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         <div class="label">8</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Wisdom&#8217;s Call</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.8.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Does not wisdom call out?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.8.1"><span class="content">Does not understanding raise her voice?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.8.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.8.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">At the highest point along the way,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.8.2"><span class="content">where the paths meet, she takes her stand;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.8.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.8.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">beside the gate leading into the city,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.8.3"><span class="content">at the entrance, she cries aloud:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.8.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.8.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;To you, O people, I call out;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.8.4"><span class="content">I raise my voice to all mankind.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.8.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.8.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">You who are simple, gain prudence;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.8.5"><span class="content">you who are foolish, set your hearts on it.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:5 </span><span class="ft">Septuagint; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">foolish, instruct your minds</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.8.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.8.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Listen, for I have trustworthy things to say;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.8.6"><span class="content">I open my lips to speak what is right.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.8.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.8.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">My mouth speaks what is true,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.8.7"><span class="content">for my lips detest wickedness.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.8.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.8.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">All the words of my mouth are just;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.8.8"><span class="content">none of them is crooked or perverse.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.8.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.8.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">To the discerning all of them are right;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.8.9"><span class="content">they are upright to those who have found knowledge.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.8.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.8.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Choose my instruction instead of silver,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.8.10"><span class="content">knowledge rather than choice gold,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.8.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.8.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">for wisdom is more precious than rubies,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.8.11"><span class="content">and nothing you desire can compare with her.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.8.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.8.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;I, wisdom, dwell together with prudence;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.8.12"><span class="content">I possess knowledge and discretion.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.8.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.8.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">To fear the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is to hate evil;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.8.13"><span class="content">I hate pride and arrogance,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.8.13"><span class="content">evil behavior and perverse speech.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.8.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.8.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Counsel and sound judgment are mine;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.8.14"><span class="content">I have insight, I have power.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.8.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.8.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">By me kings reign</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.8.15"><span class="content">and rulers issue decrees that are just;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.8.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.8.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">by me princes govern,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.8.16"><span class="content">and nobles&#8212;all who rule on earth.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:16 </span><span class="ft">Some Hebrew manuscripts and Septuagint; other Hebrew manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">all righteous rulers</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.8.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.8.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">I love those who love me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.8.17"><span class="content">and those who seek me find me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.8.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.8.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">With me are riches and honor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.8.18"><span class="content">enduring wealth and prosperity.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.8.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.8.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">My fruit is better than fine gold;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.8.19"><span class="content">what I yield surpasses choice silver.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.8.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.8.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">I walk in the way of righteousness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.8.20"><span class="content">along the paths of justice,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.8.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.8.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">bestowing a rich inheritance on those who love me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.8.21"><span class="content">and making their treasuries full.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.8.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.8.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">&#8220;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> brought me forth as the first of his works,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:22 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">way</span><span class="ft">; or </span><span class="fqa">dominion</span></span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:22 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">The <span class="nd">Lord</span> possessed me at the beginning of his work</span><span class="ft">; or </span><span class="fqa">The <span class="nd">Lord</span> brought me forth at the beginning of his work</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.8.22"><span class="content">before his deeds of old;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.8.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.8.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">I was formed long ages ago,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.8.23"><span class="content">at the very beginning, when the world came to be.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.8.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.8.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">When there were no watery depths, I was given birth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.8.24"><span class="content">when there were no springs overflowing with water;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.8.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.8.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">before the mountains were settled in place,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.8.25"><span class="content">before the hills, I was given birth,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.8.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.8.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">before he made the world or its fields</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.8.26"><span class="content">or any of the dust of the earth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.8.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.8.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">I was there when he set the heavens in place,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.8.27"><span class="content">when he marked out the horizon on the face of the deep,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.8.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.8.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">when he established the clouds above</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.8.28"><span class="content">and fixed securely the fountains of the deep,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.8.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.8.