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         <div class="label">22</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Abraham Tested</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.22.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Some time later God tested Abraham. He said to him, &#8220;Abraham!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.22.1"><span class="content">&#8220;Here I am,&#8221; he replied.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.22.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.22.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Then God said, &#8220;Take your son, your only son, whom you love&#8212;Isaac&#8212;and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on a mountain I will show you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.22.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.22.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Early the next morning Abraham got up and loaded his donkey. He took with him two of his servants and his son Isaac. When he had cut enough wood for the burnt offering, he set out for the place God had told him about. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.22.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.22.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">He said to his servants, &#8220;Stay here with the donkey while I and the boy go over there. We will worship and then we will come back to you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.22.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.22.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac, and he himself carried the fire and the knife. As the two of them went on together, </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.22.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Isaac spoke up and said to his father Abraham, &#8220;Father?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.22.7"><span class="content">&#8220;Yes, my son?&#8221; Abraham replied.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.22.7"><span class="content">&#8220;The fire and wood are here,&#8221; Isaac said, &#8220;but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.22.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.22.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Abraham answered, &#8220;God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.&#8221; And the two of them went on together.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.22.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.22.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">When they reached the place God had told him about, Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it. He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.22.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Then he reached out his hand and took the knife to slay his son. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.22.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">But the angel of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> called out to him from heaven, &#8220;Abraham! Abraham!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.22.11"><span class="content">&#8220;Here I am,&#8221; he replied.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.22.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.22.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do not lay a hand on the boy,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.22.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.22.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Abraham looked up and there in a thicket he saw a ram</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:13 </span><span class="ft">Many manuscripts of the Masoretic Text, Samaritan Pentateuch, Septuagint and Syriac; most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">a ram behind him</span></span></span><span class="content"> caught by its horns. He went over and took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering instead of his son. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.22.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">So Abraham called that place The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Will Provide. And to this day it is said, &#8220;On the mountain of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> it will be provided.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.22.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.22.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The angel of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> called to Abraham from heaven a second time </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.22.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">and said, &#8220;I swear by myself, declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, that because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son, </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.22.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">I will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the cities of their enemies, </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.22.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">and through your offspring</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:18 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">seed</span></span></span><span class="content"> all nations on earth will be blessed,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:18 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">and all nations on earth will use the name of your offspring in blessings </span><span class="ft">(see 48:20)</span></span></span><span class="content"> because you have obeyed me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.22.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.22.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Then Abraham returned to his servants, and they set off together for Beersheba. And Abraham stayed in Beersheba.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Nahor&#8217;s Sons</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.22.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.22.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Some time later Abraham was told, &#8220;Milkah is also a mother; she has borne sons to your brother Nahor: </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.22.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Uz the firstborn, Buz his brother, Kemuel (the father of Aram), </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.22.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Kesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph and Bethuel.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.22.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. Milkah bore these eight sons to Abraham&#8217;s brother Nahor. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.22.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also had sons: Tebah, Gaham, Tahash and Maakah.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">23</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Death of Sarah</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.23.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Sarah lived to be a hundred and twenty-seven years old. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.23.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">She died at Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham went to mourn for Sarah and to weep over her.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.23.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.23.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Then Abraham rose from beside his dead wife and spoke to the Hittites.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:3 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">the descendants of Heth</span><span class="ft">; also in verses 5, 7, 10, 16, 18 and 20</span></span></span><span class="content"> He said, </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.23.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;I am a foreigner and stranger among you. Sell me some property for a burial site here so I can bury my dead.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.23.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.23.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The Hittites replied to Abraham, </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.23.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;Sir, listen to us. You are a mighty prince among us. Bury your dead in the choicest of our tombs. None of us will refuse you his tomb for burying your dead.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.23.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.23.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Then Abraham rose and bowed down before the people of the land, the Hittites. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.23.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">He said to them, &#8220;If you are willing to let me bury my dead, then listen to me and intercede with Ephron son of Zohar on my behalf </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.23.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">so he will sell me the cave of Machpelah, which belongs to him and is at the end of his field. Ask him to sell it to me for the full price as a burial site among you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.23.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.23.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Ephron the Hittite was sitting among his people and he replied to Abraham in the hearing of all the Hittites who had come to the gate of his city. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.23.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;No, my lord,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Listen to me; I give</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:11 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">sell</span></span></span><span class="content"> you the field, and I give</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:11 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">sell</span></span></span><span class="content"> you the cave that is in it. I give</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:11 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">sell</span></span></span><span class="content"> it to you in the presence of my people. Bury your dead.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.23.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.23.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Again Abraham bowed down before the people of the land </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.23.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">and he said to Ephron in their hearing, &#8220;Listen to me, if you will. I will pay the price of the field. Accept it from me so I can bury my dead there.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.23.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.23.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Ephron answered Abraham, </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.23.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;Listen to me, my lord; the land is worth four hundred shekels</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:15 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 10 pounds or about 4.6 kilograms</span></span></span><span class="content"> of silver, but what is that between you and me? Bury your dead.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.23.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.23.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Abraham agreed to Ephron&#8217;s terms and weighed out for him the price he had named in the hearing of the Hittites: four hundred shekels of silver, according to the weight current among the merchants.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.23.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.23.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">So Ephron&#8217;s field in Machpelah near Mamre&#8212;both the field and the cave in it, and all the trees within the borders of the field&#8212;was deeded </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.23.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">to Abraham as his property in the presence of all the Hittites who had come to the gate of the city. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.23.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Afterward Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the cave in the field of Machpelah near Mamre (which is at Hebron) in the land of Canaan. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.23.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">So the field and the cave in it were deeded to Abraham by the Hittites as a burial site.