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 - “But now, hear my speech, O Job, and listen to all my words.
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 - Behold, I open my mouth; the tongue in my mouth speaks.
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 - My words declare the uprightness of my heart, and what my lips know they speak sincerely.
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 - The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
 - 5
 - Answer me, if you can; set your words in order before me; take your stand.
 - 6
 - Behold, I am toward God as you are; I too was pinched off from a piece of clay.
 - 7
 - Behold, no fear of me need terrify you; my pressure will not be heavy upon you.
 - 8
 - “Surely you have spoken in my ears, and I have heard the sound of your words.
 - 9
 - You say, ‘I am pure, without transgression; I am clean, and there is no iniquity in me.
 - 10
 - Behold, he finds occasions against me, he counts me as his enemy,
 - 11
 - he puts my feet in the stocks and watches all my paths.’
 - 12
 - “Behold, in this you are not right. I will answer you, for God is greater than man.
 - 13
 - Why do you contend against him, saying, ‘He will answer none of man’s words’?
 - 14
 - For God speaks in one way, and in two, though man does not perceive it.
 - 15
 - In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, while they slumber on their beds,
 - 16
 - then he opens the ears of men and terrifies them with warnings,
 - 17
 - that he may turn man aside from his deed and conceal pride from a man;
 - 18
 - he keeps back his soul from the pit, his life from perishing by the sword.
 - 19
 - “Man is also rebuked with pain on his bed and with continual strife in his bones,
 - 20
 - so that his life loathes bread, and his appetite the choicest food.
 - 21
 - His flesh is so wasted away that it cannot be seen, and his bones that were not seen stick out.
 - 22
 - His soul draws near the pit, and his life to those who bring death.
 - 23
 - If there be for him an angel, a mediator, one of the thousand, to declare to man what is right for him,
 - 24
 - and he is merciful to him, and says, ‘Deliver him from going down into the pit; I have found a ransom;
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 - let his flesh become fresh with youth; let him return to the days of his youthful vigor’;
 - 26
 - then man prays to God, and he accepts him; he sees his face with a shout of joy, and he restores to man his righteousness.
 - 27
 - He sings before men and says: ‘I sinned and perverted what was right, and it was not repaid to me.
 - 28
 - He has redeemed my soul from going down into the pit, and my life shall look upon the light.’
 - 29
 - “Behold, God does all these things, twice, three times, with a man,
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 - to bring back his soul from the pit, that he may be lighted with the light of life.
 - 31
 - Pay attention, O Job, listen to me; be silent, and I will speak.
 - 32
 - If you have any words, answer me; speak, for I desire to justify you.
 - 33
 - If not, listen to me; be silent, and I will teach you wisdom.”
 
Kapcsolódó igehirdetések: Be Ki
Kalauz
November 4
Kétéves:
- I. év: 2Sám 16
 - II. év: Hós 9
 - Zsid 6:1-20
 - Zsolt 105:16-36
 - Péld 27:1-2
 
Példabeszéd
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