Hello, and welcome
to His Words are Life.
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I'm Kelly Mowrer, and thank
you for joining with me today,
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to read the story of Job. Before
we start, let's pray together.
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Dear God, thank you so much
for the story and the lesson
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that you have given us in the
story of Job. Please, as we hear
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these words, help us to see how
in our own life you are there
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for us. And you are bringing
us through. And may we also say
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with Job, that although
you would slay us, yet will we
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trust you. May our faith
remain strong. Be with us now
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as we read. Thank you so much
for hearing our prayer. Amen.
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We're in the middle of the
conversation that Job is having
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with his three friends
who have come to comfort him,
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in the loss of his family,
his wealth, and his health.
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And they're having a discussion
among the 4 of them about God.
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Each of them are putting forth
their opinions. The 3 friends
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are arguing that when calamity
comes it is a result of sin
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in our lives. Job is answering
differently and yet as they
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ponder these things they realize
their questions they're asking
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that they don't know the
answers to. We're picking up
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in chapter 13 of the book
of Job and Job is speaking.
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Lo, mine eye hath seen all
this, mine ear hath heard and
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understood it. What ye
know, the same do I know also:
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I am not inferior unto
you. Surely I would speak to the
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Almighty and I desire to reason
with God. But ye are forgers of
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lies, ye are all physicians
of no value. O that ye would
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altogether hold you peace!
and it should be your wisdom.
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Hear now my reasoning, and
hearken to the pleadings of my
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lips. Will ye speak wickedly
for God? and talk deceitfully
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for him? Will ye accept his
person? Will ye contend for God?
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Is it good that he should
search you out? or as one man
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mocketh another, do ye so
mock him? He will surely reprove
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you if ye do secretly
accept persons. Shall not his
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excellency make you afraid?
and his dread fall upon you?
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Your remembrances are like unto
ashes, your bodies to bodies of
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clay. Hold your peace, let
me alone, that I may speak,
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and let come on me what will.
Wherefore do I take my flesh
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in my teeth and put
my life in mine hand?
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Though he slay me,
yet will I trust in him:
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But I will maintain
mine own ways before him.
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He also shall be my salvation:
for an hypocrite shall not come
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before him. Hear diligently my
speech, and my declaration with
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your ears. Behold now
I have ordered my cause;
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I know that I shall be justified
Who is he that will plead
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with me? for now, if I hold
my tongue, I shall give up the
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ghost. Only do not two things
unto me: then will I not hide
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myself from thee.
Withdraw thine hand far from me:
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and let not thy dread
make me afraid. Then call thou,
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and I will answer: or let
me speak, and answer thou me.
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How many are mine iniquities
and sins? make me to know my
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transgression and my sin.
Wherefore hidest thou thy face,
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and holdest me for thine enemy?
Wilt thou break a leaf driven
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to and fro? and wilt
thou pursue the dry stubble?
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For thou writest bitter things
against me, and makest me to
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possess the iniquities of my
youth. Thou puttest my feet also
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in the stocks, and lookest
narrowly unto all my paths;
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thou settest a print
upon the heels of my feet.
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And he, as a
rotten thing consumeth,
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as a garment that is moth eaten.
Continuing in the book of Job,
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chapter 14. And this
is the King James Version.
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Man that is born of a woman is
of few days and full of trouble.
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He cometh forth like a flower,
and is cut down; he fleeth also
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as a shadow, and continueth not.
And dost thou open thine eyes
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upon such and one, and bringest
me into judgment with thee?
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Who can bring a clean thing
out of and unclean? not one.
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Seeing his days are determined,
the number of his months are
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with thee, thou hast appointed
his bounds that he cannot pass;
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Turn from him, that he may
rest, till he shall accomplish,
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as an hireling, his day.
For there is hope of a tree,
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if it be cut down, that it
will sprout again, and that the
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tender branch thereof will not
cease. Thought the root thereof
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wax old in the earth, and the
stock thereof die in the ground;
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yet through the scent of water
it will bud, and bring forth
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boughs like a plant. But
man dieth, and wasteth away:
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yea, man giveth up the
ghost, and where is he?
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As the waters fail from
the sea, and the flood decayeth
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and drieth up: So man
lieth down, and riseth not:
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til the heavens be no
more, they shall not awake,
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nor be raised out of their
sleep. O that thou wouldest hide
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me in the grave, that
thou wouldest keep me secret,
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until thy wrath be past, that
thou wouldest appoint me a set
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time, and remember me! If a
man die, shall he live again?
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all the days of my appointed
time will I wait, till my change
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come. Thou shalt call,
and I will answer thee:
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thou wilt have a desire
to the work of thine hands.
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For now thou numberest my steps:
dost thou not watch over my sin?
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My transgression is sealed
up in a bag, and thou sewest up
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mine iniquity. And surely
the mountain falling cometh to
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naught, and the rock is removed
out of his place. The waters
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wear the stones: thou washest
away the things which grow out
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of the dust of the earth; and
thou destroyest the hope of man.
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Thou prevailest for ever
against him, and he passeth:
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thou changest his countenance,
and sendest him away.
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His sons come to honor, and
he knoweth it not; and they are
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brought low, but he
perceiveth it not of them.
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But his flesh upon him shall
have pain, and his soul within
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him shall mourn.
