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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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      <div class="chapter ch20" data-usfm="JOB.20">
         <div class="label">20</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.20.1"><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.20.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.20.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.20.2"><span class="content">And for </span><span class="add"><span class="content">this</span></span><span class="content"> I make haste.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.20.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.20.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">I have heard the check of my reproach,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.20.3"><span class="content">And the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.20.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.20.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Knowest thou </span><span class="add"><span class="content">not</span></span><span class="content"> this of old,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.20.4"><span class="content">Since man was placed upon earth,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.20.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.20.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">That the triumphing of the wicked </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> short,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.20.5"><span class="content">And the joy of the hypocrite </span><span class="add"><span class="content">but</span></span><span class="content"> for a moment?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.20.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.20.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Though his excellency mount up to the heavens,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.20.6"><span class="content">And his head reach unto the clouds;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.20.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.20.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Yet</span></span><span class="content"> he shall perish for ever like his own dung:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.20.7"><span class="content">They which have seen him shall say, Where </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> he?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.20.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.20.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.20.8"><span class="content">Yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.20.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.20.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The eye also </span><span class="add"><span class="content">which</span></span><span class="content"> saw him shall </span><span class="add"><span class="content">see him</span></span><span class="content"> no more;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.20.9"><span class="content">Neither shall his place any more behold him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.20.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.20.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">His children shall seek to please the poor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.20.10"><span class="content">And his hands shall restore their goods.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.20.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.20.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">His bones are full </span><span class="add"><span class="content">of the sin</span></span><span class="content"> of his youth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.20.11"><span class="content">Which shall lie down with him in the dust.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.20.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.20.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.20.12"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Though</span></span><span class="content"> he hide it under his tongue;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.20.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.20.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Though</span></span><span class="content"> he spare it, and forsake it not;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.20.13"><span class="content">But keep it still within his mouth:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.20.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.20.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Yet</span></span><span class="content"> his meat in his bowels is turned,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.20.14"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">It is</span></span><span class="content"> the gall of asps within him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.20.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.20.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.20.15"><span class="content">God shall cast them out of his belly.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.20.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.20.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">He shall suck the poison of asps:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.20.16"><span class="content">The viper's tongue shall slay him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.20.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.20.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">He shall not see the rivers,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.20.17"><span class="content">The floods, the brooks of honey and butter.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.20.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.20.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">That which he laboured for shall he restore,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.20.18"><span class="content">And shall not swallow </span><span class="add"><span class="content">it</span></span><span class="content"> down:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.20.18"><span class="content">According to </span><span class="add"><span class="content">his</span></span><span class="content"> substance </span><span class="add"><span class="content">shall</span></span><span class="content"> the restitution </span><span class="add"><span class="content">be</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.20.18"><span class="content">and he shall not rejoice </span><span class="add"><span class="content">therein</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.20.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.20.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Because he hath oppressed </span><span class="add"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> hath forsaken the poor;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.20.19"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Because</span></span><span class="content"> he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.20.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.20.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.20.20"><span class="content">He shall not save of that which he desired.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.20.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.20.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">There shall none of his meat be left;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.20.21"><span class="content">Therefore shall no man look for his goods.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.20.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.20.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.20.22"><span class="content">Every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.20.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.20.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">When</span></span><span class="content"> he is about to fill his belly,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.20.23"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">God</span></span><span class="content"> shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.20.23"><span class="content">And shall rain </span><span class="add"><span class="content">it</span></span><span class="content"> upon him while he is eating.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.20.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.20.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">He shall flee from the iron weapon,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.20.24"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> the bow of steel shall strike him through.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.20.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.20.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">It is drawn, and cometh out of the body;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.20.25"><span class="content">Yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.20.25"><span class="content">Terrors </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> upon him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.20.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.20.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">All darkness </span><span class="add"><span class="content">shall be</span></span><span class="content"> hid in his secret places:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.20.26"><span class="content">A fire not blown shall consume him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.20.26"><span class="content">It shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.20.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.20.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">The heaven shall reveal his iniquity;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.20.27"><span class="content">And the earth shall rise up against him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.20.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.20.