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| 1 A covenant I made for mine eyes, And what do I attend to a virgin |
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| 2 And what [is] the portion of God from above And the inheritance of the Mighty from the heights |
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| 3 Is not calamity to the perverse And strangeness to workers of iniquity |
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| 4 Doth not He see my ways, And all my steps number |
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| 5 If I have walked with vanity, And my foot doth hasten to deceit, |
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| 6 He doth weigh me in righteous balances, And God doth know my integrity. |
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| 7 If my step doth turn aside from the way, And after mine eyes hath my heart gone, And to my hands cleaved hath blemish, |
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| 8 Let me sow and another eat, And my products let be rooted out. |
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| 9 If my heart hath been enticed by woman, And by the opening of my neighbour I laid wait, |
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| 10 Grind to another let my wife, And over her let others bend. |
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| 11 For it [is] a wicked thing, and a judicial iniquity; |
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| 12 For a fire it [is], to destruction it consumeth, And among all mine increase doth take root, |
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| 13 If I despise the cause of my man-servant, And of my handmaid, In their contending with me, |
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| 14 Then what do I do when God ariseth And when He doth inspect, What do I answer Him |
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| 15 Did not He that made me in the womb make him Yea, prepare us in the womb doth One. |
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| 16 If I withhold from pleasure the poor, And the eyes of the widow do consume, |
The widow – Job, a man of great generosity, considered the widow. R5401:6
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| 17 And I do eat my morsel by myself, And the orphan hath not eat of it, |
Fatherless – Job was a man of great generosity who considered the orphan. R5401:6
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| 18 (But from my youth He grew up with me as [with] a father, And from the belly of my mother I am led.) |
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| 19 If I see [any] perishing without clothing, And there is no covering to the needy, |
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| 20 If his loins have not blessed me, And from the fleece of my sheep He doth not warm himself, |
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| 21 If I have waved at the fatherless my hand, When I see in [him] the gate of my court, |
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| 22 My shoulder from its blade let fall, And mine arm from the bone be broken. |
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| 23 For a dread unto me [is] calamity [from] God, And because of His excellency I am not able. |
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| 24 If I have made gold my confidence, And to the pure gold have said, 'My trust,' |
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| 25 If I rejoice because great [is] my wealth, And because abundance hath my hand found, |
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| 26 If I see the light when it shineth, And the precious moon walking, |
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| 27 And my heart is enticed in secret, And my hand doth kiss my mouth, |
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| 28 It also [is] a judicial iniquity, For I had lied to God above. |
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| 29 If I rejoice at the ruin of my hater, And stirred up myself when evil found him, |
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| 30 Yea, I have not suffered my mouth to sin, To ask with an oath his life. |
Mouth to sin – Job in the midst of all his afflictions, was very careful not to sin with his lips. R1937:3
How necessary this is to the stability of Christian character. R1937:3
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| 31 If not say ye, O men of my tent, 'O that we had of his flesh, we are not satisfied.' |
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| 32 In the street doth not lodge a stranger, My doors to the traveller I open. |
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| 33 If I have covered as Adam my transgressions, To hide in my bosom mine iniquity, |
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| 34 Because I fear a great multitude, And the contempt of families doth affright me, Then I am silent, I go not out of the opening. |
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| 35 Who giveth to me a hearing lo, my mark. The Mighty One doth answer me, And a bill hath mine adversary written. |
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| 36 If not on my shoulder I take it up, I bind it a crown on myself. |
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| 37 The number of my steps I tell Him, As a leader I approach Him. |
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| 38 If against me my land doth cry out, And together its furrows weep, |
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| 39 If its strength I consumed without money, And the life of its possessors, I have caused to breathe out, |
The owners – Margin: the soul of owners. It is not the body, but the being, called in the scripture, "soul," that dies. R205:4, R277:1
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| 40 Instead of wheat let a thorn go forth, And instead of barley a useless weed! The words of Job are finished. |
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