Job 36Job 37Job 38Job 391 Corinthians 7Job 36
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And Elihu went on to say,
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Give me a little more time, and I will make it clear to you for I have still something to say for God.
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I will get my knowledge from far, and I will give righteousness to my Maker.
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For truly my words are not false one who has all knowledge is talking with you.
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Truly, God gives up the hard-hearted, and will not give life to the sinner.
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His eyes are ever on the upright, and he gives to the crushed their right
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Lifting them up to the seat of kings, and making them safe for ever.
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And if they have been prisoned in chains, and taken in cords of trouble,
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Then he makes clear to them what they have done, even their evil works in which they have taken pride.
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Their ear is open to his teaching, and he gives them orders so that their hearts may be turned from evil.
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If they give ear to his voice, and do his word, then he gives them long life, and years full of pleasure.
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But if not, they come to their end, and give up their breath without knowledge.
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Those who have no fear of God keep wrath stored up in their hearts they give no cry for help when they are made prisoners.
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They come to their end while they are still young, their life is short like that of those who are used for sex purposes in the worship of their gods.
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He makes the wrong done to the poor the way of their salvation, opening their ears by their trouble.
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Take care not to be turned to sin, for you have taken evil for your part in place of sorrow.
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Truly God is lifted up in strength who is a ruler like him?
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Who ever gave orders to him, or said to him, You have done wrong?
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See that you give praise to his work, about which men make songs.
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All people are looking on it man sees it from far.
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Truly, God is great, greater than all our knowledge the number of his years may not be searched out.
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For he takes up the drops from the sea he sends them through his mist as rain,
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Flowing down from the sky, and dropping on the peoples.
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And who has knowledge of how the clouds are stretched out, or of the thunders of his tent?
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See, he is stretching out his mist, covering the tops of the mountains with it.
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For by these he gives food to the peoples, and bread in full measure.
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He takes the light in his hands, sending it against the mark.
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The thunder makes clear his passion, and the storm gives news of his wrath.
Job 37
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At this my heart is shaking it is moved out of its place.
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Give ear to the rolling noise of his voice to the hollow sound which goes out of his mouth.
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He sends it out through all the heaven, and his thunder-flame to the ends of the earth.
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After it a voice is sounding, thundering out the word of his power he does not keep back his thunder-flames from his mouth his voice is sounding.
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He does wonders, more than may be searched out great things of which we have no knowledge
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For he says to the snow, Make the earth wet and to the rain-storm, Come down.
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He puts an end to the work of every man, so that all may see his work.
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Then the beasts go into their holes, and take their rest.
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Out of its place comes the storm-wind, and the cold out of its store-houses.
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By the breath of God ice is made, and the wide waters are shut in.
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The thick cloud is weighted with thunder-flame, and the cloud sends out its light
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And it goes this way and that, round about, turning itself by his guiding, to do whatever he gives orders to be done, on the face of his world of men,
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For a rod, or for a curse, or for mercy, causing it to come on the mark.
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Give ear to this, O Job, and keep quiet in your place and take note of the wonders worked by God.
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Have you knowledge of God's ordering of his works, how he makes the light of his cloud to be seen?
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Have you knowledge of the balancings of the clouds, the wonders of him who has all wisdom?
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You, whose clothing is warm, when the earth is quiet because of the south wind,
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Will you, with him, make the skies smooth, and strong as a polished looking-glass?
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Make clear to me what we are to say to him we are unable to put our cause before him, because of the dark.
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How may he have knowledge of my desire for talk with him? or did any man ever say, May destruction come on me?
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And now the light is not seen, for it is dark because of the clouds but a wind comes, clearing them away.
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A bright light comes out of the north God's glory is greatly to be feared.
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There is no searching out of the Ruler of all: his strength and his judging are great he is full of righteousness, doing no wrong.
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For this cause men go in fear of him he has no respect for any who are wise in heart.
Job 38
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And the Lord made answer to Job out of the storm-wind, and said,
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Who is this who makes the purpose of God dark by words without knowledge?
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Get your strength together like a man of war I will put questions to you, and you will give me the answers.
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Where were you when I put the earth on its base? Say, if you have knowledge.
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By whom were its measures fixed? Say, if you have wisdom or by whom was the line stretched out over it?
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On what were its pillars based, or who put down its angle-stone,
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When the morning stars made songs together, and all the sons of the gods gave cries of joy?
