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Acts 5:1-11 | Hypocrisy

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            <div class="label">9</div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Job's Reply</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.9.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then Job answered and said,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.9.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.9.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">I know </span><span class="add"><span class="content">it is</span></span><span class="content"> so of a truth:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.9.2"><span class="content">But how should man be just with God?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.9.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.9.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">If he will contend with him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.9.3"><span class="content">He cannot answer him one of a thousand.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.9.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.9.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">He is</span></span><span class="content"> wise in heart, and mighty in strength:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.9.4"><span class="content">Who hath hardened </span><span class="add"><span class="content">himself</span></span><span class="content"> against him, and hath prospered?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.9.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.9.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Which removeth the mountains, and they know not:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.9.5"><span class="content">Which overturneth them in his anger.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.9.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.9.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Which shaketh the earth out of her place,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.9.6"><span class="content">And the pillars thereof tremble.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.9.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.9.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.9.7"><span class="content">And sealeth up the stars.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.9.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.9.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Which alone spreadeth out the heavens,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.9.8"><span class="content">And treadeth upon the waves of the sea.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.9.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.9.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.9.9"><span class="content">And the chambers of the south.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.9.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.9.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Which doeth great things past finding out;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.9.10"><span class="content">Yea, and wonders without number.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.9.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.9.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Lo, he goeth by me, and I see </span><span class="add"><span class="content">him</span></span><span class="content"> not:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.9.11"><span class="content">He passeth on also, but I perceive him not.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.9.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.9.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.9.12"><span class="content">Who will say unto him, What doest thou?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.9.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.9.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">If</span></span><span class="content"> God will not withdraw his anger,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.9.13"><span class="content">The proud helpers do stoop under him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.9.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.9.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">How much less shall I answer him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.9.14"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> choose out my words </span><span class="add"><span class="content">to reason</span></span><span class="content"> with him?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.9.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.9.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Whom, though I were righteous, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">yet</span></span><span class="content"> would I not answer,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.9.15"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">But</span></span><span class="content"> I would make supplication to my judge.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.9.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.9.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">If I had called, and he had answered me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.9.16"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Yet</span></span><span class="content"> would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.9.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.9.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">For he breaketh me with a tempest,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.9.17"><span class="content">And multiplieth my wounds without cause.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.9.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.9.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">He will not suffer me to take my breath,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.9.18"><span class="content">But filleth me with bitterness.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.9.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.9.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">If </span><span class="add"><span class="content">I speak</span></span><span class="content"> of strength, lo, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">he is</span></span><span class="content"> strong:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.9.19"><span class="content">And if of judgment, who shall set me a time </span><span class="add"><span class="content">to plead?</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.9.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.9.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.9.20"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">If I say</span></span><span class="content">, I </span><span class="add"><span class="content">am</span></span><span class="content"> perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.9.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.9.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Though</span></span><span class="content"> I </span><span class="add"><span class="content">were</span></span><span class="content"> perfect, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">yet</span></span><span class="content"> would I not know my soul:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.9.21"><span class="content">I would despise my life.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.9.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.9.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">This </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> one </span><span class="add"><span class="content">thing</span></span><span class="content">, therefore I said </span><span class="add"><span class="content">it</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.9.22"><span class="content">He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.9.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.9.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">If the scourge slay suddenly,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.9.23"><span class="content">He will laugh at the trial of the innocent.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.9.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.9.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">The earth is given into the hand of the wicked:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.9.24"><span class="content">He covereth the faces of the judges thereof;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.9.24"><span class="content">If not, where, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> who </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> he?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.9.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.9.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Now my days are swifter than a post:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.9.25"><span class="content">They flee away, they see no good.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.9.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.9.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">They are passed away as the swift ships:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.9.26"><span class="content">As the eagle </span><span class="add"><span class="content">that</span></span><span class="content"> hasteth to the prey.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.9.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.9.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">If I say, I will forget my complaint,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.9.27"><span class="content">I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort </span><span class="add"><span class="content">myself:</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.9.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.9.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">I am afraid of all my sorrows,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.9.28"><span class="content">I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.9.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.9.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">If</span></span><span class="content"> I be wicked,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.9.29"><span class="content">Why then labour I in vain?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.9.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.9.