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">The increase of his house shall depart,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.20.28"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And his goods</span></span><span class="content"> shall flow away in the day of his wrath.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.20.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.20.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">This </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> the portion of a wicked man from God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.20.29"><span class="content">And the heritage appointed unto him by God.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">21</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.21.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">But Job answered and said,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.21.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.21.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Hear diligently my speech,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.21.2"><span class="content">And let this be your consolations.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.21.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.21.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Suffer me that I may speak;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.21.3"><span class="content">And after that I have spoken, mock on.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.21.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.21.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">As for me, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> my complaint to man?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.21.4"><span class="content">And if </span><span class="add"><span class="content">it were so</span></span><span class="content">, why should not my spirit be troubled?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.21.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.21.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Mark me, and be astonished,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.21.5"><span class="content">And lay </span><span class="add"><span class="content">your</span></span><span class="content"> hand upon </span><span class="add"><span class="content">your</span></span><span class="content"> mouth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.21.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.21.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Even when I remember I am afraid,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.21.6"><span class="content">And trembling taketh hold on my flesh.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.21.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.21.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Wherefore do the wicked live,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.21.7"><span class="content">Become old, yea, are mighty in power?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.21.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.21.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Their seed is established in their sight with them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.21.8"><span class="content">And their offspring before their eyes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.21.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.21.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Their houses </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> safe from fear,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.21.9"><span class="content">Neither </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> the rod of God upon them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.21.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.21.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Their bull gendereth, and faileth not;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.21.10"><span class="content">Their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.21.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.21.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">They send forth their little ones like a flock,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.21.11"><span class="content">And their children dance.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.21.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.21.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">They take the timbrel and harp,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.21.12"><span class="content">And rejoice at the sound of the organ.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.21.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.21.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">They spend their days in wealth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.21.13"><span class="content">And in a moment go down to the grave.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.21.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.21.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.21.14"><span class="content">For we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.21.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.21.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">What </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> the Almighty, that we should serve him?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.21.15"><span class="content">And what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.21.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.21.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Lo, their good </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> not in their hand:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.21.16"><span class="content">The counsel of the wicked is far from me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.21.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.21.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">How oft is the candle of the wicked put out!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.21.17"><span class="content">And </span><span class="add"><span class="content">how oft</span></span><span class="content"> cometh their destruction upon them!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.21.17"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">God</span></span><span class="content"> distributeth sorrows in his anger.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.21.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.21.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">They are as stubble before the wind,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.21.18"><span class="content">And as chaff that the storm carrieth away.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.21.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.21.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">God layeth up his iniquity for his children:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.21.19"><span class="content">He rewardeth him, and he shall know </span><span class="add"><span class="content">it</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.21.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.21.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">His eyes shall see his destruction,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.21.20"><span class="content">And he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.21.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.21.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">For what pleasure </span><span class="add"><span class="content">hath</span></span><span class="content"> he in his house after him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.21.21"><span class="content">When the number of his months is cut off in the midst?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.21.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.21.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Shall </span><span class="add"><span class="content">any</span></span><span class="content"> teach God knowledge?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.21.22"><span class="content">Seeing he judgeth those that are high.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.21.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.21.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">One dieth in his full strength,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.21.23"><span class="content">Being wholly at ease and quiet.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.21.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.21.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">His breasts are full of milk,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.21.24"><span class="content">And his bones are moistened with marrow.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.21.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.21.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.21.25"><span class="content">And never eateth with pleasure.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.21.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.21.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">They shall lie down alike in the dust,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.21.26"><span class="content">And the worms shall cover them.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.21.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.21.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Behold, I know your thoughts,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.21.27"><span class="content">And the devices </span><span class="add"><span class="content">which</span></span><span class="content"> ye wrongfully imagine against me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.21.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.21.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">For ye say, Where </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> the house of the prince?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.21.28"><span class="content">And where </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> the dwelling places of the wicked?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.21.