Hello and welcome
to His Words are Life.
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I'm Kelly Mowrer and thank
you for coming apart with me
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for a little time to sit and
read the word of God together.
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Let's pray before we
start. Dear Father in heaven,
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thank you for your word
that strengthens our faith
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and as we read today, the
account of your servant, Job,
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please change our hearts
to understand and love you and
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serve you like Job did, and to
trust you no matter what may be
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going on. And to stand firm.
Thank you so much for loving us,
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We love you. Amen. - We began
the story of Job the last time
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we were together. A man
who was respected and wealthy,
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seemed to have everything going
right for him and loved the Lord
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with all his heart. And Satan
accused Job before God, and
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said if you were to take away
all that he has. If you were to
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take away his health, he
would curse you and die. And God
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permitted Satan to come against
Job. Nothing happened in Job's
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life except that God gave
the permission for it to happen.
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And Satan came and destroyed all
that Job had and afflicted him
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with sores. His wife said to
Job, Why don't you just curse
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God and die. But Job said, would
we take only good things from
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the hand of the Lord, and not
the bad as well? And in no way
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did Job sin, no matter what
the devil brought against him.
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We're going to pick up the
story now in Job, chapter 3.
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His three friends have come
to be with him, and when they
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first see him, they are so
overcome with what had happened
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to him that the bible says
they sit in silence with him
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for 7 days. We pick up
as Job is speaking and he is
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cursing the day he was born.
We're reading in Job, chapter 3,
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beginning in verse 6.
This is the King James Version.
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As for that night, let darkness
seize upon it; let it not be
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joined unto the days of the
year, let it not come into the
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number of the months. Lo,
let that night be solitary,
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let no joyful voice come
therein. Let them curse it
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that curse the day, who are
ready to raise up their mourning
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Let the stars of the
twilight thereof be dark;
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let it look for light, but have
none; neither let it see the
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dawning of the day: because
it shut not up the doors of my
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mother's womb, nor hid sorrow
from mine eyes. Why died I not
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from the womb? why did I not
give up the ghost when I came
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out of the belly? Why did
the knees prevent me? or why the
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breasts that I should suck?
For now should I have lain still
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and been quiet, I should have
slept: then had I been at rest,
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with kings and counselors of
the earth, which built desolate
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places for themselves; or
with princes that had gold,
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who filled their houses with
silver: or as an hidden untimely
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birth I had not been; as
infants which never saw light.
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There the wicked cease from
troubling; and there the weary
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be at rest. There the prisoners
rest together; they hear not
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the voice of the oppressor.
The small and great are there;
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and the servant is free from his
master. Wherefore is light given
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to him that is in misery, and
live unto the bitter in soul;
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which long for death, but it
cometh not; and dig for it more
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than for hid treasures; which
rejoice exceedingly, and are
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glad when they can find the
grave? Why is light given to a
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man whose way is hid,
and whom God hath hedged in?
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For my sighing cometh before I
eat, and my roarings are poured
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out like the waters. For the
thing which I greatly feared is
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come upon me, and that which
I was afraid of is come unto me.
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I was not in safety, neither
had I rest, neither was I quiet;
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yet trouble came.
Continuing with Job, chapter 4,
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and this is the
King James Version.
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Then Eliphaz the Temanite
answered and said, If we assay
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to commune with thee, wilt thou
be grieved? but who can withhold
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himself from speaking? Behold,
thou hast instructed many,
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and thou hast strengthened
the weak hands. Thy words have
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upholden him that was falling,
and thou hast strengthened the
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feeble knees. But now it
is come upon thee, and thou
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faintest; it toucheth
thee, and thou art troubled.
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Is not this thy fear, thy
confidence, thy hope, and the
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uprightness of thy
ways? Remember, I pray thee,
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whoever perished being innocent?
or where were the righteous
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cut off? Even as I have seen,
they that plow iniquity, and sow
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wickedness, reap the same.
