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         <div class="label">5</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.5.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Call now, if there be any that will answer thee;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.5.1"><span class="content">And to which of the saints wilt thou turn?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.5.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.5.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">For wrath killeth the foolish man,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.5.2"><span class="content">And envy slayeth the silly one.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.5.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.5.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">I have seen the foolish taking root:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.5.3"><span class="content">But suddenly I cursed his habitation.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.5.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.5.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">His children are far from safety,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.5.4"><span class="content">And they are crushed in the gate,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.5.4"><span class="content">Neither </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is there</span></span><span class="content"> any to deliver </span><span class="add"><span class="content">them</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.5.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.5.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Whose harvest the hungry eateth up,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.5.5"><span class="content">And taketh it even out of the thorns,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.5.5"><span class="content">And the robber swalloweth up their substance.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.5.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.5.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.5.6"><span class="content">Neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.5.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.5.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Yet man is born unto trouble,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.5.7"><span class="content">As the sparks fly upward.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.5.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.5.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">I would seek unto God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.5.8"><span class="content">And unto God would I commit my cause:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.5.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.5.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Which doeth great things and unsearchable;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.5.9"><span class="content">Marvellous things without number:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.5.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.5.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Who giveth rain upon the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.5.10"><span class="content">And sendeth waters upon the fields:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.5.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.5.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">To set up on high those that be low;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.5.11"><span class="content">That those which mourn may be exalted to safety.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.5.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.5.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">He disappointeth the devices of the crafty,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.5.12"><span class="content">So that their hands cannot perform </span><span class="add"><span class="content">their</span></span><span class="content"> enterprise.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.5.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.5.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">He taketh the wise in their own craftiness:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.5.13"><span class="content">And the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.5.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.5.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">They meet with darkness in the daytime,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.5.14"><span class="content">And grope in the noonday as in the night.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.5.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.5.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.5.15"><span class="content">And from the hand of the mighty.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.5.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.5.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">So the poor hath hope,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.5.16"><span class="content">And iniquity stoppeth her mouth.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.5.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.5.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Behold, happy </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> the man whom God correcteth:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.5.17"><span class="content">Therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.5.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.5.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">For he maketh sore, and bindeth up:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.5.18"><span class="content">He woundeth, and his hands make whole.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.5.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.5.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">He shall deliver thee in six troubles:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.5.19"><span class="content">Yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.5.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.5.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">In famine he shall redeem thee from death:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.5.20"><span class="content">And in war from the power of the sword.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.5.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.5.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.5.21"><span class="content">Neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.5.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.5.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.5.22"><span class="content">Neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.5.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.5.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.5.23"><span class="content">And the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.5.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.5.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle </span><span class="add"><span class="content">shall be</span></span><span class="content"> in peace;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.5.24"><span class="content">And thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.5.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.5.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Thou shalt know also that thy seed </span><span class="add"><span class="content">shall be</span></span><span class="content"> great,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.5.25"><span class="content">And thine offspring as the grass of the earth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.5.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.5.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Thou shalt come to </span><span class="add"><span class="content">thy</span></span><span class="content"> grave in a full age,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.5.26"><span class="content">Like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.5.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.5.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Lo this, we have searched it, so it </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.5.27"><span class="content">Hear it, and know thou </span><span class="add"><span class="content">it</span></span><span class="content"> for thy good.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">6</div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Job's Answer</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.6.1"><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.6.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.6.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Oh that my grief were throughly weighed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.6.2"><span class="content">And my calamity laid in the balances together!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.6.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.6.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.6.3"><span class="content">Therefore my words are swallowed up.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.6.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.6.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">For the arrows of the Almighty </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> within me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.6.4"><span class="content">The poison whereof drinketh up my spirit:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.6.4"><span class="content">The terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.6.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.6.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.6.5"><span class="content">Or loweth the ox over his fodder?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.6.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.6.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.6.6"><span class="content">Or is there </span><span class="add"><span class="content">any</span></span><span class="content"> taste in the white of an egg?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.6.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.6.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The things </span><span class="add"><span class="content">that</span></span><span class="content"> my soul refused to touch</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.6.7"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Are</span></span><span class="content"> as my sorrowful meat.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.6.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.6.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Oh that I might have my request;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.6.8"><span class="content">And that God would grant </span><span class="add"><span class="content">me</span></span><span class="content"> the thing that I long for!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.6.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.6.