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Job:1:1 @There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. He was without sin and upright, fearing God and keeping himself far from evil.
bbe@Job:1:3 @And of cattle he had seven thousand sheep and goats, and three thousand camels, and a thousand oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and a very great number of servants. And the man was greater than any of the sons of the east.
bbe@Job:1:4 @His sons regularly went to one another's houses, and every one on his day gave a feast: and at these times they sent for their three sisters to take part in their feasts with them.
bbe@Job:1:5 @And at the end of their days of feasting, Job sent and made them clean, getting up early in the morning and offering burned offerings for them all. For, Job said, It may be that my sons have done wrong and said evil of God in their hearts. And Job did this whenever the feasts came round.
bbe@Job:1:6 @And there was a day when the sons of the gods came together before the Lord, and the Satan came with them.
bbe@Job:1:7 @And the Lord said to the Satan, Where do you come from? And the Satan said in answer, From wandering this way and that on the earth, and walking about on it.
bbe@Job:1:14 @And a man came to Job, and said, The oxen were ploughing, and the asses were taking their food by their side:
bbe@Job:1:15 @And the men of Sheba came against them and took them away, putting the young men to the sword, and I was the only one who got away safe to give you the news.
bbe@Job:1:16 @And this one was still talking when another came, and said, The fire of God came down from heaven, burning up the sheep and the goats and the young men completely, and I was the only one who got away safe to give you the news.
bbe@Job:1:17 @And this one was still talking when another came, and said, The Chaldaeans made themselves into three bands, and came down on the camels and took them away, putting the young men to the sword, and I was the only one who got away safe to give you the news.
bbe@Job:1:18 @And this one was still talking when another came, and said, Your sons and your daughters were feasting together in their oldest brother's house,
bbe@Job:1:19 @When a great wind came rushing from the waste land against the four sides of the house, and it came down on the young men, and they are dead; and I was the only one who got away safe to give you the news.
bbe@Job:1:21 @With nothing I came out of my mother's body, and with nothing I will go back there; the Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; let the Lord's name be praised.
bbe@Job:2:1 @And there was a day when the sons of the gods came together before the Lord, and the Satan came with them.
bbe@Job:2:2 @And the Lord said to the Satan, Where do you come from? And the Satan said in answer, From wandering this way and that on the earth, and walking about on it.
bbe@Job:2:3 @And the Lord said to the Satan, Have you taken note of my servant Job, for there is no one like him on the earth, a man without sin and upright, fearing God and keeping himself far from evil? and he still keeps his righteousness, though you have been moving me to send destruction on him without cause.
bbe@Job:2:10 @And he said to her, You are talking like one of the foolish women. If we take the good God sends us, are we not to take the evil when it comes? In all this Job kept his lips from sin.
bbe@Job:2:11 @And Job's three friends had word of all this evil which had come on him. And they came every one from his place, Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. So they came together to a meeting-place, in order that they might go and make clear to Job their grief for him, and give him comfort.
bbe@Job:3:3 @Let destruction take the day of my birth, and the night on which it was said, A man child has come into the world.
bbe@Job:3:6 @That night--let the thick dark take it; let it not have joy among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months.
bbe@Job:3:11 @Why did death not take me when I came out of my mother's body, why did I not, when I came out, give up my last breath?
bbe@Job:3:12 @Why did the knees take me, or why the breasts that they might give me milk?
bbe@Job:3:16 @Or as a child dead at birth I might never have come into existence; like young children who have not seen the light.
bbe@Job:3:17 @There the passions of the evil are over, and those whose strength has come to an end have rest.
bbe@Job:3:18 @There the prisoners are at peace together; the voice of the overseer comes not again to their ears.
bbe@Job:3:21 @To those whose desire is for death, but it comes not; who are searching for it more than for secret wealth;
bbe@Job:3:22 @Who are glad with great joy, and full of delight when they come to their last resting-place;
bbe@Job:3:24 @In place of my food I have grief, and cries of sorrow come from me like water.
