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The Listener’s Bible®: KJV Edition

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         <div class="label">22</div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Eliphaz Speaks</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.22.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.22.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.22.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Can a man be profitable unto God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.22.2"><span class="content">As he that is wise may be profitable unto himself?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.22.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.22.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Is it</span></span><span class="content"> any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.22.3"><span class="content">Or </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is it</span></span><span class="content"> gain </span><span class="add"><span class="content">to him</span></span><span class="content">, that thou makest thy ways perfect?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.22.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.22.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Will he reprove thee for fear of thee?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.22.4"><span class="content">Will he enter with thee into judgment?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.22.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.22.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Is</span></span><span class="content"> not thy wickedness great?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.22.5"><span class="content">And thine iniquities infinite?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.22.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.22.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.22.6"><span class="content">And stripped the naked of their clothing.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.22.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.22.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.22.7"><span class="content">And thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.22.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.22.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But </span><span class="add"><span class="content">as for</span></span><span class="content"> the mighty man, he had the earth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.22.8"><span class="content">And the honourable man dwelt in it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.22.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.22.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Thou hast sent widows away empty,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.22.9"><span class="content">And the arms of the fatherless have been broken.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.22.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.22.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Therefore snares </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> round about thee,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.22.10"><span class="content">And sudden fear troubleth thee;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.22.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.22.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Or darkness, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">that</span></span><span class="content"> thou canst not see;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.22.11"><span class="content">And abundance of waters cover thee.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.22.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.22.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Is</span></span><span class="content"> not God in the height of heaven?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.22.12"><span class="content">And behold the height of the stars, how high they are!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.22.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.22.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">And thou sayest, How doth God know?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.22.13"><span class="content">Can he judge through the dark cloud?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.22.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.22.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Thick clouds </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> a covering to him, that he seeth not;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.22.14"><span class="content">And he walketh in the circuit of heaven.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.22.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.22.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Hast thou marked the old way</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.22.15"><span class="content">Which wicked men have trodden?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.22.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.22.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Which were cut down out of time,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.22.16"><span class="content">Whose foundation was overflown with a flood:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.22.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.22.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Which said unto God, Depart from us:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.22.17"><span class="content">And what can the Almighty do for them?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.22.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.22.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Yet he filled their houses with good </span><span class="add"><span class="content">things:</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.22.18"><span class="content">But the counsel of the wicked is far from me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.22.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.22.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The righteous see </span><span class="add"><span class="content">it</span></span><span class="content">, and are glad:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.22.19"><span class="content">And the innocent laugh them to scorn.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.22.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.22.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Whereas our substance is not cut down,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.22.20"><span class="content">But the remnant of them the fire consumeth.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.22.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.22.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.22.21"><span class="content">Thereby good shall come unto thee.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.22.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.22.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.22.22"><span class="content">And lay up his words in thine heart.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.22.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.22.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.22.23"><span class="content">Thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.22.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.22.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.22.24"><span class="content">And the </span><span class="add"><span class="content">gold</span></span><span class="content"> of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.22.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.22.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defence,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.22.25"><span class="content">And thou shalt have plenty of silver.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.22.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.22.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.22.26"><span class="content">And shalt lift up thy face unto God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.22.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.22.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.22.27"><span class="content">And thou shalt pay thy vows.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.22.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.22.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.22.28"><span class="content">And the light shall shine upon thy ways.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.22.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.22.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">When </span><span class="add"><span class="content">men</span></span><span class="content"> are cast down, then thou shalt say, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">there is</span></span><span class="content"> lifting up;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.22.29"><span class="content">And he shall save the humble person.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.22.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.22.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">He shall deliver the island of the innocent:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.22.30"><span class="content">And it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">23</div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Job's Reply</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.23.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then Job answered and said,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.23.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.23.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Even to day </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> my complaint bitter:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.23.2"><span class="content">My stroke is heavier than my groaning.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.23.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.23.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Oh that I knew where I might find him!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.23.3"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">That</span></span><span class="content"> I might come </span><span class="add"><span class="content">even</span></span><span class="content"> to his seat!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.23.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.23.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I would order </span><span class="add"><span class="content">my</span></span><span class="content"> cause before him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.23.4"><span class="content">And fill my mouth with arguments.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.23.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.23.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">I would know the words </span><span class="add"><span class="content">which</span></span><span class="content"> he would answer me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.23.5"><span class="content">And understand what he would say unto me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.23.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.23.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Will he plead against me with </span><span class="add"><span class="content">his</span></span><span class="content"> great power?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.23.6"><span class="content">No; but he would put </span><span class="add"><span class="content">strength</span></span><span class="content"> in me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.23.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.23.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">There the righteous might dispute with him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.23.7"><span class="content">So should I be delivered for ever from my judge.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.23.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.23.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Behold, I go forward, but he </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> not </span><span class="add"><span class="content">there</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.23.8"><span class="content">And backward, but I cannot perceive him:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.23.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.23.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold </span><span class="add"><span class="content">him:</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.23.9"><span class="content">He hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see </span><span class="add"><span class="content">him:</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.23.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.23.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">But he knoweth the way that I take:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.23.10"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">When</span></span><span class="content"> he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.23.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.23.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">My foot hath held his steps,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.23.11"><span class="content">His way have I kept, and not declined.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.23.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.23.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.23.12"><span class="content">I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary </span><span class="add"><span class="content">food</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.23.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.23.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">But he </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> in one </span><span class="add"><span class="content">mind</span></span><span class="content">, and who can turn him?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.23.13"><span class="content">And </span><span class="add"><span class="content">what</span></span><span class="content"> his soul desireth, even </span><span class="add"><span class="content">that</span></span><span class="content"> he doeth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.23.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.23.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">For he performeth </span><span class="add"><span class="content">the thing that is</span></span><span class="content"> appointed for me:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.23.14"><span class="content">And many such </span><span class="add"><span class="content">things are</span></span><span class="content"> with him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.23.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.23.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Therefore am I troubled at his presence:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.23.15"><span class="content">When I consider, I am afraid of him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.23.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.23.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">For God maketh my heart soft,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.23.16"><span class="content">And the Almighty troubleth me:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.23.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.23.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Because I was not cut off before the darkness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.23.17"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Neither</span></span><span class="content"> hath he covered the darkness from my face.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ROM.8.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ROM.8.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">And if Christ </span><span class="add"><span class="content">be</span></span><span class="content"> in you, the body </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> dead because of sin; but the Spirit </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> life because of righteousness. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ROM.8.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ROM.8.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. </span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch7" data-usfm="MAT.7.7">
         <div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MAT.7.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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