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">25</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Death of Abraham</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.25.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Abraham had taken another wife, whose name was Keturah. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.25.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak and Shuah. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.25.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Jokshan was the father of Sheba and Dedan; the descendants of Dedan were the Ashurites, the Letushites and the Leummites. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.25.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The sons of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Hanok, Abida and Eldaah. All these were descendants of Keturah.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.25.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.25.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Abraham left everything he owned to Isaac. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.25.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">But while he was still living, he gave gifts to the sons of his concubines and sent them away from his son Isaac to the land of the east.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.25.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.25.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Abraham lived a hundred and seventy-five years. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.25.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Then Abraham breathed his last and died at a good old age, an old man and full of years; and he was gathered to his people. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.25.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah near Mamre, in the field of Ephron son of Zohar the Hittite, </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.25.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">the field Abraham had bought from the Hittites.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">25:10 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">the descendants of Heth</span></span></span><span class="content"> There Abraham was buried with his wife Sarah. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.25.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">After Abraham&#8217;s death, God blessed his son Isaac, who then lived near Beer Lahai Roi.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Ishmael&#8217;s Sons</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.25.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.25.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">This is the account of the family line of Abraham&#8217;s son Ishmael, whom Sarah&#8217;s slave, Hagar the Egyptian, bore to Abraham.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.25.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.25.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">These are the names of the sons of Ishmael, listed in the order of their birth: Nebaioth the firstborn of Ishmael, Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam, </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.25.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Mishma, Dumah, Massa, </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.25.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish and Kedemah. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.25.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">These were the sons of Ishmael, and these are the names of the twelve tribal rulers according to their settlements and camps. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.25.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Ishmael lived a hundred and thirty-seven years. He breathed his last and died, and he was gathered to his people. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.25.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">His descendants settled in the area from Havilah to Shur, near the eastern border of Egypt, as you go toward Ashur. And they lived in hostility toward</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">25:18 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">lived to the east of</span></span></span><span class="content"> all the tribes related to them.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jacob and Esau</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.25.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.25.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">This is the account of the family line of Abraham&#8217;s son Isaac.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.25.19"><span class="content">Abraham became the father of Isaac, </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.25.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">and Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan Aram</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">25:20 </span><span class="ft">That is, Northwest Mesopotamia</span></span></span><span class="content"> and sister of Laban the Aramean.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.25.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.25.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Isaac prayed to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> on behalf of his wife, because she was childless. The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> answered his prayer, and his wife Rebekah became pregnant. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.25.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">The babies jostled each other within her, and she said, &#8220;Why is this happening to me?&#8221; So she went to inquire of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.25.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.25.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to her,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.25.23"><span class="content">&#8220;Two nations are in your womb,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.25.23"><span class="content">and two peoples from within you will be separated;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.25.23"><span class="content">one people will be stronger than the other,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.25.23"><span class="content">and the older will serve the younger.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.25.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.25.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">When the time came for her to give birth, there were twin boys in her womb. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.25.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">The first to come out was red, and his whole body was like a hairy garment; so they named him Esau.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">25:25 </span><span class="fq">Esau </span><span class="ft">may mean </span><span class="fq">hairy</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.25.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">After this, his brother came out, with his hand grasping Esau&#8217;s heel; so he was named Jacob.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">25:26 </span><span class="fq">Jacob </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">he grasps the heel, </span><span class="ft">a Hebrew idiom for </span><span class="fqa">he deceives.</span></span></span><span class="content"> Isaac was sixty years old when Rebekah gave birth to them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.25.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.25.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">The boys grew up, and Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the open country, while Jacob was content to stay at home among the tents. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.25.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Isaac, who had a taste for wild game, loved Esau, but Rebekah loved Jacob.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.25.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.25.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Once when Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau came in from the open country, famished. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.25.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">He said to Jacob, &#8220;Quick, let me have some of that red stew! I&#8217;m famished!&#8221; (That is why he was also called Edom.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">25:30 </span><span class="fq">Edom </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fq">red</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span><span class="content">)</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.25.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="GEN.25.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Jacob replied, &#8220;First sell me your birthright.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="GEN.25.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="GEN.25.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">&#8220;Look, I am about to die,&#8221; Esau said. &#8220;What good is the birthright to me?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="GEN.25.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="GEN.25.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">But Jacob said, &#8220;Swear to me first.&#8221; So he swore an oath to him, selling his birthright to Jacob.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="GEN.25.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="GEN.25.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Then Jacob gave Esau some bread and some lentil stew. He ate and drank, and then got up and left.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="GEN.25.34"><span class="content">So Esau despised his birthright.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">26</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Isaac and Abimelek</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.26.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Now there was a famine in the land&#8212;besides the previous famine in Abraham&#8217;s time&#8212;and Isaac went to Abimelek king of the Philistines in Gerar. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.26.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> appeared to Isaac and said, &#8220;Do not go down to Egypt; live in the land where I tell you to live. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.26.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Stay in this land for a while, and I will be with you and will bless you. For to you and your descendants I will give all these lands and will confirm the oath I swore to your father Abraham. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.26.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and will give them all these lands, and through your offspring</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">26:4 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">seed</span></span></span><span class="content"> all nations on earth will be blessed,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">26:4 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">and all nations on earth will use the name of your offspring in blessings </span><span class="ft">(see 48:20)</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.26.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">because Abraham obeyed me and did everything I required of him, keeping my commands, my decrees and my instructions.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.26.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">So Isaac stayed in Gerar.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.26.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.26.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">When the men of that place asked him about his wife, he said, &#8220;She is my sister,&#8221; because he was afraid to say, &#8220;She is my wife.&#8221; He thought, &#8220;The men of this place might kill me on account of Rebekah, because she is beautiful.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.26.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.26.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">When Isaac had been there a long time, Abimelek king of the Philistines looked down from a window and saw Isaac caressing his wife Rebekah. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.26.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">So Abimelek summoned Isaac and said, &#8220;She is really your wife! Why did you say, &#8216;She is my sister&#8217;?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.26.9"><span class="content">Isaac answered him, &#8220;Because I thought I might lose my life on account of her.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.26.