By the blast of God they perish,
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and by the breath of his
nostrils are they consumed.
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The roaring of the lion, and the
voice of the fierce lion, and
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the teeth of the young
lions, are broken. The old lion
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perisheth for lack of prey,
and the stout lion's whelps are
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scattered abroad. Now a thing
was secretly brought to me,
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and mine ear received a little
thereof. In thoughts from the
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visions of the night,
when deep sleep falleth on men.
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Fear came upon me, and
trembling, which made all my
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bones to shake. Then a
spirit passed before my face;
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the hair of my flesh stood up:
It stood still, but I could not
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discern the form thereof:
an image was before mine eyes,
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there was silence, and I heard
a voice, saying, Shall mortal
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man be more just than God? shall
a man be more pure than his
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maker? Behold, he put no trust
in his servants; and his angels
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he charged with folly: How
much less in them that dwell
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in houses of clay, whose
foundation is in the dust,
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which are crushed before the
moth? They are destroyed from
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morning to evening: they perish
for ever without any regarding
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it. Doth not their excellency
which is in them go away?
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they die, even without wisdom.
Continuing in the book of Job
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chapter 5. This is
the King James Version.
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Call now, if there be
any that will answer thee;
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And to which of the saints wilt
thou turn? For wrath killeth
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the foolish man, and
envy slayeth the silly one.
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I have seen the foolish taking
root: but suddenly I cursed his
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habitation. His children are far
from safety and they are crushed
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in the gate, neither is
there any to deliver them.
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Whose harvest the hungry eateth
up, and taketh it even out of
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the thorns, and the robber
swalloweth up their substance.
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Although affliction cometh not
forth of the dust, neither doth
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trouble spring out of
the ground; yet man is born
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unto trouble as the sparks fly
upward. I would seek unto God,
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and unto God would I commit my
cause: Which doeth great things
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and unsearchable;
marvelous things without number:
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Who giveth rain upon the earth,
and sendeth waters upon the
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fields: To set up on high those
that be low; that those which
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mourn may be exalted to safety.
He disappointeth the devices
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of the crafty, so that
their hands cannot perform their
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enterprise. He taketh the
wise in their own craftiness:
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and the counsel of the
froward is carried headlong.
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They meet with darkness in
the daytime, and grope in the
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noon day as in the night.
But he saveth the poor from the
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sword, from their mouth,
and from the hand of the mighty.
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So the poor hath hope, and
iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
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Behold, happy is the man
whom God correcteth: therefore
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despise not thou the
chastening of the Almighty:
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For he maketh sore, and bindeth
up: he woundeth, and his hands
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make whole. He shall
deliver thee in six troubles:
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yea in seven there
shall no evil touch thee.
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In famine he shall redeem thee
from death: and in war from the
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power of the sword. Thou shalt
be hid from the scourge of the
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tongue: neither shalt
thou be afraid of destruction
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when it cometh. At destruction
and famine thou shalt laugh:
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neither shalt thou be afraid
of the beast of the earth.
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For thou shalt be in league
with the stones of the field:
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and the beasts of the field
shall be at peace with thee.
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And thou shalt know that thy
tabernacle shall be in peace;
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and thou shalt visit thy
habitation, and shalt not sin.
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Thou shalt know also that thy
seed shall be great, and thine
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offspring as the grass of the
earth. Thou shalt come to thy
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grave in a full age, like
as a shock of corn cometh in
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in his season. Lo this, we have
searched it, so it is; hear it,
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and know thou it for thy good.
Continuing to read in the book
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of Job, chapter 6. This
is the King James Version.
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But Job answered and said,
O that my grief were throughly
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weighed, and my calamity
laid in the balances together!
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For now it would be heavier
than the sand of the sea:
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therefore my words are swallowed
up. For the arrows of the
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Almighty are within me,
the poison whereof drinketh up
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my spirit: the terrors of God do
set themselves in array against
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me. Doth the wild ass bray when
he hath grass? or loweth the ox
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over his fodder? Can that which
is unsavory be eaten without
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salt? or is there any
taste in the white of an egg?
