Job 37:20

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Shall it be told him that I would speak? Did a man ever wish that he would be swallowed up?

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Teach us what we shall say to him; we cannot draw up our case because of darkness.

“And now men cannot look on the light when it is bright in the skies, when the wind has passed and cleared them.

For then it would be heavier than the sand of the sea; therefore my words have been rash.

Even before a word is on my tongue, lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether.

But the Lord is in his holy temple; let all the earth keep silence before him.