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JOB 13

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Job Continues: Still I Will Hope in God
13:1
“Behold, my eye has seen all this,
my ear has heard and understood it.
2
What you know, I also know;
I am not inferior to you.
3
But I would speak to the Almighty,
and I desire to argue my case with God.
4
As for you, you whitewash with lies;
worthless physicians are you all.
5
Oh that you would keep silent,
and it would be your wisdom!
6
Hear now my argument
and listen to the pleadings of my lips.
7
Will you speak falsely for God
and speak deceitfully for him?
8
Will you show partiality toward him?
Will you plead the case for God?
9
Will it be well with you when he searches you out?
Or can you deceive him, as one deceives a man?
10
He will surely rebuke you
if in secret you show partiality.
11
Will not his majesty terrify you,
and the dread of him fall upon you?
12
Your maxims are proverbs of ashes;
your defenses are defenses of clay.

13
“Let me have silence, and I will speak,
and let come on me what may.
14
Why should I take my flesh in my teeth
and put my life in my hand?
15
Though he slay me, I will hope in him;
yet I will argue my ways to his face.
16
This will be my salvation,
that the godless shall not come before him.
17
Keep listening to my words,
and let my declaration be in your ears.
18
Behold, I have prepared my case;
I know that I shall be in the right.
19
Who is there who will contend with me?
For then I would be silent and die.
20
Only grant me two things,
then I will not hide myself from your face:
21
withdraw your hand far from me,
and let not dread of you terrify me.
22
Then call, and I will answer;
or let me speak, and you reply to me.
23
How many are my iniquities and my sins?
Make me know my transgression and my sin.
24
Why do you hide your face
and count me as your enemy?
25
Will you frighten a driven leaf
and pursue dry chaff?
26
For you write bitter things against me
and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth.
27
You put my feet in the stocks
and watch all my paths;
you set a limit for the soles of my feet.
28
Man wastes away like a rotten thing,
like a garment that is moth-eaten.



JOB 14

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Job Continues: Death Comes Soon to All
14:1
“Man who is born of a woman
is few of days and full of trouble.
2
He comes out like a flower and withers;
he flees like a shadow and continues not.
3
And do you open your eyes on such a one
and bring me into judgment with you?
4
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean?
There is not one.
5
Since his days are determined,
and the number of his months is with you,
and you have appointed his limits that he cannot pass,
6
look away from him and leave him alone,
that he may enjoy, like a hired hand, his day.

7
“For there is hope for a tree,
if it be cut down, that it will sprout again,
and that its shoots will not cease.
8
Though its root grow old in the earth,
and its stump die in the soil,
9
yet at the scent of water it will bud
and put out branches like a young plant.
10
But a man dies and is laid low;
man breathes his last, and where is he?
11
As waters fail from a lake
and a river wastes away and dries up,
12
so a man lies down and rises not again;
till the heavens are no more he will not awake
or be roused out of his sleep.
13
Oh that you would hide me in Sheol,
that you would conceal me until your wrath be past,
that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!
14
If a man dies, shall he live again?
All the days of my service I would wait,
till my renewal should come.
15
You would call, and I would answer you;
you would long for the work of your hands.
16
For then you would number my steps;
you would not keep watch over my sin;
17
my transgression would be sealed up in a bag,
and you would cover over my iniquity.

18
“But the mountain falls and crumbles away,
and the rock is removed from its place;
19
the waters wear away the stones;
the torrents wash away the soil of the earth;
so you destroy the hope of man.
20
You prevail forever against him, and he passes;
you change his countenance, and send him away.
21
His sons come to honor, and he does not know it;
they are brought low, and he perceives it not.
22
He feels only the pain of his own body,
and he mourns only for himself.”



