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   <div class="book bkPRO">
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         <div class="label">5</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Warning Against Adultery</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.5.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">My son, pay attention to my wisdom,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.5.1"><span class="content">turn your ear to my words of insight,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.5.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.5.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">that you may maintain discretion</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.5.2"><span class="content">and your lips may preserve knowledge.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.5.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.5.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">For the lips of the adulterous woman drip honey,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.5.3"><span class="content">and her speech is smoother than oil;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.5.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.5.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">but in the end she is bitter as gall,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.5.4"><span class="content">sharp as a double-edged sword.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.5.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.5.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Her feet go down to death;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.5.5"><span class="content">her steps lead straight to the grave.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.5.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.5.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">She gives no thought to the way of life;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.5.6"><span class="content">her paths wander aimlessly, but she does not know it.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.5.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.5.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Now then, my sons, listen to me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.5.7"><span class="content">do not turn aside from what I say.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.5.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.5.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Keep to a path far from her,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.5.8"><span class="content">do not go near the door of her house,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.5.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.5.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">lest you lose your honor to others</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.5.9"><span class="content">and your dignity</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">5:9 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">years</span></span></span><span class="content"> to one who is cruel,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.5.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.5.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">lest strangers feast on your wealth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.5.10"><span class="content">and your toil enrich the house of another.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.5.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.5.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">At the end of your life you will groan,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.5.11"><span class="content">when your flesh and body are spent.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.5.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.5.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">You will say, &#8220;How I hated discipline!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.5.12"><span class="content">How my heart spurned correction!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.5.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.5.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">I would not obey my teachers</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.5.13"><span class="content">or turn my ear to my instructors.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.5.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.5.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">And I was soon in serious trouble</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.5.14"><span class="content">in the assembly of God&#8217;s people.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.5.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.5.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Drink water from your own cistern,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.5.15"><span class="content">running water from your own well.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.5.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.5.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Should your springs overflow in the streets,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.5.16"><span class="content">your streams of water in the public squares?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.5.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.5.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Let them be yours alone,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.5.17"><span class="content">never to be shared with strangers.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.5.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.5.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">May your fountain be blessed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.5.18"><span class="content">and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.5.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.5.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">A loving doe, a graceful deer&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.5.19"><span class="content">may her breasts satisfy you always,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.5.19"><span class="content">may you ever be intoxicated with her love.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.5.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.5.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Why, my son, be intoxicated with another man&#8217;s wife?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.5.20"><span class="content">Why embrace the bosom of a wayward woman?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.5.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.5.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">For your ways are in full view of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.5.21"><span class="content">and he examines all your paths.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.5.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.5.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.5.22"><span class="content">the cords of their sins hold them fast.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.5.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.5.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">For lack of discipline they will die,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.5.23"><span class="content">led astray by their own great folly.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">91</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 91</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.91.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.91.1"><span class="content">will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">91:1 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Shaddai</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.91.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.91.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">I will say of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;He is my refuge and my fortress,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.91.2"><span class="content">my God, in whom I trust.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.91.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.91.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Surely he will save you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.91.3"><span class="content">from the fowler&#8217;s snare</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.91.3"><span class="content">and from the deadly pestilence.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.91.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.91.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">He will cover you with his feathers,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.91.4"><span class="content">and under his wings you will find refuge;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.91.4"><span class="content">his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.91.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.91.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">You will not fear the terror of night,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.91.5"><span class="content">nor the arrow that flies by day,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.91.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.91.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.91.6"><span class="content">nor the plague that destroys at midday.