Job 35 1 Elihu spake moreover,
and said,
2 Thinkest thou
this to be right, that thou saidst, My
righteousness is more than God's?
3 For thou saidst,
What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What
profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?
4 I will answer
thee, and thy companions with thee.
5 Look unto the
heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are
higher than thou.
6 If thou sinnest,
what doest thou against him? or if thy
transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?
7 If thou be
righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of
thine hand?
8 Thy wickedness may
hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may
profit the son of man.
9 By reason of the
multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed
to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.
10 But none saith,
Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the
night;
11 Who teacheth us
more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser
than the fowls of heaven?
12 There they cry,
but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men.
13 Surely God will
not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty
regard it.
14 Although thou
sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is
before him; therefore trust thou in him.
15 But now, because
it is not so, he hath visited in his anger;
yet he knoweth it not in great extremity:
16 Therefore doth
Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without
knowledge.
Job 36 1 Elihu also proceeded,
and said,
2 Suffer me a
little, and I will shew thee that I have yet to
speak on God's behalf.
3 I will fetch my
knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my
Maker.
4 For truly my
words shall not be false: he that is
perfect in knowledge is with thee.
5 Behold, God is
mighty, and despiseth not any: he is mighty
in strength and wisdom.
6 He preserveth not
the life of the wicked: but giveth right to the poor.
7 He withdraweth
not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings are
they on the throne; yea, he doth establish them for
ever, and they are exalted.
8 And if they be
bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of
affliction;
9 Then he sheweth
them their work, and their transgressions that they have
exceeded.
10 He openeth also
their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return
from iniquity.
11 If they obey and
serve him, they shall spend their days in
prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
12 But if they obey
not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die
without knowledge.
13 But the
hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he
bindeth them.
14 They die in
youth, and their life is among the unclean.
15 He delivereth
the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in
oppression.
16 Even so would he
have removed thee out of the strait into a broad
place, where there is no straitness; and that
which should be set on thy table should be full of
fatness.
17 But thou hast
fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and
justice take hold on thee.
18 Because there
is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his
stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.
19 Will he esteem
thy riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of
strength.
20 Desire not the
night, when people are cut off in their place.
21 Take heed,
regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather
than affliction.
22 Behold, God
exalteth by his power: who teacheth like him?
23 Who hath
enjoined him his way? or who can say, Thou hast wrought
iniquity?
24 Remember that
thou magnify his work, which men behold.
25 Every man may
see it; man may behold it afar off.
26 Behold, God is
great, and we know him not, neither can the number
of his years be searched out.
27 For he maketh
small the drops of water: they pour down rain according
to the vapour thereof:
28 Which the clouds
do drop and distil upon man abundantly.
29 Also can any
understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the
noise of his tabernacle?
30 Behold, he
spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the bottom of
the sea.
31 For by them
judgeth he the people; he giveth meat in abundance.
32 With clouds he
covereth the light; and commandeth it not to shine
by the cloud that cometh betwixt.
33 The noise
thereof sheweth concerning it, the cattle also concerning
the vapour.
Acts 7 1 Then said the high
priest, Are these things so?
2 And he said, Men,
brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory appeared
unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia,
before he dwelt in Charran,
3 And said unto
him, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred,
and come into the land which I shall shew thee.
4 Then came he out
of the land of the Chaldeans, and dwelt in Charran: and
from thence, when his father was dead, he removed him
into this land, wherein ye now dwell.
5 And he gave him
none inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set
his foot on: yet he promised that he would give it to him
for a possession, and to his seed after him, when as
yet he had no child.
6 And God spake on
this wise, That his seed should sojourn in a strange
land; and that they should bring them into bondage, and
entreat them evil four hundred years.
7 And the nation to
whom they shall be in bondage will I judge, said God: and
after that shall they come forth, and serve me in this
place.
8 And he gave him
the covenant of circumcision: and so Abraham begat
Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac begat
Jacob; and Jacob begat the twelve patriarchs.
9 And the
patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but
God was with him,
10 And delivered
him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favour and
wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and he made
him governor over Egypt and all his house.
11 Now there came a
dearth over all the land of Egypt and Chanaan, and great
affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance.
