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         <div class="label">15</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="heading">Lord</span></span><span class="heading">&#8217;s Covenant With Abram</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.15.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">After this, the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to Abram in a vision:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.15.1"><span class="content">&#8220;Do not be afraid, Abram.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.15.1"><span class="content">I am your shield,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">15:1 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">sovereign</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.15.1"><span class="content">your very great reward.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">15:1 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">shield; / your reward will be very great</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.15.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.15.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">But Abram said, &#8220;Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, what can you give me since I remain childless and the one who will inherit</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">15:2 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content"> my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.15.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">And Abram said, &#8220;You have given me no children; so a servant in my household will be my heir.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.15.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.15.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Then the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to him: &#8220;This man will not be your heir, but a son who is your own flesh and blood will be your heir.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.15.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">He took him outside and said, &#8220;Look up at the sky and count the stars&#8212;if indeed you can count them.&#8221; Then he said to him, &#8220;So shall your offspring</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">15:5 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">seed</span></span></span><span class="content"> be.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.15.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.15.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Abram believed the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and he credited it to him as righteousness.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.15.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.15.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">He also said to him, &#8220;I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to take possession of it.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.15.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.15.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But Abram said, &#8220;Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, how can I know that I will gain possession of it?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.15.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.15.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">So the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to him, &#8220;Bring me a heifer, a goat and a ram, each three years old, along with a dove and a young pigeon.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.15.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.15.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Abram brought all these to him, cut them in two and arranged the halves opposite each other; the birds, however, he did not cut in half. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.15.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Then birds of prey came down on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.15.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.15.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and a thick and dreadful darkness came over him. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.15.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to him, &#8220;Know for certain that for four hundred years your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own and that they will be enslaved and mistreated there. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.15.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will come out with great possessions. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.15.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">You, however, will go to your ancestors in peace and be buried at a good old age. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.15.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">In the fourth generation your descendants will come back here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.15.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.15.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, a smoking firepot with a blazing torch appeared and passed between the pieces. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.15.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">On that day the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> made a covenant with Abram and said, &#8220;To your descendants I give this land, from the Wadi</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">15:18 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">river</span></span></span><span class="content"> of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.15.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.15.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites, </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.15.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites and Jebusites.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">16</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Hagar and Ishmael</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.16.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Now Sarai, Abram&#8217;s wife, had borne him no children. But she had an Egyptian slave named Hagar; </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.16.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">so she said to Abram, &#8220;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has kept me from having children. Go, sleep with my slave; perhaps I can build a family through her.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.16.2"><span class="content">Abram agreed to what Sarai said. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.16.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">So after Abram had been living in Canaan ten years, Sarai his wife took her Egyptian slave Hagar and gave her to her husband to be his wife. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.16.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">He slept with Hagar, and she conceived.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.16.4"><span class="content">When she knew she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.16.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Then Sarai said to Abram, &#8220;You are responsible for the wrong I am suffering. I put my slave in your arms, and now that she knows she is pregnant, she despises me. May the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> judge between you and me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.16.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.16.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;Your slave is in your hands,&#8221; Abram said. &#8220;Do with her whatever you think best.&#8221; Then Sarai mistreated Hagar; so she fled from her.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.16.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.16.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The angel of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> found Hagar near a spring in the desert; it was the spring that is beside the road to Shur. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.16.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">And he said, &#8220;Hagar, slave of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.16.8"><span class="content">&#8220;I&#8217;m running away from my mistress Sarai,&#8221; she answered.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.16.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.16.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Then the angel of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> told her, &#8220;Go back to your mistress and submit to her.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.16.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The angel added, &#8220;I will increase your descendants so much that they will be too numerous to count.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.16.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.16.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The angel of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> also said to her:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.16.11"><span class="content">&#8220;You are now pregnant</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.16.11"><span class="content">and you will give birth to a son.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.16.11"><span class="content">You shall name him Ishmael,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">16:11 </span><span class="fq">Ishmael </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">God hears.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.16.11"><span class="content">for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has heard of your misery.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.16.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.16.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">He will be a wild donkey of a man;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.16.12"><span class="content">his hand will be against everyone</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.16.12"><span class="content">and everyone&#8217;s hand against him,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.16.12"><span class="content">and he will live in hostility</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.16.12"><span class="content">toward</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">16:12 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">live to the east / of</span></span></span><span class="content"> all his brothers.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.16.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.16.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">She gave this name to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> who spoke to her: &#8220;You are the God who sees me,&#8221; for she said, &#8220;I have now seen</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">16:13 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">seen the back of</span></span></span><span class="content"> the One who sees me.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.16.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">That is why the well was called Beer Lahai Roi</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">16:14 </span><span class="fq">Beer Lahai Roi </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">well of the Living One who sees me.</span></span></span><span class="content">; it is still there, between Kadesh and Bered.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.16.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.16.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">So Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son she had borne. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.16.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore him Ishmael.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">17</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Covenant of Circumcision</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.17.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> appeared to him and said, &#8220;I am God Almighty</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">17:1 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">El-Shaddai</span></span></span><span class="content">; walk before me faithfully and be blameless. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.17.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Then I will make my covenant between me and you and will greatly increase your numbers.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.17.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.17.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Abram fell facedown, and God said to him, </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.17.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;As for me, this is my covenant with you: You will be the father of many nations. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.17.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">No longer will you be called Abram</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">17:5 </span><span class="fq">Abram </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">exalted father.</span></span></span><span class="content">; your name will be Abraham,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">17:5 </span><span class="fq">Abraham </span><span class="ft">probably means </span><span class="fq">father of many</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span><span class="content"> for I have made you a father of many nations. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.17.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">I will make you very fruitful; I will make nations of you, and kings will come from you. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.17.