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- Then Job answered and said:
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- “Keep listening to my words, and let this be your comfort.
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- Bear with me, and I will speak, and after I have spoken, mock on.
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- As for me, is my complaint against man? Why should I not be impatient?
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- Look at me and be appalled, and lay your hand over your mouth.
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- When I remember, I am dismayed, and shuddering seizes my flesh.
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- Why do the wicked live, reach old age, and grow mighty in power?
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- Their offspring are established in their presence, and their descendants before their eyes.
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- Their houses are safe from fear, and no rod of God is upon them.
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- Their bull breeds without fail; their cow calves and does not miscarry.
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- They send out their little boys like a flock, and their children dance.
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- They sing to the tambourine and the lyre and rejoice to the sound of the pipe.
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- They spend their days in prosperity, and in peace they go down to Sheol.
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- They say to God, ‘Depart from us! We do not desire the knowledge of your ways.
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- What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit do we get if we pray to him?’
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- Behold, is not their prosperity in their hand? The counsel of the wicked is far from me.
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- “How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? That their calamity comes upon them? That God distributes pains in his anger?
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- That they are like straw before the wind, and like chaff that the storm carries away?
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- You say, ‘God stores up their iniquity for their children.’ Let him pay it out to them, that they may know it.
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- Let their own eyes see their destruction, and let them drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
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- For what do they care for their houses after them, when the number of their months is cut off?
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- Will any teach God knowledge, seeing that he judges those who are on high?
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- One dies in his full vigor, being wholly at ease and secure,
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- his pails full of milk and the marrow of his bones moist.
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- Another dies in bitterness of soul, never having tasted of prosperity.
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- They lie down alike in the dust, and the worms cover them.
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- “Behold, I know your thoughts and your schemes to wrong me.
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- For you say, ‘Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?’
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- Have you not asked those who travel the roads, and do you not accept their testimony
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- that the evil man is spared in the day of calamity, that he is rescued in the day of wrath?
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- Who declares his way to his face, and who repays him for what he has done?
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- When he is carried to the grave, watch is kept over his tomb.
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- The clods of the valley are sweet to him; all mankind follows after him, and those who go before him are innumerable.
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- How then will you comfort me with empty nothings? There is nothing left of your answers but falsehood.”
Kapcsolódó igehirdetések: Be Ki
Kalauz
November 26
Kétéves:
- I. év: 1Kir 8:54-66
- II. év: Jón 4
- 1Pét 4:7-5:14
- Zsolt 119:81-96
- Péld 28:15-16
Példabeszéd
Kóbor ebet ragad fülön, aki fölháborodik olyan civódáson, amely nem rá tartozik.