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         <div class="label">11</div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Zophar's Speech</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.11.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.11.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.11.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Should not the multitude of words be answered?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.11.2"><span class="content">And should a man full of talk be justified?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.11.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.11.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Should thy lies make men hold their peace?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.11.3"><span class="content">And when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.11.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.11.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">For thou hast said, My doctrine </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> pure,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.11.4"><span class="content">And I am clean in thine eyes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.11.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.11.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">But oh that God would speak,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.11.5"><span class="content">And open his lips against thee;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.11.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.11.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">And that he would shew thee the secrets of wisdom,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.11.6"><span class="content">That </span><span class="add"><span class="content">they are</span></span><span class="content"> double to that which is!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.11.6"><span class="content">Know therefore that God exacteth of thee </span><span class="add"><span class="content">less</span></span><span class="content"> than thine iniquity </span><span class="add"><span class="content">deserveth</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.11.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.11.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Canst thou by searching find out God?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.11.7"><span class="content">Canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.11.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.11.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">It is</span></span><span class="content"> as high as heaven; what canst thou do?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.11.8"><span class="content">Deeper than hell; what canst thou know?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.11.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.11.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The measure thereof </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> longer than the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.11.9"><span class="content">And broader than the sea.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.11.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.11.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">If he cut off, and shut up,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.11.10"><span class="content">Or gather together, then who can hinder him?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.11.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.11.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">For he knoweth vain men:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.11.11"><span class="content">He seeth wickedness also; will he not then consider </span><span class="add"><span class="content">it?</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.11.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.11.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">For vain man would be wise,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.11.12"><span class="content">Though man be born </span><span class="add"><span class="content">like</span></span><span class="content"> a wild ass's colt.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.11.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.11.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">If thou prepare thine heart,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.11.13"><span class="content">And stretch out thine hands toward him;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.11.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.11.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">If iniquity </span><span class="add"><span class="content">be</span></span><span class="content"> in thine hand, put it far away,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.11.14"><span class="content">And let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.11.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.11.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">For then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.11.15"><span class="content">Yea, thou shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.11.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.11.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Because thou shalt forget </span><span class="add"><span class="content">thy</span></span><span class="content"> misery,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.11.16"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> remember </span><span class="add"><span class="content">it</span></span><span class="content"> as waters </span><span class="add"><span class="content">that</span></span><span class="content"> pass away:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.11.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.11.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">And </span><span class="add"><span class="content">thine</span></span><span class="content"> age shall be clearer than the noonday;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.11.17"><span class="content">Thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.11.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.11.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.11.18"><span class="content">Yea, thou shalt dig </span><span class="add"><span class="content">about thee, and</span></span><span class="content"> thou shalt take thy rest in safety.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.11.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.11.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Also thou shalt lie down, and none shall make </span><span class="add"><span class="content">thee</span></span><span class="content"> afraid;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.11.19"><span class="content">Yea, many shall make suit unto thee.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.11.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.11.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">But the eyes of the wicked shall fail,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.11.20"><span class="content">And they shall not escape,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.11.20"><span class="content">And their hope </span><span class="add"><span class="content">shall be as</span></span><span class="content"> the giving up of the ghost.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">12</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Job's Reply</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.12.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">And Job answered and said,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.12.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.12.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">No doubt but ye </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> the people,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.12.2"><span class="content">And wisdom shall die with you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.12.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.12.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">But I have understanding as well as you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.12.3"><span class="content">I </span><span class="add"><span class="content">am</span></span><span class="content"> not inferior to you:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.12.3"><span class="content">Yea, who knoweth not such things as these?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.12.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.12.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I am </span><span class="add"><span class="content">as</span></span><span class="content"> one mocked of his neighbour,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.12.4"><span class="content">Who calleth upon God, and he answereth him:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.12.4"><span class="content">The just upright </span><span class="add"><span class="content">man is</span></span><span class="content"> laughed to scorn.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.12.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.12.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">He that is ready to slip with </span><span class="add"><span class="content">his</span></span><span class="content"> feet</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.12.5"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Is as</span></span><span class="content"> a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.12.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.12.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The tabernacles of robbers prosper,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.12.6"><span class="content">And they that provoke God are secure;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.12.6"><span class="content">Into whose hand God bringeth </span><span class="add"><span class="content">abundantly</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.12.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.12.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.12.7"><span class="content">And the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.12.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.12.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.12.8"><span class="content">And the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.12.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.12.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Who knoweth not in all these</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.12.9"><span class="content">That the hand of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> hath wrought this?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.12.