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         <div class="label">1</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name </span><span class="add"><span class="content">was</span></span><span class="content"> Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">And his sons went and feasted </span><span class="add"><span class="content">in their</span></span><span class="content"> houses, every one his day; and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">And it was so, when the days of </span><span class="add"><span class="content">their</span></span><span class="content"> feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings </span><span class="add"><span class="content">according</span></span><span class="content"> to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Job's Character</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.1.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">, and Satan came also among them. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">And the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">And the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that </span><span class="add"><span class="content">there is</span></span><span class="content"> none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Then Satan answered the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought? </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.1.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">And the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">His Afflictions</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.1.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.1.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">And there was a day when his sons and his daughters </span><span class="add"><span class="content">were</span></span><span class="content"> eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house: </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.1.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">and there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them: </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.1.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">and the Sabeans fell </span><span class="add"><span class="content">upon them</span></span><span class="content">, and took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.1.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.1.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have carried them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.1.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy sons and thy daughters </span><span class="add"><span class="content">were</span></span><span class="content"> eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house: </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.1.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">and, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.1.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.1.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped, </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.1.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">and said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> gave, and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> hath taken away; blessed be the name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.1.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">2</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.2.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">, and Satan came also among them to present himself before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.2.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">And the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> said unto Satan, From whence comest thou? And Satan answered the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.2.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">And the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that </span><span class="add"><span class="content">there is</span></span><span class="content"> none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? and still he holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.2.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">And Satan answered the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.2.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.2.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">And the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> said unto Satan, Behold, he </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> in thine hand; but save his life.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.2.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.2.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">So went Satan forth from the presence of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.2.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.2.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.2.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">His Friends</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.2.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.2.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.2.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.2.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that </span><span class="add"><span class="content">his</span></span><span class="content"> grief was very great.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">3</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Debate</span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Job's Outburst</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">And Job spake, and said,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.3.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Let the day perish wherein I was born,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.3.3"><span class="content">And the night </span><span class="add"><span class="content">in which</span></span><span class="content"> it was said,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.3.3"><span class="content">There is a man child conceived.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.3.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Let that day be darkness;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.3.4"><span class="content">Let not God regard it from above,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.3.4"><span class="content">Neither let the light shine upon it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.3.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.3.5"><span class="content">Let a cloud dwell upon it;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.3.5"><span class="content">Let the blackness of the day terrify it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.3.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">As for</span></span><span class="content"> that night, let darkness seize upon it;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.3.6"><span class="content">Let it not be joined unto the days of the year,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.3.6"><span class="content">Let it not come into the number of the months.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.3.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Lo, let that night be solitary,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.3.7"><span class="content">Let no joyful voice come therein.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.3.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Let them curse it that curse the day,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.3.8"><span class="content">Who are ready to raise up their mourning.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.3.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.3.9"><span class="content">Let it look for light, but </span><span class="add"><span class="content">have</span></span><span class="content"> none;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.3.9"><span class="content">Neither let it see the dawning of the day:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.3.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Because it shut not up the doors of my </span><span class="add"><span class="content">mother's</span></span><span class="content"> womb,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.3.10"><span class="content">Nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.3.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Why died I not from the womb?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.3.11"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Why</span></span><span class="content"> did I </span><span class="add"><span class="content">not</span></span><span class="content"> give up the ghost</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.3.11"><span class="content">When I came out of the belly?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.3.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.3.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Why did the knees prevent me?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.3.12"><span class="content">Or why the breasts that I should suck?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.3.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.3.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">For now should I have lain still and been quiet,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.3.13"><span class="content">I should have slept: then had I been at rest,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.3.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.3.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">With kings and counsellors of the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.3.14"><span class="content">Which built desolate places for themselves;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.3.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.3.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Or with princes that had gold,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.3.15"><span class="content">Who filled their houses with silver:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.3.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.3.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.3.16"><span class="content">As infants </span><span class="add"><span class="content">which</span></span><span class="content"> never saw light.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.3.