bbe@Job:3:25 @For I have a fear and it comes on me, and my heart is greatly troubled.
bbe@Job:3:26 @I have no peace, no quiet, and no rest; nothing but pain comes on me.
bbe@Job:4:5 @But now it has come on you and it is a weariness to you; you are touched by it and your mind is troubled.
bbe@Job:4:7 @Have you ever seen destruction come to an upright man? or when were the god-fearing ever cut off?
bbe@Job:4:8 @What I have seen is that those by whom trouble has been ploughed, and evil planted, get the same for themselves.
bbe@Job:4:11 @The old lion comes to his end for need of food, and the young of the she-lion go wandering in all directions.
bbe@Job:4:12 @A word was given to me secretly, and the low sound of it came to my ears.
bbe@Job:4:13 @In troubled thoughts from visions of the night, when deep sleep comes on men,
bbe@Job:4:14 @Fear came on me and shaking, and my bones were full of trouble;
bbe@Job:4:15 @And a breath was moving over my face; the hair of my flesh became stiff:
bbe@Job:4:16 @Something was present before me, but I was not able to see it clearly; there was a form before my eyes: a quiet voice came to my ears, saying:
bbe@Job:4:20 @Between morning and evening they are completely broken; they come to an end for ever, and no one takes note.
bbe@Job:4:21 @If their tent-cord is pulled up, do they not come to an end, and without wisdom?
bbe@Job:5:2 @For wrath is the cause of death to the foolish, and he who has no wisdom comes to his end through passion.
bbe@Job:5:3 @I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly the curse came on his house.
bbe@Job:5:6 @For evil does not come out of the dust, or trouble out of the earth;
bbe@Job:5:7 @But trouble is man's fate from birth, as the flames go up from the fire.
bbe@Job:5:8 @But as for me, I would make my prayer to God, and I would put my cause before him:
bbe@Job:5:14 @In the daytime it becomes dark for them, and in the sunlight they go feeling about as if it was night.
bbe@Job:5:18 @For after his punishment he gives comfort, and after wounding, his hands make you well.
bbe@Job:5:19 @He will keep you safe from six troubles, and in seven no evil will come near you.
bbe@Job:5:21 @He will keep you safe from the evil tongue; and you will have no fear of wasting when it comes.
bbe@Job:5:23 @For you will be in agreement with the stones of the earth, and the beasts of the field will be at peace with you.
bbe@Job:5:26 @You will come to your last resting-place in full strength, as the grain is taken up to the crushing-floor in its time.
bbe@Job:5:27 @See, we have made search with care, and it is so; it has come to our ears; see that you take note of it for yourself.
bbe@Job:6:2 @If only my passion might be measured, and put into the scales against my trouble!
bbe@Job:6:4 @For the arrows of the Ruler of all are present with me, and their poison goes deep into my spirit: his army of fears is put in order against me.
bbe@Job:6:8 @If only I might have an answer to my prayer, and God would give me my desire!
bbe@Job:6:9 @If only he would be pleased to put an end to me; and would let loose his hand, so that I might be cut off!
bbe@Job:6:13 @I have no help in myself, and wisdom is completely gone from me.
bbe@Job:6:15 @My friends have been false like a stream, like streams in the valleys which come to an end:
bbe@Job:6:17 @Under the burning sun they are cut off, and come to nothing because of the heat.
bbe@Job:6:18 @The camel-trains go out of their way; they go up into the waste and come to destruction.
bbe@Job:6:19 @The camel-trains of Tema were searching with care, the bands of Sheba were waiting for them:
bbe@Job:6:20 @They were put to shame because of their hope; they came and their hope was gone.
bbe@Job:6:21 @So have you now become to me; you see my sad condition and are in fear.
bbe@Job:6:22 @Did I say, Give me something? or, Make a payment for me out of your wealth?
bbe@Job:6:23 @Or, Get me out of the power of my hater? or, Give money so that I may be free from the power of the cruel ones?
bbe@Job:6:24 @Give me teaching and I will be quiet; and make me see my error.
bbe@Job:6:25 @How pleasing are upright words! but what force is there in your arguments?
bbe@Job:6:28 @Now then, let your eyes be turned to me, for truly I will not say what is false to your face.
bbe@Job:6:29 @Let your minds be changed, and do not have an evil opinion of me; yes, be changed, for my righteousness is still in me.
bbe@Job:6:30 @Is there evil in my tongue? is not the cause of my trouble clear to me?
bbe@Job:7:1 @Has not man his ordered time of trouble on the earth? and are not his days like the days of a servant working for payment?
bbe@Job:7:2 @As a servant desiring the shades of evening, and a workman looking for his payment:
bbe@Job:7:3 @So I have for my heritage months of pain to no purpose, and nights of weariness are given to me.
bbe@Job:7:4 @When I go to my bed, I say, When will it be time to get up? but the night is long, and I am turning from side to side till morning light.
bbe@Job:7:6 @My days go quicker than the cloth-worker's thread, and come to an end without hope.
bbe@Job:7:8 @The eye of him who sees me will see me no longer: your eyes will be looking for me, but I will be gone.
bbe@Job:7:9 @A cloud comes to an end and is gone; so he who goes down into the underworld comes not up again.
bbe@Job:7:10 @He will not come back to his house, and his place will have no more knowledge of him.
bbe@Job:7:11 @So I will not keep my mouth shut; I will let the words come from it in the pain of my spirit, my soul will make a bitter outcry.
bbe@Job:7:12 @Am I a sea, or a sea-beast, that you put a watch over me?
bbe@Job:7:14 @Then you send dreams to me, and visions of fear;
bbe@Job:7:16 @I have no desire for life, I would not be living for ever! Keep away from me, for my days are as a breath
bbe@Job:7:19 @How long will it be before your eyes are turned away from me, so that I may have a minute's breathing-space?
bbe@Job:7:20 @If I have done wrong, what have I done to you, O keeper of men? why have you made me a mark for your blows, so that I am a weariness to myself?
bbe@Job:7:21 @And why do you not take away my sin, and let my wrongdoing be ended? for now I go down to the dust, and you will be searching for me with care, but I will be gone.
bbe@Job:8:4 @If your children have done evil against him, then their punishment is from his hand.
bbe@Job:8:11 @Will the river-plant come up in its pride without wet earth? will the grass get tall without water?
bbe@Job:8:12 @When it is still green, without being cut down, it becomes dry and dead before any other plant.
bbe@Job:8:13 @So is the end of all who do not keep God in mind; and the hope of the evil-doer comes to nothing:
bbe@Job:8:15 @He is looking to his family for support, but it is not there; he puts his hope in it, but it comes to nothing.
bbe@Job:8:19 @Such is the joy of his way, and out of the dust another comes up to take his place.
bbe@Job:8:21 @The time will come when your mouth will be full of laughing, and cries of joy will come from your lips.
bbe@Job:8:22 @Your haters will be clothed with shame, and the tent of the sinner will not be seen again.
bbe@Job:9:4 @He is wise in heart and great in strength: who ever made his face hard against him, and any good came of it?
bbe@Job:9:11 @See, he goes past me and I see him not: he goes on before, but I have no knowledge of him.
bbe@Job:9:14 @How much less may I give an answer to him, using the right words in argument with him?
bbe@Job:9:15 @Even if my cause was good, I would not be able to give an answer; I would make request for grace from him who was against me.
bbe@Job:9:16 @If I had sent for him to be present, and he had come, I would have no faith that he would give ear to my voice.
bbe@Job:9:18 @He would not let me take my breath, but I would be full of bitter grief.
bbe@Job:9:19 @If it is a question of strength, he says, Here I am! and if it is a question of a cause at law, he says, Who will give me a fixed day?
bbe@Job:9:21 @I have done no wrong; I give no thought to what becomes of me; I have no desire for life.