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.12.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">In whose hand </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> the soul of every living thing,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.12.10"><span class="content">And the breath of all mankind.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.12.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.12.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Doth not the ear try words?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.12.11"><span class="content">And the mouth taste his meat?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.12.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.12.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">With the ancient </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> wisdom;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.12.12"><span class="content">And in length of days understanding.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.12.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.12.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">With him </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> wisdom and strength,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.12.13"><span class="content">He hath counsel and understanding.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.12.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.12.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.12.14"><span class="content">He shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.12.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.12.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.12.15"><span class="content">Also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.12.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.12.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">With him </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> strength and wisdom:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.12.16"><span class="content">The deceived and the deceiver </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> his.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.12.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.12.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">He leadeth counsellors away spoiled,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.12.17"><span class="content">And maketh the judges fools.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.12.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.12.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">He looseth the bond of kings,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.12.18"><span class="content">And girdeth their loins with a girdle.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.12.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.12.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">He leadeth princes away spoiled,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.12.19"><span class="content">And overthroweth the mighty.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.12.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.12.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">He removeth away the speech of the trusty,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.12.20"><span class="content">And taketh away the understanding of the aged.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.12.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.12.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">He poureth contempt upon princes,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.12.21"><span class="content">And weakeneth the strength of the mighty.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.12.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.12.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">He discovereth deep things out of darkness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.12.22"><span class="content">And bringeth out to light the shadow of death.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.12.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.12.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.12.23"><span class="content">He enlargeth the nations, and straiteneth them </span><span class="add"><span class="content">again</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.12.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.12.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.12.24"><span class="content">And causeth them to wander in a wilderness </span><span class="add"><span class="content">where there is</span></span><span class="content"> no way.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.12.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.12.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">They grope in the dark without light,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.12.25"><span class="content">And he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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         <div class="label">13</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.13.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Lo, mine eye hath seen all </span><span class="add"><span class="content">this</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.13.1"><span class="content">Mine ear hath heard and understood it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.13.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.13.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">What ye know, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">the same</span></span><span class="content"> do I know also:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.13.2"><span class="content">I </span><span class="add"><span class="content">am</span></span><span class="content"> not inferior unto you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.13.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.13.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Surely I would speak to the Almighty,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.13.3"><span class="content">And I desire to reason with God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.13.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.13.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">But ye </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> forgers of lies,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.13.4"><span class="content">Ye </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> all physicians of no value.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.13.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.13.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">O that ye would altogether hold your peace!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.13.5"><span class="content">And it should be your wisdom.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.13.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.13.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Hear now my reasoning,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.13.6"><span class="content">And hearken to the pleadings of my lips.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.13.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.13.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Will ye speak wickedly for God?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.13.7"><span class="content">And talk deceitfully for him?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.13.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.13.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Will ye accept his person?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.13.8"><span class="content">Will ye contend for God?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.13.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.13.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Is it good that he should search you out?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.13.9"><span class="content">Or as one man mocketh another, do ye </span><span class="add"><span class="content">so</span></span><span class="content"> mock him?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.13.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.13.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">He will surely reprove you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.13.10"><span class="content">If ye do secretly accept persons.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.13.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.13.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Shall not his excellency make you afraid?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.13.11"><span class="content">And his dread fall upon you?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.13.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.13.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Your remembrances </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> like unto ashes,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.13.12"><span class="content">Your bodies to bodies of clay.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.13.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.13.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.13.13"><span class="content">And let come on me what </span><span class="add"><span class="content">will</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.13.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.13.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.13.14"><span class="content">And put my life in mine hand?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.13.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.13.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.13.15"><span class="content">But I will maintain mine own ways before him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.13.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.13.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">He also </span><span class="add"><span class="content">shall be</span></span><span class="content"> my salvation:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.13.16"><span class="content">For an hypocrite shall not come before him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.13.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.13.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Hear diligently my speech,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.13.17"><span class="content">And my declaration with your ears.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.13.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.13.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Behold now, I have ordered </span><span class="add"><span class="content">my</span></span><span class="content"> cause;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.13.18"><span class="content">I know that I shall be justified.