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23 Job affirmeth that he both knoweth and feareth the power and sentence of the Judge, 10 And that he is not punished only for his sins.
1 But Job answered, and said,
2 Though my talk be this day in [a]bitterness, and my plague greater than my groaning,
3 Would God yet I knew how to find him, I would enter unto his place.
4 I would plead the cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
5 I would know the words, that he would answer me, and would understand what he would say unto me.
6 Would he [b]plead against me with his great power? No, but he would [c]put strength in me.
7 [d]There the righteous might reason with him, so I should be delivered forever from my Judge.
8 [e]Behold, if I go to the East, he is not there: if to the West, yet I cannot perceive him:
9 If to the North where he worketh, yet I cannot see him: he will hide himself in the South, and I cannot behold him.
10 But he knoweth my [f]way, and trieth me, and I shall come forth like gold.
11 My foot hath followed his steps: his way have I kept, and have not declined:
12 Neither have I departed from the commandment of his lips, and I have [g]esteemed the words of his mouth more than mine appointed food.
13 Yet he is in one mind, and who can [h]turn him? yea, he doeth what his mind desireth.
14 For he will perform that which is decreed of me, and [i]many such things are with him.
15 Therefore I am troubled at his presence, and in considering it, I am afraid of him.
16 For [j]God hath softened mine heart, and the Almighty hath troubled me.
17 For I am not cut off in [k]darkness, but he hath hid the darkness from my face.
24 2 Job describeth the wickedness of men, and showeth what curse belongeth to the wicked. 12 How all things are governed by God’s providence. 17 And the destruction of the wicked.
1 How should not the times [l]be hid from the Almighty, seeing that they which know him, see not his [m]days?
2 Some remove the landmarks, that rob the flocks and feed thereof.
3 They lead away the ass of the fatherless, and take the widow’s ox to pledge.
4 They make the poor to turn out of the way, so that the poor of the earth hide themselves [n]together.
5 Behold, others as wild asses in the wilderness, go forth to their business, and [o]rise early for a prey: the wilderness [p]giveth him and his children food.
6 They reap [q]his provision in the field, but they gather the late [r]vintage of the wicked.
7 They cause the naked to lodge without garment, and without covering in the cold.
8 They are wet with the showers of the mountains, [s]and they embrace the rock for want of a covering.
9 They pluck the fatherless [t]from the breast, and take the pledge of [u]the poor.
10 They cause him to go naked without clothing, and take the gleaning from the hungry.
11 They that make oil [v]between their walls, and tread their winepresses, suffer thirst.
12 Men [w]cry out of the city, and the souls of the slain [x]cry out: yet God [y]doth not charge them with folly.
13 These are they that abhor the [z]light: they know not the ways thereof, nor continue in the paths thereof.
14 The murderer riseth early, and killeth the poor and the needy: and in the night he is as a thief.
15 The eye also of the [aa]adulterer waiteth for the twilight, and saith, None eye shall see me, and disguiseth his face.
16 They dig through houses in the dark, which they marked for themselves in the day: they know not the light.
17 But the morning is even to them as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.
18 He is swift upon the [ab]waters: their [ac]portion shall be cursed in the earth: he will not behold the way of the vineyards.
19 As the dry ground and heat consume the snow waters, so shall the grave [ad]the sinners.
20 [ae]The pitiful man shall forget him: the worm shall feel his sweetness: he shall be no more remembered, and the wicked shall be broken like a tree.
21 He [af]doth evil entreat the barren that doth not bear, neither doeth he good to the widow.
22 He draweth also the [ag]mighty by his power, and when he riseth up, none is sure of life.
23 Though men give him assurance to be in safety, yet his eyes are upon their ways.
24 They are exalted for a little, but they are gone, and are brought low as all others: they are destroyed, and cut off as the top of an ear of corn.
25 But if it be not [ah]so, where is he? or who will prove me a liar, and make my words of no value?
25 Bildad proveth that no man is clean nor without sin before God.
1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
2 [ai]Power and fear is with him, that maketh peace in his places.