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">I will establish my covenant as an everlasting covenant between me and you and your descendants after you for the generations to come, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.17.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The whole land of Canaan, where you now reside as a foreigner, I will give as an everlasting possession to you and your descendants after you; and I will be their God.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.17.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.17.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Then God said to Abraham, &#8220;As for you, you must keep my covenant, you and your descendants after you for the generations to come. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.17.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">This is my covenant with you and your descendants after you, the covenant you are to keep: Every male among you shall be circumcised. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.17.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">You are to undergo circumcision, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and you. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.17.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">For the generations to come every male among you who is eight days old must be circumcised, including those born in your household or bought with money from a foreigner&#8212;those who are not your offspring. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.17.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Whether born in your household or bought with your money, they must be circumcised. My covenant in your flesh is to be an everlasting covenant. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.17.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Any uncircumcised male, who has not been circumcised in the flesh, will be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.17.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.17.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">God also said to Abraham, &#8220;As for Sarai your wife, you are no longer to call her Sarai; her name will be Sarah. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.17.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">I will bless her and will surely give you a son by her. I will bless her so that she will be the mother of nations; kings of peoples will come from her.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.17.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.17.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Abraham fell facedown; he laughed and said to himself, &#8220;Will a son be born to a man a hundred years old? Will Sarah bear a child at the age of ninety?&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.17.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">And Abraham said to God, &#8220;If only Ishmael might live under your blessing!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.17.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.17.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Then God said, &#8220;Yes, but your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you will call him Isaac.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">17:19 </span><span class="fq">Isaac </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">he laughs.</span></span></span><span class="content"> I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.17.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">And as for Ishmael, I have heard you: I will surely bless him; I will make him fruitful and will greatly increase his numbers. He will be the father of twelve rulers, and I will make him into a great nation. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.17.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you by this time next year.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.17.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">When he had finished speaking with Abraham, God went up from him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.17.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.17.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">On that very day Abraham took his son Ishmael and all those born in his household or bought with his money, every male in his household, and circumcised them, as God told him. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.17.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised, </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.17.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">and his son Ishmael was thirteen; </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.17.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Abraham and his son Ishmael were both circumcised on that very day. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.17.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">And every male in Abraham&#8217;s household, including those born in his household or bought from a foreigner, was circumcised with him.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch18" data-usfm="GEN.18">
         <div class="label">18</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Three Visitors</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.18.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> appeared to Abraham near the great trees of Mamre while he was sitting at the entrance to his tent in the heat of the day. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.18.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Abraham looked up and saw three men standing nearby. When he saw them, he hurried from the entrance of his tent to meet them and bowed low to the ground.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.18.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.18.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">He said, &#8220;If I have found favor in your eyes, my lord,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">18:3 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">eyes, Lord</span></span></span><span class="content"> do not pass your servant by. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.18.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Let a little water be brought, and then you may all wash your feet and rest under this tree. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.18.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Let me get you something to eat, so you can be refreshed and then go on your way&#8212;now that you have come to your servant.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.18.5"><span class="content">&#8220;Very well,&#8221; they answered, &#8220;do as you say.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.18.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.18.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">So Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah. &#8220;Quick,&#8221; he said, &#8220;get three seahs</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">18:6 </span><span class="ft">That is, probably about 36 pounds or about 16 kilograms</span></span></span><span class="content"> of the finest flour and knead it and bake some bread.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.18.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.18.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Then he ran to the herd and selected a choice, tender calf and gave it to a servant, who hurried to prepare it. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.18.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">He then brought some curds and milk and the calf that had been prepared, and set these before them. While they ate, he stood near them under a tree.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.18.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.18.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;Where is your wife Sarah?&#8221; they asked him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.18.9"><span class="content">&#8220;There, in the tent,&#8221; he said.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.18.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.18.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Then one of them said, &#8220;I will surely return to you about this time next year, and Sarah your wife will have a son.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.18.10"><span class="content">Now Sarah was listening at the entrance to the tent, which was behind him. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.18.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Abraham and Sarah were already very old, and Sarah was past the age of childbearing. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.18.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">So Sarah laughed to herself as she thought, &#8220;After I am worn out and my lord is old, will I now have this pleasure?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.18.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.18.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Abraham, &#8220;Why did Sarah laugh and say, &#8216;Will I really have a child, now that I am old?&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.18.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Is anything too hard for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">? I will return to you at the appointed time next year, and Sarah will have a son.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.18.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.18.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Sarah was afraid, so she lied and said, &#8220;I did not laugh.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.18.15"><span class="content">But he said, &#8220;Yes, you did laugh.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Abraham Pleads for Sodom</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.18.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.18.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">When the men got up to leave, they looked down toward Sodom, and Abraham walked along with them to see them on their way. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.18.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said, &#8220;Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do? </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.18.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and all nations on earth will be blessed through him.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">18:18 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">will use his name in blessings </span><span class="ft">(see 48:20)</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.18.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">For I have chosen him, so that he will direct his children and his household after him to keep the way of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> by doing what is right and just, so that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will bring about for Abraham what he has promised him.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.18.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.18.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said, &#8220;The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so grievous </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.18.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.18.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.18.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">The men turned away and went toward Sodom, but Abraham remained standing before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">18:22 </span><span class="ft">Masoretic Text; an ancient Hebrew scribal tradition </span><span class="fqa">but the <span class="nd">Lord</span> remained standing before Abraham</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.18.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Then Abraham approached him and said: &#8220;Will you sweep away the righteous with the wicked? </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.18.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">What if there are fifty righteous people in the city? Will you really sweep it away and not spare</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">18:24 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">forgive</span><span class="ft">; also in verse 26</span></span></span><span class="content"> the place for the sake of the fifty righteous people in it? </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.18.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Far be it from you to do such a thing&#8212;to kill the righteous with the wicked, treating the righteous and the wicked alike. Far be it from you! Will not the Judge of all the earth do right?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.18.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.18.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said, &#8220;If I find fifty righteous people in the city of Sodom, I will spare the whole place for their sake.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.18.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.18.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Then Abraham spoke up again: &#8220;Now that I have been so bold as to speak to the Lord, though I am nothing but dust and ashes, </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.18.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">what if the number of the righteous is five less than fifty? Will you destroy the whole city for lack of five people?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.18.28"><span class="content">&#8220;If I find forty-five there,&#8221; he said, &#8220;I will not destroy it.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.18.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.18.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Once again he spoke to him, &#8220;What if only forty are found there?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.18.29"><span class="content">He said, &#8220;For the sake of forty, I will not do it.