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         <div class="label">1</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Beginning</span></div><div class="pi"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.1.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">And God said, &#8220;Let there be light,&#8221; and there was light. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">God called the light &#8220;day,&#8221; and the darkness he called &#8220;night.&#8221; And there was evening, and there was morning&#8212;the first day.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.1.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">And God said, &#8220;Let there be a vault between the waters to separate water from water.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">So God made the vault and separated the water under the vault from the water above it. And it was so. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">God called the vault &#8220;sky.&#8221; And there was evening, and there was morning&#8212;the second day.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.1.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">And God said, &#8220;Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.&#8221; And it was so. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">God called the dry ground &#8220;land,&#8221; and the gathered waters he called &#8220;seas.&#8221; And God saw that it was good.</span></span></div><div class="pi"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.1.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Then God said, &#8220;Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.&#8221; And it was so. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.1.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.1.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">And there was evening, and there was morning&#8212;the third day.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.1.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.1.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">And God said, &#8220;Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times, and days and years, </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.1.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">and let them be lights in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth.&#8221; And it was so. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.1.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">God made two great lights&#8212;the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.1.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">God set them in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth, </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.1.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.1.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">And there was evening, and there was morning&#8212;the fourth day.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.1.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.1.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">And God said, &#8220;Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the vault of the sky.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.1.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living thing with which the water teems and that moves about in it, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.1.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">God blessed them and said, &#8220;Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.1.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">And there was evening, and there was morning&#8212;the fifth day.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.1.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.1.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">And God said, &#8220;Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: the livestock, the creatures that move along the ground, and the wild animals, each according to its kind.&#8221; And it was so. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.1.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.</span></span></div><div class="pi"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.1.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.1.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Then God said, &#8220;Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:26 </span><span class="ft">Probable reading of the original Hebrew text (see Syriac); Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">the earth</span></span></span><span class="content"> and over all the creatures that move along the ground.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.1.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.1.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">So God created mankind in his own image,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.1.27"><span class="content">in the image of God he created them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.1.27"><span class="content">male and female he created them.</span></span></div><div class="pi"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.1.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.1.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">God blessed them and said to them, &#8220;Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="pi"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.1.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.1.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Then God said, &#8220;I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.1.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground&#8212;everything that has the breath of life in it&#8212;I give every green plant for food.&#8221; And it was so.</span></span></div><div class="pi"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.1.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="GEN.1.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning&#8212;the sixth day.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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         <div class="label">2</div><div class="pi"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.2.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.2.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.2.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.2.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Adam and Eve</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.2.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.2.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, when the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God made the earth and the heavens.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.2.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.2.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Now no shrub had yet appeared on the earth</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:5 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">land</span><span class="ft">; also in verse 6</span></span></span><span class="content"> and no plant had yet sprung up, for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no one to work the ground, </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.2.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">but streams</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:6 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">mist</span></span></span><span class="content"> came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.2.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God formed a man</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:7 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew for </span><span class="fq">man </span><span class="ft"><span class="tl">(adam)</span> sounds like and may be related to the Hebrew for </span><span class="fq">ground </span><span class="ft"><span class="tl">(adamah)</span>; it is also the name </span><span class="fqa">Adam </span><span class="ft">(see verse 20).</span></span></span><span class="content"> from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.2.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.2.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Now the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.2.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground&#8212;trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.2.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.2.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">A river watering the garden flowed from Eden; from there it was separated into four headwaters. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.2.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The name of the first is the Pishon; it winds through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.2.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">(The gold of that land is good; aromatic resin</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:12 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">good; pearls</span></span></span><span class="content"> and onyx are also there.) </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.2.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The name of the second river is the Gihon; it winds through the entire land of Cush.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:13 </span><span class="ft">Possibly southeast Mesopotamia</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.2.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The name of the third river is the Tigris; it runs along the east side of Ashur. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.2.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.2.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.2.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">And the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God commanded the man, &#8220;You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.2.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.2.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.2.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God said, &#8220;It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.2.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.2.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Now the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.2.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds in the sky and all the wild animals.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.2.20"><span class="content">But for Adam</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:20 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">the man</span></span></span><span class="content"> no suitable helper was found. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.2.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">So the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man&#8217;s ribs</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:21 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">took part of the man&#8217;s side</span></span></span><span class="content"> and then closed up the place with flesh. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.2.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God made a woman from the rib</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:22 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">part</span></span></span><span class="content"> he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.2.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.2.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">The man said,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.2.23"><span class="content">&#8220;This is now bone of my bones</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.2.23"><span class="content">and flesh of my flesh;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.2.23"><span class="content">she shall be called &#8216;woman,&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.2.23"><span class="content">for she was taken out of man.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.2.