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Then Job answered and said,

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Отвњща і%ѓ^въ и^ реq,

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I know of a truth that it is so: for how shall a mortal man be just before the Lord?

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вои%стиnнђ вњдњ ја%кота'ко е^сть. ка'ко б^о чл~къ пра'веденъ ё^ г~а.

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For if he would enter into judgment with him, God would not hearken to him, so that he should answer to one of his charges of a thousand.

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а^ще б^о хо'щетъ прᲇтися с нимъ, не послђшаеT е^го да не пререче'тъ, къ е^ді'номђ словеси е^го и^зъ ё^стнђ`.

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For he is wise in mind, and mighty, and great: who has hardened himself against him and endured?

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премђдръ б^о еs мы'слїю, крњпокъ же и^ вели'къ. кто же'стокъ бы'въ, пря'мо е^мђ стерпњлъ.

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Who wears out the mountains, and men know it not: who overturns them in anger.

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ѓ^бет#ша'яи го'ры, не вњдятъ превраща'яи я& гнњ'вомъ.

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Who shakes the earth under heaven from its foundations, and its pillars totter.

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трясы'и подънбsнђю эT ѓ^снова'нїя, столпи же ся дви'жаT.

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Who commands the sun, and it rises not; and he seals up the stars.

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гл~яи слн~цђ и^ не въсхо'дитъ, на ꙁвњзды же наꙁнаменаетъ.

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Who alone has stretched out the heavens, and walks on the sea as on firm ground.

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простры'и е^ді'нъ нб~о и^ ходя` по' морю ја^ко по ꙁемли`”

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Who makes Pleias, and Hesperus, and Arcturus, and the chambers of the south.

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творя'и власожельца, и^ прохоDню нареk т^ђ, ра'и ю^жь наложа`.

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Who does great and unsearchable things; glorious also and excellent things, innumerable.

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творя'и ве'лїя и^ неи^слњ'дованнаа, сла'вна же і^ и^ꙁря'дна, и^мже нњ'сть числа`.

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If ever he should go beyond me, I shall not see him: if he should pass by me, neither thus have I known it.

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а^ще прїидеT ко мнњ` не и%мамъ ви'дњти, и^ а'ще ми'мои^де'тъ м^я и^ ни ка'ко разђмњхъ.

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If he would take away, who shall turn him back? or who shall say to him, What hast thou done?

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а^ще и^ꙁмњни'тъ кто` въꙁврати'тъ, и^л^и кт^о речет# е^мђ чт^о сътвори'лъ е^си.

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For if he has turned away his anger, the whales under heaven have stooped under him.

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ты б^о эTврати` гнњвъ, прегнђш'ася иM кљ=ти поDнбsныя”

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Oh then that he would hearken to me, or judge my cause.

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А$ще м^я ё^слы'шитъ, и^л^и разъсђ'дитъ гл~ы моя.

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For though I be righteous, he will not hearken to me: I will intreat his judgment.

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а^ще пра'веденъ сы'и, но ё^слы'шитᲆ ми. сђдђ е^го помолю'ся,

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And if I should call and he should not hearken, I cannot believe that he has listened to my voice.

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а^ще же вꙁовђ` и^ не ё^слы'шитъ, и^ не и^мђ` вњры ја%ко ё^слы'ша гл~ы моя.

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Let him not crush me with a dark storm: but he has made my bruises many without cause.

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да не м#гло'ю м^я потреби'тъ, мно'га же м^и сътре'нїя сътвори` вᲆсђ'е.

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For he suffers me not to take breath, but he has filled me with bitterness.

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нњсᲄь б^о ми эTд#хнђти, и^сполни же м^я го'рести

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For indeed he is strong in power: who then shall resist his judgment?

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ја%ко б^о крњпостїю дръжи'тъ. кт^о ё^бо сђдђ е^го противится.

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For though I should seem righteous, my mouth will be profane: and though I should seem blameless, I shall be proved perverse.

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а^ще б^о бђдђ пра'ведникъ, ё^ста` моя нече'стїе творятъ. а^ще бђдђ непоро'ченъ, лђка'въ бђдђ.

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For even if I have sinned, I know it not in my soul: but my life is taken away.

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а^ще б^о беꙁ#честїе сътвори'хъ не вњмъ дш~ею мое^ю, ра'ꙁвњ ја%ко ѓ^тя'тъ м^и еs живо'тъ.

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Wherefore I said, Wrath slays the great and mighty man.

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тњм#же рњхъ, вели'ка и^ си'лна гђбитъ гнњвъ,

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For the worthless die, but the righteous are laughed to scorn.

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ја%ко лђка'вїи въ смр~тнои вла'сти. н^о праведᲆнїи насмњва'ются,

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For they are delivered into the hands of the unrighteous man: he covers the faces of the judges of the earth: but if it be not he, who is it?

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преда'ни б^о сђть в рђцњ нечести'выхъ, лица сђдїи е^го покрива'етъ, а^ще л^и не саM кт^о е^сть.

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But my life is swifter than a post: my days have fled away, and they knew it not.

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жи'тїе же мое лжа` е^сть текђщаго эTбњго'ша и^ не ви'дњша.

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Or again, is there a trace of their path left by ships? or is there one of the flying eagle as it seeks its prey?

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и^л^и е^сть корабле'мъ слњдъ пђти`, и^л^и ѓ^рла` летя'ща и%щђща ја%ди.

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And if I should say, I will forget to speak, I will bow down my face and groan;

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а^ще б^о рече забђдђ гл~я, вни'кнђвъ лице'мъ въз#дхнђ`,

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I quake in all my limbs, for I know that thou wilt not leave me alone as innocent.

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и^ движа'ся въ сњни съ ё^ды. вњ'дњ б^о ја%ко непови'нна м^я ѓ^ста'виши.

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But since I am ungodly, why have I not died?

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понеже нечести'въ е^смь, почто' же не ё^мро'хъ.

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For if I should wash myself with snow, and purge myself with pure hands,

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а^ще б^о и^ꙁмы'юся снњ'гомъ, и^ ѓ^чи'щђся рђка'ма чи'стыми.

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thou hadst thoroughly plunged me in filth, and my garment had abhorred me.

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пости'жнњ въ сквернњ ѓ^мочи мя, ѓ^ме'рзњ ж'е мя ѓ^дежда.

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For thou art not man like me, with whom I could contend, that we might come together to judgment.

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а^ще б^о чл~кᲆ е^си проти'вђ мн^њ е^мђже эTпрю'ся, да прїидемъ вкђпњ на сDђ.

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Would that he our mediator were present, and a reprover, and one who should hear the cause between both.

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а^ сђдя бы хода'таи намъ бы'лъ ѓ^блича'я, и съслђшая междђ ѓ^бњма.

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Let him remove his rod from me, and let not his fear terrify me:

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да эTи^метъ эT мене же'ꙁлъ, бо'яꙁнь же е^го да не смђща'етъ мене`,

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so shall I not be afraid, but I will speak: for I am not thus conscious of guilt.

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и^ не ё^бою'ся, н^о възъгл~ю”