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">If I wash myself with snow water,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.9.30"><span class="content">And make my hands never so clean;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.9.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.9.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.9.31"><span class="content">And mine own clothes shall abhor me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.9.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOB.9.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">For </span><span class="add"><span class="content">he is</span></span><span class="content"> not a man, as I </span><span class="add"><span class="content">am, that</span></span><span class="content"> I should answer him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOB.9.32"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> we should come together in judgment.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOB.9.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.9.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">Neither is there any daysman betwixt us,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.9.33"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">That</span></span><span class="content"> might lay his hand upon us both.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.9.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JOB.9.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Let him take his rod away from me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JOB.9.34"><span class="content">And let not his fear terrify me:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JOB.9.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JOB.9.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Then</span></span><span class="content"> would I speak, and not fear him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JOB.9.35"><span class="content">But </span><span class="add"><span class="content">it is</span></span><span class="content"> not so with me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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            <div class="label">10</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.10.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">My soul is weary of my life;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.10.1"><span class="content">I will leave my complaint upon myself;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.10.1"><span class="content">I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.10.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.10.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">I will say unto God, Do not condemn me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.10.2"><span class="content">Shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.10.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.10.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Is it</span></span><span class="content"> good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.10.3"><span class="content">That thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.10.3"><span class="content">And shine upon the counsel of the wicked?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.10.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.10.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Hast thou eyes of flesh?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.10.4"><span class="content">Or seest thou as man seeth?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.10.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.10.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Are</span></span><span class="content"> thy days as the days of man?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.10.5"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Are</span></span><span class="content"> thy years as man's days,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.10.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.10.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">That thou enquirest after mine iniquity,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.10.6"><span class="content">And searchest after my sin?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.10.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.10.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Thou knowest that I am not wicked;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.10.7"><span class="content">And </span><span class="add"><span class="content">there is</span></span><span class="content"> none that can deliver out of thine hand.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.10.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.10.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Thine hands have made me and fashioned me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.10.8"><span class="content">Together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.10.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.10.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.10.9"><span class="content">And wilt thou bring me into dust again?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.10.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.10.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Hast thou not poured me out as milk,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.10.10"><span class="content">And curdled me like cheese?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.10.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.10.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.10.11"><span class="content">And hast fenced me with bones and sinews.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.10.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.10.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Thou hast granted me life and favour,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.10.12"><span class="content">And thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.10.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.10.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">And these </span><span class="add"><span class="content">things</span></span><span class="content"> hast thou hid in thine heart:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.10.13"><span class="content">I know that this </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> with thee.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.10.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.10.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">If I sin, then thou markest me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.10.14"><span class="content">And thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.10.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.10.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">If I be wicked, woe unto me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.10.15"><span class="content">And </span><span class="add"><span class="content">if</span></span><span class="content"> I be righteous, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">yet</span></span><span class="content"> will I not lift up my head.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.10.15"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">I am</span></span><span class="content"> full of confusion;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.10.15"><span class="content">Therefore see thou mine affliction;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.10.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.10.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.10.16"><span class="content">And again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.10.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.10.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Thou renewest thy witnesses against me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.10.17"><span class="content">And increasest thine indignation upon me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.10.17"><span class="content">Changes and war </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> against me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.10.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.10.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.10.18"><span class="content">Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.10.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.10.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">I should have been as though I had not been;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.10.19"><span class="content">I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.10.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.10.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Are</span></span><span class="content"> not my days few? Cease </span><span class="add"><span class="content">then</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.10.20"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.10.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.10.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Before I go </span><span class="add"><span class="content">whence</span></span><span class="content"> I shall not return,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.10.21"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Even</span></span><span class="content"> to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.10.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.10.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">A land of darkness, as darkness </span><span class="add"><span class="content">itself</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.10.22"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> of the shadow of death, without any order,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.10.22"><span class="content">And </span><span class="add"><span class="content">where</span></span><span class="content"> the light </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> as darkness.</span></span></div>
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    <div class="book bkJOB">
        <div class="chapter ch11" data-usfm="JOB.11">
            <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="version vid1 iso6393eng" data-vid="1" data-iso6393="eng">
    <div class="book bkJOB">
        <div class="chapter ch12" data-usfm="JOB.12">
            <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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