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.2.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.2.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.2.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Adam and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">3</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Fall</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God had made. He said to the woman, &#8220;Did God really say, &#8216;You must not eat from any tree in the garden&#8217;?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.3.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The woman said to the serpent, &#8220;We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">but God did say, &#8216;You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.3.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;You will not certainly die,&#8221; the serpent said to the woman. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.3.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.3.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God among the trees of the garden. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">But the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God called to the man, &#8220;Where are you?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.3.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">He answered, &#8220;I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.3.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">And he said, &#8220;Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.3.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.3.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The man said, &#8220;The woman you put here with me&#8212;she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.3.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.3.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God said to the woman, &#8220;What is this you have done?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.3.13"><span class="content">The woman said, &#8220;The serpent deceived me, and I ate.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.3.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.3.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">So the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God said to the serpent, &#8220;Because you have done this,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.3.14"><span class="content">&#8220;Cursed are you above all livestock</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.3.14"><span class="content">and all wild animals!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.3.14"><span class="content">You will crawl on your belly</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.3.14"><span class="content">and you will eat dust</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.3.14"><span class="content">all the days of your life.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.3.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.3.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">And I will put enmity</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.3.15"><span class="content">between you and the woman,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.3.15"><span class="content">and between your offspring</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:15 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">seed</span></span></span><span class="content"> and hers;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.3.15"><span class="content">he will crush</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:15 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">strike</span></span></span><span class="content"> your head,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.3.15"><span class="content">and you will strike his heel.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.3.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.3.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">To the woman he said,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.3.16"><span class="content">&#8220;I will make your pains in childbearing very severe;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.3.16"><span class="content">with painful labor you will give birth to children.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.3.16"><span class="content">Your desire will be for your husband,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.3.16"><span class="content">and he will rule over you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.3.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.3.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">To Adam he said, &#8220;Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, &#8216;You must not eat from it,&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.3.17"><span class="content">&#8220;Cursed is the ground because of you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.3.17"><span class="content">through painful toil you will eat food from it</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.3.17"><span class="content">all the days of your life.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.3.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.3.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">It will produce thorns and thistles for you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.3.18"><span class="content">and you will eat the plants of the field.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.3.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.3.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">By the sweat of your brow</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.3.19"><span class="content">you will eat your food</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.3.19"><span class="content">until you return to the ground,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.3.19"><span class="content">since from it you were taken;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.3.19"><span class="content">for dust you are</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.3.19"><span class="content">and to dust you will return.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.3.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.3.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Adam</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:20 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">The man</span></span></span><span class="content"> named his wife Eve,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:20 </span><span class="fq">Eve </span><span class="ft">probably means </span><span class="fqa">living.</span></span></span><span class="content"> because she would become the mother of all the living.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.3.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.3.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.3.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">And the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God said, &#8220;The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.3.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">So the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.3.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:24 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">placed in front</span></span></span><span class="content"> of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">4</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Cain and Abel</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.4.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Adam</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:1 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">The man</span></span></span><span class="content"> made love to his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:1 </span><span class="fq">Cain </span><span class="ft">sounds like the Hebrew for </span><span class="fq">brought forth </span><span class="ft">or </span><span class="fqa">acquired.</span></span></span><span class="content"> She said, &#8220;With the help of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> I have brought forth</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:1 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">have acquired</span></span></span><span class="content"> a man.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.4.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Later she gave birth to his brother Abel.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.4.2"><span class="content">Now Abel kept flocks, and Cain worked the soil. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.4.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">In the course of time Cain brought some of the fruits of the soil as an offering to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.4.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">And Abel also brought an offering&#8212;fat portions from some of the firstborn of his flock. The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> looked with favor on Abel and his offering, </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.4.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">but on Cain and his offering he did not look with favor. So Cain was very angry, and his face was downcast.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.4.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.4.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Cain, &#8220;Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast? </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.4.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.4.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.4.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Now Cain said to his brother Abel, &#8220;Let&#8217;s go out to the field.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:8 </span><span class="ft">Samaritan Pentateuch, Septuagint, Vulgate and Syriac; Masoretic Text does not have </span><span class="fq">&#8220;Let&#8217;s go out to the field.&#8221;</span></span></span><span class="content"> While they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.4.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.4.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Cain, &#8220;Where is your brother Abel?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.4.9"><span class="content">&#8220;I don&#8217;t know,&#8221; he replied. &#8220;Am I my brother&#8217;s keeper?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.4.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.4.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said, &#8220;What have you done? Listen! Your brother&#8217;s blood cries out to me from the ground. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.4.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Now you are under a curse and driven from the ground, which opened its mouth to receive your brother&#8217;s blood from your hand. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.4.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">When you work the ground, it will no longer yield its crops for you. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.4.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.4.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Cain said to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;My punishment is more than I can bear. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.4.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Today you are driving me from the land, and I will be hidden from your presence; I will be a restless wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.4.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.4.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">But the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to him, &#8220;Not so</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:15 </span><span class="ft">Septuagint, Vulgate and Syriac; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Very well</span></span></span><span class="content">; anyone who kills Cain will suffer vengeance seven times over.