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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name </span><span class="add"><span class="content">was</span></span><span class="content"> Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">And his sons went and feasted </span><span class="add"><span class="content">in their</span></span><span class="content"> houses, every one his day; and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">And it was so, when the days of </span><span class="add"><span class="content">their</span></span><span class="content"> feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings </span><span class="add"><span class="content">according</span></span><span class="content"> to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Job's Character</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.1.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">, and Satan came also among them. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">And the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">And the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that </span><span class="add"><span class="content">there is</span></span><span class="content"> none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Then Satan answered the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought? </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.1.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">And the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">His Afflictions</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.1.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.1.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">And there was a day when his sons and his daughters </span><span class="add"><span class="content">were</span></span><span class="content"> eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house: </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.1.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">and there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them: </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.1.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">and the Sabeans fell </span><span class="add"><span class="content">upon them</span></span><span class="content">, and took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.1.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.1.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have carried them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.1.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy sons and thy daughters </span><span class="add"><span class="content">were</span></span><span class="content"> eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house: </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.1.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">and, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.1.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.1.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped, </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.1.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">and said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> gave, and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> hath taken away; blessed be the name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.1.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.2.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">, and Satan came also among them to present himself before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.2.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">And the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> said unto Satan, From whence comest thou? And Satan answered the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.2.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">And the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that </span><span class="add"><span class="content">there is</span></span><span class="content"> none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? and still he holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.2.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">And Satan answered the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.2.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.2.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">And the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> said unto Satan, Behold, he </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> in thine hand; but save his life.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.2.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.2.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">So went Satan forth from the presence of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.2.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.2.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.2.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">His Friends</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.2.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.2.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.2.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.2.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that </span><span class="add"><span class="content">his</span></span><span class="content"> grief was very great.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">And Job spake, and said,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.3.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Let the day perish wherein I was born,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.3.3"><span class="content">And the night </span><span class="add"><span class="content">in which</span></span><span class="content"> it was said,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.3.3"><span class="content">There is a man child conceived.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.3.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Let that day be darkness;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.3.4"><span class="content">Let not God regard it from above,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.3.4"><span class="content">Neither let the light shine upon it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.3.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.3.5"><span class="content">Let a cloud dwell upon it;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.3.5"><span class="content">Let the blackness of the day terrify it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.3.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">As for</span></span><span class="content"> that night, let darkness seize upon it;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.3.6"><span class="content">Let it not be joined unto the days of the year,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.3.6"><span class="content">Let it not come into the number of the months.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.3.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Lo, let that night be solitary,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.3.7"><span class="content">Let no joyful voice come therein.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.3.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Let them curse it that curse the day,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.3.8"><span class="content">Who are ready to raise up their mourning.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.3.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.3.9"><span class="content">Let it look for light, but </span><span class="add"><span class="content">have</span></span><span class="content"> none;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.3.9"><span class="content">Neither let it see the dawning of the day:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.3.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Because it shut not up the doors of my </span><span class="add"><span class="content">mother's</span></span><span class="content"> womb,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.3.10"><span class="content">Nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.3.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Why died I not from the womb?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.3.11"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Why</span></span><span class="content"> did I </span><span class="add"><span class="content">not</span></span><span class="content"> give up the ghost</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.3.11"><span class="content">When I came out of the belly?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.3.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.3.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Why did the knees prevent me?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.3.12"><span class="content">Or why the breasts that I should suck?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.3.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.3.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">For now should I have lain still and been quiet,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.3.13"><span class="content">I should have slept: then had I been at rest,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.3.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.3.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">With kings and counsellors of the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.3.14"><span class="content">Which built desolate places for themselves;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.3.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.3.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Or with princes that had gold,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.3.15"><span class="content">Who filled their houses with silver:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.3.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.3.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.3.16"><span class="content">As infants </span><span class="add"><span class="content">which</span></span><span class="content"> never saw light.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.3.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.3.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">There the wicked cease </span><span class="add"><span class="content">from</span></span><span class="content"> troubling;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.3.17"><span class="content">And there the weary be at rest.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.3.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.3.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">There</span></span><span class="content"> the prisoners rest together;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.3.18"><span class="content">They hear not the voice of the oppressor.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.3.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.3.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The small and great are there;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.3.19"><span class="content">And the servant </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> free from his master.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.3.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.3.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.3.20"><span class="content">And life unto the bitter </span><span class="add"><span class="content">in</span></span><span class="content"> soul;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.3.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.3.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Which long for death, but it </span><span class="add"><span class="content">cometh</span></span><span class="content"> not;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.3.21"><span class="content">And dig for it more than for hid treasures;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.3.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.3.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Which rejoice exceedingly,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.3.22"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> are glad, when they can find the grave?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.3.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.3.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Why is light given</span></span><span class="content"> to a man whose way is hid,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.3.23"><span class="content">And whom God hath hedged in?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.3.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.3.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">For my sighing cometh before I eat,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.3.24"><span class="content">And my roarings are poured out like the waters.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.3.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.3.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.3.25"><span class="content">And that which I was afraid of is come unto me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.3.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.3.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.3.26"><span class="content">Yet trouble came.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch14" data-usfm="1CO.14.1+1CO.14.2+1CO.14.3+1CO.14.4+1CO.14.5+1CO.14.6+1CO.14.7+1CO.14.8+1CO.14.9+1CO.14.10+1CO.14.11+1CO.14.12+1CO.14.13+1CO.14.14+1CO.14.15+1CO.14.16+1CO.14.17">
