Old/New Testament
17 “My spirit is broken. My days are cut off and the grave is ready for me.
2 “There are none but mockers with me, and my eye must dwell on their disobedience.
3 “Lay down, now, pledge for me with Yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me?
4 “For You have hidden their heart from understanding. Therefore, You shall not exalt.
5 “For the eyes of his children shall fail who speaks flattery to friends.
6 “He has also made me a byword of the people, and I am as one spit on by them.
7 “My eye, therefore, is dim for grief, and all my strength like a shadow.
8 “The righteous shall be astonished at this. And the innocent shall be moved against the hypocrite.
9 “But the righteous will hold to his way. And he whose hands are pure shall increase strength.
10 “All you, therefore, return and come now. And I shall not find one wise among you.
11 “My days are past. My enterprises are broken. The thoughts of my heart
12 “have exchanged the night for the day and the light that approached for darkness.
13 “Though I hope, the grave shall be my house. I shall make my bed in the dark.
14 “I shall say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ to the worm, ‘You are my mother and my sister.’
15 “Where now, then, is my hope? Or who shall consider the thing for which I hoped?
16 “It shall go down into the bottom of the pit. Surely they shall lie together in the dust.”
18 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered, and said,
2 “When will you put an end to your words? Make us understand, and then we will speak.
3 “Why are we counted as beasts, and vile in your sight?
4 “You are as one who tears his soul in his anger. Shall the Earth be forsaken for your sake, or the rock removed from its place?
5 “Yea, the light of the wicked shall be quenched. And the spark of his fire shall not shine.
6 “The light shall be dark in his dwelling, and his candle shall be put out with him.
7 “The steps of his strength shall be restrained, and his own counsel shall cast him down.
8 “For he is taken in the net by his feet, and he walks upon the snares.
9 “The net shall take him by the heel, and the traps shall come upon him.
10 “A noose is laid for him on the ground, and a trap for him on the way.
11 “Fearfulness shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.
12 “His strength shall be famine. And destruction shall be ready at his side.
13 “It shall devour the inner parts of his skin. The firstborn of death shall devour his strength.
14 “His hope shall be rooted out of his dwelling, and shall cause him to go to the king of fear.
15 “Fear shall dwell in his house (because it is not his). Brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
16 “His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut down.
17 “His memory shall perish from the Earth, and he shall have no name in the street.
18 “They shall drive him out of the light into darkness and chase him out of the world.
19 “He shall have neither son nor nephew among his people, nor any posterity in his dwellings.
20 “Those who follow shall be astonished every day, and fear shall come upon the ancient.
21 “Surely such are the habitations of the wicked. And this is the place of him who does not know God.”
19 But Job answered, and said,
2 “How long will you grieve my soul, and torment me with words?
3 “You have now reproached me ten times and are not ashamed. You are impudent toward me.
4 “And though I had indeed erred, my error remains with me.
5 “But, indeed, if you will advance yourselves against me and rebuke me for my disgrace,
6 “know, now, that God has overthrown me and has surrounded me with His net.
7 “Behold, I cry out from violence, but I have no answer. I cry, but there is no justice.
8 “He has walled up my way, so that I cannot pass. And He has set darkness in my paths.
9 “He has stripped me of my honor, and taken the crown away from my head.
10 “He has destroyed me on every side, and I am gone. And He has removed my hope like a tree.
11 “And He has kindled His wrath against me, and counts me as one of His enemies.
12 “His armies came together and made their way upon me and camped around my tabernacle.
13 “He has removed my brethren far from me, and also my acquaintances were strangers to me.
14 “My neighbors have forsaken me, and my close friends have forgotten me.
15 “Those who dwell in my house, and my maids, took me for a stranger. For I was a stranger in their sight.
16 “I called my servant, but he would not answer. I begged him with my mouth.
17 “My breath was strange to my wife, though I begged her for the sake of the children of my own body.
18 “The wicked also despised me. When I arose, they spoke against me.
19 “All my secret friends abhorred me. And those whom I loved have turned against me.
20 “My bone clings to my skin and to my flesh and I have escaped with the skin of my teeth.
21 “Have pity upon me. Have pity upon me, O you my friends. For the Hand of God has touched me.
22 “Why do you persecute me, as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
23 “Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were written even in a book,
24 “engraved with an iron pen in lead, or in stone, forever!
25 “For I am sure that my Redeemer lives, and He shall stand the last on the Earth.
26 “And even after my skin is destroyed, I shall still see God in my flesh,
27 “Whom I myself shall see and my eyes shall behold, and no other. My core is consumed within me.
28 “But if there is a deep matter in me, you would say, ‘Why is he persecuted?’
29 “Be afraid of the sword! For the sword will be avenged of wickedness, so that you may know that there is a judgment.”
10 Furthermore, there was a certain man in Caesarea named Cornelius - a captain of the band called the ‘Italian’ -
2 a devout man, and one who feared God with all his household, who gave many alms to the people, and prayed to God continually.
3 Evidently, he saw an angel of God in a vision (about the ninth hour of the day) coming in to him and saying, “Cornelius.”
4 But when he looked at him, he was afraid, and said, “What is it, Lord?” And he said to him, “Your prayers and your alms have come up in remembrance before God.
5 “Now, therefore, send men to Joppa, and call for Simon, whose surname is Peter.
6 “He lodges with one Simon, a Tanner, whose house is by the seaside. He shall tell you what you ought to do.”
7 And when the angel who spoke to Cornelius had departed, he called two of his servants and a God-fearing soldier (one of those who waited on him continually).
8 And he told them all things and sent them to Joppa.
9 The next day, about the sixth hour, as they went on their journey and drew near to the city, Peter went up on the house to pray.
10 Then he became hungry and wished to eat. But while they prepared it, he fell into a trance.
11 And he saw the sky opened. And a certain vessel came down to him, like a great sheet, tied at the four corners, and being let down to the Earth.
12 Inside were all kinds of four-footed beasts of the Earth, and wild beasts and creeping things, and birds of the heaven.
13 And there came a voice to him, “Arise, Peter. Kill, and eat.”
14 But Peter said, “Not so, Lord. For I have never eaten anything that is polluted or unclean.”
15 And the voice spoke to him again a second time, “The things which God has cleansed, do not make common.”
16 This was done three times. And the vessel was drawn up again into Heaven.
17 Now, while Peter questioned in himself what this vision which he had seen meant, behold the men who were sent from Cornelius had inquired after Simon’s house, and stood at the gate,
18 calling and asking whether Simon (who was surnamed Peter) was lodged there.
19 And while Peter thought about the vision, the Spirit said to him, “Behold, three men seek you.
20 “Therefore, rise up. And get down. And go with them. And doubt nothing. For I have sent them.”
21 Then Peter went down to the men who had been sent to him from Cornelius, and said, “Behold, I am he whom you seek. Why have you come?”
22 And they said, “Cornelius the Captain - a just man, and one who fears God, and of good report among all the nation of the Jews - was warned from Heaven by a holy angel to summon you to his house, and to hear your words.”
23 Then he called them in and lodged them. And the next day, Peter went with them, and some brothers from Joppa accompanied him.
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