| 1:Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said, |
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| 2: Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I
make haste. |
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I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my
understanding causeth me to answer. |
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| 4: Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,
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| 5: That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the
hypocrite but for a moment? |
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| 6: Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head
reach unto the clouds; |
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:Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which
have seen him shall say, Where is he? |
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| 8: He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he
shall be chased away as a vision of the night. |
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| 9: The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither
shall his place any more behold him. |
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| 10: His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands
shall restore their goods. |
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| 11: His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie
down with him in the dust. |
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| 12: Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it
under his tongue; |
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| 13: Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still
within his mouth: |
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| 14: Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps
within him. |
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| 15: He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up
again: God shall cast them out of his belly. |
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| 16: He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall
slay him. |
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| 17: He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey
and butter. |
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| 18: That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not
swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be,
and he shall not rejoice therein. |
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| 19: Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because
he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not; |
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| 20: Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not
save of that which he desired. |
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| 21: There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man
look for his goods. |
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| 22: In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits:
every hand of the wicked shall come upon him. |
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| 23: When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury
of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating.
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| 24: He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel
shall strike him through. |
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| 25: It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering
sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him. |
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| 26: All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not
blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his
tabernacle. |
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| 27: The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall
rise up against him. |
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| 28: The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall
flow away in the day of his wrath. |
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| 29: This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the
heritage appointed unto him by God. |
| 1:But Job answered and said, |
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| 2: Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.
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Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock
on. |
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| 4: As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why
should not my spirit be troubled? |
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| 5: Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.
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| 6: Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on
my flesh. |
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| 7:
:Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in
power? |
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| 8: Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their
offspring before their eyes. |
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| 9: Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God
upon them. |
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| 10: Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and
casteth not her calf. |
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| 11: They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their
children dance. |
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| 12: They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of
the organ. |
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| 13: They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to
the grave. |
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| 14: Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire
not the knowledge of thy ways. |
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| 15: What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what
profit should we have, if we pray unto him? |
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| 16: Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the
wicked is far from me. |
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| 17: How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft
cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his
anger. |
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| 18: They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the
storm carrieth away. |
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| 19: God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth
him, and he shall know it. |
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| 20: His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the
wrath of the Almighty. |
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| 21: For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the
number of his months is cut off in the midst? |
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| 22: Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that
are high. |
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| 23: One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and
quiet. |
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| 24: His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened
with marrow. |
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| 25: And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never
eateth with pleasure. |
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| 26: They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall
cover them. |
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| 27: Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye
wrongfully imagine against me. |
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| 28: For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are
the dwelling places of the wicked? |
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| 29: Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know
their tokens, |
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| 30: That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they
shall be brought forth to the day of wrath. |
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| 31: Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay
him what he hath done? |
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| 32: Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the
tomb. |
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| 33: The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every
man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him. |
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| 34: How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there
remaineth falsehood? |
| 1:Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said, |
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| 2: Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be
profitable unto himself? |
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Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous?
or is it gain to him that thou makest thy ways perfect? |
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| 4: Will he reprove thee for fear of thee? will he enter with thee
into judgment? |
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| 5: Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite?
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| 6: For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and
stripped the naked of their clothing. |
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:Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast
withholden bread from the hungry. |
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| 8: But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the
honourable man dwelt in it. |
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| 9: Thou has sent widows away empty, and the arms of the
fatherless have been broken. |
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| 10: Therefore snares are round about thee, and sudden fear
troubleth thee; |
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| 11: Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters
cover thee. |
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| 12: Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of
the stars, how high they are! |
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| 13: And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the
dark cloud? |
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| 14: Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he
walketh in the circuit of heaven. |
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| 15: Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?
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| 16: Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was
overflown with a flood: |
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| 17: Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the
Almighty do for them? |
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| 18: Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel
of the wicked is far from me. |
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| 19: The righteous see it, and are glad: and the innocent laugh
them to scorn. |
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| 20: Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of
them the fire consumeth. |
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| 21: Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good
shall come unto thee. |
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| 22: Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his
words in thine heart. |
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| 23: If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou
shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles. |
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| 24: Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as
the stones of the brooks. |
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| 25: Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou shalt have
plenty of silver. |
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| 26: For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and
shalt lift up thy face unto God. |
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| 27: Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee,
and thou shalt pay thy vows. |
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| 28: Thou alt also decree a thing, and it shall be established
unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways. |
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| 29: When men are cast down, then thou shalt say, There is lifting
up; and he shall save the humble person. |
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| 30: He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is
delivered by the pureness of thine hands. |
| 1: Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God,
and Timothy our brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth,
with all the saints which are in all Achaia: |
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| 2: Grace be to you and peace from God our Father, and from the
Lord Jesus Christ. |
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Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the
Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; |
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| 4: Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able
to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we
ourselves are comforted of God. |
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| 5: For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our
consolation also aboundeth by Christ. |
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| 6: And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and
salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings
which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your
consolation and salvation. |
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| 7:
:And our hope of you is stedfast, knowing, that as ye are
partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation.
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| 8: For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble
which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above
strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life: |
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| 9: But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should
not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead: |
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| 10: Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in
whom we trust that he will yet deliver us; |
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| 11: Ye also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift
bestowed upon us by the means of many persons thanks may be given by
many on our behalf. |
| 11: Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy
lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me. |
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| 12: For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine
iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up;
they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth
me. |
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| 13: Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help
me. |
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| 14: Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after
my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that
wish me evil. |
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| 15: Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say
unto me, Aha, aha. |
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| 16: Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let
such as love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified. |
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| 17: But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou
art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God. |