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.26.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Then Abimelek said, &#8220;What is this you have done to us? One of the men might well have slept with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.26.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.26.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">So Abimelek gave orders to all the people: &#8220;Anyone who harms this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.26.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.26.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Isaac planted crops in that land and the same year reaped a hundredfold, because the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> blessed him. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.26.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The man became rich, and his wealth continued to grow until he became very wealthy. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.26.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">He had so many flocks and herds and servants that the Philistines envied him. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.26.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">So all the wells that his father&#8217;s servants had dug in the time of his father Abraham, the Philistines stopped up, filling them with earth.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.26.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.26.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Then Abimelek said to Isaac, &#8220;Move away from us; you have become too powerful for us.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.26.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.26.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">So Isaac moved away from there and encamped in the Valley of Gerar, where he settled. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.26.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug in the time of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died, and he gave them the same names his father had given them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.26.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.26.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Isaac&#8217;s servants dug in the valley and discovered a well of fresh water there. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.26.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">But the herders of Gerar quarreled with those of Isaac and said, &#8220;The water is ours!&#8221; So he named the well Esek,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">26:20 </span><span class="fq">Esek </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fq">dispute</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span><span class="content"> because they disputed with him. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.26.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Then they dug another well, but they quarreled over that one also; so he named it Sitnah.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">26:21 </span><span class="fq">Sitnah </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">opposition.</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.26.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">He moved on from there and dug another well, and no one quarreled over it. He named it Rehoboth,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">26:22 </span><span class="fq">Rehoboth </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fq">room</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span><span class="content"> saying, &#8220;Now the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has given us room and we will flourish in the land.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.26.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.26.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">From there he went up to Beersheba. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.26.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">That night the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> appeared to him and said, &#8220;I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you; I will bless you and will increase the number of your descendants for the sake of my servant Abraham.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.26.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.26.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Isaac built an altar there and called on the name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. There he pitched his tent, and there his servants dug a well.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.26.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.26.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Meanwhile, Abimelek had come to him from Gerar, with Ahuzzath his personal adviser and Phicol the commander of his forces. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.26.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Isaac asked them, &#8220;Why have you come to me, since you were hostile to me and sent me away?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.26.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.26.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">They answered, &#8220;We saw clearly that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> was with you; so we said, &#8216;There ought to be a sworn agreement between us&#8217;&#8212;between us and you. Let us make a treaty with you </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.26.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">that you will do us no harm, just as we did not harm you but always treated you well and sent you away peacefully. And now you are blessed by the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.26.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.26.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Isaac then made a feast for them, and they ate and drank. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="GEN.26.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Early the next morning the men swore an oath to each other. Then Isaac sent them on their way, and they went away peacefully.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="GEN.26.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="GEN.26.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">That day Isaac&#8217;s servants came and told him about the well they had dug. They said, &#8220;We&#8217;ve found water!&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="GEN.26.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">He called it Shibah,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">26:33 </span><span class="fq">Shibah </span><span class="ft">can mean </span><span class="fqa">oath </span><span class="ft">or </span><span class="fqa">seven.</span></span></span><span class="content"> and to this day the name of the town has been Beersheba.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">26:33 </span><span class="fq">Beersheba </span><span class="ft">can mean </span><span class="fqa">well of the oath </span><span class="ft">and </span><span class="fqa">well of seven.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jacob Takes Esau&#8217;s Blessing</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="GEN.26.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="GEN.26.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">When Esau was forty years old, he married Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and also Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite. </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="GEN.26.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">They were a source of grief to Isaac and Rebekah.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">27</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.27.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could no longer see, he called for Esau his older son and said to him, &#8220;My son.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.27.1"><span class="content">&#8220;Here I am,&#8221; he answered.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.27.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.27.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Isaac said, &#8220;I am now an old man and don&#8217;t know the day of my death. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.27.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Now then, get your equipment&#8212;your quiver and bow&#8212;and go out to the open country to hunt some wild game for me. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.27.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Prepare me the kind of tasty food I like and bring it to me to eat, so that I may give you my blessing before I die.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.27.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.27.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Now Rebekah was listening as Isaac spoke to his son Esau. When Esau left for the open country to hunt game and bring it back, </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.27.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Rebekah said to her son Jacob, &#8220;Look, I overheard your father say to your brother Esau, </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.27.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8216;Bring me some game and prepare me some tasty food to eat, so that I may give you my blessing in the presence of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> before I die.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.27.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Now, my son, listen carefully and do what I tell you: </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.27.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Go out to the flock and bring me two choice young goats, so I can prepare some tasty food for your father, just the way he likes it. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.27.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Then take it to your father to eat, so that he may give you his blessing before he dies.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.27.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.27.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, &#8220;But my brother Esau is a hairy man while I have smooth skin. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.27.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">What if my father touches me? I would appear to be tricking him and would bring down a curse on myself rather than a blessing.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.27.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.27.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">His mother said to him, &#8220;My son, let the curse fall on me. Just do what I say; go and get them for me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.27.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.27.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">So he went and got them and brought them to his mother, and she prepared some tasty food, just the way his father liked it. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.27.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Then Rebekah took the best clothes of Esau her older son, which she had in the house, and put them on her younger son Jacob. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.27.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">She also covered his hands and the smooth part of his neck with the goatskins. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.27.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Then she handed to her son Jacob the tasty food and the bread she had made.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.27.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.27.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">He went to his father and said, &#8220;My father.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.27.18"><span class="content">&#8220;Yes, my son,&#8221; he answered. &#8220;Who is it?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.27.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.27.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Jacob said to his father, &#8220;I am Esau your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Please sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may give me your blessing.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.27.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.27.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Isaac asked his son, &#8220;How did you find it so quickly, my son?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.27.20"><span class="content">&#8220;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God gave me success,&#8221; he replied.