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Is it good to You that You should crush, that You should despise the work of Your hands, and shine on the counsel of the wrong?
They open wide their mouths at me, in scorn they have smitten my cheeks, they mass themselves together against me.
I was at ease, but He broke me. And He took me by my neck and shattered me, and He has set me up for His target.
Why do you persecute me like Ě
know then that Eloah has overthrown me, and has surrounded me with His net.
And Satan went out from the presence of יהוה, and smote Iyoḇ
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Would you also set aside My judgment? Would you pronounce Me wrong, and you be declared righteous?
Earth has been given into the hand of the wrong. He covers the faces of its judges. If it is not He, then who is it?
Do not give me over To the desire of my adversaries; For false witnesses have risen against me, And they breathe out cruelty to me.
And You have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy. You have set my feet in a large place.
See, he who is bound with wickedness, And has conceived trouble and brought forth falsehood,
At that time, then, he delivered Him to them to be impaled. And they took יהושע and led Him away.
For Elohim has shut them all up to disobedience, in order to have compassion on all.
And to keep me from exalting myself because of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan to hit me, to keep me from exalting myself.
“And you have shown today how you have done good to me, for when יהוה surrendered me into your hand you did not slay me.