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.91.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.91.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">A thousand may fall at your side,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.91.7"><span class="content">ten thousand at your right hand,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.91.7"><span class="content">but it will not come near you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.91.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.91.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">You will only observe with your eyes</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.91.8"><span class="content">and see the punishment of the wicked.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.91.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.91.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">If you say, &#8220;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is my refuge,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.91.9"><span class="content">and you make the Most High your dwelling,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.91.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.91.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">no harm will overtake you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.91.10"><span class="content">no disaster will come near your tent.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.91.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.91.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">For he will command his angels concerning you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.91.11"><span class="content">to guard you in all your ways;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.91.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.91.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">they will lift you up in their hands,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.91.12"><span class="content">so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.91.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.91.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">You will tread on the lion and the cobra;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.91.13"><span class="content">you will trample the great lion and the serpent.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.91.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.91.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;Because he</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">91:14 </span><span class="ft">That is, probably the king</span></span></span><span class="content"> loves me,&#8221; says the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;I will rescue him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.91.14"><span class="content">I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.91.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.91.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">He will call on me, and I will answer him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.91.15"><span class="content">I will be with him in trouble,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.91.15"><span class="content">I will deliver him and honor him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.91.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.91.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">With long life I will satisfy him</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.91.16"><span class="content">and show him my salvation.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">6</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Seals</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="REV.6.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">I watched as the Lamb opened the first of the seven seals. Then I heard one of the four living creatures say in a voice like thunder, &#8220;Come!&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="REV.6.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">I looked, and there before me was a white horse! Its rider held a bow, and he was given a crown, and he rode out as a conqueror bent on conquest.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="REV.6.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="REV.6.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">When the Lamb opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, &#8220;Come!&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="REV.6.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Then another horse came out, a fiery red one. Its rider was given power to take peace from the earth and to make people kill each other. To him was given a large sword.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="REV.6.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="REV.6.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">When the Lamb opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, &#8220;Come!&#8221; I looked, and there before me was a black horse! Its rider was holding a pair of scales in his hand. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="REV.6.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Then I heard what sounded like a voice among the four living creatures, saying, &#8220;Two pounds</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:6 </span><span class="ft">Or about 1 kilogram</span></span></span><span class="content"> of wheat for a day&#8217;s wages,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:6 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="fqa">a denarius</span></span></span><span class="content"> and six pounds</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:6 </span><span class="ft">Or about 3 kilograms</span></span></span><span class="content"> of barley for a day&#8217;s wages,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:6 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="fqa">a denarius</span></span></span><span class="content"> and do not damage the oil and the wine!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="REV.6.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="REV.6.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">When the Lamb opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, &#8220;Come!&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="REV.6.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="REV.6.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="REV.6.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God and the testimony they had maintained. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="REV.6.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">They called out in a loud voice, &#8220;How long, Sovereign Lord, holy and true, until you judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood?&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="REV.6.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Then each of them was given a white robe, and they were told to wait a little longer, until the full number of their fellow servants, their brothers and sisters,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:11 </span><span class="ft">The Greek word for </span><span class="fq">brothers and sisters </span><span class="ft">(<span class="tl">adelphoi</span>) refers here to believers, both men and women, as part of God&#8217;s family; also in 12:10; 19:10.</span></span></span><span class="content"> were killed just as they had been.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="REV.6.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.6.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">I watched as he opened the sixth seal. There was a great earthquake. The sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red, </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="REV.6.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">and the stars in the sky fell to earth, as figs drop from a fig tree when shaken by a strong wind. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="REV.6.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The heavens receded like a scroll being rolled up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="REV.6.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="REV.6.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Then the kings of the earth, the princes, the generals, the rich, the mighty, and everyone else, both slave and free, hid in caves and among the rocks of the mountains. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="REV.6.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">They called to the mountains and the rocks, &#8220;Fall on us and hide us</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:16 </span><span class="ft">See <span class="ref" data-usfm="HOS.10.8">Hosea 10:8</span>.</span></span></span><span class="content"> from the face of him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="REV.6.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">For the great day of their</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:17 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">his</span></span></span><span class="content"> wrath has come, and who can withstand it?&#8221;</span></span></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">&#8220;Call if you will, but who will answer you?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.5.1"><span class="content">To which of the holy ones will you 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">Resentment kills a fool,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.5.2"><span class="content">and envy slays the simple.