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.27.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.27.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Then Isaac said to Jacob, &#8220;Come near so I can touch you, my son, to know whether you really are my son Esau or not.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.27.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.27.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Jacob went close to his father Isaac, who touched him and said, &#8220;The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.27.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">He did not recognize him, for his hands were hairy like those of his brother Esau; so he proceeded to bless him. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.27.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">&#8220;Are you really my son Esau?&#8221; he asked.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.27.24"><span class="content">&#8220;I am,&#8221; he replied.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.27.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.27.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Then he said, &#8220;My son, bring me some of your game to eat, so that I may give you my blessing.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.27.25"><span class="content">Jacob brought it to him and he ate; and he brought some wine and he drank. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.27.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Then his father Isaac said to him, &#8220;Come here, my son, and kiss me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.27.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.27.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">So he went to him and kissed him. When Isaac caught the smell of his clothes, he blessed him and said,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.27.27"><span class="content">&#8220;Ah, the smell of my son</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.27.27"><span class="content">is like the smell of a field</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.27.27"><span class="content">that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has blessed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.27.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.27.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">May God give you heaven&#8217;s dew</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.27.28"><span class="content">and earth&#8217;s richness&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.27.28"><span class="content">an abundance of grain and new wine.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.27.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.27.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">May nations serve you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.27.29"><span class="content">and peoples bow down to you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.27.29"><span class="content">Be lord over your brothers,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.27.29"><span class="content">and may the sons of your mother bow down to you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.27.29"><span class="content">May those who curse you be cursed</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.27.29"><span class="content">and those who bless you be blessed.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.27.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.27.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">After Isaac finished blessing him, and Jacob had scarcely left his father&#8217;s presence, his brother Esau came in from hunting. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="GEN.27.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">He too prepared some tasty food and brought it to his father. Then he said to him, &#8220;My father, please sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may give me your blessing.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="GEN.27.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="GEN.27.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">His father Isaac asked him, &#8220;Who are you?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="GEN.27.32"><span class="content">&#8220;I am your son,&#8221; he answered, &#8220;your firstborn, Esau.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="GEN.27.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="GEN.27.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">Isaac trembled violently and said, &#8220;Who was it, then, that hunted game and brought it to me? I ate it just before you came and I blessed him&#8212;and indeed he will be blessed!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="GEN.27.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="GEN.27.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">When Esau heard his father&#8217;s words, he burst out with a loud and bitter cry and said to his father, &#8220;Bless me&#8212;me too, my father!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="GEN.27.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="GEN.27.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">But he said, &#8220;Your brother came deceitfully and took your blessing.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="GEN.27.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="GEN.27.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">Esau said, &#8220;Isn&#8217;t he rightly named Jacob</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">27:36 </span><span class="fq">Jacob </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">he grasps the heel</span><span class="ft">, a Hebrew idiom for </span><span class="fq">he takes advantage of </span><span class="ft">or </span><span class="fqa">he deceives.</span></span></span><span class="content">? This is the second time he has taken advantage of me: He took my birthright, and now he&#8217;s taken my blessing!&#8221; Then he asked, &#8220;Haven&#8217;t you reserved any blessing for me?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="GEN.27.36"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="GEN.27.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">Isaac answered Esau, &#8220;I have made him lord over you and have made all his relatives his servants, and I have sustained him with grain and new wine. So what can I possibly do for you, my son?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="GEN.27.37"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="GEN.27.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">Esau said to his father, &#8220;Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me too, my father!&#8221; Then Esau wept aloud.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="GEN.27.38"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="GEN.27.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">His father Isaac answered him,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="GEN.27.39"><span class="content">&#8220;Your dwelling will be</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="GEN.27.39"><span class="content">away from the earth&#8217;s richness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="GEN.27.39"><span class="content">away from the dew of heaven above.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="GEN.27.39"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="GEN.27.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">You will live by the sword</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="GEN.27.40"><span class="content">and you will serve your brother.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="GEN.27.40"><span class="content">But when you grow restless,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="GEN.27.40"><span class="content">you will throw his yoke</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="GEN.27.40"><span class="content">from off your neck.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="GEN.27.40"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="GEN.27.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. He said to himself, &#8220;The days of mourning for my father are near; then I will kill my brother Jacob.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="GEN.27.41"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="GEN.27.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">When Rebekah was told what her older son Esau had said, she sent for her younger son Jacob and said to him, &#8220;Your brother Esau is planning to avenge himself by killing you. </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="GEN.27.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">Now then, my son, do what I say: Flee at once to my brother Laban in Harran. </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="GEN.27.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="content">Stay with him for a while until your brother&#8217;s fury subsides. </span></span><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="GEN.27.45"><span class="label">45</span><span class="content">When your brother is no longer angry with you and forgets what you did to him, I&#8217;ll send word for you to come back from there. Why should I lose both of you in one day?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="GEN.27.45"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="GEN.27.46"><span class="label">46</span><span class="content">Then Rebekah said to Isaac, &#8220;I&#8217;m disgusted with living because of these Hittite women. If Jacob takes a wife from among the women of this land, from Hittite women like these, my life will not be worth living.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">28</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.28.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. Then he commanded him: &#8220;Do not marry a Canaanite woman. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.28.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Go at once to Paddan Aram,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">28:2 </span><span class="ft">That is, Northwest Mesopotamia; also in verses 5, 6 and 7</span></span></span><span class="content"> to the house of your mother&#8217;s father Bethuel. Take a wife for yourself there, from among the daughters of Laban, your mother&#8217;s brother. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.28.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">May God Almighty</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">28:3 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">El-Shaddai</span></span></span><span class="content"> bless you and make you fruitful and increase your numbers until you become a community of peoples. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.28.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">May he give you and your descendants the blessing given to Abraham, so that you may take possession of the land where you now reside as a foreigner, the land God gave to Abraham.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.28.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Then Isaac sent Jacob on his way, and he went to Paddan Aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, who was the mother of Jacob and Esau.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.28.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.28.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Now Esau learned that Isaac had blessed Jacob and had sent him to Paddan Aram to take a wife from there, and that when he blessed him he commanded him, &#8220;Do not marry a Canaanite woman,&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.28.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and had gone to Paddan Aram. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.28.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Esau then realized how displeasing the Canaanite women were to his father Isaac; </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.28.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">so he went to Ishmael and married Mahalath, the sister of Nebaioth and daughter of Ishmael son of Abraham, in addition to the wives he already had.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jacob&#8217;s Dream at Bethel</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.28.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.28.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Harran. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.28.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">When he reached a certain place, he stopped for the night because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones there, he put it under his head and lay down to sleep. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.28.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">He had a dream in which he saw a stairway resting on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.28.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">There above it</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">28:13 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">There beside him</span></span></span><span class="content"> stood the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and he said: &#8220;I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you are lying. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.28.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south. All peoples on earth will be blessed through you and your offspring.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">28:14 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">will use your name and the name of your offspring in blessings </span><span class="ft">(see 48:20)</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.28.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.28.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.28.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">When Jacob awoke from his sleep, he thought, &#8220;Surely the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is in this place, and I was not aware of it.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.28.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">He was afraid and said, &#8220;How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God; this is the gate of heaven.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.28.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.28.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Early the next morning Jacob took the stone he had placed under his head and set it up as a pillar and poured oil on top of it. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.28.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">He called that place Bethel,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">28:19 </span><span class="fq">Bethel </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">house of God.</span></span></span><span class="content"> though the city used to be called Luz.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.28.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.28.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Then Jacob made a vow, saying, &#8220;If God will be with me and will watch over me on this journey I am taking and will give me food to eat and clothes to wear </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.28.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">so that I return safely to my father&#8217;s household, then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">28:20,21 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Since God&#8230; father&#8217;s household, the <span class="nd">Lord</span></span></span></span><span class="content"> will be my God </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.28.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">and</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">28:21,22 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">household, and the <span class="nd">Lord</span> will be my God, </span><span class="fv">22 </span><span class="fqa">then</span></span></span><span class="content"> this stone that I have set up as a pillar will be God&#8217;s house, and of all that you give me I will give you a tenth.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">22</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Eliphaz</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.22.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.22.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.22.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Can a man be of benefit to God?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.22.2"><span class="content">Can even a wise person benefit him?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.22.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.22.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">What pleasure would it give the Almighty if you were righteous?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.22.3"><span class="content">What would he gain if your ways were blameless?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.22.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.22.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;Is it for your piety that he rebukes you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.22.4"><span class="content">and brings charges against you?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.22.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.22.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Is not your wickedness great?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.22.5"><span class="content">Are not your sins endless?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.22.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.22.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">You demanded security from your relatives for no reason;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.22.6"><span class="content">you stripped people of their clothing, leaving them naked.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.22.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.22.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">You gave no water to the weary</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.22.7"><span class="content">and you withheld food from the hungry,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.22.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.22.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">though you were a powerful man, owning land&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.22.8"><span class="content">an honored man, living on it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.22.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.22.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">And you sent widows away empty-handed</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.22.9"><span class="content">and broke the strength of the fatherless.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.22.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.22.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">That is why snares are all around you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.22.10"><span class="content">why sudden peril terrifies you,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.22.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.22.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">why it is so dark you cannot see,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.22.11"><span class="content">and why a flood of water covers you.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.22.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.22.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;Is not God in the heights of heaven?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.22.12"><span class="content">And see how lofty are the highest stars!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.22.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.22.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Yet you say, &#8216;What does God know?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.22.13"><span class="content">Does he judge through such darkness?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.22.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.22.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Thick clouds veil him, so he does not see us</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.22.14"><span class="content">as he goes about in the vaulted heavens.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.22.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.22.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Will you keep to the old path</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.22.15"><span class="content">that the wicked have trod?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.22.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.22.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">They were carried off before their time,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.22.16"><span class="content">their foundations washed away by a flood.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.22.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.22.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">They said to God, &#8216;Leave us alone!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.22.17"><span class="content">What can the Almighty do to us?&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.22.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.22.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Yet it was he who filled their houses with good things,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.22.18"><span class="content">so I stand aloof from the plans of the wicked.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.22.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.22.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The righteous see their ruin and rejoice;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.22.19"><span class="content">the innocent mock them, saying,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.22.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.22.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8216;Surely our foes are destroyed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.22.20"><span class="content">and fire devours their wealth.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.22.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.22.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">&#8220;Submit to God and be at peace with him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.22.21"><span class="content">in this way prosperity will come to you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.22.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.22.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Accept instruction from his mouth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.22.22"><span class="content">and lay up his words in your heart.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.22.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.22.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.22.23"><span class="content">If you remove wickedness far from your tent</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.22.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.22.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">and assign your nuggets to the dust,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.22.24"><span class="content">your gold of Ophir to the rocks in the ravines,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.22.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.22.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">then the Almighty will be your gold,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.22.25"><span class="content">the choicest silver for you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.22.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.22.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Surely then you will find delight in the Almighty</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.22.26"><span class="content">and will lift up your face to God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.22.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.22.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">You will pray to him, and he will hear you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.22.27"><span class="content">and you will fulfill your vows.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.22.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.22.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">What you decide on will be done,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.22.28"><span class="content">and light will shine on your ways.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.22.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.22.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">When people are brought low and you say, &#8216;Lift them up!&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.22.29"><span class="content">then he will save the downcast.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.22.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.22.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">He will deliver even one who is not innocent,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.22.30"><span class="content">who will be delivered through the cleanness of your hands.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">23</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Job</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.23.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then Job replied:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.23.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.23.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Even today my complaint is bitter;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.23.2"><span class="content">his hand</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:2 </span><span class="ft">Septuagint and Syriac; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">/&#160;the hand on me</span></span></span><span class="content"> is heavy in spite of</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:2 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">heavy on me in</span></span></span><span class="content"> my groaning.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.23.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.23.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">If only I knew where to find him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.23.3"><span class="content">if only I could go to his dwelling!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.23.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.23.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I would state my case before him</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.23.4"><span class="content">and fill my mouth with arguments.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.23.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.23.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">I would find out what he would answer me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.23.5"><span class="content">and consider what he would say to me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.23.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.23.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Would he vigorously oppose me?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.23.6"><span class="content">No, he would not press charges against me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.23.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.23.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">There the upright can establish their innocence before him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.23.7"><span class="content">and there I would be delivered forever from my judge.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.23.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.23.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;But if I go to the east, he is not there;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.23.8"><span class="content">if I go to the west, I do not find him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.23.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.23.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">When he is at work in the north, I do not see him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.23.9"><span class="content">when he turns to the south, I catch no glimpse of him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.23.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.23.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">But he knows the way that I take;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.23.10"><span class="content">when he has tested me, I will come forth as gold.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.23.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.23.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">My feet have closely followed his steps;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.23.11"><span class="content">I have kept to his way without turning aside.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.23.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.23.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">I have not departed from the commands of his lips;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.23.12"><span class="content">I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my daily bread.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.23.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.23.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;But he stands alone, and who can oppose him?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.23.13"><span class="content">He does whatever he pleases.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.23.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.23.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">He carries out his decree against me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.23.14"><span class="content">and many such plans he still has in store.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.23.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.23.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">That is why I am terrified before him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.23.15"><span class="content">when I think of all this, I fear him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.23.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.23.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">God has made my heart faint;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.23.16"><span class="content">the Almighty has terrified me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.23.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.23.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Yet I am not silenced by the darkness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.23.17"><span class="content">by the thick darkness that covers my face.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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         <div class="label">24</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.24.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;Why does the Almighty not set times for judgment?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.24.1"><span class="content">Why must those who know him look in vain for such days?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.24.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.24.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">There are those who move boundary stones;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.24.2"><span class="content">they pasture flocks they have stolen.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.24.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.24.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">They drive away the orphan&#8217;s donkey</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.24.3"><span class="content">and take the widow&#8217;s ox in pledge.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.24.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.24.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">They thrust the needy from the path</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.24.4"><span class="content">and force all the poor of the land into hiding.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.24.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.24.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Like wild donkeys in the desert,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.24.5"><span class="content">the poor go about their labor of foraging food;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.24.5"><span class="content">the wasteland provides food for their children.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.24.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.24.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">They gather fodder in the fields</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.24.6"><span class="content">and glean in the vineyards of the wicked.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.24.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.24.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Lacking clothes, they spend the night naked;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.24.7"><span class="content">they have nothing to cover themselves in the cold.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.24.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.24.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">They are drenched by mountain rains</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.24.8"><span class="content">and hug the rocks for lack of shelter.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.24.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.24.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The fatherless child is snatched from the breast;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.24.9"><span class="content">the infant of the poor is seized for a debt.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.24.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.24.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Lacking clothes, they go about naked;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.24.10"><span class="content">they carry the sheaves, but still go hungry.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.24.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.24.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">They crush olives among the terraces</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">24:11 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.24.11"><span class="content">they tread the winepresses, yet suffer thirst.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.24.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.24.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The groans of the dying rise from the city,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.24.12"><span class="content">and the souls of the wounded cry out for help.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.24.12"><span class="content">But God charges no one with wrongdoing.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.24.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.24.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;There are those who rebel against the light,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.24.13"><span class="content">who do not know its ways</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.24.13"><span class="content">or stay in its paths.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.24.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.24.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">When daylight is gone, the murderer rises up,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.24.14"><span class="content">kills the poor and needy,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.24.14"><span class="content">and in the night steals forth like a thief.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.24.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.24.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The eye of the adulterer watches for dusk;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.24.15"><span class="content">he thinks, &#8216;No eye will see me,&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.24.15"><span class="content">and he keeps his face concealed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.24.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.24.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">In the dark, thieves break into houses,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.24.16"><span class="content">but by day they shut themselves in;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.24.16"><span class="content">they want nothing to do with the light.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.24.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.24.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">For all of them, midnight is their morning;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.24.17"><span class="content">they make friends with the terrors of darkness.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.24.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.24.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;Yet they are foam on the surface of the water;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.24.18"><span class="content">their portion of the land is cursed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.24.18"><span class="content">so that no one goes to the vineyards.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.24.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.24.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">As heat and drought snatch away the melted snow,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.24.19"><span class="content">so the grave snatches away those who have sinned.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.24.