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My First Devotional

Ghost Stories

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Understanding God’s Timing

The Triumph of the Cross:  Christ’s Victory Over Death

Journey Through 1&2 Corinthians

Holy Week

Unhurried: A 5-Day Challenge to Slow Your Pace and Fix Your Eyes on Jesus

Resurrection Hope: Finding Victory in Life’s Hardest Moments

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         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.6.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">when darkened by thawing ice</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.6.16"><span class="content">and swollen with melting snow,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.6.16"></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.6.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">but that stop flowing in the dry season,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.6.17"><span class="content">and in the heat vanish from their channels.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.6.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.6.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Caravans turn aside from their routes;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.6.18"><span class="content">they go off into the wasteland and perish.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.6.18"></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.6.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The caravans of Tema look for water,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.6.19"><span class="content">the traveling merchants of Sheba look in hope.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.6.19"></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.6.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">They are distressed, because they had been confident;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.6.20"><span class="content">they arrive there, only to be disappointed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.6.20"></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.6.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Now you too have proved to be of no help;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.6.21"><span class="content">you see something dreadful and are afraid.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.6.21"></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.6.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Have I ever said, &#8216;Give something on my behalf,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.6.22"><span class="content">pay a ransom for me from your wealth,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.6.22"></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.6.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">deliver me from the hand of the enemy,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.6.23"><span class="content">rescue me from the clutches of the ruthless&#8217;?</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.6.23"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.6.23"></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.6.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">&#8220;Teach me, and I will be quiet;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.6.24"><span class="content">show me where I have been wrong.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.6.24"></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.6.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">How painful are honest words!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.6.25"><span class="content">But what do your arguments prove?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.6.25"></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.6.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Do you mean to correct what I say,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.6.26"><span class="content">and treat my desperate words as wind?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.6.26"></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.6.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">You would even cast lots for the fatherless</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.6.27"><span class="content">and barter away your friend.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.6.27"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.6.27"></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.6.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">&#8220;But now be so kind as to look at me.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.6.28"><span class="content">Would I lie to your face?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.6.28"></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.6.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Relent, do not be unjust;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.6.29"><span class="content">reconsider, for my integrity is at stake.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">6:29 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">my righteousness still stands</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.6.29"></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.6.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Is there any wickedness on my lips?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.6.30"><span class="content">Can my mouth not discern malice?</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.6.30"></span></div>
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The Listener’s Bible®: NIV Edition