</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 myself have seen a fool taking root,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.5.3"><span class="content">but suddenly his house was cursed.</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">crushed in court without a defender.</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">The hungry consume his harvest,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.5.5"><span class="content">taking it even from among thorns,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.5.5"><span class="content">and the thirsty pant after his wealth.</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">For hardship does not spring from the soil,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.5.6"><span class="content">nor does trouble sprout from 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 to trouble</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.5.7"><span class="content">as surely as 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">&#8220;But if I were you, I would appeal to God;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.5.8"><span class="content">I would lay my cause before him.</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">He performs wonders that cannot be fathomed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.5.9"><span class="content">miracles that cannot be counted.</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">He provides rain for the earth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.5.10"><span class="content">he sends water on the countryside.</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">The lowly he sets on high,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.5.11"><span class="content">and those who mourn are lifted 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 thwarts the plans of the crafty,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.5.12"><span class="content">so that their hands achieve no success.</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 catches the wise in their craftiness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.5.13"><span class="content">and the schemes of the wily are swept away.</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">Darkness comes upon them in the daytime;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.5.14"><span class="content">at noon they grope 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">He saves the needy from the sword in their mouth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.5.15"><span class="content">he saves them from the clutches of the powerful.</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 have hope,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.5.16"><span class="content">and injustice shuts its 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">&#8220;Blessed is the one whom God corrects;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.5.17"><span class="content">so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">5:17 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Shaddai</span><span class="ft">; here and throughout Job</span></span></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 wounds, but he also binds up;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.5.18"><span class="content">he injures, but his hands also heal.</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">From six calamities he will rescue you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.5.19"><span class="content">in seven no harm will touch you.</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 will deliver you from death,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.5.20"><span class="content">and in battle from the stroke 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">You will be protected from the lash of the tongue,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.5.21"><span class="content">and need not fear when destruction comes.</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">You will laugh at destruction and famine,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.5.22"><span class="content">and need not fear the wild animals.</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 you will have a covenant 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 wild animals will be at peace with you.</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">You will know that your tent is secure;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.5.24"><span class="content">you will take stock of your property and find nothing missing.</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">You will know that your children will be many,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.5.25"><span class="content">and your descendants like 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">You will come to the grave in full vigor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.5.26"><span class="content">like sheaves gathered in season.</span></span></div><div class="b"></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">&#8220;We have examined this, and it is true.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.5.27"><span class="content">So hear it and apply it to yourself.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">6</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Job</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">Then Job replied:</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">&#8220;If only my anguish could be weighed</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.6.2"><span class="content">and all my misery be placed on the scales!</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">It would surely outweigh the sand of the seas&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.6.3"><span class="content">no wonder my words have been impetuous.</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">The arrows of the Almighty are in me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.6.4"><span class="content">my spirit drinks in their poison;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.6.4"><span class="content">God&#8217;s terrors are marshaled 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">Does a wild donkey bray when it has grass,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.6.5"><span class="content">or an ox bellow when it has 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">Is tasteless food eaten without salt,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.6.6"><span class="content">or is there flavor in the sap of the mallow</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:6 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content">?</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">I refuse to touch it;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.6.7"><span class="content">such food makes me ill.</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">&#8220;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">that God would grant what I hope 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">that God would be willing to crush me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.6.9"><span class="content">to let loose his hand and cut off my life!</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 I would still have this consolation&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.6.10"><span class="content">my joy in unrelenting pain&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.6.10"><span class="content">that I had not denied the words of the Holy One.</span></span></div><div class="b"></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">&#8220;What strength do I have, that I should still hope?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.6.11"><span class="content">What prospects, that I should be patient?</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">Do I have the strength of stone?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.6.12"><span class="content">Is my flesh bronze?</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">Do I have any power to help myself,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.6.13"><span class="content">now that success has been driven 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">&#8220;Anyone who withholds kindness from a friend</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.6.14"><span class="content">forsakes 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">But my brothers are as undependable as intermittent streams,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.6.15"><span class="content">as the streams that overflow</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">when darkened by thawing ice</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.6.16"><span class="content">and swollen with melting snow,</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">but that stop flowing in the dry season,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.6.17"><span class="content">and in the heat vanish from their channels.</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">Caravans turn aside from their routes;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.6.18"><span class="content">they go off into the wasteland 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 caravans of Tema look for water,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.6.19"><span class="content">the traveling merchants of Sheba look in hope.</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 are distressed, because they had been confident;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.6.20"><span class="content">they arrive there, only to be disappointed.