&#8221; Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> put a mark on Cain so that no one who found him would kill him. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.4.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">So Cain went out from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s presence and lived in the land of Nod,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:16 </span><span class="fq">Nod </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">wandering </span><span class="ft">(see verses 12 and 14).</span></span></span><span class="content"> east of Eden.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.4.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.4.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Cain made love to his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch. Cain was then building a city, and he named it after his son Enoch. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.4.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">To Enoch was born Irad, and Irad was the father of Mehujael, and Mehujael was the father of Methushael, and Methushael was the father of Lamech.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.4.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.4.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Lamech married two women, one named Adah and the other Zillah. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.4.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Adah gave birth to Jabal; he was the father of those who live in tents and raise livestock. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.4.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">His brother&#8217;s name was Jubal; he was the father of all who play stringed instruments and pipes. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.4.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Zillah also had a son, Tubal-Cain, who forged all kinds of tools out of</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:22 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">who instructed all who work in</span></span></span><span class="content"> bronze and iron. Tubal-Cain&#8217;s sister was Naamah.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.4.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.4.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Lamech said to his wives,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.4.23"><span class="content">&#8220;Adah and Zillah, listen to me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.4.23"><span class="content">wives of Lamech, hear my words.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.4.23"><span class="content">I have killed a man for wounding me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.4.23"><span class="content">a young man for injuring me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.4.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.4.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">If Cain is avenged seven times,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.4.24"><span class="content">then Lamech seventy-seven times.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.4.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.4.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Adam made love to his wife again, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:25 </span><span class="fq">Seth </span><span class="ft">probably means </span><span class="fq">granted</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span><span class="content"> saying, &#8220;God has granted me another child in place of Abel, since Cain killed him.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.4.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Seth also had a son, and he named him Enosh.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.4.26"><span class="content">At that time people began to call on</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:26 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">to proclaim</span></span></span><span class="content"> the name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">5</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">From Adam to Noah</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.5.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">This is the written account of Adam&#8217;s family line.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.5.1"><span class="content">When God created mankind, he made them in the likeness of God. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.5.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He created them male and female and blessed them. And he named them &#8220;Mankind&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">5:2 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">adam</span></span></span><span class="content"> when they were created.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.5.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.5.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">When Adam had lived 130 years, he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image; and he named him Seth. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.5.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">After Seth was born, Adam lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.5.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Altogether, Adam lived a total of 930 years, and then he died.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.5.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.5.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">When Seth had lived 105 years, he became the father</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">5:6 </span><span class="fq">Father </span><span class="ft">may mean </span><span class="fqa">ancestor</span><span class="ft">; also in verses 7-26.</span></span></span><span class="content"> of Enosh. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.5.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">After he became the father of Enosh, Seth lived 807 years and had other sons and daughters. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.5.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Altogether, Seth lived a total of 912 years, and then he died.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.5.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.5.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">When Enosh had lived 90 years, he became the father of Kenan. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.5.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">After he became the father of Kenan, Enosh lived 815 years and had other sons and daughters. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.5.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Altogether, Enosh lived a total of 905 years, and then he died.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.5.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.5.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">When Kenan had lived 70 years, he became the father of Mahalalel. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.5.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">After he became the father of Mahalalel, Kenan lived 840 years and had other sons and daughters. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.5.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Altogether, Kenan lived a total of 910 years, and then he died.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.5.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.5.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">When Mahalalel had lived 65 years, he became the father of Jared. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.5.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">After he became the father of Jared, Mahalalel lived 830 years and had other sons and daughters. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.5.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Altogether, Mahalalel lived a total of 895 years, and then he died.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.5.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.5.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">When Jared had lived 162 years, he became the father of Enoch. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.5.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">After he became the father of Enoch, Jared lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.5.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Altogether, Jared lived a total of 962 years, and then he died.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.5.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.5.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">When Enoch had lived 65 years, he became the father of Methuselah. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.5.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">After he became the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked faithfully with God 300 years and had other sons and daughters. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.5.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Altogether, Enoch lived a total of 365 years. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.5.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Enoch walked faithfully with God; then he was no more, because God took him away.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.5.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.5.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">When Methuselah had lived 187 years, he became the father of Lamech. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.5.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">After he became the father of Lamech, Methuselah lived 782 years and had other sons and daughters. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.5.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Altogether, Methuselah lived a total of 969 years, and then he died.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.5.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.5.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">When Lamech had lived 182 years, he had a son. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.5.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">He named him Noah</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">5:29 </span><span class="fq">Noah </span><span class="ft">sounds like the Hebrew for </span><span class="fq">comfort</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span><span class="content"> and said, &#8220;He will comfort us in the labor and painful toil of our hands caused by the ground the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has cursed.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.5.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">After Noah was born, Lamech lived 595 years and had other sons and daughters. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="GEN.5.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Altogether, Lamech lived a total of 777 years, and then he died.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="GEN.5.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="GEN.5.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham and Japheth.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">6</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Wickedness in the World</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.6.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">When human beings began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.6.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">the sons of God saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.6.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said, &#8220;My Spirit will not contend with</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:3 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">My spirit will not remain in</span></span></span><span class="content"> humans forever, for they are mortal</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:3 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">corrupt</span></span></span><span class="content">; their days will be a hundred and twenty years.