New International Version™  (Anglicised), Audio Edition

Holy Bible, New International Version™ (Anglicised), South Asian Audio Edition

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         <div class="label">7</div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.7.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do not mortals have hard service on earth?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.7.1"><span class="content">Are not their days like those of hired laborers?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.7.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.7.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Like a slave longing for the evening shadows,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.7.2"><span class="content">or a hired laborer waiting to be paid,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.7.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.7.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">so I have been allotted months of futility,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.7.3"><span class="content">and nights of misery have been assigned to me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.7.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.7.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">When I lie down I think, &#8216;How long before I get up?&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.7.4"><span class="content">The night drags on, and I toss and turn until dawn.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.7.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.7.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">My body is clothed with worms and scabs,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.7.5"><span class="content">my skin is broken and festering.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.7.5"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.7.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.7.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;My days are swifter than a weaver&#8217;s shuttle,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.7.6"><span class="content">and they come to an end without hope.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.7.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.7.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Remember, O God, that my life is but a breath;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.7.7"><span class="content">my eyes will never see happiness again.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.7.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.7.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The eye that now sees me will see me no longer;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.7.8"><span class="content">you will look for me, but I will be no more.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.7.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.7.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">As a cloud vanishes and is gone,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.7.9"><span class="content">so one who goes down to the grave does not return.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.7.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.7.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">He will never come to his house again;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.7.10"><span class="content">his place will know him no more.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.7.10"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.7.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.7.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;Therefore I will not keep silent;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.7.11"><span class="content">I will speak out in the anguish of my spirit,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.7.11"><span class="content">I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.7.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.7.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Am I the sea, or the monster of the deep,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.7.12"><span class="content">that you put me under guard?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.7.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.7.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">When I think my bed will comfort me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.7.13"><span class="content">and my couch will ease my complaint,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.7.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.7.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">even then you frighten me with dreams</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.7.14"><span class="content">and terrify me with visions,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.7.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.7.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">so that I prefer strangling and death,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.7.15"><span class="content">rather than this body of mine.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.7.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.7.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">I despise my life; I would not live forever.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.7.16"><span class="content">Let me alone; my days have no meaning.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.7.16"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.7.16"></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.7.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;What is mankind that you make so much of them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.7.17"><span class="content">that you give them so much attention,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.7.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.7.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">that you examine them every morning</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.7.18"><span class="content">and test them every moment?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.7.18"></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.7.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Will you never look away from me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.7.19"><span class="content">or let me alone even for an instant?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.7.19"></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.7.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">If I have sinned, what have I done to you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.7.20"><span class="content">you who see everything we do?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.7.20"><span class="content">Why have you made me your target?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.7.20"><span class="content">Have I become a burden to you?</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">7:20 </span><span class="ft">A few manuscripts of the Masoretic Text, an ancient Hebrew scribal tradition and Septuagint; most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">I have become a burden to myself.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.7.20"></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.7.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Why do you not pardon my offenses</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.7.21"><span class="content">and forgive my sins?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.7.21"><span class="content">For I will soon lie down in the dust;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.7.21"><span class="content">you will search for me, but I will be no more.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">8</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Bildad</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.8.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.8.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.8.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;How long will you say such things?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.8.2"><span class="content">Your words are a blustering wind.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.8.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.8.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Does God pervert justice?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.8.3"><span class="content">Does the Almighty pervert what is right?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.8.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.8.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">When your children sinned against him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.8.4"><span class="content">he gave them over to the penalty of their sin.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.8.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.8.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">But if you will seek God earnestly</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.8.5"><span class="content">and plead with the Almighty,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.8.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.8.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">if you are pure and upright,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.8.6"><span class="content">even now he will rouse himself on your behalf</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.8.6"><span class="content">and restore you to your prosperous state.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.8.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.8.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Your beginnings will seem humble,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.8.7"><span class="content">so prosperous will your future be.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.8.7"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.8.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.8.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;Ask the former generation</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.8.8"><span class="content">and find out what their ancestors learned,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.8.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.8.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">for we were born only yesterday and know nothing,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.8.9"><span class="content">and our days on earth are but a shadow.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.8.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.8.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Will they not instruct you and tell you?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.8.10"><span class="content">Will they not bring forth words from their understanding?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.8.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.8.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Can papyrus grow tall where there is no marsh?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.8.11"><span class="content">Can reeds thrive without water?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.8.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.8.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">While still growing and uncut,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.8.12"><span class="content">they wither more quickly than grass.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.8.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.8.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Such is the destiny of all who forget God;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.8.13"><span class="content">so perishes the hope of the godless.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.8.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.8.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">What they trust in is fragile</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">8:14 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.8.14"><span class="content">what they rely on is a spider&#8217;s web.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.8.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.8.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">They lean on the web, but it gives way;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.8.15"><span class="content">they cling to it, but it does not hold.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.8.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.8.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">They are like a well-watered plant in the sunshine,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.8.16"><span class="content">spreading its shoots over the garden;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.8.16"></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.8.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">it entwines its roots around a pile of rocks</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.8.17"><span class="content">and looks for a place among the stones.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.8.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.8.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">But when it is torn from its spot,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.8.18"><span class="content">that place disowns it and says, &#8216;I never saw you.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.8.18"></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.8.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Surely its life withers away,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.8.19"><span class="content">and</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">8:19 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Surely all the joy it has / is that</span></span></span><span class="content"> from the soil other plants grow.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.8.19"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.8.19"></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.8.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;Surely God does not reject one who is blameless</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.8.20"><span class="content">or strengthen the hands of evildoers.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.8.20"></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.8.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">He will yet fill your mouth with laughter</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.8.21"><span class="content">and your lips with shouts of joy.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.8.21"></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.8.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Your enemies will be clothed in shame,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.8.22"><span class="content">and the tents of the wicked will be no more.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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