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">when he gave the sea its boundary</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.8.29"><span class="content">so the waters would not overstep his command,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.8.29"><span class="content">and when he marked out the foundations of the earth.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.8.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.8.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Then I was constantly</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:30 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">was the artisan</span><span class="ft">; or </span><span class="fqa">was a little child</span></span></span><span class="content"> at his side.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.8.30"><span class="content">I was filled with delight day after day,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.8.30"><span class="content">rejoicing always in his presence,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.8.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PRO.8.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">rejoicing in his whole world</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PRO.8.31"><span class="content">and delighting in mankind.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PRO.8.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PRO.8.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">&#8220;Now then, my children, listen to me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PRO.8.32"><span class="content">blessed are those who keep my ways.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PRO.8.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PRO.8.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">Listen to my instruction and be wise;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PRO.8.33"><span class="content">do not disregard it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PRO.8.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="PRO.8.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Blessed are those who listen to me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="PRO.8.34"><span class="content">watching daily at my doors,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="PRO.8.34"><span class="content">waiting at my doorway.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="PRO.8.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="PRO.8.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">For those who find me find life</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="PRO.8.35"><span class="content">and receive favor from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="PRO.8.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="PRO.8.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">But those who fail to find me harm themselves;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="PRO.8.36"><span class="content">all who hate me love death.&#8221;</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">9</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="REV.9.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from the sky to the earth. The star was given the key to the shaft of the Abyss. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="REV.9.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">When he opened the Abyss, smoke rose from it like the smoke from a gigantic furnace. The sun and sky were darkened by the smoke from the Abyss. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="REV.9.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">And out of the smoke locusts came down on the earth and were given power like that of scorpions of the earth. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="REV.9.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any plant or tree, but only those people who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="REV.9.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">They were not allowed to kill them but only to torture them for five months. And the agony they suffered was like that of the sting of a scorpion when it strikes. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="REV.9.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">During those days people will seek death but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will elude them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="REV.9.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="REV.9.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle. On their heads they wore something like crowns of gold, and their faces resembled human faces. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="REV.9.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Their hair was like women&#8217;s hair, and their teeth were like lions&#8217; teeth. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="REV.9.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">They had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the thundering of many horses and chariots rushing into battle. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="REV.9.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">They had tails with stingers, like scorpions, and in their tails they had power to torment people for five months. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="REV.9.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">They had as king over them the angel of the Abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon and in Greek is Apollyon (that is, Destroyer).</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="REV.9.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.9.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The first woe is past; two other woes are yet to come.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.9.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="REV.9.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The sixth angel sounded his trumpet, and I heard a voice coming from the four horns of the golden altar that is before God. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="REV.9.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">It said to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, &#8220;Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="REV.9.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">And the four angels who had been kept ready for this very hour and day and month and year were released to kill a third of mankind. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="REV.9.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The number of the mounted troops was twice ten thousand times ten thousand. I heard their number.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="REV.9.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="REV.9.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">The horses and riders I saw in my vision looked like this: Their breastplates were fiery red, dark blue, and yellow as sulfur. The heads of the horses resembled the heads of lions, and out of their mouths came fire, smoke and sulfur. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="REV.9.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">A third of mankind was killed by the three plagues of fire, smoke and sulfur that came out of their mouths. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="REV.9.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The power of the horses was in their mouths and in their tails; for their tails were like snakes, having heads with which they inflict injury.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="REV.9.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="REV.9.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">The rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the work of their hands; they did not stop worshiping demons, and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone and wood&#8212;idols that cannot see or hear or walk. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="REV.9.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Nor did they repent of their murders, their magic arts, their sexual immorality or their thefts.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">26</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Job</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.26.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then Job replied:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.26.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.26.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;How you have helped the powerless!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.26.2"><span class="content">How you have saved the arm that is feeble!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.26.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.26.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">What advice you have offered to one without wisdom!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.26.3"><span class="content">And what great insight you have displayed!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.26.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.26.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Who has helped you utter these words?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.26.4"><span class="content">And whose spirit spoke from your mouth?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.26.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.26.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;The dead are in deep anguish,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.26.5"><span class="content">those beneath the waters and all that live in them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.26.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.26.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The realm of the dead is naked before God;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.26.6"><span class="content">Destruction</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">26:6 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Abaddon</span></span></span><span class="content"> lies uncovered.