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.13.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.13.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Who </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> he </span><span class="add"><span class="content">that</span></span><span class="content"> will plead with me?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.13.19"><span class="content">For now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.13.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.13.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Only do not two </span><span class="add"><span class="content">things</span></span><span class="content"> unto me:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.13.20"><span class="content">Then will I not hide myself from thee.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.13.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.13.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Withdraw thine hand far from me:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.13.21"><span class="content">And let not thy dread make me afraid.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.13.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.13.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Then call thou, and I will answer:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.13.22"><span class="content">Or let me speak, and answer thou me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.13.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.13.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">How many </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> mine iniquities and sins?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.13.23"><span class="content">Make me to know my transgression and my sin.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.13.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.13.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Wherefore hidest thou thy face,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.13.24"><span class="content">And holdest me for thine enemy?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.13.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.13.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.13.25"><span class="content">And wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.13.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.13.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">For thou writest bitter things against me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.13.26"><span class="content">And makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.13.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.13.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.13.27"><span class="content">And lookest narrowly unto all my paths;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.13.27"><span class="content">Thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.13.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.13.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.13.28"><span class="content">As a garment that is moth eaten.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch14" data-usfm="JOB.14">
         <div class="label">14</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.14.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Man </span><span class="add"><span class="content">that is</span></span><span class="content"> born of a woman</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.14.1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Is</span></span><span class="content"> of few days, and full of trouble.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.14.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.14.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.14.2"><span class="content">He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.14.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.14.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.14.3"><span class="content">And bringest me into judgment with thee?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.14.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.14.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Who can bring a clean </span><span class="add"><span class="content">thing</span></span><span class="content"> out of an unclean?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.14.4"><span class="content">Not one.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.14.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.14.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Seeing his days </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> determined, the number of his months </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> with thee,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.14.5"><span class="content">Thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.14.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.14.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Turn from him, that he may rest,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.14.6"><span class="content">Till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.14.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.14.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">For there is hope of a tree,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.14.7"><span class="content">If it be cut down, that it will sprout again,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.14.7"><span class="content">And that the tender branch thereof will not cease.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.14.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.14.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Though the root thereof wax old in the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.14.8"><span class="content">And the stock thereof die in the ground;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.14.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.14.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Yet</span></span><span class="content"> through the scent of water it will bud,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.14.9"><span class="content">And bring forth boughs like a plant.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.14.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.14.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">But man dieth, and wasteth away:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.14.10"><span class="content">Yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> he?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.14.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.14.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">As</span></span><span class="content"> the waters fail from the sea,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.14.11"><span class="content">And the flood decayeth and drieth up:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.14.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.14.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">So man lieth down, and riseth not:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.14.12"><span class="content">Till the heavens </span><span class="add"><span class="content">be</span></span><span class="content"> no more, they shall not awake,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.14.12"><span class="content">Nor be raised out of their sleep.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.14.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.14.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.14.13"><span class="content">That thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.14.13"><span class="content">That thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.14.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.14.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">If a man die, shall he live </span><span class="add"><span class="content">again?</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.14.14"><span class="content">All the days of my appointed time will I wait,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.14.14"><span class="content">Till my change come.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.14.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.14.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.14.15"><span class="content">Thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.14.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.14.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">For now thou numberest my steps:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.14.16"><span class="content">Dost thou not watch over my sin?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.14.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.14.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">My transgression </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> sealed up in a bag,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.14.17"><span class="content">And thou sewest up mine iniquity.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.14.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.14.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">And surely the mountain falling cometh to nought,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.14.18"><span class="content">And the rock is removed out of his place.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.14.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.14.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The waters wear the stones:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.14.19"><span class="content">Thou washest away the things which grow </span><span class="add"><span class="content">out</span></span><span class="content"> of the dust of the earth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.14.19"><span class="content">And thou destroyest the hope of man.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.14.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.14.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.14.20"><span class="content">Thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.14.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.14.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">His sons come to honour, and he knoweth </span><span class="add"><span class="content">it</span></span><span class="content"> not;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.14.21"><span class="content">And they are brought low, but he perceiveth </span><span class="add"><span class="content">it</span></span><span class="content"> not of them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.14.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.14.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">But his flesh upon him shall have pain,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.14.22"><span class="content">And his soul within him shall mourn.</span></span></div>
