Job 3:25
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For the thing I feared has overtaken me, and what I dreaded has befallen me.
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And when the days of feasting were over, Job would send for his children to purify them, rising early in the morning to offer burnt offerings for all of them. For Job thought, “Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” This was Job’s regular practice.
Terrors are turned loose against me; they drive away my dignity as by the wind, and my prosperity has passed like a cloud.
For calamity from God terrifies me, and His splendor I cannot overpower.