bbe@Job:9:22 @It is all the same to me; so I say, He puts an end to the sinner and to him who has done no wrong together.
bbe@Job:9:23 @If death comes suddenly through disease, he makes sport of the fate of those who have done no wrong.
bbe@Job:9:29 @You will not let me be clear of sin! why then do I take trouble for nothing?
bbe@Job:9:31 @Then you will have me pushed into the dust, so that I will seem disgusting to my very clothing.
bbe@Job:9:32 @For he is not a man as I am, that I might give him an answer, that we might come together before a judge.
bbe@Job:9:34 @Let him take away his rod from me and not send his fear on me:
bbe@Job:10:2 @I will say to God, Do not put me down as a sinner; make clear to me what you have against me.
bbe@Job:10:8 @Your hands made me, and I was formed by you, but then, changing your purpose, you gave me up to destruction.
bbe@Job:10:9 @O keep in mind that you made me out of earth; and will you send me back again to dust?
bbe@Job:10:12 @You have been kind to me, and your grace has been with me, and your care has kept my spirit safe.
bbe@Job:10:14 @That, if I did wrong, you would take note of it, and would not make me clear from sin:
bbe@Job:10:15 @That, if I was an evil-doer, the curse would come on me; and if I was upright, my head would not be lifted up, being full of shame and overcome with trouble.
bbe@Job:10:16 @And that if there was cause for pride, you would go after me like a lion; and again put out your wonders against me:
bbe@Job:10:17 @That you would send new witnesses against me, increasing your wrath against me, and letting loose new armies on me.
bbe@Job:10:18 @Why then did you make me come out of my mother's body? It would have been better for me to have taken my last breath, and for no eye to have seen me,
bbe@Job:10:19 @And for me to have been as if I had not been; to have been taken from my mother's body straight to my last resting-place.
bbe@Job:10:20 @Are not the days of my life small in number? Let your eyes be turned away from me, so that I may have a little pleasure,
bbe@Job:10:21 @Before I go to the place from which I will not come back, to the land where all is dark and black,
bbe@Job:11:3 @Are your words of pride to make men keep quiet? and are you to make sport, with no one to put you to shame?
bbe@Job:11:5 @But if only God would take up the word, opening his lips in argument with you;
bbe@Job:11:7 @Are you able to take God's measure, to make discovery of the limits of the Ruler of all?
bbe@Job:11:9 @Longer in measure than the earth, and wider than the sea.
bbe@Job:11:11 @For in his eyes men are as nothing; he sees evil and takes note of it
bbe@Job:11:16 @For your sorrow will go from your memory, like waters flowing away:
bbe@Job:11:17 @And your life will be brighter than day; though it is dark, it will become like the morning.
bbe@Job:11:19 @Sleeping with no fear of danger; and men will be desiring to have grace in your eyes;
bbe@Job:12:2 @No doubt you have knowledge, and wisdom will come to an end with you.
bbe@Job:12:12 @Old men have wisdom, and a long life gives knowledge.
bbe@Job:12:21 @He puts shame on chiefs, and takes away the power of the strong;
bbe@Job:12:25 @They go feeling about in the dark without light, wandering without help like those overcome with wine.
bbe@Job:13:1 @Truly, my eye has seen all this, word of it has come to my ear, and I have knowledge of it.
bbe@Job:13:2 @The same things are in my mind as in yours; I am equal to you.
bbe@Job:13:3 @But I would have talk with the Ruler of all, and my desire is to have an argument with God.
bbe@Job:13:6 @Give ear to the argument of my mouth, and take note of the words of my lips.
bbe@Job:13:7 @Will you say in God's name what is not right, and put false words into his mouth?
bbe@Job:13:11 @Will not his glory put you in fear, so that your hearts will be overcome before him?
bbe@Job:13:13 @Keep quiet, and let me say what is in my mind, whatever may come to me.