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.21.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Have ye not asked them that go by the way?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.21.29"><span class="content">And do ye not know their tokens,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.21.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.21.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.21.30"><span class="content">They shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.21.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.21.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Who shall declare his way to his face?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.21.31"><span class="content">And who shall repay him </span><span class="add"><span class="content">what</span></span><span class="content"> he hath done?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.21.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOB.21.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">Yet shall he be brought to the grave,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOB.21.32"><span class="content">And shall remain in the tomb.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOB.21.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.21.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.21.33"><span class="content">And every man shall draw after him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.21.33"><span class="content">As </span><span class="add"><span class="content">there are</span></span><span class="content"> innumerable before him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.21.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JOB.21.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">How then comfort ye me in vain,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JOB.21.34"><span class="content">Seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">14</div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Christian Charity and Unity</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ROM.14.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">but</span></span><span class="content"> not to doubtful disputations. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ROM.14.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ROM.14.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ROM.14.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ROM.14.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day </span><span class="add"><span class="content">alike</span></span><span class="content">. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ROM.14.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">He that regardeth the day, regardeth </span><span class="add"><span class="content">it</span></span><span class="content"> unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard </span><span class="add"><span class="content">it</span></span><span class="content">. He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ROM.14.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ROM.14.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ROM.14.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ROM.14.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ROM.14.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">For it is written,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ROM.14.11"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">As</span></span><span class="content"> I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ROM.14.11"><span class="content">And every tongue shall confess to God.</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ROM.14.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ROM.14.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">The Christian Spirit</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ROM.14.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ROM.14.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in </span><span class="add"><span class="content">his</span></span><span class="content"> brother's way. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ROM.14.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that </span><span class="add"><span class="content">there is</span></span><span class="content"> nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him </span><span class="add"><span class="content">it is</span></span><span class="content"> unclean. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ROM.14.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">But if thy brother be grieved with </span><span class="add"><span class="content">thy</span></span><span class="content"> meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ROM.14.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Let not then your good be evil spoken of: </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ROM.14.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">for the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ROM.14.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">For he that in these things serveth Christ </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> acceptable to God, and approved of men. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ROM.14.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ROM.14.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">For meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> pure; but </span><span class="add"><span class="content">it is</span></span><span class="content"> evil for that man who eateth with offence. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ROM.14.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="add"><span class="content">It is</span></span><span class="content"> good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor </span><span class="add"><span class="content">any thing</span></span><span class="content"> whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ROM.14.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Hast thou faith? have </span><span class="add"><span class="content">it</span></span><span class="content"> to thyself before God. Happy </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ROM.14.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because </span><span class="add"><span class="content">he eateth</span></span><span class="content"> not of faith: for whatsoever </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> not of faith is sin.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch15" data-usfm="ROM.15">
         <div class="label">15</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ROM.15.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ROM.15.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Let every one of us please </span><span class="add"><span class="content">his</span></span><span class="content"> neighbour for </span><span class="add"><span class="content">his</span></span><span class="content"> good to edification. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ROM.15.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ROM.15.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ROM.15.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus: </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ROM.15.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">that ye may with one mind </span><span class="add"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">To the Glory of God</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ROM.15.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ROM.15.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Wherefore receive ye one another, as Christ also received us to the glory of God. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ROM.15.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises </span><span class="add"><span class="content">made</span></span><span class="content"> unto the fathers: </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ROM.15.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">and that the Gentiles might glorify God for </span><span class="add"><span class="content">his</span></span><span class="content"> mercy; as it is written,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ROM.15.9"><span class="content">For this cause I will confess to thee among the Gentiles,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ROM.15.9"><span class="content">And sing unto thy name.</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ROM.15.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ROM.15.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">And again he saith,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ROM.15.10"><span class="content">Rejoice, ye Gentiles, with his people.</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ROM.15.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ROM.15.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">And again,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ROM.15.11"><span class="content">Praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ROM.15.11"><span class="content">And laud him, all ye people.</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ROM.15.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ROM.15.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">And again, Esaias saith,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ROM.15.12"><span class="content">There shall be a root of Jesse,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ROM.15.12"><span class="content">And he that shall rise to reign over the Gentiles;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ROM.15.12"><span class="content">In him shall the Gentiles trust.</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ROM.15.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ROM.15.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Personal Messages</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ROM.15.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ROM.15.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ROM.15.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Nevertheless, brethren, I have written the more boldly unto you in some sort, as putting you in mind, because of the grace that is given to me of God, </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ROM.15.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">that I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ROM.15.