Hello, and welcome
to His Words are Life.
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We're going to continue today
in reading the story of Job.
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But before we
start, let's pray together.
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Dear heavenly father,
please send the Holy Spirit now,
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to be with us as we read these
words, and may we each hear
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from them the lessons
you have for us today.
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We love you so much.
Thank you for loving us. Amen.
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Job has lost his health,
his children, his wealth,
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the support of his wife,
the support of his friends.
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Everything is against him, and
yet Job is arguing that he has
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lived a life, blameless
before God. Now his friends are
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arguing that the only possible
cause for all that has come to
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Job's life is that he has
some secret sin, and they're
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entreating him to confess this
and turn from it. And they're
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going back and forth and
discussing the role of tragedy
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and suffering in the life
of someone who serves the Lord.
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What causes it? Why is it there?
There's a lot of questions,
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a lot of arguments, a lot
of answers. We're picking up
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the discussion in Job,
chapter 22, as his friend
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Eliphaz is saying to him,
If you will return to the Lord,
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he will put away your sin. We'll
begin reading now in verse 25.
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This is the King James Version.
Yea, the Almighty shall be thy
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defense, and thou
shalt have plenty of silver.
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For then shalt thou have
thy delight in the Almighty,
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and thou shalt lift up thy face
unto God. Thou shalt make thy
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prayer unto him, and he shall
hear thee, and thou shalt pay
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thy vows. Thou shalt also
decree a thing, and it shall be
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established unto thee: and the
light shall shine upon thy ways.
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When men are cast down, then
thou shalt say, There is lifting
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up; and he shall save the humble
person. He shall deliver the
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island of the innocent: and
it is delivered by the pureness
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of thine hands. We're
continuing in Job, chapter 23.
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This is the King James Version.
Then Job answered and said,
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even today is my complaint
bitter: my stroke is heavier
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than my groaning. Oh that I
knew where I might find him!
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that I might come even to
his seat! I would order my cause
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before him! and fill
my mouth with arguments.
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I would know the words which he
would answer me, and understand
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what he would say unto me. Will
he plead against me with his
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great power? No; but he
would put strength in me.
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There the righteous
might dispute with him;
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so should I be delivered
for ever from my judge.
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Behold, I go forward, but he is
not there; and backward, but I
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cannot perceive him: On the
left hand, where he doth work,
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but I cannot behold him: he
hideth himself on the right hand
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that I cannot see him: But
he knoweth the way that I take:
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when he hath tried me, I
shall come forth as gold.
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My foot hath held his
steps, his way have I kept,
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and not declined. Neither have
I gone back from the commandment
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of his lips; I have esteemed
the words of his mouth more than
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my necessary food. But he is in
one mind, and who can turn him?
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and what his soul
desireth, even that he doeth.
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For he performeth the
thing that is appointed for me:
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and many such things are with
him. Therefore am I troubled
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at his presence: when I
consider. I am afraid of him.
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For God maketh my heart soft,
and the Almighty troubleth me:
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Because I was not cut
off before the darkness,
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neither hath he covered
the darkness from my face.
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We're continuing with Job,
chapter 24, and this is the
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King James Version. Why, seeing
times are not hidden from the
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Almighty, do they that
know him not see his days?
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Some remove the landmarks;
they violently take away flocks,
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and feed thereof. They drive
away the ass of the fatherless,
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they take the widow's ox for
a pledge. They turn the needy
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out of the way: the poor of the
earth hide themselves together.
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Behold, as wild asses in the
desert, go thy forth to their
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work; rising betimes for a prey:
the wilderness yieldeth food
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for them and for their children.
They reap every one his corn
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in the field: and they gather
the vintage of the wicked.
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They cause the naked to lodge
without clothing, that they have
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no covering in the cold.
They wet with the showers of the
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mountains, and embrace the
rock for want of a shelter.
