The Book of Job: From the Original Hebrew on the Basis of the Common and Earlier English Versions

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American Bible Union, 1866 - 99 pages
 

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Page 48 - Depart from us; For we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
Page 1 - And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all : for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts.
Page 9 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face ; the hair of my flesh stood up: It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying, Shall mortal man be more just than God?
Page 14 - Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off...
Page 77 - Elihu saith, accepteth not the persons of princes, nor regardeth the rich more than the poor ; for they are all the work of his hands.
Page 1 - His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.
Page 56 - How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
Page 7 - There the wicked cease from troubling; And there the weary are at rest.
Page 75 - If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to shew unto man his uprightness; then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit ; I have found a ransom.
Page 12 - In famine he shall redeem thee from death: And in war from the power of the sword.

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