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If you can answer me, Set your words in order before me; Take your stand.
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Truly I am as your spokesman before God; I also have been formed out of clay.
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Surely no fear of me will terrify you, Nor will my hand be heavy on you.
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"Surely you have spoken in my hearing, And I have heard the sound of your words, saying,
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'I am pure, without transgression; I am innocent, and there is no iniquity in me.
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Yet He finds occasions against me, He counts me as His enemy;
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He puts my feet in the stocks, He watches all my paths.'
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"Look, in this you are not righteous. I will answer you, For God is greater than man.
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Why do you contend with Him? For He does not give an accounting of any of His words.
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For God may speak in one way, or in another, Yet man does not perceive it.
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In a dream, in a vision of the night, When deep sleep falls upon men, While slumbering on their beds,