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23 Then Job answered and said:
2 “Even today is my complaint bitter; my stroke is heavier than my groaning.
3 Oh that I knew where I might find Him, that I might come even to His seat!
4 I would place my cause before Him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
5 I would know the words which He would answer me, and understand what He would say unto me.
6 Will He plead against me with His great power? No, but He would put strength in me.
7 There the righteous might dispute with Him; so should I be delivered for ever from my Judge.
8 “Behold, I go forward, but He is not there, and backward, but I cannot perceive Him;
9 on the left hand where He doth work, but I cannot behold Him; He hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see Him.
10 But He knoweth the way that I take; when He hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
11 My foot hath held His steps; His way have I kept, and not declined.
12 Neither have I gone back from the commandment of His lips; I have esteemed the words of His mouth more than my necessary food.
13 But He is of one mind, and who can turn Him? And what His soul desireth, even that He doeth.
14 For He performeth the thing that is appointed for me; and many such things are with Him.
15 Therefore am I troubled at His presence; when I consider, I am afraid of Him.
16 For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me;
17 because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath He covered the darkness from my face.
24 “Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know Him not, see His days?
2 Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks and feed thereof.
3 They drive away the ass of the fatherless; they take the widow’s ox as a pledge.
4 They turn the needy out of the way; the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
5 Behold, as wild asses in the desert go they forth to their work, rising early for a prey; the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.
6 They reap every one his corn in the field, and they gather the vintage of the wicked.
7 They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.
8 They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
9 They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge from the poor.
10 They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry,
11 who make oil within their walls, and tread their wine presses, and suffer thirst.
12 Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out; yet God layeth not folly to them.
13 “They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
14 The murderer, rising with the light, killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
15 The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, ‘No eye shall see me,’ and disguiseth his face.
16 In the dark they dig through houses which they had marked for themselves in the daytime; they know not the light.
17 For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death; if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.
18 “He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed on the earth; he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.
19 Drought and heat consume the snow waters; so doth the grave those who have sinned.
20 The womb shall forget him, the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered, and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.
21 He evilly treateth the barren that beareth not, and doeth not good to the widow.
22 He draweth also the mighty with his power; he riseth up, and no man is sure of life.
23 Though it be given him to be in safety whereon he resteth, yet his eyes are upon their ways.
24 They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all others, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.
25 And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar and make my speech worth nothing?”
25 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite and said:
2 “Dominion and fear are with Him; He maketh peace in His high places.
3 Is there any number to His armies? And upon whom doth not His light arise?
4 How then can man be justified before God? Or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
5 Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in His sight.
6 How much less man, that is a worm? And the son of man, that is a worm?”
26 But Job answered and said:
2 “How hast thou helped him that is without power? How savest thou the arm that hath no strength?
3 How hast thou counseled him that hath no wisdom? And how hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is?
4 To whom hast thou uttered words? And whose spirit came from thee?
5 Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.
6 “Hell is naked before Him, and destruction hath no covering.
7 He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.
8 He bindeth up the waters in His thick clouds, and the cloud is not rent under them.
9 He holdeth back the face of His throne, and spreadeth His cloud upon it.
10 He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.
11 The pillars of heaven tremble, and are astonished at His reproof.
12 He divideth the sea with His power, and by His understanding He smiteth through the proud.
13 By His Spirit He hath garnished the heavens; His hand hath formed the crooked serpent.
14 Lo, these are parts of His ways, but how little a portion is heard of Him! But the thunder of His power, who can understand?”
27 Moreover Job continued his parable and said:
2 “As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment, and the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul,
3 while my breath is in me and the spirit of God is in my nostrils,
4 my lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.
5 God forbid that I should justify you; till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me.
6 My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go; my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.
7 “Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous.
8 For what is the hope of the hypocrite though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?
9 Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him?
10 Will he delight himself in the Almighty? Will he always call upon God?
11 I will teach you by the hand of God; that which is with the Almighty will I not conceal.
12 Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye thus altogether vain?
13 “This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive from the Almighty.
14 If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword; and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
15 Those that remain of him shall be buried in death; and his widows shall not weep.
16 Though he heap up silver as the dust and prepare raiment as the clay,
17 he may prepare it, but the just shall put it on and the innocent shall divide the silver.
18 He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth that the keeper maketh.
19 The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered; he openeth his eyes, and he is not.
20 Terrors take hold on him as waters; a tempest stealeth him away in the night.
21 The east wind carrieth him away and he departeth, and as a storm, hurleth him out of his place.
22 For God shall cast upon him, and not spare; he would eagerly flee out of His hand.
23 Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.
12 For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience: that we have had our discourse in the world, and more abundantly toward you, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God in simplicity and godly sincerity.
13 For we write no other things unto you than what ye read or acknowledge; and I trust ye shall acknowledge even to the end,
14 as ye also have acknowledged us in part, that we are your rejoicing, even as ye also are ours in the Day of the Lord Jesus.
15 And in this confidence, I was minded to come unto you before this, that ye might have a second benefit:
16 to visit you on my way to Macedonia, and to come again to you on my way out of Macedonia, and be sent by you on my way toward Judea.
17 When therefore I was thus minded, did I decide lightly? Or the things which I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be “yea, yea” and “nay, nay”?
18 But as God is true, our word toward you was not “yea” and “nay.”
19 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, even by me and Silvanus and Timothy, was not “yea” and “nay,” but in Him was “yea.”
20 For all the promises of God in Him are “yea”; and in Him “amen” unto the glory of God by us.
21 Now He who establisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God,
22 who hath also put His seal upon us, and given us the pledge of the Spirit in our hearts.
23 Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that it was to spare you that I came not as yet unto Corinth,
24 not that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers for your joy. For by faith ye stand.
2 But I determined this within myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.
2 For if I make you sorrowful, who is he then who maketh me glad, but the same who is made sorrowful by me?
3 And I wrote as I did unto you lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from those of whom I ought to rejoice, having confidence in you all that my joy is the joy of you all.
4 For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears, not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly for you.
5 But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part” that I may not overburden you all.
6 Sufficient to such a man is this censure, which was inflicted by many,
7 so that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.
8 Therefore I beseech you that you would confirm your love toward him.
9 For to this end also did I write, that I might have proof from you, whether ye be obedient in all things.
10 To whom ye forgive anything, I forgive also; for if I forgave anything, to whom I forgave it, I forgave it for your sakes in the person of Christ,
11 lest Satan should get an advantage over us. For we are not ignorant of his devices.
41 Blessed is he that considereth the poor; the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble.
2 The Lord will preserve him and keep him alive, and he shallbe blessed upon the earth; and Thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies.
3 The Lord will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing; Thou wilt turn him on his bed in his sickness.
4 I said, “Lord, be merciful unto me; heal my soul, for I have sinned against Thee.”
5 Mine enemies speak evil of me and say, “When shall he die and his name perish?”
6 And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity; his heart gathereth iniquity to itself, and when he goeth out, he telleth it.
7 All that hate me whisper together against me; against me do they devise my hurt.
8 “An evil disease,” they say, “cleaveth fast unto him, and now that he lieth down, he shall rise up no more.”
9 Yea, mine own familiar friend in whom I trusted, that ate of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.
10 But Thou, O Lord, be merciful unto me, and raise me up that I may requite them.
11 By this I know that Thou favorest me: because mine enemy doth not triumph over me.
12 And as for me, Thou upholdest me in mine integrity, and settest me before Thy face for ever.
13 Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting! Amen and Amen.
5 Thorns and snares are in the path of the froward; he that doth keep his soul shall stay far from them.
6 Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
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