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         <div class="label">21</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Job</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.21.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then Job replied:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.21.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.21.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Listen carefully to my words;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.21.2"><span class="content">let this be the consolation you give me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.21.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.21.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Bear with me while I speak,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.21.3"><span class="content">and after I have spoken, mock on.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.21.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.21.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;Is my complaint directed to a human being?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.21.4"><span class="content">Why should I not be impatient?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.21.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.21.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Look at me and be appalled;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.21.5"><span class="content">clap your hand over your mouth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.21.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.21.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">When I think about this, I am terrified;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.21.6"><span class="content">trembling seizes my body.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.21.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.21.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Why do the wicked live on,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.21.7"><span class="content">growing old and increasing in power?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.21.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.21.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">They see their children established around them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.21.8"><span class="content">their offspring before their eyes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.21.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.21.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Their homes are safe and free from fear;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.21.9"><span class="content">the rod of God is not on them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.21.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.21.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Their bulls never fail to breed;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.21.10"><span class="content">their cows calve and do not miscarry.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.21.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.21.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">They send forth their children as a flock;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.21.11"><span class="content">their little ones dance about.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.21.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.21.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">They sing to the music of timbrel and lyre;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.21.12"><span class="content">they make merry to the sound of the pipe.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.21.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.21.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">They spend their years in prosperity</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.21.13"><span class="content">and go down to the grave in peace.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">21:13 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">in an instant</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.21.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.21.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Yet they say to God, &#8216;Leave us alone!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.21.14"><span class="content">We have no desire to know your ways.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.21.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.21.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.21.15"><span class="content">What would we gain by praying to him?&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.21.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.21.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">But their prosperity is not in their own hands,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.21.16"><span class="content">so I stand aloof from the plans of the wicked.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.21.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.21.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;Yet how often is the lamp of the wicked snuffed out?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.21.17"><span class="content">How often does calamity come upon them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.21.17"><span class="content">the fate God allots in his anger?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.21.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.21.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">How often are they like straw before the wind,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.21.18"><span class="content">like chaff swept away by a gale?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.21.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.21.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">It is said, &#8216;God stores up the punishment of the wicked for their children.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.21.19"><span class="content">Let him repay the wicked, so that they themselves will experience it!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.21.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.21.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Let their own eyes see their destruction;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.21.20"><span class="content">let them drink the cup of the wrath of the Almighty.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.21.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.21.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">For what do they care about the families they leave behind</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.21.21"><span class="content">when their allotted months come to an end?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.21.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.21.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">&#8220;Can anyone teach knowledge to God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.21.22"><span class="content">since he judges even the highest?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.21.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.21.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">One person dies in full vigor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.21.23"><span class="content">completely secure and at ease,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.21.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.21.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">well nourished in body,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">21:24 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.21.24"><span class="content">bones rich with marrow.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.21.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.21.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Another dies in bitterness of soul,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.21.25"><span class="content">never having enjoyed anything good.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.21.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.21.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Side by side they lie in the dust,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.21.26"><span class="content">and worms cover them both.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.21.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.21.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">&#8220;I know full well what you are thinking,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.21.27"><span class="content">the schemes by which you would wrong me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.21.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.21.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">You say, &#8216;Where now is the house of the great,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.21.28"><span class="content">the tents where the wicked lived?&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.21.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.21.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Have you never questioned those who travel?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.21.29"><span class="content">Have you paid no regard to their accounts&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.21.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.21.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">that the wicked are spared from the day of calamity,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.21.30"><span class="content">that they are delivered from</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">21:30 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">wicked are reserved for the day of calamity, / that they are brought forth to</span></span></span><span class="content"> the day of wrath?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.21.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.21.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Who denounces their conduct to their face?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.21.31"><span class="content">Who repays them for what they have done?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.21.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOB.21.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">They are carried to the grave,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOB.21.32"><span class="content">and watch is kept over their tombs.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOB.21.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.21.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">The soil in the valley is sweet to them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.21.33"><span class="content">everyone follows after them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.21.33"><span class="content">and a countless throng goes</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">21:33 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">them, / as a countless throng went</span></span></span><span class="content"> before them.