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28 I become afraid of all my suffering, for I know thou wilt not hold me innocent.
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28 I still dread all my sufferings, for I know you will not hold me innocent.
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29 I shall be condemned; why then do I labor in vain?
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29 Since I am already found guilty, why should I struggle in vain?
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30 If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,
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30 Even if I washed myself with soap and my hands with washing soda,
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31 yet thou wilt plunge me into a pit, and my own clothes will abhor me.
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31 you would plunge me into a slime pit so that even my clothes would detest me.
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32 For he is not a man, as I am, that I might answer him, that we should come to trial together.
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32 "He is not a man like me that I might answer him, that we might confront each other in court.
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33 There is no umpire between us, who might lay his hand upon us both.
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33 If only there were someone to arbitrate between us, to lay his hand upon us both,
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34 Let him take his rod away from me, and let not dread of him terrify me.
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34 someone to remove God's rod from me, so that his terror would frighten me no more.
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35 Then I would speak without fear of him, for I am not so in myself.
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35 Then I would speak up without fear of him, but as it now stands with me, I cannot.
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