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         <div class="label">21</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Job</span></div><div class="p"><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><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><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"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.21.3"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.21.3"></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><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><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><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><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><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><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><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><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><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><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><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><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"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.21.16"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.21.16"></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><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><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><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><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"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.21.21"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.21.21"></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><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><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><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><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"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.21.26"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.21.26"></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><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><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><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><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><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><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"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.21.33"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.21.33"></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="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><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><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"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.22.3"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.22.3"></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><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><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><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><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><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><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><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"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.22.11"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.22.11"></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><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><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><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><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><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><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><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><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"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.22.20"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.22.20"></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><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><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><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><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><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><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><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><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><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="label">16</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Parable of the Shrewd Manager</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="LUK.16.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Jesus told his disciples: </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;There was a rich man whose manager was accused of wasting his possessions.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LUK.16.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">So he called him in and asked him, &#8216;What is this I hear about you? Give an account of your management, because you cannot be manager any longer.&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LUK.16.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LUK.16.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;The manager said to himself, &#8216;What shall I do now? My master is taking away my job. I&#8217;m not strong enough to dig, and I&#8217;m ashamed to beg&#8212;</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LUK.16.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I know what I&#8217;ll do so that, when I lose my job here, people will welcome me into their houses.&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LUK.16.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LUK.16.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;So he called in each one of his master&#8217;s debtors. He asked the first, &#8216;How much do you owe my master?&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LUK.16.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LUK.16.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Nine hundred gallons</span></span><span class="content"> </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">16:6 </span><span class="ft">Or about 3,000 liters</span><span class="ft"> </span></span></span><span class="wj"><span class="content">of olive oil,&#8217; he replied.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LUK.16.6"><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;The manager told him, &#8216;Take your bill, sit down quickly, and make it four hundred and fifty.&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LUK.16.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LUK.16.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Then he asked the second, &#8216;And how much do you owe?&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LUK.16.7"><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;A thousand bushels</span></span><span class="content"> </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">16:7 </span><span class="ft">Or about 30 tons</span><span class="ft"> </span></span></span><span class="wj"><span class="content">of wheat,&#8217; he replied.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LUK.16.7"><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;He told him, &#8216;Take your bill and make it eight hundred.&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LUK.16.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LUK.16.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;The master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly. For the people of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own kind than are the people of the light.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LUK.16.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I tell you, use worldly wealth to gain friends for yourselves, so that when it is gone, you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LUK.16.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LUK.16.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LUK.16.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">So if you have not been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who will trust you with true riches?</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LUK.16.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">And if you have not been trustworthy with someone else&#8217;s property, who will give you property of your own?</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LUK.16.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LUK.16.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LUK.16.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LUK.16.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The Pharisees, who loved money, heard all this and were sneering at Jesus. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LUK.16.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">He said to them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;You are the ones who justify yourselves in the eyes of others, but God knows your hearts. What people value highly is detestable in God&#8217;s sight.</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Additional Teachings</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LUK.16.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LUK.16.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;The Law and the Prophets were proclaimed until John. Since that time, the good news of the kingdom of God is being preached, and everyone is forcing their way into it.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LUK.16.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">It is easier for heaven and earth to disappear than for the least stroke of a pen to drop out of the Law.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LUK.16.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LUK.16.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery, and the man who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Rich Man and Lazarus</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LUK.16.18"></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LUK.16.