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.18.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.18.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Then he said, &#8220;May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak. What if only thirty can be found there?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.18.30"><span class="content">He answered, &#8220;I will not do it if I find thirty there.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.18.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="GEN.18.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Abraham said, &#8220;Now that I have been so bold as to speak to the Lord, what if only twenty can be found there?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="GEN.18.31"><span class="content">He said, &#8220;For the sake of twenty, I will not destroy it.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="GEN.18.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="GEN.18.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">Then he said, &#8220;May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak just once more. What if only ten can be found there?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="GEN.18.32"><span class="content">He answered, &#8220;For the sake of ten, I will not destroy it.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="GEN.18.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="GEN.18.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">When the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had finished speaking with Abraham, he left, and Abraham returned home.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">19</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Sodom and Gomorrah Destroyed</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.19.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city. When he saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.19.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;My lords,&#8221; he said, &#8220;please turn aside to your servant&#8217;s house. You can wash your feet and spend the night and then go on your way early in the morning.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.19.2"><span class="content">&#8220;No,&#8221; they answered, &#8220;we will spend the night in the square.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.19.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.19.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">But he insisted so strongly that they did go with him and entered his house. He prepared a meal for them, baking bread without yeast, and they ate. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.19.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom&#8212;both young and old&#8212;surrounded the house. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.19.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">They called to Lot, &#8220;Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.19.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.19.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.19.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">and said, &#8220;No, my friends. Don&#8217;t do this wicked thing. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.19.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do what you like with them. But don&#8217;t do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.19.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.19.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;Get out of our way,&#8221; they replied. &#8220;This fellow came here as a foreigner, and now he wants to play the judge! We&#8217;ll treat you worse than them.&#8221; They kept bringing pressure on Lot and moved forward to break down the door.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.19.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.19.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">But the men inside reached out and pulled Lot back into the house and shut the door. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.19.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Then they struck the men who were at the door of the house, young and old, with blindness so that they could not find the door.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.19.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.19.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The two men said to Lot, &#8220;Do you have anyone else here&#8212;sons-in-law, sons or daughters, or anyone else in the city who belongs to you? Get them out of here, </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.19.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">because we are going to destroy this place. The outcry to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> against its people is so great that he has sent us to destroy it.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.19.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.19.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:14 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">were married to</span></span></span><span class="content"> his daughters. He said, &#8220;Hurry and get out of this place, because the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is about to destroy the city!&#8221; But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.19.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.19.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">With the coming of dawn, the angels urged Lot, saying, &#8220;Hurry! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away when the city is punished.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.19.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.19.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">When he hesitated, the men grasped his hand and the hands of his wife and of his two daughters and led them safely out of the city, for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> was merciful to them. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.19.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">As soon as they had brought them out, one of them said, &#8220;Flee for your lives! Don&#8217;t look back, and don&#8217;t stop anywhere in the plain! Flee to the mountains or you will be swept away!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.19.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.19.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">But Lot said to them, &#8220;No, my lords,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:18 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">No, Lord</span><span class="ft">; or </span><span class="fqa">No, my lord</span></span></span><span class="content"> please! </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.19.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Your</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:19 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew is singular.</span></span></span><span class="content"> servant has found favor in your</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:19 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew is singular.</span></span></span><span class="content"> eyes, and you</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:19 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew is singular.</span></span></span><span class="content"> have shown great kindness to me in sparing my life. But I can&#8217;t flee to the mountains; this disaster will overtake me, and I&#8217;ll die. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.19.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Look, here is a town near enough to run to, and it is small. Let me flee to it&#8212;it is very small, isn&#8217;t it? Then my life will be spared.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.19.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.19.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">He said to him, &#8220;Very well, I will grant this request too; I will not overthrow the town you speak of. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.19.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">But flee there quickly, because I cannot do anything until you reach it.&#8221; (That is why the town was called Zoar.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:22 </span><span class="fq">Zoar </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">small.</span></span></span><span class="content">)</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.19.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.19.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">By the time Lot reached Zoar, the sun had risen over the land. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.19.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah&#8212;from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> out of the heavens. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.19.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Thus he overthrew those cities and the entire plain, destroying all those living in the cities&#8212;and also the vegetation in the land. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.19.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">But Lot&#8217;s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.19.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.19.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Early the next morning Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.19.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, toward all the land of the plain, and he saw dense smoke rising from the land, like smoke from a furnace.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.19.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.19.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Abraham, and he brought Lot out of the catastrophe that overthrew the cities where Lot had lived.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Lot and His Daughters</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.19.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.19.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Lot and his two daughters left Zoar and settled in the mountains, for he was afraid to stay in Zoar. He and his two daughters lived in a cave. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="GEN.19.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">One day the older daughter said to the younger, &#8220;Our father is old, and there is no man around here to give us children&#8212;as is the custom all over the earth. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="GEN.19.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">Let&#8217;s get our father to drink wine and then sleep with him and preserve our family line through our father.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="GEN.19.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="GEN.19.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">That night they got their father to drink wine, and the older daughter went in and slept with him. He was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="GEN.19.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="GEN.19.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">The next day the older daughter said to the younger, &#8220;Last night I slept with my father. Let&#8217;s get him to drink wine again tonight, and you go in and sleep with him so we can preserve our family line through our father.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="GEN.19.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">So they got their father to drink wine that night also, and the younger daughter went in and slept with him. Again he was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="GEN.19.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="GEN.19.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">So both of Lot&#8217;s daughters became pregnant by their father. </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="GEN.19.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">The older daughter had a son, and she named him Moab</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:37 </span><span class="fq">Moab </span><span class="ft">sounds like the Hebrew for </span><span class="fqa">from father.</span></span></span><span class="content">; he is the father of the Moabites of today. </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="GEN.19.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">The younger daughter also had a son, and she named him Ben-Ammi</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:38 </span><span class="fq">Ben-Ammi </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">son of my father&#8217;s people.</span></span></span><span class="content">; he is the father of the Ammonites</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:38 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Bene-Ammon</span></span></span><span class="content"> of today.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">20</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Abraham and Abimelek</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.20.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Now Abraham moved on from there into the region of the Negev and lived between Kadesh and Shur. For a while he stayed in Gerar, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.20.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">and there Abraham said of his wife Sarah, &#8220;She is my sister.&#8221; Then Abimelek king of Gerar sent for Sarah and took her.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.20.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.20.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">But God came to Abimelek in a dream one night and said to him, &#8220;You are as good as dead because of the woman you have taken; she is a married woman.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.20.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.20.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Now Abimelek had not gone near her, so he said, &#8220;Lord, will you destroy an innocent nation? </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.20.