</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">Now you too have proved to be of no help;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.6.21"><span class="content">you see something dreadful 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">Have I ever said, &#8216;Give something on my behalf,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.6.22"><span class="content">pay a ransom for me from your wealth,</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">deliver me from the hand of the enemy,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.6.23"><span class="content">rescue me from the clutches of the ruthless&#8217;?</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">&#8220;Teach me, and I will be quiet;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.6.24"><span class="content">show me where I have been wrong.</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 painful are honest words!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.6.25"><span class="content">But what do your arguments prove?</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 you mean to correct what I say,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.6.26"><span class="content">and treat my desperate words 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">You would even cast lots for the fatherless</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.6.27"><span class="content">and barter away 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">&#8220;But now be so kind as to look at me.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.6.28"><span class="content">Would I lie to your face?</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">Relent, do not be unjust;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.6.29"><span class="content">reconsider, for my integrity is at stake.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:29 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">my righteousness still stands</span></span></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 any wickedness on my lips?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.6.30"><span class="content">Can my mouth not discern malice?</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">&#8220;Do not mortals have hard service on earth?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.7.1"><span class="content">Are not their days like those of hired laborers?</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">Like a slave longing for the evening shadows,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.7.2"><span class="content">or a hired laborer waiting to be paid,</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 I have been allotted months of futility,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.7.3"><span class="content">and nights of misery have been assigned 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 think, &#8216;How long before I get up?&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.7.4"><span class="content">The night drags on, and I toss and turn until dawn.</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 body is clothed with worms and scabs,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.7.5"><span class="content">my skin is broken and festering.</span></span></div><div class="b"></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">&#8220;My days are swifter than a weaver&#8217;s shuttle,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.7.6"><span class="content">and they come to an end without hope.</span></span></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">Remember, O God, that my life is but a breath;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.7.7"><span class="content">my eyes will never see happiness again.</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 that now sees me will see me no longer;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.7.8"><span class="content">you will look for me, but I will be no more.</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">As a cloud vanishes and is gone,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.7.9"><span class="content">so one who goes down to the grave does not return.</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 will never come to his house again;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.7.10"><span class="content">his place will know him no 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">&#8220;Therefore I will not keep silent;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.7.11"><span class="content">I will speak out 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">Am I the sea, or the monster of the deep,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.7.12"><span class="content">that you put me under guard?</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 think my bed will comfort me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.7.13"><span class="content">and my couch will 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">even then you frighten me with dreams</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.7.14"><span class="content">and terrify me with 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 I prefer strangling and death,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.7.15"><span class="content">rather than this body of mine.</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 despise my life; I would not live forever.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.7.16"><span class="content">Let me alone; my days have no meaning.</span></span></div><div class="b"></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">&#8220;What is mankind that you make so much of them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.7.17"><span class="content">that you give them so much attention,</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">that you examine them every morning</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.7.18"><span class="content">and test them 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">Will you never look away from me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.7.19"><span class="content">or let me alone even for an instant?</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">If I have sinned, what have I done to you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.7.20"><span class="content">you who see everything we do?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.7.20"><span class="content">Why have you made me your target?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.7.20"><span class="content">Have I become a burden to you?</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:20 </span><span class="ft">A few manuscripts of the Masoretic Text, an ancient Hebrew scribal tradition and Septuagint; most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">I have become a burden to myself.</span></span></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">Why do you not pardon my offenses</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.7.21"><span class="content">and forgive my sins?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.7.21"><span class="content">For I will soon lie down in the dust;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.7.21"><span class="content">you will search for me, but I will be no more.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">8</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Bildad</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 Bildad the Shuhite replied:</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">&#8220;How long will you say such things?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.8.2"><span class="content">Your words are a blustering 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">Does God pervert justice?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.8.3"><span class="content">Does the Almighty pervert what is right?</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">When your children sinned against him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.8.4"><span class="content">he gave them over to the penalty of their sin.</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">But if you will seek God earnestly</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.8.5"><span class="content">and plead with 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 you are pure and upright,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.8.6"><span class="content">even now he will rouse himself on your behalf</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.8.6"><span class="content">and restore you to your prosperous state.</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">Your beginnings will seem humble,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.8.7"><span class="content">so prosperous will your future be.</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">&#8220;Ask the former generation</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.8.8"><span class="content">and find out what their ancestors learned,</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 were born only yesterday and know nothing,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.8.9"><span class="content">and our days on earth are but 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">Will they not instruct you and tell you?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.8.10"><span class="content">Will they not bring forth words from their understanding?</span></span></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 papyrus grow tall where there is no marsh?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.8.11"><span class="content">Can reeds thrive 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">While still growing and uncut,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.8.12"><span class="content">they wither more quickly than grass.