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The Tree Life Chose Me

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Transforming Culture

The Listener’s Bible®: NIV Edition

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         <div class="label">22</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Parable of the Wedding Banquet</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MAT.22.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying: </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MAT.22.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MAT.22.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">He sent his servants to those who had been invited to the banquet to tell them to come, but they refused to come.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MAT.22.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MAT.22.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Then he sent some more servants and said, &#8216;Tell those who have been invited that I have prepared my dinner: My oxen and fattened cattle have been butchered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MAT.22.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MAT.22.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;But they paid no attention and went off&#8212;one to his field, another to his business.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MAT.22.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">The rest seized his servants, mistreated them and killed them.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MAT.22.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">The king was enraged. He sent his army and destroyed those murderers and burned their city.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MAT.22.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MAT.22.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Then he said to his servants, &#8216;The wedding banquet is ready, but those I invited did not deserve to come.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MAT.22.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">So go to the street corners and invite to the banquet anyone you find.&#8217;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MAT.22.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">So the servants went out into the streets and gathered all the people they could find, the bad as well as the good, and the wedding hall was filled with guests.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MAT.22.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MAT.22.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;But when the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who was not wearing wedding clothes.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MAT.22.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">He asked, &#8216;How did you get in here without wedding clothes, friend?&#8217; The man was speechless.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MAT.22.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MAT.22.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Then the king told the attendants, &#8216;Tie him hand and foot, and throw him outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MAT.22.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MAT.22.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;For many are invited, but few are chosen.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Paying the Imperial Tax to Caesar</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MAT.22.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MAT.22.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Then the Pharisees went out and laid plans to trap him in his words. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MAT.22.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">They sent their disciples to him along with the Herodians. &#8220;Teacher,&#8221; they said, &#8220;we know that you are a man of integrity and that you teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. You aren&#8217;t swayed by others, because you pay no attention to who they are. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MAT.22.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Tell us then, what is your opinion? Is it right to pay the imperial tax</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:17 </span><span class="ft">A special tax levied on subject peoples, not on Roman citizens</span></span></span><span class="content"> to Caesar or not?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MAT.22.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MAT.22.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">But Jesus, knowing their evil intent, said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;You hypocrites, why are you trying to trap me?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MAT.22.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Show me the coin used for paying the tax.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> They brought him a denarius, </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MAT.22.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">and he asked them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Whose image is this? And whose inscription?&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MAT.22.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="MAT.22.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">&#8220;Caesar&#8217;s,&#8221; they replied.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="MAT.22.21"><span class="content">Then he said to them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;So give back to Caesar what is Caesar&#8217;s, and to God what is God&#8217;s.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="MAT.22.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="MAT.22.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">When they heard this, they were amazed. So they left him and went away.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Marriage at the Resurrection</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="MAT.22.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="MAT.22.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">That same day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him with a question. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="MAT.22.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">&#8220;Teacher,&#8221; they said, &#8220;Moses told us that if a man dies without having children, his brother must marry the widow and raise up offspring for him. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="MAT.22.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Now there were seven brothers among us. The first one married and died, and since he had no children, he left his wife to his brother. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="MAT.22.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">The same thing happened to the second and third brother, right on down to the seventh. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="MAT.22.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Finally, the woman died. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="MAT.22.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Now then, at the resurrection, whose wife will she be of the seven, since all of them were married to her?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="MAT.22.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="MAT.22.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Jesus replied, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;You are in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="MAT.22.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="MAT.22.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But about the resurrection of the dead&#8212;have you not read what God said to you,</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="MAT.22.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8216;I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob&#8217;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:32 </span><span class="ft">Exodus 3:6</span></span></span><span class="wj"><span class="content">? He is not the God of the dead but of the living.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="MAT.22.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="MAT.22.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">When the crowds heard this, they were astonished at his teaching.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Greatest Commandment</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="MAT.22.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="MAT.22.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="MAT.22.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="MAT.22.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">&#8220;Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="MAT.22.36"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="MAT.22.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">Jesus replied: </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.&#8217;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:37 </span><span class="ft">Deut. 6:5</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="MAT.22.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">This is the first and greatest commandment.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="MAT.22.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">And the second is like it: &#8216;Love your neighbor as yourself.&#8217;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:39 </span><span class="ft">Lev. 19:18</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="MAT.22.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Whose Son Is the Messiah?</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="MAT.22.40"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="MAT.22.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="MAT.22.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;What do you think about the Messiah? Whose son is he?&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="MAT.22.42"><span class="content">&#8220;The son of David,&#8221; they replied.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="MAT.22.42"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="MAT.22.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">He said to them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;How is it then that David, speaking by the Spirit, calls him &#8216;Lord&#8217;? For he says,</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="MAT.22.43"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="MAT.22.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;The Lord said to my Lord:</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="MAT.22.44"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Sit at my right hand</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="MAT.22.44"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">until I put your enemies</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="MAT.22.44"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">under your feet.&#8221;&#8198;&#8217;</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fr">22:44 </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">  
          Psalm 110:1
          </span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="MAT.22.44"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="MAT.22.45"><span class="label">45</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">If then David calls him &#8216;Lord,&#8217; how can he be his son?&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="MAT.22.46"><span class="label">46</span><span class="content">No one could say a word in reply, and from that day on no one dared to ask him any more questions.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch41" data-usfm="JOB.41">
