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         <div class="label">4</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Eliphaz</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.4.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.4.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.4.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;If someone ventures a word with you, will you be impatient?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.4.2"><span class="content">But who can keep from speaking?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.4.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.4.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Think how you have instructed many,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.4.3"><span class="content">how you have strengthened feeble hands.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.4.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.4.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Your words have supported those who stumbled;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.4.4"><span class="content">you have strengthened faltering knees.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.4.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.4.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">But now trouble comes to you, and you are discouraged;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.4.5"><span class="content">it strikes you, and you are dismayed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.4.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.4.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Should not your piety be your confidence</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.4.6"><span class="content">and your blameless ways your hope?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.4.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.4.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;Consider now: Who, being innocent, has ever perished?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.4.7"><span class="content">Where were the upright ever destroyed?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.4.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.4.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">As I have observed, those who plow evil</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.4.8"><span class="content">and those who sow trouble reap it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.4.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.4.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">At the breath of God they perish;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.4.9"><span class="content">at the blast of his anger they are no more.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.4.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.4.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The lions may roar and growl,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.4.10"><span class="content">yet the teeth of the great lions are broken.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.4.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.4.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The lion perishes for lack of prey,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.4.11"><span class="content">and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.4.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.4.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;A word was secretly brought to me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.4.12"><span class="content">my ears caught a whisper of it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.4.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.4.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Amid disquieting dreams in the night,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.4.13"><span class="content">when deep sleep falls on people,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.4.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.4.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">fear and trembling seized me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.4.14"><span class="content">and made all my bones shake.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.4.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.4.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">A spirit glided past my face,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.4.15"><span class="content">and the hair on my body stood on end.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.4.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.4.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">It stopped,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.4.16"><span class="content">but I could not tell what it was.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.4.16"><span class="content">A form stood before my eyes,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.4.16"><span class="content">and I heard a hushed voice:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.4.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.4.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8216;Can a mortal be more righteous than God?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.4.17"><span class="content">Can even a strong man be more pure than his Maker?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.4.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.4.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">If God places no trust in his servants,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.4.18"><span class="content">if he charges his angels with error,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.4.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.4.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">how much more those who live in houses of clay,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.4.19"><span class="content">whose foundations are in the dust,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.4.19"><span class="content">who are crushed more readily than a moth!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.4.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.4.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Between dawn and dusk they are broken to pieces;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.4.20"><span class="content">unnoticed, they perish forever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.4.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.4.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Are not the cords of their tent pulled up,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.4.21"><span class="content">so that they die without wisdom?&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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         <div class="label">5</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.5.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;Call if you will, but who will answer you?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.5.1"><span class="content">To which of the holy ones will you turn?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.5.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.5.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Resentment kills a fool,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.5.2"><span class="content">and envy slays the simple.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.5.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.5.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">I myself have seen a fool taking root,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.5.3"><span class="content">but suddenly his house was cursed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.5.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.5.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">His children are far from safety,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.5.4"><span class="content">crushed in court without a defender.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.5.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.5.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The hungry consume his harvest,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.5.5"><span class="content">taking it even from among thorns,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.5.5"><span class="content">and the thirsty pant after his wealth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.5.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.5.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">For hardship does not spring from the soil,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.5.6"><span class="content">nor does trouble sprout from the ground.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.5.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.5.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Yet man is born to trouble</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.5.7"><span class="content">as surely as sparks fly upward.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.5.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.5.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;But if I were you, I would appeal to God;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.5.8"><span class="content">I would lay my cause before him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.5.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.5.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">He performs wonders that cannot be fathomed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.5.9"><span class="content">miracles that cannot be counted.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.5.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.5.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">He provides rain for the earth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.5.10"><span class="content">he sends water on the countryside.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.5.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.5.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The lowly he sets on high,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.5.11"><span class="content">and those who mourn are lifted to safety.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.5.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.5.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">He thwarts the plans of the crafty,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.5.12"><span class="content">so that their hands achieve no success.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.5.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.5.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">He catches the wise in their craftiness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.5.13"><span class="content">and the schemes of the wily are swept away.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.5.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.5.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Darkness comes upon them in the daytime;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.5.14"><span class="content">at noon they grope as in the night.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.5.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.5.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">He saves the needy from the sword in their mouth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.5.15"><span class="content">he saves them from the clutches of the powerful.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.5.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.5.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">So the poor have hope,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.5.16"><span class="content">and injustice shuts its mouth.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.5.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.5.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;Blessed is the one whom God corrects;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.5.17"><span class="content">so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">5:17 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Shaddai</span><span class="ft">; here and throughout Job</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.5.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.5.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">For he wounds, but he also binds up;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.5.18"><span class="content">he injures, but his hands also heal.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.5.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.5.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">From six calamities he will rescue you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.5.19"><span class="content">in seven no harm will touch you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.5.