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Isaiah 45:7
7
I form the light, and create darkness:
I make peace, and create evil:
I the Lord do all these things.
Job 3
3 After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. 2 And Job spake, and said,
3
Let the day perish wherein I was born,
and the night in which it was said,
There is a man child conceived.
4
Let that day be darkness;
let not God regard it from above,
neither let the light shine upon it.
5
Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it;
let a cloud dwell upon it;
let the blackness of the day terrify it.
6
As for that night, let darkness seize upon it;
let it not be joined unto the days of the year,
let it not come into the number of the months.
7
Lo, let that night be solitary,
let no joyful voice come therein.
8
Let them curse it that curse the day,
who are ready to raise up their mourning.
9
Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark;
let it look for light, but have none;
neither let it see the dawning of the day:
10
because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb,
nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
11
Why died I not from the womb?
why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
12
Why did the knees prevent me?
or why the breasts that I should suck?
13
For now should I have lain still and been quiet,
I should have slept:
then had I been at rest,
14
with kings and counsellors of the earth,
which built desolate places for themselves;
15
or with princes that had gold,
who filled their houses with silver:
16
or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been;
as infants which never saw light.
17
There the wicked cease from troubling;
and there the weary be at rest.
18
There the prisoners rest together;
they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
19
The small and great are there;
and the servant is free from his master.
20
Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery,
and life unto the bitter in soul;
21
which long for death, but it cometh not;
and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
22
which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad,
when they can find the grave?
23
Why is light given to a man whose way is hid,
and whom God hath hedged in?
24
For my sighing cometh before I eat,
and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
25
For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me,
and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.
26
I was not in safety, neither had I rest,
neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.
Job 12
12 And Job answered and said,
2
No doubt but ye are the people,
and wisdom shall die with you.
3
But I have understanding as well as you;
I am not inferior to you:
yea, who knoweth not such things as these?
4
I am as one mocked of his neighbour,
who calleth upon God, and he answereth him:
the just upright man is laughed to scorn.
5
He that is ready to slip with his feet
is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.
6
The tabernacles of robbers prosper,
and they that provoke God are secure;
into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.
7
But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee;
and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee:
8
or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee:
and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.
9
Who knoweth not in all these
that the hand of the Lord hath wrought this?
10
In whose hand is the soul of every living thing,
and the breath of all mankind.
11
Doth not the ear try words?
and the mouth taste his meat?
12
With the ancient is wisdom;
and in length of days understanding.
13
With him is wisdom and strength,
he hath counsel and understanding.
14
Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again:
he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.
15
Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up:
also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.
16
With him is strength and wisdom:
the deceived and the deceiver are his.
17
He leadeth counsellors away spoiled,
and maketh the judges fools.
18
He looseth the bond of kings,
and girdeth their loins with a girdle.
19
He leadeth princes away spoiled,
and overthroweth the mighty.
20
He removeth away the speech of the trusty,
and taketh away the understanding of the aged.
21
He poureth contempt upon princes,
and weakeneth the strength of the mighty.
22
He discovereth deep things out of darkness,
and bringeth out to light the shadow of death.
23
He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them:
he enlargeth the nations, and straiteneth them again.
24
He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth,
and causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
25
They grope in the dark without light,
and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.
7
I form the light, and create darkness:
I make peace, and create evil:
I the Lord do all these things.
Job 3
3 After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. 2 And Job spake, and said,
3
Let the day perish wherein I was born,
and the night in which it was said,
There is a man child conceived.
4
Let that day be darkness;
let not God regard it from above,
neither let the light shine upon it.
5
Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it;
let a cloud dwell upon it;
let the blackness of the day terrify it.
6
As for that night, let darkness seize upon it;
let it not be joined unto the days of the year,
let it not come into the number of the months.
7
Lo, let that night be solitary,
let no joyful voice come therein.
8
Let them curse it that curse the day,
who are ready to raise up their mourning.
9
Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark;
let it look for light, but have none;
neither let it see the dawning of the day:
10
because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb,
nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
11
Why died I not from the womb?
why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
12
Why did the knees prevent me?
or why the breasts that I should suck?
13
For now should I have lain still and been quiet,
I should have slept:
then had I been at rest,
14
with kings and counsellors of the earth,
which built desolate places for themselves;
15
or with princes that had gold,
who filled their houses with silver:
16
or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been;
as infants which never saw light.
17
There the wicked cease from troubling;
and there the weary be at rest.
18
There the prisoners rest together;
they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
19
The small and great are there;
and the servant is free from his master.
20
Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery,
and life unto the bitter in soul;
21
which long for death, but it cometh not;
and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
22
which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad,
when they can find the grave?
23
Why is light given to a man whose way is hid,
and whom God hath hedged in?
24
For my sighing cometh before I eat,
and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
25
For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me,
and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.
26
I was not in safety, neither had I rest,
neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.
Job 12
12 And Job answered and said,
2
No doubt but ye are the people,
and wisdom shall die with you.
3
But I have understanding as well as you;
I am not inferior to you:
yea, who knoweth not such things as these?
4
I am as one mocked of his neighbour,
who calleth upon God, and he answereth him:
the just upright man is laughed to scorn.
5
He that is ready to slip with his feet
is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.
6
The tabernacles of robbers prosper,
and they that provoke God are secure;
into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.
7
But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee;
and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee:
8
or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee:
and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.
9
Who knoweth not in all these
that the hand of the Lord hath wrought this?
10
In whose hand is the soul of every living thing,
and the breath of all mankind.
11
Doth not the ear try words?
and the mouth taste his meat?
12
With the ancient is wisdom;
and in length of days understanding.
13
With him is wisdom and strength,
he hath counsel and understanding.
14
Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again:
he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.
15
Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up:
also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.
16
With him is strength and wisdom:
the deceived and the deceiver are his.
17
He leadeth counsellors away spoiled,
and maketh the judges fools.
18
He looseth the bond of kings,
and girdeth their loins with a girdle.
19
He leadeth princes away spoiled,
and overthroweth the mighty.
20
He removeth away the speech of the trusty,
and taketh away the understanding of the aged.
21
He poureth contempt upon princes,
and weakeneth the strength of the mighty.
22
He discovereth deep things out of darkness,
and bringeth out to light the shadow of death.
23
He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them:
he enlargeth the nations, and straiteneth them again.
24
He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth,
and causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
25
They grope in the dark without light,
and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.
