RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION Study Bible

20 I have sinned; what have I done to You, O You
watcher of men? Why have You set me as a target against
You, so that I am a burden to myself?
21 And why do You not pardon my transgression, and
take away my iniquity? For now shall I sleep in the dust;
and You shall seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.
8 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
2 How long will you speak these things? And how long
shall the words of your mouth be like a strong wind?
3 Does El pervert mishpat? Or, does the Almighty pervert
mishpat?
4 If your children have sinned against Him, and He has
cast them away for their transgression;
5 If you would continually seek El, and make your
supplication to the Almighty;
6 If you were pure and tzadik; surely now He would arise
for you, and make the dwelling of your tzedakah
prosperous.
7 Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end
should greatly increase.
8 For ask of the former generation, and prepare yourself
for the research of their ahvot:
9 For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because
our days on earth are as a shadow:
10 Shall not they teach you, and tell you, and utter words
out of their lev?
11 Can the papyrus grow up without mud? Can the reed
grow without mayim?
12 While it is yet green, and not cut down, it withers
before any other herb.
13 So are the paths of all that forget El; and the
hypocrite’s tikvah shall perish:
14 Whose tikvah shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be
a spider’s web.
15 He shall lean on his bayit, but it shall not stand: he
shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.
16 He is green before the sun, and his branch shoots forth
in his gan.
17 His roots are wrapped around a heap, and sees the
place of stones.
18 If he destroys him from his place, then it shall deny
him, saying, I have not seen you.
19 See, this is the simcha of his derech, and out of the
earth shall others grow.
20 See, El will not cast away a perfect man; neither will
He help the evil-doers:
21 Until He fills your mouth with laughing, and your lips
with gilah.
22 They that hate you shall be clothed with shame; and
the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nothing.
9 Then Iyov answered and said,
2 Truly I know it is so: but how should a man be tzadik
with El?
3 If he will contend with Him, he cannot answer Him one
time out of a thousand.
4 He is wise in lev, and mighty in strength: who has
hardened himself against Him, and still prospered?
5 Who removes the mountains, and they know it not: who
overturns them in His anger.
6 Who shakes the earth out of its place, and the pillars of
it tremble.
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7 Who commands the sun, and it rises not; and seals up
the cochavim.
8 Who alone spreads out the shamayim, and treads on the
waves of the sea.
9 Who makes Aldebaran, Orion, and Pleiades, and the
rooms of the south.
10 Who does great things past finding out; yes, and
wonders without number.
11 See, He goes by me, and I see Him not: He passes on
also, but I perceive Him not.
12 See, He takes away, who can hinder Him? Who will
say to Him, What are You doing?
13 tvkt will not withdraw His anger; the proud helpers
do stoop under Him.
14 How much less shall I answer Him, and choose out my
words to reason with Him?
15 Who, though I were a tzadik, yet would I not answer,
but I would make tefillah to my Shophet.
16 If I had called, and He had answered me; yet would I
not believe that He had listened to my voice.
17 For He breaks me with a storm, and multiplies my
wounds without cause.
18 He will not allow me to take my ruach, but fills me
with bitterness.
19 If I speak of strength, look, He is strong: and if of
mishpat, who shall set me a time to plead?
20 If I justify myself, my own mouth shall condemn me:
if I say, I am perfect; it shall also prove me a liar.
21 Am I perfect? Yet would I not know my being: I
would still despise my chayim.
22 It is all the same, therefore I said it, He destroys the
perfect and the wicked.
23 If the scourge slays suddenly, He will laugh at the trial
of the innocent.
24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: He
covers the faces of the shophtim of it; if it is not He, then
who does it?
25 Now my days are swifter than a messenger: they flee
away, they see no tov.
26 They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle
that hurries to its prey.
27 If I say, I will forget my complaint; I will leave off my
heaviness, and comfort myself:
28 I am afraid of all my sorrows; I know that you will not
hold me innocent.
29 If I am wicked, why then do I labor in vain?
30 If I wash myself with snow mayim, and my hands with
soap;
31 Yet shall You plunge me in the ditch, and my own
clothes shall abhor me.
32 For He is not a man, as I am, that I should answer Him
that we should come together in mishpat.
33 Neither is there any mediator between us; that might
lay his hand on us both. 4041
34 Let Him take His rod away from me, and let not His
fear frighten me:
35 Then would I speak, and not fear Him; but it is not so
within me.
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My being is weary of my chayim; I will leave my
complaint to myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my
being.
2 I will say to tvkt, Do not condemn me; show me why