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.26.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.26.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">He spreads out the northern skies over empty space;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.26.7"><span class="content">he suspends the earth over nothing.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.26.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.26.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">He wraps up the waters in his clouds,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.26.8"><span class="content">yet the clouds do not burst under their weight.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.26.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.26.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">He covers the face of the full moon,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.26.9"><span class="content">spreading his clouds over it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.26.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.26.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">He marks out the horizon on the face of the waters</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.26.10"><span class="content">for a boundary between light and darkness.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.26.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.26.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The pillars of the heavens quake,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.26.11"><span class="content">aghast at his rebuke.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.26.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.26.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">By his power he churned up the sea;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.26.12"><span class="content">by his wisdom he cut Rahab to pieces.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.26.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.26.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">By his breath the skies became fair;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.26.13"><span class="content">his hand pierced the gliding serpent.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.26.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.26.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">And these are but the outer fringe of his works;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.26.14"><span class="content">how faint the whisper we hear of him!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.26.14"><span class="content">Who then can understand the thunder of his power?&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">27</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Job&#8217;s Final Word to His Friends</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.27.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">And Job continued his discourse:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.27.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.27.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;As surely as God lives, who has denied me justice,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.27.2"><span class="content">the Almighty, who has made my life bitter,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.27.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.27.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">as long as I have life within me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.27.3"><span class="content">the breath of God in my nostrils,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.27.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.27.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">my lips will not say anything wicked,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.27.4"><span class="content">and my tongue will not utter lies.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.27.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.27.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">I will never admit you are in the right;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.27.5"><span class="content">till I die, I will not deny my integrity.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.27.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.27.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">I will maintain my innocence and never let go of it;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.27.6"><span class="content">my conscience will not reproach me as long as I live.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.27.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.27.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;May my enemy be like the wicked,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.27.7"><span class="content">my adversary like the unjust!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.27.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.27.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">For what hope have the godless when they are cut off,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.27.8"><span class="content">when God takes away their life?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.27.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.27.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Does God listen to their cry</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.27.9"><span class="content">when distress comes upon them?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.27.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.27.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Will they find delight in the Almighty?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.27.10"><span class="content">Will they call on God at all times?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.27.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.27.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;I will teach you about the power of God;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.27.11"><span class="content">the ways of the Almighty I will not conceal.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.27.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.27.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">You have all seen this yourselves.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.27.12"><span class="content">Why then this meaningless talk?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.27.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.27.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;Here is the fate God allots to the wicked,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.27.13"><span class="content">the heritage a ruthless man receives from the Almighty:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.27.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.27.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">However many his children, their fate is the sword;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.27.14"><span class="content">his offspring will never have enough to eat.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.27.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.27.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The plague will bury those who survive him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.27.15"><span class="content">and their widows will not weep for them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.27.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.27.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Though he heaps up silver like dust</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.27.16"><span class="content">and clothes like piles of clay,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.27.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.27.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">what he lays up the righteous will wear,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.27.17"><span class="content">and the innocent will divide his silver.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.27.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.27.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">The house he builds is like a moth&#8217;s cocoon,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.27.18"><span class="content">like a hut made by a watchman.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.27.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.27.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">He lies down wealthy, but will do so no more;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.27.19"><span class="content">when he opens his eyes, all is gone.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.27.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.27.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Terrors overtake him like a flood;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.27.20"><span class="content">a tempest snatches him away in the night.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.27.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.27.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">The east wind carries him off, and he is gone;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.27.21"><span class="content">it sweeps him out of his place.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.27.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.27.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">It hurls itself against him without mercy</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.27.22"><span class="content">as he flees headlong from its power.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.27.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.27.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">It claps its hands in derision</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.27.23"><span class="content">and hisses him out of his place.