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Then shall the righteous man stand in great boldness before the face of such as have afflicted him, and made no account of his labours.
2
When they see it, they shall be troubled with terrible fear, and shall be amazed at the strangeness of his salvation, so far beyond all that they looked for.
3
And they repenting and groaning for anguish of spirit shall say within themselves, This was he, whom we had sometimes in derision, and a proverb of reproach:
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We fools accounted his life madness, and his end to be without honour:
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How is he numbered among the children of God, and his lot is among the saints!
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Therefore have we erred from the way of truth, and the light of righteousness hath not shined unto us, and the sun of righteousness rose not upon us.
7
We wearied ourselves in the way of wickedness and destruction: yea, we have gone through deserts, where there lay no way: but as for the way of the Lord, we have not known it.
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What hath pride profited us? or what good hath riches with our vaunting brought us?
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All those things are passed away like a shadow, and as a post that hasted by;