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They pluck the fatherless from
the breast, and take a pledge
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of the poor. They cause him
to go naked without clothing,
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and they take away
the sheaf from the hungry;
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which make oil within their
walls, and tread their wine
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presses, and suffer thirst.
Men groan from out of the city,
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and the soul of the wounded
crieth out: yet God layeth not
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folly to them. They are of those
that rebel against the light;
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they know not the ways thereof,
nor abide in the paths thereof.
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The murderer rising with
the light killeth the poor and
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needy, and in the night is
as a thief. The eye also of the
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adulterer waiteth for the
twilight, saying, No eye shall
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see me and disguiseth his face.
In the dark they dig through
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houses, which they had marked
for themselves in the daytime:
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they know not the light. For the
morning is to them even as the
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shadow of death: if one know
them, they are in the terrors
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of the shadow of death.
He is swift as the waters;
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their portion is cursed in the
earth: he beholdeth not the way
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of the vineyards. Drought and
heat consume the snow waters:
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so doth the grave
those which have sinned.
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The womb shall forget him; the
worm shall feed sweetly on him;
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he shall be no more remembered;
and wickedness shall be broken
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as a tree. He evil entreateth
the barren that beareth not:
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and doeth not good to the widow.
He draweth also the mighty
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with his power: he riseth up
and no man is sure of his life.
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though it be given him to be
in safety, whereon he resteth;
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yet his eyes are upon their
ways. They are exalted for a
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little while, but
are gone and brought low;
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they are taken out of the
way as all other, and cut off
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as the tops of the ears of
corn. And if it be not so now,
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who will make me a liar, and
make my speech worth nothing?
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Continuing with Job, chapter 25.
This is the King James Version.
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Then answered Bildad the Shuhite
and said, Dominion and fear
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are with him, he maketh
peace in his high places.
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Is there any number of his
armies? and upon whom doth not
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his light arise? How then
can man be justified with God?
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Or how can he be clean
that is born of a woman?
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Behold even to the moon, and
it shineth not; yea, the stars
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are not pure in his sight. How
much less man, that is a worm?
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and the son of
man, which is a worm?
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Job, chapter 26. But
Job answered and said,
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How hast thou helped him that
is without power? how savest
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thou the arm
that hath no strength?
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How has thou counseled
him that that hath no wisdom?
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and how hast thou plentifully
declared the thing as it is?
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To whom hast thou uttered words?
and whose spirit came from thee?
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Dead things are
formed from under the waters,
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and the inhabitants thereof.
Hell is naked before him, and
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destruction hath no covering.
He stretcheth out the north
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over the empty place, and
hangeth the earth upon nothing.
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He bindeth up the
waters in his thick clouds;
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and the cloud is not rent under
them. He holdeth back the face
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of his throne, and
spreadeth his cloud upon it.
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He hath compassed the waters
with bounds, until the day and
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night come to an end.
The pillars of heaven tremble
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and are astonished at his
reproof. He divideth the sea
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with his power, and by his
understanding he smiteth through
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the proud. By his spirit
he hath garnished the heavens;
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his hand hath formed the crooked
serpent. Lo, these are parts
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of his ways: but how little
a portion is heard of him?
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but the thunder of his
power who can understand?
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Continuing in chapter
27, the book of Job, and
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this is the King James
Version. Moreover Job continued
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his parable, and said, As God
liveth, who hath taken away my
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judgment; and the Almighty,
who hath vexed my soul;
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All the while my breath is in me
and the spirit of God is in my
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nostrils; My lips shall not
speak wickedness, nor my tongue
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utter deceit. God forbid that
I should justify you: till I die
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I will not remove mine integrity
from me. My righteousness
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I hold fast and will not let it
go: my heart shall not reproach
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me so long as I live. Let
mine enemy be as the wicked,
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and he that riseth up
against me as the unrighteous.