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Even that it would please God to destroy me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.6.9"><span class="content">That he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.6.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.6.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Then should I yet have comfort;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.6.10"><span class="content">Yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.6.10"><span class="content">For I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.6.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.6.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">What </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> my strength, that I should hope?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.6.11"><span class="content">And what </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> mine end, that I should prolong my life?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.6.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.6.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Is</span></span><span class="content"> my strength the strength of stones?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.6.12"><span class="content">Or </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> my flesh of brass?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.6.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.6.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Is</span></span><span class="content"> not my help in me?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.6.13"><span class="content">And is wisdom driven quite from me?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.6.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.6.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">To him that is afflicted pity </span><span class="add"><span class="content">should be shewed</span></span><span class="content"> from his friend;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.6.14"><span class="content">But he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.6.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.6.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.6.15"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> as the stream of brooks they pass away;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.6.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.6.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Which are blackish by reason of the ice,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.6.16"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> wherein the snow is hid:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.6.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.6.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">What time they wax warm, they vanish:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.6.17"><span class="content">When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.6.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.6.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">The paths of their way are turned aside;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.6.18"><span class="content">They go to nothing, and perish.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.6.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.6.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The troops of Tema looked,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.6.19"><span class="content">The companies of Sheba waited for them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.6.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.6.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">They were confounded because they had hoped;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.6.20"><span class="content">They came thither, and were ashamed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.6.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.6.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">For now ye are nothing;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.6.21"><span class="content">Ye see </span><span class="add"><span class="content">my</span></span><span class="content"> casting down, and are afraid.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.6.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.6.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Did I say, Bring unto me?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.6.22"><span class="content">Or, Give a reward for me of your substance?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.6.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.6.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Or, Deliver me from the enemy's hand?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.6.23"><span class="content">Or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.6.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.6.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Teach me, and I will hold my tongue:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.6.24"><span class="content">And cause me to understand wherein I have erred.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.6.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.6.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">How forcible are right words!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.6.25"><span class="content">But what doth your arguing reprove?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.6.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.6.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Do ye imagine to reprove words,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.6.26"><span class="content">And the speeches of one that is desperate, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">which are</span></span><span class="content"> as wind?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.6.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.6.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.6.27"><span class="content">And ye dig </span><span class="add"><span class="content">a pit</span></span><span class="content"> for your friend.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.6.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.6.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Now therefore be content, look upon me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.6.28"><span class="content">For </span><span class="add"><span class="content">it is</span></span><span class="content"> evident unto you if I lie.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.6.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.6.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.6.29"><span class="content">Yea, return again, my righteousness </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> in it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.6.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.6.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Is there iniquity in my tongue?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.6.30"><span class="content">Cannot my taste discern perverse things?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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         <div class="label">7</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.7.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Is there</span></span><span class="content"> not an appointed time to man upon earth?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.7.1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Are not</span></span><span class="content"> his days also like the days of an hireling?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.7.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.7.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.7.2"><span class="content">And as an hireling looketh for </span><span class="add"><span class="content">the reward of</span></span><span class="content"> his work:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.7.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.7.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">So am I made to possess months of vanity,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.7.3"><span class="content">And wearisome nights are appointed to me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.7.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.7.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">When I lie down, I say,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.7.4"><span class="content">When shall I arise, and the night be gone?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.7.4"><span class="content">And I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.7.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.7.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.7.5"><span class="content">My skin is broken, and become loathsome.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.7.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.7.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.7.6"><span class="content">And are spent without hope.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.7.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.7.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">O remember that my life </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> wind:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.7.7"><span class="content">Mine eye shall no more see good.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.7.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.7.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no </span><span class="add"><span class="content">more:</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.7.8"><span class="content">Thine eyes </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> upon me, and I </span><span class="add"><span class="content">am</span></span><span class="content"> not.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.7.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.7.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">As</span></span><span class="content"> the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.7.9"><span class="content">So he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no </span><span class="add"><span class="content">more</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.7.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.7.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">He shall return no more to his house,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.7.10"><span class="content">Neither shall his place know him any more.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.7.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.7.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Therefore I will not refrain my mouth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.7.11"><span class="content">I will speak in the anguish of my spirit;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.7.11"><span class="content">I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.7.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.7.