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  Job 41-42


41:1 "Can you pull in the leviathan with a fishhook or tie down his tongue with a rope?
41:2 Can you put a cord through his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook?
41:3 Will he keep begging you for mercy? Will he speak to you with gentle words?
41:4 Will he make an agreement with you for you to take him as your slave for life?
41:5 Can you make a pet of him like a bird or put him on a leash for your girls?
41:6 Will traders barter for him? Will they divide him up among the merchants?
41:7 Can you fill his hide with harpoons or his head with fishing spears?
41:8 If you lay a hand on him, you will remember the struggle and never do it again!
41:9 Any hope of subduing him is false; the mere sight of him is overpowering.
41:10 No one is fierce enough to rouse him. Who then is able to stand against me?
41:11 Who has a claim against me that I must pay? Everything under heaven belongs to me.
41:12 "I will not fail to speak of his limbs, his strength and his graceful form.
41:13 Who can strip off his outer coat? Who would approach him with a bridle?
41:14 Who dares open the doors of his mouth, ringed about with his fearsome teeth?
41:15 His back has rows of shields tightly sealed together;
41:16 each is so close to the next that no air can pass between.
41:17 They are joined fast to one another; they cling together and cannot be parted.
41:18 His snorting throws out flashes of light; his eyes are like the rays of dawn.
41:19 Firebrands stream from his mouth; sparks of fire shoot out.
41:20 Smoke pours from his nostrils as from a boiling pot over a fire of reeds.
41:21 His breath sets coals ablaze, and flames dart from his mouth.
41:22 Strength resides in his neck; dismay goes before him.
41:23 The folds of his flesh are tightly joined; they are firm and immovable.
41:24 His chest is hard as rock, hard as a lower millstone.
41:25 When he rises up, the mighty are terrified; they retreat before his thrashing.
41:26 The sword that reaches him has no effect, nor does the spear or the dart or the javelin.
41:27 Iron he treats like straw and bronze like rotten wood.
41:28 Arrows do not make him flee; slingstones are like chaff to him.
41:29 A club seems to him but a piece of straw; he laughs at the rattling of the lance.
41:30 His undersides are jagged potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.
41:31 He makes the depths churn like a boiling caldron and stirs up the sea like a pot of ointment.
41:32 Behind him he leaves a glistening wake; one would think the deep had white hair.
41:33 Nothing on earth is his equal-- a creature without fear.
41:34 He looks down on all that are haughty; he is king over all that are proud."
42:1 Then Job replied to the LORD
42:2 "I know that you can do all things; no plan of yours can be thwarted.
42:3 [You asked,] "Who is this that obscures my counsel without knowledge?" Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know.
42:4 ["You said,] "Listen now, and I will speak; I will question you, and you shall answer me."
42:5 My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you.
42:6 Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes."
42:7 After the LORD had said these things to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "I am angry with you and your two friends, because you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.
42:8 So now take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves. My servant Job will pray for you, and I will accept his prayer and not deal with you according to your folly. You have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has."
42:9 So Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite did what the LORD told them; and the LORD accepted Job's prayer.
42:10 After Job had prayed for his friends, the LORD made him prosperous again and gave him twice as much as he had before.
42:11 All his brothers and sisters and everyone who had known him before came and ate with him in his house. They comforted and consoled him over all the trouble the LORD had brought upon him, and each one gave him a piece of silver and a gold ring.
42:12 The LORD blessed the latter part of Job's life more than the first. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen and a thousand donkeys.
42:13 And he also had seven sons and three daughters.
42:14 The first daughter he named Jemimah, the second Keziah and the third Keren-Happuch.
42:15 Nowhere in all the land were there found women as beautiful as Job's daughters, and their father granted them an inheritance along with their brothers.
42:16 After this, Job lived a hundred and forty years; he saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.
42:17 And so he died, old and full of years.