bbe@Job:13:15 @Truly, he will put an end to me; I have no hope; but I will not give way in argument before him;
bbe@Job:13:16 @And that will be my salvation, for an evil-doer would not come before him,
bbe@Job:13:19 @Is any one able to take up the argument against me? If so, I would keep quiet and give up my breath.
bbe@Job:13:20 @Only two things do not do to me, then I will come before your face:
bbe@Job:13:21 @Take your hand far away from me; and let me not be overcome by fear of you.
bbe@Job:13:22 @Then at the sound of your voice I will give answer; or let me put forward my cause for you to give me an answer.
bbe@Job:13:23 @What is the number of my evil-doings and my sins? give me knowledge of them.
bbe@Job:13:24 @Why is your face veiled from me, as if I was numbered among your haters?
bbe@Job:13:26 @For you put bitter things on record against me, and send punishment on me for the sins of my early years;
bbe@Job:13:28 @Though a man comes to nothing like a bit of dead wood, or like a robe which has become food for the worm.
bbe@Job:14:2 @He comes out like a flower, and is cut down: he goes in flight like a shade, and is never seen again.
bbe@Job:14:4 @If only a clean thing might come out of an unclean! But it is not possible.
bbe@Job:14:6 @Let your eyes be turned away from him, and take your hand from him, so that he may have pleasure at the end of his day, like a servant working for payment.
bbe@Job:14:7 @For there is hope of a tree; if it is cut down, it will come to life again, and its branches will not come to an end.
bbe@Job:14:9 @Still, at the smell of water, it will make buds, and put out branches like a young plant.
bbe@Job:14:10 @But man comes to his death and is gone: he gives up his spirit, and where is he?
bbe@Job:14:11 @The waters go from a pool, and a river becomes waste and dry;
bbe@Job:14:12 @So man goes down to his last resting-place and comes not again: till the heavens come to an end, they will not be awake or come out of their sleep.
bbe@Job:14:13 @If only you would keep me safe in the underworld, putting me in a secret place till your wrath is past, giving me a fixed time when I might come to your memory again!
bbe@Job:14:14 @If death takes a man, will he come to life again? All the days of my trouble I would be waiting, till the time came for me to be free.
bbe@Job:14:18 @But truly a mountain falling comes to dust, and a rock is moved from its place;
bbe@Job:14:20 @You overcome him for ever, and he is gone; his face is changed in death, and you send him away.
bbe@Job:14:21 @His sons come to honour, and he has no knowledge of it; they are made low, but he is not conscious of it.
bbe@Job:15:3 @Will he make arguments with words in which is no profit, and with sayings which have no value?
bbe@Job:15:4 @Truly, you make the fear of God without effect, so that the time of quiet worship before God is made less by your outcry.
bbe@Job:15:6 @It is by your mouth, even yours, that you are judged to be in the wrong, and not by me; and your lips give witness against you.
bbe@Job:15:7 @Were you the first man to come into the world? or did you come into being before the hills?
bbe@Job:15:8 @Were you present at the secret meeting of God? and have you taken all wisdom for yourself?
bbe@Job:15:10 @With us are men who are grey-haired and full of years, much older than your father.
bbe@Job:15:18 @(The things which wise men have got from their fathers, and have not kept secret from us;
bbe@Job:15:21 @A sound of fear is in his ears; in time of peace destruction will come on him:
bbe@Job:15:24 @He is greatly in fear of the dark day, trouble and pain overcome him:
bbe@Job:15:27 @Because his face is covered with fat, and his body has become thick;
bbe@Job:15:28 @And he has made his resting-place in the towns which have been pulled down, in houses where no man had a right to be, whose fate was to become masses of broken walls.
bbe@Job:15:30 @He does not come out of the dark; his branches are burned by the flame, and the wind takes away his bud.
bbe@Job:15:32 @His branch is cut off before its time, and his leaf is no longer green.
bbe@Job:15:33 @He is like a vine whose grapes do not come to full growth, or an olive-tree dropping its flowers.
bbe@Job:15:35 @Evil has made them with child, and they give birth to trouble; and the fruit of their body is shame for themselves.