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.21.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JOB.21.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">&#8220;So how can you console me with your nonsense?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JOB.21.34"><span class="content">Nothing is left of your answers but falsehood!&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">22</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Eliphaz</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.22.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.22.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.22.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Can a man be of benefit to God?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.22.2"><span class="content">Can even a wise person benefit him?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.22.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.22.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">What pleasure would it give the Almighty if you were righteous?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.22.3"><span class="content">What would he gain if your ways were blameless?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.22.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.22.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;Is it for your piety that he rebukes you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.22.4"><span class="content">and brings charges against you?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.22.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.22.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Is not your wickedness great?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.22.5"><span class="content">Are not your sins endless?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.22.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.22.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">You demanded security from your relatives for no reason;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.22.6"><span class="content">you stripped people of their clothing, leaving them naked.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.22.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.22.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">You gave no water to the weary</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.22.7"><span class="content">and you withheld food from the hungry,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.22.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.22.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">though you were a powerful man, owning land&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.22.8"><span class="content">an honored man, living on it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.22.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.22.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">And you sent widows away empty-handed</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.22.9"><span class="content">and broke the strength of the fatherless.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.22.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.22.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">That is why snares are all around you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.22.10"><span class="content">why sudden peril terrifies you,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.22.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.22.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">why it is so dark you cannot see,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.22.11"><span class="content">and why a flood of water covers you.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.22.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.22.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;Is not God in the heights of heaven?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.22.12"><span class="content">And see how lofty are the highest stars!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.22.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.22.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Yet you say, &#8216;What does God know?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.22.13"><span class="content">Does he judge through such darkness?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.22.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.22.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Thick clouds veil him, so he does not see us</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.22.14"><span class="content">as he goes about in the vaulted heavens.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.22.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.22.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Will you keep to the old path</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.22.15"><span class="content">that the wicked have trod?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.22.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.22.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">They were carried off before their time,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.22.16"><span class="content">their foundations washed away by a flood.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.22.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.22.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">They said to God, &#8216;Leave us alone!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.22.17"><span class="content">What can the Almighty do to us?&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.22.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.22.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Yet it was he who filled their houses with good things,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.22.18"><span class="content">so I stand aloof from the plans of the wicked.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.22.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.22.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The righteous see their ruin and rejoice;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.22.19"><span class="content">the innocent mock them, saying,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.22.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.22.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8216;Surely our foes are destroyed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.22.20"><span class="content">and fire devours their wealth.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.22.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.22.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">&#8220;Submit to God and be at peace with him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.22.21"><span class="content">in this way prosperity will come to you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.22.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.22.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Accept instruction from his mouth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.22.22"><span class="content">and lay up his words in your heart.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.22.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.22.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.22.23"><span class="content">If you remove wickedness far from your tent</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.22.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.22.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">and assign your nuggets to the dust,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.22.24"><span class="content">your gold of Ophir to the rocks in the ravines,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.22.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.22.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">then the Almighty will be your gold,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.22.25"><span class="content">the choicest silver for you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.22.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.22.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Surely then you will find delight in the Almighty</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.22.26"><span class="content">and will lift up your face to God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.22.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.22.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">You will pray to him, and he will hear you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.22.27"><span class="content">and you will fulfill your vows.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.22.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.22.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">What you decide on will be done,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.22.28"><span class="content">and light will shine on your ways.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.22.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.22.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">When people are brought low and you say, &#8216;Lift them up!&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.22.29"><span class="content">then he will save the downcast.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.22.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.22.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">He will deliver even one who is not innocent,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.22.30"><span class="content">who will be delivered through the cleanness of your hands.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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   <div class="book bkISA">
      <div class="chapter ch31" data-usfm="ISA.31">
