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March 3 - Beauty, Hope, and God’s Care · Bible Chat Devotional

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  Welcome to Bible chat where? We have devotional conversations
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  rooted in scripture and relevant for today, March 3rd, Beauty,
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  hope, and God. 'S care.
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  We live in a world that is obsessed with appearances
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  filters. Highlights Likes followers It's
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  easy to believe that. If we look good on the outside,
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  everything must be fine on the inside.
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  But deep down, we know that's not always true.
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  You can look put. Together and still feel
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  completely lost. Proverbs Chapter. 11 verses 22
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  to 23 says like a gold ring in a pig, Snout is a beautiful woman
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  without discretion. The desire of the.
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  Righteous ends only in good, the expectation of the wicked in
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  wrath. That image is strong on purpose.
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  A gold ring is valuable and beautiful, but placed in the
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  wrong setting, it loses its meaning.
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  The point isn't about appearance.
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  It's about character, outward beauty without.
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  Wisdom without. Integrity without self-control.
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  Doesn't bring lasting value. God cares.
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  Far more about who we are becoming than how we are
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  perceived. Psalm 25 verses.
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  Four to five gives us the better way.
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  Make me to know your ways. Oh Lord, teach me your paths.
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  Lead me in your truth and teach me, for you are the God of my
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  salvation. For you, I wait all the day
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  long. That's a.
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  Heart that understands true beauty.
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  A heart that says. God shape me, teach me, lead me.
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  I don't just want to look right, I want to live right and then in
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  Job. Chapter 5.
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  Verses 17 to 18. We read Behold.
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  Blessed is the one whom God. Reproves therefore.
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  Despise not the discipline of the Almighty, for he wounds, but
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  he binds up. He shatters.
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  But his hands heal. That can feel confusing at
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  first. Why would blessing involve
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  correction? Because.
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  God's discipline is not punishment meant to destroy you.
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  It is. Loving correction meant to
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  refine you. When he allows hard seasons, it
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  is never to crush. Your spirit, but to shape your
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  character sometimes. God's care doesn't look like
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  comfort. Sometimes it.
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  Looks like growth. And growth can be uncomfortable.
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  Maybe you're in a season where you feel.
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  Stretched. Corrected.
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  Or even broken in some area. Maybe you're.
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  Realizing that what looked shiny on the outside wasn't healthy on
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  the inside. That's not the end of your
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  story. That's God.
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  Reshaping you. Real beauty.
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  Is built in quiet obedience. Real strength grows in seasons
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  of waiting. Real hope comes from knowing
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  that even when God. Corrects.
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  He also heals. He never wounds without binding
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  up. He never.
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  Shatters without. Restoring so instead of chasing
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  what impresses. People ask God to build what?
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  Pleases Him. Ask Him to form discretion,
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  wisdom, patience and truth inside you.
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  That kind of. Beauty lasts.
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  That kind of hope carries you. Through every season, let's.
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  Pray. Heavenly Father, thank you for
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  caring about my heart more than my appearance.
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  Teach me. Your ways and lead me in your
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  truth. Help me value character.
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  Wisdom and integrity. Over what?
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  Others see on the outside. When you correct me, remind me
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  that it is because you love me and are shaping me for good.
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  Heal what is broken in me and build something beautiful.
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  That reflects. You in Jesus name, Amen.
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  Book 1. Something from Nothing confronts
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  the mystery of existence itself and asks why anything exists at
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  all. Book 2.
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  The Cause Behind the Cosmos, examines the origin of the
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  universe and whether it points beyond itself.
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  Book 3. Design or Accident, wrestles
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  with order and complexity. Are they products of chance or
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  intelligence? Book 4.
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  The Moral Signature explores why objective right and wrong may
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  require a source beyond human opinion.
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  Book 5, The God We Cannot Escape, considers conscience,
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  longing, and humanity's persistent awareness of God.
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  Book 6, From Reason to Revelation, asks whether the God
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  who exists would also speak. And Book 7, Denying God,
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  examines the internal tensions of unbelief and the deeper
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  implications of rejecting the divine.
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  Now I invite you to spend time with God in today's three-year
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  Bible reading plan. Proverbs, Chapter 11.
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  Verses 22 to 23 World English Bible.
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  Like a. Gold Ring in a pig Snout is a
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  beautiful woman who lacks discretion.
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  The desire of the. Righteous is only good.
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  The expectation of the wicked is.
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  Wrath. Psalm chapter 25 World English
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  Bible by David. To you Yahweh.
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  I lift up my soul. My God, I have trusted in you.
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  Don't let me be shamed. Don't let my enemies triumph
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  over me. Yes.
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  No one who waits for you will be shamed.
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  They will be shamed. Who?
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  Deal. Treacherously without.
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  Cause show me your. Ways Yahweh.
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  Teach. Me your paths guide.
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  Me in your truth and teach me, for you are the God of my
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  salvation. I wait.
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  For you all day long, Yahweh, remember your tender mercies and
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  your loving kindness, for they are from old times.
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  Don't remember the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions.
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  Remember Me according to your loving kindness, for your
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  goodness. Sake.