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">28</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Interlude: Where Wisdom Is Found</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.28.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">There is a mine for silver</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.28.1"><span class="content">and a place where gold is refined.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.28.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.28.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Iron is taken from the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.28.2"><span class="content">and copper is smelted from ore.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.28.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.28.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Mortals put an end to the darkness;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.28.3"><span class="content">they search out the farthest recesses</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.28.3"><span class="content">for ore in the blackest darkness.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.28.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.28.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Far from human dwellings they cut a shaft,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.28.4"><span class="content">in places untouched by human feet;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.28.4"><span class="content">far from other people they dangle and sway.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.28.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.28.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The earth, from which food comes,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.28.5"><span class="content">is transformed below as by fire;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.28.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.28.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">lapis lazuli comes from its rocks,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.28.6"><span class="content">and its dust contains nuggets of gold.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.28.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.28.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">No bird of prey knows that hidden path,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.28.7"><span class="content">no falcon&#8217;s eye has seen it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.28.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.28.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Proud beasts do not set foot on it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.28.8"><span class="content">and no lion prowls there.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.28.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.28.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">People assault the flinty rock with their hands</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.28.9"><span class="content">and lay bare the roots of the mountains.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.28.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.28.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">They tunnel through the rock;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.28.10"><span class="content">their eyes see all its treasures.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.28.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.28.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">They search</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">28:11 </span><span class="ft">Septuagint, Aquila and Vulgate; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">They dam up</span></span></span><span class="content"> the sources of the rivers</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.28.11"><span class="content">and bring hidden things to light.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.28.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.28.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">But where can wisdom be found?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.28.12"><span class="content">Where does understanding dwell?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.28.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.28.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">No mortal comprehends its worth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.28.13"><span class="content">it cannot be found in the land of the living.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.28.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.28.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The deep says, &#8220;It is not in me&#8221;;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.28.14"><span class="content">the sea says, &#8220;It is not with me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.28.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.28.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">It cannot be bought with the finest gold,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.28.15"><span class="content">nor can its price be weighed out in silver.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.28.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.28.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">It cannot be bought with the gold of Ophir,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.28.16"><span class="content">with precious onyx or lapis lazuli.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.28.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.28.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Neither gold nor crystal can compare with it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.28.17"><span class="content">nor can it be had for jewels of gold.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.28.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.28.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Coral and jasper are not worthy of mention;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.28.18"><span class="content">the price of wisdom is beyond rubies.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.28.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.28.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The topaz of Cush cannot compare with it;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.28.19"><span class="content">it cannot be bought with pure gold.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.28.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.28.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Where then does wisdom come from?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.28.20"><span class="content">Where does understanding dwell?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.28.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.28.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">It is hidden from the eyes of every living thing,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.28.21"><span class="content">concealed even from the birds in the sky.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.28.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.28.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Destruction</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">28:22 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Abaddon</span></span></span><span class="content"> and Death say,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.28.22"><span class="content">&#8220;Only a rumor of it has reached our ears.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.28.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.28.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">God understands the way to it</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.28.23"><span class="content">and he alone knows where it dwells,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.28.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.28.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">for he views the ends of the earth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.28.24"><span class="content">and sees everything under the heavens.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.28.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.28.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">When he established the force of the wind</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.28.25"><span class="content">and measured out the waters,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.28.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.28.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">when he made a decree for the rain</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.28.26"><span class="content">and a path for the thunderstorm,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.28.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.28.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">then he looked at wisdom and appraised it;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.28.27"><span class="content">he confirmed it and tested it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.28.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.28.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">And he said to the human race,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.28.28"><span class="content">&#8220;The fear of the Lord&#8212;that is wisdom,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.28.28"><span class="content">and to shun evil is understanding.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">29</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Job&#8217;s Final Defense</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.29.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Job continued his discourse:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.29.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.29.