|
Job
12
|
|
1
¶And Job answered and said,
2 No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.
3 But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to
you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these?
4 I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and
he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn.
5 He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in
the thought of him that is at ease.
6 ¶The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke
God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.
7 But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls
of the air, and they shall tell thee:
8 Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes
of the sea shall declare unto thee.
9 Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the LORD hath wrought
this?
10 In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath
of all mankind.
11 Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat?
12 ¶With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.
13 With him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and understanding.
14 Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth
up a man, and there can be no opening.
15 Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he sendeth
them out, and they overturn the earth.
16 With him is strength and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver
are his.
17 He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools.
18 He looseth the bond of kings, and girdeth their loins with a
girdle.
19 He leadeth princes away spoiled, and overthroweth the mighty.
20 He removeth away the speech of the trusty, and taketh away the
understanding of the aged.
21 He poureth contempt upon princes, and weakeneth the strength
of the mighty.
22 He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out
to light the shadow of death.
23 He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he enlargeth
the nations, and straiteneth them again.
24 He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth,
and causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
25 They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger
like a drunken man.
|
|
|
Nahum
1
|
|
1 ¶The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the
Elkoshite.
2 ¶God is jealous, and the LORD revengeth; the LORD revengeth,
and is furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries,
and he reserveth wrath for his enemies.
3 The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at
all acquit the wicked: the LORD hath his way in the whirlwind and
in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
4 He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the
rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon
languisheth.
5 The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth
is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.
6 Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the
fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the
rocks are thrown down by him.
7 The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he
knoweth them that trust in him.
8 But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the
place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.
9 ¶What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter
end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.
10 For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are
drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.
11 There is one come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the
LORD, a wicked counsellor.
12 Thus saith the LORD; Though they be quiet, and likewise many,
yet thus shall they be cut down, when he shall pass through. Though
I have afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no more.
13 For now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy
bonds in sunder.
14 And the LORD hath given a commandment concerning thee, that no
more of thy name be sown: out of the house of thy gods will I cut
off the graven image and the molten image: I will make thy grave;
for thou art vile.
15 Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good
tidings, that publisheth peace! O Judah, keep thy solemn feasts,
perform thy vows: for the wicked shall no more pass through thee;
he is utterly cut off.
|
|
Nahum
2
|
|
1 ¶He that dasheth in pieces is come up before thy face: keep
the munition, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy
power mightily.
2 For the LORD hath turned away the excellency of Jacob, as the
excellency of Israel: for the emptiers have emptied them out, and
marred their vine branches.
3 The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are
in scarlet: the chariots shall be with flaming torches in the day
of his preparation, and the fir trees shall be terribly shaken.
4 The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall justle one
against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches,
they shall run like the lightnings.
5 He shall recount his worthies: they shall stumble in their walk;
they shall make haste to the wall thereof, and the defence shall
be prepared.
6 The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall
be dissolved.
7 And Huzzab shall be led away captive, she shall be brought up,
and her maids shall lead her as with the voice of doves, tabering
upon their breasts.
8 But Nineveh is of old like a pool of water: yet they shall flee
away. Stand, stand, shall they cry; but none shall look back.
9 Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold: for there
is none end of the store and glory out of all the pleasant furniture.
10 She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and
the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the
faces of them all gather blackness.
11 ¶Where is the dwelling of the lions, and the feedingplace
of the young lions, where the lion, even the old lion, walked, and
the lion's whelp, and none made them afraid?
12 The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled
for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens
with ravin.
13 Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will
burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword shall devour thy young
lions: and I will cut off thy prey from the earth, and the voice
of thy messengers shall no more be heard.
|
|
|
|
James
5
|
|
1 ¶Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries
that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be
a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire.
Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
4 Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields,
which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them
which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
5 Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have
nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
6 Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist
you.
7 Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold,
the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and
hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter
rain.
8 Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the
Lord draweth nigh.
9 Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned:
behold, the judge standeth before the door.
10 Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name
of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.
11 Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the
patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord
is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
12 ¶But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by
heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let
your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.
13 Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him
sing psalms.
14 Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church;
and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of
the Lord:
15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall
raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven
him.
16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another,
that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous
man availeth much.
17 Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed
earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth
by the space of three years and six months.
18 And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth
brought forth her fruit.
19 Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert
him;
20 Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error
of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude
of sins.
|
|
