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            <div class="label">14</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.14.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Man </span><span class="add"><span class="content">that is</span></span><span class="content"> born of a woman</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.14.1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Is</span></span><span class="content"> of few days, and full of trouble.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.14.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.14.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.14.2"><span class="content">He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.14.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.14.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.14.3"><span class="content">And bringest me into judgment with thee?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.14.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.14.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Who can bring a clean </span><span class="add"><span class="content">thing</span></span><span class="content"> out of an unclean?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.14.4"><span class="content">Not one.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.14.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.14.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Seeing his days </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> determined, the number of his months </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> with thee,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.14.5"><span class="content">Thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.14.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.14.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Turn from him, that he may rest,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.14.6"><span class="content">Till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.14.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.14.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">For there is hope of a tree,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.14.7"><span class="content">If it be cut down, that it will sprout again,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.14.7"><span class="content">And that the tender branch thereof will not cease.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.14.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.14.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Though the root thereof wax old in the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.14.8"><span class="content">And the stock thereof die in the ground;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.14.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.14.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Yet</span></span><span class="content"> through the scent of water it will bud,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.14.9"><span class="content">And bring forth boughs like a plant.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.14.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.14.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">But man dieth, and wasteth away:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.14.10"><span class="content">Yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> he?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.14.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.14.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">As</span></span><span class="content"> the waters fail from the sea,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.14.11"><span class="content">And the flood decayeth and drieth up:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.14.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.14.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">So man lieth down, and riseth not:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.14.12"><span class="content">Till the heavens </span><span class="add"><span class="content">be</span></span><span class="content"> no more, they shall not awake,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.14.12"><span class="content">Nor be raised out of their sleep.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.14.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.14.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.14.13"><span class="content">That thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.14.13"><span class="content">That thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.14.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.14.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">If a man die, shall he live </span><span class="add"><span class="content">again?</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.14.14"><span class="content">All the days of my appointed time will I wait,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.14.14"><span class="content">Till my change come.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.14.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.14.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.14.15"><span class="content">Thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.14.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.14.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">For now thou numberest my steps:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.14.16"><span class="content">Dost thou not watch over my sin?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.14.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.14.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">My transgression </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> sealed up in a bag,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.14.17"><span class="content">And thou sewest up mine iniquity.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.14.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.14.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">And surely the mountain falling cometh to nought,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.14.18"><span class="content">And the rock is removed out of his place.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.14.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.14.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The waters wear the stones:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.14.19"><span class="content">Thou washest away the things which grow </span><span class="add"><span class="content">out</span></span><span class="content"> of the dust of the earth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.14.19"><span class="content">And thou destroyest the hope of man.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.14.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.14.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.14.20"><span class="content">Thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.14.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.14.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">His sons come to honour, and he knoweth </span><span class="add"><span class="content">it</span></span><span class="content"> not;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.14.21"><span class="content">And they are brought low, but he perceiveth </span><span class="add"><span class="content">it</span></span><span class="content"> not of them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.14.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.14.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">But his flesh upon him shall have pain,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.14.22"><span class="content">And his soul within him shall mourn.</span></span></div>
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    <div class="book bkJOB">
        <div class="chapter ch15" data-usfm="JOB.15">
            <div class="label">15</div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Eliphaz Speaks</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.15.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.15.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.15.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Should a wise man utter vain knowledge,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.15.2"><span class="content">And fill his belly with the east wind?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.15.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.15.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Should he reason with unprofitable talk?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.15.3"><span class="content">Or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.15.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.15.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Yea, thou castest off fear,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.15.4"><span class="content">And restrainest prayer before God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.15.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.15.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.15.5"><span class="content">And thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.15.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.15.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.15.6"><span class="content">Yea, thine own lips testify against thee.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.15.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.15.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Art</span></span><span class="content"> thou the first man </span><span class="add"><span class="content">that</span></span><span class="content"> was born?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.15.7"><span class="content">Or wast thou made before the hills?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.15.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.15.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Hast thou heard the secret of God?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.15.8"><span class="content">And dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.15.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.15.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">What knowest thou, that we know not?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.15.9"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">What</span></span><span class="content"> understandest thou, which </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> not in us?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.15.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.15.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">With us </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> both the grayheaded and very aged men,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.15.10"><span class="content">Much elder than thy father.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.15.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.15.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Are</span></span><span class="content"> the consolations of God small with thee?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.15.11"><span class="content">Is there any secret thing with thee?