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;How I long for the months gone by,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.29.2"><span class="content">for the days when God watched over me,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.29.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.29.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">when his lamp shone on my head</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.29.3"><span class="content">and by his light I walked through darkness!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.29.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.29.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Oh, for the days when I was in my prime,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.29.4"><span class="content">when God&#8217;s intimate friendship blessed my house,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.29.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.29.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">when the Almighty was still with me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.29.5"><span class="content">and my children were around me,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.29.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.29.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">when my path was drenched with cream</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.29.6"><span class="content">and the rock poured out for me streams of olive oil.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.29.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.29.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;When I went to the gate of the city</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.29.7"><span class="content">and took my seat in the public square,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.29.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.29.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">the young men saw me and stepped aside</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.29.8"><span class="content">and the old men rose to their feet;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.29.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.29.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">the chief men refrained from speaking</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.29.9"><span class="content">and covered their mouths with their hands;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.29.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.29.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">the voices of the nobles were hushed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.29.10"><span class="content">and their tongues stuck to the roof of their mouths.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.29.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.29.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Whoever heard me spoke well of me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.29.11"><span class="content">and those who saw me commended me,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.29.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.29.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">because I rescued the poor who cried for help,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.29.12"><span class="content">and the fatherless who had none to assist them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.29.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.29.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The one who was dying blessed me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.29.13"><span class="content">I made the widow&#8217;s heart sing.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.29.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.29.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">I put on righteousness as my clothing;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.29.14"><span class="content">justice was my robe and my turban.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.29.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.29.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">I was eyes to the blind</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.29.15"><span class="content">and feet to the lame.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.29.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.29.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">I was a father to the needy;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.29.16"><span class="content">I took up the case of the stranger.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.29.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.29.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">I broke the fangs of the wicked</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.29.17"><span class="content">and snatched the victims from their teeth.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.29.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.29.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;I thought, &#8216;I will die in my own house,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.29.18"><span class="content">my days as numerous as the grains of sand.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.29.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.29.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">My roots will reach to the water,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.29.19"><span class="content">and the dew will lie all night on my branches.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.29.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.29.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">My glory will not fade;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.29.20"><span class="content">the bow will be ever new in my hand.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.29.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.29.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">&#8220;People listened to me expectantly,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.29.21"><span class="content">waiting in silence for my counsel.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.29.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.29.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">After I had spoken, they spoke no more;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.29.22"><span class="content">my words fell gently on their ears.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.29.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.29.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">They waited for me as for showers</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.29.23"><span class="content">and drank in my words as the spring rain.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.29.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.29.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">When I smiled at them, they scarcely believed it;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.29.24"><span class="content">the light of my face was precious to them.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">29:24 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this clause is uncertain.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.29.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.29.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">I chose the way for them and sat as their chief;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.29.25"><span class="content">I dwelt as a king among his troops;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.29.25"><span class="content">I was like one who comforts mourners.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch30" data-usfm="JOB.30">
         <div class="label">30</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.30.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;But now they mock me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.30.1"><span class="content">men younger than I,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.30.1"><span class="content">whose fathers I would have disdained</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.30.1"><span class="content">to put with my sheep dogs.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.30.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.30.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Of what use was the strength of their hands to me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.30.2"><span class="content">since their vigor had gone from them?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.30.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.30.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Haggard from want and hunger,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.30.3"><span class="content">they roamed</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">30:3 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">gnawed</span></span></span><span class="content"> the parched land</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.30.3"><span class="content">in desolate wastelands at night.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.30.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.30.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">In the brush they gathered salt herbs,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.30.4"><span class="content">and their food</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">30:4 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">fuel</span></span></span><span class="content"> was the root of the broom bush.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.30.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.30.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">They were banished from human society,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.30.5"><span class="content">shouted at as if they were thieves.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.30.