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Now this trial the Lord therefore permitted to happen to him, that an example might be given to posterity of his patience, as also of holy Job.
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For whereas he had always feared God from his infancy, and kept his commandments, he repined not against God because the evil of blindness had befallen him,
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But continued immoveable in the fear of God, giving thanks to God all the days of his life.
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For as the kings insulted over holy Job: so his relations and kinsmen mocked at his life, saying:
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Where is thy hope, for which thou gavest alms, and buriedst the dead?