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">I have therefore whereof I may glory through Jesus Christ in those things which pertain to God. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ROM.15.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ hath not wrought by me, to make the Gentiles obedient, by word and deed, </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ROM.15.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God; so that from Jerusalem, and round about unto Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ROM.15.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Yea, so have I strived to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build upon another man's foundation: </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ROM.15.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">But as it is written,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ROM.15.21"><span class="content">To whom he was not spoken of, they shall see:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ROM.15.21"><span class="content">And they that have not heard shall understand.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ROM.15.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ROM.15.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">For which cause also I have been much hindered from coming to you. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ROM.15.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">But now having no more place in these parts, and having a great desire these many years to come unto you; </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ROM.15.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">whensoever I take my journey into Spain, I will come to you: for I trust to see you in my journey, and to be brought on my way thitherward by you, if first I be somewhat filled with your </span><span class="add"><span class="content">company</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ROM.15.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">But now I go unto Jerusalem to minister unto the saints. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ROM.15.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">For it hath pleased them of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor saints which are at Jerusalem. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ROM.15.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">It hath pleased them verily; and their debtors they are. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to minister unto them in carnal things. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ROM.15.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">When therefore I have performed this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I will come by you into Spain. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ROM.15.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">And I am sure that, when I come unto you, I shall come in the fulness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ROM.15.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="ROM.15.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ's sake, and for the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in </span><span class="add"><span class="content">your</span></span><span class="content"> prayers to God for me; </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="ROM.15.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">that I may be delivered from them that do not believe in Jud&#230;a; and that my service which </span><span class="add"><span class="content">I have</span></span><span class="content"> for Jerusalem may be accepted of the saints; </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="ROM.15.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">that I may come unto you with joy by the will of God, and may with you be refreshed. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="ROM.15.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">Now the God of peace </span><span class="add"><span class="content">be</span></span><span class="content"> with you all. Amen.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">16</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ROM.16.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">I commend unto you Phebe our sister, which is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea: </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ROM.16.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">that ye receive her in the Lord, as becometh saints, and that ye assist her in whatsoever business she hath need of you: for she hath been a succourer of many, and of myself also.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ROM.16.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ROM.16.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Greet Priscilla and Aquila my helpers in Christ Jesus: </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ROM.16.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">who have for my life laid down their own necks: unto whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ROM.16.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Likewise </span><span class="add"><span class="content">greet</span></span><span class="content"> the church that is in their house. Salute my wellbeloved Ep&#230;netus, who is the firstfruits of Achaia unto Christ. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ROM.16.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Greet Mary, who bestowed much labour on us. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ROM.16.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Salute Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen, and my fellowprisoners, who are of note among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ROM.16.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Greet Amplias my beloved in the Lord. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ROM.16.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Salute Urbane, our helper in Christ, and Stachys my beloved. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ROM.16.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Salute Apelles approved in Christ. Salute them which are of Aristobulus' </span><span class="add"><span class="content">household</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ROM.16.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Salute Herodion my kinsman. Greet them that be of the </span><span class="add"><span class="content">household</span></span><span class="content"> of Narcissus, which are in the Lord. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ROM.16.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Salute Tryphena and Tryphosa, who labour in the Lord. Salute the beloved Persis, which laboured much in the Lord. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ROM.16.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Salute Rufus chosen in the Lord, and his mother and mine. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ROM.16.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Salute Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermas, Patrobas, Hermes, and the brethren which are with them. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ROM.16.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Salute Philologus, and Julia, Nereus, and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints which are with them. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ROM.16.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Salute one another with an holy kiss. The churches of Christ salute you.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ROM.16.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ROM.16.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ROM.16.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ROM.16.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">For your obedience is come abroad unto all </span><span class="add"><span class="content">men</span></span><span class="content">. I am glad therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple concerning evil. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ROM.16.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ROM.16.20"><span class="content">The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ </span><span class="add"><span class="content">be</span></span><span class="content"> with you. Amen.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ROM.16.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ROM.16.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Timotheus my workfellow, and Lucius, and Jason, and Sosipater, my kinsmen, salute you. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ROM.16.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">I Tertius, who wrote </span><span class="add"><span class="content">this</span></span><span class="content"> epistle, salute you in the Lord. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ROM.16.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Gaius mine host, and of the whole church, saluteth you. Erastus the chamberlain of the city saluteth you, and Quartus a brother. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ROM.16.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ </span><span class="add"><span class="content">be</span></span><span class="content"> with you all. Amen.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ROM.16.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ROM.16.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began, </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ROM.16.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">but now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith: </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ROM.16.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">to God only wise, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">be</span></span><span class="content"> glory through Jesus Christ for ever. Amen.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="iex"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ROM.16.27"><span class="content">Written to the Romans from Corinthus, and sent by Phebe servant of the church at Cenchrea.</span></span></div>
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