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  Yahweh. Good and upright.
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  Is Yahweh. Therefore He will instruct
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  sinners in the way. He will guide the humble
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  injustice. He will teach the humble his
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  way. All the paths of Yahweh are.
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  Loving kindness and truth to. Such as?
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  Keep His covenant and His testimonies for your name's
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  sake, Yahweh. Pardon my iniquity.
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  For it is great. What man is he?
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  Who fears Yahweh? He shall instruct him in the way
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  that he. Shall choose, his soul will
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  dwell at ease. His offspring will inherit the
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  land, the friendship. Of Yahweh is with.
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  Those who fear Him, He will show them His covenant.
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  My eyes are ever on Yahweh, for He will pluck my feet out of the
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  net, turn to me, and have mercy on me, for I am desolate and
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  afflicted. The troubles of my heart are
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  enlarged. O bring me out of my distresses.
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  Consider my affliction and my. Travail.
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  Forgive. All my sins consider my enemies,
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  for they are many. They hate me with cruel hatred,
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  O. Keep my soul and deliver me.
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  Let me not be disappointed, for I take refuge in you.
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  Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait.
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  For you. God.
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  Redeem Israel out of all his troubles.
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  Job chapters 4 to 5. World English Bible, then
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  Alephas the Temenite answered. If someone ventures to talk.
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  With you, will you be grieved? But who can withhold himself
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  from speaking? Behold.
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  You have instructed many. You have strengthened the weak
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  hands. Your words have.
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  Supported him who was falling. You have made the feeble knees
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  firm, but now it has come to you, and you faint.
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  It touches. You and you are.
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  Troubled isn't. Your piety, your confidence
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  isn't the integrity. Of your ways, your hope.
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  Remember now whoever perished being innocent.
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  Or where were the upright cut off according?
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  To what I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble
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  reap the same. By the breath of God they perish
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  by the. Blast of his anger are they
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  consumed. The roaring of the lion and the
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  voice of the fierce lion. The teeth of the Young Lions are
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  broken. The old lion perishes.
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  For lack of prey. The Cubs of the lioness are.
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  Scattered abroad. Now a thing was secretly brought
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  to me. My ear received a.
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  Whisper of it. In thoughts from the visions of
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  the night when deep sleep falls on men, fear came on me, and
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  trembling which made all my bones shake, then a.
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  Spirit passed. Before my face, the hair of my
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  flesh. Stood up.
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  It stood still, but I couldn't. Discern its appearance.
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  A form was before my eyes. Silence.
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  Then I heard a voice saying, Shall mortal man be more just
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  than God? Shall a man be more pure than
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  his Maker? Behold, he puts no trust in his
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  servants, he charges. His angels with error.
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  How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation
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  is in the dust? Who are?
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  Crushed before the moth between morning and evening, they are.
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  Destroyed, they perish forever. Without any regarding it, isn't
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  there tent cord plucked up within them?
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  They die, and that without wisdom call.
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  Now, is there any who will answer you?
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  To which of the holy ones will you turn?
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  For resentment kills the foolish man, and jealousy kills the
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  simple. I have seen the foolish taking
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  root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
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  His children are far from safety.
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  They are crushed in the. Gate neither.
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  Is there any to deliver them whose harvest the hungry eat up
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  and take it even out of the thorns the snare gapes for their
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  substance, for affliction doesn't come out of the dust.
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  Neither does. Trouble spring out of the
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  ground, but man is born to trouble.
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  As the sparks fly upward. But As for me, I would.
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  Seek God. I would commit my cause.
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  To God. Who does great things that can't
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  be fathomed? Marvelous things without number.
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  Who gives rain on the earth and sends waters on the fields so
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  that he sets up on high? Those who are low.
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  Those who mourn are exalted. To safety.
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  He frustrates the plans of the. Crafty so.
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  That their hands can't perform their enterprise.
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  He takes. The wise in their own
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  craftiness, the counsel of the cunning, is carried headlong.
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  They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope at noonday as
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  in the night. But he saves from the sword of
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  their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty.
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  So the. Poor.
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  Has hope and injustice. Shuts her mouth.
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  Behold. Happy is the man whom.
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  God corrects. Therefore do not despise the
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  chastening of the Almighty, for he wounds and binds up he
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  injuries, and his hands make whole.
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  He will. Deliver you in six.
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  Troubles, yes. In Seven no evil.
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  Will touch you in. Famine.
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  He will redeem you from death in war.
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  From the power of the sword. You will be hidden from the
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  scourge of the tongue neither. Will you be afraid of?
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  Destruction when it comes. You will laugh at.
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  Destruction and famine. Neither will you be.
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  Afraid of the animals of the Earth?
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  For you will be allied. With the stones of the field.
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  The animals of the field will be at peace with you.
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  You will know that your tent is in peace.
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  You will visit your. Fold and will miss nothing.
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  You will know also that your offspring will be.
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  Great, your offspring as the grass of the earth.
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  You will come to your grave in a full age.
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  Like a. Shock of grain comes in its
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  season. Behold, we have researched it.
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  It is so. Hear it and know it for your
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