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What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that is not in us?
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Both the gray-haired and the aged are among us, Much older than your father.
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Are the consolations of God too small for you, And the word spoken gently with you?
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Why does your heart carry you away, And what do your eyes wink at,
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That you turn your spirit against God, And let such words go out of your mouth?
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"What is man, that he could be pure? And he who is born of a woman, that he could be righteous?
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If God puts no trust in His saints, And the heavens are not pure in His sight,
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How much less man, who is abominable and filthy, Who drinks iniquity like water!
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"I will tell you, hear me; What I have seen I will declare,
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What wise men have told, Not hiding anything received from their fathers,
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To whom alone the land was given, And no alien passed among them: