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         <div class="label">11</div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Zophar's Speech</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.11.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.11.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.11.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Should not the multitude of words be answered?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.11.2"><span class="content">And should a man full of talk be justified?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.11.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.11.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Should thy lies make men hold their peace?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.11.3"><span class="content">And when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.11.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.11.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">For thou hast said, My doctrine </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> pure,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.11.4"><span class="content">And I am clean in thine eyes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.11.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.11.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">But oh that God would speak,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.11.5"><span class="content">And open his lips against thee;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.11.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.11.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">And that he would shew thee the secrets of wisdom,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.11.6"><span class="content">That </span><span class="add"><span class="content">they are</span></span><span class="content"> double to that which is!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.11.6"><span class="content">Know therefore that God exacteth of thee </span><span class="add"><span class="content">less</span></span><span class="content"> than thine iniquity </span><span class="add"><span class="content">deserveth</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.11.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.11.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Canst thou by searching find out God?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.11.7"><span class="content">Canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.11.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.11.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">It is</span></span><span class="content"> as high as heaven; what canst thou do?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.11.8"><span class="content">Deeper than hell; what canst thou know?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.11.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.11.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The measure thereof </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> longer than the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.11.9"><span class="content">And broader than the sea.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.11.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.11.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">If he cut off, and shut up,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.11.10"><span class="content">Or gather together, then who can hinder him?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.11.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.11.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">For he knoweth vain men:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.11.11"><span class="content">He seeth wickedness also; will he not then consider </span><span class="add"><span class="content">it?</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.11.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.11.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">For vain man would be wise,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.11.12"><span class="content">Though man be born </span><span class="add"><span class="content">like</span></span><span class="content"> a wild ass's colt.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.11.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.11.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">If thou prepare thine heart,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.11.13"><span class="content">And stretch out thine hands toward him;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.11.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.11.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">If iniquity </span><span class="add"><span class="content">be</span></span><span class="content"> in thine hand, put it far away,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.11.14"><span class="content">And let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.11.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.11.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">For then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.11.15"><span class="content">Yea, thou shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.11.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.11.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Because thou shalt forget </span><span class="add"><span class="content">thy</span></span><span class="content"> misery,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.11.16"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> remember </span><span class="add"><span class="content">it</span></span><span class="content"> as waters </span><span class="add"><span class="content">that</span></span><span class="content"> pass away:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.11.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.11.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">And </span><span class="add"><span class="content">thine</span></span><span class="content"> age shall be clearer than the noonday;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.11.17"><span class="content">Thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.11.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.11.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.11.18"><span class="content">Yea, thou shalt dig </span><span class="add"><span class="content">about thee, and</span></span><span class="content"> thou shalt take thy rest in safety.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.11.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.11.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Also thou shalt lie down, and none shall make </span><span class="add"><span class="content">thee</span></span><span class="content"> afraid;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.11.19"><span class="content">Yea, many shall make suit unto thee.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.11.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.11.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">But the eyes of the wicked shall fail,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.11.20"><span class="content">And they shall not escape,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.11.20"><span class="content">And their hope </span><span class="add"><span class="content">shall be as</span></span><span class="content"> the giving up of the ghost.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">12</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Job's Reply</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.12.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">And Job answered and said,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.12.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.12.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">No doubt but ye </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> the people,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.12.2"><span class="content">And wisdom shall die with you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.12.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.12.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">But I have understanding as well as you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.12.3"><span class="content">I </span><span class="add"><span class="content">am</span></span><span class="content"> not inferior to you:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.12.3"><span class="content">Yea, who knoweth not such things as these?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.12.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.12.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I am </span><span class="add"><span class="content">as</span></span><span class="content"> one mocked of his neighbour,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.12.4"><span class="content">Who calleth upon God, and he answereth him:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.12.4"><span class="content">The just upright </span><span class="add"><span class="content">man is</span></span><span class="content"> laughed to scorn.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.12.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.12.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">He that is ready to slip with </span><span class="add"><span class="content">his</span></span><span class="content"> feet</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.12.5"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Is as</span></span><span class="content"> a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.12.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.12.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The tabernacles of robbers prosper,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.12.6"><span class="content">And they that provoke God are secure;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.12.6"><span class="content">Into whose hand God bringeth </span><span class="add"><span class="content">abundantly</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.12.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.12.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.12.7"><span class="content">And the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.12.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.12.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.12.8"><span class="content">And the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.12.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.12.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Who knoweth not in all these</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.12.9"><span class="content">That the hand of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> hath wrought this?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.12.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.12.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">In whose hand </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> the soul of every living thing,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.12.10"><span class="content">And the breath of all mankind.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.12.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.12.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Doth not the ear try words?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.12.11"><span class="content">And the mouth taste his meat?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.12.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.12.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">With the ancient </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> wisdom;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.12.12"><span class="content">And in length of days understanding.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.12.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.12.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">With him </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> wisdom and strength,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.12.13"><span class="content">He hath counsel and understanding.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.12.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.12.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.12.14"><span class="content">He shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.12.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.12.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.12.15"><span class="content">Also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.12.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.12.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">With him </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> strength and wisdom:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.12.16"><span class="content">The deceived and the deceiver </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> his.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.12.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.12.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">He leadeth counsellors away spoiled,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.12.17"><span class="content">And maketh the judges fools.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.12.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.12.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">He looseth the bond of kings,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.12.18"><span class="content">And girdeth their loins with a girdle.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.12.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.12.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">He leadeth princes away spoiled,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.12.19"><span class="content">And overthroweth the mighty.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.12.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.12.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">He removeth away the speech of the trusty,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.12.20"><span class="content">And taketh away the understanding of the aged.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.12.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.12.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">He poureth contempt upon princes,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.12.21"><span class="content">And weakeneth the strength of the mighty.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.12.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.12.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">He discovereth deep things out of darkness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.12.22"><span class="content">And bringeth out to light the shadow of death.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.12.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.12.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.12.23"><span class="content">He enlargeth the nations, and straiteneth them </span><span class="add"><span class="content">again</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.12.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.12.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.12.24"><span class="content">And causeth them to wander in a wilderness </span><span class="add"><span class="content">where there is</span></span><span class="content"> no way.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.12.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.12.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">They grope in the dark without light,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.12.25"><span class="content">And he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch4" data-usfm="PRO.4.18">
         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.4.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">But the path of the just </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> as the shining light,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.4.18"><span class="content">That shineth more and more unto the perfect day.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.4.18"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1PE.2.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps: </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="1PE.2.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth: </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="1PE.2.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed </span><span class="add"><span class="content">himself</span></span><span class="content"> to him that judgeth righteously: </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="1PE.2.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="1PE.2.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.</span></span></div>
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