</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">Such is the destiny of all who forget God;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.8.13"><span class="content">so perishes the hope of the godless.</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">What they trust in is fragile</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:14 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.8.14"><span class="content">what they rely on is a spider&#8217;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">They lean on the web, but it gives way;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.8.15"><span class="content">they cling to it, but it does not hold.</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">They are like a well-watered plant in the sunshine,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.8.16"><span class="content">spreading its shoots over the 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">it entwines its roots around a pile of rocks</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.8.17"><span class="content">and looks for a place among the 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">But when it is torn from its spot,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.8.18"><span class="content">that place disowns it and says, &#8216;I never saw you.&#8217;</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">Surely its life withers away,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.8.19"><span class="content">and</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:19 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Surely all the joy it has / is that</span></span></span><span class="content"> from the soil other plants 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">&#8220;Surely God does not reject one who is blameless</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.8.20"><span class="content">or strengthen the hands of evildoers.</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">He will yet fill your mouth with laughter</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.8.21"><span class="content">and your lips with shouts of joy.</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">Your enemies will be clothed in shame,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.8.22"><span class="content">and the tents of the wicked will be no more.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">9</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Job</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.9.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then Job replied:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.9.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.9.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Indeed, I know that this is true.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.9.2"><span class="content">But how can mere mortals prove their innocence before God?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.9.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.9.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Though they wished to dispute with him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.9.3"><span class="content">they could not answer him one time out of a thousand.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.9.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.9.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">His wisdom is profound, his power is vast.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.9.4"><span class="content">Who has resisted him and come out unscathed?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.9.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.9.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">He moves mountains without their knowing it</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.9.5"><span class="content">and overturns them in his anger.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.9.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.9.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">He shakes the earth from its place</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.9.6"><span class="content">and makes its pillars tremble.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.9.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.9.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">He speaks to the sun and it does not shine;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.9.7"><span class="content">he seals off the light of the stars.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.9.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.9.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">He alone stretches out the heavens</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.9.8"><span class="content">and treads on the waves of the sea.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.9.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.9.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">He is the Maker of the Bear</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:9 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">of Leo</span></span></span><span class="content"> and Orion,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.9.9"><span class="content">the Pleiades and the constellations of the south.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.9.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.9.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">He performs wonders that cannot be fathomed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.9.10"><span class="content">miracles that cannot be counted.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.9.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.9.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">When he passes me, I cannot see him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.9.11"><span class="content">when he goes by, I cannot perceive him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.9.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.9.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">If he snatches away, who can stop him?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.9.12"><span class="content">Who can say to him, &#8216;What are you doing?&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.9.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.9.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">God does not restrain his anger;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.9.13"><span class="content">even the cohorts of Rahab cowered at his feet.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.9.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.9.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;How then can I dispute with him?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.9.14"><span class="content">How can I find words to argue with him?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.9.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.9.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Though I were innocent, I could not answer him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.9.15"><span class="content">I could only plead with my Judge for mercy.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.9.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.9.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Even if I summoned him and he responded,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.9.16"><span class="content">I do not believe he would give me a hearing.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.9.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.9.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">He would crush me with a storm</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.9.17"><span class="content">and multiply my wounds for no reason.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.9.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.9.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">He would not let me catch my breath</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.9.18"><span class="content">but would overwhelm me with misery.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.9.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.9.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">If it is a matter of strength, he is mighty!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.9.19"><span class="content">And if it is a matter of justice, who can challenge him</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:19 </span><span class="ft">See Septuagint; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">me.</span></span></span><span class="content">?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.9.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.9.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Even if I were innocent, my mouth would condemn me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.9.20"><span class="content">if I were blameless, it would pronounce me guilty.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.9.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.9.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">&#8220;Although I am blameless,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.9.21"><span class="content">I have no concern for myself;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.9.21"><span class="content">I despise my own life.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.9.