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.6.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.6.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The Nephilim were on the earth in those days&#8212;and also afterward&#8212;when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.6.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.6.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.6.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.6.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">So the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said, &#8220;I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created&#8212;and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground&#8212;for I regret that I have made them.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.6.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But Noah found favor in the eyes of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Noah and the Flood</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.6.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.6.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">This is the account of Noah and his family.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.6.9"><span class="content">Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked faithfully with God. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.6.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.6.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.6.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Now the earth was corrupt in God&#8217;s sight and was full of violence. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.6.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.6.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">So God said to Noah, &#8220;I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.6.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">So make yourself an ark of cypress</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:14 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content"> wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.6.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:15 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 450 feet long, 75 feet wide and 45 feet high or about 135 meters long, 23 meters wide and 14 meters high</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.6.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Make a roof for it, leaving below the roof an opening one cubit</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:16 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 18 inches or about 45 centimeters</span></span></span><span class="content"> high all around.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:16 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this clause is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content"> Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.6.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.6.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark&#8212;you and your sons and your wife and your sons&#8217; wives with you. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.6.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.6.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal and of every kind of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept alive. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.6.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">You are to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and for them.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.6.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.6.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Noah did everything just as God commanded him.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">7</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.7.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> then said to Noah, &#8220;Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.7.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and one pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate, </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.7.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">and also seven pairs of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.7.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature I have made.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.7.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.7.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">And Noah did all that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> commanded him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.7.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.7.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters came on the earth. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.7.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons&#8217; wives entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.7.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Pairs of clean and unclean animals, of birds and of all creatures that move along the ground, </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.7.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">male and female, came to Noah and entered the ark, as God had commanded Noah. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.7.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">And after the seven days the floodwaters came on the earth.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.7.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.7.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">In the six hundredth year of Noah&#8217;s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month&#8212;on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.7.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.7.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.7.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">On that very day Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth, together with his wife and the wives of his three sons, entered the ark. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.7.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">They had with them every wild animal according to its kind, all livestock according to their kinds, every creature that moves along the ground according to its kind and every bird according to its kind, everything with wings. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.7.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life in them came to Noah and entered the ark. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.7.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The animals going in were male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> shut him in.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.7.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.7.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and as the waters increased they lifted the ark high above the earth. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.7.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">The waters rose and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the water. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.7.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">They rose greatly on the earth, and all the high mountains under the entire heavens were covered. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.7.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">The waters rose and covered the mountains to a depth of more than fifteen cubits.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:20 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 23 feet or about 6.8 meters</span></span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:20 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">rose more than fifteen cubits, and the mountains were covered</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.7.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Every living thing that moved on land perished&#8212;birds, livestock, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all mankind. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.7.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.7.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out; people and animals and the creatures that move along the ground and the birds were wiped from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.7.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.7.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">The waters flooded the earth for a hundred and fifty days.</span></span></div>
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   <div class="book bkJOB">
      <div class="chapter ch1" data-usfm="JOB.1">
         <div class="label">1</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Prologue</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In the land of Uz there lived a man whose name was Job. This man was blameless and upright; he feared God and shunned evil. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He had seven sons and three daughters, </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">and he owned seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen and five hundred donkeys, and had a large number of servants. He was the greatest man among all the people of the East.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.1.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">His sons used to hold feasts in their homes on their birthdays, and they would invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">When a period of feasting had run its course, Job would make arrangements for them to be purified. Early in the morning he would sacrifice a burnt offering for each of them, thinking, &#8220;Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.&#8221; This was Job&#8217;s regular custom.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.1.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">One day the angels</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:6 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">the sons of God</span></span></span><span class="content"> came to present themselves before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and Satan</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:6 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew <span class="tl">satan</span> means </span><span class="fqa">adversary.</span></span></span><span class="content"> also came with them. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Satan, &#8220;Where have you come from?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.1.7"><span class="content">Satan answered the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;From roaming throughout the earth, going back and forth on it.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.1.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Satan, &#8220;Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.1.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;Does Job fear God for nothing?&#8221; Satan replied. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;Have you not put a hedge around him and his household and everything he has? You have blessed the work of his hands, so that his flocks and herds are spread throughout the land. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">But now stretch out your hand and strike everything he has, and he will surely curse you to your face.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.1.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.1.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Satan, &#8220;Very well, then, everything he has is in your power, but on the man himself do not lay a finger.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.1.12"><span class="content">Then Satan went out from the presence of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.1.