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Love Like a Mother -- Naomi and Ruth

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The Listener’s Bible®: KJV Edition

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         <div class="label">18</div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Bildad's Speech</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.18.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.18.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.18.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">How long </span><span class="add"><span class="content">will it be ere</span></span><span class="content"> ye make an end of words?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.18.2"><span class="content">Mark, and afterwards we will speak.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.18.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.18.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Wherefore are we counted as beasts,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.18.3"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> reputed vile in your sight?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.18.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.18.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">He teareth himself in his anger:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.18.4"><span class="content">Shall the earth be forsaken for thee?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.18.4"><span class="content">And shall the rock be removed out of his place?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.18.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.18.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.18.5"><span class="content">And the spark of his fire shall not shine.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.18.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.18.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The light shall be dark in his tabernacle,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.18.6"><span class="content">And his candle shall be put out with him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.18.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.18.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The steps of his strength shall be straitened,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.18.7"><span class="content">And his own counsel shall cast him down.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.18.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.18.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">For he is cast into a net by his own feet,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.18.8"><span class="content">And he walketh upon a snare.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.18.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.18.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The gin shall take </span><span class="add"><span class="content">him</span></span><span class="content"> by the heel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.18.9"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> the robber shall prevail against him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.18.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.18.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The snare </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> laid for him in the ground,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.18.10"><span class="content">And a trap for him in the way.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.18.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.18.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Terrors shall make him afraid on every side,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.18.11"><span class="content">And shall drive him to his feet.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.18.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.18.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">His strength shall be hungerbitten,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.18.12"><span class="content">And destruction </span><span class="add"><span class="content">shall be</span></span><span class="content"> ready at his side.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.18.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.18.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">It shall devour the strength of his skin:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.18.13"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Even</span></span><span class="content"> the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.18.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.18.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.18.14"><span class="content">And it shall bring him to the king of terrors.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.18.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.18.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because </span><span class="add"><span class="content">it is</span></span><span class="content"> none of his:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.18.15"><span class="content">Brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.18.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.18.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">His roots shall be dried up beneath,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.18.16"><span class="content">And above shall his branch be cut off.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.18.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.18.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">His remembrance shall perish from the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.18.17"><span class="content">And he shall have no name in the street.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.18.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.18.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">He shall be driven from light into darkness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.18.18"><span class="content">And chased out of the world.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.18.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.18.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.18.19"><span class="content">Nor any remaining in his dwellings.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.18.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.18.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">They that come after </span><span class="add"><span class="content">him</span></span><span class="content"> shall be astonied at his day,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.18.20"><span class="content">As they that went before were affrighted.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.18.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.18.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Surely such </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> the dwellings of the wicked,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.18.21"><span class="content">And this </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> the place </span><span class="add"><span class="content">of him that</span></span><span class="content"> knoweth not God.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">19</div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Job's Reply</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.19.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then Job answered and said,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.19.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.19.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">How long will ye vex my soul,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.19.2"><span class="content">And break me in pieces with words?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.19.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.19.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">These ten times have ye reproached me:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.19.3"><span class="content">Ye are not ashamed </span><span class="add"><span class="content">that</span></span><span class="content"> ye make yourselves strange to me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.19.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.19.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">And be it indeed </span><span class="add"><span class="content">that</span></span><span class="content"> I have erred,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.19.4"><span class="content">Mine error remaineth with myself.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.19.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.19.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">If indeed ye will magnify </span><span class="add"><span class="content">yourselves</span></span><span class="content"> against me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.19.5"><span class="content">And plead against me my reproach:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.19.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.19.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Know now that God hath overthrown me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.19.6"><span class="content">And hath compassed me with his net.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.19.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.19.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.19.7"><span class="content">I cry aloud, but </span><span class="add"><span class="content">there is</span></span><span class="content"> no judgment.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.19.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.19.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.19.8"><span class="content">And he hath set darkness in my paths.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.19.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.19.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">He hath stripped me of my glory,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.19.9"><span class="content">And taken the crown </span><span class="add"><span class="content">from</span></span><span class="content"> my head.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.19.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.19.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.19.10"><span class="content">And mine hope hath he removed like a tree.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.19.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.19.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">He hath also kindled his wrath against me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.19.11"><span class="content">And he counteth me unto him as </span><span class="add"><span class="content">one of</span></span><span class="content"> his enemies.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.19.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.19.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">His troops come together,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.19.12"><span class="content">And raise up their way against me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.19.12"><span class="content">And encamp round about my tabernacle.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.19.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.19.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">He hath put my brethren far from me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.19.13"><span class="content">And mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.19.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.19.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.19.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.19.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">They that dwell in mine house,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.19.15"><span class="content">And my maids, count me for a stranger:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.19.15"><span class="content">I am an alien in their sight.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.19.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.19.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">I called my servant, and he gave </span><span class="add"><span class="content">me</span></span><span class="content"> no answer;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.19.16"><span class="content">I intreated him with my mouth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.19.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.19.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">My breath is strange to my wife,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.19.17"><span class="content">Though I intreated for the children's </span><span class="add"><span class="content">sake</span></span><span class="content"> of mine own body.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.19.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.19.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Yea, young children despised me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.19.18"><span class="content">I arose, and they spake against me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.19.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.19.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">All my inward friends abhorred me:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.19.19"><span class="content">And they whom I loved are turned against me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.19.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.19.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.19.20"><span class="content">And I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.19.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.19.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.19.21"><span class="content">For the hand of God hath touched me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.19.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.19.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Why do ye persecute me as God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.19.22"><span class="content">And are not satisfied with my flesh?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.19.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.19.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Oh that my words were now written!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.19.23"><span class="content">Oh that they were printed in a book!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.19.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.19.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">That they were graven with an iron pen and lead</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.19.24"><span class="content">In the rock for ever!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.19.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.19.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">For I know </span><span class="add"><span class="content">that</span></span><span class="content"> my redeemer liveth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.19.25"><span class="content">And </span><span class="add"><span class="content">that</span></span><span class="content"> he shall stand at the latter </span><span class="add"><span class="content">day</span></span><span class="content"> upon the earth:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.19.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.19.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">And </span><span class="add"><span class="content">though</span></span><span class="content"> after my skin </span><span class="add"><span class="content">worms</span></span><span class="content"> destroy this </span><span class="add"><span class="content">body</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.19.26"><span class="content">Yet in my flesh shall I see God:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.19.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.19.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Whom I shall see for myself,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.19.27"><span class="content">And mine eyes shall behold, and not another;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.19.27"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Though</span></span><span class="content"> my reins be consumed within me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.19.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.19.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">But ye should say, Why persecute we him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.19.28"><span class="content">Seeing the root of the matter is found in me?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.19.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.19.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Be ye afraid of the sword:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.19.29"><span class="content">For wrath </span><span class="add"><span class="content">bringeth</span></span><span class="content"> the punishments of the sword,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.19.29"><span class="content">That ye may know </span><span class="add"><span class="content">there is</span></span><span class="content"> a judgment.</span></span></div>
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