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If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit; Let me be weighed in an even balance that God may know mine integrity.

If my step hath turned out of the way, and - mine heart -walked after - mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to - mine hands; - Then let me sow, and let an-other eat; - yea,- let my offspring be rooted out.

They hunt - our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days -are -fulfilled; for our end is come.

Our persecutors - are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.

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And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; an-d man became a living soul.

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The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the Lord, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow - we shall live among the heathen.

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There was a man in the land of Uz, whose na-me w-as Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.

Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz; the cup also shall pass . . .

And No-ah began to be an husbandman,

and he planted a vineyard:

And he drank of the wine,

and was drunken;

and he w-as un- covered within h-is tent.

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. . . through unto thee: thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked.

If mine heart have been deceived by a wo-rk-man, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour's door; Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her. For this is an heinous crime;  yea, it is an inequity to be punished by the judges.

For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase. - If I did despise the cause of my man-servant or of my maid-servant, when they contended with me;

What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him? . . .

pitch

To erect or establish; set up: pitched a tent; pitch camp. 4. To set firmly; implant; embed: pitched stakes in the ground. 5. To set at a specified downward slant: pitched the roof at a steep angle. 6.   To set at a particular level, degree, or quality:

Make thee an ark of god-prophet; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it with-in -and with-out - with pitch.

breadth

1.  Abbr. b. The measure or dimension from side to side; width. 2. A piece usually produced in a standard width: a breadth of canvas. 3.   Wide range or scope: breadth of knowledge. Tolerance; broadmindedness: a jurist of great breadth and wisdom. 4. An effect of unified, encompassing vision in an artistic composition.

And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be - three hundred - breadth, the breadth of it

  

. . . Did no-t he that - made me - in the womb - make him? and did not one - fashion us  - in the womb?

If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail; Or have eaten my morsel - myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof; (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her – from - my mother's womb;)

If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;

If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:

This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh:

Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone. For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.

If I have made gold - my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;

If I rejoiced because my wealth - was great, and because mine hand had gotten much;

If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness; And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand:

This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above. If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him: Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.

If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied. The stranger did not lodge in the street:

And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed him-self with his face to-ward the ground;

And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night.

 but I opened my doors to the traveller. If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine inequity in my bosom: Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door?

Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that  the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book. Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me. I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him. If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;

If I have eaten the fruits thereof with-out money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life: Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.

So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

ISamuel