Job:12-14
acv@Job:12:1 @ Then Job answered and said,
acv@Job:12:2 @ No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.
acv@Job:12:3 @ But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who does not know such things as these?
acv@Job:12:4 @ I am as a man who is a laughing-stock to his neighbor. I who called upon God, and he answered. The just, the perfect man is a laughing-stock.
acv@Job:12:5 @ In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune. It is ready for those whose foot slips.
acv@Job:12:6 @ The tents of robbers prosper, and those who provoke God are secure. Into whose hand God brings [abundantly].
acv@Job:12:7 @ But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee, and the birds of the heavens, and they shall tell thee.
acv@Job:12:8 @ Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee, and the fishes of the sea shall declare to thee.
acv@Job:12:9 @ Who does not know in all these, that the hand of LORD has wrought this,
acv@Job:12:10 @ in whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?
acv@Job:12:11 @ Does not the ear try words, even as the palate tastes its food?
acv@Job:12:12 @ With aged men is wisdom, and in length of days understanding.
acv@Job:12:13 @ With [God] is wisdom and might. He has counsel and understanding.
acv@Job:12:14 @ Behold, he breaks down, and it cannot be built again. He shuts up a man, and there can be no opening.
acv@Job:12:15 @ Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up. Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.
acv@Job:12:16 @ With him is strength and wisdom. The deceived and the deceiver are his.
acv@Job:12:17 @ He leads counselors away stripped, and he makes judges fools.
acv@Job:12:18 @ He loosens the bond of kings, and he binds their loins with a belt.
acv@Job:12:19 @ He leads priests away stripped, and overthrows the mighty.
acv@Job:12:20 @ He removes the speech of the trustworthy, and takes away the understanding of the elders.
acv@Job:12:21 @ He pours contempt upon rulers, and weakens the strength of the strong.
acv@Job:12:22 @ He uncovers deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death.
acv@Job:12:23 @ He increases the nations, and he destroys them. He enlarges the nations, and he leads them captive.
acv@Job:12:24 @ He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
acv@Job:12:25 @ They grope in the dark without light, and he makes them to stagger like a drunken man.
acv@Job:13:1 @ Lo, my eye has seen all [this]. My ear has heard and understood it.
acv@Job:13:2 @ What ye know, I also know; I am not inferior to you.
acv@Job:13:3 @ Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
acv@Job:13:4 @ But ye are forgers of lies. Ye are all physicians of no value.
acv@Job:13:5 @ O that ye would altogether be silent! And it would be your wisdom.
acv@Job:13:6 @ Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
acv@Job:13:7 @ Will ye speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for him?
acv@Job:13:8 @ Will ye show partiality to him? Will ye contend for God?
acv@Job:13:9 @ Is it good that he should search you out? Or as deceiving a man, will ye deceive him?
acv@Job:13:10 @ He will surely reprove you if ye secretly show partiality.
acv@Job:13:11 @ Shall not his majesty make you afraid, and his dread fall upon you?
acv@Job:13:12 @ Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes. Your defenses are defenses of clay.
acv@Job:13:13 @ Be quiet. Let me alone that I may speak, and let come on me what will.
acv@Job:13:14 @ Why should I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand?
acv@Job:13:15 @ Behold, he will kill me; I have no hope. Nevertheless I will maintain my ways before him.
acv@Job:13:16 @ This also shall be my salvation, that a profane man shall not come before him.
acv@Job:13:17 @ Hear diligently my speech, and let my declaration be in your ears.
acv@Job:13:18 @ Behold now, I have set my case in order. I know that I am righteous.
acv@Job:13:19 @ Who is he who will contend with me? For then I would keep silent and give up the spirit.
acv@Job:13:20 @ Only do not do two things to me, then I will not hide myself from thy face:
acv@Job:13:21 @ Withdraw thy hand far from me, and do not let thy dread make me afraid.
acv@Job:13:22 @ Then call thou, and I will answer, or let me speak, and answer thou me.
acv@Job:13:23 @ How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me to know my transgression and my sin.
acv@Job:13:24 @ Why do thou hide thy face, and reckon me for thine enemy?
acv@Job:13:25 @ Will thou harass a driven leaf? And will thou pursue the dry stubble?
acv@Job:13:26 @ For thou write bitter things against me, and make me to inherit the iniquities of my youth.
acv@Job:13:27 @ Thou also put my feet in the stocks, and mark all my paths. Thou set a bound to the soles of my feet.
acv@Job:13:28 @ Though I am like a rotten thing that decays, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
acv@Job:14:1 @ Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.
acv@Job:14:2 @ He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He too flees as a shadow, and does not continue.
acv@Job:14:3 @ And do thou open thine eyes upon such a one, and bring me into judgment with thee?
acv@Job:14:4 @ Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.
acv@Job:14:5 @ Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with thee, and thou have appointed his bounds that he cannot pass,
acv@Job:14:6 @ look away from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.
acv@Job:14:7 @ For there is hope of a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch of it will not cease.
acv@Job:14:8 @ Though the root of it grows old in the earth, and the trunk of it dies in the ground,
acv@Job:14:9 @ yet through the scent of water it will bud, and put forth boughs like a plant.
acv@Job:14:10 @ But man dies, and is laid low. Yea, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?
acv@Job:14:11 @ [As] the waters fail from the sea, and the river wastes away and dries up,
acv@Job:14:12 @ so man lays down and does not rise. Till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep.
acv@Job:14:13 @ O that thou would hide me in Sheol, that thou would keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou would appoint for me a set time, and remember me!
acv@Job:14:14 @ If a man dies, shall he live [again]? All the days of my warfare I would wait till my release should come.
acv@Job:14:15 @ Thou would call, and I would answer thee. Thou would have a desire to the work of thy hands.
acv@Job:14:16 @ But now thou number my steps. Do thou not watch over my sin?
acv@Job:14:17 @ My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou fasten up my iniquity.
acv@Job:14:18 @ But the falling mountain comes to nothing, and the rock is removed out of its place.
acv@Job:14:19 @ The waters wear the stones. The overflowings of it wash away the dust of the earth. So thou destroy the hope of man.
acv@Job:14:20 @ Thou prevail forever against him, and he passes. Thou change his countenance, and send him away.
acv@Job:14:21 @ His sons come to honor, and he does not know it, and they are brought low, but he does not perceive it of them.
acv@Job:14:22 @ But his flesh upon him has pain, and his soul within him mourns.
acv@Job:15:1 @ Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, and said,
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