3 Is there any number in his armies? [aj]and upon whom shall not his light arise?
4 And how may a man [ak]be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of woman?
5 Behold, he will give no light to the Moon, [al]and the Stars are unclean in his sight.
6 How much more man, a worm, even the son of man, which is but a worm?
26 Job showeth that man cannot help God, and proveth it by his miracles.
1 But Job answered, and said,
2 [am]Whom helpest thou? him that hath no power? savest thou the arm that hath no strength?
3 Whom counselest thou? him that hath no wisdom? [an]thou showest right well as the thing is.
4 To whom dost thou declare these words? or whose spirit [ao]cometh out of thee?
5 The [ap]dead things are formed under the waters, and near unto them.
6 The grave is [aq]naked before him, and there is no covering for [ar]destruction.
7 He stretcheth out the [as]North over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.
8 He bindeth the waters in his clouds, and the cloud is not broken under them.
9 He holdeth back the face of his throne, and spreadeth his cloud upon it.
10 He hath set bounds [at]about the waters, until the [au]day and night come to an end.
11 The [av]pillars of heaven tremble and quake at his reproof.
12 The sea is calm by his power, and by his understanding he smiteth the pride thereof.
13 His Spirit hath garnished the heavens, and his hand hath formed the crooked [aw]serpent.
14 Lo, these are part of his ways: but [ax]how little a portion hear we of him? and who can understand his fearful power?
27 3 The constancy and perfectness of Job. 13 The reward of the wicked and of the tyrants.
1 Moreover Job proceeded and continued his parable, saying,
2 The living God hath taken away my [ay]judgment: for the Almighty hath put my soul in bitterness.
3 Yet so long as my breath is in me, and the Spirit of God in my nostrils,
4 [az]My lips surely shall speak no wickedness, and my tongue shall utter no deceit.
5 God forbid, that I should [ba]justify you: until I die, I will never take away mine [bb]innocency from myself.
6 I will keep my righteousness, and will not forsake it: mine heart shall not reprove me of my [bc]days.
7 Mine enemy shall be as the wicked, and he that riseth against me, as the unrighteous.
8 For what [bd]hope hath the hypocrite when he hath heaped up riches, if God take away his soul?
9 Will God hear his cry, when trouble cometh upon him?
10 Will he set his delight on the Almighty? will he call upon God at all times?
11 I will teach you what is in the hand of [be]God, and I will not conceal that which is with the Almighty.
12 Behold, all ye yourselves [bf]have seen it: why then do you thus vanish [bg]vanity?
13 This is the [bh]portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of tyrants, which they shall receive of the Almighty.
14 If his children be in great number, the sword shall destroy them, and his posterity shall not be satisfied with bread.
15 His remnant shall be buried in death, and his widows [bi]shall not weep.
16 Though he should 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 the [bj]moth, and as a lodge that the watchman maketh.
19 When the rich man sleepeth, [bk]he shall not be gathered to his fathers: they opened their eyes, and he was gone.
20 Terrors shall take him as waters, and a tempest shall carry him away by night.
21 The East wind shall take him away, and he shall depart: and it shall hurl him out of his place.
22 And God shall cast upon him and not spare, though he would fain flee out of his hand.
23 Every man shall clap their hands at him, and hiss at him out of their place.
12 [a]For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly [b]pureness, and not in fleshly wisdom, but by the [c]grace of God we have had our conversation in the world, and most of all to youwards.
13 For we write [d]none other things unto you, than that ye read or else that ye acknowledge, and I trust ye shall acknowledge unto the [e]end.
14 Even as ye have acknowledged us partly, that we are your [f]rejoicing, even as ye are ours, in the [g]day of our Lord Jesus.
15 And in this confidence was I minded first to come unto you, that ye might have had a [h]double grace,
16 And to pass by you into Macedonia, and to come again out of Macedonia, unto you, and to be led forth toward Judea of you.
