Job 22Job 23Job 241 Corinthians 3Job 22
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Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
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Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself?
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[Is it] any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or [is it] gain [to him], that thou makest thy ways perfect?
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Will he reprove thee for fear of thee? will he enter with thee into judgment?
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[Is] not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite?
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For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
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Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.
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But [as for] the mighty man, he had the earth and the honourable man dwelt in it.
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Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
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Therefore snares [are] round about thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee
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Or darkness, [that] thou canst not see and abundance of waters cover thee.
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[Is] not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are!
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And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?
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Thick clouds [are] a covering to him, that he seeth not and he walketh in the circuit of heaven.
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Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?
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Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:
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Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?
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Yet he filled their houses with good [things]: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
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The righteous see [it], and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn.
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Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth.
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Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee.
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Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.
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If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.
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Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the [gold] of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.
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Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou shalt have plenty of silver.
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For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God.
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Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.
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Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.
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When [men] are cast down, then thou shalt say, [There is] lifting up and he shall save the humble person.
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He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands.
Job 23
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Then Job answered and said,
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Even to day [is] my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.
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Oh that I knew where I might find him! [that] I might come [even] to his seat!
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I would order [my] cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
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I would know the words [which] he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.
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Will he plead against me with [his] great power? No but he would put [strength] in me.
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There the righteous might dispute with him so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.
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Behold, I go forward, but he [is] not [there] and backward, but I cannot perceive him:
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On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold [him]: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see [him]:
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But he knoweth the way that I take: [when] he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
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My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.
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Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary [food].
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But he [is] in one [mind], and who can turn him? and [what] his soul desireth, even [that] he doeth.
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For he performeth [the thing that is] appointed for me: and many such [things are] with him.
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Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.
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For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:
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Because I was not cut off before the darkness, [neither] hath he covered the darkness from my face.
Job 24
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Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?
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[Some] remove the landmarks they violently take away flocks, and feed [thereof].
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They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
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They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
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Behold, [as] wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness [yieldeth] food for them [and] for [their] children.
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They reap [every one] his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.
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They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that [they have] no covering in the cold.
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They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
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They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
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They cause [him] to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf [from] the hungry
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[Which] make oil within their walls, [and] tread [their] winepresses, and suffer thirst.
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Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly [to them].
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They are of those that rebel against the light they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
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The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
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The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth [his] face.
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In the dark they dig through houses, [which] they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
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For the morning [is] to them even as the shadow of death: if [one] know [them, they are in] the terrors of the shadow of death.
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He [is] swift as the waters their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.
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Drought and heat consume the snow waters: [so doth] the grave [those which] have sinned.
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The womb shall forget him the worm shall feed sweetly on him he shall be no more remembered and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.
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He evil entreateth the barren [that] beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.
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He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no [man] is sure of life.
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[Though] it be given him [to be] in safety, whereon he resteth yet his eyes [are] upon their ways.
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They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low they are taken out of the way as all [other], and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.
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And if [it be] not [so] now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?
1 Corinthians 3
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And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, [even] as unto babes in Christ.
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I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able [to bear it], neither yet now are ye able.
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For ye are yet carnal: for whereas [there is] among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
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For while one saith, I am of Paul and another, I [am] of Apollos are ye not carnal?
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Who then is Paul, and who [is] Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?
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I have planted, Apollos watered but God gave the increase.
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So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth but God that giveth the increase.
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Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.
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For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, [ye are] God's building.
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According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.
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For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
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Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble
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Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.
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If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.
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If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved yet so as by fire.
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Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and [that] the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
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If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy for the temple of God is holy, which [temple] ye are.
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Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
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For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
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And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.
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Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours
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Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come all are yours
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And ye are Christ's and Christ [is] God's.