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.15.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.15.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Why doth thine heart carry thee away?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.15.12"><span class="content">And what do thy eyes wink at,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.15.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.15.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">That thou turnest thy spirit against God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.15.13"><span class="content">And lettest </span><span class="add"><span class="content">such</span></span><span class="content"> words go out of thy mouth?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.15.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.15.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">What </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> man, that he should be clean?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.15.14"><span class="content">And </span><span class="add"><span class="content">he which is</span></span><span class="content"> born of a woman, that he should be righteous?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.15.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.15.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.15.15"><span class="content">Yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.15.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.15.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">How much more abominable and filthy </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> man,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.15.16"><span class="content">Which drinketh iniquity like water?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.15.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.15.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">I will shew thee, hear me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.15.17"><span class="content">And that </span><span class="add"><span class="content">which</span></span><span class="content"> I have seen I will declare;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.15.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.15.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Which wise men have told</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.15.18"><span class="content">From their fathers, and have not hid </span><span class="add"><span class="content">it:</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.15.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.15.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Unto whom alone the earth was given,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.15.19"><span class="content">And no stranger passed among them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.15.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.15.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">The wicked man travaileth with pain all </span><span class="add"><span class="content">his</span></span><span class="content"> days,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.15.20"><span class="content">And the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.15.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.15.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">A dreadful sound </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> in his ears:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.15.21"><span class="content">In prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.15.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.15.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.15.22"><span class="content">And he is waited for of the sword.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.15.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.15.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">He wandereth abroad for bread, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">saying</span></span><span class="content">, Where </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is it?</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.15.23"><span class="content">He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.15.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.15.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.15.24"><span class="content">They shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.15.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.15.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">For he stretcheth out his hand against God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.15.25"><span class="content">And strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.15.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.15.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">He runneth upon him, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">even</span></span><span class="content"> on </span><span class="add"><span class="content">his</span></span><span class="content"> neck,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.15.26"><span class="content">Upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.15.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.15.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Because he covereth his face with his fatness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.15.27"><span class="content">And maketh collops of fat on </span><span class="add"><span class="content">his</span></span><span class="content"> flanks.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.15.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.15.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">And he dwelleth in desolate cities,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.15.28"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> in houses which no man inhabiteth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.15.28"><span class="content">Which are ready to become heaps.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.15.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.15.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.15.29"><span class="content">Neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.15.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.15.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">He shall not depart out of darkness;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.15.30"><span class="content">The flame shall dry up his branches,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.15.30"><span class="content">And by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.15.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.15.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.15.31"><span class="content">For vanity shall be his recompence.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.15.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOB.15.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">It shall be accomplished before his time,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOB.15.32"><span class="content">And his branch shall not be green.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOB.15.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.15.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.15.33"><span class="content">And shall cast off his flower as the olive.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.15.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JOB.15.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">For the congregation of hypocrites </span><span class="add"><span class="content">shall be</span></span><span class="content"> desolate,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JOB.15.34"><span class="content">And fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JOB.15.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JOB.15.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JOB.15.35"><span class="content">And their belly prepareth deceit.</span></span></div>
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    <div class="book bkJOB">
        <div class="chapter ch16" data-usfm="JOB.16">
            <div class="label">16</div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Job's Reply</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.16.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then Job answered and said,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.16.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.16.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">I have heard many such things:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.16.2"><span class="content">Miserable comforters </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> ye all.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.16.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.16.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Shall vain words have an end?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.16.3"><span class="content">Or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.16.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.16.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I also could speak as ye </span><span class="add"><span class="content">do:</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.16.4"><span class="content">If your soul were in my soul's stead,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.16.4"><span class="content">I could heap up words against you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.16.4"><span class="content">And shake mine head at you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.16.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.16.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">But</span></span><span class="content"> I would strengthen you with my mouth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.16.5"><span class="content">And the moving of my lips should asswage </span><span class="add"><span class="content">your grief</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.16.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.16.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.16.6"><span class="content">And </span><span class="add"><span class="content">though</span></span><span class="content"> I forbear, what am I eased?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.16.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.16.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">But now he hath made me weary:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.16.7"><span class="content">Thou hast made desolate all my company.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.16.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.16.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">which</span></span><span class="content"> is a witness </span><span class="add"><span class="content">against me:</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.16.8"><span class="content">And my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.16.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.16.