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And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: For God, said he, hath made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house.

He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel: the LORD his God is with him, and the shout of a king is among them.

And when we cried unto the LORD God of our fathers, the LORD heard our voice, and looked on our affliction, and our labour, and our oppression:

And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served the LORD: and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.

Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.

Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.

Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;

Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.

Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away:

They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.

I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.

Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.

His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.

His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.

Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.

Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins.

Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it.

They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men.

When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?

And gave them the lands of the heathen: and they inherited the labour of the people;

Therefore he brought down their heart with labour; they fell down, and there was none to help.