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         <div class="label">24</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Destruction of the Temple and Signs of the End Times</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MAT.24.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Jesus left the temple and was walking away when his disciples came up to him to call his attention to its buildings. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MAT.24.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Do you see all these things?&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> he asked. </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Truly I tell you, not one stone here will be left on another; every one will be thrown down.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MAT.24.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MAT.24.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">As Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately. &#8220;Tell us,&#8221; they said, &#8220;when will this happen, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MAT.24.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MAT.24.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Jesus answered: </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Watch out that no one deceives you.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MAT.24.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For many will come in my name, claiming, &#8216;I am the Messiah,&#8217; and will deceive many.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MAT.24.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MAT.24.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MAT.24.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">All these are the beginning of birth pains.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MAT.24.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MAT.24.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of me.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MAT.24.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">At that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other,</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MAT.24.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MAT.24.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold,</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MAT.24.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MAT.24.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MAT.24.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MAT.24.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;So when you see standing in the holy place &#8216;the abomination that causes desolation,&#8217;</span></span><span class="content"> </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">24:15 </span><span class="ft"><span class="ref" usfm="DAN.9.27">Daniel 9:27</span>; <span class="ref" usfm="DAN.11.31">11:31</span>; <span class="ref" usfm="DAN.12.11">12:11</span> </span></span></span><span class="wj"><span class="content">spoken of through the prophet Daniel&#8212;let the reader understand&#8212;</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MAT.24.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MAT.24.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Let no one on the housetop go down to take anything out of the house.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MAT.24.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Let no one in the field go back to get their cloak.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MAT.24.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers!</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MAT.24.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Pray that your flight will not take place in winter or on the Sabbath.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="MAT.24.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now&#8212;and never to be equaled again.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="MAT.24.21"></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="MAT.24.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="MAT.24.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">At that time if anyone says to you, &#8216;Look, here is the Messiah!&#8217; or, &#8216;There he is!&#8217; do not believe it.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="MAT.24.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="MAT.24.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">See, I have told you ahead of time.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="MAT.24.25"></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="MAT.24.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;So if anyone tells you, &#8216;There he is, out in the wilderness,&#8217; do not go out; or, &#8216;Here he is, in the inner rooms,&#8217; do not believe it.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="MAT.24.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For as lightning that comes from the east is visible even in the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="MAT.24.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Wherever there is a carcass, there the vultures will gather.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="MAT.24.28"></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="MAT.24.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Immediately after the distress of those days</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="MAT.24.29"><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;the sun will be darkened,</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="MAT.24.29"><span class="wj"><span class="content">and the moon will not give its light;</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="MAT.24.29"><span class="wj"><span class="content">the stars will fall from the sky,</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="MAT.24.29"><span class="wj"><span class="content">and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.&#8217;</span></span><span class="content"> </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">24:29 </span><span class="ft"><span class="ref" usfm="ISA.13.10">Isaiah 13:10</span>; <span class="ref" usfm="ISA.34.4">34:4</span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="MAT.24.29"></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="MAT.24.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Then will appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven. And then all the peoples of the earth</span></span><span class="content"> </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">24:30 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">the tribes of the land</span><span class="ft"> </span></span></span><span class="wj"><span class="content">will mourn when they see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory.</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">24:30 </span><span class="ft">See <span class="ref" usfm="DAN.7.13+DAN.7.14">Daniel 7:13-14</span>.</span></span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="MAT.24.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="MAT.24.31"></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="MAT.24.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its twigs get tender and its leaves come out, you know that summer is near.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="MAT.24.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Even so, when you see all these things, you know that it</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">24:33 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">he</span></span></span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">is near, right at the door.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="MAT.24.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Truly I tell you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="MAT.24.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Day and Hour Unknown</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="MAT.24.35"></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="MAT.24.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son,</span></span><span class="content"> </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">24:36 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts do not have </span><span class="fqa">nor the Son.</span><span class="ft"> </span></span></span><span class="wj"><span class="content">but only the Father.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="MAT.24.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="MAT.24.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark;</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="MAT.24.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="MAT.24.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="MAT.24.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="MAT.24.41"></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="MAT.24.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="MAT.24.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="MAT.24.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="MAT.24.44"></span><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="MAT.24.45"><span class="label">45</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom the master has put in charge of the servants in his household to give them their food at the proper time?</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="MAT.24.46"><span class="label">46</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">It will be good for that servant whose master finds him doing so when he returns.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="MAT.24.47"><span class="label">47</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Truly I tell you, he will put him in charge of all his possessions.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="MAT.24.48"><span class="label">48</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But suppose that servant is wicked and says to himself, &#8216;My master is staying away a long time,&#8217;</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="MAT.24.49"><span class="label">49</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">and he then begins to beat his fellow servants and to eat and drink with drunkards.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v50" data-usfm="MAT.24.50"><span class="label">50</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">The master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he is not aware of.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v51" data-usfm="MAT.24.51"><span class="label">51</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.</span></span></span></div>
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   <div class="book bkPSA">
      <div class="chapter ch41" data-usfm="PSA.41">