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Did he not say to me, &#8216;She is my sister,&#8217; and didn&#8217;t she also say, &#8216;He is my brother&#8217;? I have done this with a clear conscience and clean hands.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.20.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.20.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Then God said to him in the dream, &#8220;Yes, I know you did this with a clear conscience, and so I have kept you from sinning against me. That is why I did not let you touch her. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.20.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Now return the man&#8217;s wife, for he is a prophet, and he will pray for you and you will live. But if you do not return her, you may be sure that you and all who belong to you will die.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.20.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.20.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Early the next morning Abimelek summoned all his officials, and when he told them all that had happened, they were very much afraid. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.20.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Then Abimelek called Abraham in and said, &#8220;What have you done to us? How have I wronged you that you have brought such great guilt upon me and my kingdom? You have done things to me that should never be done.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.20.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">And Abimelek asked Abraham, &#8220;What was your reason for doing this?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.20.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.20.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Abraham replied, &#8220;I said to myself, &#8216;There is surely no fear of God in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.20.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Besides, she really is my sister, the daughter of my father though not of my mother; and she became my wife. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.20.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">And when God had me wander from my father&#8217;s household, I said to her, &#8216;This is how you can show your love to me: Everywhere we go, say of me, &#8220;He is my brother.&#8221;&#8198;&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.20.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.20.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Then Abimelek brought sheep and cattle and male and female slaves and gave them to Abraham, and he returned Sarah his wife to him. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.20.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">And Abimelek said, &#8220;My land is before you; live wherever you like.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.20.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.20.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">To Sarah he said, &#8220;I am giving your brother a thousand shekels</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">20:16 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 25 pounds or about 12 kilograms</span></span></span><span class="content"> of silver. This is to cover the offense against you before all who are with you; you are completely vindicated.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.20.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.20.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelek, his wife and his female slaves so they could have children again, </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.20.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had kept all the women in Abimelek&#8217;s household from conceiving because of Abraham&#8217;s wife Sarah.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">21</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Birth of Isaac</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.21.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Now the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> was gracious to Sarah as he had said, and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> did for Sarah what he had promised. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.21.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised him. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.21.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Abraham gave the name Isaac</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">21:3 </span><span class="fq">Isaac </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">he laughs.</span></span></span><span class="content"> to the son Sarah bore him. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.21.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God commanded him. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.21.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.21.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.21.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Sarah said, &#8220;God has brought me laughter, and everyone who hears about this will laugh with me.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.21.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">And she added, &#8220;Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Hagar and Ishmael Sent Away</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.21.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.21.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The child grew and was weaned, and on the day Isaac was weaned Abraham held a great feast. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.21.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">But Sarah saw that the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham was mocking, </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.21.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">and she said to Abraham, &#8220;Get rid of that slave woman and her son, for that woman&#8217;s son will never share in the inheritance with my son Isaac.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.21.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.21.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The matter distressed Abraham greatly because it concerned his son. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.21.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">But God said to him, &#8220;Do not be so distressed about the boy and your slave woman. Listen to whatever Sarah tells you, because it is through Isaac that your offspring</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">21:12 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">seed</span></span></span><span class="content"> will be reckoned. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.21.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">I will make the son of the slave into a nation also, because he is your offspring.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.21.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.21.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Early the next morning Abraham took some food and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar. He set them on her shoulders and then sent her off with the boy. She went on her way and wandered in the Desert of Beersheba.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.21.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.21.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">When the water in the skin was gone, she put the boy under one of the bushes. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.21.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Then she went off and sat down about a bowshot away, for she thought, &#8220;I cannot watch the boy die.&#8221; And as she sat there, she</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">21:16 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew; Septuagint </span><span class="fqa">the child</span></span></span><span class="content"> began to sob.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.21.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.21.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">God heard the boy crying, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, &#8220;What is the matter, Hagar? Do not be afraid; God has heard the boy crying as he lies there. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.21.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Lift the boy up and take him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.21.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.21.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Then God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water. So she went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.21.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.21.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">God was with the boy as he grew up. He lived in the desert and became an archer. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.21.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">While he was living in the Desert of Paran, his mother got a wife for him from Egypt.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Treaty at Beersheba</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.21.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.21.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">At that time Abimelek and Phicol the commander of his forces said to Abraham, &#8220;God is with you in everything you do. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.21.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Now swear to me here before God that you will not deal falsely with me or my children or my descendants. Show to me and the country where you now reside as a foreigner the same kindness I have shown to you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.21.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.21.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Abraham said, &#8220;I swear it.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.21.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.21.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Then Abraham complained to Abimelek about a well of water that Abimelek&#8217;s servants had seized. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.21.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">But Abimelek said, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know who has done this. You did not tell me, and I heard about it only today.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.21.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.21.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">So Abraham brought sheep and cattle and gave them to Abimelek, and the two men made a treaty. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.21.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Abraham set apart seven ewe lambs from the flock, </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.21.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">and Abimelek asked Abraham, &#8220;What is the meaning of these seven ewe lambs you have set apart by themselves?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.21.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.21.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">He replied, &#8220;Accept these seven lambs from my hand as a witness that I dug this well.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.21.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="GEN.21.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">So that place was called Beersheba,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">21:31 </span><span class="fq">Beersheba </span><span class="ft">can mean </span><span class="fqa">well of seven </span><span class="ft">and </span><span class="fqa">well of the oath.</span></span></span><span class="content"> because the two men swore an oath there.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="GEN.21.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="GEN.21.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">After the treaty had been made at Beersheba, Abimelek and Phicol the commander of his forces returned to the land of the Philistines. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="GEN.21.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called on the name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the Eternal God. </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="GEN.21.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">And Abraham stayed in the land of the Philistines for a long time.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">15</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Eliphaz</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.15.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.15.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.15.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Would a wise person answer with empty notions</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.15.2"><span class="content">or fill their belly with the hot east wind?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.15.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.15.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Would they argue with useless words,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.15.3"><span class="content">with speeches that have no value?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.15.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.15.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">But you even undermine piety</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.15.4"><span class="content">and hinder devotion to God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.15.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.15.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Your sin prompts your mouth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.15.5"><span class="content">you adopt the tongue of the crafty.