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.30.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">They were forced to live in the dry stream beds,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.30.6"><span class="content">among the rocks and in holes in the ground.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.30.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.30.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">They brayed among the bushes</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.30.7"><span class="content">and huddled in the undergrowth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.30.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.30.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">A base and nameless brood,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.30.8"><span class="content">they were driven out of the land.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.30.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.30.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;And now those young men mock me in song;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.30.9"><span class="content">I have become a byword among them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.30.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.30.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">They detest me and keep their distance;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.30.10"><span class="content">they do not hesitate to spit in my face.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.30.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.30.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Now that God has unstrung my bow and afflicted me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.30.11"><span class="content">they throw off restraint in my presence.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.30.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.30.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">On my right the tribe</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">30:12 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content"> attacks;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.30.12"><span class="content">they lay snares for my feet,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.30.12"><span class="content">they build their siege ramps against me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.30.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.30.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">They break up my road;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.30.13"><span class="content">they succeed in destroying me.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.30.13"><span class="content">&#8216;No one can help him,&#8217; they say.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.30.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.30.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">They advance as through a gaping breach;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.30.14"><span class="content">amid the ruins they come rolling in.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.30.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.30.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Terrors overwhelm me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.30.15"><span class="content">my dignity is driven away as by the wind,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.30.15"><span class="content">my safety vanishes like a cloud.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.30.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.30.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8220;And now my life ebbs away;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.30.16"><span class="content">days of suffering grip me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.30.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.30.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Night pierces my bones;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.30.17"><span class="content">my gnawing pains never rest.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.30.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.30.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">In his great power God becomes like clothing to me</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">30:18 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew; Septuagint </span><span class="fqa">power he grasps my clothing</span></span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.30.18"><span class="content">he binds me like the neck of my garment.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.30.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.30.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">He throws me into the mud,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.30.19"><span class="content">and I am reduced to dust and ashes.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.30.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.30.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;I cry out to you, God, but you do not answer;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.30.20"><span class="content">I stand up, but you merely look at me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.30.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.30.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">You turn on me ruthlessly;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.30.21"><span class="content">with the might of your hand you attack me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.30.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.30.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">You snatch me up and drive me before the wind;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.30.22"><span class="content">you toss me about in the storm.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.30.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.30.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">I know you will bring me down to death,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.30.23"><span class="content">to the place appointed for all the living.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.30.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.30.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">&#8220;Surely no one lays a hand on a broken man</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.30.24"><span class="content">when he cries for help in his distress.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.30.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.30.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Have I not wept for those in trouble?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.30.25"><span class="content">Has not my soul grieved for the poor?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.30.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.30.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Yet when I hoped for good, evil came;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.30.26"><span class="content">when I looked for light, then came darkness.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.30.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.30.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">The churning inside me never stops;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.30.27"><span class="content">days of suffering confront me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.30.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.30.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">I go about blackened, but not by the sun;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.30.28"><span class="content">I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.30.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.30.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">I have become a brother of jackals,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.30.29"><span class="content">a companion of owls.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.30.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.30.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">My skin grows black and peels;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.30.30"><span class="content">my body burns with fever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.30.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.30.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">My lyre is tuned to mourning,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.30.31"><span class="content">and my pipe to the sound of wailing.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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         <div class="label">31</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.31.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;I made a covenant with my eyes</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.31.1"><span class="content">not to look lustfully at a young woman.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.31.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.31.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">For what is our lot from God above,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.31.2"><span class="content">our heritage from the Almighty on high?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.31.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.31.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Is it not ruin for the wicked,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.31.3"><span class="content">disaster for those who do wrong?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.31.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.31.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Does he not see my ways</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.31.4"><span class="content">and count my every step?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.31.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.31.