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   <div class="book bkROM">
      <div class="chapter ch9" data-usfm="ROM.9">
         <div class="label">9</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Problem of the Jews</span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">The Rejection of Israel</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ROM.9.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ROM.9.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">that I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ROM.9.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh: </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ROM.9.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">who are Israelites; to whom </span><span class="add"><span class="content">pertaineth</span></span><span class="content"> the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service </span><span class="add"><span class="content">of God</span></span><span class="content">, and the promises; </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ROM.9.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">whose </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ </span><span class="add"><span class="content">came</span></span><span class="content">, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ROM.9.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> not all Israel, which are of Israel: </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ROM.9.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are they</span></span><span class="content"> all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ROM.9.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ROM.9.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">For this </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sarah shall have a son. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ROM.9.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">And not only </span><span class="add"><span class="content">this</span></span><span class="content">; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">even</span></span><span class="content"> by our father Isaac; </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ROM.9.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">(for </span><span class="add"><span class="content">the children</span></span><span class="content"> being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;) </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ROM.9.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">it was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ROM.9.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">The Problem</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ROM.9.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ROM.9.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">What shall we say then? </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Is there</span></span><span class="content"> unrighteousness with God? God forbid. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ROM.9.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ROM.9.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">So then </span><span class="add"><span class="content">it is</span></span><span class="content"> not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ROM.9.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ROM.9.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will </span><span class="add"><span class="content">have mercy</span></span><span class="content">, and whom he will he hardeneth.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ROM.9.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ROM.9.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will? </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ROM.9.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed </span><span class="add"><span class="content">it</span></span><span class="content">, Why hast thou made me thus? </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ROM.9.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour? </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ROM.9.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="add"><span class="content">What</span></span><span class="content"> if God, willing to shew </span><span class="add"><span class="content">his</span></span><span class="content"> wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ROM.9.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">and that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory, </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ROM.9.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles? </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ROM.9.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">As he saith also in Osee,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ROM.9.25"><span class="content">I will call them my people, which were not my people;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ROM.9.25"><span class="content">And her beloved, which was not beloved.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ROM.9.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ROM.9.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">And it shall come to pass, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">that</span></span><span class="content"> in the place where it was said unto them, Ye </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> not my people;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ROM.9.26"><span class="content">There shall they be called the children of the living God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ROM.9.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ROM.9.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved: </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ROM.9.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">for he will finish the work, and cut </span><span class="add"><span class="content">it</span></span><span class="content"> short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ROM.9.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">And as Esaias said before,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ROM.9.29"><span class="content">Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ROM.9.29"><span class="content">We had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha.</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">The Divine Justice of It</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ROM.9.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="ROM.9.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="ROM.9.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="ROM.9.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">Wherefore? Because </span><span class="add"><span class="content">they sought it</span></span><span class="content"> not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone; </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="ROM.9.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">as it is written,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="ROM.9.33"><span class="content">Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="ROM.9.33"><span class="content">And whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">10</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ROM.10.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ROM.10.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ROM.10.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ROM.10.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">For Christ </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ROM.10.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ROM.10.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down </span><span class="add"><span class="content">from above</span></span><span class="content">:) </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ROM.10.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.) </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ROM.10.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">even</span></span><span class="content"> in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach; </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ROM.10.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ROM.10.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ROM.10.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ROM.10.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ROM.10.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ROM.10.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ROM.10.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ROM.10.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ROM.10.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report? </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ROM.10.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">So then faith </span><span class="add"><span class="content">cometh</span></span><span class="content"> by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ROM.10.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ROM.10.18"><span class="content">Their sound went into all the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ROM.10.18"><span class="content">And their words unto the ends of the world.</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ROM.10.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ROM.10.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">But I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses saith,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ROM.10.19"><span class="content">I will provoke you to jealousy by </span><span class="add"><span class="content">them that are</span></span><span class="content"> no people,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ROM.10.19"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> by a foolish nation I will anger you.</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ROM.10.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ROM.10.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">But Esaias is very bold, and saith,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ROM.10.20"><span class="content">I was found of them that sought me not;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ROM.10.20"><span class="content">I was made manifest unto them that asked not after me.</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ROM.10.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ROM.10.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">But to Israel he saith, All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people.</span></span></div>
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