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The Listener’s Bible®: KJV Edition

<div class="version vid1 iso6393eng" data-vid="1" data-iso6393="eng">
    <div class="book bkJOB">
        <div class="chapter ch21" data-usfm="JOB.21">
            <div class="label">21</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.21.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">But Job answered and said,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.21.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.21.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Hear diligently my speech,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.21.2"><span class="content">And let this be your consolations.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.21.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.21.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Suffer me that I may speak;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.21.3"><span class="content">And after that I have spoken, mock on.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.21.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.21.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">As for me, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> my complaint to man?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.21.4"><span class="content">And if </span><span class="add"><span class="content">it were so</span></span><span class="content">, why should not my spirit be troubled?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.21.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.21.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Mark me, and be astonished,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.21.5"><span class="content">And lay </span><span class="add"><span class="content">your</span></span><span class="content"> hand upon </span><span class="add"><span class="content">your</span></span><span class="content"> mouth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.21.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.21.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Even when I remember I am afraid,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.21.6"><span class="content">And trembling taketh hold on my flesh.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.21.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.21.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Wherefore do the wicked live,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.21.7"><span class="content">Become old, yea, are mighty in power?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.21.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.21.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Their seed is established in their sight with them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.21.8"><span class="content">And their offspring before their eyes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.21.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.21.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Their houses </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> safe from fear,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.21.9"><span class="content">Neither </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> the rod of God upon them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.21.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.21.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Their bull gendereth, and faileth not;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.21.10"><span class="content">Their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.21.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.21.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">They send forth their little ones like a flock,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.21.11"><span class="content">And their children dance.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.21.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.21.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">They take the timbrel and harp,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.21.12"><span class="content">And rejoice at the sound of the organ.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.21.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.21.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">They spend their days in wealth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.21.13"><span class="content">And in a moment go down to the grave.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.21.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.21.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.21.14"><span class="content">For we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.21.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.21.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">What </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> the Almighty, that we should serve him?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.21.15"><span class="content">And what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.21.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.21.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Lo, their good </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> not in their hand:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.21.16"><span class="content">The counsel of the wicked is far from me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.21.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.21.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">How oft is the candle of the wicked put out!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.21.17"><span class="content">And </span><span class="add"><span class="content">how oft</span></span><span class="content"> cometh their destruction upon them!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.21.17"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">God</span></span><span class="content"> distributeth sorrows in his anger.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.21.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.21.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">They are as stubble before the wind,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.21.18"><span class="content">And as chaff that the storm carrieth away.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.21.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.21.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">God layeth up his iniquity for his children:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.21.19"><span class="content">He rewardeth him, and he shall know </span><span class="add"><span class="content">it</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.21.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.21.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">His eyes shall see his destruction,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.21.20"><span class="content">And he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.21.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.21.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">For what pleasure </span><span class="add"><span class="content">hath</span></span><span class="content"> he in his house after him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.21.21"><span class="content">When the number of his months is cut off in the midst?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.21.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.21.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Shall </span><span class="add"><span class="content">any</span></span><span class="content"> teach God knowledge?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.21.22"><span class="content">Seeing he judgeth those that are high.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.21.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.21.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">One dieth in his full strength,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.21.23"><span class="content">Being wholly at ease and quiet.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.21.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.21.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">His breasts are full of milk,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.21.24"><span class="content">And his bones are moistened with marrow.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.21.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.21.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.21.25"><span class="content">And never eateth with pleasure.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.21.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.21.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">They shall lie down alike in the dust,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.21.26"><span class="content">And the worms shall cover them.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.21.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.21.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Behold, I know your thoughts,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.21.27"><span class="content">And the devices </span><span class="add"><span class="content">which</span></span><span class="content"> ye wrongfully imagine against me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.21.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.21.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">For ye say, Where </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> the house of the prince?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.21.28"><span class="content">And where </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> the dwelling places of the wicked?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.21.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.21.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Have ye not asked them that go by the way?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.21.29"><span class="content">And do ye not know their tokens,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.21.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.21.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.21.30"><span class="content">They shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.21.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.21.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Who shall declare his way to his face?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.21.31"><span class="content">And who shall repay him </span><span class="add"><span class="content">what</span></span><span class="content"> he hath done?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.21.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOB.21.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">Yet shall he be brought to the grave,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOB.21.32"><span class="content">And shall remain in the tomb.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOB.21.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.21.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.21.33"><span class="content">And every man shall draw after him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.21.33"><span class="content">As </span><span class="add"><span class="content">there are</span></span><span class="content"> innumerable before him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.21.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JOB.21.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">How then comfort ye me in vain,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JOB.21.34"><span class="content">Seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?</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 ch22" data-usfm="JOB.22">
            <div class="label">22</div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Eliphaz Speaks</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.22.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.22.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.22.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Can a man be profitable unto God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.22.2"><span class="content">As he that is wise may be profitable unto himself?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.22.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.22.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Is it</span></span><span class="content"> any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.22.3"><span class="content">Or </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is it</span></span><span class="content"> gain </span><span class="add"><span class="content">to him</span></span><span class="content">, that thou makest thy ways perfect?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.22.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.22.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Will he reprove thee for fear of thee?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.22.4"><span class="content">Will he enter with thee into judgment?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.22.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.22.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Is</span></span><span class="content"> not thy wickedness great?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.22.5"><span class="content">And thine iniquities infinite?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.22.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.22.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.22.6"><span class="content">And stripped the naked of their clothing.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.22.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.22.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.22.7"><span class="content">And thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.22.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.22.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But </span><span class="add"><span class="content">as for</span></span><span class="content"> the mighty man, he had the earth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.22.8"><span class="content">And the honourable man dwelt in it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.22.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.22.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Thou hast sent widows away empty,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.22.9"><span class="content">And the arms of the fatherless have been broken.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.22.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.22.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Therefore snares </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> round about thee,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.22.10"><span class="content">And sudden fear troubleth thee;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.22.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.22.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Or darkness, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">that</span></span><span class="content"> thou canst not see;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.22.11"><span class="content">And abundance of waters cover thee.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.22.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.22.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Is</span></span><span class="content"> not God in the height of heaven?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.22.12"><span class="content">And behold the height of the stars, how high they are!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.22.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.22.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">And thou sayest, How doth God know?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.22.13"><span class="content">Can he judge through the dark cloud?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.22.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.22.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Thick clouds </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> a covering to him, that he seeth not;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.22.14"><span class="content">And he walketh in the circuit of heaven.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.22.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.22.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Hast thou marked the old way</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.22.15"><span class="content">Which wicked men have trodden?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.22.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.22.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Which were cut down out of time,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.22.16"><span class="content">Whose foundation was overflown with a flood:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.22.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.22.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Which said unto God, Depart from us:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.22.17"><span class="content">And what can the Almighty do for them?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.22.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.22.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Yet he filled their houses with good </span><span class="add"><span class="content">things:</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.22.18"><span class="content">But the counsel of the wicked is far from me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.22.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.22.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The righteous see </span><span class="add"><span class="content">it</span></span><span class="content">, and are glad:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.22.19"><span class="content">And the innocent laugh them to scorn.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.22.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.22.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Whereas our substance is not cut down,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.22.20"><span class="content">But the remnant of them the fire consumeth.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.22.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.22.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.22.21"><span class="content">Thereby good shall come unto thee.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.22.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.22.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.22.22"><span class="content">And lay up his words in thine heart.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.22.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.22.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.22.23"><span class="content">Thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.22.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.22.