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2 Esdras 4:8
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2 Esdras 4:1–3
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Job 11:7–9
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Job 28:13–15
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Job 9:34–35
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2 Esdras 5:37–39
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Psalms of Solomon 16:1–3
1 When my soul slumbered being afar from the Lord, I had all but slipped down to the pit, When I was far from God, my soul had been well-nigh poured out unto death, (PSS) 2 I had been nigh unto the gates of Sheol with the sinner, When my soul departed from the Lord God… (PSS) 3 … (PSS)
Job 17:12–14
12 They have turned night into day, making light seem near in the face of darkness. 13 If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness, 14 and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’
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