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;If I have walked with falsehood</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.31.5"><span class="content">or my foot has hurried after deceit&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.31.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.31.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">let God weigh me in honest scales</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.31.6"><span class="content">and he will know that I am blameless&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.31.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.31.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">if my steps have turned from the path,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.31.7"><span class="content">if my heart has been led by my eyes,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.31.7"><span class="content">or if my hands have been defiled,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.31.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.31.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">then may others eat what I have sown,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.31.8"><span class="content">and may my crops be uprooted.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.31.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.31.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;If my heart has been enticed by a woman,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.31.9"><span class="content">or if I have lurked at my neighbor&#8217;s door,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.31.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.31.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">then may my wife grind another man&#8217;s grain,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.31.10"><span class="content">and may other men sleep with her.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.31.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.31.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">For that would have been wicked,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.31.11"><span class="content">a sin to be judged.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.31.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.31.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">It is a fire that burns to Destruction</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">31:12 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Abaddon</span></span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.31.12"><span class="content">it would have uprooted my harvest.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.31.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.31.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;If I have denied justice to any of my servants,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.31.13"><span class="content">whether male or female,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.31.13"><span class="content">when they had a grievance against me,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.31.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.31.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">what will I do when God confronts me?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.31.14"><span class="content">What will I answer when called to account?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.31.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.31.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Did not he who made me in the womb make them?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.31.15"><span class="content">Did not the same one form us both within our mothers?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.31.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.31.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8220;If I have denied the desires of the poor</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.31.16"><span class="content">or let the eyes of the widow grow weary,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.31.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.31.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">if I have kept my bread to myself,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.31.17"><span class="content">not sharing it with the fatherless&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.31.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.31.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">but from my youth I reared them as a father would,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.31.18"><span class="content">and from my birth I guided the widow&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.31.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.31.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">if I have seen anyone perishing for lack of clothing,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.31.19"><span class="content">or the needy without garments,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.31.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.31.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">and their hearts did not bless me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.31.20"><span class="content">for warming them with the fleece from my sheep,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.31.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.31.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">if I have raised my hand against the fatherless,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.31.21"><span class="content">knowing that I had influence in court,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.31.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.31.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">then let my arm fall from the shoulder,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.31.22"><span class="content">let it be broken off at the joint.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.31.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.31.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">For I dreaded destruction from God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.31.23"><span class="content">and for fear of his splendor I could not do such things.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.31.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.31.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">&#8220;If I have put my trust in gold</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.31.24"><span class="content">or said to pure gold, &#8216;You are my security,&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.31.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.31.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">if I have rejoiced over my great wealth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.31.25"><span class="content">the fortune my hands had gained,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.31.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.31.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">if I have regarded the sun in its radiance</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.31.26"><span class="content">or the moon moving in splendor,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.31.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.31.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">so that my heart was secretly enticed</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.31.27"><span class="content">and my hand offered them a kiss of homage,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.31.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.31.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">then these also would be sins to be judged,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.31.28"><span class="content">for I would have been unfaithful to God on high.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.31.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.31.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">&#8220;If I have rejoiced at my enemy&#8217;s misfortune</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.31.29"><span class="content">or gloated over the trouble that came to him&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.31.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.31.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">I have not allowed my mouth to sin</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.31.30"><span class="content">by invoking a curse against their life&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.31.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.31.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">if those of my household have never said,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.31.31"><span class="content">&#8216;Who has not been filled with Job&#8217;s meat?&#8217;&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.31.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOB.31.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">but no stranger had to spend the night in the street,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOB.31.32"><span class="content">for my door was always open to the traveler&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOB.31.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.31.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">if I have concealed my sin as people do,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">31:33 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">as Adam did</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.31.33"><span class="content">by hiding my guilt in my heart</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.31.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JOB.31.