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²⁷ Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD hath not done all this.

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⁶ And her adversary also provoked her sore, for to make her fret, because the LORD had shut up her womb.

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¹⁶ Count not thine handmaid for a daughter of Belial: for out of the abundance of my complaint and grief have I spoken hitherto.

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³⁰ Because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and which he made Israel sin, by his provocation wherewith he provoked the LORD God of Israel to anger.

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²² And will make thine house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, for the provocation wherewith thou hast provoked me to anger, and made Israel to sin.

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²⁶ Notwithstanding the LORD turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath, wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations that Manasseh had provoked him withal.

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² For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.

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² Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity calamity laid in the balances together!

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⁷ Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.

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¹⁷ Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.

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⁷ Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies.

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⁹ Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.

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⁴ Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine anger toward us to cease.

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¹⁴ Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.

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³ A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.

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¹⁶ A fool's wrath is presently known: but a prudent man covereth shame.

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²⁵ A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.

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¹⁹ It is better to dwell in the wilderness, wilderness, than with a contentious contentious and an angry woman.

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³ Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.

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⁹ Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.

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¹⁸ For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

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²³ For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.

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¹⁰ Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.

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²⁸ For when I had brought them into the land, for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering: there also they made their sweet savour, and poured out there their drink offerings.