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         <div class="label">29</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.29.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.29.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.29.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Oh that I were as </span><span class="add"><span class="content">in</span></span><span class="content"> months past,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.29.2"><span class="content">As </span><span class="add"><span class="content">in</span></span><span class="content"> the days </span><span class="add"><span class="content">when</span></span><span class="content"> God preserved me;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.29.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.29.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">When his candle shined upon my head,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.29.3"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And when</span></span><span class="content"> by his light I walked </span><span class="add"><span class="content">through</span></span><span class="content"> darkness;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.29.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.29.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">As I was in the days of my youth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.29.4"><span class="content">When the secret of God </span><span class="add"><span class="content">was</span></span><span class="content"> upon my tabernacle;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.29.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.29.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">When the Almighty </span><span class="add"><span class="content">was</span></span><span class="content"> yet with me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.29.5"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">When</span></span><span class="content"> my children </span><span class="add"><span class="content">were</span></span><span class="content"> about me;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.29.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.29.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">When I washed my steps with butter,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.29.6"><span class="content">And the rock poured me out rivers of oil;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.29.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.29.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">When I went out to the gate through the city,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.29.7"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">When</span></span><span class="content"> I prepared my seat in the street!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.29.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.29.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The young men saw me, and hid themselves:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.29.8"><span class="content">And the aged arose, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> stood up.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.29.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.29.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The princes refrained talking,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.29.9"><span class="content">And laid </span><span class="add"><span class="content">their</span></span><span class="content"> hand on their mouth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.29.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.29.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The nobles held their peace,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.29.10"><span class="content">And their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.29.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.29.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">When the ear heard </span><span class="add"><span class="content">me</span></span><span class="content">, then it blessed me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.29.11"><span class="content">And when the eye saw </span><span class="add"><span class="content">me</span></span><span class="content">, it gave witness to me:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.29.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.29.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Because I delivered the poor that cried,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.29.12"><span class="content">And the fatherless, and </span><span class="add"><span class="content">him that had</span></span><span class="content"> none to help him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.29.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.29.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.29.13"><span class="content">And I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.29.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.29.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">I put on righteousness, and it clothed me:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.29.14"><span class="content">My judgment </span><span class="add"><span class="content">was</span></span><span class="content"> as a robe and a diadem.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.29.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.29.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">I was eyes to the blind,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.29.15"><span class="content">And feet </span><span class="add"><span class="content">was</span></span><span class="content"> I to the lame.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.29.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.29.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">I </span><span class="add"><span class="content">was</span></span><span class="content"> a father to the poor:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.29.16"><span class="content">And the cause </span><span class="add"><span class="content">which</span></span><span class="content"> I knew not I searched out.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.29.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.29.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">And I brake the jaws of the wicked,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.29.17"><span class="content">And plucked the spoil out of his teeth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.29.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.29.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Then I said, I shall die in my nest,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.29.18"><span class="content">And I shall multiply </span><span class="add"><span class="content">my</span></span><span class="content"> days as the sand.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.29.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.29.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">My root </span><span class="add"><span class="content">was</span></span><span class="content"> spread out by the waters,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.29.19"><span class="content">And the dew lay all night upon my branch.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.29.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.29.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">My glory </span><span class="add"><span class="content">was</span></span><span class="content"> fresh in me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.29.20"><span class="content">And my bow was renewed in my hand.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.29.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.29.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Unto me </span><span class="add"><span class="content">men</span></span><span class="content"> gave ear, and waited,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.29.21"><span class="content">And kept silence at my counsel.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.29.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.29.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">After my words they spake not again;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.29.22"><span class="content">And my speech dropped upon them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.29.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.29.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">And they waited for me as for the rain;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.29.23"><span class="content">And they opened their mouth wide </span><span class="add"><span class="content">as</span></span><span class="content"> for the latter rain.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.29.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.29.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">If</span></span><span class="content"> I laughed on them, they believed </span><span class="add"><span class="content">it</span></span><span class="content"> not;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.29.24"><span class="content">And the light of my countenance they cast not down.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.29.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.29.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">I chose out their way, and sat chief,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.29.25"><span class="content">And dwelt as a king in the army,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.29.25"><span class="content">As one </span><span class="add"><span class="content">that</span></span><span class="content"> comforteth the mourners.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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         <div class="label">30</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.30.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">But now </span><span class="add"><span class="content">they that are</span></span><span class="content"> younger than I have me in derision,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.30.1"><span class="content">Whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.30.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.30.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Yea, whereto </span><span class="add"><span class="content">might</span></span><span class="content"> the strength of their hands </span><span class="add"><span class="content">profit</span></span><span class="content"> me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.30.2"><span class="content">In whom old age was perished?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.30.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.30.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">For want and famine </span><span class="add"><span class="content">they were</span></span><span class="content"> solitary;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.30.3"><span class="content">Fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.30.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.30.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Who cut up mallows by the bushes,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.30.4"><span class="content">And juniper roots </span><span class="add"><span class="content">for</span></span><span class="content"> their meat.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.30.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.30.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">They were driven forth from among </span><span class="add"><span class="content">men</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.30.5"><span class="content">(They cried after them as </span><span class="add"><span class="content">after</span></span><span class="content"> a thief;)</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.30.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.30.