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.15.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.15.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Your own mouth condemns you, not mine;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.15.6"><span class="content">your own lips testify against you.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.15.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.15.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;Are you the first man ever born?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.15.7"><span class="content">Were you brought forth before the hills?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.15.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.15.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Do you listen in on God&#8217;s council?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.15.8"><span class="content">Do you have a monopoly on wisdom?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.15.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.15.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">What do you know that we do not know?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.15.9"><span class="content">What insights do you have that we do not have?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.15.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.15.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The gray-haired and the aged are on our side,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.15.10"><span class="content">men even older than your father.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.15.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.15.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Are God&#8217;s consolations not enough for you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.15.11"><span class="content">words spoken gently to you?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.15.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.15.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Why has your heart carried you away,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.15.12"><span class="content">and why do your eyes flash,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.15.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.15.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">so that you vent your rage against God</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.15.13"><span class="content">and pour out such words from your mouth?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.15.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.15.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;What are mortals, that they could be pure,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.15.14"><span class="content">or those born of woman, that they could be righteous?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.15.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.15.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">If God places no trust in his holy ones,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.15.15"><span class="content">if even the heavens are not pure in his eyes,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.15.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.15.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">how much less mortals, who are vile and corrupt,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.15.16"><span class="content">who drink up evil like water!</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.15.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.15.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;Listen to me and I will explain to you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.15.17"><span class="content">let me tell you what I have seen,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.15.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.15.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">what the wise have declared,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.15.18"><span class="content">hiding nothing received from their ancestors</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.15.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.15.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">(to whom alone the land was given</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.15.19"><span class="content">when no foreigners moved among them):</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.15.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.15.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">All his days the wicked man suffers torment,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.15.20"><span class="content">the ruthless man through all the years stored up for him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.15.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.15.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Terrifying sounds fill his ears;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.15.21"><span class="content">when all seems well, marauders attack him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.15.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.15.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">He despairs of escaping the realm of darkness;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.15.22"><span class="content">he is marked for the sword.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.15.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.15.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">He wanders about for food like a vulture;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.15.23"><span class="content">he knows the day of darkness is at hand.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.15.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.15.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Distress and anguish fill him with terror;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.15.24"><span class="content">troubles overwhelm him, like a king poised to attack,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.15.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.15.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">because he shakes his fist at God</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.15.25"><span class="content">and vaunts himself against the Almighty,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.15.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.15.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">defiantly charging against him</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.15.26"><span class="content">with a thick, strong shield.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.15.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.15.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">&#8220;Though his face is covered with fat</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.15.27"><span class="content">and his waist bulges with flesh,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.15.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.15.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">he will inhabit ruined towns</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.15.28"><span class="content">and houses where no one lives,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.15.28"><span class="content">houses crumbling to rubble.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.15.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.15.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">He will no longer be rich and his wealth will not endure,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.15.29"><span class="content">nor will his possessions spread over the land.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.15.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.15.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">He will not escape the darkness;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.15.30"><span class="content">a flame will wither his shoots,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.15.30"><span class="content">and the breath of God&#8217;s mouth will carry him away.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.15.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.15.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Let him not deceive himself by trusting what is worthless,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.15.31"><span class="content">for he will get nothing in return.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.15.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOB.15.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">Before his time he will wither,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOB.15.32"><span class="content">and his branches will not flourish.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOB.15.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.15.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">He will be like a vine stripped of its unripe grapes,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.15.33"><span class="content">like an olive tree shedding its blossoms.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.15.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JOB.15.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">For the company of the godless will be barren,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JOB.15.34"><span class="content">and fire will consume the tents of those who love bribes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JOB.15.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JOB.15.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">They conceive trouble and give birth to evil;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JOB.15.35"><span class="content">their womb fashions deceit.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">16</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Job</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><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 class="content">  </span></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 class="content">  </span></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 class="content">  </span></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 class="content">  </span></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"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.16.5"><span class="content">  </span></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 class="content">  </span></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 class="content">  </span></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 class="content">  </span></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 class="content">  </span></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 class="content">  </span></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 class="content">  </span></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 class="content">  </span></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 class="content">  </span></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"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.16.14"><span class="content">  </span></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 class="content">  </span></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 class="content">  </span></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"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.16.17"><span class="content">  </span></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 class="content">  </span></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 class="content">  </span></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 class="content">  </span></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"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.16.21"><span class="content">  </span></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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      <div class="chapter ch17" data-usfm="JOB.17">
