Job
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English: New American Standard Bible |
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Job 10 [Commentary]
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"I loathe my own life; I will give full vent to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
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"I will say to God, `Do not condemn me; Let me know why You contend with me.
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`Is it right for You indeed to oppress, To reject the labor of Your hands, And to look favorably on the schemes of the wicked?
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`Have You eyes of flesh? Or do You see as a man sees?
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`Are Your days as the days of a mortal, Or Your years as man's years,
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That You should seek for my guilt And search after my sin?
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`According to Your knowledge I am indeed not guilty, Yet there is no deliverance from Your hand.
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`Your hands fashioned and made me altogether, And would You destroy me?
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`Remember now, that You have made me as clay; And would You turn me into dust again?
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`Did You not pour me out like milk And curdle me like cheese;
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Clothe me with skin and flesh, And knit me together with bones and sinews?
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`You have granted me life and lovingkindness; And Your care has preserved my spirit.
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`Yet these things You have concealed in Your heart; I know that this is within You:
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If I sin, then You would take note of me, And would not acquit me of my guilt.
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`If I am wicked, woe to me! And if I am righteous, I dare not lift up my head. I am sated with disgrace and conscious of my misery.
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`Should my head be lifted up, You would hunt me like a lion; And again You would show Your power against me.
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`You renew Your witnesses against me And increase Your anger toward me; Hardship after hardship is with me.
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`Why then have You brought me out of the womb? Would that I had died and no eye had seen me!
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`I should have been as though I had not been, Carried from womb to tomb.'
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"Would He not let my few days alone? Withdraw from me that I may have a little cheer
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Before I go--and I shall not return-- To the land of darkness and deep shadow,
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The land of utter gloom as darkness itself, Of deep shadow without order, And which shines as the darkness."
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Job 11 [Commentary]
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Then Zophar the Naamathite answered, |
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"Shall a multitude of words go unanswered, And a talkative man be acquitted?
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"Shall your boasts silence men? And shall you scoff and none rebuke?
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"For you have said, `My teaching is pure, And I am innocent in your eyes.'
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"But would that God might speak, And open His lips against you,
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And show you the secrets of wisdom! For sound wisdom has two sides. Know then that God forgets a part of your iniquity.
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"Can you discover the depths of God? Can you discover the limits of the Almighty?
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"They are high as the heavens, what can you do? Deeper than Sheol, what can you know?
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"Its measure is longer than the earth And broader than the sea.
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"If He passes by or shuts up, Or calls an assembly, who can restrain Him?
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"For He knows false men, And He sees iniquity without investigating.
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"An idiot will become intelligent When the foal of a wild donkey is born a man.
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"If you would direct your heart right And spread out your hand to Him,
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If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away, And do not let wickedness dwell in your tents;
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"Then, indeed, you could lift up your face without moral defect, And you would be steadfast and not fear.
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"For you would forget your trouble, As waters that have passed by, you would remember it.
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"Your life would be brighter than noonday; Darkness would be like the morning.
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"Then you would trust, because there is hope; And you would look around and rest securely.
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"You would lie down and none would disturb you, And many would entreat your favor.
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"But the eyes of the wicked will fail, And there will be no escape for them; And their hope is to breathe their last."
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Job 12 [Commentary]
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Then Job responded, |
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"Truly then you are the people, And with you wisdom will die!
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"But I have intelligence as well as you; I am not inferior to you. And who does not know such things as these?
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"I am a joke to my friends, The one who called on God and He answered him; The just and blameless man is a joke.
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"He who is at ease holds calamity in contempt, As prepared for those whose feet slip.
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"The tents of the destroyers prosper, And those who provoke God are secure, Whom God brings into their power.
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"But now ask the beasts, and let them teach you; And the birds of the heavens, and let them tell you.
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"Or speak to the earth, and let it teach you; And let the fish of the sea declare to you.
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"Who among all these does not know That the hand of the LORD has done this,
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In whose hand is the life of every living thing, And the breath of all mankind?
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"Does not the ear test words, As the palate tastes its food?
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"Wisdom is with aged men, With long life is understanding.
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"With Him are wisdom and might; To Him belong counsel and understanding.
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"Behold, He tears down, and it cannot be rebuilt; He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.
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"Behold, He restrains the waters, and they dry up; And He sends them out, and they inundate the earth.
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"With Him are strength and sound wisdom, The misled and the misleader belong to Him.
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"He makes counselors walk barefoot And makes fools of judges.
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"He loosens the bond of kings And binds their loins with a girdle.
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"He makes priests walk barefoot And overthrows the secure ones.
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"He deprives the trusted ones of speech And takes away the discernment of the elders.
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"He pours contempt on nobles And loosens the belt of the strong.
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"He reveals mysteries from the darkness And brings the deep darkness into light.
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"He makes the nations great, then destroys them; He enlarges the nations, then leads them away.
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"He deprives of intelligence the chiefs of the earth's people And makes them wander in a pathless waste.
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"They grope in darkness with no light, And He makes them stagger like a drunken man.
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