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Or where were you when the sea came to birth, pushing out from its secret place
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When I made the cloud its robe, and put thick clouds as bands round it,
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Ordering a fixed limit for it, with locks and doors
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And said, So far you may come, and no farther and here the pride of your waves will be stopped?
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Have you, from your earliest days, given orders to the morning, or made the dawn conscious of its place
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So that it might take a grip of the skirts of the earth, shaking all the evil-doers out of it?
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It is changed like wet earth under a stamp, and is coloured like a robe
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And from the evil-doers their light is kept back, and the arm of pride is broken.
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Have you come into the springs of the sea, walking in the secret places of the deep?
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Have the doors of death been open to you, or have the door-keepers of the dark ever seen you?
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Have you taken note of the wide limits of the earth? Say, if you have knowledge of it all.
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Which is the way to the resting-place of the light, and where is the store-house of the dark
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So that you might take it to its limit, guiding it to its house?
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No doubt you have knowledge of it, for then you had come to birth, and the number of your days is great.
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Have you come into the secret place of snow, or have you seen the store-houses of the ice-drops,
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Which I have kept for the time of trouble, for the day of war and fighting?
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Which is the way to the place where the wind is measured out, and the east wind sent out over the earth?
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By whom has the way been cut for the flowing of the rain, and the flaming of the thunder
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Causing rain to come on a land where no man is living, on the waste land which has no people
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To give water to the land where there is waste and destruction, and to make the dry land green with young grass?
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Has the rain a father? or who gave birth to the drops of night mist?
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Out of whose body came the ice? and who gave birth to the cold mist of heaven?
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The waters are joined together, hard as a stone, and the face of the deep is covered.
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Are the bands of the Pleiades fixed by you, or are the cords of Orion made loose?
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Do you make Mazzaroth come out in its right time, or are the Bear and its children guided by you?
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Have you knowledge of the laws of the heavens? did you give them rule over the earth?
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Is your voice sent up to the cloud, so that you may be covered by the weight of waters?
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Do you send out the thunder-flames, so that they may go, and say to you, Here we are?
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Who has put wisdom in the high clouds, or given knowledge to the lights of the north?
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By whose wisdom are the clouds numbered, or the water-skins of the heavens turned to the earth,
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When the earth becomes hard as metal, and is joined together in masses?
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Do you go after food for the she-lion, or get meat so that the young lions may have enough,
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When they are stretched out in their holes, and are waiting in the brushwood?
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Who gives in the evening the meat he is searching for, when his young ones are crying to God when the young lions with loud noise go wandering after their food?
Job 39
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Have you knowledge of the rock-goats? or do you see the roes giving birth to their young?
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Is the number of their months fixed by you? or is the time when they give birth ordered by you?
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They are bent down, they give birth to their young, they let loose the fruit of their body.
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Their young ones are strong, living in the open country they go out and do not come back again.
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Who has let the ass of the fields go free? or made loose the bands of the loud-voiced beast?
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To whom I have given the waste land for a heritage, and the salt land as a living-place.
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He makes sport of the noise of the town the voice of the driver does not come to his ears
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He goes looking for his grass-lands in the mountains, searching out every green thing.
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Will the ox of the mountains be your servant? or is his night's resting-place by your food-store?
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Will he be pulling your plough with cords, turning up the valleys after you?
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Will you put your faith in him, because his strength is great? will you give the fruit of your work into his care?
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Will you be looking for him to come back, and get in your seed to the crushing-floor?
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Is the wing of the ostrich feeble, or is it because she has no feathers,
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That she puts her eggs on the earth, warming them in the dust,
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Without a thought that they may be crushed by the foot, and broken by the beasts of the field?
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She is cruel to her young ones, as if they were not hers her work is to no purpose she has no fear.
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For God has taken wisdom from her mind, and given her no measure of knowledge.
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When she is shaking her wings on high, she makes sport of the horse and of him who is seated on him.
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Do you give strength to the horse? is it by your hand that his neck is clothed with power?
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Is it through you that he is shaking like a locust, in the pride of his loud-sounding breath?
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He is stamping with joy in the valley he makes sport of fear.
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In his strength he goes out against the arms of war, turning not away from the sword.
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The bow is sounding against him he sees the shining point of spear and arrow.
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Shaking with passion, he is biting the earth he is not able to keep quiet at the sound of the horn
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When it comes to his ears he says, Aha! He is smelling the fight from far off, and hearing the thunder of the captains, and the war-cries.
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Is it through your knowledge that the hawk takes his flight, stretching out his wings to the south?
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Or is it by your orders that the eagle goes up, and makes his resting-place on high?