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.30.6"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">in</span></span><span class="content"> caves of the earth, and </span><span class="add"><span class="content">in</span></span><span class="content"> the rocks.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.30.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.30.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Among the bushes they brayed;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.30.7"><span class="content">Under the nettles they were gathered together.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.30.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.30.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">They were</span></span><span class="content"> children of fools, yea, children of base men:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.30.8"><span class="content">They were viler than the earth.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.30.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.30.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">And now am I their song,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.30.9"><span class="content">Yea, I am their byword.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.30.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.30.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">They abhor me, they flee far from me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.30.10"><span class="content">And spare not to spit in my face.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.30.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.30.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.30.11"><span class="content">They have also let loose the bridle before me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.30.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.30.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Upon </span><span class="add"><span class="content">my</span></span><span class="content"> right </span><span class="add"><span class="content">hand</span></span><span class="content"> rise the youth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.30.12"><span class="content">They push away my feet,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.30.12"><span class="content">And they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.30.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.30.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">They mar my path,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.30.13"><span class="content">They set forward my calamity,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.30.13"><span class="content">They have no helper.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.30.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.30.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">They came </span><span class="add"><span class="content">upon me</span></span><span class="content"> as a wide breaking in </span><span class="add"><span class="content">of waters:</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.30.14"><span class="content">In the desolation they rolled themselves </span><span class="add"><span class="content">upon me</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.30.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.30.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Terrors are turned upon me:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.30.15"><span class="content">They pursue my soul as the wind:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.30.15"><span class="content">And my welfare passeth away as a cloud.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.30.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.30.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">And now my soul is poured out upon me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.30.16"><span class="content">The days of affliction have taken hold upon me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.30.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.30.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">My bones are pierced in me in the night season:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.30.17"><span class="content">And my sinews take no rest.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.30.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.30.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">By the great force </span><span class="add"><span class="content">of my disease</span></span><span class="content"> is my garment changed:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.30.18"><span class="content">It bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.30.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.30.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">He hath cast me into the mire,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.30.19"><span class="content">And I am become like dust and ashes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.30.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.30.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.30.20"><span class="content">I stand up, and thou regardest me </span><span class="add"><span class="content">not</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.30.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.30.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Thou art become cruel to me:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.30.21"><span class="content">With thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.30.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.30.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride </span><span class="add"><span class="content">upon it</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.30.22"><span class="content">And dissolvest my substance.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.30.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.30.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">For I know </span><span class="add"><span class="content">that</span></span><span class="content"> thou wilt bring me </span><span class="add"><span class="content">to</span></span><span class="content"> death,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.30.23"><span class="content">And </span><span class="add"><span class="content">to</span></span><span class="content"> the house appointed for all living.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.30.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.30.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Howbeit he will not stretch out </span><span class="add"><span class="content">his</span></span><span class="content"> hand to the grave,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.30.24"><span class="content">Though they cry in his destruction.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.30.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.30.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Did not I weep for him that was in trouble?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.30.25"><span class="content">Was </span><span class="add"><span class="content">not</span></span><span class="content"> my soul grieved for the poor?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.30.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.30.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">When I looked for good, then evil came </span><span class="add"><span class="content">unto me:</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.30.26"><span class="content">And when I waited for light, there came darkness.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.30.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.30.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">My bowels boiled, and rested not:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.30.27"><span class="content">The days of affliction prevented me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.30.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.30.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">I went mourning without the sun:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.30.28"><span class="content">I stood up, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> I cried in the congregation.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.30.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.30.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">I am a brother to dragons,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.30.29"><span class="content">And a companion to owls.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.30.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.30.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">My skin is black upon me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.30.30"><span class="content">And my bones are burned with heat.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.30.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.30.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">My harp also is </span><span class="add"><span class="content">turned</span></span><span class="content"> to mourning,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.30.31"><span class="content">And my organ into the voice of them that weep.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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         <div class="label">31</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.31.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">I made a covenant with mine eyes;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.31.1"><span class="content">Why then should I think upon a maid?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.31.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.31.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">For what portion of God </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is there</span></span><span class="content"> from above?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.31.2"><span class="content">And </span><span class="add"><span class="content">what</span></span><span class="content"> inheritance of the Almighty from on high?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.31.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.31.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Is</span></span><span class="content"> not destruction to the wicked?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.31.3"><span class="content">And a strange </span><span class="add"><span class="content">punishment</span></span><span class="content"> to the workers of iniquity?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.31.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.31.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Doth not he see my ways,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.31.4"><span class="content">And count all my steps?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.31.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.31.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">If I have walked with vanity,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.31.5"><span class="content">Or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.31.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.31.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Let me be weighed in an even balance,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.31.6"><span class="content">That God may know mine integrity.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.31.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.31.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">If my step hath turned out of the way,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.31.7"><span class="content">And mine heart walked after mine eyes,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.31.7"><span class="content">And if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.31.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.31.