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Job
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¶Then Job answered and said,
2 I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?
3 If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.
4 He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened
himself against him, and hath prospered?
5 Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth
them in his anger.
6 Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof
tremble.
7 Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the
stars.
8 Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves
of the sea.
9 Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of
the south.
10 Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders without
number.
11 Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not: he passeth on also, but
I perceive him not.
12 Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto
him, What doest thou?
13 If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop
under him.
14 ¶How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words
to reason with him?
15 Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I
would make supplication to my judge.
16 If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe
that he had hearkened unto my voice.
17 For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds
without cause.
18 He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with
bitterness.
19 If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment,
who shall set me a time to plead?
20 If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say,
I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.
21 Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would
despise my life.
22 ¶This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the
perfect and the wicked.
23 If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the
innocent.
24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the
faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he?
25 ¶Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they
see no good.
26 They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth
to the prey.
27 If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness,
and comfort myself:
28 I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold
me innocent.
29 If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
30 If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so
clean;
31 Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall
abhor me.
32 For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we
should come together in judgment.
33 Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand
upon us both.
34 Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify
me:
35 Then would I speak, and not fear him; but it is not so with me.
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Micah
5
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1 ¶Now gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he hath
laid siege against us: they shall smite the judge of Israel with
a rod upon the cheek.
2 But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the
thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me
that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from
of old, from everlasting.
3 Therefore will he give them up, until the time that she which
travaileth hath brought forth: then the remnant of his brethren
shall return unto the children of Israel.
4 And he shall stand and feed in the strength of the LORD, in the
majesty of the name of the LORD his God; and they shall abide: for
now shall he be great unto the ends of the earth.
5 And this man shall be the peace, when the Assyrian shall come
into our land: and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall
we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight principal men.
6 And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the
land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall he deliver us
from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth
within our borders.
7 ¶And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people
as a dew from the LORD, as the showers upon the grass, that tarrieth
not for man, nor waiteth for the sons of men.
8 And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst
of many people as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young
lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he go through, both treadeth
down, and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver.
9 Thine hand shall be lifted up upon thine adversaries, and all
thine enemies shall be cut off.
10 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD, that I
will cut off thy horses out of the midst of thee, and I will destroy
thy chariots:
11 And I will cut off the cities of thy land, and throw down all
thy strong holds:
12 And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand; and thou shalt
have no more soothsayers:
13 Thy graven images also will I cut off, and thy standing images
out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more worship the work
of thine hands.
14 And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: so will
I destroy thy cities.
15 And I will execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the heathen,
such as they have not heard.
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James
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1 ¶James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to
the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
2 ¶My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
3 Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
4 But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect
and entire, wanting nothing.
5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to
all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth
is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
7 For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of
the Lord.
8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
9 Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:
10 But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of
the grass he shall pass away.
11 For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth
the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the
fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in
his ways.
12 Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried,
he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised
to them that love him.
13 ¶Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God:
for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:
14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust,
and enticed.
15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin,
when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
16 Do not err, my beloved brethren.
17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh
down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither
shadow of turning.
18 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should
be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
19 ¶Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift
to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
20 For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
21 Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness,
and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save
your souls.
22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving
your own selves.
23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like
unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:
24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway
forgetteth what manner of man he was.
25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth
therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work,
this man shall be blessed in his deed.
26 If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his
tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.
27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this,
To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep
himself unspotted from the world.
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