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JOB 5

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5:1
“Call now; is there anyone who will answer you?
To which of the holy ones will you turn?
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Surely vexation kills the fool,
and jealousy slays the simple.
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I have seen the fool taking root,
but suddenly I cursed his dwelling.
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His children are far from safety;
they are crushed in the gate,
and there is no one to deliver them.
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The hungry eat his harvest,
and he takes it even out of thorns,
and the thirsty pant after his wealth.
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For affliction does not come from the dust,
nor does trouble sprout from the ground,
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but man is born to trouble
as the sparks fly upward.

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“As for me, I would seek God,
and to God would I commit my cause,
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who does great things and unsearchable,
marvelous things without number:
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he gives rain on the earth
and sends waters on the fields;
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he sets on high those who are lowly,
and those who mourn are lifted to safety.
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He frustrates the devices of the crafty,
so that their hands achieve no success.
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He catches the wise in their own craftiness,
and the schemes of the wily are brought to a quick end.
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They meet with darkness in the daytime
and grope at noonday as in the night.
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But he saves the needy from the sword of their mouth
and from the hand of the mighty.
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So the poor have hope,
and injustice shuts her mouth.

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“Behold, blessed is the one whom God reproves;
therefore despise not the discipline of the Almighty.
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For he wounds, but he binds up;
he shatters, but his hands heal.
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He will deliver you from six troubles;
in seven no evil shall touch you.
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In famine he will redeem you from death,
and in war from the power of the sword.
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You shall be hidden from the lash of the tongue,
and shall not fear destruction when it comes.
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At destruction and famine you shall laugh,
and shall not fear the beasts of the earth.
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For you shall be in league with the stones of the field,
and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with you.
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You shall know that your tent is at peace,
and you shall inspect your fold and miss nothing.
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You shall know also that your offspring shall be many,
and your descendants as the grass of the earth.
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You shall come to your grave in ripe old age,
like a sheaf gathered up in its season.
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Behold, this we have searched out; it is true.
Hear, and know it for your good.”



JOB 6

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Job Replies: My Complaint Is Just
  6:1 Then Job answered and said:
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“Oh that my vexation were weighed,
and all my calamity laid in the balances!
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For then it would be heavier than the sand of the sea;
therefore my words have been rash.
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For the arrows of the Almighty are in me;
my spirit drinks their poison;
the terrors of God are arrayed against me.
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Does the wild donkey bray when he has grass,
or the ox low over his fodder?
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Can that which is tasteless be eaten without salt,
or is there any taste in the juice of the mallow?
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My appetite refuses to touch them;
they are as food that is loathsome to me.

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“Oh that I might have my request,
and that God would fulfill my hope,
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that it would please God to crush me,
that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!
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This would be my comfort;
I would even exult in pain unsparing,
for I have not denied the words of the Holy One.
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What is my strength, that I should wait?
And what is my end, that I should be patient?
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Is my strength the strength of stones, or is my flesh bronze?
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Have I any help in me,
when resource is driven from me?

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“He who withholds kindness from a friend
forsakes the fear of the Almighty.
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My brothers are treacherous as a torrent-bed,
as torrential streams that pass away,
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which are dark with ice,
and where the snow hides itself.
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When they melt, they disappear;
when it is hot, they vanish from their place.
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The caravans turn aside from their course;
they go up into the waste and perish.
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The caravans of Tema look,
the travelers of Sheba hope.
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They are ashamed because they were confident;
they come there and are disappointed.
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For you have now become nothing;
you see my calamity and are afraid.
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Have I said, ‘Make me a gift’?
Or, ‘From your wealth offer a bribe for me’?
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Or, ‘Deliver me from the adversary’s hand’?
Or, ‘Redeem me from the hand of the ruthless’?

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“Teach me, and I will be silent;
make me understand how I have gone astray.
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How forceful are upright words!
But what does reproof from you reprove?
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Do you think that you can reprove words,
when the speech of a despairing man is wind?
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You would even cast lots over the fatherless,
and bargain over your friend.

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“But now, be pleased to look at me,
for I will not lie to your face.
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Please turn; let no injustice be done.
Turn now; my vindication is at stake.
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Is there any injustice on my tongue?
Cannot my palate discern the cause of calamity?