17 [i]When I therefore was thus minded, did I use lightness? or mind I those things which I mind, according to the [j]flesh, that with me should be, [k]Yea, yea, and Nay, nay?
18 [l]Yea, God is [m]faithful, that our word toward you, was not Yea, and Nay?
19 [n]For the Son of God Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, that is, by me, and Silvanus, and Timothy, [o]was not Yea, and Nay: but in [p]him it was Yea.
20 [q]For all the promises of God in him are Yea, and are in [r]him Amen, unto the glory of God through [s]us.
21 [t]And it is God which established us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us.
22 Who hath also sealed us, and hath given the [u]earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.
23 [v]Now, I call God for a record unto my [w]soul, that to spare you, I came not as yet unto Corinth.
24 [x]Not that we have dominion over your faith, but we are helpers of your [y]joy: for by faith ye stand.
2 1 He excuseth his not coming unto them, 2 and privily reprehendeth them: 4 He showeth that such is his affection towards them, 5 that he never rejoiceth but when they are merry. 6 Perceiving the adulterer (whom he commanded to be delivered up to Satan) to repent, he requesteth that they forgive him. 13 He mentioneth his going into Macedonia.
1 But I determined thus in myself, that I would not come again to you in [z]heaviness.
2 For if I make you sorry, who is he then that should make me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me?
3 And I wrote this same thing unto you, lest when I came, I should take heaviness of them of whom I ought to rejoice: this [aa]confidence have I in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.
4 For in great affliction, and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears: not that ye should be made sorry, but that ye might perceive the love which I have, specially unto you.
5 [ab]And if any hath caused sorrow, the same hath not made [ac]me sorry, but [ad]partly (lest I should more [ae]charge him) you all.
6 It is sufficient unto the same man, that he was rebuked of many.
7 So that now contrariwise ye ought rather to [af]forgive him, and comfort him, lest the same should be swallowed up with overmuch heaviness.
8 Wherefore, I pray you, that you would [ag]confirm your love towards him.
9 For this cause also did I write: that I might know the proof of you, whether ye would be obedient in all things.
10 To whom ye forgive anything, I forgive also: for verily if I forgave anything, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it in the [ah]sight of Christ,
11 Lest Satan should circumvent us: for we are not ignorant of his [ai]enterprises.
41 1 David being grievously afflicted, blesseth them that pity his case, 9 and complaineth of the treason of his own friends and familiars, as came to pass in Judas, John 13:18. After he feeling the great mercies of God gently chastising him, and not suffering his enemies to triumph against him, 13 giveth most hearty thanks to God.
To him that excelleth. A Psalm of David.
1 Blessed is he that [a]judgeth wisely of the poor: the Lord shall deliver him in the time of trouble.
2 The Lord will keep him and preserve him alive, he shall be blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies.
3 The Lord will strengthen him upon the [b]bed of sorrow: thou hast turned all his [c]bed in his sickness.
4 Therefore I said, Lord have mercy upon me: heal my soul, for I have sinned against thee.
5 Mine enemies [d]speak evil of me, saying, When shall he die, and his name perish?
6 And if he come to see me, he speaketh [e]lies, but his heart heapeth iniquity within him, and when he cometh forth, he telleth it.
7 All they that hate me whisper together against me: even against me do they imagine mine hurt.
8 [f]A mischief is light upon him, and he that lieth, shall no more rise.
9 Yea, my [g]familiar friend, whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, [h]hath lifted up the heel against me.
10 Therefore, O Lord, have mercy upon me, and raise me up: so shall I reward them.
11 By this I know that thou favorest me, because mine enemy doth not triumph against me.
12 And as for me thou upholdest me [i]in mine integrity, and dost set me before thy [j]face forever.
13 Blessed be the Lord God of Israel world without end. [k]So be it, even so be it.
5 Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward: but he that regardeth his soul, will depart far from them.
6 Teach a child [a]in the trade of his way, and when he is old he shall not depart from it.
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