Job 3Job 4Job 51 Thessalonians 5Job 3
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After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
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And Job spake, and said,
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Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night [in which] it was said, There is a man child conceived.
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Let that day be darkness let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
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Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it let a cloud dwell upon it let the blackness of the day terrify it.
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As [for] that night, let darkness seize upon it let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.
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Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.
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Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
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Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark let it look for light, but [have] none neither let it see the dawning of the day:
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Because it shut not up the doors of my [mother's] womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
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Why died I not from the womb? [why] did I [not] give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
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Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
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For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
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With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves
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Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
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Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been as infants [which] never saw light.
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There the wicked cease [from] troubling and there the weary be at rest.
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[There] the prisoners rest together they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
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The small and great are there and the servant [is] free from his master.
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Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter [in] soul
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Which long for death, but it [cometh] not and dig for it more than for hid treasures
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Which rejoice exceedingly, [and] are glad, when they can find the grave?
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[Why is light given] to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
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For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
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For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.
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I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet yet trouble came.
Job 4
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Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
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[If] we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking?
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Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands.
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Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.
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But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.
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[Is] not [this] thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?
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Remember, I pray thee, who [ever] perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?
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Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.
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By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.
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The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
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The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad.
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Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof.
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In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men,
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Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake.
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Then a spirit passed before my face the hair of my flesh stood up:
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It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image [was] before mine eyes, [there was] silence, and I heard a voice, [saying],
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Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?
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Behold, he put no trust in his servants and his angels he charged with folly:
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How much less [in] them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation [is] in the dust, [which] are crushed before the moth?
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They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding [it].
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Doth not their excellency [which is] in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.
Job 5
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Call now, if there be any that will answer thee and to which of the saints wilt thou turn?
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For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
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I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
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His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither [is there] any to deliver [them].
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Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.
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Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground
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Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
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I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:
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Which doeth great things and unsearchable marvellous things without number:
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Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:
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To set up on high those that be low that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.
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He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform [their] enterprise.
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He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
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They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
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But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.
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So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
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Behold, happy [is] the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:
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For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.
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He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.
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In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword.
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Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.
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At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.
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For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.
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And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle [shall be] in peace and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin.
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Thou shalt know also that thy seed [shall be] great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.
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Thou shalt come to [thy] grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
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Lo this, we have searched it, so it [is] hear it, and know thou [it] for thy good.
1 Thessalonians 5
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But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.
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For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
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For when they shall say, Peace and safety then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child and they shall not escape.
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But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
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Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
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Therefore let us not sleep, as [do] others but let us watch and be sober.
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For they that sleep sleep in the night and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
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But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
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For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
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Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
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Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.
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And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you
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And to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. [And] be at peace among yourselves.
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Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all [men].
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See that none render evil for evil unto any [man] but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all [men].
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In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
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Despise not prophesyings.
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Prove all things hold fast that which is good.
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Abstain from all appearance of evil.
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And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly and [I pray God] your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Faithful [is] he that calleth you, who also will do [it].
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Greet all the brethren with an holy kiss.
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I charge you by the Lord that this epistle be read unto all the holy brethren.
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The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [be] with you. Amen. <<[The first [epistle] to the Thessalonians was written from Athens.]>>
