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For thou hast said, My doctrine
is pure, and I am clean before thine eyes.
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But oh, that God would speak and open his lips against thee
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and that he would show thee the secrets of wisdom! For thou dost deserve double according to sound wisdom; and thou dost know that God has forgotten thee because of thine iniquity.
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Canst thou by searching find out God? Canst thou come unto the perfection of the Almighty?
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It is higher than the heavens; what canst thou do? It is deeper than Sheol; how canst thou know it?
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The measure of it
is longer than the earth and broader than the sea.
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If he cuts off, or shuts up, or gathers together, then who can hinder him?
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For he knows the vain men; and he sees the iniquity; will he not then understand
it?
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The vain man shall make himself understood, though man is born
like a wild ass’s colt.
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If thou would prepare thine heart and stretch out thine hands toward him;
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if there is any iniquity in thy hand and thou dost put it far away and dost not consent that wickedness dwell in thy habitations,