Job 9:19-27
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19 If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead?
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20 If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.
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21 Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
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22 This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
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23 If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.
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24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he?
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25 Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
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26 They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.
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27 If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself: