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         <div class="label">29</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jacob Arrives in Paddan Aram</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.29.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then Jacob continued on his journey and came to the land of the eastern peoples. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.29.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">There he saw a well in the open country, with three flocks of sheep lying near it because the flocks were watered from that well. The stone over the mouth of the well was large. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.29.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">When all the flocks were gathered there, the shepherds would roll the stone away from the well&#8217;s mouth and water the sheep. Then they would return the stone to its place over the mouth of the well.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.29.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.29.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Jacob asked the shepherds, &#8220;My brothers, where are you from?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.29.4"><span class="content">&#8220;We&#8217;re from Harran,&#8221; they replied.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.29.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.29.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">He said to them, &#8220;Do you know Laban, Nahor&#8217;s grandson?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.29.5"><span class="content">&#8220;Yes, we know him,&#8221; they answered.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.29.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.29.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Then Jacob asked them, &#8220;Is he well?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.29.6"><span class="content">&#8220;Yes, he is,&#8221; they said, &#8220;and here comes his daughter Rachel with the sheep.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.29.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.29.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;Look,&#8221; he said, &#8220;the sun is still high; it is not time for the flocks to be gathered. Water the sheep and take them back to pasture.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.29.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.29.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;We can&#8217;t,&#8221; they replied, &#8220;until all the flocks are gathered and the stone has been rolled away from the mouth of the well. Then we will water the sheep.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.29.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.29.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">While he was still talking with them, Rachel came with her father&#8217;s sheep, for she was a shepherd. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.29.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">When Jacob saw Rachel daughter of his uncle Laban, and Laban&#8217;s sheep, he went over and rolled the stone away from the mouth of the well and watered his uncle&#8217;s sheep. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.29.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Then Jacob kissed Rachel and began to weep aloud. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.29.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">He had told Rachel that he was a relative of her father and a son of Rebekah. So she ran and told her father.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.29.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.29.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">As soon as Laban heard the news about Jacob, his sister&#8217;s son, he hurried to meet him. He embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his home, and there Jacob told him all these things. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.29.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Then Laban said to him, &#8220;You are my own flesh and blood.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jacob Marries Leah and Rachel</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.29.14"><span class="content">After Jacob had stayed with him for a whole month, </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.29.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Laban said to him, &#8220;Just because you are a relative of mine, should you work for me for nothing? Tell me what your wages should be.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.29.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.29.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Now Laban had two daughters; the name of the older was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.29.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Leah had weak</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">29:17 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">delicate</span></span></span><span class="content"> eyes, but Rachel had a lovely figure and was beautiful. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.29.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Jacob was in love with Rachel and said, &#8220;I&#8217;ll work for you seven years in return for your younger daughter Rachel.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.29.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.29.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Laban said, &#8220;It&#8217;s better that I give her to you than to some other man. Stay here with me.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.29.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">So Jacob served seven years to get Rachel, but they seemed like only a few days to him because of his love for her.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.29.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.29.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Then Jacob said to Laban, &#8220;Give me my wife. My time is completed, and I want to make love to her.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.29.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.29.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">So Laban brought together all the people of the place and gave a feast. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.29.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">But when evening came, he took his daughter Leah and brought her to Jacob, and Jacob made love to her. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.29.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">And Laban gave his servant Zilpah to his daughter as her attendant.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.29.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.29.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">When morning came, there was Leah! So Jacob said to Laban, &#8220;What is this you have done to me? I served you for Rachel, didn&#8217;t I? Why have you deceived me?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.29.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.29.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Laban replied, &#8220;It is not our custom here to give the younger daughter in marriage before the older one. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.29.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Finish this daughter&#8217;s bridal week; then we will give you the younger one also, in return for another seven years of work.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.29.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.29.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">And Jacob did so. He finished the week with Leah, and then Laban gave him his daughter Rachel to be his wife. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.29.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Laban gave his servant Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her attendant. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.29.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Jacob made love to Rachel also, and his love for Rachel was greater than his love for Leah. And he worked for Laban another seven years.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jacob&#8217;s Children</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.29.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="GEN.29.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">When the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> saw that Leah was not loved, he enabled her to conceive, but Rachel remained childless. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="GEN.29.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">Leah became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Reuben,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">29:32 </span><span class="fq">Reuben </span><span class="ft">sounds like the Hebrew for </span><span class="fqa">he </span><span class="fq">has seen my misery</span><span class="ft">; the name means </span><span class="fqa">see, a son.</span></span></span><span class="content"> for she said, &#8220;It is because the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has seen my misery. Surely my husband will love me now.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="GEN.29.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="GEN.29.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">She conceived again, and when she gave birth to a son she said, &#8220;Because the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> heard that I am not loved, he gave me this one too.&#8221; So she named him Simeon.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">29:33 </span><span class="fq">Simeon </span><span class="ft">probably means </span><span class="fqa">one who hears.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="GEN.29.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="GEN.29.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Again she conceived, and when she gave birth to a son she said, &#8220;Now at last my husband will become attached to me, because I have borne him three sons.&#8221; So he was named Levi.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">29:34 </span><span class="fq">Levi </span><span class="ft">sounds like and may be derived from the Hebrew for </span><span class="fq">attached</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="GEN.29.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="GEN.29.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">She conceived again, and when she gave birth to a son she said, &#8220;This time I will praise the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8221; So she named him Judah.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">29:35 </span><span class="fq">Judah </span><span class="ft">sounds like and may be derived from the Hebrew for </span><span class="fq">praise</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span><span class="content"> Then she stopped having children.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">30</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.30.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">When Rachel saw that she was not bearing Jacob any children, she became jealous of her sister. So she said to Jacob, &#8220;Give me children, or I&#8217;ll die!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.30.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.30.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Jacob became angry with her and said, &#8220;Am I in the place of God, who has kept you from having children?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.30.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.30.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Then she said, &#8220;Here is Bilhah, my servant. Sleep with her so that she can bear children for me and I too can build a family through her.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.30.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.30.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">So she gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife. Jacob slept with her, </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.30.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">and she became pregnant and bore him a son. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.30.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Then Rachel said, &#8220;God has vindicated me; he has listened to my plea and given me a son.&#8221; Because of this she named him Dan.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">30:6 </span><span class="fq">Dan </span><span class="ft">here means </span><span class="fqa">he </span><span class="fq">has vindicated</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.30.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.30.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Rachel&#8217;s servant Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.30.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Then Rachel said, &#8220;I have had a great struggle with my sister, and I have won.&#8221; So she named him Naphtali.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">30:8 </span><span class="fq">Naphtali </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">my </span><span class="fq">struggle</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.30.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.30.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she took her servant Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.30.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Leah&#8217;s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a son. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.30.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Then Leah said, &#8220;What good fortune!&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">30:11 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">&#8220;A troop is coming!&#8221;</span></span></span><span class="content"> So she named him Gad.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">30:11 </span><span class="fq">Gad </span><span class="ft">can mean </span><span class="fq">good fortune </span><span class="ft">or </span><span class="fqa">troop.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.30.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.30.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Leah&#8217;s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a second son. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.30.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Then Leah said, &#8220;How happy I am! The women will call me happy.&#8221; So she named him Asher.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">30:13 </span><span class="fq">Asher </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fq">happy</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.30.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.30.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">During wheat harvest, Reuben went out into the fields and found some mandrake plants, which he brought to his mother Leah. Rachel said to Leah, &#8220;Please give me some of your son&#8217;s mandrakes.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.30.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.30.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">But she said to her, &#8220;Wasn&#8217;t it enough that you took away my husband? Will you take my son&#8217;s mandrakes too?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.30.15"><span class="content">&#8220;Very well,&#8221; Rachel said, &#8220;he can sleep with you tonight in return for your son&#8217;s mandrakes.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.30.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.30.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">So when Jacob came in from the fields that evening, Leah went out to meet him. &#8220;You must sleep with me,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I have hired you with my son&#8217;s mandrakes.&#8221; So he slept with her that night.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.30.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.30.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">God listened to Leah, and she became pregnant and bore Jacob a fifth son. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.30.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Then Leah said, &#8220;God has rewarded me for giving my servant to my husband.&#8221; So she named him Issachar.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">30:18 </span><span class="fq">Issachar </span><span class="ft">sounds like the Hebrew for </span><span class="fq">reward</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.30.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.30.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Leah conceived again and bore Jacob a sixth son. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.30.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Then Leah said, &#8220;God has presented me with a precious gift. This time my husband will treat me with honor, because I have borne him six sons.&#8221; So she named him Zebulun.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">30:20 </span><span class="fq">Zebulun </span><span class="ft">probably means </span><span class="fq">honor</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.30.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.30.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Some time later she gave birth to a daughter and named her Dinah.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.30.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.30.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Then God remembered Rachel; he listened to her and enabled her to conceive. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.30.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">She became pregnant and gave birth to a son and said, &#8220;God has taken away my disgrace.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.30.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">She named him Joseph,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">30:24 </span><span class="fq">Joseph </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">may he add.</span></span></span><span class="content"> and said, &#8220;May the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> add to me another son.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jacob&#8217;s Flocks Increase</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.30.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.30.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">After Rachel gave birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, &#8220;Send me on my way so I can go back to my own homeland. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.30.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Give me my wives and children, for whom I have served you, and I will be on my way. You know how much work I&#8217;ve done for you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.30.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.30.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">But Laban said to him, &#8220;If I have found favor in your eyes, please stay. I have learned by divination that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has blessed me because of you.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.30.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">He added, &#8220;Name your wages, and I will pay them.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.30.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.30.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Jacob said to him, &#8220;You know how I have worked for you and how your livestock has fared under my care. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.30.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">The little you had before I came has increased greatly, and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has blessed you wherever I have been. But now, when may I do something for my own household?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.30.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="GEN.30.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">&#8220;What shall I give you?&#8221; he asked.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="GEN.30.31"><span class="content">&#8220;Don&#8217;t give me anything,&#8221; Jacob replied. &#8220;But if you will do this one thing for me, I will go on tending your flocks and watching over them: </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="GEN.30.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">Let me go through all your flocks today and remove from them every speckled or spotted sheep, every dark-colored lamb and every spotted or speckled goat. They will be my wages. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="GEN.30.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">And my honesty will testify for me in the future, whenever you check on the wages you have paid me. Any goat in my possession that is not speckled or spotted, or any lamb that is not dark-colored, will be considered stolen.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="GEN.30.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="GEN.30.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">&#8220;Agreed,&#8221; said Laban. &#8220;Let it be as you have said.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="GEN.30.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">That same day he removed all the male goats that were streaked or spotted, and all the speckled or spotted female goats (all that had white on them) and all the dark-colored lambs, and he placed them in the care of his sons. </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="GEN.30.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">Then he put a three-day journey between himself and Jacob, while Jacob continued to tend the rest of Laban&#8217;s flocks.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="GEN.30.36"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="GEN.30.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">Jacob, however, took fresh-cut branches from poplar, almond and plane trees and made white stripes on them by peeling the bark and exposing the white inner wood of the branches. </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="GEN.30.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">Then he placed the peeled branches in all the watering troughs, so that they would be directly in front of the flocks when they came to drink. When the flocks were in heat and came to drink, </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="GEN.30.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">they mated in front of the branches. And they bore young that were streaked or speckled or spotted. </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="GEN.30.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">Jacob set apart the young of the flock by themselves, but made the rest face the streaked and dark-colored animals that belonged to Laban. Thus he made separate flocks for himself and did not put them with Laban&#8217;s animals. </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="GEN.30.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">Whenever the stronger females were in heat, Jacob would place the branches in the troughs in front of the animals so they would mate near the branches, </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="GEN.30.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">but if the animals were weak, he would not place them there. So the weak animals went to Laban and the strong ones to Jacob. </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="GEN.30.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">In this way the man grew exceedingly prosperous and came to own large flocks, and female and male servants, and camels and donkeys.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">31</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jacob Flees From Laban</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.31.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Jacob heard that Laban&#8217;s sons were saying, &#8220;Jacob has taken everything our father owned and has gained all this wealth from what belonged to our father.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.31.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">And Jacob noticed that Laban&#8217;s attitude toward him was not what it had been.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.31.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.31.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Jacob, &#8220;Go back to the land of your fathers and to your relatives, and I will be with you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.31.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.31.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">So Jacob sent word to Rachel and Leah to come out to the fields where his flocks were. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.31.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">He said to them, &#8220;I see that your father&#8217;s attitude toward me is not what it was before, but the God of my father has been with me. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.31.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">You know that I&#8217;ve worked for your father with all my strength, </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.31.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">yet your father has cheated me by changing my wages ten times. However, God has not allowed him to harm me. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.31.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">If he said, &#8216;The speckled ones will be your wages,&#8217; then all the flocks gave birth to speckled young; and if he said, &#8216;The streaked ones will be your wages,&#8217; then all the flocks bore streaked young. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.31.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">So God has taken away your father&#8217;s livestock and has given them to me.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.31.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.31.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;In breeding season I once had a dream in which I looked up and saw that the male goats mating with the flock were streaked, speckled or spotted. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.31.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The angel of God said to me in the dream, &#8216;Jacob.&#8217; I answered, &#8216;Here I am.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.31.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">And he said, &#8216;Look up and see that all the male goats mating with the flock are streaked, speckled or spotted, for I have seen all that Laban has been doing to you. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.31.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar and where you made a vow to me. Now leave this land at once and go back to your native land.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.31.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.31.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Then Rachel and Leah replied, &#8220;Do we still have any share in the inheritance of our father&#8217;s estate? </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.31.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Does he not regard us as foreigners? Not only has he sold us, but he has used up what was paid for us. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.31.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Surely all the wealth that God took away from our father belongs to us and our children. So do whatever God has told you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.31.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.31.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Then Jacob put his children and his wives on camels, </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.31.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">and he drove all his livestock ahead of him, along with all the goods he had accumulated in Paddan Aram,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">31:18 </span><span class="ft">That is, Northwest Mesopotamia</span></span></span><span class="content"> to go to his father Isaac in the land of Canaan.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.31.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.31.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">When Laban had gone to shear his sheep, Rachel stole her father&#8217;s household gods. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.31.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Moreover, Jacob deceived Laban the Aramean by not telling him he was running away. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.31.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">So he fled with all he had, crossed the Euphrates River, and headed for the hill country of Gilead.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Laban Pursues Jacob</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.31.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.31.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">On the third day Laban was told that Jacob had fled. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.31.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Taking his relatives with him, he pursued Jacob for seven days and caught up with him in the hill country of Gilead. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.31.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Then God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream at night and said to him, &#8220;Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.31.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.31.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country of Gilead when Laban overtook him, and Laban and his relatives camped there too. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.31.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Then Laban said to Jacob, &#8220;What have you done? You&#8217;ve deceived me, and you&#8217;ve carried off my daughters like captives in war. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.31.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Why did you run off secretly and deceive me? Why didn&#8217;t you tell me, so I could send you away with joy and singing to the music of timbrels and harps? </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.31.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">You didn&#8217;t even let me kiss my grandchildren and my daughters goodbye. You have done a foolish thing. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.31.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">I have the power to harm you; but last night the God of your father said to me, &#8216;Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.31.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Now you have gone off because you longed to return to your father&#8217;s household. But why did you steal my gods?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.31.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="GEN.31.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Jacob answered Laban, &#8220;I was afraid, because I thought you would take your daughters away from me by force. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="GEN.31.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">But if you find anyone who has your gods, that person shall not live. In the presence of our relatives, see for yourself whether there is anything of yours here with me; and if so, take it.&#8221; Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen the gods.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="GEN.31.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="GEN.31.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">So Laban went into Jacob&#8217;s tent and into Leah&#8217;s tent and into the tent of the two female servants, but he found nothing. After he came out of Leah&#8217;s tent, he entered Rachel&#8217;s tent. </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="GEN.31.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Now Rachel had taken the household gods and put them inside her camel&#8217;s saddle and was sitting on them. Laban searched through everything in the tent but found nothing.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="GEN.31.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="GEN.31.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">Rachel said to her father, &#8220;Don&#8217;t be angry, my lord, that I cannot stand up in your presence; I&#8217;m having my period.&#8221; So he searched but could not find the household gods.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="GEN.31.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="GEN.31.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">Jacob was angry and took Laban to task. &#8220;What is my crime?&#8221; he asked Laban. &#8220;How have I wronged you that you hunt me down? </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="GEN.31.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">Now that you have searched through all my goods, what have you found that belongs to your household? Put it here in front of your relatives and mine, and let them judge between the two of us.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="GEN.31.37"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="GEN.31.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">&#8220;I have been with you for twenty years now. Your sheep and goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten rams from your flocks. </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="GEN.31.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">I did not bring you animals torn by wild beasts; I bore the loss myself. And you demanded payment from me for whatever was stolen by day or night. </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="GEN.31.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">This was my situation: The heat consumed me in the daytime and the cold at night, and sleep fled from my eyes. </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="GEN.31.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">It was like this for the twenty years I was in your household. I worked for you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks, and you changed my wages ten times. </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="GEN.31.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, you would surely have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my hardship and the toil of my hands, and last night he rebuked you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="GEN.31.42"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="GEN.31.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">Laban answered Jacob, &#8220;The women are my daughters, the children are my children, and the flocks are my flocks. All you see is mine. Yet what can I do today about these daughters of mine, or about the children they have borne? </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="GEN.31.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="content">Come now, let&#8217;s make a covenant, you and I, and let it serve as a witness between us.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="GEN.31.44"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="GEN.31.45"><span class="label">45</span><span class="content">So Jacob took a stone and set it up as a pillar. </span></span><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="GEN.31.46"><span class="label">46</span><span class="content">He said to his relatives, &#8220;Gather some stones.&#8221; So they took stones and piled them in a heap, and they ate there by the heap. </span></span><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="GEN.31.47"><span class="label">47</span><span class="content">Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, and Jacob called it Galeed.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">31:47 </span><span class="ft">The Aramaic </span><span class="fq">Jegar Sahadutha </span><span class="ft">and the Hebrew </span><span class="fq">Galeed </span><span class="ft">both mean </span><span class="fqa">witness heap.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="GEN.31.47"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="GEN.31.48"><span class="label">48</span><span class="content">Laban said, &#8220;This heap is a witness between you and me today.&#8221; That is why it was called Galeed. </span></span><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="GEN.31.49"><span class="label">49</span><span class="content">It was also called Mizpah,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">31:49 </span><span class="fq">Mizpah </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">watchtower.</span></span></span><span class="content"> because he said, &#8220;May the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> keep watch between you and me when we are away from each other. </span></span><span class="verse v50" data-usfm="GEN.31.50"><span class="label">50</span><span class="content">If you mistreat my daughters or if you take any wives besides my daughters, even though no one is with us, remember that God is a witness between you and me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v50" data-usfm="GEN.31.50"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v51" data-usfm="GEN.31.51"><span class="label">51</span><span class="content">Laban also said to Jacob, &#8220;Here is this heap, and here is this pillar I have set up between you and me. </span></span><span class="verse v52" data-usfm="GEN.31.52"><span class="label">52</span><span class="content">This heap is a witness, and this pillar is a witness, that I will not go past this heap to your side to harm you and that you will not go past this heap and pillar to my side to harm me. </span></span><span class="verse v53" data-usfm="GEN.31.53"><span class="label">53</span><span class="content">May the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v53" data-usfm="GEN.31.53"><span class="content">So Jacob took an oath in the name of the Fear of his father Isaac. </span></span><span class="verse v54" data-usfm="GEN.31.54"><span class="label">54</span><span class="content">He offered a sacrifice there in the hill country and invited his relatives to a meal. After they had eaten, they spent the night there.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v54" data-usfm="GEN.31.54"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v55" data-usfm="GEN.31.55"><span class="label">55</span><span class="content">Early the next morning Laban kissed his grandchildren and his daughters and blessed them. Then he left and returned home.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">31:55 </span><span class="ft">In Hebrew texts this verse (31:55) is numbered 32:1.</span></span></span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">32</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jacob Prepares to Meet Esau</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">In Hebrew texts 32:1-32 is numbered 32:2-33. </span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.32.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Jacob also went on his way, and the angels of God met him. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.32.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">When Jacob saw them, he said, &#8220;This is the camp of God!&#8221; So he named that place Mahanaim.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">32:2 </span><span class="fq">Mahanaim </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">two camps.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.32.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.32.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the country of Edom. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.32.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">He instructed them: &#8220;This is what you are to say to my lord Esau: &#8216;Your servant Jacob says, I have been staying with Laban and have remained there till now. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.32.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">I have cattle and donkeys, sheep and goats, male and female servants. Now I am sending this message to my lord, that I may find favor in your eyes.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.32.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.32.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">When the messengers returned to Jacob, they said, &#8220;We went to your brother Esau, and now he is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.32.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.32.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">In great fear and distress Jacob divided the people who were with him into two groups,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">32:7 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">camps</span></span></span><span class="content"> and the flocks and herds and camels as well. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.32.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">He thought, &#8220;If Esau comes and attacks one group,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">32:8 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">camp</span></span></span><span class="content"> the group</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">32:8 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">camp</span></span></span><span class="content"> that is left may escape.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.32.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.32.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Then Jacob prayed, &#8220;O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, you who said to me, &#8216;Go back to your country and your relatives, and I will make you prosper,&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.32.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness you have shown your servant. I had only my staff when I crossed this Jordan, but now I have become two camps. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.32.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Save me, I pray, from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid he will come and attack me, and also the mothers with their children. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.32.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">But you have said, &#8216;I will surely make you prosper and will make your descendants like the sand of the sea, which cannot be counted.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.32.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.32.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">He spent the night there, and from what he had with him he selected a gift for his brother Esau: </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.32.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams, </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.32.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">thirty female camels with their young, forty cows and ten bulls, and twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.32.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">He put them in the care of his servants, each herd by itself, and said to his servants, &#8220;Go ahead of me, and keep some space between the herds.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.32.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.32.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">He instructed the one in the lead: &#8220;When my brother Esau meets you and asks, &#8216;Who do you belong to, and where are you going, and who owns all these animals in front of you?&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.32.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">then you are to say, &#8216;They belong to your servant Jacob. They are a gift sent to my lord Esau, and he is coming behind us.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.32.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.32.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">He also instructed the second, the third and all the others who followed the herds: &#8220;You are to say the same thing to Esau when you meet him. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.32.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">And be sure to say, &#8216;Your servant Jacob is coming behind us.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221; For he thought, &#8220;I will pacify him with these gifts I am sending on ahead; later, when I see him, perhaps he will receive me.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.32.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">So Jacob&#8217;s gifts went on ahead of him, but he himself spent the night in the camp.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jacob Wrestles With God</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.32.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.32.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">That night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two female servants and his eleven sons and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.32.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">After he had sent them across the stream, he sent over all his possessions. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.32.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.32.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob&#8217;s hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.32.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Then the man said, &#8220;Let me go, for it is daybreak.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.32.26"><span class="content">But Jacob replied, &#8220;I will not let you go unless you bless me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.32.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.32.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">The man asked him, &#8220;What is your name?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.32.27"><span class="content">&#8220;Jacob,&#8221; he answered.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.32.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.32.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Then the man said, &#8220;Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">32:28 </span><span class="fq">Israel </span><span class="ft">probably means </span><span class="fqa">he struggles with God.</span></span></span><span class="content"> because you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.32.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.32.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Jacob said, &#8220;Please tell me your name.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.32.29"><span class="content">But he replied, &#8220;Why do you ask my name?&#8221; Then he blessed him there.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.32.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.32.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">So Jacob called the place Peniel,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">32:30 </span><span class="fq">Peniel </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">face of God.</span></span></span><span class="content"> saying, &#8220;It is because I saw God face to face, and yet my life was spared.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.32.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="GEN.32.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">The sun rose above him as he passed Peniel,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">32:31 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Penuel</span><span class="ft">, a variant of </span><span class="fq">Peniel</span></span></span><span class="content"> and he was limping because of his hip. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="GEN.32.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">Therefore to this day the Israelites do not eat the tendon attached to the socket of the hip, because the socket of Jacob&#8217;s hip was touched near the tendon.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">33</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jacob Meets Esau</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.33.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Jacob looked up and there was Esau, coming with his four hundred men; so he divided the children among Leah, Rachel and the two female servants. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.33.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He put the female servants and their children in front, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph in the rear. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.33.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">He himself went on ahead and bowed down to the ground seven times as he approached his brother.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.33.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.33.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">But Esau ran to meet Jacob and embraced him; he threw his arms around his neck and kissed him. And they wept. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.33.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Then Esau looked up and saw the women and children. &#8220;Who are these with you?&#8221; he asked.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.33.5"><span class="content">Jacob answered, &#8220;They are the children God has graciously given your servant.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.33.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.33.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Then the female servants and their children approached and bowed down. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.33.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Next, Leah and her children came and bowed down. Last of all came Joseph and Rachel, and they too bowed down.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.33.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.33.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Esau asked, &#8220;What&#8217;s the meaning of all these flocks and herds I met?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.33.8"><span class="content">&#8220;To find favor in your eyes, my lord,&#8221; he said.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.33.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.33.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">But Esau said, &#8220;I already have plenty, my brother. Keep what you have for yourself.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.33.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.33.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;No, please!&#8221; said Jacob. &#8220;If I have found favor in your eyes, accept this gift from me. For to see your face is like seeing the face of God, now that you have received me favorably. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.33.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Please accept the present that was brought to you, for God has been gracious to me and I have all I need.&#8221; And because Jacob insisted, Esau accepted it.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.33.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.33.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Then Esau said, &#8220;Let us be on our way; I&#8217;ll accompany you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.33.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.33.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">But Jacob said to him, &#8220;My lord knows that the children are tender and that I must care for the ewes and cows that are nursing their young. If they are driven hard just one day, all the animals will die. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.33.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">So let my lord go on ahead of his servant, while I move along slowly at the pace of the flocks and herds before me and the pace of the children, until I come to my lord in Seir.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.33.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.33.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Esau said, &#8220;Then let me leave some of my men with you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.33.15"><span class="content">&#8220;But why do that?&#8221; Jacob asked. &#8220;Just let me find favor in the eyes of my lord.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.33.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.33.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">So that day Esau started on his way back to Seir. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.33.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Jacob, however, went to Sukkoth, where he built a place for himself and made shelters for his livestock. That is why the place is called Sukkoth.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">33:17 </span><span class="fq">Sukkoth </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fq">shelters</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.33.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.33.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">After Jacob came from Paddan Aram,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">33:18 </span><span class="ft">That is, Northwest Mesopotamia</span></span></span><span class="content"> he arrived safely at the city of Shechem in Canaan and camped within sight of the city. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.33.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">For a hundred pieces of silver,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">33:19 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">hundred kesitahs</span><span class="ft">; a kesitah was a unit of money of unknown weight and value.</span></span></span><span class="content"> he bought from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, the plot of ground where he pitched his tent. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.33.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">There he set up an altar and called it El Elohe Israel.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">33:20 </span><span class="fq">El Elohe Israel </span><span class="ft">can mean </span><span class="fqa">El is the God of Israel </span><span class="ft">or </span><span class="fqa">mighty is the God of Israel.</span></span></span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">34</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Dinah and the Shechemites</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.34.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Now Dinah, the daughter Leah had borne to Jacob, went out to visit the women of the land. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.34.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, the ruler of that area, saw her, he took her and raped her. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.34.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">His heart was drawn to Dinah daughter of Jacob; he loved the young woman and spoke tenderly to her. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.34.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">And Shechem said to his father Hamor, &#8220;Get me this girl as my wife.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.34.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.34.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">When Jacob heard that his daughter Dinah had been defiled, his sons were in the fields with his livestock; so he did nothing about it until they came home.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.34.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.34.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Then Shechem&#8217;s father Hamor went out to talk with Jacob. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.34.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Meanwhile, Jacob&#8217;s sons had come in from the fields as soon as they heard what had happened. They were shocked and furious, because Shechem had done an outrageous thing in</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">34:7 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">against</span></span></span><span class="content"> Israel by sleeping with Jacob&#8217;s daughter&#8212;a thing that should not be done.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.34.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.34.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But Hamor said to them, &#8220;My son Shechem has his heart set on your daughter. Please give her to him as his wife. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.34.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Intermarry with us; give us your daughters and take our daughters for yourselves. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.34.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">You can settle among us; the land is open to you. Live in it, trade</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">34:10 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">move about freely</span><span class="ft">; also in verse 21</span></span></span><span class="content"> in it, and acquire property in it.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.34.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.34.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Then Shechem said to Dinah&#8217;s father and brothers, &#8220;Let me find favor in your eyes, and I will give you whatever you ask. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.34.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Make the price for the bride and the gift I am to bring as great as you like, and I&#8217;ll pay whatever you ask me. Only give me the young woman as my wife.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.34.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.34.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Because their sister Dinah had been defiled, Jacob&#8217;s sons replied deceitfully as they spoke to Shechem and his father Hamor. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.34.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">They said to them, &#8220;We can&#8217;t do such a thing; we can&#8217;t give our sister to a man who is not circumcised. That would be a disgrace to us. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.34.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">We will enter into an agreement with you on one condition only: that you become like us by circumcising all your males. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.34.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Then we will give you our daughters and take your daughters for ourselves. We&#8217;ll settle among you and become one people with you. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.34.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">But if you will not agree to be circumcised, we&#8217;ll take our sister and go.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.34.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.34.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Their proposal seemed good to Hamor and his son Shechem. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.34.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The young man, who was the most honored of all his father&#8217;s family, lost no time in doing what they said, because he was delighted with Jacob&#8217;s daughter. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.34.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">So Hamor and his son Shechem went to the gate of their city to speak to the men of their city. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.34.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">&#8220;These men are friendly toward us,&#8221; they said. &#8220;Let them live in our land and trade in it; the land has plenty of room for them. We can marry their daughters and they can marry ours. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.34.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">But the men will agree to live with us as one people only on the condition that our males be circumcised, as they themselves are. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.34.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Won&#8217;t their livestock, their property and all their other animals become ours? So let us agree to their terms, and they will settle among us.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.34.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.34.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">All the men who went out of the city gate agreed with Hamor and his son Shechem, and every male in the city was circumcised.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.34.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.34.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Three days later, while all of them were still in pain, two of Jacob&#8217;s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah&#8217;s brothers, took their swords and attacked the unsuspecting city, killing every male. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.34.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">They put Hamor and his son Shechem to the sword and took Dinah from Shechem&#8217;s house and left. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.34.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">The sons of Jacob came upon the dead bodies and looted the city where</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">34:27 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">because</span></span></span><span class="content"> their sister had been defiled. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.34.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">They seized their flocks and herds and donkeys and everything else of theirs in the city and out in the fields. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.34.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">They carried off all their wealth and all their women and children, taking as plunder everything in the houses.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.34.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.34.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, &#8220;You have brought trouble on me by making me obnoxious to the Canaanites and Perizzites, the people living in this land. We are few in number, and if they join forces against me and attack me, I and my household will be destroyed.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.34.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="GEN.34.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">But they replied, &#8220;Should he have treated our sister like a prostitute?&#8221;</span></span></div>
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   <div class="book bkGEN">
      <div class="chapter ch35" data-usfm="GEN.35">
         <div class="label">35</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jacob Returns to Bethel</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.35.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then God said to Jacob, &#8220;Go up to Bethel and settle there, and build an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you were fleeing from your brother Esau.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.35.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.35.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, &#8220;Get rid of the foreign gods you have with you, and purify yourselves and change your clothes. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.35.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Then come, let us go up to Bethel, where I will build an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress and who has been with me wherever I have gone.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.35.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods they had and the rings in their ears, and Jacob buried them under the oak at Shechem. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.35.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Then they set out, and the terror of God fell on the towns all around them so that no one pursued them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.35.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.35.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Jacob and all the people with him came to Luz (that is, Bethel) in the land of Canaan. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.35.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">There he built an altar, and he called the place El Bethel,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">35:7 </span><span class="fq">El Bethel </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">God of Bethel.</span></span></span><span class="content"> because it was there that God revealed himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.35.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.35.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Now Deborah, Rebekah&#8217;s nurse, died and was buried under the oak outside Bethel. So it was named Allon Bakuth.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">35:8 </span><span class="fq">Allon Bakuth </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">oak of weeping.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.35.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.35.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">After Jacob returned from Paddan Aram,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">35:9 </span><span class="ft">That is, Northwest Mesopotamia; also in verse 26</span></span></span><span class="content"> God appeared to him again and blessed him. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.35.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">God said to him, &#8220;Your name is Jacob,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">35:10 </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"> but you will no longer be called Jacob; your name will be Israel.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">35:10 </span><span class="fq">Israel </span><span class="ft">probably means </span><span class="fqa">he struggles with God.</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8221; So he named him Israel.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.35.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.35.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">And God said to him, &#8220;I am God Almighty</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">35:11 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew <span class="tl">El-Shaddai</span></span></span></span><span class="content">; be fruitful and increase in number. A nation and a community of nations will come from you, and kings will be among your descendants. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.35.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The land I gave to Abraham and Isaac I also give to you, and I will give this land to your descendants after you.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.35.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Then God went up from him at the place where he had talked with him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.35.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.35.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Jacob set up a stone pillar at the place where God had talked with him, and he poured out a drink offering on it; he also poured oil on it. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.35.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Jacob called the place where God had talked with him Bethel.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">35:15 </span><span class="fq">Bethel </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">house of God.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Deaths of Rachel and Isaac</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.35.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.35.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Then they moved on from Bethel. While they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth and had great difficulty. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.35.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">And as she was having great difficulty in childbirth, the midwife said to her, &#8220;Don&#8217;t despair, for you have another son.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.35.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">As she breathed her last&#8212;for she was dying&#8212;she named her son Ben-Oni.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">35:18 </span><span class="fq">Ben-Oni </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">son of my trouble.</span></span></span><span class="content"> But his father named him Benjamin.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">35:18 </span><span class="fq">Benjamin </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">son of my right hand.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.35.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.35.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem). </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.35.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Over her tomb Jacob set up a pillar, and to this day that pillar marks Rachel&#8217;s tomb.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.35.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.35.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Israel moved on again and pitched his tent beyond Migdal Eder. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.35.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father&#8217;s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard of it.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.35.22"><span class="content">Jacob had twelve sons:</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.35.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.35.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">The sons of Leah:</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.35.23"><span class="content">Reuben the firstborn of Jacob,</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.35.23"><span class="content">Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar and Zebulun.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.35.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.35.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">The sons of Rachel:</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.35.24"><span class="content">Joseph and Benjamin.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.35.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.35.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">The sons of Rachel&#8217;s servant Bilhah:</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.35.25"><span class="content">Dan and Naphtali.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.35.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.35.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">The sons of Leah&#8217;s servant Zilpah:</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.35.26"><span class="content">Gad and Asher.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.35.26"><span class="content">These were the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan Aram.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.35.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.35.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Jacob came home to his father Isaac in Mamre, near Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.35.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Isaac lived a hundred and eighty years. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.35.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Then he breathed his last and died and was gathered to his people, old and full of years. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.</span></span></div>
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   <div class="book bkJOB">
      <div class="chapter ch29" data-usfm="JOB.29">
         <div class="label">29</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Job&#8217;s Final Defense</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.29.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Job continued his discourse:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.29.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.29.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;How I long for the months gone by,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.29.2"><span class="content">for the days when God watched over me,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.29.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.29.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">when his lamp shone on my head</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.29.3"><span class="content">and by his light I walked through darkness!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.29.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.29.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Oh, for the days when I was in my prime,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.29.4"><span class="content">when God&#8217;s intimate friendship blessed my house,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.29.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.29.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">when the Almighty was still with me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.29.5"><span class="content">and my children were around me,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.29.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.29.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">when my path was drenched with cream</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.29.6"><span class="content">and the rock poured out for me streams of olive oil.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.29.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.29.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;When I went to the gate of the city</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.29.7"><span class="content">and took my seat in the public square,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.29.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.29.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">the young men saw me and stepped aside</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.29.8"><span class="content">and the old men rose to their feet;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.29.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.29.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">the chief men refrained from speaking</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.29.9"><span class="content">and covered their mouths with their hands;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.29.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.29.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">the voices of the nobles were hushed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.29.10"><span class="content">and their tongues stuck to the roof of their mouths.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.29.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.29.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Whoever heard me spoke well of me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.29.11"><span class="content">and those who saw me commended me,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.29.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.29.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">because I rescued the poor who cried for help,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.29.12"><span class="content">and the fatherless who had none to assist them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.29.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.29.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The one who was dying blessed me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.29.13"><span class="content">I made the widow&#8217;s heart sing.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.29.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.29.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">I put on righteousness as my clothing;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.29.14"><span class="content">justice was my robe and my turban.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.29.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.29.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">I was eyes to the blind</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.29.15"><span class="content">and feet to the lame.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.29.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.29.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">I was a father to the needy;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.29.16"><span class="content">I took up the case of the stranger.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.29.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.29.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">I broke the fangs of the wicked</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.29.17"><span class="content">and snatched the victims from their teeth.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.29.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.29.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;I thought, &#8216;I will die in my own house,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.29.18"><span class="content">my days as numerous as the grains of sand.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.29.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.29.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">My roots will reach to the water,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.29.19"><span class="content">and the dew will lie all night on my branches.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.29.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.29.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">My glory will not fade;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.29.20"><span class="content">the bow will be ever new in my hand.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.29.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.29.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">&#8220;People listened to me expectantly,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.29.21"><span class="content">waiting in silence for my counsel.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.29.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.29.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">After I had spoken, they spoke no more;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.29.22"><span class="content">my words fell gently on their ears.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.29.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.29.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">They waited for me as for showers</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.29.23"><span class="content">and drank in my words as the spring rain.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.29.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.29.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">When I smiled at them, they scarcely believed it;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.29.24"><span class="content">the light of my face was precious to them.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">29:24 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this clause is uncertain.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.29.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.29.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">I chose the way for them and sat as their chief;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.29.25"><span class="content">I dwelt as a king among his troops;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.29.25"><span class="content">I was like one who comforts mourners.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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         <div class="label">30</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.30.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;But now they mock me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.30.1"><span class="content">men younger than I,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.30.1"><span class="content">whose fathers I would have disdained</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.30.1"><span class="content">to put with my sheep dogs.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.30.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.30.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Of what use was the strength of their hands to me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.30.2"><span class="content">since their vigor had gone from them?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.30.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.30.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Haggard from want and hunger,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.30.3"><span class="content">they roamed</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">30:3 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">gnawed</span></span></span><span class="content"> the parched land</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.30.3"><span class="content">in desolate wastelands at night.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.30.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.30.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">In the brush they gathered salt herbs,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.30.4"><span class="content">and their food</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">30:4 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">fuel</span></span></span><span class="content"> was the root of the broom bush.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.30.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.30.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">They were banished from human society,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.30.5"><span class="content">shouted at as if they were thieves.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.30.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.30.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">They were forced to live in the dry stream beds,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.30.6"><span class="content">among the rocks and in holes in the ground.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.30.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.30.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">They brayed among the bushes</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.30.7"><span class="content">and huddled in the undergrowth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.30.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.30.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">A base and nameless brood,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.30.8"><span class="content">they were driven out of the land.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.30.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.30.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;And now those young men mock me in song;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.30.9"><span class="content">I have become a byword among them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.30.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.30.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">They detest me and keep their distance;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.30.10"><span class="content">they do not hesitate to spit in my face.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.30.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.30.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Now that God has unstrung my bow and afflicted me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.30.11"><span class="content">they throw off restraint in my presence.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.30.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.30.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">On my right the tribe</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">30:12 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content"> attacks;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.30.12"><span class="content">they lay snares for my feet,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.30.12"><span class="content">they build their siege ramps against me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.30.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.30.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">They break up my road;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.30.13"><span class="content">they succeed in destroying me.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.30.13"><span class="content">&#8216;No one can help him,&#8217; they say.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.30.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.30.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">They advance as through a gaping breach;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.30.14"><span class="content">amid the ruins they come rolling in.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.30.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.30.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Terrors overwhelm me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.30.15"><span class="content">my dignity is driven away as by the wind,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.30.15"><span class="content">my safety vanishes like a cloud.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.30.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.30.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8220;And now my life ebbs away;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.30.16"><span class="content">days of suffering grip me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.30.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.30.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Night pierces my bones;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.30.17"><span class="content">my gnawing pains never rest.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.30.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.30.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">In his great power God becomes like clothing to me</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">30:18 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew; Septuagint </span><span class="fqa">power he grasps my clothing</span></span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.30.18"><span class="content">he binds me like the neck of my garment.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.30.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.30.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">He throws me into the mud,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.30.19"><span class="content">and I am reduced to dust and ashes.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.30.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.30.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;I cry out to you, God, but you do not answer;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.30.20"><span class="content">I stand up, but you merely look at me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.30.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.30.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">You turn on me ruthlessly;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.30.21"><span class="content">with the might of your hand you attack me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.30.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.30.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">You snatch me up and drive me before the wind;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.30.22"><span class="content">you toss me about in the storm.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.30.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.30.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">I know you will bring me down to death,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.30.23"><span class="content">to the place appointed for all the living.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.30.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.30.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">&#8220;Surely no one lays a hand on a broken man</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.30.24"><span class="content">when he cries for help in his distress.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.30.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.30.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Have I not wept for those in trouble?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.30.25"><span class="content">Has not my soul grieved for the poor?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.30.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.30.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Yet when I hoped for good, evil came;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.30.26"><span class="content">when I looked for light, then came darkness.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.30.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.30.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">The churning inside me never stops;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.30.27"><span class="content">days of suffering confront me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.30.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.30.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">I go about blackened, but not by the sun;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.30.28"><span class="content">I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.30.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.30.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">I have become a brother of jackals,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.30.29"><span class="content">a companion of owls.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.30.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.30.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">My skin grows black and peels;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.30.30"><span class="content">my body burns with fever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.30.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.30.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">My lyre is tuned to mourning,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.30.31"><span class="content">and my pipe to the sound of wailing.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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         <div class="label">31</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.31.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;I made a covenant with my eyes</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.31.1"><span class="content">not to look lustfully at a young woman.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.31.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.31.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">For what is our lot from God above,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.31.2"><span class="content">our heritage from the Almighty on high?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.31.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.31.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Is it not ruin for the wicked,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.31.3"><span class="content">disaster for those who do wrong?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.31.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.31.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Does he not see my ways</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.31.4"><span class="content">and count my every step?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.31.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.31.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;If I have walked with falsehood</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.31.5"><span class="content">or my foot has hurried after deceit&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.31.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.31.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">let God weigh me in honest scales</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.31.6"><span class="content">and he will know that I am blameless&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.31.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.31.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">if my steps have turned from the path,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.31.7"><span class="content">if my heart has been led by my eyes,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.31.7"><span class="content">or if my hands have been defiled,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.31.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.31.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">then may others eat what I have sown,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.31.8"><span class="content">and may my crops be uprooted.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.31.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.31.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;If my heart has been enticed by a woman,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.31.9"><span class="content">or if I have lurked at my neighbor&#8217;s door,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.31.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.31.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">then may my wife grind another man&#8217;s grain,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.31.10"><span class="content">and may other men sleep with her.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.31.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.31.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">For that would have been wicked,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.31.11"><span class="content">a sin to be judged.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.31.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.31.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">It is a fire that burns to Destruction</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">31:12 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Abaddon</span></span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.31.12"><span class="content">it would have uprooted my harvest.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.31.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.31.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;If I have denied justice to any of my servants,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.31.13"><span class="content">whether male or female,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.31.13"><span class="content">when they had a grievance against me,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.31.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.31.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">what will I do when God confronts me?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.31.14"><span class="content">What will I answer when called to account?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.31.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.31.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Did not he who made me in the womb make them?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.31.15"><span class="content">Did not the same one form us both within our mothers?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.31.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.31.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8220;If I have denied the desires of the poor</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.31.16"><span class="content">or let the eyes of the widow grow weary,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.31.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.31.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">if I have kept my bread to myself,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.31.17"><span class="content">not sharing it with the fatherless&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.31.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.31.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">but from my youth I reared them as a father would,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.31.18"><span class="content">and from my birth I guided the widow&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.31.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.31.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">if I have seen anyone perishing for lack of clothing,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.31.19"><span class="content">or the needy without garments,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.31.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.31.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">and their hearts did not bless me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.31.20"><span class="content">for warming them with the fleece from my sheep,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.31.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.31.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">if I have raised my hand against the fatherless,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.31.21"><span class="content">knowing that I had influence in court,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.31.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.31.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">then let my arm fall from the shoulder,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.31.22"><span class="content">let it be broken off at the joint.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.31.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.31.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">For I dreaded destruction from God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.31.23"><span class="content">and for fear of his splendor I could not do such things.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.31.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.31.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">&#8220;If I have put my trust in gold</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.31.24"><span class="content">or said to pure gold, &#8216;You are my security,&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.31.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.31.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">if I have rejoiced over my great wealth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.31.25"><span class="content">the fortune my hands had gained,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.31.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.31.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">if I have regarded the sun in its radiance</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.31.26"><span class="content">or the moon moving in splendor,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.31.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.31.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">so that my heart was secretly enticed</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.31.27"><span class="content">and my hand offered them a kiss of homage,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.31.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.31.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">then these also would be sins to be judged,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.31.28"><span class="content">for I would have been unfaithful to God on high.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.31.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.31.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">&#8220;If I have rejoiced at my enemy&#8217;s misfortune</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.31.29"><span class="content">or gloated over the trouble that came to him&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.31.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.31.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">I have not allowed my mouth to sin</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.31.30"><span class="content">by invoking a curse against their life&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.31.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.31.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">if those of my household have never said,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.31.31"><span class="content">&#8216;Who has not been filled with Job&#8217;s meat?&#8217;&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.31.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOB.31.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">but no stranger had to spend the night in the street,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOB.31.32"><span class="content">for my door was always open to the traveler&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOB.31.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.31.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">if I have concealed my sin as people do,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">31:33 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">as Adam did</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.31.33"><span class="content">by hiding my guilt in my heart</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.31.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JOB.31.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">because I so feared the crowd</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JOB.31.34"><span class="content">and so dreaded the contempt of the clans</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JOB.31.34"><span class="content">that I kept silent and would not go outside&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JOB.31.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JOB.31.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">(&#8220;Oh, that I had someone to hear me!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JOB.31.35"><span class="content">I sign now my defense&#8212;let the Almighty answer me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JOB.31.35"><span class="content">let my accuser put his indictment in writing.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JOB.31.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="JOB.31.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">Surely I would wear it on my shoulder,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="JOB.31.36"><span class="content">I would put it on like a crown.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="JOB.31.36"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="JOB.31.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">I would give him an account of my every step;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="JOB.31.37"><span class="content">I would present it to him as to a ruler.)&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="JOB.31.37"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="JOB.31.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">&#8220;if my land cries out against me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="JOB.31.38"><span class="content">and all its furrows are wet with tears,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="JOB.31.38"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="JOB.31.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">if I have devoured its yield without payment</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="JOB.31.39"><span class="content">or broken the spirit of its tenants,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="JOB.31.39"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="JOB.31.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">then let briers come up instead of wheat</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="JOB.31.40"><span class="content">and stinkweed instead of barley.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="JOB.31.40"><span class="content">The words of Job are ended.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">32</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Elihu</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.32.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">So these three men stopped answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.32.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">But Elihu son of Barakel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, became very angry with Job for justifying himself rather than God. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.32.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">He was also angry with the three friends, because they had found no way to refute Job, and yet had condemned him.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">32:3 </span><span class="ft">Masoretic Text; an ancient Hebrew scribal tradition </span><span class="fqa">Job, and so had condemned God</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.32.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Now Elihu had waited before speaking to Job because they were older than he. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.32.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">But when he saw that the three men had nothing more to say, his anger was aroused.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.32.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.32.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">So Elihu son of Barakel the Buzite said:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.32.6"><span class="content">&#8220;I am young in years,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.32.6"><span class="content">and you are old;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.32.6"><span class="content">that is why I was fearful,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.32.6"><span class="content">not daring to tell you what I know.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.32.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.32.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">I thought, &#8216;Age should speak;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.32.7"><span class="content">advanced years should teach wisdom.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.32.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.32.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But it is the spirit</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">32:8 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Spirit</span><span class="ft">; also in verse 18</span></span></span><span class="content"> in a person,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.32.8"><span class="content">the breath of the Almighty, that gives them understanding.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.32.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.32.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">It is not only the old</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">32:9 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">many</span><span class="ft">; or </span><span class="fqa">great</span></span></span><span class="content"> who are wise,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.32.9"><span class="content">not only the aged who understand what is right.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.32.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.32.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;Therefore I say: Listen to me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.32.10"><span class="content">I too will tell you what I know.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.32.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.32.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">I waited while you spoke,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.32.11"><span class="content">I listened to your reasoning;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.32.11"><span class="content">while you were searching for words,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.32.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.32.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">I gave you my full attention.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.32.12"><span class="content">But not one of you has proved Job wrong;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.32.12"><span class="content">none of you has answered his arguments.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.32.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.32.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Do not say, &#8216;We have found wisdom;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.32.13"><span class="content">let God, not a man, refute him.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.32.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.32.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">But Job has not marshaled his words against me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.32.14"><span class="content">and I will not answer him with your arguments.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.32.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.32.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;They are dismayed and have no more to say;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.32.15"><span class="content">words have failed them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.32.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.32.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Must I wait, now that they are silent,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.32.16"><span class="content">now that they stand there with no reply?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.32.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.32.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">I too will have my say;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.32.17"><span class="content">I too will tell what I know.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.32.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.32.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">For I am full of words,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.32.18"><span class="content">and the spirit within me compels me;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.32.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.32.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">inside I am like bottled-up wine,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.32.19"><span class="content">like new wineskins ready to burst.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.32.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.32.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">I must speak and find relief;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.32.20"><span class="content">I must open my lips and reply.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.32.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.32.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">I will show no partiality,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.32.21"><span class="content">nor will I flatter anyone;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.32.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.32.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">for if I were skilled in flattery,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.32.22"><span class="content">my Maker would soon take me away.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch33" data-usfm="JOB.33">
         <div class="label">33</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.33.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;But now, Job, listen to my words;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.33.1"><span class="content">pay attention to everything I say.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.33.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.33.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">I am about to open my mouth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.33.2"><span class="content">my words are on the tip of my tongue.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.33.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.33.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">My words come from an upright heart;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.33.3"><span class="content">my lips sincerely speak what I know.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.33.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.33.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The Spirit of God has made me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.33.4"><span class="content">the breath of the Almighty gives me life.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.33.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.33.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Answer me then, if you can;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.33.5"><span class="content">stand up and argue your case before me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.33.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.33.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">I am the same as you in God&#8217;s sight;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.33.6"><span class="content">I too am a piece of clay.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.33.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.33.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">No fear of me should alarm you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.33.7"><span class="content">nor should my hand be heavy on you.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.33.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.33.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;But you have said in my hearing&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.33.8"><span class="content">I heard the very words&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.33.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.33.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8216;I am pure, I have done no wrong;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.33.9"><span class="content">I am clean and free from sin.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.33.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.33.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Yet God has found fault with me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.33.10"><span class="content">he considers me his enemy.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.33.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.33.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">He fastens my feet in shackles;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.33.11"><span class="content">he keeps close watch on all my paths.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.33.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.33.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;But I tell you, in this you are not right,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.33.12"><span class="content">for God is greater than any mortal.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.33.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.33.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Why do you complain to him</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.33.13"><span class="content">that he responds to no one&#8217;s words</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">33:13 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">that he does not answer for any of his actions</span></span></span><span class="content">?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.33.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.33.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">For God does speak&#8212;now one way, now another&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.33.14"><span class="content">though no one perceives it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.33.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.33.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">In a dream, in a vision of the night,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.33.15"><span class="content">when deep sleep falls on people</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.33.15"><span class="content">as they slumber in their beds,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.33.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.33.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">he may speak in their ears</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.33.16"><span class="content">and terrify them with warnings,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.33.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.33.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">to turn them from wrongdoing</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.33.17"><span class="content">and keep them from pride,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.33.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.33.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">to preserve them from the pit,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.33.18"><span class="content">their lives from perishing by the sword.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">33:18 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">from crossing the river</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.33.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.33.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">&#8220;Or someone may be chastened on a bed of pain</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.33.19"><span class="content">with constant distress in their bones,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.33.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.33.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">so that their body finds food repulsive</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.33.20"><span class="content">and their soul loathes the choicest meal.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.33.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.33.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Their flesh wastes away to nothing,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.33.21"><span class="content">and their bones, once hidden, now stick out.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.33.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.33.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">They draw near to the pit,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.33.22"><span class="content">and their life to the messengers of death.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">33:22 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">to the place of the dead</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.33.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.33.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Yet if there is an angel at their side,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.33.23"><span class="content">a messenger, one out of a thousand,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.33.23"><span class="content">sent to tell them how to be upright,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.33.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.33.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">and he is gracious to that person and says to God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.33.24"><span class="content">&#8216;Spare them from going down to the pit;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.33.24"><span class="content">I have found a ransom for them&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.33.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.33.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">let their flesh be renewed like a child&#8217;s;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.33.25"><span class="content">let them be restored as in the days of their youth&#8217;&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.33.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.33.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">then that person can pray to God and find favor with him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.33.26"><span class="content">they will see God&#8217;s face and shout for joy;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.33.26"><span class="content">he will restore them to full well-being.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.33.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.33.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">And they will go to others and say,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.33.27"><span class="content">&#8216;I have sinned, I have perverted what is right,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.33.27"><span class="content">but I did not get what I deserved.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.33.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.33.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">God has delivered me from going down to the pit,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.33.28"><span class="content">and I shall live to enjoy the light of life.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.33.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.33.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">&#8220;God does all these things to a person&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.33.29"><span class="content">twice, even three times&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.33.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.33.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">to turn them back from the pit,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.33.30"><span class="content">that the light of life may shine on them.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.33.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.33.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">&#8220;Pay attention, Job, and listen to me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.33.31"><span class="content">be silent, and I will speak.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.33.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOB.33.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">If you have anything to say, answer me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOB.33.32"><span class="content">speak up, for I want to vindicate you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOB.33.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.33.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">But if not, then listen to me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.33.33"><span class="content">be silent, and I will teach you wisdom.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">34</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.34.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then Elihu said:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.34.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.34.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Hear my words, you wise men;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.34.2"><span class="content">listen to me, you men of learning.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.34.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.34.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">For the ear tests words</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.34.3"><span class="content">as the tongue tastes food.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.34.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.34.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Let us discern for ourselves what is right;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.34.4"><span class="content">let us learn together what is good.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.34.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.34.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;Job says, &#8216;I am innocent,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.34.5"><span class="content">but God denies me justice.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.34.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.34.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Although I am right,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.34.6"><span class="content">I am considered a liar;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.34.6"><span class="content">although I am guiltless,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.34.6"><span class="content">his arrow inflicts an incurable wound.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.34.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.34.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Is there anyone like Job,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.34.7"><span class="content">who drinks scorn like water?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.34.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.34.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">He keeps company with evildoers;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.34.8"><span class="content">he associates with the wicked.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.34.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.34.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">For he says, &#8216;There is no profit</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.34.9"><span class="content">in trying to please God.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.34.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.34.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;So listen to me, you men of understanding.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.34.10"><span class="content">Far be it from God to do evil,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.34.10"><span class="content">from the Almighty to do wrong.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.34.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.34.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">He repays everyone for what they have done;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.34.11"><span class="content">he brings on them what their conduct deserves.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.34.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.34.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">It is unthinkable that God would do wrong,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.34.12"><span class="content">that the Almighty would pervert justice.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.34.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.34.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Who appointed him over the earth?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.34.13"><span class="content">Who put him in charge of the whole world?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.34.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.34.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">If it were his intention</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.34.14"><span class="content">and he withdrew his spirit</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">34:14 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Spirit</span></span></span><span class="content"> and breath,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.34.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.34.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">all humanity would perish together</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.34.15"><span class="content">and mankind would return to the dust.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.34.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.34.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8220;If you have understanding, hear this;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.34.16"><span class="content">listen to what I say.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.34.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.34.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Can someone who hates justice govern?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.34.17"><span class="content">Will you condemn the just and mighty One?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.34.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.34.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Is he not the One who says to kings, &#8216;You are worthless,&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.34.18"><span class="content">and to nobles, &#8216;You are wicked,&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.34.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.34.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">who shows no partiality to princes</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.34.19"><span class="content">and does not favor the rich over the poor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.34.19"><span class="content">for they are all the work of his hands?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.34.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.34.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">They die in an instant, in the middle of the night;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.34.20"><span class="content">the people are shaken and they pass away;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.34.20"><span class="content">the mighty are removed without human hand.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.34.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.34.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">&#8220;His eyes are on the ways of mortals;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.34.21"><span class="content">he sees their every step.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.34.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.34.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">There is no deep shadow, no utter darkness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.34.22"><span class="content">where evildoers can hide.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.34.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.34.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">God has no need to examine people further,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.34.23"><span class="content">that they should come before him for judgment.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.34.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.34.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Without inquiry he shatters the mighty</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.34.24"><span class="content">and sets up others in their place.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.34.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.34.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Because he takes note of their deeds,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.34.25"><span class="content">he overthrows them in the night and they are crushed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.34.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.34.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">He punishes them for their wickedness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.34.26"><span class="content">where everyone can see them,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.34.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.34.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">because they turned from following him</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.34.27"><span class="content">and had no regard for any of his ways.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.34.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.34.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">They caused the cry of the poor to come before him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.34.28"><span class="content">so that he heard the cry of the needy.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.34.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.34.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">But if he remains silent, who can condemn him?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.34.29"><span class="content">If he hides his face, who can see him?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.34.29"><span class="content">Yet he is over individual and nation alike,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.34.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.34.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">to keep the godless from ruling,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.34.30"><span class="content">from laying snares for the people.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.34.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.34.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">&#8220;Suppose someone says to God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.34.31"><span class="content">&#8216;I am guilty but will offend no more.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.34.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOB.34.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">Teach me what I cannot see;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOB.34.32"><span class="content">if I have done wrong, I will not do so again.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOB.34.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.34.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">Should God then reward you on your terms,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.34.33"><span class="content">when you refuse to repent?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.34.33"><span class="content">You must decide, not I;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.34.33"><span class="content">so tell me what you know.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.34.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JOB.34.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">&#8220;Men of understanding declare,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JOB.34.34"><span class="content">wise men who hear me say to me,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JOB.34.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JOB.34.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">&#8216;Job speaks without knowledge;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JOB.34.35"><span class="content">his words lack insight.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JOB.34.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="JOB.34.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">Oh, that Job might be tested to the utmost</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="JOB.34.36"><span class="content">for answering like a wicked man!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="JOB.34.36"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="JOB.34.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">To his sin he adds rebellion;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="JOB.34.37"><span class="content">scornfully he claps his hands among us</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="JOB.34.37"><span class="content">and multiplies his words against God.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">35</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.35.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then Elihu said:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.35.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.35.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do you think this is just?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.35.2"><span class="content">You say, &#8216;I am in the right, not God.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.35.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.35.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Yet you ask him, &#8216;What profit is it to me,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">35:3 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">you</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.35.3"><span class="content">and what do I gain by not sinning?&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.35.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.35.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;I would like to reply to you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.35.4"><span class="content">and to your friends with you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.35.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.35.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Look up at the heavens and see;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.35.5"><span class="content">gaze at the clouds so high above you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.35.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.35.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">If you sin, how does that affect him?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.35.6"><span class="content">If your sins are many, what does that do to him?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.35.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.35.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">If you are righteous, what do you give to him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.35.7"><span class="content">or what does he receive from your hand?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.35.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.35.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Your wickedness only affects humans like yourself,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.35.8"><span class="content">and your righteousness only other people.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.35.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.35.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;People cry out under a load of oppression;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.35.9"><span class="content">they plead for relief from the arm of the powerful.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.35.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.35.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">But no one says, &#8216;Where is God my Maker,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.35.10"><span class="content">who gives songs in the night,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.35.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.35.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">who teaches us more than he teaches</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">35:10,11 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">night, / </span><span class="fv">11 </span><span class="fqa">who teaches us by</span></span></span><span class="content"> the beasts of the earth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.35.11"><span class="content">and makes us wiser than</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">35:11 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">us wise by</span></span></span><span class="content"> the birds in the sky?&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.35.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.35.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">He does not answer when people cry out</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.35.12"><span class="content">because of the arrogance of the wicked.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.35.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.35.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Indeed, God does not listen to their empty plea;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.35.13"><span class="content">the Almighty pays no attention to it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.35.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.35.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">How much less, then, will he listen</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.35.14"><span class="content">when you say that you do not see him,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.35.14"><span class="content">that your case is before him</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.35.14"><span class="content">and you must wait for him,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.35.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.35.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">and further, that his anger never punishes</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.35.15"><span class="content">and he does not take the least notice of wickedness.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">35:15 </span><span class="ft">Symmachus, Theodotion and Vulgate; the meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.35.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.35.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">So Job opens his mouth with empty talk;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.35.16"><span class="content">without knowledge he multiplies words.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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