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.5.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">In famine he will deliver you from death,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.5.20"><span class="content">and in battle from the stroke of the sword.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.5.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.5.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">You will be protected from the lash of the tongue,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.5.21"><span class="content">and need not fear when destruction comes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.5.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.5.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">You will laugh at destruction and famine,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.5.22"><span class="content">and need not fear the wild animals.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.5.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.5.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">For you will have a covenant with the stones of the field,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.5.23"><span class="content">and the wild animals will be at peace with you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.5.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.5.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">You will know that your tent is secure;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.5.24"><span class="content">you will take stock of your property and find nothing missing.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.5.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.5.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">You will know that your children will be many,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.5.25"><span class="content">and your descendants like the grass of the earth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.5.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.5.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">You will come to the grave in full vigor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.5.26"><span class="content">like sheaves gathered in season.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.5.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.5.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">&#8220;We have examined this, and it is true.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.5.27"><span class="content">So hear it and apply it to yourself.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">6</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Job</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.6.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then Job replied:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.6.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.6.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;If only my anguish could be weighed</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.6.2"><span class="content">and all my misery be placed on the scales!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.6.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.6.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">It would surely outweigh the sand of the seas&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.6.3"><span class="content">no wonder my words have been impetuous.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.6.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.6.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The arrows of the Almighty are in me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.6.4"><span class="content">my spirit drinks in their poison;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.6.4"><span class="content">God&#8217;s terrors are marshaled against me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.6.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.6.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Does a wild donkey bray when it has grass,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.6.5"><span class="content">or an ox bellow when it has fodder?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.6.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.6.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Is tasteless food eaten without salt,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.6.6"><span class="content">or is there flavor in the sap of the mallow</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:6 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content">?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.6.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.6.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">I refuse to touch it;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.6.7"><span class="content">such food makes me ill.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.6.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.6.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;Oh, that I might have my request,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.6.8"><span class="content">that God would grant what I hope for,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.6.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.6.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">that God would be willing to crush me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.6.9"><span class="content">to let loose his hand and cut off my life!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.6.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.6.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Then I would still have this consolation&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.6.10"><span class="content">my joy in unrelenting pain&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.6.10"><span class="content">that I had not denied the words of the Holy One.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.6.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.6.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;What strength do I have, that I should still hope?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.6.11"><span class="content">What prospects, that I should be patient?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.6.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.6.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Do I have the strength of stone?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.6.12"><span class="content">Is my flesh bronze?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.6.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.6.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Do I have any power to help myself,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.6.13"><span class="content">now that success has been driven from me?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.6.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.6.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;Anyone who withholds kindness from a friend</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.6.14"><span class="content">forsakes the fear of the Almighty.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.6.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.6.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">But my brothers are as undependable as intermittent streams,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.6.15"><span class="content">as the streams that overflow</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.6.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.6.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">when darkened by thawing ice</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.6.16"><span class="content">and swollen with melting snow,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.6.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.6.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">but that stop flowing in the dry season,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.6.17"><span class="content">and in the heat vanish from their channels.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.6.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.6.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Caravans turn aside from their routes;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.6.18"><span class="content">they go off into the wasteland and perish.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.6.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.6.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The caravans of Tema look for water,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.6.19"><span class="content">the traveling merchants of Sheba look in hope.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.6.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.6.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">They are distressed, because they had been confident;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.6.20"><span class="content">they arrive there, only to be disappointed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.6.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.6.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Now you too have proved to be of no help;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.6.21"><span class="content">you see something dreadful and are afraid.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.6.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.6.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Have I ever said, &#8216;Give something on my behalf,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.6.22"><span class="content">pay a ransom for me from your wealth,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.6.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.6.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">deliver me from the hand of the enemy,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.6.23"><span class="content">rescue me from the clutches of the ruthless&#8217;?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.6.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.6.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">&#8220;Teach me, and I will be quiet;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.6.24"><span class="content">show me where I have been wrong.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.6.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.6.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">How painful are honest words!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.6.25"><span class="content">But what do your arguments prove?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.6.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.6.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Do you mean to correct what I say,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.6.26"><span class="content">and treat my desperate words as wind?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.6.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.6.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">You would even cast lots for the fatherless</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.6.27"><span class="content">and barter away your friend.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.6.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.6.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">&#8220;But now be so kind as to look at me.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.6.28"><span class="content">Would I lie to your face?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.6.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.6.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Relent, do not be unjust;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.6.29"><span class="content">reconsider, for my integrity is at stake.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:29 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">my righteousness still stands</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.6.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.6.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Is there any wickedness on my lips?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.6.30"><span class="content">Can my mouth not discern malice?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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         <div class="label">7</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.7.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do not mortals have hard service on earth?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.7.1"><span class="content">Are not their days like those of hired laborers?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.7.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.7.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Like a slave longing for the evening shadows,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.7.2"><span class="content">or a hired laborer waiting to be paid,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.7.