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Why are times not laid up by the Almighty? And why do not they that know him see his days? |
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There are that remove the landmarks; They violently take away flocks, and feed them. |
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They drive away the ass of the fatherless; They take the widow's ox for a pledge. |
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They turn the needy out of the way: The poor of the earth all hide themselves. |
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Behold, as wild asses in the desert They go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food; The wilderness yieldeth them bread for their children. |
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They cut their provender in the field; And they glean the vintage of the wicked. |
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They lie all night naked without clothing, And have no covering in the cold. |
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They are wet with the showers of the mountains, And embrace the rock for want of a shelter. |
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There are that pluck the fatherless from the breast, And take a pledge of the poor; |
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So that they go about naked without clothing, And being hungry they carry the sheaves. |
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They make oil within the walls of these men; They tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst. |
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From out of the populous city men groan, And the soul of the wounded crieth out: Yet God regardeth not the folly. |
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These are of them that rebel against the light; They know not the ways thereof, Nor abide in the paths thereof. |
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The murderer riseth with the light; He killeth the poor and needy; And in the night he is as a thief. |
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The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, Saying, No eye shall see me: And he disguiseth his face. |
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In the dark they dig through houses: They shut themselves up in the day-time; They know not the light. |
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For the morning is to all of them as thick darkness; For they know the terrors of the thick darkness. |
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Swiftly they pass away upon the face of the waters; Their portion is cursed in the earth: They turn not into the way of the vineyards. |
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Drought and heat consume the snow waters: So doth Sheol those that have sinned. |
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The womb shall forget him; The worm shall feed sweetly on him; He shall be no more remembered; And unrighteousness shall be broken as a tree. |
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He devoureth the barren that beareth not, And doeth not good to the widow. |
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Yet God preserveth the mighty by his power: He riseth up that hath no assurance of life. |
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God giveth them to be in security, and they rest thereon; And his eyes are upon their ways. |
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They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone; Yea, they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as all others, And are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain. |
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And if it be not so now, who will prove me a liar, And make my speech nothing worth? |
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Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, |
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Dominion and fear are with him; He maketh peace in his high places. |
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Is there any number of his armies? And upon whom doth not his light arise? |
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How then can man be just with God? Or how can he be clean that is born of a woman? |
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Behold, even the moon hath no brightness, And the stars are not pure in his sight: |
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How much less man, that is a worm! And the son of man, that is a worm! |
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Then Job answered and said, |
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How hast thou helped him that is without power! How hast thou saved the arm that hath no strength! |
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How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom, And plentifully declared sound knowledge! |
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To whom hast thou uttered words? And whose spirit came forth from thee? |
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They that are deceased tremble Beneath the waters and the inhabitants thereof. |
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Sheol is naked before God, And Abaddon hath no covering. |
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He stretcheth out the north over empty space, And hangeth the earth upon nothing. |
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He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; And the cloud is not rent under them. |
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He incloseth the face of his throne, And spreadeth his cloud upon it. |
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He hath described a boundary upon the face of the waters, Unto the confines of light and darkness. |
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The pillars of heaven tremble And are astonished at his rebuke. |
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He stirreth up the sea with his power, And by his understanding he smiteth through Rahab. |
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By his Spirit the heavens are garnished; His hand hath pierced the swift serpent. |
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Lo, these are but the outskirts of his ways: And how small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand? |
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And Job again took up his parable, and said, |
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As God liveth, who hath taken away my right, And the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul: |
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(For my life is yet whole in me, And the spirit of God is in my nostrils); |
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Surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, Neither shall my tongue utter deceit. |
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Far be it from me that I should justify you: Till I die I will not put away mine integrity from me. |
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My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: My heart shall not reproach me so long as I live. |
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Let mine enemy be as the wicked, And let him that riseth up against me be as the unrighteous. |
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For what is the hope of the godless, though he get him gain, When God taketh away his soul? |
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Will God hear his cry, When trouble cometh upon him? |
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Will he delight himself in the Almighty, And call upon God at all times? |
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I will teach you concerning the hand of God; That which is with the Almighty will I not conceal. |
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Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; Why then are ye become altogether vain? |
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This is the portion of a wicked man with God, And the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty: |
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If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword; And his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread. |
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Those that remain of him shall be buried in death, And his widows shall make no lamentation. |
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Though he heap up silver as the dust, And prepare raiment as the clay; |
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He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, And the innocent shall divide the silver. |
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He buildeth his house as the moth, And as a booth which the keeper maketh. |
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He lieth down rich, but he shall not be gathered to his fathers; He openeth his eyes, and he is not. |
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Terrors overtake him like waters; A tempest stealeth him away in the night. |
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The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth; And it sweepeth him out of his place. |
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For God shall hurl at him, and not spare: He would fain flee out of his hand. |
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Men shall clap their hands at him, And shall hiss him out of his place. |
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Surely there is a mine for silver, And a place for gold which they refine. |
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Iron is taken out of the earth, And copper is molten out of the stone. |
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Man setteth an end to darkness, And searcheth out, to the furthest bound, The stones of obscurity and of thick darkness. |
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He breaketh open a shaft away from where men sojourn; They are forgotten of the foot; They hang afar from men, they swing to and fro. |
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As for the earth, out of it cometh bread; And underneath it is turned up as it were by fire. |
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The stones thereof are the place of sapphires, And it hath dust of gold. |
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That path no bird of prey knoweth, Neither hath the falcon's eye seen it: |
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The proud beasts have not trodden it, Nor hath the fierce lion passed thereby. |
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He putteth forth his hand upon the flinty rock; He overturneth the mountains by the roots. |
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He cutteth out channels among the rocks; And his eye seeth every precious thing. |
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He bindeth the streams that they trickle not; And the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light. |
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But where shall wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding? |
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Man knoweth not the price thereof; Neither is it found in the land of the living. |
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The deep saith, It is not in me; And the sea saith, It is not with me. |
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It cannot be gotten for gold, Neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof. |
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It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, With the precious onyx, or the sapphire. |
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Gold and glass cannot equal it, Neither shall it be exchanged for jewels of fine gold. |
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No mention shall be made of coral or of crystal: Yea, the price of wisdom is above rubies. |
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The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, Neither shall it be valued with pure gold. |
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Whence then cometh wisdom? And where is the place of understanding? |
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Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, And kept close from the birds of the heavens. |
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Destruction and Death say, We have heard a rumor thereof with our ears. |
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God understandeth the way thereof, And he knoweth the place thereof. |
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For he looketh to the ends of the earth, And seeth under the whole heaven; |
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To make a weight for the wind: Yea, he meteth out the waters by measure. |
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When he made a decree for the rain, And a way for the lightning of the thunder; |
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Then did he see it, and declare it; He established it, yea, and searched it out. |
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And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; And to depart from evil is understanding. |