I am blameless; I regard not myself; I loathe my life.
There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job, and that man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil.
Whoever trusts in his own mind is a fool, but he who walks in wisdom will be delivered.
Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts! And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting!
Why do you not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For now I shall lie in the earth; you will seek me, but I shall not be.”
for whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and he knows everything.
For I am not aware of anything against myself, but I am not thereby acquitted. It is the Lord who judges me.
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it? “I the Lord search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.”
so that I would choose strangling and death rather than my bones. I loathe my life; I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are a breath.
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