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Then</span></span><span class="content"> let me sow, and let another eat;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.31.8"><span class="content">Yea, let my offspring be rooted out.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.31.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.31.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">If mine heart have been deceived by a woman,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.31.9"><span class="content">Or </span><span class="add"><span class="content">if</span></span><span class="content"> I have laid wait at my neighbour's door;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.31.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.31.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Then</span></span><span class="content"> let my wife grind unto another,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.31.10"><span class="content">And let others bow down upon her.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.31.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.31.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">For this </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> an heinous crime;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.31.11"><span class="content">Yea, it </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> an iniquity </span><span class="add"><span class="content">to be punished by</span></span><span class="content"> the judges.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.31.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.31.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">For it </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> a fire </span><span class="add"><span class="content">that</span></span><span class="content"> consumeth to destruction,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.31.12"><span class="content">And would root out all mine increase.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.31.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.31.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.31.13"><span class="content">When they contended with me;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.31.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.31.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">What then shall I do when God riseth up?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.31.14"><span class="content">And when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.31.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.31.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Did not he that made me in the womb make him?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.31.15"><span class="content">And did not one fashion us in the womb?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.31.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.31.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">If I have withheld the poor from </span><span class="add"><span class="content">their</span></span><span class="content"> desire,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.31.16"><span class="content">Or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.31.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.31.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Or have eaten my morsel myself alone,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.31.17"><span class="content">And the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.31.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.31.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as </span><span class="add"><span class="content">with</span></span><span class="content"> a father,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.31.18"><span class="content">And I have guided her from my mother's womb;)</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.31.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.31.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">If I have seen any perish for want of clothing,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.31.19"><span class="content">Or any poor without covering;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.31.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.31.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">If his loins have not blessed me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.31.20"><span class="content">And </span><span class="add"><span class="content">if</span></span><span class="content"> he were </span><span class="add"><span class="content">not</span></span><span class="content"> warmed with the fleece of my sheep;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.31.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.31.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.31.21"><span class="content">When I saw my help in the gate:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.31.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.31.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Then</span></span><span class="content"> let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.31.22"><span class="content">And mine arm be broken from the bone.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.31.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.31.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">For destruction </span><span class="add"><span class="content">from</span></span><span class="content"> God </span><span class="add"><span class="content">was</span></span><span class="content"> a terror to me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.31.23"><span class="content">And by reason of his highness I could not endure.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.31.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.31.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">If I have made gold my hope,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.31.24"><span class="content">Or have said to the fine gold, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Thou art</span></span><span class="content"> my confidence;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.31.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.31.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">If I rejoiced because my wealth </span><span class="add"><span class="content">was</span></span><span class="content"> great,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.31.25"><span class="content">And because mine hand had gotten much;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.31.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.31.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">If I beheld the sun when it shined,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.31.26"><span class="content">Or the moon walking </span><span class="add"><span class="content">in</span></span><span class="content"> brightness;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.31.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.31.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">And my heart hath been secretly enticed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.31.27"><span class="content">Or my mouth hath kissed my hand:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.31.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.31.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">This also </span><span class="add"><span class="content">were</span></span><span class="content"> an iniquity </span><span class="add"><span class="content">to be punished by</span></span><span class="content"> the judge:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.31.28"><span class="content">For I should have denied the God </span><span class="add"><span class="content">that is</span></span><span class="content"> above.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.31.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.31.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.31.29"><span class="content">Or lifted up myself when evil found him:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.31.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.31.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.31.30"><span class="content">By wishing a curse to his soul.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.31.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.31.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">If the men of my tabernacle said not,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.31.31"><span class="content">Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.31.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOB.31.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">The stranger did not lodge in the street:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOB.31.32"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">But</span></span><span class="content"> I opened my doors to the traveller.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOB.31.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.31.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">If I covered my transgressions as Adam,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.31.33"><span class="content">By hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.31.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JOB.31.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Did I fear a great multitude,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JOB.31.34"><span class="content">Or did the contempt of families terrify me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JOB.31.34"><span class="content">That I kept silence, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> went not out of the door?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JOB.31.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JOB.31.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">Oh that one would hear me!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JOB.31.35"><span class="content">Behold, my desire </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is, that</span></span><span class="content"> the Almighty would answer me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JOB.31.35"><span class="content">And </span><span class="add"><span class="content">that</span></span><span class="content"> mine adversary had written a book.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JOB.31.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="JOB.31.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">Surely I would take it upon my shoulder,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="JOB.31.36"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> bind it </span><span class="add"><span class="content">as</span></span><span class="content"> a crown to me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="JOB.31.36"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="JOB.31.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">I would declare unto him the number of my steps;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="JOB.31.37"><span class="content">As a prince would I go near unto him.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="JOB.31.37"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="JOB.31.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">If my land cry against me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="JOB.31.38"><span class="content">Or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="JOB.31.38"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="JOB.31.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="JOB.31.39"><span class="content">Or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="JOB.31.39"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="JOB.31.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">Let thistles grow instead of wheat,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="JOB.31.40"><span class="content">And cockle instead of barley.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="JOB.31.40"><span class="content">The words of Job are ended.</span></span></div>
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