Job 6:8
¶ Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant [me] the thing that I long for!
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- Job 6:11-13 : 11 What [is] my strength, that I should hope? and what [is] mine end, that I should prolong my life? 12 [Is] my strength the strength of stones? or [is] my flesh of brass? 13 [Is] not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?
- Job 17:14-16 : 14 I have said to corruption, Thou [art] my father: to the worm, [Thou art] my mother, and my sister. 15 And where [is] now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it? 16 They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when [our] rest together [is] in the dust.
- Ps 119:81 : 81 ¶ CAPH. My soul fainteth for thy salvation: [but] I hope in thy word.
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4I would order [my] cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
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5O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!
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19He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
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