with me, Changes and warfare [are] with me. |
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| 18 And why from the womb Hast Thou brought me forth I expire, and the eye doth not see me. |
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| 19 As I had not been, I am, From the belly to the grave I am brought, |
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 put from me, And I brighten up a little, |
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| 21 Before I go, and return not, 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 as thick darkness, Death-shade and no order, And the shining [is] as thick darkness.' |
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