Continuing in Job, chapter 15.
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This is the King James
Version. Then answered Eliphaz
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the Temanite, and said, Should
a wise man utter vain knowledge,
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and fill his belly with the
east wind? Should he reason with
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unprofitable talk? or with
speeches wherewith he can do no
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good? Yea, thou castest off
fear, and restrainest prayer
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before God. For thy
mouth uttereth thine iniquity,
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and thou choosest the tongue
of the crafty. Thine own mouth
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condemneth thee, and Not I: yea,
thine own lips testify against
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thee. Art thou the first
man that was born? or wast thou
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made before the hills? Hast
thou heard the secret of God?
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and dost thou restrain wisdom
to thyself? What knowest thou,
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that we know not?
what understandest thou,
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which is not in us? With us
are both the gray headed and
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very aged men, much elder than
thy father. Are the consolations
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of God small with thee? is there
any secret thing with thee?
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Why doth thine
heart carry thee away?
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and what do thy eyes wink
at, that thou turnest thy spirit
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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
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of a woman, that he should
be righteous? Behold, he putteth
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no trust in his saints;
yea, the heavens are not clean
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in his sight. How much more
abominable and filthy is man,
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which drinketh iniquity
like water? I will shew thee,
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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
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hid it: Unto whom alone the
earth was given, and no stranger
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passed among them. The wicked
man travaileth with pain all
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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
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destroyer shall come upon him.
He believeth not that he shall
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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?
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he knoweth that the day of
darkness is ready at his hand.
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Trouble and anguish
shall make him afraid;
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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 strentheneth
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himself against the
Almighty. He runneth upon him,
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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
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collops of fat on his flanks.
And he dwelleth in desolate
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cities, and in houses which no
man inhabiteth, which are ready
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to become heaps. He shall
not be rich, neither shall his
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substance continue, neither
shall he prolong the perfection
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thereof upon the earth. He shall
not depart out of darkness;
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the flame shall dry up his
branches, and by the breath
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of his mouth shall he go away.
Let not him that is deceived
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trust in vanity: for vanity for
vanity shall be his recompence.
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It shall be accomplished
before his time, and his branch
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shall not be green. He
shall shake off his unripe grape
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as the vine, and shall cast
off his flower as the olive.
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For the congregation of
hypocrites shall be desolate,
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and fire shall consume
the tabernacles of bribery.
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They conceive mischief,
and bring forth vanity,
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and their belly prepareth deceit
We're continuing in the book of
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Job, chapter 16. This
is the King James Version.
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Then Job answered and said,
I have heard many such things:
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miserable comforters are ye
all. Shall vain words have an
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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
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stead, I could heap up words
against you, and shake mine head
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at you. But I would
strengthen you with my mouth,
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and the moving of my
lips would assuage your grief.
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Though I speak, my grief is not
assuaged: and though I forbear,
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what am I eased? But now he hath
made me weary: thou hast made
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desolate all my company.
And thou hast filled me with
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wrinkles, which is a witness
against me: and my leanness
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rising up in me beareth witness
to my face. He teareth me
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in his wrath, who hateth
me: he gnasheth upon me with his
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teeth; mine enemy
sharpeneth his eyes upon me.
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They have gaped
upon me with their mouth;
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they have smitten me
upon the cheek reproachfully;
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they have gathered
themselves together against me.
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God hath delivered me to
the ungodly, and turned me over
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into the hands of the wicked.
I was at ease, but he hath
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broken me asunder: he
hath also taken me by my neck,
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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 reigns
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asunder, and doth not
spare; he poureth out my gall
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upon the ground. He breaketh
me with breach upon breach,
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he runneth upon me like a
giant. I have sewed sackcloth
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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
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of death; not for any injustice
in mine hands: also my prayer is
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pure. O earth, cover not thou
my blood, and let my cry have no
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place. Also now,
behold, my witness is in heaven,
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and my record is on
high. My friends scorn me:
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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
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for his neighbor!
When a few years are come,
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then I shall go the way
whence I shall not return.
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Continuing in the
book of Job, chapter 17,
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This is the King James
Version. My breath is corrupt,
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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
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in their
provocation? Lay down now,
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put me in a surety with thee;
who is he that will strike hands
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with me? For thou hast hid
their heart from understanding:
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therefore shalt
thou not exalt them.
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He that speaketh flattery to his
friends, even the eyes of his
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children shall fail. He
hath made me also a byword
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of the people; and
aforetime I was as a tabret.
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Mine eye also is
dim by reason of sorrow,
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and all my
members are as a shadow.
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Upright men shall be astonied
at this, and the innocent
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shall stir up himself
against the hypocrite.
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The righteous also
shall hold on his way,
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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:
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for I cannot find
one wise man among you.
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My days are past, my
purposes are broken off,
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even the thoughts of my heart.
They change the night into day:
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the light is short
because of darkness.
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If I wait, the
grave is mine house:
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I have made my
bed in the darkness.
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I have said to
corruption, Thou art my father:
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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
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together is in the dust. -
Thank you for joining with me
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today to read this story of
Job. And as we take these words
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with us until we are together
again, may the Holy Spirit
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bring to our hearts the
same conviction that Job had
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that his trust in God
remain no matter what happened.
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Please come again and
join me next time. Goodbye.
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