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| 1 Then responded Job, and said– |
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| 2 Of a truth, I know that so it is, But how can a mortal be just with GOD? |
How should man – The court of heaven has regulations and ceremonies of respect to gain an audience with the King of kings. R1864:5
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| 3 If he choose to contend with him, he cannot answer him, one of a thousand: |
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| 4 Wise in heart, and alert in vigour, What man hath hardened himself against him, and prospered! |
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| 5 Who removeth mountains, unawares, Who overturneth them in his anger; |
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| 6 Who shaketh the earth, out of its place, and, the pillars thereof, shudder; |
Shaketh the earth – Shaking of the pillars of the present social structure in the coming time of trouble. R1813:2
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| 7 Who commandeth the sun, and it breaketh not forth, and, about the stars, he putteth a seal; |
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| 8 Who spreadeth out fire heavens, by himself alone! and marcheth along, on the heights of the sea; |
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| 9 Who made the Bear, the Giant and the Cluster, and the chambers of the south; |
Which maketh – He needed the assistance of the one who was able to create the earth and the heavens. R3424:4
By their numberless multitude, orderly grouping, continual yet never conflicting movements, perfect harmony and magnitude and mutual benign influence, do the shining host of heaven declare the glory of God. R1391:1
And Pleiades – The probable seat of divine empire. D653
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| 10 Who doeth great things, past finding out, and marvels, beyond number. |
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| 11 Lo! he cometh upon me, yet can I not see him, Yea he passeth on, yet can I not discern him. |
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| 12 Lo! he snatcheth away, who can bring it back? Who shall say unto him, What wouldst thou do? |
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| 13 As for GOD, if he withdraw not his anger, under him, will have submitted themselves–the proud helpers. |
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| 14 How much less that, I, should answer him, should choose my words with him? |
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| 15 Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, to be absolved, I would make supplication. |
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| 16 Though I had called, and he had answered me, I could not believe, that he would lend an ear to my voice. |
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| 17 For, with a tempest, would he fall upon me, and would multiply my wounds without need; |
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| 18 He would not suffer me to recover my breath, for he would surfeit me with bitter things. |
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| 19 If it regardeth vigour, bold is he! If justice, who could summon him? |
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| 20 If I should justify myself, mine own mouth, would condemn me,–I blameless? then had it shewn me perverse. |
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| 21 I blameless? I should not know my own soul, I should despise my own life! |
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| 22 One thing, there is, for which cause, I have said it, The blameless and the lawless, he bringeth to an end. |
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| 23 If, a scourge, slay suddenly, at the despair of innocent ones, he mocketh. |
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| 24 The earth, hath been given into the hand of a lawless one, The faces of her judges, he covereth, If not, then who is it? |
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| 25 My days, therefore, are swifter than a runner, They have fled, they have seen no good. |
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| 26 They have passed away with boats of paper-reed, like a vulture [which] rusheth upon food. |
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| 27 If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will lay aside my sad countenance, and brighten up, |
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| 28 I am afraid of all my pains, I know, that thou wilt not pronounce me innocent. |
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| 29 I, shall be held guilty,–Wherefore then, in vain, should I toil? |
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| 30 Though I bathe myself in snow water, and cleanse, in cleanness itself, my hands, |
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| 31 Then, in a ditch, wouldst thou plunge me, and mine own clothes should abhor me: |
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| 32 For he is not a man like myself, whom I might answer, nor could we come together into judgment: |
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| 33 There is not, between us, a mediator, who might lay his hand upon us both. |
Any daysman – An expression on Job's part of his need of a mediator between God and himself. R1506:1, R5402:1
Our Lord Jesus, the appointed "daysman" said: "No man cometh unto the Father but by me." (John 14:6) R1864:6
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| 34 Let him take from off me his rod, and, his terror, let it not startle me: |
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| 35 I could speak, and not be afraid of him, although, not so, am, I, in myself! |
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