         <div class="label">31</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Woe to Those Who Rely on Egypt</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.31.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.31.1"><span class="content">who rely on horses,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.31.1"><span class="content">who trust in the multitude of their chariots</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.31.1"><span class="content">and in the great strength of their horsemen,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.31.1"><span class="content">but do not look to the Holy One of Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.31.1"><span class="content">or seek help from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.31.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.31.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Yet he too is wise and can bring disaster;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.31.2"><span class="content">he does not take back his words.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.31.2"><span class="content">He will rise up against that wicked nation,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.31.2"><span class="content">against those who help evildoers.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.31.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.31.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">But the Egyptians are mere mortals and not God;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.31.3"><span class="content">their horses are flesh and not spirit.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.31.3"><span class="content">When the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> stretches out his hand,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.31.3"><span class="content">those who help will stumble,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.31.3"><span class="content">those who are helped will fall;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.31.3"><span class="content">all will perish together.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.31.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.31.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says to me:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.31.4"><span class="content">&#8220;As a lion growls,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.31.4"><span class="content">a great lion over its prey&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.31.4"><span class="content">and though a whole band of shepherds</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.31.4"><span class="content">is called together against it,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.31.4"><span class="content">it is not frightened by their shouts</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.31.4"><span class="content">or disturbed by their clamor&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.31.4"><span class="content">so the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty will come down</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.31.4"><span class="content">to do battle on Mount Zion and on its heights.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.31.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.31.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Like birds hovering overhead,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.31.5"><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty will shield Jerusalem;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.31.5"><span class="content">he will shield it and deliver it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.31.5"><span class="content">he will &#8216;pass over&#8217; it and will rescue it.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.31.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.31.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Return, you Israelites, to the One you have so greatly revolted against. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.31.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">For in that day every one of you will reject the idols of silver and gold your sinful hands have made.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.31.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.31.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;Assyria will fall by no human sword;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.31.8"><span class="content">a sword, not of mortals, will devour them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.31.8"><span class="content">They will flee before the sword</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.31.8"><span class="content">and their young men will be put to forced labor.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.31.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.31.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Their stronghold will fall because of terror;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.31.9"><span class="content">at the sight of the battle standard their commanders will panic,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.31.9"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.31.9"><span class="content">whose fire is in Zion,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.31.9"><span class="content">whose furnace is in Jerusalem.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch8" data-usfm="ROM.8">
         <div class="label">8</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Life Through the Spirit</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ROM.8.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ROM.8.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:2 </span><span class="ft">The Greek is singular; some manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">me</span></span></span><span class="content"> free from the law of sin and death. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ROM.8.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:3 </span><span class="ft">In contexts like this, the Greek word for </span><span class="fq">flesh </span><span class="ft">(<span class="tl">sarx</span>) refers to the sinful state of human beings, often presented as a power in opposition to the Spirit; also in verses 4-13.</span></span></span><span class="content"> God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:3 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">flesh, for sin</span></span></span><span class="content"> And so he condemned sin in the flesh, </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ROM.8.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ROM.8.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ROM.8.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ROM.8.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ROM.8.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God&#8217;s law, nor can it do so. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ROM.8.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ROM.8.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ROM.8.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh but are in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ROM.8.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">But if Christ is in you, then even though your body is subject to death because of sin, the Spirit gives life</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:10 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive</span></span></span><span class="content"> because of righteousness. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ROM.8.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:11 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">bodies through</span></span></span><span class="content"> his Spirit who lives in you.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ROM.8.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ROM.8.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Therefore, brothers and sisters, we have an obligation&#8212;but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ROM.8.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ROM.8.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ROM.8.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ROM.8.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:15 </span><span class="ft">The Greek word for </span><span class="fq">adoption to sonship </span><span class="ft">is a term referring to the full legal standing of an adopted male heir in Roman culture; also in verse 23.</span></span></span><span class="content"> And by him we cry, &#8220;</span><span class="tl"><span class="content">Abba,</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:15 </span><span class="ft">Aramaic for </span><span class="fqa">father</span></span></span><span class="content"> Father.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ROM.8.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God&#8217;s children. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ROM.8.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Now if we are children, then we are heirs&#8212;heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Present Suffering and Future Glory</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ROM.8.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ROM.8.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ROM.8.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ROM.8.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ROM.8.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">that</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:20,21 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">subjected it in hope. </span><span class="fv">21 </span><span class="fqa">For</span></span></span><span class="content"> the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ROM.8.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ROM.8.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ROM.8.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ROM.8.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have? </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ROM.8.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ROM.8.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ROM.8.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ROM.8.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God&#8217;s people in accordance with the will of God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ROM.8.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ROM.8.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:28 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">that all things work together for good to those who love God, who</span><span class="ft">; or </span><span class="fqa">that in all things God works together with those who love him to bring about what is good&#8212;with those who</span></span></span><span class="content"> have been called according to his purpose. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ROM.8.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="ROM.8.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">More Than Conquerors</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="ROM.8.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="ROM.8.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="ROM.8.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all&#8212;how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="ROM.8.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="ROM.8.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died&#8212;more than that, who was raised to life&#8212;is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="ROM.8.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="ROM.8.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">As it is written:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="ROM.8.36"><span class="content">&#8220;For your sake we face death all day long;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="ROM.8.36"><span class="content">we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:36 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 44:22</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="ROM.8.36"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="ROM.8.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="ROM.8.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:38 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">nor heavenly rulers</span></span></span><span class="content"> neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="ROM.8.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.</span></span></div>
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