         <div class="label">41</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 41</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 41:1-13 is numbered 41:2-14.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. A psalm of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.41.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Blessed are those who have regard for the weak;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.41.1"><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> delivers them in times of trouble.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.41.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.41.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> protects and preserves them&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.41.2"><span class="content">they are counted among the blessed in the land&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.41.2"><span class="content">he does not give them over to the desire of their foes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.41.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.41.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> sustains them on their sickbed</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.41.3"><span class="content">and restores them from their bed of illness.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.41.3"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.41.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.41.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I said, &#8220;Have mercy on me, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.41.4"><span class="content">heal me, for I have sinned against you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.41.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.41.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">My enemies say of me in malice,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.41.5"><span class="content">&#8220;When will he die and his name perish?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.41.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.41.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">When one of them comes to see me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.41.6"><span class="content">he speaks falsely, while his heart gathers slander;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.41.6"><span class="content">then he goes out and spreads it around.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.41.6"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.41.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.41.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">All my enemies whisper together against me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.41.7"><span class="content">they imagine the worst for me, saying,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.41.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.41.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;A vile disease has afflicted him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.41.8"><span class="content">he will never get up from the place where he lies.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.41.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.41.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Even my close friend,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.41.9"><span class="content">someone I trusted,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.41.9"><span class="content">one who shared my bread,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.41.9"><span class="content">has turned</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">41:9 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">has lifted up his heel</span></span></span><span class="content"> against me.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.41.9"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.41.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.41.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">But may you have mercy on me, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.41.10"><span class="content">raise me up, that I may repay them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.41.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.41.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">I know that you are pleased with me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.41.11"><span class="content">for my enemy does not triumph over me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.41.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.41.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Because of my integrity you uphold me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.41.12"><span class="content">and set me in your presence forever.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.41.12"></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.41.12"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.41.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.41.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Praise be to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.41.13"><span class="content">from everlasting to everlasting.</span></span></div><div class="qc"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.41.13"><span class="content">Amen and Amen.</span></span></div>
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<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
   <div class="book bkJOB">
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         <div class="label">16</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Job</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.16.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then Job replied:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.16.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.16.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;I have heard many things like these;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.16.2"><span class="content">you are miserable comforters, all of you!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.16.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.16.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Will your long-winded speeches never end?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.16.3"><span class="content">What ails you that you keep on arguing?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.16.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.16.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I also could speak like you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.16.4"><span class="content">if you were in my place;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.16.4"><span class="content">I could make fine speeches against you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.16.4"><span class="content">and shake my head at you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.16.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.16.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">But my mouth would encourage you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.16.5"><span class="content">comfort from my lips would bring you relief.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.16.5"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.16.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.16.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;Yet if I speak, my pain is not relieved;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.16.6"><span class="content">and if I refrain, it does not go away.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.16.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.16.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Surely, God, you have worn me out;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.16.7"><span class="content">you have devastated my entire household.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.16.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.16.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">You have shriveled me up&#8212;and it has become a witness;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.16.8"><span class="content">my gauntness rises up and testifies against me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.16.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.16.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">God assails me and tears me in his anger</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.16.9"><span class="content">and gnashes his teeth at me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.16.9"><span class="content">my opponent fastens on me his piercing eyes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.16.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.16.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">People open their mouths to jeer at me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.16.10"><span class="content">they strike my cheek in scorn</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.16.10"><span class="content">and unite together against me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.16.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.16.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">God has turned me over to the ungodly</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.16.11"><span class="content">and thrown me into the clutches of the wicked.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.16.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.16.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">All was well with me, but he shattered me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.16.12"><span class="content">he seized me by the neck and crushed me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.16.12"><span class="content">He has made me his target;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.16.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.16.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">his archers surround me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.16.13"><span class="content">Without pity, he pierces my kidneys</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.16.13"><span class="content">and spills my gall on the ground.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.16.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.16.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Again and again he bursts upon me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.16.14"><span class="content">he rushes at me like a warrior.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.16.14"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.16.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.16.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;I have sewed sackcloth over my skin</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.16.15"><span class="content">and buried my brow in the dust.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.16.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.16.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">My face is red with weeping,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.16.16"><span class="content">dark shadows ring my eyes;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.16.16"></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.16.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">yet my hands have been free of violence</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.16.17"><span class="content">and my prayer is pure.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.16.17"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.16.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.16.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;Earth, do not cover my blood;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.16.18"><span class="content">may my cry never be laid to rest!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.16.18"></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.16.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Even now my witness is in heaven;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.16.19"><span class="content">my advocate is on high.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.16.19"></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.16.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">My intercessor is my friend</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">16:20 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">My friends treat me with scorn</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.16.20"><span class="content">as my eyes pour out tears to God;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.16.20"></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.16.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">on behalf of a man he pleads with God</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.16.21"><span class="content">as one pleads for a friend.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.16.21"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.16.21"></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.16.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">&#8220;Only a few years will pass</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.16.22"><span class="content">before I take the path of no return.</span></span></div>
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