12 But when Jacob
heard that there was corn in Egypt, he sent out our
fathers first.
13 And at the
second time Joseph was made known to his brethren;
and Joseph's kindred was made known unto Pharaoh.
14 Then sent
Joseph, and called his father Jacob to him, and
all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls.
15 So Jacob went
down into Egypt, and died, he, and our fathers,
16 And were carried
over into Sychem, and laid in the sepulchre that Abraham
bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emmor the
father of Sychem.
17 But when the
time of the promise drew nigh, which God had sworn to
Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,
18 Till another
king arose, which knew not Joseph.
19 The same dealt
subtilly with our kindred, and evil entreated our
fathers, so that they cast out their young children, to
the end they might not live.
20 In which time
Moses was born, and was exceeding fair, and nourished up
in his father's house three months:
21 And when he was
cast out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and nourished
him for her own son.
22 And Moses was
learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was
mighty in words and in deeds.
23 And when he was
full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his
brethren the children of Israel.
24 And seeing one of
them suffer wrong, he defended him, and
avenged him that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian:
25 For he supposed
his brethren would have understood how that God by his
hand would deliver them: but they understood not.
26 And the next day
he shewed himself unto them as they strove, and would
have set them at one again, saying, Sirs, ye are
brethren; why do ye wrong one to another?
27 But he that did
his neighbour wrong thrust him away, saying, Who made
thee a ruler and a judge over us?
28 Wilt thou kill
me, as thou diddest the Egyptian yesterday?
29 Then fled Moses
at this saying, and was a stranger in the land of Madian,
where he begat two sons.
30 And when forty
years were expired, there appeared to him in the
wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a flame
of fire in a bush.
31 When Moses saw it,
he wondered at the sight: and as he drew near to behold it,
the voice of the Lord came unto him,
32 Saying, I
am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and
the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Then Moses
trembled, and durst not behold.
33 Then said the
Lord to him, Put off thy shoes from thy feet: for the
place where thou standest is holy ground.
34 I have seen, I
have seen the affliction of my people which is in Egypt,
and I have heard their groaning, and am come down to
deliver them. And now come, I will send thee into Egypt.
35 This Moses whom
they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge?
the same did God send to be a ruler and a
deliverer by the hand of the angel which appeared to him
in the bush.
36 He brought them
out, after that he had shewed wonders and signs in the
land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness
forty years.
37 ¶ This is that
Moses, which said unto the children of Israel, A prophet
shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your
brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear.
38 This is he, that
was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which
spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our
fathers: who received the lively oracles to give
unto us:
39 To whom our
fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them,
and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,
40 Saying unto
Aaron, Make us gods to go before us: for as for
this Moses, which brought us out of the land of Egypt, we
wot not what is become of him.
41 And they made a
calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the idol,
and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.
42 Then God turned,
and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is
written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of
Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices
by the space of forty years in the wilderness?
43 Yea, ye took up
the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god
Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: and I
will carry you away beyond Babylon.
44 Our fathers had
the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as he had
appointed, speaking unto Moses, that he should make it
according to the fashion that he had seen.
45 Which also our
fathers that came after brought in with Jesus into the
possession of the Gentiles, whom God drave out before the
face of our fathers, unto the days of David;
46 Who found favour
before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God
of Jacob.
47 But Solomon
built him an house.
48 Howbeit the most
High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith
the prophet
49 Heaven is
my throne, and earth is my footstool: what house
will ye build me? saith the Lord: or what is the
place of my rest?
50 Hath not my hand
made all these things?
51 ¶ Ye
stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do
always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did,
so do ye.
52 Which of the
prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have
slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just
One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and
murderers:
53 Who have
received the law by the disposition of angels, and have
not kept it.
54 ¶ When they
heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they
gnashed on him with their teeth.
55 But he, being
full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven,
and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right
hand of God,
56 And said,
Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man
standing on the right hand of God.
57 Then they cried
out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran
upon him with one accord,
58 And cast him
out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses
laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose name
was Saul.
59 And they stoned
Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus,
receive my spirit.
60 And he kneeled
down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin
to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell
asleep.
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