From 9a39da15012067fb7cc2966d219942d1f409ac7b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Patrick Kingston Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2026 23:43:14 -0500 Subject: Start work on encoding bible - Get bible text - Write code to generate huffman encoding --- bible/base_files/engBBE_019_JOB_09_read.txt | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 37 insertions(+) create mode 100644 bible/base_files/engBBE_019_JOB_09_read.txt (limited to 'bible/base_files/engBBE_019_JOB_09_read.txt') diff --git a/bible/base_files/engBBE_019_JOB_09_read.txt b/bible/base_files/engBBE_019_JOB_09_read.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..edb3b54 --- /dev/null +++ b/bible/base_files/engBBE_019_JOB_09_read.txt @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +Job. +Chapter 9. +And Job made answer and said, +Truly, I see that it is so: and how is it possible for a man to get his right before God? +If a man was desiring to go to law with him, he would not be able to give him an answer to one out of a thousand questions. +He is wise in heart and great in strength: who ever made his face hard against him, and any good came of it? +It is he who takes away the mountains without their knowledge, overturning them in his wrath: +Who is moving the earth out of its place, so that its pillars are shaking: +Who gives orders to the sun, and it does not give its light; and who keeps the stars from shining. +By whose hand the heavens were stretched out, and who is walking on the waves of the sea: +Who made the Bear and Orion, and the Pleiades, and the store-houses of the south: +Who does great things not to be searched out; yes, wonders without number. +See, he goes past me and I see him not: he goes on before, but I have no knowledge of him. +If he puts out his hand to take, by whom may it be turned back? who may say to him, What are you doing? +God's wrath may not be turned back; the helpers of Rahab were bent down under him. +How much less may I give an answer to him, using the right words in argument with him? +Even if my cause was good, I would not be able to give an answer; I would make request for grace from him who was against me. +If I had sent for him to be present, and he had come, I would have no faith that he would give ear to my voice. +For I would be crushed by his storm, my wounds would be increased without cause. +He would not let me take my breath, but I would be full of bitter grief. +If it is a question of strength, he says, Here I am! and if it is a question of a cause at law, he says, Who will give me a fixed day? +Though I was in the right, he would say that I was in the wrong; I have done no evil; but he says that I am a sinner. +I have done no wrong; I give no thought to what becomes of me; I have no desire for life. +It is all the same to me; so I say, He puts an end to the sinner and to him who has done no wrong together. +If death comes suddenly through disease, he makes sport of the fate of those who have done no wrong. +The land is given into the power of the evil-doer; the faces of its judges are covered; if not by him, then who has done it? +My days go quicker than a post-runner: they go in flight, they see no good. +They go rushing on like reed-boats, like an eagle dropping suddenly on its food. +If I say, I will put my grief out of mind, I will let my face be sad no longer and I will be bright; +I go in fear of all my pains; I am certain that I will not be free from sin in your eyes. +You will not let me be clear of sin! why then do I take trouble for nothing? +If I am washed with snow water, and make my hands clean with soap; +Then you will have me pushed into the dust, so that I will seem disgusting to my very clothing. +For he is not a man as I am, that I might give him an answer, that we might come together before a judge. +There is no one to give a decision between us, who might have control over us. +Let him take away his rod from me and not send his fear on me: +Then I would say what is in my mind without fear of him; for there is no cause of fear in myself. -- cgit v1.2.3