Job 10:16
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Should I hold my head high, You would hunt me like a lion, and again display Your power against me.
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I composed myself until the morning. Like a lion He breaks all my bones; from day until night You make an end of me.
He is a bear lying in wait, a lion hiding in ambush.
the One who does great and unsearchable things, wonders without number.
The lion has roared— who will not fear? The Lord GOD has spoken— who will not prophesy?
He will bring upon you and your descendants extraordinary disasters, severe and lasting plagues, and terrible and chronic sicknesses.