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            <div class="q1"><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>
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The Listener’s Bible®: KJV Edition

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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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    <div class="book bkJOB">
        <div class="chapter ch32" data-usfm="JOB.32">
            <div class="label">32</div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Elihu's Intrusion</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.32.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he </span><span class="add"><span class="content">was</span></span><span class="content"> righteous in his own eyes. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.32.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram: against Job was his wrath kindled, because he justified himself rather than God. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.32.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no answer, and </span><span class="add"><span class="content">yet</span></span><span class="content"> had condemned Job. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.32.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Now Elihu had waited till Job had spoken, because they </span><span class="add"><span class="content">were</span></span><span class="content"> elder than he. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.32.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">When Elihu saw that </span><span class="add"><span class="content">there was</span></span><span class="content"> no answer in the mouth of </span><span class="add"><span class="content">these</span></span><span class="content"> three men, then his wrath was kindled.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.32.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.32.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.32.6"><span class="content">I </span><span class="add"><span class="content">am</span></span><span class="content"> young, and ye </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> very old;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.32.6"><span class="content">Wherefore I was afraid, and durst not shew you mine opinion.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.32.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.32.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">I said, Days should speak,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.32.7"><span class="content">And multitude of years should teach wisdom.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.32.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.32.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But </span><span class="add"><span class="content">there is</span></span><span class="content"> a spirit in man:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.32.8"><span class="content">And the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.32.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.32.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Great men are not </span><span class="add"><span class="content">always</span></span><span class="content"> wise:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.32.9"><span class="content">Neither do the aged understand judgment.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.32.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.32.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Therefore I said, Hearken to me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.32.10"><span class="content">I also will shew mine opinion.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.32.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.32.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Behold, I waited for your words;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.32.11"><span class="content">I gave ear to your reasons,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.32.11"><span class="content">Whilst ye searched out what to say.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.32.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.32.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Yea, I attended unto you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.32.12"><span class="content">And, behold, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">there was</span></span><span class="content"> none of you that convinced Job,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.32.12"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Or</span></span><span class="content"> that answered his words:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.32.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.32.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Lest ye should say, We have found out wisdom:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.32.13"><span class="content">God thrusteth him down, not man.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.32.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.32.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Now he hath not directed </span><span class="add"><span class="content">his</span></span><span class="content"> words against me:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.32.14"><span class="content">Neither will I answer him with your speeches.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.32.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.32.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">They were amazed, they answered no more:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.32.15"><span class="content">They left off speaking.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.32.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.32.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">When I had waited, (for they spake not,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.32.16"><span class="content">But stood still, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> answered no more;)</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.32.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.32.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">I said</span></span><span class="content">, I will answer also my part,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.32.17"><span class="content">I also will shew mine opinion.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.32.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.32.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">For I am full of matter,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.32.18"><span class="content">The spirit within me constraineth me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.32.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.32.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Behold, my belly </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> as wine </span><span class="add"><span class="content">which</span></span><span class="content"> hath no vent;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.32.19"><span class="content">It is ready to burst like new bottles.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.32.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.32.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">I will speak, that I may be refreshed:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.32.20"><span class="content">I will open my lips and answer.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.32.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.32.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Let me not, I pray you, accept any man's person,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.32.21"><span class="content">Neither let me give flattering titles unto man.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.32.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.32.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">For I know not to give flattering titles;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.32.22"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">In so doing</span></span><span class="content"> my Maker would soon take me away.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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    <div class="book bkJOB">
        <div class="chapter ch33" data-usfm="JOB.33">
            <div class="label">33</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.33.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Wherefore, Job, I pray thee, hear my speeches,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.33.1"><span class="content">And hearken to all my words.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.33.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.33.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Behold, now I have opened my mouth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.33.2"><span class="content">My tongue hath spoken in my mouth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.33.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.33.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">My words </span><span class="add"><span class="content">shall be of</span></span><span class="content"> the uprightness of my heart:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.33.3"><span class="content">And my lips shall utter knowledge clearly.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.33.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.33.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The Spirit of God hath made me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.33.4"><span class="content">And the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.33.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.33.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">If thou canst answer me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.33.5"><span class="content">Set </span><span class="add"><span class="content">thy words</span></span><span class="content"> in order before me, stand up.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.33.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.33.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Behold, I </span><span class="add"><span class="content">am</span></span><span class="content"> according to thy wish in God's stead:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.33.6"><span class="content">I also am formed out of the clay.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.33.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.33.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Behold, my terror shall not make thee afraid,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.33.7"><span class="content">Neither shall my hand be heavy upon thee.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.33.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.33.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Surely thou hast spoken in mine hearing,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.33.8"><span class="content">And I have heard the voice of </span><span class="add"><span class="content">thy</span></span><span class="content"> words, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">saying</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.33.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.33.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">I am clean without transgression,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.33.9"><span class="content">I </span><span class="add"><span class="content">am</span></span><span class="content"> innocent; neither </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is there</span></span><span class="content"> iniquity in me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.33.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.33.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Behold, he findeth occasions against me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.33.10"><span class="content">He counteth me for his enemy,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.33.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.33.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">He putteth my feet in the stocks,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.33.11"><span class="content">He marketh all my paths.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.33.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.33.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Behold, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">in</span></span><span class="content"> this thou art not just: I will answer thee,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.33.12"><span class="content">that God is greater than man.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.33.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.33.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Why dost thou strive against him?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.33.13"><span class="content">For he giveth not account of any of his matters.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.33.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.33.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">For God speaketh once,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.33.14"><span class="content">Yea twice, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">yet man</span></span><span class="content"> perceiveth it not.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.33.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.33.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">In a dream, in a vision of the night,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.33.15"><span class="content">When deep sleep falleth upon men,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.33.15"><span class="content">In slumberings upon the bed;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.33.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.33.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Then he openeth the ears of men,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.33.16"><span class="content">And sealeth their instruction,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.33.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.33.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">That he may withdraw man </span><span class="add"><span class="content">from his</span></span><span class="content"> purpose,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.33.17"><span class="content">And hide pride from man.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.33.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.33.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">He keepeth back his soul from the pit,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.33.18"><span class="content">And his life from perishing by the sword.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.33.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.33.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">He is chastened also with pain upon his bed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.33.19"><span class="content">And the multitude of his bones with strong </span><span class="add"><span class="content">pain:</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.33.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.33.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">So that his life abhorreth bread,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.33.20"><span class="content">And his soul dainty meat.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.33.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.33.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.33.21"><span class="content">And his bones </span><span class="add"><span class="content">that</span></span><span class="content"> were not seen stick out.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.33.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.33.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.33.22"><span class="content">And his life to the destroyers.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.33.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.33.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">If there be a messenger with him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.33.23"><span class="content">An interpreter, one among a thousand,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.33.23"><span class="content">To shew unto man his uprightness:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.33.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.33.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Then he is gracious unto him, and saith,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.33.24"><span class="content">Deliver him from going down to the pit:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.33.24"><span class="content">I have found a ransom.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.33.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.33.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">His flesh shall be fresher than a child's:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.33.25"><span class="content">He shall return to the days of his youth:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.33.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.33.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">He shall pray unto God, and he will be favourable unto him:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.33.26"><span class="content">And he shall see his face with joy:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.33.26"><span class="content">For he will render unto man his righteousness.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.33.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.33.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">He looketh upon men, and </span><span class="add"><span class="content">if any</span></span><span class="content"> say,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.33.27"><span class="content">I have sinned, and perverted </span><span class="add"><span class="content">that which was</span></span><span class="content"> right,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.33.27"><span class="content">And it profited me not;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.33.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.33.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">He will deliver his soul from going into the pit,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.33.28"><span class="content">And his life shall see the light.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.33.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.33.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Lo, all these </span><span class="add"><span class="content">things</span></span><span class="content"> worketh God</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.33.29"><span class="content">Oftentimes with man,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.33.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.33.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">To bring back his soul from the pit,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.33.30"><span class="content">To be enlightened with the light of the living.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.33.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.33.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Mark well, O Job, hearken unto me:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.33.31"><span class="content">Hold thy peace, and I will speak.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.33.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOB.33.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">If thou hast any thing to say, answer me:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOB.33.32"><span class="content">Speak, for I desire to justify thee.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOB.33.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.33.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">If not, hearken unto me:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.33.33"><span class="content">Hold thy peace, and I shall teach thee wisdom.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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