         <div class="label">41</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fr">41 </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">In Hebrew texts 41:1-8 is numbered 40:25-32, and 41:9-34 is numbered 41:1-26.</span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.41.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;Can you pull in Leviathan with a fishhook</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.41.1"><span class="content">or tie down its tongue with a rope?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.41.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.41.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Can you put a cord through its nose</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.41.2"><span class="content">or pierce its jaw with a hook?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.41.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.41.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Will it keep begging you for mercy?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.41.3"><span class="content">Will it speak to you with gentle words?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.41.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.41.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Will it make an agreement with you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.41.4"><span class="content">for you to take it as your slave for life?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.41.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.41.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Can you make a pet of it like a bird</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.41.5"><span class="content">or put it on a leash for the young women in your house?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.41.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.41.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Will traders barter for it?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.41.6"><span class="content">Will they divide it up among the merchants?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.41.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.41.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Can you fill its hide with harpoons</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.41.7"><span class="content">or its head with fishing spears?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.41.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.41.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">If you lay a hand on it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.41.8"><span class="content">you will remember the struggle and never do it again!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.41.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.41.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Any hope of subduing it is false;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.41.9"><span class="content">the mere sight of it is overpowering.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.41.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.41.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">No one is fierce enough to rouse it.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.41.10"><span class="content">Who then is able to stand against me?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.41.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.41.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Who has a claim against me that I must pay?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.41.11"><span class="content">Everything under heaven belongs to me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.41.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.41.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;I will not fail to speak of Leviathan&#8217;s limbs,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.41.12"><span class="content">its strength and its graceful form.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.41.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.41.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Who can strip off its outer coat?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.41.13"><span class="content">Who can penetrate its double coat of armor</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">41:13 </span><span class="ft">Septuagint; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">double bridle</span></span></span><span class="content">?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.41.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.41.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Who dares open the doors of its mouth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.41.14"><span class="content">ringed about with fearsome teeth?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.41.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.41.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Its back has</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">41:15 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Its pride is its</span></span></span><span class="content"> rows of shields</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.41.15"><span class="content">tightly sealed together;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.41.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.41.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">each is so close to the next</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.41.16"><span class="content">that no air can pass between.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.41.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.41.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">They are joined fast to one another;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.41.17"><span class="content">they cling together and cannot be parted.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.41.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.41.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Its snorting throws out flashes of light;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.41.18"><span class="content">its eyes are like the rays of dawn.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.41.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.41.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Flames stream from its mouth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.41.19"><span class="content">sparks of fire shoot out.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.41.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.41.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Smoke pours from its nostrils</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.41.20"><span class="content">as from a boiling pot over burning reeds.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.41.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.41.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Its breath sets coals ablaze,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.41.21"><span class="content">and flames dart from its mouth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.41.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.41.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Strength resides in its neck;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.41.22"><span class="content">dismay goes before it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.41.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.41.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">The folds of its flesh are tightly joined;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.41.23"><span class="content">they are firm and immovable.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.41.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.41.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Its chest is hard as rock,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.41.24"><span class="content">hard as a lower millstone.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.41.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.41.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">When it rises up, the mighty are terrified;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.41.25"><span class="content">they retreat before its thrashing.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.41.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.41.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">The sword that reaches it has no effect,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.41.26"><span class="content">nor does the spear or the dart or the javelin.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.41.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.41.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Iron it treats like straw</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.41.27"><span class="content">and bronze like rotten wood.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.41.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.41.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Arrows do not make it flee;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.41.28"><span class="content">slingstones are like chaff to it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.41.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.41.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">A club seems to it but a piece of straw;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.41.29"><span class="content">it laughs at the rattling of the lance.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.41.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.41.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Its undersides are jagged potsherds,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.41.30"><span class="content">leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.41.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.41.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">It makes the depths churn like a boiling caldron</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.41.31"><span class="content">and stirs up the sea like a pot of ointment.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.41.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOB.41.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">It leaves a glistening wake behind it;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOB.41.32"><span class="content">one would think the deep had white hair.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOB.41.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.41.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">Nothing on earth is its equal&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.41.33"><span class="content">a creature without fear.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.41.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JOB.41.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">It looks down on all that are haughty;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JOB.41.34"><span class="content">it is king over all that are proud.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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