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.22.24"><span class="content">And the </span><span class="add"><span class="content">gold</span></span><span class="content"> of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.22.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.22.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defence,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.22.25"><span class="content">And thou shalt have plenty of silver.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.22.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.22.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.22.26"><span class="content">And shalt lift up thy face unto God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.22.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.22.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.22.27"><span class="content">And thou shalt pay thy vows.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.22.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.22.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.22.28"><span class="content">And the light shall shine upon thy ways.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.22.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.22.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">When </span><span class="add"><span class="content">men</span></span><span class="content"> are cast down, then thou shalt say, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">there is</span></span><span class="content"> lifting up;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.22.29"><span class="content">And he shall save the humble person.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.22.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.22.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">He shall deliver the island of the innocent:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.22.30"><span class="content">And it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands.</span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch23" data-usfm="JOB.23">
            <div class="label">23</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.23.1"><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.23.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.23.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Even to day </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> my complaint bitter:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.23.2"><span class="content">My stroke is heavier than my groaning.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.23.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.23.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Oh that I knew where I might find him!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.23.3"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">That</span></span><span class="content"> I might come </span><span class="add"><span class="content">even</span></span><span class="content"> to his seat!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.23.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.23.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I would order </span><span class="add"><span class="content">my</span></span><span class="content"> cause before him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.23.4"><span class="content">And fill my mouth with arguments.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.23.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.23.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">I would know the words </span><span class="add"><span class="content">which</span></span><span class="content"> he would answer me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.23.5"><span class="content">And understand what he would say unto me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.23.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.23.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Will he plead against me with </span><span class="add"><span class="content">his</span></span><span class="content"> great power?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.23.6"><span class="content">No; but he would put </span><span class="add"><span class="content">strength</span></span><span class="content"> in me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.23.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.23.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">There the righteous might dispute with him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.23.7"><span class="content">So should I be delivered for ever from my judge.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.23.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.23.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Behold, I go forward, but he </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> not </span><span class="add"><span class="content">there</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.23.8"><span class="content">And backward, but I cannot perceive him:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.23.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.23.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold </span><span class="add"><span class="content">him:</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.23.9"><span class="content">He hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see </span><span class="add"><span class="content">him:</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.23.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.23.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">But he knoweth the way that I take:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.23.10"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">When</span></span><span class="content"> he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.23.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.23.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">My foot hath held his steps,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.23.11"><span class="content">His way have I kept, and not declined.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.23.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.23.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.23.12"><span class="content">I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary </span><span class="add"><span class="content">food</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.23.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.23.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">But he </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> in one </span><span class="add"><span class="content">mind</span></span><span class="content">, and who can turn him?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.23.13"><span class="content">And </span><span class="add"><span class="content">what</span></span><span class="content"> his soul desireth, even </span><span class="add"><span class="content">that</span></span><span class="content"> he doeth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.23.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.23.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">For he performeth </span><span class="add"><span class="content">the thing that is</span></span><span class="content"> appointed for me:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.23.14"><span class="content">And many such </span><span class="add"><span class="content">things are</span></span><span class="content"> with him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.23.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.23.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Therefore am I troubled at his presence:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.23.15"><span class="content">When I consider, I am afraid of him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.23.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.23.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">For God maketh my heart soft,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.23.16"><span class="content">And the Almighty troubleth me:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.23.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.23.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Because I was not cut off before the darkness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.23.17"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Neither</span></span><span class="content"> hath he covered the darkness from my face.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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    <div class="book bkJOB">
        <div class="chapter ch24" data-usfm="JOB.24">
