Job 19Job 20Job 211 Corinthians 2Job 19
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Then Job answered and said,
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How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
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These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed [that] ye make yourselves strange to me.
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And be it indeed [that] I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.
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If indeed ye will magnify [yourselves] against me, and plead against me my reproach:
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Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.
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Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but [there is] no judgment.
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He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
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He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown [from] my head.
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He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.
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He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as [one of] his enemies.
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His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.
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He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.
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My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
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They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
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I called my servant, and he gave [me] no answer I intreated him with my mouth.
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My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's [sake] of mine own body.
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Yea, young children despised me I arose, and they spake against me.
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All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.
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My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
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Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends for the hand of God hath touched me.
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Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
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Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!
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That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
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For I know [that] my redeemer liveth, and [that] he shall stand at the latter [day] upon the earth:
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And [though] after my skin [worms] destroy this [body], yet in my flesh shall I see God:
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Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another [though] my reins be consumed within me.
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But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?
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Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath [bringeth] the punishments of the sword, that ye may know [there is] a judgment.
Job 20
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Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
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Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for [this] I make haste.
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I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.
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Knowest thou [not] this of old, since man was placed upon earth,
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That the triumphing of the wicked [is] short, and the joy of the hypocrite [but] for a moment?
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Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds
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[Yet] he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where [is] he?
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He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
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The eye also [which] saw him shall [see him] no more neither shall his place any more behold him.
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His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.
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His bones are full [of the sin] of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.
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Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, [though] he hide it under his tongue
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[Though] he spare it, and forsake it not but keep it still within his mouth:
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[Yet] his meat in his bowels is turned, [it is] the gall of asps within him.
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He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.
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He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.
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He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.
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That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow [it] down: according to [his] substance [shall] the restitution [be], and he shall not rejoice [therein].
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Because he hath oppressed [and] hath forsaken the poor [because] he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not
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Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired.
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There shall none of his meat be left therefore shall no man look for his goods.
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In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.
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[When] he is about to fill his belly, [God] shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain [it] upon him while he is eating.
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He shall flee from the iron weapon, [and] the bow of steel shall strike him through.
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It is drawn, and cometh out of the body yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors [are] upon him.
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All darkness [shall be] hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.
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The heaven shall reveal his iniquity and the earth shall rise up against him.
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The increase of his house shall depart, [and his goods] shall flow away in the day of his wrath.
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This [is] the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.
Job 21
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But Job answered and said,
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Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.
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Suffer me that I may speak and after that I have spoken, mock on.
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As for me, [is] my complaint to man? and if [it were so], why should not my spirit be troubled?
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Mark me, and be astonished, and lay [your] hand upon [your] mouth.
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Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.
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Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
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Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.
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Their houses [are] safe from fear, neither [is] the rod of God upon them.
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Their bull gendereth, and faileth not their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.
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They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.
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They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.
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They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.
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Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
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What [is] the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
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Lo, their good [is] not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
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How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and [how oft] cometh their destruction upon them! [God] distributeth sorrows in his anger.
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They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.
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God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know [it].
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His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
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For what pleasure [hath] he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?
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Shall [any] teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high.
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One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.
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His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow.
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And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.
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They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.
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Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices [which] ye wrongfully imagine against me.
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For ye say, Where [is] the house of the prince? and where [are] the dwelling places of the wicked?
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Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens,
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That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.
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Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him [what] he hath done?
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Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.
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The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as [there are] innumerable before him.
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How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?
1 Corinthians 2
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And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God.
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For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
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And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.
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And my speech and my preaching [was] not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:
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That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
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Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:
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But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, [even] the hidden [wisdom], which God ordained before the world unto our glory:
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Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known [it], they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
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But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
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But God hath revealed [them] unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
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For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.
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Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
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Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
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But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know [them], because they are spiritually discerned.
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But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.
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For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