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and lived in luxury every day.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LUK.16.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">At his gate was laid a beggar named Lazarus, covered with sores</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LUK.16.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">and longing to eat what fell from the rich man&#8217;s table. Even the dogs came and licked his sores.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LUK.16.21"></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LUK.16.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;The time came when the beggar died and the angels carried him to Abraham&#8217;s side. The rich man also died and was buried.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="LUK.16.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">In Hades, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far away, with Lazarus by his side.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="LUK.16.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">So he called to him, &#8216;Father Abraham, have pity on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in agony in this fire.&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="LUK.16.24"></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="LUK.16.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;But Abraham replied, &#8216;Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things, but now he is comforted here and you are in agony.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="LUK.16.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been set in place, so that those who want to go from here to you cannot, nor can anyone cross over from there to us.&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="LUK.16.26"></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="LUK.16.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;He answered, &#8216;Then I beg you, father, send Lazarus to my family,</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="LUK.16.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">for I have five brothers. Let him warn them, so that they will not also come to this place of torment.&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="LUK.16.28"></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="LUK.16.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Abraham replied, &#8216;They have Moses and the Prophets; let them listen to them.&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="LUK.16.29"></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="LUK.16.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;No, father Abraham,&#8217; he said, &#8216;but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent.&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="LUK.16.30"></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="LUK.16.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;He said to him, &#8216;If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">11</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Two Witnesses</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="REV.11.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">I was given a reed like a measuring rod and was told, &#8220;Go and measure the temple of God and the altar, with its worshipers. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="REV.11.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">But exclude the outer court; do not measure it, because it has been given to the Gentiles. They will trample on the holy city for 42 months. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="REV.11.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">And I will appoint my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="REV.11.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">They are &#8220;the two olive trees&#8221; and the two lampstands, and &#8220;they stand before the Lord of the earth.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">11:4 </span><span class="ft">See <span class="ref" usfm="ZEC.4.3">Zech. 4:3</span>,<span class="ref" usfm="ZEC.4.11">11</span>,<span class="ref" usfm="ZEC.4.14">14</span>.</span></span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="REV.11.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">If anyone tries to harm them, fire comes from their mouths and devours their enemies. This is how anyone who wants to harm them must die. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="REV.11.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">They have power to shut up the heavens so that it will not rain during the time they are prophesying; and they have power to turn the waters into blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague as often as they want.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="REV.11.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="REV.11.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Now when they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up from the Abyss will attack them, and overpower and kill them. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="REV.11.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Their bodies will lie in the public square of the great city&#8212;which is figuratively called Sodom and Egypt&#8212;where also their Lord was crucified. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="REV.11.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">For three and a half days some from every people, tribe, language and nation will gaze on their bodies and refuse them burial. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="REV.11.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The inhabitants of the earth will gloat over them and will celebrate by sending each other gifts, because these two prophets had tormented those who live on the earth.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="REV.11.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="REV.11.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">But after the three and a half days the breath</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">11:11 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Spirit </span><span class="ft">(see <span class="ref" usfm="EZK.37.5">Ezek. 37:5</span>,<span class="ref" usfm="EZK.37.14">14</span>)</span></span></span><span class="content"> of life from God entered them, and they stood on their feet, and terror struck those who saw them. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.11.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Then they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, &#8220;Come up here.&#8221; And they went up to heaven in a cloud, while their enemies looked on.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.11.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="REV.11.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">At that very hour there was a severe earthquake and a tenth of the city collapsed. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the survivors were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="REV.11.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="REV.11.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The second woe has passed; the third woe is coming soon.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Seventh Trumpet</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="REV.11.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="REV.11.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, which said:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="REV.11.15"><span class="content">&#8220;The kingdom of the world has become</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="REV.11.15"><span class="content">the kingdom of our Lord and of his Messiah,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="REV.11.15"><span class="content">and he will reign for ever and ever.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="REV.11.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="REV.11.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">And the twenty-four elders, who were seated on their thrones before God, fell on their faces and worshiped God, </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="REV.11.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">saying:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="REV.11.17"><span class="content">&#8220;We give thanks to you, Lord God Almighty,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="REV.11.17"><span class="content">the One who is and who was,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="REV.11.17"><span class="content">because you have taken your great power</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="REV.11.17"><span class="content">and have begun to reign.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="REV.11.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="REV.11.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">The nations were angry,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="REV.11.18"><span class="content">and your wrath has come.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="REV.11.18"><span class="content">The time has come for judging the dead,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="REV.11.18"><span class="content">and for rewarding your servants the prophets</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="REV.11.18"><span class="content">and your people who revere your name,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="REV.11.18"><span class="content">both great and small&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="REV.11.18"><span class="content">and for destroying those who destroy the earth.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="REV.11.18"></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="REV.11.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Then God&#8217;s temple in heaven was opened, and within his temple was seen the ark of his covenant. And there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake and a severe hailstorm.</span></span></div>
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