Job 26:1
But Job answered and said,
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Job 26:2
How hast thou helped him that is without power? how savest thou the arm that hath no strength?
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Job 26:3
How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom? and how hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is?
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Job 26:4
To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee?
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Job 26:5
Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.
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Job 26:6
Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.
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Job 26:7
He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.
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Job 26:8
He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.
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Job 26:9
He holdeth back the face of his throne, and spreadeth his cloud upon it.
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Job 26:10
He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.
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Job 26:11
The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof.
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Job 26:12
He divideth the sea with his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through the proud.
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Job 26:13
By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent.
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Job 26:14
Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?
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Job 27:1
Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,
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Job 27:2
As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul;
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Job 27:3
All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;
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Job 27:4
My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.
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Job 27:5
God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me.
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Job 27:6
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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Job 27:7
Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous.
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Job 27:8
For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?
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Job 27:9
Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him?
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Job 27:10
Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God?
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Job 27:11
I will teach you by the hand of God: that which is with the Almighty will I not conceal.
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Job 27:12
Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye thus altogether vain?
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Job 27:13
This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty.
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Job 27:14
If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
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Job 27:15
Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep.
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Job 27:16
Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;
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Job 27:17
He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.
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Job 27:18
He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth that the keeper maketh.
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Job 27:19
The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he openeth his eyes, and he is not.
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Job 27:20
Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.
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Job 27:21
The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.
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Job 27:22
For God shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.
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Job 27:23
Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.
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Job 28:1
Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it.
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Job 28:2
Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone.
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Job 28:3
He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.
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Job 28:4
The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; even the waters forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.
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Job 28:5
As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.
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Job 28:6
The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold.
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Job 28:7
There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture’s eye hath not seen:
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Job 28:8
The lion’s whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.
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Job 28:9
He putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he overturneth the mountains by the roots.
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Job 28:10
He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing.
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Job 28:11
He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light.
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Job 28:12
But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding?
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Job 28:13
Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living.
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Job 28:14
The depth saith, It is not in me: and the sea saith, It is not with me.
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Job 28:15
It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.
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Job 28:16
It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
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Job 28:17
The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold.
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Job 28:18
No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies.
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Job 28:19
The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold.
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Job 28:20
Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding?
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Job 28:21
Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air.
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Job 28:22
Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.
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Job 28:23
God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.
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Job 28:24
For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven;
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Job 28:25
To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.
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Job 28:26
When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:
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Job 28:27
Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out.
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Job 28:28
And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.
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Job 29:1
Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,
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Job 29:2
Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;
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Job 29:3
When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;
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Job 29:4
As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle;
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Job 29:5
When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me;
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Job 29:6
When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;
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Job 29:7
When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!
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Job 29:8
The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up.
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Job 29:9
The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.
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Job 29:10
The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.
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Job 29:11
When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me:
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Job 29:12
Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
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Job 29:13
The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.
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Job 29:14
I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.
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Job 29:15
I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.
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Job 29:16
I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
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Job 29:17
And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
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Job 29:18
Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.
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Job 29:19
My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.
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Job 29:20
My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.
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Job 29:21
Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel.
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Job 29:22
After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them.
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Job 29:23
And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.
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Job 29:24
If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.
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Job 29:25
I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.
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Job 30:1
But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.
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Job 30:2
Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?
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Job 30:3
For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
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Job 30:4
Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.
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Job 30:5
They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)
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Job 30:6
To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.
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Job 30:7
Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.
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Job 30:8
They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
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Job 30:9
And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
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Job 30:10
They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.
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Job 30:11
Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.
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Job 30:12
Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.
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Job 30:13
They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.
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Job 30:14
They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.
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Job 30:15
Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.
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Job 30:16
And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
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Job 30:17
My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
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Job 30:18
By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.
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Job 30:19
He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
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Job 30:20
I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not.
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Job 30:21
Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.
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Job 30:22
Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.
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Job 30:23
For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
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Job 30:24
Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.
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Job 30:25
Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?
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Job 30:26
When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
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Job 30:27
My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.
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Job 30:28
I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.
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Job 30:29
I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
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Job 30:30
My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
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Job 30:31
My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.
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Job 31:1
I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?
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Job 31:2
For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?
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Job 31:3
Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?
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Job 31:4
Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?
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Job 31:5
If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;
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Job 31:6
Let me be weighed in an even balance that God may know mine integrity.
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Job 31:7
If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands;
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Job 31:8
Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.
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Job 31:9
If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour’s door;
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Job 31:10
Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.
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Job 31:11
For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.
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Job 31:12
For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.
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Job 31:13
If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;
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Job 31:14
What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?
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Job 31:15
Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?
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Job 31:16
If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
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Job 31:17
Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;
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Job 31:18
(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother’s womb;)
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Job 31:19
If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;
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Job 31:20
If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
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Job 31:21
If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:
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Job 31:22
Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.
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Job 31:23
For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.
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Job 31:24
If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;
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Job 31:25
If I rejoice because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much;
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Job 31:26
If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;
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Job 31:27
And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand:
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Job 31:28
This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.
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Job 31:29
If I rejoice at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:
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Job 31:30
Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.
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Job 31:31
If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.
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Job 31:32
The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller.
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Job 31:33
If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:
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Job 31:34
Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door?
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Job 31:35
Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.
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Job 31:36
Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.
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Job 31:37
I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.
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Job 31:38
If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;
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Job 31:39
If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:
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Job 31:40
Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.
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