The Discipline of Suffering

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

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Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he has laid it on him.

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Let him put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.

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Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him; let him be filled full with reproach.

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For the Lord will not cast off forever.

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For though he cause grief, yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.

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For he does not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men.

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To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,

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To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the Most High,

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To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord doesn’t approve.

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Who is he who says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord doesn’t command it?

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Doesn’t evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?

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Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?