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Then Job answered and said:
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"Truly I know it is so, But how can a man be righteous before God?
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If one wished to contend with Him, He could not answer Him one time out of a thousand.
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God is wise in heart and mighty in strength. Who has hardened himself against Him and prospered?
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He removes the mountains, and they do not know When He overturns them in His anger;
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He shakes the earth out of its place, And its pillars tremble;
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He commands the sun, and it does not rise; He seals off the stars;
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He alone spreads out the heavens, And treads on the waves of the sea;
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He made the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, And the chambers of the south;