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.7.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">so I have been allotted months of futility,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.7.3"><span class="content">and nights of misery have been assigned to me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.7.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.7.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">When I lie down I think, &#8216;How long before I get up?&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.7.4"><span class="content">The night drags on, and I toss and turn until dawn.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.7.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.7.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">My body is clothed with worms and scabs,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.7.5"><span class="content">my skin is broken and festering.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.7.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.7.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;My days are swifter than a weaver&#8217;s shuttle,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.7.6"><span class="content">and they come to an end without hope.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.7.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.7.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Remember, O God, that my life is but a breath;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.7.7"><span class="content">my eyes will never see happiness again.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.7.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.7.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The eye that now sees me will see me no longer;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.7.8"><span class="content">you will look for me, but I will be no more.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.7.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.7.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">As a cloud vanishes and is gone,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.7.9"><span class="content">so one who goes down to the grave does not return.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.7.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.7.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">He will never come to his house again;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.7.10"><span class="content">his place will know him no more.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.7.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.7.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;Therefore I will not keep silent;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.7.11"><span class="content">I will speak out in the anguish of my spirit,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.7.11"><span class="content">I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.7.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.7.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Am I the sea, or the monster of the deep,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.7.12"><span class="content">that you put me under guard?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.7.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.7.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">When I think my bed will comfort me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.7.13"><span class="content">and my couch will ease my complaint,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.7.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.7.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">even then you frighten me with dreams</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.7.14"><span class="content">and terrify me with visions,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.7.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.7.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">so that I prefer strangling and death,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.7.15"><span class="content">rather than this body of mine.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.7.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.7.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">I despise my life; I would not live forever.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.7.16"><span class="content">Let me alone; my days have no meaning.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.7.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.7.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;What is mankind that you make so much of them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.7.17"><span class="content">that you give them so much attention,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.7.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.7.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">that you examine them every morning</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.7.18"><span class="content">and test them every moment?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.7.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.7.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Will you never look away from me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.7.19"><span class="content">or let me alone even for an instant?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.7.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.7.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">If I have sinned, what have I done to you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.7.20"><span class="content">you who see everything we do?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.7.20"><span class="content">Why have you made me your target?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.7.20"><span class="content">Have I become a burden to you?</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:20 </span><span class="ft">A few manuscripts of the Masoretic Text, an ancient Hebrew scribal tradition and Septuagint; most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">I have become a burden to myself.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.7.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.7.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Why do you not pardon my offenses</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.7.21"><span class="content">and forgive my sins?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.7.21"><span class="content">For I will soon lie down in the dust;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.7.21"><span class="content">you will search for me, but I will be no more.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch19" data-usfm="MAT.19.1+MAT.19.2+MAT.19.3+MAT.19.4+MAT.19.5+MAT.19.6+MAT.19.7+MAT.19.8+MAT.19.9+MAT.19.10+MAT.19.11+MAT.19.12+MAT.19.13+MAT.19.14+MAT.19.15">
         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MAT.19.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">When Jesus had finished saying these things, he left Galilee and went into the region of Judea to the other side of the Jordan. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MAT.19.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Large crowds followed him, and he healed them there.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MAT.19.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MAT.19.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Some Pharisees came to him to test him. They asked, &#8220;Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any and every reason?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MAT.19.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MAT.19.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Haven&#8217;t you read,&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> he replied, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;that at the beginning the Creator &#8216;made them male and female,&#8217;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:4 </span><span class="ft">Gen. 1:27</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MAT.19.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">and said, &#8216;For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh&#8217;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:5 </span><span class="ft">Gen. 2:24</span></span></span><span class="wj"><span class="content">?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MAT.19.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MAT.19.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MAT.19.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;Why then,&#8221; they asked, &#8220;did Moses command that a man give his wife a certificate of divorce and send her away?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MAT.19.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MAT.19.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Jesus replied, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because your hearts were hard. But it was not this way from the beginning.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MAT.19.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MAT.19.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MAT.19.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The disciples said to him, &#8220;If this is the situation between a husband and wife, it is better not to marry.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MAT.19.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MAT.19.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Jesus replied, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Not everyone can accept this word, but only those to whom it has been given.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MAT.19.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For there are eunuchs who were born that way, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by others&#8212;and there are those who choose to live like eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. The one who can accept this should accept it.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Little Children and Jesus</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MAT.19.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MAT.19.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Then people brought little children to Jesus for him to place his hands on them and pray for them. But the disciples rebuked them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MAT.19.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MAT.19.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Jesus said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MAT.19.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">When he had placed his hands on them, he went on from there.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.17.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Hear me, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, my plea is just;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.17.1"><span class="content">listen to my cry.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.17.1"><span class="content">Hear my prayer&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.17.1"><span class="content">it does not rise from deceitful lips.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.17.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.17.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Let my vindication come from you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.17.2"><span class="content">may your eyes see what is right.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.17.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.17.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Though you probe my heart,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.17.3"><span class="content">though you examine me at night and test me,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.17.3"><span class="content">you will find that I have planned no evil;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.17.3"><span class="content">my mouth has not transgressed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.17.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.17.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Though people tried to bribe me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.17.4"><span class="content">I have kept myself from the ways of the violent</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.17.4"><span class="content">through what your lips have commanded.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.17.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.17.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">My steps have held to your paths;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.17.5"><span class="content">my feet have not stumbled.</span></span></div>
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