Job 12
New American Standard Bible 1995
Job Chides His Accusers
12 Then Job [a]responded,
2 “Truly then (A)you are the people,
And with you wisdom will die!
3 “But (B)I have intelligence as well as you;
I am not inferior to you.
And [b]who does not know such things as these?
4 “I am a (C)joke to [c]my friends,
The one who called on God and He answered him;
The just and (D)blameless man is a joke.
5 “[d]He who is at ease holds calamity in contempt,
As prepared for those whose feet slip.
6 “The (E)tents of the destroyers prosper,
And those who provoke God (F)are secure,
[e]Whom God brings (G)into their power.
7 “But now ask the beasts, and let them teach you;
And the birds of the heavens, and let them tell you.
8 “Or speak to the earth, and let it teach you;
And let the fish of the sea declare to you.
9 “Who among all these does not know
That (H)the hand of the Lord has done this,
10 (I)In whose hand is the life of every living thing,
And (J)the breath of all mankind?
11 “Does not (K)the ear test words,
As the palate [f]tastes its food?
12 “Wisdom is with (L)aged men,
With [g]long life is understanding.
Job Speaks of the Power of God
13 “With Him are (M)wisdom and (N)might;
To Him belong counsel and (O)understanding.
14 “Behold, He (P)tears down, and it cannot be rebuilt;
He [h](Q)imprisons a man, and [i]there can be no release.
15 “Behold, He (R)restrains the waters, and they dry up;
And He (S)sends them out, and they [j]inundate the earth.
16 “With Him are strength and sound wisdom,
The (T)misled and the misleader belong to Him.
17 “He makes (U)counselors walk [k]barefoot
And makes fools of (V)judges.
18 “He (W)loosens the [l]bond of kings
And binds their loins with a girdle.
19 “He makes priests walk [m]barefoot
And overthrows (X)the secure ones.
20 “He deprives the trusted ones of speech
And (Y)takes away the discernment of the elders.
21 “He (Z)pours contempt on nobles
And (AA)loosens the belt of the strong.
22 “He (AB)reveals mysteries from the darkness
And brings the deep darkness into light.
23 “He (AC)makes the nations great, then destroys them;
He [n]enlarges the nations, then leads them away.
24 “He (AD)deprives of intelligence the chiefs of the earth’s people
And makes them wander in a pathless waste.
25 “They (AE)grope in darkness with no light,
And He makes them (AF)stagger like a drunken man.
Footnotes
- Job 12:1 Lit answered and said
- Job 12:3 Lit with whom is there not like these?
- Job 12:4 Lit his
- Job 12:5 Lit Contempt for calamity is the thought of him who is at ease
- Job 12:6 Or He who brings God into his hand
- Job 12:11 Lit tastes food for itself
- Job 12:12 Lit length of days
- Job 12:14 Lit shuts against
- Job 12:14 Lit it is not opened
- Job 12:15 Lit overturn
- Job 12:17 Or stripped
- Job 12:18 Or discipline
- Job 12:19 Or stripped
- Job 12:23 Or spreads out
Psalm 18:25-42
New American Standard Bible 1995
25 With (A)the kind You show Yourself kind;
With the [a]blameless (B)You show Yourself blameless;
26 With the pure You show Yourself (C)pure,
And with the crooked (D)You show Yourself [b]astute.
27 For You (E)save an afflicted people,
But (F)haughty eyes You abase.
28 For You (G)light my lamp;
The Lord my God (H)illumines my darkness.
29 For by You I can [c](I)run upon a troop;
And by my God I can (J)leap over a wall.
30 As for God, His way is [d](K)blameless;
The (L)word of the Lord is tried;
He is a (M)shield to all who take refuge in Him.
31 For (N)who is God, but the Lord?
And who is a (O)rock, except our God,
32 The God who (P)girds me with strength
And [e]makes my way [f](Q)blameless?
33 He (R)makes my feet like hinds’ feet,
And (S)sets me upon my high places.
34 He (T)trains my hands for battle,
So that my arms can (U)bend a bow of bronze.
35 You have also given me (V)the shield of Your salvation,
And Your (W)right hand upholds me;
And (X)Your [g]gentleness makes me great.
36 You (Y)enlarge my steps under me,
And my [h](Z)feet have not slipped.
37 I (AA)pursued my enemies and overtook them,
And I did not turn back (AB)until they were consumed.
38 I shattered them, so that they were (AC)not able to rise;
They fell (AD)under my feet.
39 For You have (AE)girded me with strength for battle;
You have [i](AF)subdued under me those who rose up against me.
40 You have also made my enemies (AG)turn their backs to me,
And I [j](AH)destroyed those who hated me.
41 They cried for help, but there was (AI)none to save,
Even to the Lord, but (AJ)He did not answer them.
42 Then I beat them fine as the (AK)dust before the wind;
I emptied them out as the mire of the streets.
Footnotes
- Psalm 18:25 V 23, note 1
- Psalm 18:26 Lit twisted
- Psalm 18:29 Or crush a troop
- Psalm 18:30 V 23, note 1
- Psalm 18:32 Or has made
- Psalm 18:32 Lit complete; or having integrity
- Psalm 18:35 Or condescension
- Psalm 18:36 Lit ankles
- Psalm 18:39 Lit caused to bow down
- Psalm 18:40 Or silenced
Mark 2:1-12
New American Standard Bible 1995
The Paralytic Healed
2 When He had come back to Capernaum several days afterward, it was heard that He was at home. 2 And (A)many were gathered together, so that there was no longer room, not even near the door; and He was speaking the word to them. 3 (B)And they *came, bringing to Him a (C)paralytic, carried by four men. 4 Being unable to [a]get to Him because of the crowd, they (D)removed the roof [b]above Him; and when they had dug an opening, they let down the pallet on which the (E)paralytic was lying. 5 And Jesus seeing their faith *said to the paralytic, “[c]Son, (F)your sins are forgiven.” 6 But some of the scribes were sitting there and reasoning in their hearts, 7 “Why does this man speak that way? He is blaspheming; (G)who can forgive sins [d]but God alone?” 8 Immediately Jesus, aware [e]in His spirit that they were reasoning that way within themselves, *said to them, “Why are you reasoning about these things in your hearts? 9 Which is easier, to say to the (H)paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven’; or to say, ‘Get up, and pick up your pallet and walk’? 10 But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—He *said to the paralytic, 11 “I say to you, get up, pick up your pallet and go home.” 12 And he got up and immediately picked up the pallet and went out in the sight of everyone, so that they were all amazed and (I)were glorifying God, saying, “(J)We have never seen anything like this.”
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