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.1.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">One day when Job&#8217;s sons and daughters were feasting and drinking wine at the oldest brother&#8217;s house, </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.1.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">a messenger came to Job and said, &#8220;The oxen were plowing and the donkeys were grazing nearby, </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.1.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">and the Sabeans attacked and made off with them. They put the servants to the sword, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.1.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.1.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">While he was still speaking, another messenger came and said, &#8220;The fire of God fell from the heavens and burned up the sheep and the servants, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.1.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.1.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">While he was still speaking, another messenger came and said, &#8220;The Chaldeans formed three raiding parties and swept down on your camels and made off with them. They put the servants to the sword, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.1.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.1.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">While he was still speaking, yet another messenger came and said, &#8220;Your sons and daughters were feasting and drinking wine at the oldest brother&#8217;s house, </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.1.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">when suddenly a mighty wind swept in from the desert and struck the four corners of the house. It collapsed on them and they are dead, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.1.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.1.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">At this, Job got up and tore his robe and shaved his head. Then he fell to the ground in worship </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.1.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">and said:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.1.21"><span class="content">&#8220;Naked I came from my mother&#8217;s womb,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.1.21"><span class="content">and naked I will depart.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:21 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">will return there</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.1.21"><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> gave and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has taken away;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.1.21"><span class="content">may the name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> be praised.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.1.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.1.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">In all this, Job did not sin by charging God with wrongdoing.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">2</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.2.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">On another day the angels</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:1 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">the sons of God</span></span></span><span class="content"> came to present themselves before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and Satan also came with them to present himself before him. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.2.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">And the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Satan, &#8220;Where have you come from?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.2.2"><span class="content">Satan answered the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;From roaming throughout the earth, going back and forth on it.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.2.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.2.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Satan, &#8220;Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil. And he still maintains his integrity, though you incited me against him to ruin him without any reason.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.2.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.2.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;Skin for skin!&#8221; Satan replied. &#8220;A man will give all he has for his own life. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.2.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">But now stretch out your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse you to your face.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.2.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.2.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Satan, &#8220;Very well, then, he is in your hands; but you must spare his life.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.2.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.2.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">So Satan went out from the presence of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and afflicted Job with painful sores from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.2.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Then Job took a piece of broken pottery and scraped himself with it as he sat among the ashes.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.2.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.2.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">His wife said to him, &#8220;Are you still maintaining your integrity? Curse God and die!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.2.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.2.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">He replied, &#8220;You are talking like a foolish</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:10 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew word rendered </span><span class="fq">foolish </span><span class="ft">denotes moral deficiency.</span></span></span><span class="content"> woman. Shall we accept good from God, and not trouble?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.2.10"><span class="content">In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.2.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.2.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">When Job&#8217;s three friends, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite, heard about all the troubles that had come upon him, they set out from their homes and met together by agreement to go and sympathize with him and comfort him. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.2.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">When they saw him from a distance, they could hardly recognize him; they began to weep aloud, and they tore their robes and sprinkled dust on their heads. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.2.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Then they sat on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights. No one said a word to him, because they saw how great his suffering was.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">3</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Job Speaks</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He said:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.3.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;May the day of my birth perish,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.3.3"><span class="content">and the night that said, &#8216;A boy is conceived!&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.3.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">That day&#8212;may it turn to darkness;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.3.4"><span class="content">may God above not care about it;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.3.4"><span class="content">may no light shine on it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.3.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">May gloom and utter darkness claim it once more;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.3.5"><span class="content">may a cloud settle over it;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.3.5"><span class="content">may blackness overwhelm it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.3.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">That night&#8212;may thick darkness seize it;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.3.6"><span class="content">may it not be included among the days of the year</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.3.6"><span class="content">nor be entered in any of the months.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.3.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">May that night be barren;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.3.7"><span class="content">may no shout of joy be heard in it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.3.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">May those who curse days</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:8 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">curse the sea</span></span></span><span class="content"> curse that day,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.3.8"><span class="content">those who are ready to rouse Leviathan.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.3.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">May its morning stars become dark;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.3.9"><span class="content">may it wait for daylight in vain</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.3.9"><span class="content">and not see the first rays of dawn,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.3.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">for it did not shut the doors of the womb on me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.3.10"><span class="content">to hide trouble from my eyes.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.3.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;Why did I not perish at birth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.3.11"><span class="content">and die as I came from the womb?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.3.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.3.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Why were there knees to receive me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.3.12"><span class="content">and breasts that I might be nursed?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.3.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.3.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">For now I would be lying down in peace;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.3.13"><span class="content">I would be asleep and at rest</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.3.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.3.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">with kings and rulers of the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.3.14"><span class="content">who built for themselves places now lying in ruins,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.3.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.3.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">with princes who had gold,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.3.15"><span class="content">who filled their houses with silver.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.3.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.3.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Or why was I not hidden away in the ground like a stillborn child,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.3.16"><span class="content">like an infant who never saw the light of day?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.3.