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Am</span></span><span class="content"> I a sea, or a whale,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.7.12"><span class="content">That thou settest a watch over me?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.7.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.7.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">When I say, My bed shall comfort me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.7.13"><span class="content">My couch shall ease my complaint;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.7.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.7.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Then thou scarest me with dreams,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.7.14"><span class="content">And terrifiest me through visions:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.7.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.7.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">So that my soul chooseth strangling,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.7.15"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> death rather than my life.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.7.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.7.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">I loathe </span><span class="add"><span class="content">it</span></span><span class="content">; I would not live alway:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.7.16"><span class="content">Let me alone; for my days </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> vanity.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.7.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.7.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">What </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> man, that thou shouldest magnify him?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.7.17"><span class="content">And that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.7.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.7.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">And </span><span class="add"><span class="content">that</span></span><span class="content"> thou shouldest visit him every morning,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.7.18"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> try him every moment?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.7.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.7.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">How long wilt thou not depart from me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.7.19"><span class="content">Nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.7.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.7.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.7.20"><span class="content">Why hast thou set me as a mark against thee,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.7.20"><span class="content">So that I am a burden to myself?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.7.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.7.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">And why dost thou not pardon my transgression,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.7.21"><span class="content">And take away mine iniquity?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.7.21"><span class="content">For now shall I sleep in the dust;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.7.21"><span class="content">And thou shalt seek me in the morning,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.7.21"><span class="content">but I </span><span class="add"><span class="content">shall</span></span><span class="content"> not </span><span class="add"><span class="content">be</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">8</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.8.1"><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.8.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.8.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">How long wilt thou speak these </span><span class="add"><span class="content">things?</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.8.2"><span class="content">And </span><span class="add"><span class="content">how long shall</span></span><span class="content"> the words of thy mouth </span><span class="add"><span class="content">be like</span></span><span class="content"> a strong wind?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.8.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.8.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Doth God pervert judgment?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.8.3"><span class="content">Or doth the Almighty pervert justice?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.8.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.8.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">If thy children have sinned against him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.8.4"><span class="content">And he have cast them away for their transgression;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.8.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.8.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.8.5"><span class="content">And make thy supplication to the Almighty;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.8.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.8.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">If thou </span><span class="add"><span class="content">wert</span></span><span class="content"> pure and upright;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.8.6"><span class="content">Surely now he would awake for thee,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.8.6"><span class="content">And make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.8.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.8.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Though thy beginning was small,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.8.7"><span class="content">Yet thy latter end should greatly increase.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.8.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.8.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.8.8"><span class="content">And prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.8.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.8.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">(For we </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are but of</span></span><span class="content"> yesterday, and know nothing,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.8.9"><span class="content">Because our days upon earth </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> a shadow:)</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.8.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.8.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Shall not they teach thee, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> tell thee,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.8.10"><span class="content">And utter words out of their heart?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.8.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.8.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Can the rush grow up without mire?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.8.11"><span class="content">Can the flag grow without water?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.8.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.8.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Whilst it </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> yet in his greenness, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> not cut down,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.8.12"><span class="content">It withereth before any </span><span class="add"><span class="content">other</span></span><span class="content"> herb.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.8.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.8.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">So </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> the paths of all that forget God;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.8.13"><span class="content">And the hypocrite's hope shall perish:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.8.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.8.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Whose hope shall be cut off,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.8.14"><span class="content">And whose trust </span><span class="add"><span class="content">shall be</span></span><span class="content"> a spider's web.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.8.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.8.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.8.15"><span class="content">He shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.8.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.8.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">He </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> green before the sun,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.8.16"><span class="content">And his branch shooteth forth in his garden.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.8.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.8.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">His roots are wrapped about the heap,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.8.17"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> seeth the place of stones.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.8.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.8.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">If he destroy him from his place,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.8.18"><span class="content">Then </span><span class="add"><span class="content">it</span></span><span class="content"> shall deny him, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">saying</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.8.18"><span class="content">I have not seen thee.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.8.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.8.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Behold, this </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> the joy of his way,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.8.19"><span class="content">And out of the earth shall others grow.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.8.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.8.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.8.20"><span class="content">Neither will he help the evil doers:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.8.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.8.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Till he fill thy mouth with laughing,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.8.21"><span class="content">And thy lips with rejoicing.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.8.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.8.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.8.22"><span class="content">And the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.</span></span></div>
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