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On the rock is his house, and on the mountain-top his strong place.
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From there he is watching for food his eye sees it far off.
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His young have blood for their drink, and where the dead bodies are, there is he to be seen.
1 Corinthians 7
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Now, as to the things in your letter to me: It is good for a man to have nothing to do with a woman.
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But because of the desires of the flesh, let every man have his wife, and every woman her husband.
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Let the husband give to the wife what is right and let the wife do the same to the husband.
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The wife has not power over her body, but the husband and in the same way the husband has not power over his body, but the wife.
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Do not keep back from one another what is right, but only for a short time, and by agreement, so that you may give yourselves to prayer, and come together again so that Satan may not get the better of you through your loss of self-control.
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But this I say as my opinion, and not as an order of the Lord.
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It is my desire that all men might be even as I am. But every man has the power of his special way of life given him by God, one in this way and one in that.
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But I say to the unmarried and to the widows, It is good for them to be even as I am.
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But if they have not self-control let them get married for married life is better than the burning of desire.
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But to the married I give orders, though not I but the Lord, that the wife may not go away from her husband
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(Or if she goes away from him, let her keep unmarried, or be united to her husband again) and that the husband may not go away from his wife.
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But to the rest I say, and not the Lord If a brother has a wife who is not a Christian, and it is her desire to go on living with him, let him not go away from her.
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And if a woman has a husband who is not a Christian, and it is his desire to go on living with her, let her not go away from her husband.
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For the husband who has not faith is made holy through his Christian wife, and the wife who is not a Christian is made holy through the brother: if not, your children would be unholy, but now are they holy.
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But if the one who is not a Christian has a desire to go away, let it be so: the brother or the sister in such a position is not forced to do one thing or the other: but it is God's pleasure that we may be at peace with one another.
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For how may you be certain, O wife, that you will not be the cause of salvation to your husband? or you, O husband, that you may not do the same for your wife?
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Only, as the Lord has given to a man, and as is the purpose of God for him, so let him go on living. And these are my orders for all the churches.
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If any man who is a Christian has had circumcision, let him keep so and if any man who is a Christian has not had circumcision, let him make no change.
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Circumcision is nothing, and its opposite is nothing, but only doing the orders of God is of value.
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Let every man keep the position in which he has been placed by God.
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If you were a servant when you became a Christian, let it not be a grief to you but if you have a chance to become free, make use of it.
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For he who was a servant when he became a Christian is the Lord's free man and he who was free when he became a Christian is the Lord's servant.
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It is the Lord who has made payment for you: be not servants of men.
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My brothers, let every man keep in that condition which is the purpose of God for him.
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Now about virgins I have no orders from the Lord: but I give my opinion as one to whom the Lord has given mercy to be true to him.
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In my opinion then, because of the present trouble, it is good for a man to keep as he is.
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If you are married to a wife, make no attempt to get free from her: if you are free from a wife, do not take a wife.
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If you get married it is not a sin and if an unmarried woman gets married it is not a sin. But those who do so will have trouble in the flesh. But I will not be hard on you.
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But I say this, my brothers, the time is short and from now it will be wise for those who have wives to be as if they had them not
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And for those who are in sorrow, to give no signs of it and for those who are glad, to give no signs of joy and for those who are getting property, to be as if they had nothing
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And for those who make use of the world, not to be using it fully for this world's way of life will quickly come to an end.
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But it is my desire for you to be free from cares. The unmarried man gives his mind to the things of the Lord, how he may give pleasure to the Lord:
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But the married man gives his attention to the things of this world, how he may give pleasure to his wife.
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And the wife is not the same as the virgin. The virgin gives her mind to the things of the Lord, so that she may be holy in body and in spirit: but the married woman takes thought for the things of the world, how she may give pleasure to her husband.
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Now I say this for your profit not to make things hard for you, but because of what is right, and so that you may be able to give all your attention to the things of the Lord.
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But if, in any man's opinion, he is not doing what is right for his virgin, if she is past her best years, and there is need for it, let him do what seems right to him it is no sin let them be married.
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But the man who is strong in mind and purpose, who is not forced but has control over his desires, does well if he comes to the decision to keep her a virgin.
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So then, he who gets married to his virgin does well, and he who keeps her unmarried does better.
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It is right for a wife to be with her husband as long as he is living but when her husband is dead, she is free to be married to another but only to a Christian.
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But it will be better for her to keep as she is, in my opinion: and it seems to me that I have the Spirit of God.