bbe@Job:16:2 @Such things have frequently come to my ears: you are comforters who only give trouble.
bbe@Job:16:4 @It would not be hard for me to say such things if your souls were in my soul's place; joining words together against you, and shaking my head at you:
bbe@Job:16:6 @If I say what is in my mind, my pain becomes no less: and if I keep quiet, how much of it goes from me?
bbe@Job:16:7 @But now he has overcome me with weariness and fear, and I am in the grip of all my trouble.
bbe@Job:16:8 @It has come up as a witness against me, and the wasting of my flesh makes answer to my face.
bbe@Job:16:9 @I am broken by his wrath, and his hate has gone after me; he has made his teeth sharp against me: my haters are looking on me with cruel eyes;
bbe@Job:16:10 @Their mouths are open wide against me; the blows of his bitter words are falling on my face; all of them come together in a mass against me.
bbe@Job:16:11 @God gives me over to the power of sinners, sending me violently into the hands of evil-doers.
bbe@Job:16:12 @I was in comfort, but I have been broken up by his hands; he has taken me by the neck, shaking me to bits; he has put me up as a mark for his arrows.
bbe@Job:16:13 @His bowmen come round about me; their arrows go through my body without mercy; my life is drained out on the earth.
bbe@Job:16:14 @I am broken with wound after wound; he comes rushing on me like a man of war.
bbe@Job:16:20 @My friends make sport of me; to God my eyes are weeping,
bbe@Job:16:22 @For in a short time I will take the journey from which I will not come back.
bbe@Job:17:1 @My spirit is broken, my days are ended, the last resting-place is ready for me.
bbe@Job:17:2 @Truly, those who make sport of me are round about me, and my eyes become dark because of their bitter laughing.
bbe@Job:17:3 @Be pleased, now, to be responsible for me to yourself; for there is no other who will put his hand in mine.
bbe@Job:17:6 @He has made me a word of shame to the peoples; I have become a mark for their sport.
bbe@Job:17:7 @My eyes have become dark because of my pain, and all my body is wasted to a shade.
bbe@Job:17:10 @But come back, now, all of you, come; and I will not see a wise man among you.
bbe@Job:17:16 @Will they go down with me into the underworld? Will we go down together into the dust?
bbe@Job:18:4 @But come back, now, come: you who are wounding yourself in your passion, will the earth be given up because of you, or a rock be moved out of its place?
bbe@Job:18:5 @For the light of the sinner is put out, and the flame of his fire is not shining.
bbe@Job:18:7 @The steps of his strength become short, and by his design destruction overtakes him.
bbe@Job:18:9 @His foot is taken in the net; he comes into its grip.
bbe@Job:18:11 @He is overcome by fears on every side, they go after him at every step.
bbe@Job:18:17 @His memory is gone from the earth, and in the open country there is no knowledge of his name.
bbe@Job:18:19 @He has no offspring or family among his people, and in his living-place there is no one of his name.
bbe@Job:18:20 @At his fate those of the west are shocked, and those of the east are overcome with fear.
bbe@Job:19:2 @How long will you make my life bitter, crushing me with words?
bbe@Job:19:3 @Ten times now you have made sport of me; it gives you no sense of shame to do me wrong.
bbe@Job:19:5 @If you make yourselves great against me, using my punishment as an argument against me,
bbe@Job:19:6 @Be certain that it is God who has done me wrong, and has taken me in his net.
bbe@Job:19:9 @He has put off my glory from me, and taken the crown from my head.
bbe@Job:19:11 @His wrath is burning against me, and I am to him as one of his haters.
bbe@Job:19:12 @His armies come on together, they make their road high against me, and put up their tents round mine.
bbe@Job:19:13 @He has taken my brothers far away from me; they have seen my fate and have become strange to me.
bbe@Job:19:14 @My relations and my near friends have given me up, and those living in my house have put me out of their minds.