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.3.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">There the wicked cease from turmoil,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.3.17"><span class="content">and there the weary are at rest.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.3.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.3.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Captives also enjoy their ease;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.3.18"><span class="content">they no longer hear the slave driver&#8217;s shout.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.3.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.3.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The small and the great are there,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.3.19"><span class="content">and the slaves are freed from their owners.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.3.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.3.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;Why is light given to those in misery,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.3.20"><span class="content">and life to the bitter of soul,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.3.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.3.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">to those who long for death that does not come,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.3.21"><span class="content">who search for it more than for hidden treasure,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.3.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.3.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">who are filled with gladness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.3.22"><span class="content">and rejoice when they reach the grave?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.3.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.3.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Why is life given to a man</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.3.23"><span class="content">whose way is hidden,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.3.23"><span class="content">whom God has hedged in?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.3.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.3.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">For sighing has become my daily food;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.3.24"><span class="content">my groans pour out like water.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.3.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.3.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">What I feared has come upon me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.3.25"><span class="content">what I dreaded has happened to me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.3.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.3.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">I have no peace, no quietness;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.3.26"><span class="content">I have no rest, but only turmoil.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">4</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Eliphaz</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.4.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.4.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.4.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;If someone ventures a word with you, will you be impatient?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.4.2"><span class="content">But who can keep from speaking?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.4.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.4.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Think how you have instructed many,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.4.3"><span class="content">how you have strengthened feeble hands.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.4.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.4.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Your words have supported those who stumbled;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.4.4"><span class="content">you have strengthened faltering knees.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.4.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.4.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">But now trouble comes to you, and you are discouraged;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.4.5"><span class="content">it strikes you, and you are dismayed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.4.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.4.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Should not your piety be your confidence</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.4.6"><span class="content">and your blameless ways your hope?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.4.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.4.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;Consider now: Who, being innocent, has ever perished?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.4.7"><span class="content">Where were the upright ever destroyed?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.4.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.4.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">As I have observed, those who plow evil</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.4.8"><span class="content">and those who sow trouble reap it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.4.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.4.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">At the breath of God they perish;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.4.9"><span class="content">at the blast of his anger they are no more.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.4.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.4.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The lions may roar and growl,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.4.10"><span class="content">yet the teeth of the great lions are broken.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.4.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.4.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The lion perishes for lack of prey,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.4.11"><span class="content">and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.4.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.4.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;A word was secretly brought to me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.4.12"><span class="content">my ears caught a whisper of it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.4.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.4.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Amid disquieting dreams in the night,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.4.13"><span class="content">when deep sleep falls on people,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.4.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.4.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">fear and trembling seized me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.4.14"><span class="content">and made all my bones shake.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.4.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.4.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">A spirit glided past my face,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.4.15"><span class="content">and the hair on my body stood on end.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.4.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.4.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">It stopped,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.4.16"><span class="content">but I could not tell what it was.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.4.16"><span class="content">A form stood before my eyes,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.4.16"><span class="content">and I heard a hushed voice:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.4.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.4.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8216;Can a mortal be more righteous than God?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.4.17"><span class="content">Can even a strong man be more pure than his Maker?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.4.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.4.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">If God places no trust in his servants,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.4.18"><span class="content">if he charges his angels with error,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.4.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.4.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">how much more those who live in houses of clay,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.4.19"><span class="content">whose foundations are in the dust,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.4.19"><span class="content">who are crushed more readily than a moth!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.4.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.4.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Between dawn and dusk they are broken to pieces;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.4.20"><span class="content">unnoticed, they perish forever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.4.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.4.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Are not the cords of their tent pulled up,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.4.21"><span class="content">so that they die without wisdom?&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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         <div class="label">5</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.5.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;Call if you will, but who will answer you?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.5.1"><span class="content">To which of the holy ones will you turn?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.5.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.5.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Resentment kills a fool,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.5.2"><span class="content">and envy slays the simple.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.5.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.5.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">I myself have seen a fool taking root,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.5.3"><span class="content">but suddenly his house was cursed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.5.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.5.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">His children are far from safety,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.5.4"><span class="content">crushed in court without a defender.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.5.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.5.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The hungry consume his harvest,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.5.5"><span class="content">taking it even from among thorns,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.5.5"><span class="content">and the thirsty pant after his wealth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.5.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.5.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">For hardship does not spring from the soil,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.5.6"><span class="content">nor does trouble sprout from the ground.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.5.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.5.