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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,
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Then He opens the ears of men, And seals their instruction.
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In order to turn man from his deed, And conceal pride from man,
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He keeps back his soul from the Pit, And his life from perishing by the sword.
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"Man is also chastened with pain on his bed, And with strong pain in many of his bones,