bbe@Job:19:15 @I am strange to my women-servants, and seem to them as one from another country.
bbe@Job:19:16 @At my cry my servant gives me no answer, and I have to make a prayer to him.
bbe@Job:19:18 @Even young children have no respect for me; when I get up their backs are turned on me.
bbe@Job:19:19 @All the men of my circle keep away from me; and those dear to me are turned against me.
bbe@Job:19:21 @Have pity on me, have pity on me, O my friends! for the hand of God is on me.
bbe@Job:19:22 @Why are you cruel to me, like God, for ever saying evil against me?
bbe@Job:19:25 @But I am certain that he who will take up my cause is living, and that in time to come he will take his place on the dust;
bbe@Job:19:27 @Whom I will see on my side, and not as one strange to me. My heart is broken with desire.
bbe@Job:19:29 @Be in fear of the sword, for the sword is the punishment for such things, so that you may be certain that there is a judge.
bbe@Job:20:2 @For this cause my thoughts are troubling me and driving me on.
bbe@Job:20:3 @I have to give ear to arguments which put me to shame, and your answers to me are wind without wisdom.
bbe@Job:20:4 @Have you knowledge of this from early times, when man was placed on the earth,
bbe@Job:20:7 @Like the waste from his body he comes to an end for ever: those who have seen him say, Where is he?
bbe@Job:20:14 @His food becomes bitter in his stomach; the poison of snakes is inside him.
bbe@Job:20:21 @He had never enough for his desire; for this cause his well-being will quickly come to an end.
bbe@Job:20:23 @God gives him his desire, and sends the heat of his wrath on him, making it come down on him like rain.
bbe@Job:20:25 @He is pulling it out, and it comes out of his back; and its shining point comes out of his side; he is overcome by fears.
bbe@Job:21:3 @Let me say what is in my mind, and after that, go on making sport of me.
bbe@Job:21:4 @As for me, is my outcry against man? is it then to be wondered at if my spirit is troubled?
bbe@Job:21:5 @Take note of me and be full of wonder, put your hand on your mouth.
bbe@Job:21:7 @Why is life given to the evil-doers? why do they become old and strong in power?
bbe@Job:21:9 @Their houses are free from fear, and the rod of God does not come on them.
bbe@Job:21:10 @Their ox is ready at all times to give seed; their cow gives birth, without dropping her young.
bbe@Job:21:12 @They make songs to the instruments of music, and are glad at the sound of the pipe.
bbe@Job:21:13 @Their days come to an end without trouble, and suddenly they go down to the underworld.
bbe@Job:21:16 @Truly, is not their well-being in their power? (The purpose of the evil-doers is far from me.)
bbe@Job:21:17 @How frequently is the light of the evil-doers put out, or does trouble come on them? how frequently does his wrath take them with cords?
bbe@Job:21:19 @You say, God keeps punishment stored up for his children. Let him send it on the man himself, so that he may have the punishment of it!
bbe@Job:21:23 @One comes to his end in complete well-being, full of peace and quiet:
bbe@Job:21:25 @And another comes to his end with a bitter soul, without ever tasting good.
bbe@Job:21:27 @See, I am conscious of your thoughts, and of your violent purposes against me;
bbe@Job:21:31 @Who will make his way clear to his face? and if he has done a thing, who gives him punishment for it?
bbe@Job:21:33 @The earth of the valley covering his bones is sweet to him, and all men come after him, as there were unnumbered before him.
bbe@Job:21:34 @Why then do you give me comfort with words in which there is no profit, when you see that there is nothing in your answers but deceit?
bbe@Job:22:4 @Is it because you give him honour that he is sending punishment on you and is judging you?
bbe@Job:22:8 @For it was the man with power who had the land, and the man with an honoured name who was living in it.
bbe@Job:22:10 @For this cause nets are round your feet, and you are overcome with sudden fear.
bbe@Job:22:15 @Will you keep the old way by which evil![[pBiblx2]](/img/pbiblx2_logo3.png){kind=logo}