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Job
25
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¶Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
2 Dominion and fear are with him, he maketh peace in his high places.
3 Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth not his
light arise?
4 How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean
that is born of a woman?
5 Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are
not pure in his sight.
6 How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is
a worm?
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Job
26
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¶But Job answered and said,
2 How hast thou helped him that is without power? how savest thou
the arm that hath no strength?
3 How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom? and how hast
thou plentifully declared the thing as it is?
4 To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee?
5 ¶Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants
thereof.
6 Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.
7 He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth
the earth upon nothing.
8 He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is
not rent under them.
9 He holdeth back the face of his throne, and spreadeth his cloud
upon it.
10 He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night
come to an end.
11 The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof.
12 He divideth the sea with his power, and by his understanding
he smiteth through the proud.
13 By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed
the crooked serpent.
14 Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is
heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?
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Job
27
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¶Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,
2 As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty,
who hath vexed my soul;
3 All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in
my nostrils;
4 My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.
5 God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove
mine integrity from me.
6 My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart
shall not reproach me so long as I live.
7 ¶Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against
me as the unrighteous.
8 For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained,
when God taketh away his soul?
9 Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him?
10 Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call
upon God?
11 ¶I will teach you by the hand of God: that which is with
the Almighty will I not conceal.
12 Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye thus
altogether vain?
13 This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage
of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty.
14 If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring
shall not be satisfied with bread.
15 Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows
shall not weep.
16 Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as
the clay;
17 He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent
shall divide the silver.
18 He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth that the keeper
maketh.
19 The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he
openeth his eyes, and he is not.
20 Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away
in the night.
21 The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm
hurleth him out of his place.
22 For God shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee
out of his hand.
23 Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of
his place.
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Zechariah
2
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1 ¶I lifted up mine eyes again, and looked, and behold a man
with a measuring line in his hand.
2 Then said I, Whither goest thou? And he said unto me, To measure
Jerusalem, to see what is the breadth thereof, and what is the length
thereof.
3 And, behold, the angel that talked with me went forth, and another
angel went out to meet him,
4 And said unto him, Run, speak to this young man, saying, Jerusalem
shall be inhabited as towns without walls for the multitude of men
and cattle therein:
5 For I, saith the LORD, will be unto her a wall of fire round about,
and will be the glory in the midst of her.
6 ¶Ho, ho, come forth, and flee from the land of the north,
saith the LORD: for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of
the heaven, saith the LORD.
7 Deliver thyself, O Zion, that dwellest with the daughter of Babylon.
8 For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent
me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you
toucheth the apple of his eye.
9 For, behold, I will shake mine hand upon them, and they shall
be a spoil to their servants: and ye shall know that the LORD of
hosts hath sent me.
10 ¶Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion: for, lo, I come,
and I will dwell in the midst of thee, saith the LORD.
11 And many nations shall be joined to the LORD in that day, and
shall be my people: and I will dwell in the midst of thee, and thou
shalt know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto thee.
12 And the LORD shall inherit Judah his portion in the holy land,
and shall choose Jerusalem again.
13 Be silent, O all flesh, before the LORD: for he is raised up
out of his holy habitation.
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Zechariah
3
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1 ¶And he shewed me Joshua the high priest standing before
the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist
him.
2 And the LORD said unto Satan, The LORD rebuke thee, O Satan; even
the LORD that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee: is not this a brand
plucked out of the fire?
3 Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and stood before
the angel.
4 And he answered and spake unto those that stood before him, saying,
Take away the filthy garments from him. And unto him he said, Behold,
I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe
thee with change of raiment.
5 And I said, Let them set a fair mitre upon his head. So they set
a fair mitre upon his head, and clothed him with garments. And the
angel of the LORD stood by.
6 And the angel of the LORD protested unto Joshua, saying,
7 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; If thou wilt walk in my ways, and
if thou wilt keep my charge, then thou shalt also judge my house,
and shalt also keep my courts, and I will give thee places to walk
among these that stand by.
8 ¶Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, thou, and thy fellows
that sit before thee: for they are men wondered at: for, behold,
I will bring forth my servant the BRANCH.
9 For behold the stone that I have laid before Joshua; upon one
stone shall be seven eyes: behold, I will engrave the graving thereof,
saith the LORD of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of that
land in one day.
10 In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall ye call every man
his neighbour under the vine and under the fig tree.
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Jude
1
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1 ¶Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James,
to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in
Jesus Christ, and called:
2 Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied.
3 ¶Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of
the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and
exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which
was once delivered unto the saints.
4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of
old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace
of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and
our Lord Jesus Christ.
5 I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this,
how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt,
afterward destroyed them that believed not.
6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their
own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness
unto the judgment of the great day.
7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like
manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange
flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of
eternal fire.
8 ¶Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise
dominion, and speak evil of dignities.
9 Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed
about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation,
but said, The Lord rebuke thee.
10 But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but
what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they
corrupt themselves.
11 Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran
greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the
gainsaying of Core.
12 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with
you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water,
carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit,
twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering
stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying,
Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
15 ¶To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that
are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have
ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly
sinners have spoken against him.
16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts;
and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons
in admiration because of advantage.
17 But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before
of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
18 How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time,
who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
19 These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the
Spirit.
20 But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith,
praying in the Holy Ghost,
21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of
our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
22 And of some have compassion, making a difference:
23 And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating
even the garment spotted by the flesh.
24 Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present
you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,
25 To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion
and power, both now and ever. Amen.
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