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.9.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">It is all the same; that is why I say,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.9.22"><span class="content">&#8216;He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.9.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.9.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">When a scourge brings sudden death,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.9.23"><span class="content">he mocks the despair of the innocent.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.9.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.9.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">When a land falls into the hands of the wicked,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.9.24"><span class="content">he blindfolds its judges.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.9.24"><span class="content">If it is not he, then who is it?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.9.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.9.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">&#8220;My days are swifter than a runner;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.9.25"><span class="content">they fly away without a glimpse of joy.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.9.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.9.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">They skim past like boats of papyrus,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.9.26"><span class="content">like eagles swooping down on their prey.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.9.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.9.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">If I say, &#8216;I will forget my complaint,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.9.27"><span class="content">I will change my expression, and smile,&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.9.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.9.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">I still dread all my sufferings,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.9.28"><span class="content">for I know you will not hold me innocent.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.9.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.9.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Since I am already found guilty,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.9.29"><span class="content">why should I struggle in vain?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.9.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.9.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Even if I washed myself with soap</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.9.30"><span class="content">and my hands with cleansing powder,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.9.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.9.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">you would plunge me into a slime pit</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.9.31"><span class="content">so that even my clothes would detest me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.9.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOB.9.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">&#8220;He is not a mere mortal like me that I might answer him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOB.9.32"><span class="content">that we might confront each other in court.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOB.9.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.9.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">If only there were someone to mediate between us,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.9.33"><span class="content">someone to bring us together,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.9.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JOB.9.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">someone to remove God&#8217;s rod from me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JOB.9.34"><span class="content">so that his terror would frighten me no more.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JOB.9.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JOB.9.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">Then I would speak up without fear of him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JOB.9.35"><span class="content">but as it now stands with me, I cannot.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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         <div class="label">10</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.10.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;I loathe my very life;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.10.1"><span class="content">therefore I will give free rein to my complaint</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.10.1"><span class="content">and speak out in the bitterness of my soul.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.10.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.10.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">I say to God: Do not declare me guilty,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.10.2"><span class="content">but tell me what charges you have against me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.10.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.10.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Does it please you to oppress me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.10.3"><span class="content">to spurn the work of your hands,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.10.3"><span class="content">while you smile on the plans of the wicked?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.10.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.10.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Do you have eyes of flesh?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.10.4"><span class="content">Do you see as a mortal sees?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.10.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.10.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Are your days like those of a mortal</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.10.5"><span class="content">or your years like those of a strong man,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.10.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.10.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">that you must search out my faults</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.10.6"><span class="content">and probe after my sin&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.10.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.10.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">though you know that I am not guilty</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.10.7"><span class="content">and that no one can rescue me from your hand?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.10.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.10.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;Your hands shaped me and made me.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.10.8"><span class="content">Will you now turn and destroy me?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.10.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.10.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Remember that you molded me like clay.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.10.9"><span class="content">Will you now turn me to dust again?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.10.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.10.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Did you not pour me out like milk</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.10.10"><span class="content">and curdle me like cheese,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.10.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.10.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">clothe me with skin and flesh</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.10.11"><span class="content">and knit me together with bones and sinews?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.10.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.10.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">You gave me life and showed me kindness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.10.12"><span class="content">and in your providence watched over my spirit.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.10.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.10.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;But this is what you concealed in your heart,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.10.13"><span class="content">and I know that this was in your mind:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.10.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.10.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">If I sinned, you would be watching me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.10.14"><span class="content">and would not let my offense go unpunished.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.10.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.10.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">If I am guilty&#8212;woe to me!