Job 15

New King James Version

Eliphaz Accuses Job of Folly

15 Then ^(A)Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:

²“Should a wise man answer with empty knowledge,
And fill ^[a]himself with the east wind?
³Should he reason with unprofitable talk,
Or by speeches with which he can do no good?
⁴Yes, you cast off fear,
And restrain ^[b]prayer before God.
⁵For your iniquity teaches your mouth,
And you choose the tongue of the crafty.
⁶^(B)Your own mouth condemns you, and not I;
Yes, your own lips testify against you.

⁷“Are you the first man who was born?
^(C)Or were you made before the hills?
⁸^(D)Have you heard the counsel of God?
Do you limit wisdom to yourself?
⁹^(E)What do you know that we do not know?
What do you understand that is not in us?
¹⁰^(F)Both the gray-haired and the aged are among us,
Much older than your father.
¹¹Are the consolations of God too small for you,
And the word spoken ^[c]gently with you?
¹²Why does your heart carry you away,
And ^[d]what do your eyes wink at,
¹³That you turn your spirit against God,
And let such words go out of your mouth?

¹⁴“What^(G) is man, that he could be pure?
And he who is born of a woman, that he could be righteous?
¹⁵^(H)If God puts no trust in His saints,
And the heavens are not pure in His sight,
¹⁶^(I)How much less man, who is abominable and filthy,
^(J)Who drinks iniquity like water!

¹⁷“I will tell you, hear me;
What I have seen I will declare,
¹⁸What wise men have told,
Not hiding anything received ^(K)from their fathers,
¹⁹To whom alone the ^[e]land was given,
And ^(L)no alien passed among them:
²⁰The wicked man writhes with pain all his days,
^(M)And the number of years is hidden from the oppressor.
²¹^[f]Dreadful sounds are in his ears;
^(N)In prosperity the destroyer comes upon him.
²²He does not believe that he will ^(O)return from darkness,
For a sword is waiting for him.
²³He ^(P)wanders about for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’
He knows ^(Q)that a day of darkness is ready at his hand.
²⁴Trouble and anguish make him afraid;
They overpower him, like a king ready for ^[g]battle.
²⁵For he stretches out his hand against God,
And acts defiantly against the Almighty,
²⁶Running stubbornly against Him
With his strong, embossed shield.

²⁷“Though^(R) he has covered his face with his fatness,
And made his waist heavy with fat,
²⁸He dwells in desolate cities,
In houses which no one inhabits,
Which are destined to become ruins.
²⁹He will not be rich,
Nor will his wealth ^(S)continue,
Nor will his possessions overspread the earth.
³⁰He will not depart from darkness;
The flame will dry out his branches,
And ^(T)by the breath of His mouth he will go away.
³¹Let him not ^(U)trust in futile things, deceiving himself,
For futility will be his reward.
³²It will be accomplished ^(V)before his time,
And his branch will not be green.
³³He will shake off his unripe grape like a vine,
And cast off his blossom like an olive tree.
³⁴For the company of hypocrites will be barren,
And fire will consume the tents of bribery.
³⁵^(W)They conceive trouble and bring forth futility;
Their womb prepares deceit.”

Footnotes

Job 15:2 Lit. his belly
Job 15:4 meditation or complaint
Job 15:11 Or a secret thing
Job 15:12 Or why do your eyes flash
Job 15:19 Or earth
Job 15:21 Terrifying
Job 15:24 attack

Revelation 12

New King James Version

The Woman, the Child, and the Dragon

12 Now a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a garland of twelve stars. ²Then being with child, she cried out ^(A)in labor and in pain to give birth.

³And another sign appeared in heaven: behold, ^(B)a great, fiery red dragon having seven heads and ten horns, and seven diadems on his heads. ⁴^(C)His tail drew a third ^(D)of the stars of heaven ^(E)and threw them to the earth. And the dragon stood ^(F)before the woman who was ready to give birth, ^(G)to devour her Child as soon as it was born. ⁵She bore a male Child ^(H)who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron. And her Child was ^(I)caught up to God and His throne. ⁶Then ^(J)the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, that they should feed her there ^(K)one thousand two hundred and sixty days.

