Job 4:1-6

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Eliphaz Speaks: The Innocent Prosper

4 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:

²“If one ventures a word with you, will you be impatient?
    Yet who can keep from speaking?
³Behold, you have instructed many,
    and you have ^(A)strengthened the weak hands.
⁴Your words have upheld him who was stumbling,
    and you have ^(B)made firm the feeble knees.
⁵But now it has come to you, and you are impatient;
    it touches you, and you are dismayed.
⁶^(C)Is not your fear of God^[a] your ^(D)confidence,
    and the integrity of your ways your hope?

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Job 4:6 Hebrew lacks of God

Job 4:12-21

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¹²“Now a word was brought to me stealthily;
    my ear received ^(A)the whisper of it.
¹³Amid ^(B)thoughts from ^(C)visions of the night,
    when ^(D)deep sleep falls on men,
¹⁴dread came upon me, and trembling,
    which made all my bones shake.
¹⁵A spirit glided past my face;
    the hair of my flesh stood up.
¹⁶It stood still,
    but I could not discern its appearance.
^(E)A form was before my eyes;
    there was silence, then I heard ^(F)a voice:
¹⁷^(G)‘Can mortal man be in the right before^[a] God?
    Can a man be pure before his Maker?
¹⁸Even in his servants ^(H)he puts no trust,
    and his angels he charges with error;
¹⁹how much more those who dwell in houses of ^(I)clay,
    whose foundation is in ^(J)the dust,
    who are crushed like^[b] ^(K)the moth.
²⁰Between ^(L)morning and evening they are beaten to pieces;
    they perish forever ^(M)without anyone regarding it.
²¹Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them,
    ^(N)do they not die, and that without wisdom?’

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Job 4:17 Or more than; twice in this verse
Job 4:19 Or before

Revelation 4

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The Throne in Heaven

4 After this I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven! And the first voice, which I had heard speaking to me ^(A)like a trumpet, said, ^(B)“Come up here, and ^(C)I will show you what must take place after this.” ²At once ^(D)I was in the Spirit, and behold, ^(E)a throne stood in heaven, with one seated on the throne. ³And he who sat there had the appearance of ^(F)jasper and carnelian, and around the throne was ^(G)a rainbow that had the appearance of an emerald. ⁴Around the throne were ^(H)twenty-four thrones, and seated on the thrones were twenty-four elders, ^(I)clothed in white garments, with ^(J)golden crowns on their heads. ⁵From the throne came ^(K)flashes of lightning, and rumblings^[a] and peals of thunder, and before the throne were burning ^(L)seven torches of fire, ^(M)which are the seven spirits of God, ⁶and before the throne there was ^(N)as it were a sea of glass, like crystal.

And around the throne, on each side of the throne, are ^(O)four living creatures, ^(P)full of eyes in front and behind: ⁷^(Q)the first living creature like a lion, the second living creature like an ox, the third living creature with the face of a man, and the fourth living creature like an eagle in flight. ⁸And the four living creatures, ^(R)each of them with six wings, are ^(S)full of eyes all around and within, and ^(T)day and night they never cease to say,

^(U)“Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty,
^(V)who was and is and is to come!”

⁹And whenever the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to him who is seated on the throne, ^(W)who lives forever and ever, ¹⁰the twenty-four elders ^(X)fall down before him who is seated on the throne and worship him who lives forever and ever. They cast ^(Y)their crowns before the throne, saying,

¹¹^(Z)“Worthy are you, our Lord and God,
to receive glory and honor and power,
for ^(AA)you created all things,
and ^(AB)by your will they existed and were created.”

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Revelation 4:5 Or voices, or sounds

Mark 6:1-6

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Jesus Rejected at Nazareth

6 ^(A)He went away from there and came to ^(B)his hometown, and his disciples followed him. ²And ^(C)on the Sabbath he began to teach in the synagogue, and ^(D)many who heard him were astonished, saying, “Where did this man get these things? What is the wisdom given to him? How are such mighty works done by his hands? ³^(E)Is not this ^(F)the carpenter,^[a] the son of Mary and ^(G)brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? And are not his sisters here with us?” And ^(H)they took offense at him. ⁴And Jesus said to them, ^(I)“A prophet is not without honor, except in his hometown and among his relatives and in his own household.” ⁵And ^(J)he could do no mighty work there, except that ^(K)he laid his hands on a few sick people and healed them. ⁶And ^(L)he marveled because of their unbelief.