For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are
your ways my ways, saith the Lord.
GOD, thou art good, but not to me.
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Wow, double-talk much? I wonder who is being represented here: the author, or someone he knows or some imagined pietistic pessimist.
Reading it a second time, I detect such sarcasm. What a shallow, hunted view! Oh, that this speaker could see beyond the pain, to the goodness until now never acknowledged and accepted as offered to his own person.