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">because I so feared the crowd</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JOB.31.34"><span class="content">and so dreaded the contempt of the clans</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JOB.31.34"><span class="content">that I kept silent and would not go outside&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JOB.31.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JOB.31.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">(&#8220;Oh, that I had someone to hear me!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JOB.31.35"><span class="content">I sign now my defense&#8212;let the Almighty answer me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JOB.31.35"><span class="content">let my accuser put his indictment in writing.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JOB.31.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="JOB.31.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">Surely I would wear it on my shoulder,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="JOB.31.36"><span class="content">I would put it on like a crown.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="JOB.31.36"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="JOB.31.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">I would give him an account of my every step;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="JOB.31.37"><span class="content">I would present it to him as to a ruler.)&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="JOB.31.37"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="JOB.31.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">&#8220;if my land cries out against me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="JOB.31.38"><span class="content">and all its furrows are wet with tears,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="JOB.31.38"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="JOB.31.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">if I have devoured its yield without payment</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="JOB.31.39"><span class="content">or broken the spirit of its tenants,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="JOB.31.39"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="JOB.31.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">then let briers come up instead of wheat</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="JOB.31.40"><span class="content">and stinkweed instead of barley.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="JOB.31.40"><span class="content">The words of Job are ended.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">32</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Elihu</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.32.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">So these three men stopped answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.32.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">But Elihu son of Barakel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, became very angry with Job for justifying himself rather than God. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.32.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">He was also angry with the three friends, because they had found no way to refute Job, and yet had condemned him.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">32:3 </span><span class="ft">Masoretic Text; an ancient Hebrew scribal tradition </span><span class="fqa">Job, and so had condemned God</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.32.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Now Elihu had waited before speaking to Job because they were older than he. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.32.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">But when he saw that the three men had nothing more to say, his anger was aroused.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.32.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.32.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">So Elihu son of Barakel the Buzite said:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.32.6"><span class="content">&#8220;I am young in years,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.32.6"><span class="content">and you are old;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.32.6"><span class="content">that is why I was fearful,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.32.6"><span class="content">not daring to tell you what I know.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.32.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.32.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">I thought, &#8216;Age should speak;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.32.7"><span class="content">advanced years should teach wisdom.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.32.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.32.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But it is the spirit</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">32:8 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Spirit</span><span class="ft">; also in verse 18</span></span></span><span class="content"> in a person,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.32.8"><span class="content">the breath of the Almighty, that gives them understanding.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.32.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.32.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">It is not only the old</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">32:9 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">many</span><span class="ft">; or </span><span class="fqa">great</span></span></span><span class="content"> who are wise,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.32.9"><span class="content">not only the aged who understand what is right.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.32.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.32.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;Therefore I say: Listen to me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.32.10"><span class="content">I too will tell you what I know.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.32.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.32.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">I waited while you spoke,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.32.11"><span class="content">I listened to your reasoning;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.32.11"><span class="content">while you were searching for words,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.32.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.32.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">I gave you my full attention.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.32.12"><span class="content">But not one of you has proved Job wrong;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.32.12"><span class="content">none of you has answered his arguments.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.32.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.32.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Do not say, &#8216;We have found wisdom;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.32.13"><span class="content">let God, not a man, refute him.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.32.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.32.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">But Job has not marshaled his words against me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.32.14"><span class="content">and I will not answer him with your arguments.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.32.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.32.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;They are dismayed and have no more to say;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.32.15"><span class="content">words have failed them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.32.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.32.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Must I wait, now that they are silent,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.32.16"><span class="content">now that they stand there with no reply?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.32.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.32.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">I too will have my say;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.32.17"><span class="content">I too will tell what I know.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.32.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.32.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">For I am full of words,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.32.18"><span class="content">and the spirit within me compels me;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.32.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.32.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">inside I am like bottled-up wine,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.32.19"><span class="content">like new wineskins ready to burst.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.32.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.32.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">I must speak and find relief;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.32.20"><span class="content">I must open my lips and reply.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.32.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.32.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">I will show no partiality,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.32.21"><span class="content">nor will I flatter anyone;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.32.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.32.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">for if I were skilled in flattery,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.32.22"><span class="content">my Maker would soon take me away.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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