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.3.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">There the wicked cease </span><span class="add"><span class="content">from</span></span><span class="content"> troubling;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.3.17"><span class="content">And there the weary be at rest.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.3.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.3.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">There</span></span><span class="content"> the prisoners rest together;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.3.18"><span class="content">They hear not the voice of the oppressor.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.3.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.3.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The small and great are there;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.3.19"><span class="content">And the servant </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> free from his master.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.3.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.3.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.3.20"><span class="content">And life unto the bitter </span><span class="add"><span class="content">in</span></span><span class="content"> soul;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.3.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.3.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Which long for death, but it </span><span class="add"><span class="content">cometh</span></span><span class="content"> not;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.3.21"><span class="content">And dig for it more than for hid treasures;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.3.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.3.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Which rejoice exceedingly,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.3.22"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> are glad, when they can find the grave?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.3.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.3.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Why is light given</span></span><span class="content"> to a man whose way is hid,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.3.23"><span class="content">And whom God hath hedged in?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.3.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.3.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">For my sighing cometh before I eat,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.3.24"><span class="content">And my roarings are poured out like the waters.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.3.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.3.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.3.25"><span class="content">And that which I was afraid of is come unto me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.3.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.3.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.3.26"><span class="content">Yet trouble came.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">4</div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Eliphaz Speaks</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.4.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.4.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.4.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">If</span></span><span class="content"> we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.4.2"><span class="content">But who can withhold himself from speaking?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.4.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.4.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Behold, thou hast instructed many,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.4.3"><span class="content">And thou hast strengthened the weak hands.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.4.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.4.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Thy words have upholden him that was falling,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.4.4"><span class="content">And thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.4.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.4.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.4.5"><span class="content">It toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.4.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.4.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Is</span></span><span class="content"> not </span><span class="add"><span class="content">this</span></span><span class="content"> thy fear, thy confidence,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.4.6"><span class="content">Thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.4.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.4.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Remember, I pray thee, who </span><span class="add"><span class="content">ever</span></span><span class="content"> perished, being innocent?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.4.7"><span class="content">Or where were the righteous cut off?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.4.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.4.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.4.8"><span class="content">And sow wickedness, reap the same.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.4.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.4.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">By the blast of God they perish,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.4.9"><span class="content">And by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.4.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.4.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.4.10"><span class="content">And the teeth of the young lions, are broken.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.4.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.4.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The old lion perisheth for lack of prey,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.4.11"><span class="content">And the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.4.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.4.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Now a thing was secretly brought to me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.4.12"><span class="content">And mine ear received a little thereof.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.4.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.4.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">In thoughts from the visions of the night,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.4.13"><span class="content">When deep sleep falleth on men,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.4.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.4.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Fear came upon me, and trembling,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.4.14"><span class="content">Which made all my bones to shake.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.4.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.4.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Then a spirit passed before my face;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.4.15"><span class="content">The hair of my flesh stood up:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.4.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.4.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">It stood still,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.4.16"><span class="content">But I could not discern the form thereof:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.4.16"><span class="content">An image </span><span class="add"><span class="content">was</span></span><span class="content"> before mine eyes,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.4.16"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">There was</span></span><span class="content"> silence, and I heard a voice, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">saying</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.4.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.4.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Shall mortal man be more just than God?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.4.17"><span class="content">Shall a man be more pure than his maker?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.4.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.4.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Behold, he put no trust in his servants;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.4.18"><span class="content">And his angels he charged with folly:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.4.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.4.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">How much less </span><span class="add"><span class="content">in</span></span><span class="content"> them that dwell in houses of clay,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.4.19"><span class="content">Whose foundation </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> in the dust,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.4.19"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Which</span></span><span class="content"> are crushed before the moth?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.4.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.4.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">They are destroyed from morning to evening:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.4.20"><span class="content">They perish for ever without any regarding </span><span class="add"><span class="content">it</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.4.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.4.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Doth not their excellency </span><span class="add"><span class="content">which is</span></span><span class="content"> in them go away?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.4.21"><span class="content">They die, even without wisdom.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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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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