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| 1 Lo, all hath mine eye seen, Heard hath mine ear, and it attendeth to it. |
Lo – Commencing Job's masterly reply. R5402:1
Hath heard – The false reasonings of his friends (which many improperly quote as inspired). R5402:1
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| 2 According to your knowledge I have known also I. I am not fallen more than you. |
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| 3 Yet I for the Mighty One do speak, And to argue for God I delight. |
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| 4 And yet, ye [are] forgers of falsehood, Physicians of nought all of you, |
Of no value – His friends told him that he must have been a great sinner and a hypocrite. R5401:6
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| 5 O that ye would keep perfectly silent, And it would be to you for wisdom. |
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| 6 Hear, I pray you, my argument, And to the pleadings of my lips attend, |
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| 7 For God do ye speak perverseness And for Him do ye speak deceit |
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| 8 His face do ye accept, if for God ye strive |
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| 9 Is [it] good that He doth search you, If, as one mocketh at a man, ye mock at Him |
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| 10 He doth surely reprove you, if in secret ye accept faces. |
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| 11 Doth not His excellency terrify you And His dread fall upon you |
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| 12 Your remembrances [are] similes of ashes, For high places of clay your heights. |
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| 13 Keep silent from me, and I speak, And pass over me doth what |
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| 14 Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth And my soul put in my hand
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| 15 Lo, He doth slay me I wait not! Only, my ways unto His face I argue. |
Though he slay me – Though much cast down, he maintained his integrity and his faith in the Lord. R5803:4
He sought in vain for an explanation. R5401:6
Many of God's people since have been similarly confused as to why God permits evil to come upon his faithful servants. R5402:1
Yet will I trust – Job's expression of confidence in God and in his ultimate deliverance. R5402:1
I shall yet receive his favor and learn what he means by these afflictions coming upon me. R5333:4
His trust was not misplaced. After his testings, God gave him back children, houses, lands and friends which foreshadowed the coming blessings of restitution. R5333:4
Mine own ways – Conscious of his own heart-honesty toward God, Job defends himself, but goes to too great an extreme in declaring his own innocence. R5401:6
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| 16 Also He [is] to me for salvation, For the profane cometh not before Him. |
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| 17 Hear ye diligently my word, And my declaration with your ears. |
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| 18 Lo, I pray you, I have set in order the cause, I have known that I am righteous. |
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| 19 Who [is] he that doth strive with me For now I keep silent and gasp. |
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| 20 Only two things, O God, do with me: Then from Thy face I am not hidden. |
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| 21 Thy hand put far off from me, And Thy terror let not terrify me. |
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| 22 And call Thou, and I I answer, Or I speak, and answer Thou me. |
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| 23 How many iniquities and sins have I My transgression and my sin let me know. |
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| 24 Why dost Thou hide Thy face And reckonest me for an enemy to Thee |
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| 25 A leaf driven away dost Thou terrify And the dry stubble dost Thou pursue |
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| 26 For Thou writest against me bitter things, And causest me to possess iniquities of my youth: |
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| 27 And puttest in the stocks my feet, And observest all my paths, On the roots of my feet Thou settest a print, |
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| 28 And he, as a rotten thing, weareth away, As a garment hath a moth consumed him. |
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