         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1CO.14.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Follow after charity, and desire spiritual </span><span class="add"><span class="content">gifts</span></span><span class="content">, but rather that ye may prophesy. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1CO.14.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">For he that speaketh in an </span><span class="add"><span class="content">unknown</span></span><span class="content"> tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man understandeth </span><span class="add"><span class="content">him</span></span><span class="content">; howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1CO.14.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men </span><span class="add"><span class="content">to</span></span><span class="content"> edification, and exhortation, and comfort. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1CO.14.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">He that speaketh in an </span><span class="add"><span class="content">unknown</span></span><span class="content"> tongue edifieth himself; but he that prophesieth edifieth the church. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1CO.14.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">I would that ye all spake with tongues, but rather that ye prophesied: for greater </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, except he interpret, that the church may receive edifying.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1CO.14.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1CO.14.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Now, brethren, if I come unto you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, except I shall speak to you either by revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or by doctrine? </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1CO.14.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped? </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1CO.14.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle? </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1CO.14.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shall speak into the air. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1CO.14.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> without signification. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1CO.14.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh </span><span class="add"><span class="content">shall be</span></span><span class="content"> a barbarian unto me. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1CO.14.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Even so ye, forasmuch as ye are zealous of spiritual </span><span class="add"><span class="content">gifts</span></span><span class="content">, seek that ye may excel to the edifying of the church. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1CO.14.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Wherefore let him that speaketh in an </span><span class="add"><span class="content">unknown</span></span><span class="content"> tongue pray that he may interpret. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1CO.14.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">For if I pray in an </span><span class="add"><span class="content">unknown</span></span><span class="content"> tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1CO.14.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1CO.14.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Else when thou shalt bless with the spirit, how shall he that occupieth the room of the unlearned say Amen at thy giving of thanks, seeing he understandeth not what thou sayest? </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1CO.14.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">For thou verily givest thanks well, but the other is not edified. </span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch37" data-usfm="PSA.37.12+PSA.37.13+PSA.37.14+PSA.37.15+PSA.37.16+PSA.37.17+PSA.37.18+PSA.37.19+PSA.37.20+PSA.37.21+PSA.37.22+PSA.37.23+PSA.37.24+PSA.37.25+PSA.37.26+PSA.37.27+PSA.37.28+PSA.37.29">
         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.37.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The wicked plotteth against the just,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.37.12"><span class="content">And gnasheth upon him with his teeth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.37.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.37.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The Lord shall laugh at him:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.37.13"><span class="content">For he seeth that his day is coming.</span></span></div><div class="qa"><span class="heading">&#1495; Het</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.37.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.37.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.37.14"><span class="content">To cast down the poor and needy, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> to slay such as be of upright conversation.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.37.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.37.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Their sword shall enter into their own heart,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.37.15"><span class="content">And their bows shall be broken.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="qa"><span class="heading">&#1496; Tet</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.37.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.37.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">A little that a righteous man hath </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> better</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.37.16"><span class="content">Than the riches of many wicked.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.37.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.37.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">For the arms of the wicked shall be broken:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.37.17"><span class="content">But the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> upholdeth the righteous.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="qa"><span class="heading">&#1497; Yod</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.37.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.37.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> knoweth the days of the upright:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.37.18"><span class="content">And their inheritance shall be for ever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.37.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.37.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">They shall not be ashamed in the evil time:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.37.19"><span class="content">And in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="qa"><span class="heading">&#1499; Kaph</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.37.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.37.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">But the wicked shall perish,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.37.20"><span class="content">And the enemies of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">shall be</span></span><span class="content"> as the fat of lambs:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.37.20"><span class="content">They shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="qa"><span class="heading">&#1500; Lamed</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.37.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.37.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.37.21"><span class="content">But the righteous sheweth mercy, and giveth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.37.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.37.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">For </span><span class="add"><span class="content">such as be</span></span><span class="content"> blessed of him shall inherit the earth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.37.22"><span class="content">And </span><span class="add"><span class="content">they that be</span></span><span class="content"> cursed of him shall be cut off.</span></span></div><div class="qa"><span class="heading">&#1502; Mem</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.37.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.37.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">The steps of a </span><span class="add"><span class="content">good</span></span><span class="content"> man are ordered by the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.37.23"><span class="content">And he delighteth in his way.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.37.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.37.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.37.24"><span class="content">For the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> upholdeth </span><span class="add"><span class="content">him with</span></span><span class="content"> his hand.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="qa"><span class="heading">&#1504; Nun</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.37.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PSA.37.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">I have been young, and </span><span class="add"><span class="content">now</span></span><span class="content"> am old;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PSA.37.25"><span class="content">Yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PSA.37.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.37.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">He is</span></span><span class="content"> ever merciful, and lendeth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.37.26"><span class="content">And his seed </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> blessed.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="qa"><span class="heading">&#1505; Samek</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.37.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PSA.37.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Depart from evil, and do good;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PSA.37.27"><span class="content">And dwell for evermore.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PSA.37.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PSA.37.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">For the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> loveth judgment,</span></span></div><div class="qa"><span class="heading">&#1506; Ain</span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PSA.37.28"><span class="content">And forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PSA.37.28"><span class="content">But the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PSA.37.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PSA.37.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">The righteous shall inherit the land,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PSA.37.29"><span class="content">And dwell therein for ever.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch21" data-usfm="PRO.21.25+PRO.21.26">
         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.21.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">The desire of the slothful killeth him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.21.25"><span class="content">For his hands refuse to labour.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.21.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.21.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">He coveteth greedily all the day long:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.21.26"><span class="content">But the righteous giveth and spareth not.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.21.26"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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