            <div class="label">24</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.24.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.24.1"><span class="content">Do they that know him not see his days?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.24.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.24.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Some</span></span><span class="content"> remove the landmarks;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.24.2"><span class="content">They violently take away flocks, and feed </span><span class="add"><span class="content">thereof</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.24.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.24.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">They drive away the ass of the fatherless,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.24.3"><span class="content">They take the widow's ox for a pledge.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.24.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.24.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">They turn the needy out of the way:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.24.4"><span class="content">The poor of the earth hide themselves together.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.24.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.24.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Behold, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">as</span></span><span class="content"> wild asses in the desert,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.24.5"><span class="content">Go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.24.5"><span class="content">The wilderness </span><span class="add"><span class="content">yieldeth</span></span><span class="content"> food for them </span><span class="add"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> for </span><span class="add"><span class="content">their</span></span><span class="content"> children.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.24.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.24.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">They reap </span><span class="add"><span class="content">every one</span></span><span class="content"> his corn in the field:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.24.6"><span class="content">And they gather the vintage of the wicked.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.24.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.24.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">They cause the naked to lodge without clothing,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.24.7"><span class="content">That </span><span class="add"><span class="content">they have</span></span><span class="content"> no covering in the cold.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.24.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.24.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">They are wet with the showers of the mountains,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.24.8"><span class="content">And embrace the rock for want of a shelter.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.24.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.24.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">They pluck the fatherless from the breast,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.24.9"><span class="content">And take a pledge of the poor.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.24.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.24.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">They cause </span><span class="add"><span class="content">him</span></span><span class="content"> to go naked without clothing,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.24.10"><span class="content">And they take away the sheaf </span><span class="add"><span class="content">from</span></span><span class="content"> the hungry;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.24.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.24.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Which</span></span><span class="content"> make oil within their walls,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.24.11"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> tread </span><span class="add"><span class="content">their</span></span><span class="content"> winepresses, and suffer thirst.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.24.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.24.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Men groan from out of the city,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.24.12"><span class="content">And the soul of the wounded crieth out:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.24.12"><span class="content">Yet God layeth not folly </span><span class="add"><span class="content">to them</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.24.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.24.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">They are of those that rebel against the light;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.24.13"><span class="content">They know not the ways thereof,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.24.13"><span class="content">Nor abide in the paths thereof.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.24.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.24.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.24.14"><span class="content">And in the night is as a thief.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.24.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.24.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.24.15"><span class="content">Saying, No eye shall see me:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.24.15"><span class="content">And disguiseth </span><span class="add"><span class="content">his</span></span><span class="content"> face.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.24.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.24.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">In the dark they dig through houses,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.24.16"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Which</span></span><span class="content"> they had marked for themselves in the daytime:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.24.16"><span class="content">They know not the light.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.24.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.24.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">For the morning </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> to them even as the shadow of death:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.24.17"><span class="content">If </span><span class="add"><span class="content">one</span></span><span class="content"> know </span><span class="add"><span class="content">them, they are in</span></span><span class="content"> the terrors of the shadow of death.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.24.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.24.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">He </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> swift as the waters;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.24.18"><span class="content">Their portion is cursed in the earth:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.24.18"><span class="content">He beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.24.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.24.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Drought and heat consume the snow waters:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.24.19"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">So doth</span></span><span class="content"> the grave </span><span class="add"><span class="content">those which</span></span><span class="content"> have sinned.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.24.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.24.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.24.20"><span class="content">He shall be no more remembered;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.24.20"><span class="content">And wickedness shall be broken as a tree.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.24.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.24.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">He evil entreateth the barren </span><span class="add"><span class="content">that</span></span><span class="content"> beareth not:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.24.21"><span class="content">And doeth not good to the widow.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.24.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.24.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">He draweth also the mighty with his power:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.24.22"><span class="content">He riseth up, and no </span><span class="add"><span class="content">man</span></span><span class="content"> is sure of life.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.24.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.24.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Though</span></span><span class="content"> it be given him </span><span class="add"><span class="content">to be</span></span><span class="content"> in safety, whereon he resteth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.24.23"><span class="content">Yet his eyes </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> upon their ways.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.24.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.24.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">They are exalted for a little while, but are gone</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.24.24"><span class="content">And brought low; they are taken out of the way as all </span><span class="add"><span class="content">other</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.24.24"><span class="content">And cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.24.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.24.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">And if </span><span class="add"><span class="content">it be</span></span><span class="content"> not </span><span class="add"><span class="content">so</span></span><span class="content"> now, who will make me a liar,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.24.25"><span class="content">And make my speech nothing worth?</span></span></div>
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