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diff --git a/bible/base_files/engBBE_019_JOB_17_read.txt b/bible/base_files/engBBE_019_JOB_17_read.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d16bc5e --- /dev/null +++ b/bible/base_files/engBBE_019_JOB_17_read.txt @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +Job. +Chapter 17. +My spirit is broken, my days are ended, the last resting-place is ready for me. +Truly, those who make sport of me are round about me, and my eyes become dark because of their bitter laughing. +Be pleased, now, to be responsible for me to yourself; for there is no other who will put his hand in mine. +You have kept their hearts from wisdom: for this cause you will not give them honour. +As for him who is false to his friend for a reward, light will be cut off from the eyes of his children. +He has made me a word of shame to the peoples; I have become a mark for their sport. +My eyes have become dark because of my pain, and all my body is wasted to a shade. +The upright are surprised at this, and he who has done no wrong is troubled because of the evil-doers. +Still the upright keeps on his way, and he who has clean hands gets new strength. +But come back, now, all of you, come; and I will not see a wise man among you. +My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the desires of my heart. +They are changing night into day; they say, The light is near the dark. +If I am waiting for the underworld as my house, if I have made my bed in the dark; +If I say to the earth, You are my father; and to the worm, My mother and my sister; +Where then is my hope? and who will see my desire? +Will they go down with me into the underworld? Will we go down together into the dust? |