  Acts  16


16:1 He came to Derbe and then to Lystra, where a disciple named Timothy lived, whose mother was a Jewess and a believer, but whose father was a Greek.
16:2 The brothers at Lystra and Iconium spoke well of him.
16:3 Paul wanted to take him along on the journey, so he circumcised him because of the Jews who lived in that area, for they all knew that his father was a Greek.
16:4 As they traveled from town to town, they delivered the decisions reached by the apostles and elders in Jerusalem for the people to obey.
16:5 So the churches were strengthened in the faith and grew daily in numbers.
16:6 Paul and his companions traveled throughout the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been kept by the Holy Spirit from preaching the word in the province of Asia.
16:7 When they came to the border of Mysia, they tried to enter Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus would not allow them to.
16:8 So they passed by Mysia and went down to Troas.
16:9 During the night Paul had a vision of a man of Macedonia standing and begging him, "Come over to Macedonia and help us."
16:10 After Paul had seen the vision, we got ready at once to leave for Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to preach the gospel to them.
16:11 From Troas we put out to sea and sailed straight for Samothrace, and the next day on to Neapolis.
16:12 From there we traveled to Philippi, a Roman colony and the leading city of that district of Macedonia. And we stayed there several days.
16:13 On the Sabbath we went outside the city gate to the river, where we expected to find a place of prayer. We sat down and began to speak to the women who had gathered there.
16:14 One of those listening was a woman named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth from the city of Thyatira, who was a worshiper of God. The Lord opened her heart to respond to Paul's message.
16:15 When she and the members of her household were baptized, she invited us to her home. "If you consider me a believer in the Lord," she said, "come and stay at my house." And she persuaded us.
16:16 Once when we were going to the place of prayer, we were met by a slave girl who had a spirit by which she predicted the future. She earned a great deal of money for her owners by fortune-telling.
16:17 This girl followed Paul and the rest of us, shouting, "These men are servants of the Most High God, who are telling you the way to be saved."
16:18 She kept this up for many days. Finally Paul became so troubled that he turned around and said to the spirit, "In the name of Jesus Christ I command you to come out of her!" At that moment the spirit left her.
16:19 When the owners of the slave girl realized that their hope of making money was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace to face the authorities.
16:20 They brought them before the magistrates and said, "These men are Jews, and are throwing our city into an uproar
16:21 by advocating customs unlawful for us Romans to accept or practice."
16:22 The crowd joined in the attack against Paul and Silas, and the magistrates ordered them to be stripped and beaten.
16:23 After they had been severely flogged, they were thrown into prison, and the jailer was commanded to guard them carefully.
16:24 Upon receiving such orders, he put them in the inner cell and fastened their feet in the stocks.
16:25 About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them.
16:26 Suddenly there was such a violent earthquake that the foundations of the prison were shaken. At once all the prison doors flew open, and everybody's chains came loose.
16:27 The jailer woke up, and when he saw the prison doors open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself because he thought the prisoners had escaped.
16:28 But Paul shouted, "Don"t harm yourself! We are all here!"
16:29 The jailer called for lights, rushed in and fell trembling before Paul and Silas.
16:30 He then brought them out and asked, "Sirs, what must I do to be saved?"
16:31 They replied, "Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved-- you and your household."
16:32 Then they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all the others in his house.
16:33 At that hour of the night the jailer took them and washed their wounds; then immediately he and all his family were baptized.
16:34 The jailer brought them into his house and set a meal before them; he was filled with joy because he had come to believe in God-- he and his whole family.
16:35 When it was daylight, the magistrates sent their officers to the jailer with the order
16:36 The jailer told Paul, "The magistrates have ordered that you and Silas be released. Now you can leave. Go in peace."
16:37 But Paul said to the officers
16:38 The officers reported this to the magistrates, and when they heard that Paul and Silas were Roman citizens, they were alarmed.
16:39 They came to appease them and escorted them from the prison, requesting them to leave the city.
16:40 After Paul and Silas came out of the prison, they went to Lydia's house, where they met with the brothers and encouraged them. Then they left.