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.10.15"><span class="content">Even if I am innocent, I cannot lift my head,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.10.15"><span class="content">for I am full of shame</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.10.15"><span class="content">and drowned in</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:15 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">and aware of</span></span></span><span class="content"> my affliction.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.10.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.10.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">If I hold my head high, you stalk me like a lion</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.10.16"><span class="content">and again display your awesome power against me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.10.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.10.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">You bring new witnesses against me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.10.17"><span class="content">and increase your anger toward me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.10.17"><span class="content">your forces come against me wave upon wave.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.10.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.10.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;Why then did you bring me out of the womb?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.10.18"><span class="content">I wish I had died before any eye saw me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.10.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.10.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">If only I had never come into being,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.10.19"><span class="content">or had been carried straight from the womb to the grave!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.10.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.10.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Are not my few days almost over?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.10.20"><span class="content">Turn away from me so I can have a moment&#8217;s joy</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.10.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.10.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">before I go to the place of no return,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.10.21"><span class="content">to the land of gloom and utter darkness,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.10.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.10.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">to the land of deepest night,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.10.22"><span class="content">of utter darkness and disorder,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.10.22"><span class="content">where even the light is like darkness.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch11" data-usfm="JOB.11">
         <div class="label">11</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Zophar</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.11.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.11.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.11.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Are all these words to go unanswered?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.11.2"><span class="content">Is this talker to be vindicated?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.11.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.11.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Will your idle talk reduce others to silence?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.11.3"><span class="content">Will no one rebuke you when you mock?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.11.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.11.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">You say to God, &#8216;My beliefs are flawless</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.11.4"><span class="content">and I am pure in your sight.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.11.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.11.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Oh, how I wish that God would speak,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.11.5"><span class="content">that he would open his lips against you</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.11.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.11.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">and disclose to you the secrets of wisdom,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.11.6"><span class="content">for true wisdom has two sides.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.11.6"><span class="content">Know this: God has even forgotten some of your sin.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.11.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.11.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;Can you fathom the mysteries of God?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.11.7"><span class="content">Can you probe the limits of the Almighty?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.11.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.11.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">They are higher than the heavens above&#8212;what can you do?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.11.8"><span class="content">They are deeper than the depths below&#8212;what can you know?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.11.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.11.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Their measure is longer than the earth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.11.9"><span class="content">and wider than the sea.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.11.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.11.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;If he comes along and confines you in prison</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.11.10"><span class="content">and convenes a court, who can oppose him?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.11.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.11.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Surely he recognizes deceivers;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.11.11"><span class="content">and when he sees evil, does he not take note?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.11.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.11.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">But the witless can no more become wise</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.11.12"><span class="content">than a wild donkey&#8217;s colt can be born human.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">11:12 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">wild donkey can be born tame</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.11.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.11.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;Yet if you devote your heart to him</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.11.13"><span class="content">and stretch out your hands to him,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.11.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.11.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">if you put away the sin that is in your hand</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.11.14"><span class="content">and allow no evil to dwell in your tent,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.11.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.11.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">then, free of fault, you will lift up your face;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.11.15"><span class="content">you will stand firm and without fear.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.11.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.11.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">You will surely forget your trouble,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.11.16"><span class="content">recalling it only as waters gone by.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.11.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.11.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Life will be brighter than noonday,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.11.17"><span class="content">and darkness will become like morning.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.11.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.11.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">You will be secure, because there is hope;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.11.18"><span class="content">you will look about you and take your rest in safety.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.11.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.11.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">You will lie down, with no one to make you afraid,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.11.19"><span class="content">and many will court your favor.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.11.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.11.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">But the eyes of the wicked will fail,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.11.20"><span class="content">and escape will elude them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.11.20"><span class="content">their hope will become a dying gasp.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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