The Discipline of Suffering

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It is good for a man that he beare the yoke in his youth.

28

He sitteth alone, and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it vpon him.

29

He putteth his mouth in the dust, if there may be hope.

30

Hee giueth his cheeke to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproches.

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For the Lord will not forsake for euer.

32

But though he sende affliction, yet will he haue compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.

33

For he doeth not punish willingly, nor afflict the children of men,

34

In stamping vnder his feete all the prisoners of the earth,

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In ouerthrowing the right of a man before the face of the most high,

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In subuerting a man in his cause: the Lord seeth it not.

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Who is he then that sayth, and it commeth to passe, and the Lord commandeth it not?

38

Out of the mouth of the most high proceedeth not euill and good?

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Wherefore then is the liuing man sorowfull? man suffreth for his sinne.