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The Book of Job, Chapter 15, Verse 17

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How much more abominable and filthy [is] man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
King James Version
I will shew thee, hear me; and that [which] I have seen I will declare;
American Standard Version
I will show thee, hear thou me; And that which I have seen I will declare:
New English Translation
“I will explain to you; listen to me, and what I have seen, I will declare,
World English Bible
"I will show you, listen to me; that which I have seen I will declare:
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Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid [it]:
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Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.
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The wicked man travaileth with pain all [his] days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.
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A dreadful sound [is] in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
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He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.
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He wandereth abroad for bread, [saying], Where [is it]? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
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Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
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For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.
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He runneth upon him, [even] on [his] neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:
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Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on [his] flanks.