PROVERBS 5

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Warning Against Adultery
5:1
My son, be attentive to my wisdom;
incline your ear to my understanding,
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that you may keep discretion,
and your lips may guard knowledge.
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For the lips of a forbidden woman drip honey,
and her speech is smoother than oil,
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but in the end she is bitter as wormwood,
sharp as a two-edged sword.
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Her feet go down to death;
her steps follow the path to Sheol;
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she does not ponder the path of life;
her ways wander, and she does not know it.

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And now, O sons, listen to me,
and do not depart from the words of my mouth.
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Keep your way far from her,
and do not go near the door of her house,
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lest you give your honor to others
and your years to the merciless,
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lest strangers take their fill of your strength,
and your labors go to the house of a foreigner,
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and at the end of your life you groan,
when your flesh and body are consumed,
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and you say, “How I hated discipline,
and my heart despised reproof!
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I did not listen to the voice of my teachers
or incline my ear to my instructors.
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I am at the brink of utter ruin
in the assembled congregation.”

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Drink water from your own cistern,
flowing water from your own well.
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Should your springs be scattered abroad,
streams of water in the streets?
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Let them be for yourself alone,
and not for strangers with you.
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Let your fountain be blessed,
and rejoice in the wife of your youth,
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a lovely deer, a graceful doe.
Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight;
be intoxicated always in her love.
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Why should you be intoxicated, my son, with a forbidden woman
and embrace the bosom of an adulteress?
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For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the Lord,
and he ponders all his paths.
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The iniquities of the wicked ensnare him,
and he is held fast in the cords of his sin.
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He dies for lack of discipline,
and because of his great folly he is led astray.



LUKE 13

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Repent or Perish
  13:1 There were some present at that very time who told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. 2 And he answered them, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered in this way? 3 No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish. 4 Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them: do you think that they were worse offenders than all the others who lived in Jerusalem? 5 No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.” The Parable of the Barren Fig Tree
6 And he told this parable: “A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it and found none. 7 And he said to the vinedresser, ‘Look, for three years now I have come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and I find none. Cut it down. Why should it use up the ground?’ 8 And he answered him, ‘Sir, let it alone this year also, until I dig around it and put on manure. 9 Then if it should bear fruit next year, well and good; but if not, you can cut it down.’” A Woman with a Disabling Spirit
10 Now he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath. 11 And behold, there was a woman who had had a disabling spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not fully straighten herself. 12 When Jesus saw her, he called her over and said to her, “Woman, you are freed from your disability.” 13 And he laid his hands on her, and immediately she was made straight, and she glorified God. 14 But the ruler of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to the people, “There are six days in which work ought to be done. Come on those days and be healed, and not on the Sabbath day.” 15 Then the Lord answered him, “You hypocrites! Does not each of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from the manger and lead it away to water it? 16 And ought not this woman, a daughter of Abraham whom Satan bound for eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath day?” 17 As he said these things, all his adversaries were put to shame, and all the people rejoiced at all the glorious things that were done by him. The Mustard Seed and the Leaven
18 He said therefore, “What is the kingdom of God like? And to what shall I compare it? 19 It is like a grain of mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his garden, and it grew and became a tree, and the birds of the air made nests in its branches.”
    
20 And again he said, “To what shall I compare the kingdom of God? 21 It is like leaven that a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, until it was all leavened.” The Narrow Door
22 He went on his way through towns and villages, teaching and journeying toward Jerusalem. 23 And someone said to him, “Lord, will those who are saved be few?” And he said to them, 24 “Strive to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able. 25 When once the master of the house has risen and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, ‘Lord, open to us,’ then he will answer you, ‘I do not know where you come from.’ 26 Then you will begin to say, ‘We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.’ 27 But he will say, ‘I tell you, I do not know where you come from. Depart from me, all you workers of evil!’ 28 In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God but you yourselves cast out. 29 And people will come from east and west, and from north and south, and recline at table in the kingdom of God. 30 And behold, some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last.” Lament over Jerusalem
31 At that very hour some Pharisees came and said to him, “Get away from here, for Herod wants to kill you.” 32 And he said to them, “Go and tell that fox, ‘Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I finish my course. 33 Nevertheless, I must go on my way today and tomorrow and the day following, for it cannot be that a prophet should perish away from Jerusalem.’ 34 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing! 35 Behold, your house is forsaken. And I tell you, you will not see me until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!’”

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