Job 15Job 16Job 17Job 181 Corinthians 1Job 15
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Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,
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Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
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Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?
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Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.
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For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
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Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.
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[Art] thou the first man [that] was born? or wast thou made before the hills?
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Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?
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What knowest thou, that we know not? [what] understandest thou, which [is] not in us?
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With us [are] both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.
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[Are] the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee?
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Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,
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That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest [such] words go out of thy mouth?
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What [is] man, that he should be clean? and [he which is] born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
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Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
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How much more abominable and filthy [is] man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
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I will shew thee, hear me and that [which] I have seen I will declare
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Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid [it]:
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Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.
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The wicked man travaileth with pain all [his] days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.
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A dreadful sound [is] in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
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He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.
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He wandereth abroad for bread, [saying], Where [is it]? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
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Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
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For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.
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He runneth upon him, [even] on [his] neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:
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Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on [his] flanks.
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And he dwelleth in desolate cities, [and] in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.
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He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.
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He shall not depart out of darkness the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.
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Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.
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It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.
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He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.
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For the congregation of hypocrites [shall be] desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.
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They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.
Job 16
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Then Job answered and said,
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I have heard many such things: miserable comforters [are] ye all.
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Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
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I also could speak as ye [do]: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.
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[But] I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage [your grief].
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Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and [though] I forbear, what am I eased?
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But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.
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And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, [which] is a witness [against me]: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.
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He teareth [me] in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.
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They have gaped upon me with their mouth they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully they have gathered themselves together against me.
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God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.
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I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken [me] by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.
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His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare he poureth out my gall upon the ground.
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He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.
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I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.
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My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids [is] the shadow of death
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Not for [any] injustice in mine hands: also my prayer [is] pure.
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O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.
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Also now, behold, my witness [is] in heaven, and my record [is] on high.
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My friends scorn me: [but] mine eye poureth out [tears] unto God.
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O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man [pleadeth] for his neighbour!
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When a few years are come, then I shall go the way [whence] I shall not return.
Job 17
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My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves [are ready] for me.
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[Are there] not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?
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Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee who [is] he [that] will strike hands with me?
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For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt [them].
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He that speaketh flattery to [his] friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
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He hath made me also a byword of the people and aforetime I was as a tabret.
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Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members [are] as a shadow.
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Upright [men] shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
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The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
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But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find [one] wise [man] among you.
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My days are past, my purposes are broken off, [even] the thoughts of my heart.
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They change the night into day: the light [is] short because of darkness.
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If I wait, the grave [is] mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
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I have said to corruption, Thou [art] my father: to the worm, [Thou art] my mother, and my sister.
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And where [is] now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
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They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when [our] rest together [is] in the dust.
Job 18
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Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
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How long [will it be ere] ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.
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Wherefore are we counted as beasts, [and] reputed vile in your sight?
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He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?
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Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.
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The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.
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The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.
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For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.
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The gin shall take [him] by the heel, [and] the robber shall prevail against him.
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The snare [is] laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.
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Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.
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His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction [shall be] ready at his side.
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It shall devour the strength of his skin: [even] the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.
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His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.
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It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because [it is] none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
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His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.
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His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.
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He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
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He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.
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They that come after [him] shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted.
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Surely such [are] the dwellings of the wicked, and this [is] the place [of him that] knoweth not God.
1 Corinthians 1
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Paul, called [to be] an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes [our] brother,
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Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called [to be] saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours:
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Grace [be] unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and [from] the Lord Jesus Christ.
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I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ
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That in every thing ye are enriched by him, in all utterance, and [in] all knowledge
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Even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you:
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So that ye come behind in no gift waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ:
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Who shall also confirm you unto the end, [that ye may be] blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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God [is] faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
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Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and [that] there be no divisions among you but [that] ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
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For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them [which are of the house] of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.
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Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul and I of Apollos and I of Cephas and I of Christ.
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Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized in the name of Paul?
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I thank God that I baptized none of you, but Crispus and Gaius
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Lest any should say that I had baptized in mine own name.
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And I baptized also the household of Stephanas: besides, I know not whether I baptized any other.
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For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect.
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For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
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For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
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Where [is] the wise? where [is] the scribe? where [is] the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
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For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
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For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:
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But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness
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But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
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Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
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For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, [are called]:
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But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty
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And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, [yea], and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:
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That no flesh should glory in his presence.
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But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
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That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.
