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He cried aloud, and said thus, Hew down the tree, and cut off his branches, shake off his leaves, and scatter his fruit: let the beasts get away from under it, and the fowls from his branches:
And, behold, the whole family is risen against thine handmaid, and they said, Deliver him that smote his brother, that we may kill him, for the life of his brother whom he slew; and we will destroy the heir also: and so they shall quench my coal which is left, and shall not leave to my husband neither name nor remainder upon the earth.
Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their hosts with them, about fifteen thousand men, all that were left of all the hosts of the children of the east: for there fell an hundred and twenty thousand men that drew sword.
Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,
Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.
I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?
And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear thy words, but they do them not.
And saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented.
No man, when he hath lighted a candle, covereth it with a vessel, or putteth it under a bed; but setteth it on a candlestick, that they which enter in may see the light.
Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.
Cursed be he that doeth the work of the LORD deceitfully, and cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood.
Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,
I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.
And he did very abominably in following idols, according to all things as did the Amorites, whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
These are the feasts of the LORD, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons.
For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.
Hear my voice according unto thy lovingkindness: O LORD, quicken me according to thy judgment.
And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread: and Pharaoh said unto all the Egyptians, Go unto Joseph; what he saith to you, do.
Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
At his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto the LORD, and it be sin unto thee.
I have set the point of the sword against all their gates, that their heart may faint, and their ruins be multiplied: ah! it is made bright, it is wrapped up for the slaughter.
A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.
And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
And thou shalt make the seven lamps thereof: and they shall light the lamps thereof, that they may give light over against it.
