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aGod understands its way,
And He knows its place.
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Job 9:4, Proverbs 8:22-36
Job 9
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"aWise in heart and bmighty in strength, Who has cdefied Him without harm?
Proverbs 8
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"The Lord possessed me aat the beginning of His way, Before His works of old.
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"From everlasting I was aestablished, From the beginning, bfrom the earliest times of the earth.
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"When there were no adepths I was brought forth, When there were no springs abounding with water.
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"aBefore the mountains were settled, Before the hills I was brought forth;
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While He had not yet made the earth and the fields, Nor the first dust of the world.
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"When He aestablished the heavens, I was there, When bHe inscribed a circle on the face of the deep,
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When He made firm the skies above, When the springs of the deep became fixed,
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When aHe set for the sea its boundary So that the water would not transgress His command, When He marked out bthe foundations of the earth;
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Then aI was beside Him, as a master workman; And I was daily His delight, Rejoicing always before Him,
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Rejoicing in the world, His earth, And having amy delight in the sons of men.
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"Now therefore, O sons, alisten to me, For bblessed are they who keep my ways.
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"aHeed instruction and be wise, And do not neglect it.
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"aBlessed is the man who listens to me, Watching daily at my gates, Waiting at my doorposts.
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"For ahe who finds me finds life And bobtains favor from the Lord.
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"But he who sins against me ainjures himself; All those who bhate me clove death."