         <div class="label">17</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.17.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">My spirit is broken,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.17.1"><span class="content">my days are cut short,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.17.1"><span class="content">the grave awaits me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.17.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.17.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Surely mockers surround me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.17.2"><span class="content">my eyes must dwell on their hostility.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.17.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.17.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;Give me, O God, the pledge you demand.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.17.3"><span class="content">Who else will put up security for me?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.17.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.17.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">You have closed their minds to understanding;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.17.4"><span class="content">therefore you will not let them triumph.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.17.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.17.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">If anyone denounces their friends for reward,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.17.5"><span class="content">the eyes of their children will fail.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.17.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.17.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;God has made me a byword to everyone,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.17.6"><span class="content">a man in whose face people spit.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.17.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.17.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">My eyes have grown dim with grief;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.17.7"><span class="content">my whole frame is but a shadow.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.17.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.17.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The upright are appalled at this;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.17.8"><span class="content">the innocent are aroused against the ungodly.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.17.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.17.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Nevertheless, the righteous will hold to their ways,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.17.9"><span class="content">and those with clean hands will grow stronger.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.17.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.17.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;But come on, all of you, try again!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.17.10"><span class="content">I will not find a wise man among you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.17.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.17.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">My days have passed, my plans are shattered.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.17.11"><span class="content">Yet the desires of my heart</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.17.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.17.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">turn night into day;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.17.12"><span class="content">in the face of the darkness light is near.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.17.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.17.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">If the only home I hope for is the grave,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.17.13"><span class="content">if I spread out my bed in the realm of darkness,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.17.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.17.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">if I say to corruption, &#8216;You are my father,&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.17.14"><span class="content">and to the worm, &#8216;My mother&#8217; or &#8216;My sister,&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.17.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.17.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">where then is my hope&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.17.15"><span class="content">who can see any hope for me?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.17.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.17.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Will it go down to the gates of death?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.17.16"><span class="content">Will we descend together into the dust?&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">18</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Bildad</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.18.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.18.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.18.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;When will you end these speeches?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.18.2"><span class="content">Be sensible, and then we can talk.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.18.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.18.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Why are we regarded as cattle</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.18.3"><span class="content">and considered stupid in your sight?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.18.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.18.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">You who tear yourself to pieces in your anger,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.18.4"><span class="content">is the earth to be abandoned for your sake?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.18.4"><span class="content">Or must the rocks be moved from their place?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.18.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.18.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;The lamp of a wicked man is snuffed out;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.18.5"><span class="content">the flame of his fire stops burning.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.18.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.18.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The light in his tent becomes dark;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.18.6"><span class="content">the lamp beside him goes out.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.18.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.18.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The vigor of his step is weakened;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.18.7"><span class="content">his own schemes throw him down.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.18.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.18.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">His feet thrust him into a net;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.18.8"><span class="content">he wanders into its mesh.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.18.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.18.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">A trap seizes him by the heel;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.18.9"><span class="content">a snare holds him fast.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.18.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.18.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">A noose is hidden for him on the ground;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.18.10"><span class="content">a trap lies in his path.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.18.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.18.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Terrors startle him on every side</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.18.11"><span class="content">and dog his every step.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.18.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.18.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Calamity is hungry for him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.18.12"><span class="content">disaster is ready for him when he falls.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.18.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.18.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">It eats away parts of his skin;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.18.13"><span class="content">death&#8217;s firstborn devours his limbs.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.18.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.18.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">He is torn from the security of his tent</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.18.14"><span class="content">and marched off to the king of terrors.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.18.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.18.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Fire resides</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">18:15 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Nothing he had remains</span></span></span><span class="content"> in his tent;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.18.15"><span class="content">burning sulfur is scattered over his dwelling.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.18.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.18.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">His roots dry up below</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.18.16"><span class="content">and his branches wither above.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.18.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.18.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">The memory of him perishes from the earth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.18.17"><span class="content">he has no name in the land.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.18.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.18.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">He is driven from light into the realm of darkness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.18.18"><span class="content">and is banished from the world.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.18.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.18.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">He has no offspring or descendants among his people,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.18.19"><span class="content">no survivor where once he lived.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.18.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.18.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">People of the west are appalled at his fate;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.18.20"><span class="content">those of the east are seized with horror.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.18.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.18.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Surely such is the dwelling of an evil man;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.18.21"><span class="content">such is the place of one who does not know God.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">19</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Job</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.19.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then Job replied:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.19.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.19.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;How long will you torment me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.19.2"><span class="content">and crush me with words?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.19.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.19.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Ten times now you have reproached me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.19.3"><span class="content">shamelessly you attack me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.19.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.19.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">If it is true that I have gone astray,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.19.4"><span class="content">my error remains my concern alone.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.19.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.19.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.19.5"><span class="content">and use my humiliation against me,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.19.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.19.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">then know that God has wronged me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.19.6"><span class="content">and drawn his net around me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.19.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.19.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;Though I cry, &#8216;Violence!&#8217; I get no response;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.19.7"><span class="content">though I call for help, there is no justice.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.19.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.19.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">He has blocked my way so I cannot pass;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.19.8"><span class="content">he has shrouded my paths in darkness.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.19.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.19.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">He has stripped me of my honor</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.19.9"><span class="content">and removed the crown from my head.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.19.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.19.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">He tears me down on every side till I am gone;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.19.10"><span class="content">he uproots my hope like a tree.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.19.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.19.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">His anger burns against me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.19.11"><span class="content">he counts me among his enemies.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.19.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.19.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">His troops advance in force;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.19.12"><span class="content">they build a siege ramp against me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.19.12"><span class="content">and encamp around my tent.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.19.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.19.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;He has alienated my family from me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.19.13"><span class="content">my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.19.