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All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?

And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD: it shall rejoice in his salvation.

Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.

For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.

Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the LORD persecute them.

Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD chase them.

Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.

Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that persecute me: say unto my soul, I am thy salvation.

Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help.

Plead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me.

Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.

But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity:

Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust thou in him.

Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.

There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men.

Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?

But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night;

By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.

Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.

If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?

If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?

Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou.

I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.

For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?

Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God"s?

Elihu spake moreover, and said,

And his deeds, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.

Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his goodness, according to that which was written in the law of the LORD,

And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations.

His servants therefore took him out of that chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had; and they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died, and was buried in one of the sepulchres of his fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.