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            <div class="label">20</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Zophar</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.20.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.20.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.20.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;My troubled thoughts prompt me to answer</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.20.2"><span class="content">because I am greatly disturbed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.20.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.20.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">I hear a rebuke that dishonors me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.20.3"><span class="content">and my understanding inspires me to reply.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.20.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.20.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;Surely you know how it has been from of old,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.20.4"><span class="content">ever since mankind</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">20:4 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Adam</span></span></span><span class="content"> was placed on the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.20.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.20.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">that the mirth of the wicked is brief,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.20.5"><span class="content">the joy of the godless lasts but a moment.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.20.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.20.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Though the pride of the godless person reaches to the heavens</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.20.6"><span class="content">and his head touches the clouds,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.20.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.20.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">he will perish forever, like his own dung;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.20.7"><span class="content">those who have seen him will say, &#8216;Where is he?&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.20.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.20.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Like a dream he flies away, no more to be found,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.20.8"><span class="content">banished like a vision of the night.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.20.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.20.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The eye that saw him will not see him again;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.20.9"><span class="content">his place will look on him no more.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.20.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.20.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">His children must make amends to the poor;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.20.10"><span class="content">his own hands must give back his wealth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.20.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.20.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The youthful vigor that fills his bones</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.20.11"><span class="content">will lie with him in the dust.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.20.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.20.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;Though evil is sweet in his mouth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.20.12"><span class="content">and he hides it under his tongue,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.20.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.20.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">though he cannot bear to let it go</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.20.13"><span class="content">and lets it linger in his mouth,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.20.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.20.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">yet his food will turn sour in his stomach;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.20.14"><span class="content">it will become the venom of serpents within him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.20.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.20.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">He will spit out the riches he swallowed;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.20.15"><span class="content">God will make his stomach vomit them up.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.20.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.20.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">He will suck the poison of serpents;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.20.16"><span class="content">the fangs of an adder will kill him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.20.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.20.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">He will not enjoy the streams,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.20.17"><span class="content">the rivers flowing with honey and cream.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.20.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.20.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">What he toiled for he must give back uneaten;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.20.18"><span class="content">he will not enjoy the profit from his trading.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.20.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.20.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">For he has oppressed the poor and left them destitute;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.20.19"><span class="content">he has seized houses he did not build.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.20.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.20.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;Surely he will have no respite from his craving;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.20.20"><span class="content">he cannot save himself by his treasure.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.20.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.20.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Nothing is left for him to devour;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.20.21"><span class="content">his prosperity will not endure.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.20.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.20.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">In the midst of his plenty, distress will overtake him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.20.22"><span class="content">the full force of misery will come upon him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.20.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.20.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">When he has filled his belly,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.20.23"><span class="content">God will vent his burning anger against him</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.20.23"><span class="content">and rain down his blows on him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.20.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.20.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Though he flees from an iron weapon,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.20.24"><span class="content">a bronze-tipped arrow pierces him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.20.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.20.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">He pulls it out of his back,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.20.25"><span class="content">the gleaming point out of his liver.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.20.25"><span class="content">Terrors will come over him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.20.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.20.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">total darkness lies in wait for his treasures.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.20.26"><span class="content">A fire unfanned will consume him</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.20.26"><span class="content">and devour what is left in his tent.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.20.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.20.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">The heavens will expose his guilt;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.20.27"><span class="content">the earth will rise up against him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.20.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.20.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">A flood will carry off his house,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.20.28"><span class="content">rushing waters</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">20:28 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">The possessions in his house will be carried off, / washed away</span></span></span><span class="content"> on the day of God&#8217;s wrath.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.20.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.20.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Such is the fate God allots the wicked,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.20.29"><span class="content">the heritage appointed for them by God.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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            <div class="label">21</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Job</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.21.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then Job replied:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.21.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.21.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Listen carefully to my words;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.21.2"><span class="content">let this be the consolation you give me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.21.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.21.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Bear with me while I speak,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.21.3"><span class="content">and after I have spoken, mock on.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.21.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.21.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;Is my complaint directed to a human being?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.21.4"><span class="content">Why should I not be impatient?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.21.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.21.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Look at me and be appalled;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.21.5"><span class="content">clap your hand over your mouth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.21.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.21.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">When I think about this, I am terrified;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.21.6"><span class="content">trembling seizes my body.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.21.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.21.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Why do the wicked live on,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.21.7"><span class="content">growing old and increasing in power?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.21.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.21.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">They see their children established around them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.21.8"><span class="content">their offspring before their eyes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.21.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.21.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Their homes are safe and free from fear;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.21.9"><span class="content">the rod of God is not on them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.21.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.21.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Their bulls never fail to breed;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.21.10"><span class="content">their cows calve and do not miscarry.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.21.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.21.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">They send forth their children as a flock;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.21.11"><span class="content">their little ones dance about.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.21.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.21.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">They sing to the music of timbrel and lyre;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.21.12"><span class="content">they make merry to the sound of the pipe.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.21.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.21.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">They spend their years in prosperity</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.21.13"><span class="content">and go down to the grave in peace.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">21:13 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">in an instant</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.21.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.21.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Yet they say to God, &#8216;Leave us alone!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.21.14"><span class="content">We have no desire to know your ways.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.21.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.21.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.21.15"><span class="content">What would we gain by praying to him?&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.21.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.21.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">But their prosperity is not in their own hands,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.21.16"><span class="content">so I stand aloof from the plans of the wicked.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.21.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.21.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;Yet how often is the lamp of the wicked snuffed out?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.21.17"><span class="content">How often does calamity come upon them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.21.17"><span class="content">the fate God allots in his anger?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.21.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.21.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">How often are they like straw before the wind,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.21.18"><span class="content">like chaff swept away by a gale?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.21.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.21.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">It is said, &#8216;God stores up the punishment of the wicked for their children.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.21.19"><span class="content">Let him repay the wicked, so that they themselves will experience it!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.21.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.21.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Let their own eyes see their destruction;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.21.20"><span class="content">let them drink the cup of the wrath of the Almighty.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.21.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.21.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">For what do they care about the families they leave behind</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.21.21"><span class="content">when their allotted months come to an end?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.21.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.21.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">&#8220;Can anyone teach knowledge to God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.21.22"><span class="content">since he judges even the highest?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.21.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.21.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">One person dies in full vigor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.21.23"><span class="content">completely secure and at ease,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.21.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.21.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">well nourished in body,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">21:24 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.21.24"><span class="content">bones rich with marrow.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.21.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.21.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Another dies in bitterness of soul,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.21.25"><span class="content">never having enjoyed anything good.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.21.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.21.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Side by side they lie in the dust,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.21.26"><span class="content">and worms cover them both.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.21.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.21.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">&#8220;I know full well what you are thinking,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.21.27"><span class="content">the schemes by which you would wrong me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.21.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.21.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">You say, &#8216;Where now is the house of the great,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.21.28"><span class="content">the tents where the wicked lived?&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.21.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.21.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Have you never questioned those who travel?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.21.29"><span class="content">Have you paid no regard to their accounts&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.21.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.21.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">that the wicked are spared from the day of calamity,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.21.30"><span class="content">that they are delivered from</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">21:30 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">wicked are reserved for the day of calamity, / that they are brought forth to</span></span></span><span class="content"> the day of wrath?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.21.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.21.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Who denounces their conduct to their face?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.21.31"><span class="content">Who repays them for what they have done?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.21.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOB.21.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">They are carried to the grave,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOB.21.32"><span class="content">and watch is kept over their tombs.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOB.21.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.21.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">The soil in the valley is sweet to them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.21.33"><span class="content">everyone follows after them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.21.33"><span class="content">and a countless throng goes</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">21:33 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">them, / as a countless throng went</span></span></span><span class="content"> before them.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.21.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JOB.21.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">&#8220;So how can you console me with your nonsense?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JOB.21.34"><span class="content">Nothing is left of your answers but falsehood!&#8221;</span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch37" data-usfm="PSA.37.24+PSA.37.25+PSA.37.26+PSA.37.27+PSA.37.28+PSA.37.29+PSA.37.30+PSA.37.31+PSA.37.32+PSA.37.33+PSA.37.34+PSA.37.35+PSA.37.36">
            <div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.37.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">though he may stumble, he will not fall,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.37.24"><span class="content">for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> upholds him with his hand.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.37.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PSA.37.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">I was young and now I am old,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PSA.37.25"><span class="content">yet I have never seen the righteous forsaken</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PSA.37.25"><span class="content">or their children begging bread.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PSA.37.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.37.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">They are always generous and lend freely;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.37.26"><span class="content">their children will be a blessing.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">37:26 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">freely; / the names of their children will be used in blessings </span><span class="ft">(see Gen. 48:20); or </span><span class="fqa">freely; / others will see that their children are blessed</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.37.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PSA.37.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Turn from evil and do good;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PSA.37.27"><span class="content">then you will dwell in the land forever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PSA.37.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PSA.37.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">For the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> loves the just</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PSA.37.28"><span class="content">and will not forsake his faithful ones.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PSA.37.28"><span class="content">Wrongdoers will be completely destroyed</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">37:28 </span><span class="ft">See Septuagint; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">They will be protected forever</span></span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PSA.37.28"><span class="content">the offspring of the wicked will perish.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PSA.37.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PSA.37.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">The righteous will inherit the land</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PSA.37.29"><span class="content">and dwell in it forever.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PSA.37.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PSA.37.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">The mouths of the righteous utter wisdom,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PSA.37.30"><span class="content">and their tongues speak what is just.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PSA.37.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PSA.37.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">The law of their God is in their hearts;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PSA.37.31"><span class="content">their feet do not slip.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PSA.37.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PSA.37.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">The wicked lie in wait for the righteous,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PSA.37.32"><span class="content">intent on putting them to death;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PSA.37.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PSA.37.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">but the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will not leave them in the power of the wicked</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PSA.37.33"><span class="content">or let them be condemned when brought to trial.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PSA.37.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="PSA.37.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Hope in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="PSA.37.34"><span class="content">and keep his way.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="PSA.37.34"><span class="content">He will exalt you to inherit the land;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="PSA.37.34"><span class="content">when the wicked are destroyed, you will see it.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="PSA.37.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="PSA.37.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">I have seen a wicked and ruthless man</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="PSA.37.35"><span class="content">flourishing like a luxuriant native tree,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="PSA.37.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="PSA.37.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">but he soon passed away and was no more;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="PSA.37.36"><span class="content">though I looked for him, he could not be found.</span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2PE.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2PE.3.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2PE.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything done in it will be laid bare.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:10 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">be burned up</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2PE.3.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2PE.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Since everything will be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be? You ought to live holy and godly lives </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2PE.3.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">as you look forward to the day of God and speed its coming.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:12 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">as you wait eagerly for the day of God to come</span></span></span><span class="content"> That day will bring about the destruction of the heavens by fire, and the elements will melt in the heat. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2PE.3.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">But in keeping with his promise we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, where righteousness dwells.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2PE.3.13"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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