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Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; Why then are ye become altogether vain?

Whence then cometh wisdom? And where is the place of understanding?

Will God hear his cry, When trouble cometh upon him?

Oh that I were as in the months of old, As in the days when God watched over me;

The voice of the nobles was hushed, And their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.

Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, And kept close from the birds of the heavens.

Though he heap up silver as the dust, And prepare raiment as the clay;

It cannot be gotten for gold, Neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.

Iron is taken out of the earth, And copper is molten out of the stone.

Because I delivered the poor that cried, The fatherless also, that had none to help him.

It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, With the precious onyx, or the sapphire.

`Man' setteth an end to darkness, And searcheth out, to the furthest bound, The stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.

As God liveth, who hath taken away my right, And the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul:

As I was in the ripeness of my days, When the friendship of God was upon my tent;

I was eyes to the blind, And feet was I to the lame.

Will he delight himself in the Almighty, And call upon God at all times?

Job 29

As for the earth, out of it cometh bread; And underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.

He buildeth his house as the moth, And as a booth which the keeper maketh.

Job 27

The pillars of heaven tremble And are astonished at his rebuke.

He stirreth up the sea with his power, And by his understanding he smiteth through Rahab.

To whom hast thou uttered words? And whose spirit came forth from thee?

He stretcheth out the north over empty space, And hangeth the earth upon nothing.

How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom, And plentifully declared sound knowledge!

How hast thou helped him that is without power! How hast thou saved the arm that hath no strength!

He incloseth the face of his throne, And spreadeth his cloud upon it.

They that are deceased tremble Beneath the waters and the inhabitants thereof.

And Job again took up his parable, and said,

He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; And the cloud is not rent under them.