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Yet man is born to trouble</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.5.7"><span class="content">as surely as sparks fly upward.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.5.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.5.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;But if I were you, I would appeal to God;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.5.8"><span class="content">I would lay my cause before him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.5.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.5.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">He performs wonders that cannot be fathomed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.5.9"><span class="content">miracles that cannot be counted.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.5.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.5.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">He provides rain for the earth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.5.10"><span class="content">he sends water on the countryside.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.5.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.5.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The lowly he sets on high,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.5.11"><span class="content">and those who mourn are lifted to safety.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.5.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.5.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">He thwarts the plans of the crafty,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.5.12"><span class="content">so that their hands achieve no success.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.5.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.5.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">He catches the wise in their craftiness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.5.13"><span class="content">and the schemes of the wily are swept away.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.5.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.5.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Darkness comes upon them in the daytime;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.5.14"><span class="content">at noon they grope as in the night.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.5.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.5.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">He saves the needy from the sword in their mouth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.5.15"><span class="content">he saves them from the clutches of the powerful.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.5.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.5.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">So the poor have hope,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.5.16"><span class="content">and injustice shuts its mouth.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.5.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.5.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;Blessed is the one whom God corrects;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.5.17"><span class="content">so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">5:17 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Shaddai</span><span class="ft">; here and throughout Job</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.5.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.5.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">For he wounds, but he also binds up;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.5.18"><span class="content">he injures, but his hands also heal.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.5.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.5.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">From six calamities he will rescue you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.5.19"><span class="content">in seven no harm will touch you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.5.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.5.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">In famine he will deliver you from death,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.5.20"><span class="content">and in battle from the stroke of the sword.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.5.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.5.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">You will be protected from the lash of the tongue,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.5.21"><span class="content">and need not fear when destruction comes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.5.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.5.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">You will laugh at destruction and famine,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.5.22"><span class="content">and need not fear the wild animals.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.5.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.5.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">For you will have a covenant with the stones of the field,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.5.23"><span class="content">and the wild animals will be at peace with you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.5.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.5.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">You will know that your tent is secure;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.5.24"><span class="content">you will take stock of your property and find nothing missing.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.5.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.5.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">You will know that your children will be many,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.5.25"><span class="content">and your descendants like the grass of the earth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.5.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.5.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">You will come to the grave in full vigor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.5.26"><span class="content">like sheaves gathered in season.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.5.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.5.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">&#8220;We have examined this, and it is true.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.5.27"><span class="content">So hear it and apply it to yourself.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">6</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Job</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.6.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then Job replied:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.6.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.6.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;If only my anguish could be weighed</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.6.2"><span class="content">and all my misery be placed on the scales!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.6.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.6.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">It would surely outweigh the sand of the seas&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.6.3"><span class="content">no wonder my words have been impetuous.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.6.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.6.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The arrows of the Almighty are in me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.6.4"><span class="content">my spirit drinks in their poison;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.6.4"><span class="content">God&#8217;s terrors are marshaled against me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.6.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.6.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Does a wild donkey bray when it has grass,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.6.5"><span class="content">or an ox bellow when it has fodder?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.6.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.6.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Is tasteless food eaten without salt,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.6.6"><span class="content">or is there flavor in the sap of the mallow</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:6 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content">?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.6.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.6.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">I refuse to touch it;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.6.7"><span class="content">such food makes me ill.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.6.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.6.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;Oh, that I might have my request,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.6.8"><span class="content">that God would grant what I hope for,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.6.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.6.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">that God would be willing to crush me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.6.9"><span class="content">to let loose his hand and cut off my life!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.6.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.6.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Then I would still have this consolation&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.6.10"><span class="content">my joy in unrelenting pain&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.6.10"><span class="content">that I had not denied the words of the Holy One.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.6.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.6.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;What strength do I have, that I should still hope?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.6.11"><span class="content">What prospects, that I should be patient?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.6.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.6.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Do I have the strength of stone?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.6.12"><span class="content">Is my flesh bronze?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.6.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.6.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Do I have any power to help myself,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.6.13"><span class="content">now that success has been driven from me?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.6.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.6.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;Anyone who withholds kindness from a friend</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.6.14"><span class="content">forsakes the fear of the Almighty.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.6.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.6.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">But my brothers are as undependable as intermittent streams,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.6.15"><span class="content">as the streams that overflow</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.6.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.6.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">when darkened by thawing ice</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.6.16"><span class="content">and swollen with melting snow,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.6.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.6.