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   From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca   
      
   Day 5, 5 January 2025   
      
   1) Job 11, 12, 13   
      
   Job 11   
      
   Zophar Speaks: Job Is Guilty   
   11:1 Then Zophar the Naamathite answered:   
   2 "Should not the multitude of words be answered?   
   And should a man full of talk be justified?   
   3 Should your empty talk make men hold their peace?   
    And when you mock, will no one shame you?   
   4 For you have said, `My teaching is pure,   
   And I am clean in your eyes.'   
   5 But oh, that God would speak   
   and open His lips against you,   
   6 and that He would show you the secrets of wisdom!   
    For they would double your prudence.   
    And know that God overlooks some of your iniquity.   
   7 "Can you search out the deep things of God?   
    Can you find out the totality of the Almighty?   
   8 It is as high as heaven; what can you do?   
    Deeper than Sheol; what can you know?   
   9 Its measure is longer than the earth   
    and broader than the sea.   
   10 "If He passes through, and shuts up, and gathers together for judgment,   
    then who can hinder Him?   
   11 For He knows worthless men;   
      He sees wickedness also; will He not then consider it?   
   12 For an empty-headed man will become wise,   
    when a wild donkey's colt is born a man.   
   13 "If you prepare your heart   
   and stretch out your hands toward Him;   
   14 if iniquity is in your hand, put it far away,   
    and do not let wickedness dwell in your tents;   
   15 for then you will lift up your face without blemish;   
    yes, you will be steadfast and will not fear,   
   16 because you will forget misery,   
    and remember it as waters that pass away,   
   17 and your life will be brighter than noonday,   
    even your darkness will be as the morning.   
   18 You will trust because there is hope;   
    yes, you will search about you,   
    and you will look around and rest in safety.   
   19 Also you will lie down, and none will make you afraid;   
    yes, many will court your favor.   
   20 But the eyes of the wicked will fail,   
    and they will not escape,   
    and their hope will be as the giving up of breath."   
      
   [1] Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,   
   [2] Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of   
   talk be justified?   
   [3] Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall   
   no man make thee ashamed?   
   [4] For thou hast said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes.   
   [5] But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against thee;   
   [6] And that he would shew thee the secrets of wisdom, that they are double   
   to that which is! Know therefore that God exacteth of thee less than thine   
   iniquity deserveth.   
   [7] Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty   
   unto perfection?   
   [8] It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what   
   canst thou know?   
   [9] The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.   
   [10] If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder   
   him?   
   [11] For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also; will he not then   
   consider it?   
   [12] For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt.   
   [13] If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him;   
   [14] If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness   
   dwell in thy tabernacles.   
   [15] For then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; yea, thou shalt be   
   stedfast, and shalt not fear:   
   [16] Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that   
   pass away:   
   [17] And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday; thou shalt shine   
   forth, thou shalt be as the morning.   
   [18] And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope; yea, thou shalt dig   
   about thee, and thou shalt take thy rest in safety.   
   [19] Also thou shalt lie down, and none shall make thee afraid; yea, many   
   shall make suit unto thee.   
   [20] But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and   
   their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost.   
      
   Job 12   
      
   12:1 And Job answered:   
   2 "No doubt but you are the people,   
   and wisdom will die with you!   
   3 But I have understanding as well as you;   
   I am not inferior to you.   
   Yes, who does not know such things as these?   
   4 "I am a laughingstock to my neighbor,   
   who calls upon God, and He answers him;   
   the righteous, upright man is a laughingstock.   
   5 He whose foot is unsteady   
   is despised in the thoughts of him who is at ease.   
   6 The tents of robbers are at peace,   
   and those who provoke God are secure,   
   into whose hand they bring their own god.   
   7 "But now ask the beasts, and let them teach you;   
   and the birds of the air, and let them tell you;   
   8 or speak to the earth, let it teach you;   
   and let the fish of the sea declare to you.   
   9 Who among all these does not know   
    that the hand of the Lord has done this,   
   10 in whose hand is the soul of every living thing   
    and the breath of all mankind?   
   11 Does not the ear test words   
    and the mouth taste its food?   
   12 Wisdom is with the elderly,   
    and understanding comes with long life.   
   13 "With Him are wisdom and strength;   
   He has counsel and understanding.   
   14 Surely, He tears down, and it cannot be built again;   
    He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.   
   15 Surely, He withholds the waters, and they dry up;   
   also He sends them out, and they overthrow the earth.   
   16 With Him are strength and wisdom.   
   The deceived and the deceiver are His.   
   17 He leads counselors away stripped and makes fools of judges.   
   18 He has loosened the bonds imposed by kings   
    and bound their waist with a belt.   
   19 He leads away priests stripped   
    and overthrows the mighty.   
   20 He removes speech from the trusted ones   
    and takes away the understanding of the aged.   
   21 He pours contempt upon princes   
   and loosens the belt of the mighty.   
   22 He uncovers deep things out of darkness   
    and brings the shadow of death to light.   
   23 He increases the nations and destroys them;   
    He enlarges the nations and guides them.   
   24 He takes away the understanding of the chiefs of the people of the earth,   
    and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.   
   25 They grope in the dark without light,   
    and He makes them to stagger like a drunk man.   
      
   [1] 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?   
      
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