PROVERBS 8

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The Blessings of Wisdom
8:1
Does not wisdom call?
Does not understanding raise her voice?
2
On the heights beside the way,
at the crossroads she takes her stand;
3
beside the gates in front of the town,
at the entrance of the portals she cries aloud:
4
“To you, O men, I call,
and my cry is to the children of man.
5
O simple ones, learn prudence;
O fools, learn sense.
6
Hear, for I will speak noble things,
and from my lips will come what is right,
7
for my mouth will utter truth;
wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
8
All the words of my mouth are righteous;
there is nothing twisted or crooked in them.
9
They are all straight to him who understands,
and right to those who find knowledge.
10
Take my instruction instead of silver,
and knowledge rather than choice gold,
11
for wisdom is better than jewels,
and all that you may desire cannot compare with her.

12
“I, wisdom, dwell with prudence,
and I find knowledge and discretion.
13
The fear of the Lord is hatred of evil.
Pride and arrogance and the way of evil
and perverted speech I hate.
14
I have counsel and sound wisdom;
I have insight; I have strength.
15
By me kings reign,
and rulers decree what is just;
16
by me princes rule,
and nobles, all who govern justly.
17
I love those who love me,
and those who seek me diligently find me.
18
Riches and honor are with me,
enduring wealth and righteousness.
19
My fruit is better than gold, even fine gold,
and my yield than choice silver.
20
I walk in the way of righteousness,
in the paths of justice,
21
granting an inheritance to those who love me,
and filling their treasuries.

22
“The Lord possessed me at the beginning of his work,
the first of his acts of old.
23
Ages ago I was set up,
at the first, before the beginning of the earth.
24
When there were no depths I was brought forth,
when there were no springs abounding with water.
25
Before the mountains had been shaped,
before the hills, I was brought forth,
26
before he had made the earth with its fields,
or the first of the dust of the world.
27
When he established the heavens, I was there;
when he drew a circle on the face of the deep,
28
when he made firm the skies above,
when he established the fountains of the deep,
29
when he assigned to the sea its limit,
so that the waters might not transgress his command,
when he marked out the foundations of the earth,
30
then I was beside him, like a master workman,
and I was daily his delight,
rejoicing before him always,
31
rejoicing in his inhabited world
and delighting in the children of man.

32
“And now, O sons, listen to me:
blessed are those who keep my ways.
33
Hear instruction and be wise,
and do not neglect it.
34
Blessed is the one who listens to me,
watching daily at my gates,
waiting beside my doors.
35
For whoever finds me finds life
and obtains favor from the Lord,
36
but he who fails to find me injures himself;
all who hate me love death.”



PSALM 92

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How Great Are Your Works
A Psalm. A Song for the Sabbath.
92:1
It is good to give thanks to the Lord,
to sing praises to your name, O Most High;
2
to declare your steadfast love in the morning,
and your faithfulness by night,
3
to the music of the lute and the harp,
to the melody of the lyre.
4
For you, O Lord, have made me glad by your work;
at the works of your hands I sing for joy.

5
How great are your works, O Lord!
Your thoughts are very deep!
6
The stupid man cannot know;
the fool cannot understand this:
7
that though the wicked sprout like grass
and all evildoers flourish,
they are doomed to destruction forever;
8
but you, O Lord, are on high forever.
9
For behold, your enemies, O Lord,
for behold, your enemies shall perish;
all evildoers shall be scattered.

10
But you have exalted my horn like that of the wild ox;
you have poured over me fresh oil.
11
My eyes have seen the downfall of my enemies;
my ears have heard the doom of my evil assailants.

12
The righteous flourish like the palm tree
and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
13
They are planted in the house of the Lord;
they flourish in the courts of our God.
14
They still bear fruit in old age;
they are ever full of sap and green,
15
to declare that the Lord is upright;
he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.



PSALM 93

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The Lord Reigns
93:1
The Lord reigns; he is robed in majesty;
the Lord is robed; he has put on strength as his belt.
Yes, the world is established; it shall never be moved.
2
Your throne is established from of old;
you are from everlasting.

3
The floods have lifted up, O Lord,
the floods have lifted up their voice;
the floods lift up their roaring.
4
Mightier than the thunders of many waters,
mightier than the waves of the sea,
the Lord on high is mighty!

5
Your decrees are very trustworthy;
holiness befits your house,
O Lord, forevermore.

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