Hello, and welcome
back to His Words are Life.
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I'm Kelly Mowrer, and before
we read, let's pray together.
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Dear God in heaven, thank
you for bringing us safely again
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to this time together where
we can pause from all of the
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different things that we
have going on and just sit
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in your presence
and listen to your word.
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Please send the Holy
Spirit to bring understanding
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to our hearts. Thank you
for hearing our prayer. Amen.
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We are reading in the book
of Job. Job and his 3 friends
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are having an ongoing discussion
about pain and trial and
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suffering that come
into the life of someone who
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was obeying God and walking
with him. Job is speaking.
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We're starting in
chapter 29, with verse 5.
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And Job has just begun by saying
"Oh that it were with me still
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the way it was when God was
kind to me and had preserved me,
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and kept me when his
candle shined upon me.
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We pick up Job's
speech, beginning in verse 5.
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When the Almighty was
yet with me, when my children
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were about me. When I
washed my steps with butter,
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and the rock poured out rivers
of oil; When I went out to the
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gate through the city, when I
prepared my seat in the street!
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The young men saw me and hid
themselves: and the aged arose,
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and stood up. The
princes refrained talking,
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and laid their hand on their
mouth. The nobles held their
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peace, and the tongue cleaved
to the roof of their mouth.
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When the ear heard me, then
it blessed me; and when the eye
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saw me, it gave witness to
me: Because I delivered the poor
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that cried, and the fatherless,
and him that had none to help
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him. The blessing of
him that was ready to perish
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came upon me and I caused the
widow's heart to sing for joy.
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I put on righteousness, and it
clothed me: my judgment was as
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a robe and a diadem. I was eyes
to the blind, and feet was I
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to the lame. I was a father
to the poor: and the cause which
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I knew not I searched out.
And I brake the jaws of the
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wicked and plucked the spoil
out of his teeth. Then I said,
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I shall die in my nest,
and I shall multiply my days
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as the sand. My root was spread
out by the waters, and the dew
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lay all night upon my branch.
My glory was fresh in me,
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and my bow was renewed in
my hand. Unto me men gave ear,
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and waited and kept silence
at my counsel. After my words
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they spake not again; and
my speech dropped upon them.
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And they waited for me as for
the rain; and they opened their
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mouth wide as for the latter
rain. If I laughed on them,
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they believed it not; and
the light of my countenance
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they cast not down. I chose
out their way, and sat chief,
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and dwelt as a king in the
army, as one that comforteth
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the mourners.
Continuing in Job, chapter 30.
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This is the King James Version.
But now they that are younger
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than I have me in derision,
whose fathers I would have
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disdained to have set
with the dogs of my flock.
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Yea, whereto might the strength
of their hands profit me,
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in whom old age was perished?
For want and famine they were
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solitary; fleeing into
the wilderness in former time
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desolate and waste. Who
cut up mallows by the bushes,
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and juniper roots for their
meat. They were driven forth
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from among men, they cried
after them as after a thief;
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to dwell in the cliffs of the
valleys, in caves of the earth,
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and in the rocks.
Among the bushes they brayed;
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under the nettles they
were gathered together.
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They were children of
fools, yea children of base men:
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they were viler than the earth.
And now am I their song, yea,
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I am their byword. They
abhor me, they flee far from me,
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and spare not to spit in my
face. Because he hath loosed
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my cord, and afflicted me, they
have also let loose the bridle
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before me. Upon my right hand
rise the youth; they push away
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my feet, and they raise up
against me the ways of their
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destruction. They mar my path,
they set forward my calamity,
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they have no helper. They came
upon me as a wide breaking in
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of waters: in the desolation
they rolled themselves upon me.
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Terrors are turned upon me:
they pursue my soul as the wind:
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and my welfare passeth away
as a cloud. And now my soul is
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poured out upon me; the days
of affliction have taken hold
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upon me. My bones are pierced
in me in the night season:
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and my sinews take no rest.
By the great force of my disease
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is my garment changed: it
bindeth me about as the collar
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of my coat. He hath cast me into
the mire, and I am become like
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dust and ashes. I cry unto
thee, and thou dost not hear me:
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I stand up, and thou regardest
me not. Thou art become cruel
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to me: with thy strong hand thou
opposest thyself against me.
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Thou liftest me up to the wind;
thou causest me to ride upon it,
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and dissolvest my substance.
For I know that thou wilt bring
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me to death, and to the
house appointed for all living.
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Howbeit he will not stretch
out his hand to the grave,
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though they cry
in his destruction.
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Did not I weep for him that
was in trouble? was not my soul
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grieved for the poor?
When I looked for good,
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then evil came unto me:
and when I waited for light,
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there came darkness. My
bowels boiled, and rested not:
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the days of
affliction prevented me.
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I went mourning without the
sun: I stood up, and I cried
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in the congregation. I
am a brother to dragons,
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and a companion to owls. My skin
is black upon me, and my bones
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are burned with heat. My
harp also is turned to mourning,
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and my organ into the
voice of them that weep.
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We're continuing with
Job, chapter 31. This is
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the King James Version. - I
made a covenant with mine eyes
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why then should I think upon
a maid? For what portion of God
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is there from above? and
what inheritance of the Almighty
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from on high? Is not destruction
to the wicked? and a strange
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punishment to the workers
of iniquity? Doth not he see
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my ways, and count all my steps?
If I have walked with vanity,
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If my foot hath hasted to
deceit; let me be weighed in
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an even balance, that
God may know mine integrity.