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for what is the hope of the
hypocrite, though he hath gained
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when God taketh away his
soul? Will God hear his cry when
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trouble cometh upon
him? Will he delight himself
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in the Almighty? will he always
call upon God? I will teach you
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by the hand of God: that which
is with the Almighty will I not
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conceal. Behold, all ye
yourselves have seen it;
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why then are ye
thus altogether vain?
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This is the portion of a wicked
man with God, and the heritage
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of oppressors, which they
shall receive of the Almighty.
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If his children be
multiplied, it is for the sword:
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and his offspring shall
not be satisfied with bread.
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Those that remain of him
shall be buried in death:
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and his widows shall not weep.
Though he heap up silver as the
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dust, and prepare raiment
as the clay; He may prepare it,
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but the just shall put it on,
and the innocent shall divide
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the silver. He
buildeth his house as a moth,
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and as a booth that the keeper
maketh. The rich man shall
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lie down, but he shall not be
gathered: he openeth his eyes,
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and he is not. Terrors
take hold on him as the waters,
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a tempest stealeth him
away in the night. The east wind
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carrieth him away, and
he departeth: and as a storm
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hurleth him out of his place.
For God shall cast upon him,
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and not spare: he would
fain flee out of his hand.
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Men shall clap their hands at
him, and shall hiss him out of
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his place. Continuing in
the book of Job, chapter 28.
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Surely there is a vein for
the silver, and a place for gold
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where they fine it. Iron
is taken out of the earth,
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and brass is molten out of
the stone. He setteth an end to
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darkness, and searcheth out
all perfection: the stones of
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darkness and the shadow of
death. The flood breaketh out
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from the inhabitant; even the
waters forgotten of the foot:
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they are dried up, they are gone
away from men. As for the earth
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out of it cometh bread:
and under it is turned up
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as it were fire. The stones of
it are the place of sapphires:
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and it hath dust of gold. There
is a path which no fowl knoweth
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and which the
vulture's eye hath not seen:
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The lion's whelps have not
trodden it, nor the fierce lion
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passed by it. He putteth
forth his hand upon the rock;
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he overturneth the mountains
by the roots. He cutteth out
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rivers among the rocks; and his
eye seeth every precious thing.
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He bindeth the floods from
overflowing; and the thing that
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is hid bringeth he forth to
light. But where shall wisdom
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be found? and where is
the place of understanding?
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Man knoweth not the price therof
neither is it found in the land
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of the living. The
depth saith, It is not in me:
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and the sea
saith, It is not with me.
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It cannot be gotten for gold,
neither shall silver be weighed
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for the price thereof. It cannot
be valued with the gold of Ophir
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with the precious
onyx, or the sapphire.
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The gold and the crystal cannot
equal it: and the exchange of it
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shall not be for jewels of fine
gold. No mention shall be made
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of coral, or of pearls: for
the price of wisdom is above
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rubies. The topaz of
Ethiopia shall not equal it,
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neither shall it be
valued with pure gold.
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Whence then cometh wisdom?
and where is the place of
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understanding? Seeing it is
hid from the eyes of all living,
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and kept close from
the fowls of the air.
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Destruction and death say,
We have heard the fame thereof
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with our ears. God understandeth
the way thereof, and he knoweth
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the place thereof. For he
looketh to the ends of the earth
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and seeth under the whole heaven
to make the weight for the winds
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and he weigheth the waters by
measure. When he made a decree
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for the rain, and a way for
the lightning of the thunder;
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then did he see it, and
declare it; he prepared it, yea,
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and searched it out. And unto
man he said, Behold, the fear of
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the Lord, that is
wisdom; and to depart from evil
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is understanding,
Continuing in Job, chapter 29.
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Moreover Job continued his
parable, and said, O that I were
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as in months past, as in
the days when God preserved me;
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When his candle shined upon
my head, and when by his light
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I walked through darkness; As
I was in the days of my youth,
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when the secret of God
was upon my tabernacle;
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Please join with me again to
read the word of God next time.
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Goodbye.
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