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The things that my soul refused
to touch are as my sorrowful
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meat. Oh that I might have
my request; and that God would
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grant me the thing that I long
for! Even that it would please
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God to destroy me; that
he would let loose his hand,
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and cut me off! Then should I
yet have comfort; yea, I would
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harden myself in sorrow: let
him not spare; for I have not
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concealed the words of the
Holy One. What is my strength,
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that I should hope? and what is
mine end, that I should prolong
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my life? Is my
strength the strength of stones?
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or is my flesh of brass? Is
not my help in me? and is wisdom
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driven quite from me? To him
that is afflicted pity should be
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shewed from his friend; but
he forsaketh the fear of the
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Almighty. My brethren have dealt
deceitfully as a brook, and as
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the stream of brooks they
pass away; which are blackish
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by reason of the ice and wherein
the snow is hid: What time they
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wax warm, they vanish: when
it is hot, they are consumed out
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of their place. The paths
of their way are turned aside;
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they go to nothing, and perish.
The troops of Tema looked,
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the companies of Sheba waited
for them. They were confounded
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because they had hoped; they
came thither, and were ashamed.
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For now ye are nothing; ye see
my casting down, and are afraid.
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Did I say, Bring unto me?
or, Give a reward for me of your
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substance? Or, Deliver
me from the enemy's hand?
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or redeem me from the hand of
the mighty? Teach me, and I will
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hold my tongue: and cause me to
understand wherein I have erred.
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How forcible are right words!
but what doth your arguing
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reprove? Do ye imagine to
reprove words, and the speeches
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of one that is desperate, which
are as wind? Yea, ye overwhelm
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the fatherless, and ye dig a pit
for your friend. Now therefore
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be content, look upon me; for
it is evident unto you if I lie.
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Return, I pray you, let it not
be iniquity; yea, return again,
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my righteousness is in it.
Is there iniquity in my tongue?
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cannot my taste
discern perverse things?
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We're continuing to
read in Job, chapter 7,
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This is the King James Version.
Is there not an appointed time
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to man upon the earth? are not
his days also like the days of
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an hireling? As a servant
earnestly desireth the shadow,
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and as an hireling looketh
for the reward of his work:
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So am I made to possess months
of vanity, and wearisome nights
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are appointed to me. When I lie
down, I say, When shall I arise,
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and the night be gone? and I
am full of tossings to and fro
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unto the dawning of the day.
My flesh is clothed with worms
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and clods of dust; my skin
is broken, and become loathsome.
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My days are swifter than a
weaver's shuttle, and are spent
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without hope. O remember that my
life is wind: mine eye shall no
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more see good. The eye of him
that hath seen me shall see me
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no more: thine eyes are upon me,
and I am not. As the cloud is
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consumed and vanisheth away:
so he that goeth down to the
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grave shall come up no
more He shall return no more
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to his house, neither shall
his place know him any more.
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Therefore I will not refrain
my mouth; I will speak in the
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anguish of my spirit; I
will complain in the bitterness
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of my soul. Am, I a sea, or a
whale, that thou settest a watch
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over me? When I say, My bed
shall comfort me, my couch shall
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ease my complaint; then
thou scarest me with dreams,
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and terrifiest me
through visions: So that my soul
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chooseth strangling,
and death rather than life.
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I loath it; I would not
live alway: let me alone:
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for my days are vanity. What is
man, that thou shouldest magnify
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him? and that thou shouldest
set thine heart upon him?
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And that thou shouldest visit
him every morning, and try him
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every moment? How long
wilt thou not depart from me,
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nor let me alone till I swallow
down my spittle? I have sinned;
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what shall I do unto
thee, O thou preserver of men?
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why hast thou set me as a mark
against thee, so that I am a
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burden to myself?
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