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.19.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">My relatives have gone away;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.19.14"><span class="content">my closest friends have forgotten me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.19.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.19.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">My guests and my female servants count me a foreigner;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.19.15"><span class="content">they look on me as on a stranger.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.19.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.19.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">I summon my servant, but he does not answer,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.19.16"><span class="content">though I beg him with my own mouth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.19.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.19.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">My breath is offensive to my wife;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.19.17"><span class="content">I am loathsome to my own family.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.19.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.19.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Even the little boys scorn me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.19.18"><span class="content">when I appear, they ridicule me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.19.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.19.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">All my intimate friends detest me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.19.19"><span class="content">those I love have turned against me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.19.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.19.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">I am nothing but skin and bones;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.19.20"><span class="content">I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:20 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">only by my gums</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.19.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.19.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">&#8220;Have pity on me, my friends, have pity,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.19.21"><span class="content">for the hand of God has struck me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.19.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.19.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Why do you pursue me as God does?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.19.22"><span class="content">Will you never get enough of my flesh?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.19.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.19.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">&#8220;Oh, that my words were recorded,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.19.23"><span class="content">that they were written on a scroll,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.19.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.19.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">that they were inscribed with an iron tool on</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:24 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">and</span></span></span><span class="content"> lead,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.19.24"><span class="content">or engraved in rock forever!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.19.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.19.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">I know that my redeemer</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:25 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">vindicator</span></span></span><span class="content"> lives,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.19.25"><span class="content">and that in the end he will stand on the earth.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:25 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">on my grave</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.19.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.19.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">And after my skin has been destroyed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.19.26"><span class="content">yet</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:26 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">And after I awake, / though this body has been destroyed, / then</span></span></span><span class="content"> in</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:26 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">destroyed, / apart from</span></span></span><span class="content"> my flesh I will see God;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.19.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.19.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">I myself will see him</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.19.27"><span class="content">with my own eyes&#8212;I, and not another.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.19.27"><span class="content">How my heart yearns within me!</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.19.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.19.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">&#8220;If you say, &#8216;How we will hound him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.19.28"><span class="content">since the root of the trouble lies in him,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:28 </span><span class="ft">Many Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint and Vulgate; most Hebrew manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">me</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.19.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.19.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">you should fear the sword yourselves;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.19.29"><span class="content">for wrath will bring punishment by the sword,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.19.29"><span class="content">and then you will know that there is judgment.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:29 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">sword, / that you may come to know the Almighty</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">20</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Zophar</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.20.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.20.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.20.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;My troubled thoughts prompt me to answer</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.20.2"><span class="content">because I am greatly disturbed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.20.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.20.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">I hear a rebuke that dishonors me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.20.3"><span class="content">and my understanding inspires me to reply.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.20.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.20.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;Surely you know how it has been from of old,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.20.4"><span class="content">ever since mankind</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">20:4 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Adam</span></span></span><span class="content"> was placed on the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.20.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.20.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">that the mirth of the wicked is brief,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.20.5"><span class="content">the joy of the godless lasts but a moment.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.20.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.20.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Though the pride of the godless person reaches to the heavens</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.20.6"><span class="content">and his head touches the clouds,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.20.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.20.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">he will perish forever, like his own dung;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.20.7"><span class="content">those who have seen him will say, &#8216;Where is he?&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.20.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.20.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Like a dream he flies away, no more to be found,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.20.8"><span class="content">banished like a vision of the night.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.20.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.20.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The eye that saw him will not see him again;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.20.9"><span class="content">his place will look on him no more.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.20.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.20.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">His children must make amends to the poor;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.20.10"><span class="content">his own hands must give back his wealth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.20.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.20.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The youthful vigor that fills his bones</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.20.11"><span class="content">will lie with him in the dust.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.20.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.20.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;Though evil is sweet in his mouth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.20.12"><span class="content">and he hides it under his tongue,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.20.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.20.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">though he cannot bear to let it go</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.20.13"><span class="content">and lets it linger in his mouth,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.20.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.20.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">yet his food will turn sour in his stomach;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.20.14"><span class="content">it will become the venom of serpents within him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.20.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.20.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">He will spit out the riches he swallowed;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.20.15"><span class="content">God will make his stomach vomit them up.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.20.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.20.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">He will suck the poison of serpents;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.20.16"><span class="content">the fangs of an adder will kill him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.20.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.20.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">He will not enjoy the streams,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.20.17"><span class="content">the rivers flowing with honey and cream.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.20.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.20.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">What he toiled for he must give back uneaten;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.20.18"><span class="content">he will not enjoy the profit from his trading.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.20.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.20.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">For he has oppressed the poor and left them destitute;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.20.19"><span class="content">he has seized houses he did not build.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.20.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.20.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;Surely he will have no respite from his craving;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.20.20"><span class="content">he cannot save himself by his treasure.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.20.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.20.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Nothing is left for him to devour;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.20.21"><span class="content">his prosperity will not endure.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.20.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.20.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">In the midst of his plenty, distress will overtake him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.20.22"><span class="content">the full force of misery will come upon him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.20.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.20.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">When he has filled his belly,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.20.23"><span class="content">God will vent his burning anger against him</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.20.23"><span class="content">and rain down his blows on him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.20.