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">but that stop flowing in the dry season,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.6.17"><span class="content">and in the heat vanish from their channels.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.6.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.6.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Caravans turn aside from their routes;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.6.18"><span class="content">they go off into the wasteland and perish.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.6.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.6.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The caravans of Tema look for water,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.6.19"><span class="content">the traveling merchants of Sheba look in hope.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.6.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.6.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">They are distressed, because they had been confident;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.6.20"><span class="content">they arrive there, only to be disappointed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.6.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.6.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Now you too have proved to be of no help;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.6.21"><span class="content">you see something dreadful and are afraid.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.6.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.6.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Have I ever said, &#8216;Give something on my behalf,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.6.22"><span class="content">pay a ransom for me from your wealth,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.6.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.6.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">deliver me from the hand of the enemy,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.6.23"><span class="content">rescue me from the clutches of the ruthless&#8217;?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.6.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.6.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">&#8220;Teach me, and I will be quiet;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.6.24"><span class="content">show me where I have been wrong.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.6.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.6.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">How painful are honest words!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.6.25"><span class="content">But what do your arguments prove?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.6.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.6.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Do you mean to correct what I say,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.6.26"><span class="content">and treat my desperate words as wind?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.6.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.6.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">You would even cast lots for the fatherless</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.6.27"><span class="content">and barter away your friend.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.6.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.6.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">&#8220;But now be so kind as to look at me.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.6.28"><span class="content">Would I lie to your face?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.6.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.6.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Relent, do not be unjust;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.6.29"><span class="content">reconsider, for my integrity is at stake.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:29 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">my righteousness still stands</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.6.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.6.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Is there any wickedness on my lips?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.6.30"><span class="content">Can my mouth not discern malice?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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         <div class="label">7</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.7.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do not mortals have hard service on earth?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.7.1"><span class="content">Are not their days like those of hired laborers?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.7.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.7.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Like a slave longing for the evening shadows,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.7.2"><span class="content">or a hired laborer waiting to be paid,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.7.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.7.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">so I have been allotted months of futility,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.7.3"><span class="content">and nights of misery have been assigned to me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.7.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.7.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">When I lie down I think, &#8216;How long before I get up?&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.7.4"><span class="content">The night drags on, and I toss and turn until dawn.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.7.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.7.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">My body is clothed with worms and scabs,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.7.5"><span class="content">my skin is broken and festering.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.7.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.7.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;My days are swifter than a weaver&#8217;s shuttle,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.7.6"><span class="content">and they come to an end without hope.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.7.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.7.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Remember, O God, that my life is but a breath;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.7.7"><span class="content">my eyes will never see happiness again.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.7.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.7.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The eye that now sees me will see me no longer;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.7.8"><span class="content">you will look for me, but I will be no more.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.7.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.7.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">As a cloud vanishes and is gone,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.7.9"><span class="content">so one who goes down to the grave does not return.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.7.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.7.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">He will never come to his house again;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.7.10"><span class="content">his place will know him no more.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.7.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.7.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;Therefore I will not keep silent;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.7.11"><span class="content">I will speak out in the anguish of my spirit,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.7.11"><span class="content">I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.7.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.7.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Am I the sea, or the monster of the deep,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.7.12"><span class="content">that you put me under guard?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.7.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.7.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">When I think my bed will comfort me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.7.13"><span class="content">and my couch will ease my complaint,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.7.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.7.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">even then you frighten me with dreams</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.7.14"><span class="content">and terrify me with visions,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.7.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.7.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">so that I prefer strangling and death,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.7.15"><span class="content">rather than this body of mine.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.7.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.7.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">I despise my life; I would not live forever.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.7.16"><span class="content">Let me alone; my days have no meaning.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.7.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.7.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;What is mankind that you make so much of them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.7.17"><span class="content">that you give them so much attention,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.7.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.7.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">that you examine them every morning</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.7.18"><span class="content">and test them every moment?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.7.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.7.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Will you never look away from me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.7.19"><span class="content">or let me alone even for an instant?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.7.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.7.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">If I have sinned, what have I done to you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.7.20"><span class="content">you who see everything we do?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.7.20"><span class="content">Why have you made me your target?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.7.20"><span class="content">Have I become a burden to you?</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:20 </span><span class="ft">A few manuscripts of the Masoretic Text, an ancient Hebrew scribal tradition and Septuagint; most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">I have become a burden to myself.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.7.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.7.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Why do you not pardon my offenses</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.7.21"><span class="content">and forgive my sins?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.7.21"><span class="content">For I will soon lie down in the dust;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.7.21"><span class="content">you will search for me, but I will be no more.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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