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.24.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">The womb forgets them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.24.20"><span class="content">the worm feasts on them;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.24.20"><span class="content">the wicked are no longer remembered</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.24.20"><span class="content">but are broken like a tree.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.24.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.24.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">They prey on the barren and childless woman,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.24.21"><span class="content">and to the widow they show no kindness.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.24.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.24.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">But God drags away the mighty by his power;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.24.22"><span class="content">though they become established, they have no assurance of life.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.24.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.24.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">He may let them rest in a feeling of security,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.24.23"><span class="content">but his eyes are on their ways.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.24.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.24.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">For a little while they are exalted, and then they are gone;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.24.24"><span class="content">they are brought low and gathered up like all others;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.24.24"><span class="content">they are cut off like heads of grain.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.24.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.24.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">&#8220;If this is not so, who can prove me false</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.24.25"><span class="content">and reduce my words to nothing?&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">25</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Bildad</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.25.1"><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.25.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.25.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Dominion and awe belong to God;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.25.2"><span class="content">he establishes order in the heights of heaven.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.25.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.25.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Can his forces be numbered?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.25.3"><span class="content">On whom does his light not rise?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.25.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.25.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">How then can a mortal be righteous before God?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.25.4"><span class="content">How can one born of woman be pure?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.25.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.25.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">If even the moon is not bright</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.25.5"><span class="content">and the stars are not pure in his eyes,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.25.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.25.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">how much less a mortal, who is but a maggot&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.25.6"><span class="content">a human being, who is only a worm!&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">26</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Job</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.26.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then Job replied:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.26.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.26.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;How you have helped the powerless!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.26.2"><span class="content">How you have saved the arm that is feeble!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.26.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.26.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">What advice you have offered to one without wisdom!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.26.3"><span class="content">And what great insight you have displayed!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.26.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.26.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Who has helped you utter these words?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.26.4"><span class="content">And whose spirit spoke from your mouth?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.26.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.26.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;The dead are in deep anguish,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.26.5"><span class="content">those beneath the waters and all that live in them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.26.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.26.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The realm of the dead is naked before God;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.26.6"><span class="content">Destruction</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">26:6 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Abaddon</span></span></span><span class="content"> lies uncovered.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.26.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.26.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">He spreads out the northern skies over empty space;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.26.7"><span class="content">he suspends the earth over nothing.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.26.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.26.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">He wraps up the waters in his clouds,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.26.8"><span class="content">yet the clouds do not burst under their weight.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.26.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.26.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">He covers the face of the full moon,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.26.9"><span class="content">spreading his clouds over it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.26.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.26.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">He marks out the horizon on the face of the waters</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.26.10"><span class="content">for a boundary between light and darkness.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.26.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.26.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The pillars of the heavens quake,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.26.11"><span class="content">aghast at his rebuke.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.26.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.26.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">By his power he churned up the sea;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.26.12"><span class="content">by his wisdom he cut Rahab to pieces.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.26.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.26.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">By his breath the skies became fair;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.26.13"><span class="content">his hand pierced the gliding serpent.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.26.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.26.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">And these are but the outer fringe of his works;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.26.14"><span class="content">how faint the whisper we hear of him!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.26.14"><span class="content">Who then can understand the thunder of his power?&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">27</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Job&#8217;s Final Word to His Friends</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.27.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">And Job continued his discourse:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.27.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.27.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;As surely as God lives, who has denied me justice,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.27.2"><span class="content">the Almighty, who has made my life bitter,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.27.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.27.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">as long as I have life within me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.27.3"><span class="content">the breath of God in my nostrils,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.27.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.27.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">my lips will not say anything wicked,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.27.4"><span class="content">and my tongue will not utter lies.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.27.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.27.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">I will never admit you are in the right;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.27.5"><span class="content">till I die, I will not deny my integrity.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.27.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.27.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">I will maintain my innocence and never let go of it;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.27.6"><span class="content">my conscience will not reproach me as long as I live.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.27.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.27.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;May my enemy be like the wicked,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.27.7"><span class="content">my adversary like the unjust!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.27.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.27.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">For what hope have the godless when they are cut off,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.27.8"><span class="content">when God takes away their life?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.27.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.27.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Does God listen to their cry</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.27.9"><span class="content">when distress comes upon them?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.27.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.27.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Will they find delight in the Almighty?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.27.10"><span class="content">Will they call on God at all times?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.27.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.27.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;I will teach you about the power of God;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.27.11"><span class="content">the ways of the Almighty I will not conceal.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.27.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.27.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">You have all seen this yourselves.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.27.12"><span class="content">Why then this meaningless talk?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.27.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.27.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;Here is the fate God allots to the wicked,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.27.13"><span class="content">the heritage a ruthless man receives from the Almighty:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.27.