Satan Thrown Out of Heaven

⁷And war broke out in heaven: ^(L)Michael and his angels fought ^(M)with the dragon; and the dragon and his angels fought, ⁸but they ^[a]did not prevail, nor was a place found for ^[b]them in heaven any longer. ⁹So ^(N)the great dragon was cast out, ^(O)that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, ^(P)who deceives the whole world; ^(Q)he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

¹⁰Then I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, ^(R)“Now salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren, ^(S)who accused them before our God day and night, has been cast down. ¹¹And ^(T)they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, ^(U)and they did not love their lives to the death. ¹²Therefore ^(V)rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them! ^(W)Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and the sea! For the devil has come down to you, having great wrath, ^(X)because he knows that he has a short time.”

The Woman Persecuted

¹³Now when the dragon saw that he had been cast to the earth, he persecuted ^(Y)the woman who gave birth to the male Child. ¹⁴^(Z)But the woman was given two wings of a great eagle, ^(AA)that she might fly ^(AB)into the wilderness to her place, where she is nourished ^(AC)for a time and times and half a time, from the presence of the serpent. ¹⁵So the serpent ^(AD)spewed water out of his mouth like a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away by the flood. ¹⁶But the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up the flood which the dragon had spewed out of his mouth. ¹⁷And the dragon was enraged with the woman, and he went to make war with the rest of her offspring, who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus ^[c]Christ.

Footnotes

Revelation 12:8 were not strong enough
Revelation 12:8 M him
Revelation 12:17 NU, M omit Christ

Revelation 13

New King James Version

The Beast from the Sea

13 Then ^[a]I stood on the sand of the sea. And I saw ^(A)a beast rising up out of the sea, ^(B)having ^[b]seven heads and ten horns, and on his horns ten crowns, and on his heads a ^(C)blasphemous name. ²Now the beast which I saw was like a leopard, his feet were like the feet of a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a lion. The ^(D)dragon gave him his power, his throne, and great authority. ³And I saw one of his heads ^(E)as if it had been mortally wounded, and his deadly wound was healed. And ^(F)all the world marveled and followed the beast. ⁴So they worshiped the dragon who gave authority to the beast; and they worshiped the beast, saying, ^(G)“Who is like the beast? Who is able to make war with him?”

⁵And he was given ^(H)a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies, and he was given authority to ^[c]continue for ^(I)forty-two months. ⁶Then he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme His name, ^(J)His tabernacle, and those who dwell in heaven. ⁷It was granted to him ^(K)to make war with the saints and to overcome them. And ^(L)authority was given him over every ^[d]tribe, tongue, and nation. ⁸All who dwell on the earth will worship him, ^(M)whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain ^(N)from the foundation of the world.

⁹^(O)If anyone has an ear, let him hear. ¹⁰^(P)He who leads into captivity shall go into captivity; ^(Q)he who kills with the sword must be killed with the sword. ^(R)Here is the ^[e]patience and the faith of the saints.

The Beast from the Earth

¹¹Then I saw another beast ^(S)coming up out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb and spoke like a dragon. ¹²And he exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence, and causes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, ^(T)whose deadly wound was healed. ¹³^(U)He performs great signs, ^(V)so that he even makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men. ¹⁴^(W)And he deceives ^[f]those who dwell on the earth ^(X)by those signs which he was granted to do in the sight of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who was wounded by the sword ^(Y)and lived. ¹⁵He was granted power to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak ^(Z)and cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed. ¹⁶He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, ^(AA)to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, ¹⁷and that no one may buy or sell except one who has ^[g]the mark or ^(AB)the name of the beast, ^(AC)or the number of his name.

¹⁸^(AD)Here is wisdom. Let him who has ^(AE)understanding calculate ^(AF)the number of the beast, ^(AG)for it is the number of a man: His number is 666.