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">He teareth </span><span class="add"><span class="content">me</span></span><span class="content"> in his wrath, who hateth me:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.16.9"><span class="content">He gnasheth upon me with his teeth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.16.9"><span class="content">Mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.16.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.16.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">They have gaped upon me with their mouth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.16.10"><span class="content">They have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.16.10"><span class="content">They have gathered themselves together against me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.16.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.16.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">God hath delivered me to the ungodly,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.16.11"><span class="content">And turned me over into the hands of the wicked.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.16.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.16.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.16.12"><span class="content">He hath also taken </span><span class="add"><span class="content">me</span></span><span class="content"> by my neck, and shaken me to pieces,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.16.12"><span class="content">And set me up for his mark.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.16.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.16.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">His archers compass me round about,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.16.13"><span class="content">He cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.16.13"><span class="content">He poureth out my gall upon the ground.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.16.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.16.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">He breaketh me with breach upon breach,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.16.14"><span class="content">He runneth upon me like a giant.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.16.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.16.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.16.15"><span class="content">And defiled my horn in the dust.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.16.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.16.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">My face is foul with weeping,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.16.16"><span class="content">And on my eyelids </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> the shadow of death;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.16.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.16.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Not for </span><span class="add"><span class="content">any</span></span><span class="content"> injustice in mine hands:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.16.17"><span class="content">Also my prayer </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> pure.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.16.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.16.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">O earth, cover not thou my blood,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.16.18"><span class="content">And let my cry have no place.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.16.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.16.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Also now, behold, my witness </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> in heaven,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.16.19"><span class="content">And my record </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> on high.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.16.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.16.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">My friends scorn me:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.16.20"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">but</span></span><span class="content"> mine eye poureth out </span><span class="add"><span class="content">tears</span></span><span class="content"> unto God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.16.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.16.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">O that one might plead for a man with God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.16.21"><span class="content">As a man </span><span class="add"><span class="content">pleadeth</span></span><span class="content"> for his neighbour!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.16.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.16.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">When a few years are come,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.16.22"><span class="content">Then I shall go the way </span><span class="add"><span class="content">whence</span></span><span class="content"> I shall not return.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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    <div class="book bkJOB">
        <div class="chapter ch17" data-usfm="JOB.17">
            <div class="label">17</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.17.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.17.1"><span class="content">The graves </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are ready</span></span><span class="content"> for me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.17.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.17.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Are there</span></span><span class="content"> not mockers with me?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.17.2"><span class="content">And doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.17.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.17.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.17.3"><span class="content">Who </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> he </span><span class="add"><span class="content">that</span></span><span class="content"> will strike hands with me?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.17.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.17.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">For thou hast hid their heart from understanding:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.17.4"><span class="content">Therefore shalt thou not exalt </span><span class="add"><span class="content">them</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.17.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.17.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">He that speaketh flattery to </span><span class="add"><span class="content">his</span></span><span class="content"> friends,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.17.5"><span class="content">Even the eyes of his children shall fail.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.17.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.17.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">He hath made me also a byword of the people;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.17.6"><span class="content">And aforetime I was as a tabret.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.17.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.17.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.17.7"><span class="content">And all my members </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> as a shadow.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.17.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.17.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Upright </span><span class="add"><span class="content">men</span></span><span class="content"> shall be astonied at this,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.17.8"><span class="content">And the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.17.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.17.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The righteous also shall hold on his way,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.17.9"><span class="content">And he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.17.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.17.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">But as for you all, do ye return, and come now:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.17.10"><span class="content">For I cannot find </span><span class="add"><span class="content">one</span></span><span class="content"> wise </span><span class="add"><span class="content">man</span></span><span class="content"> among you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.17.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.17.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">My days are past, my purposes are broken off,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.17.11"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Even</span></span><span class="content"> the thoughts of my heart.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.17.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.17.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">They change the night into day:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.17.12"><span class="content">The light </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> short because of darkness.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.17.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.17.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">If I wait, the grave </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> mine house:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.17.13"><span class="content">I have made my bed in the darkness.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.17.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.17.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">I have said to corruption, Thou </span><span class="add"><span class="content">art</span></span><span class="content"> my father:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.17.14"><span class="content">To the worm, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Thou art</span></span><span class="content"> my mother, and my sister.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.17.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.17.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">And where </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> now my hope?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.17.15"><span class="content">As for my hope, who shall see it?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.17.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.17.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">They shall go down to the bars of the pit,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.17.16"><span class="content">When </span><span class="add"><span class="content">our</span></span><span class="content"> rest together </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> in the dust.</span></span></div>
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