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.27.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">However many his children, their fate is the sword;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.27.14"><span class="content">his offspring will never have enough to eat.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.27.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.27.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The plague will bury those who survive him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.27.15"><span class="content">and their widows will not weep for them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.27.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.27.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Though he heaps up silver like dust</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.27.16"><span class="content">and clothes like piles of clay,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.27.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.27.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">what he lays up the righteous will wear,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.27.17"><span class="content">and the innocent will divide his silver.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.27.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.27.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">The house he builds is like a moth&#8217;s cocoon,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.27.18"><span class="content">like a hut made by a watchman.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.27.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.27.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">He lies down wealthy, but will do so no more;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.27.19"><span class="content">when he opens his eyes, all is gone.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.27.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.27.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Terrors overtake him like a flood;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.27.20"><span class="content">a tempest snatches him away in the night.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.27.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.27.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">The east wind carries him off, and he is gone;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.27.21"><span class="content">it sweeps him out of his place.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.27.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.27.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">It hurls itself against him without mercy</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.27.22"><span class="content">as he flees headlong from its power.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.27.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.27.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">It claps its hands in derision</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.27.23"><span class="content">and hisses him out of his place.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">28</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Interlude: Where Wisdom Is Found</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.28.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">There is a mine for silver</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.28.1"><span class="content">and a place where gold is refined.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.28.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.28.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Iron is taken from the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.28.2"><span class="content">and copper is smelted from ore.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.28.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.28.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Mortals put an end to the darkness;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.28.3"><span class="content">they search out the farthest recesses</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.28.3"><span class="content">for ore in the blackest darkness.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.28.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.28.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Far from human dwellings they cut a shaft,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.28.4"><span class="content">in places untouched by human feet;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.28.4"><span class="content">far from other people they dangle and sway.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.28.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.28.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The earth, from which food comes,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.28.5"><span class="content">is transformed below as by fire;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.28.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.28.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">lapis lazuli comes from its rocks,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.28.6"><span class="content">and its dust contains nuggets of gold.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.28.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.28.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">No bird of prey knows that hidden path,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.28.7"><span class="content">no falcon&#8217;s eye has seen it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.28.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.28.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Proud beasts do not set foot on it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.28.8"><span class="content">and no lion prowls there.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.28.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.28.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">People assault the flinty rock with their hands</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.28.9"><span class="content">and lay bare the roots of the mountains.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.28.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.28.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">They tunnel through the rock;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.28.10"><span class="content">their eyes see all its treasures.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.28.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.28.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">They search</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">28:11 </span><span class="ft">Septuagint, Aquila and Vulgate; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">They dam up</span></span></span><span class="content"> the sources of the rivers</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.28.11"><span class="content">and bring hidden things to light.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.28.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.28.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">But where can wisdom be found?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.28.12"><span class="content">Where does understanding dwell?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.28.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.28.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">No mortal comprehends its worth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.28.13"><span class="content">it cannot be found in the land of the living.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.28.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.28.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The deep says, &#8220;It is not in me&#8221;;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.28.14"><span class="content">the sea says, &#8220;It is not with me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.28.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.28.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">It cannot be bought with the finest gold,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.28.15"><span class="content">nor can its price be weighed out in silver.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.28.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.28.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">It cannot be bought with the gold of Ophir,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.28.16"><span class="content">with precious onyx or lapis lazuli.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.28.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.28.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Neither gold nor crystal can compare with it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.28.17"><span class="content">nor can it be had for jewels of gold.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.28.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.28.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Coral and jasper are not worthy of mention;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.28.18"><span class="content">the price of wisdom is beyond rubies.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.28.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.28.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The topaz of Cush cannot compare with it;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.28.19"><span class="content">it cannot be bought with pure gold.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.28.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.28.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Where then does wisdom come from?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.28.20"><span class="content">Where does understanding dwell?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.28.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.28.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">It is hidden from the eyes of every living thing,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.28.21"><span class="content">concealed even from the birds in the sky.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.28.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.28.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Destruction</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">28:22 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Abaddon</span></span></span><span class="content"> and Death say,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.28.22"><span class="content">&#8220;Only a rumor of it has reached our ears.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.28.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.28.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">God understands the way to it</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.28.23"><span class="content">and he alone knows where it dwells,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.28.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.28.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">for he views the ends of the earth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.28.24"><span class="content">and sees everything under the heavens.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.28.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.28.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">When he established the force of the wind</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.28.25"><span class="content">and measured out the waters,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.28.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.28.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">when he made a decree for the rain</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.28.26"><span class="content">and a path for the thunderstorm,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.28.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.28.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">then he looked at wisdom and appraised it;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.28.27"><span class="content">he confirmed it and tested it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.28.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.28.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">And he said to the human race,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.28.28"><span class="content">&#8220;The fear of the Lord&#8212;that is wisdom,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.28.28"><span class="content">and to shun evil is understanding.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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