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.20.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Though he flees from an iron weapon,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.20.24"><span class="content">a bronze-tipped arrow pierces him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.20.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.20.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">He pulls it out of his back,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.20.25"><span class="content">the gleaming point out of his liver.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.20.25"><span class="content">Terrors will come over him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.20.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.20.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">total darkness lies in wait for his treasures.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.20.26"><span class="content">A fire unfanned will consume him</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.20.26"><span class="content">and devour what is left in his tent.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.20.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.20.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">The heavens will expose his guilt;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.20.27"><span class="content">the earth will rise up against him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.20.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.20.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">A flood will carry off his house,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.20.28"><span class="content">rushing waters</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">20:28 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">The possessions in his house will be carried off, / washed away</span></span></span><span class="content"> on the day of God&#8217;s wrath.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.20.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.20.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Such is the fate God allots the wicked,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.20.29"><span class="content">the heritage appointed for them by God.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">21</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Job</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.21.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then Job replied:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.21.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.21.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Listen carefully to my words;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.21.2"><span class="content">let this be the consolation you give me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.21.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.21.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Bear with me while I speak,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.21.3"><span class="content">and after I have spoken, mock on.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.21.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.21.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;Is my complaint directed to a human being?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.21.4"><span class="content">Why should I not be impatient?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.21.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.21.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Look at me and be appalled;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.21.5"><span class="content">clap your hand over your mouth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.21.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.21.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">When I think about this, I am terrified;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.21.6"><span class="content">trembling seizes my body.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.21.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.21.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Why do the wicked live on,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.21.7"><span class="content">growing old and increasing in power?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.21.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.21.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">They see their children established around them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.21.8"><span class="content">their offspring before their eyes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.21.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.21.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Their homes are safe and free from fear;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.21.9"><span class="content">the rod of God is not on them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.21.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.21.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Their bulls never fail to breed;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.21.10"><span class="content">their cows calve and do not miscarry.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.21.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.21.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">They send forth their children as a flock;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.21.11"><span class="content">their little ones dance about.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.21.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.21.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">They sing to the music of timbrel and lyre;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.21.12"><span class="content">they make merry to the sound of the pipe.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.21.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.21.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">They spend their years in prosperity</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.21.13"><span class="content">and go down to the grave in peace.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">21:13 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">in an instant</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.21.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.21.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Yet they say to God, &#8216;Leave us alone!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.21.14"><span class="content">We have no desire to know your ways.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.21.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.21.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.21.15"><span class="content">What would we gain by praying to him?&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.21.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.21.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">But their prosperity is not in their own hands,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.21.16"><span class="content">so I stand aloof from the plans of the wicked.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.21.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.21.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;Yet how often is the lamp of the wicked snuffed out?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.21.17"><span class="content">How often does calamity come upon them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.21.17"><span class="content">the fate God allots in his anger?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.21.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.21.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">How often are they like straw before the wind,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.21.18"><span class="content">like chaff swept away by a gale?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.21.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.21.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">It is said, &#8216;God stores up the punishment of the wicked for their children.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.21.19"><span class="content">Let him repay the wicked, so that they themselves will experience it!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.21.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.21.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Let their own eyes see their destruction;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.21.20"><span class="content">let them drink the cup of the wrath of the Almighty.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.21.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.21.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">For what do they care about the families they leave behind</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.21.21"><span class="content">when their allotted months come to an end?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.21.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.21.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">&#8220;Can anyone teach knowledge to God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.21.22"><span class="content">since he judges even the highest?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.21.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.21.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">One person dies in full vigor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.21.23"><span class="content">completely secure and at ease,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.21.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.21.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">well nourished in body,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">21:24 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.21.24"><span class="content">bones rich with marrow.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.21.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.21.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Another dies in bitterness of soul,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.21.25"><span class="content">never having enjoyed anything good.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.21.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.21.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Side by side they lie in the dust,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.21.26"><span class="content">and worms cover them both.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.21.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.21.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">&#8220;I know full well what you are thinking,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.21.27"><span class="content">the schemes by which you would wrong me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.21.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.21.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">You say, &#8216;Where now is the house of the great,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.21.28"><span class="content">the tents where the wicked lived?&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.21.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.21.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Have you never questioned those who travel?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.21.29"><span class="content">Have you paid no regard to their accounts&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.21.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.21.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">that the wicked are spared from the day of calamity,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.21.30"><span class="content">that they are delivered from</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">21:30 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">wicked are reserved for the day of calamity, / that they are brought forth to</span></span></span><span class="content"> the day of wrath?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.21.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.21.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Who denounces their conduct to their face?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.21.31"><span class="content">Who repays them for what they have done?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.21.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOB.21.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">They are carried to the grave,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOB.21.32"><span class="content">and watch is kept over their tombs.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOB.21.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.21.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">The soil in the valley is sweet to them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.21.33"><span class="content">everyone follows after them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.21.33"><span class="content">and a countless throng goes</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">21:33 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">them, / as a countless throng went</span></span></span><span class="content"> before them.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.21.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JOB.21.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">&#8220;So how can you console me with your nonsense?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JOB.21.34"><span class="content">Nothing is left of your answers but falsehood!&#8221;</span></span></div>
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