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If my step hath turned out of
the way, and mine heart walked
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after mine eyes, and if any
blot hath cleaved to mine hands;
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Then let me
sow, and another eat;
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yea, let my offspring be rooted
out. If mine heart have been
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deceived by a woman, or if I
have laid wait at my neighbor's
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door; then let my wife grind
unto another, and let others bow
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down upon her. For this is
an heinous crime; yea, it is an
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iniquity to be punished by the
judges. For it is a fire that
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consumeth to destruction, and
would root out all mine increase
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If I did despise the
cause of my manservant or of my
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maidservant, when
they contended with me;
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What then shall I do when God
riseth up? and when he visiteth
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what shall I answer him? Did
not he that made me in the womb
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make him? and did not
one fashion us in the womb?
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If I have withheld the poor from
their desire, or have caused
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the eyes of the widow to fail;
Or have eaten my morsel myself
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alone, and the fatherless
hath not eaten thereof;
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For from my youth he was brought
up with me, as with a father,
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and I have guided her
from my mother's womb;
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If I have seen any
perish for want of clothing,
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or any poor without covering;
If his loins have not blessed
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me, and if he were not warmed
with the fleece of my sheep;
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If I have lifted up my
hand against the fatherless,
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when I saw my help in the gate:
Then let mine arm fall from my
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shoulder blade, and mine
arm be broken from the bone.
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For destruction from God was
a terror to me, and by reason of
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his highness I could not endure.
If I have made gold my hope,
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or have said to the fine
gold, Thou art my confidence;
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If I have rejoiced
because my wealth was great,
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and because mine hand had gotten
much; If I beheld the sun when
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it shined, or the moon walking
in brightness; and my heart
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hath been secretly enticed,
or my mouth hath kissed my hand:
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This also were an iniquity
to be punished by the judge:
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for I should have denied the
God that is above. If I rejoiced
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at the destruction of him that
hated me, or lifted up myself
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when evil found him: Neither
have I suffered my mouth to sin
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by wishing a curse to his soul.
If the men of my tabernacle
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said not, Oh that we had of his
flesh! we cannot be satisfied.
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The stranger did not lodge
in the street: but I opened my
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doors to the traveler. If
I covered my transgressions
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as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity
in my bosom: Did I fear a great
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multitude, or did the
contempt of families terrify me,
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that I kept silence, and
went not out of the door?
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Oh, that one would hear
me! behold, my desire is,
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that the Almighty would answer
me, and that mine adversary
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had written a book. Surely I
would take it upon my shoulder,
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and bind it as a crown to
me. I would declare unto him
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the number of my steps; as a
prince would I go near unto him.
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If my land cry against me,
or that the furrows likewise
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thereof complain; If I have
eaten the fruits thereof without
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money, or have caused the owners
thereof to lose their life:
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Let thistles grow instead
of wheat, and cockle instead of
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barley. The
words of Job are ended.
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We're continuing
now in Job chapter 32,
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and this is the
King James Version.
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So these three men ceased
to answer Job, because he was
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righteous in his own eyes. Then
was kindled the wrath of Elihu
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the son of Barachel the
Buzite, of the kindred of Ram:
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against Job was his wrath
kindled, because he justified
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himself rather than God.
Also against his three friends
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was his wrath kindled, because
they had found no answer,
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and yet had condemned Job. Now
Elihu had waited till Job had
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spoken, because they were elder
than he. When Elihu saw that
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there was no answer in the mouth
of these three men, then his
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wrath was kindled. And Elihu
the son of Barachel the Buzite
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answered and said, I am young,
and ye are very old; wherefore
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I was afraid, and durst not shew
you mine opinion. I said, Days
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should speak, and multitude
of years should teach wisdom.
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But there is a spirit
in man: and the inspiration
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of the Almighty
giveth them understanding.
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Great men are not always wise:
neither do the aged understand
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judgment. Therefore
I said, Hearken to me;
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I also will shew mine opinion.
Behold, I waited for your words;
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I gave ear to your
reasons, whilst ye searched out
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what to say. Yea, I attended
unto you, and, behold, there was
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none of you that convinced
Job, or that answered his words:
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Lest ye should say,
We have found out wisdom:
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God thrusteth him down, not
man. Now he hath not directed
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his words against me: neither
will I answer him with your
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speeches. They were
amazed, they answered no more:
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they left off speaking. When I
had waited, for they spake not,
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but stood still, and answered no
more; I said, I will answer also
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my part, I also will shew my
opinion. For I am full of matter
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the spirit within
me constraineth me.
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Behold, my belly is as
wine which hath no vent; it is
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ready to burst like new bottles.
I will speak, that I may be
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refreshed: I will open my lips
and answer. Let me not, I pray
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you, accept any man's person,
neither let me give flattering
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titles unto man. For I know
not to give flattering titles;
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in so doing my maker
would soon take me away.
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We're continuing
with Job, chapter 33.
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Wherefore, Job, I pray thee,
hear my speeches, and hearken
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to all my words. Behold, now I
have opened my mouth, my tongue
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hath spoken in my
mouth. My words shall be of the
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uprightness of my heart: and
my lips shall utter knowledge
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clearly. The spirit of God hath
made me, and the breath of the
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Almighty hath given me
life. If thou canst answer me,
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set thy words in order
before me, stand up. Behold,
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I am according to thy wish
in God's stead: I also am formed
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out of the clay. Behold,
my terror shall not make thee
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afraid, neither shall
my hand be heavy upon thee.
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Surely thou hast spoken in
mine hearing, and I have heard
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the voice of thy words, saying,
I am clean without transgression
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I am innocent; neither
is there iniquity in me.
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