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His bones were full of his youthful vigor, but that vigor will lie down with him in the dust.

But their prosperity is not their own doing. The counsel of the wicked is far from me!

So how can you console me with your futile words? Nothing is left of your answers but deception!"

But you have said, ‘What does God know? Does he judge through such deep darkness?

But it was he who filled their houses with good things— yet the counsel of the wicked was far from me.

But he knows the pathway that I take; if he tested me, I would come forth like gold.

But he is unchangeable, and who can change him? Whatever he has desired, he does.

From the city the dying groan, and the wounded cry out for help, but God charges no one with wrongdoing.

In the dark the robber breaks into houses, but by day they shut themselves in; they do not know the light.

But God drags off the mighty by his power; when God rises up against him, he has no faith in his life.

God may let them rest in a feeling of security, but he is constantly watching all their ways.

how much less a mortal man, who is but a maggot— a son of man, who is only a worm!"

Indeed, these are but the outer fringes of his ways! How faint is the whisper we hear of him! But who can understand the thunder of his power?"

He goes to bed wealthy, but will do so no more. When he opens his eyes, it is all gone.

"But wisdom—where can it be found? Where is the place of understanding?

"But wisdom—where does it come from? Where is the place of understanding?

"But now they mock me, those who are younger than I, whose fathers I disdained too much to put with my sheep dogs.

I cry out to you, but you do not answer me; I stand up, and you only look at me.

But when I hoped for good, trouble came; when I expected light, then darkness came.

I go about blackened, but not by the sun; in the assembly I stand up and cry for help.