RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION Study Bible

the tomb.
33 The clusters of the mud of the valley shall be sweet to
him, and every man shall follow after him, as there are
innumerable ones who went before him.
34 Why then do you comfort me in vain, seeing in your
answers there remains falsehood?
Then Elifaz the Temanite answered and said,
2 Can a man be profitable to El, as he that is wise may be
profitable to himself?
3 Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that you are tzadik?
Or, is it to His advantage that you make your halacha
perfect?
4 Would He reprove you if you feared Him? Will He
enter with you into mishpat?
5 Is not your wickedness great? And your iniquities
infinite?
6 For you have taken a pledge from your brother for
nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
7 You have not given mayim to the weary to drink, and
you have withheld lechem from the hungry.
8 But as for the mighty man, he has the earth; and the
honorable man dwells in it.
9 You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the
fatherless you have broken.
10 Therefore snares are around you, and sudden fear
troubles you;
11 Or, darkness, that you cannot see; and an abundance of
mayim covers you.
12 Is not tvkt in the heights of the shamayim? And
behold the heights of the cochavim, how high they are!
13 And you say, How does El know? How can He judge
through the dark cloud?
14 Thick clouds are a covering to Him, that He sees not;
and He walks in the circuit of the shamayim.
15 Have you marked the old halacha in which wicked
men have trodden?
16 Who were cut down before their time, whose
foundation was swept away with a flood:
17 Who said to El, Depart from us: and what can the
Almighty do for us?
18 Yet He filled their houses with tov things: but the
counsel of the wicked is far from me.
19 The tzadikim see it, and are glad: and the innocent
laugh them to scorn.
20 If they are not prostrated because of their
stubbornness, then their remnant the fire will consume.
21 Agree with Him and serve Him, and be at shalom:
thereby tov shall come to you.
22 Receive, I beg you, the Torah from His mouth, 4054
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and lay up His words in your lev.
23 If you make teshuvah to the Almighty, you shall be
built up, you shall put away iniquity far from your tents.
24 Then shall you lay up gold as dust, and the gold of
Ophir as the stones of the brooks.
25 Yes, the Almighty shall be your defense, and you shall
have plenty of silver.
26 For then shall you have your delight in the Almighty,
and shall lift up your face to tvkt.
27 You shall make your tefillah to Him, and He shall
hear, and you shall pay your vows to Him.
28 You shall also decree a thing, and it shall be
established to you: and the light shall shine on
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your halacha.
29 When men are cast down, then you shall say, There is
lifting up; and He shall save the humble person.
30 Shall He deliver one who is not innocent?
Deliverance is by the pureness of your hands.
Then Iyov answered and said,
2 Even today is my complaint bitter: His hand is now
heavier and increases my groaning.
3 Oh that I knew where I might find Him! That I might
come even to His seat!
4 I would present my cause before Him, and fill my
mouth with arguments.
5 I would know the words with which He would answer
me, and understand what He would say to me.
6 Will He plead against me with His great power? No; but
He would put strength in me.
7 There the tzadikim might reason with Him; so I should
be delivered le-olam-va-ed from my Shophet.
8 See, I go forward, but He is not there; and backward,
but I cannot perceive Him:
9 On the left hand, where He does work, but I cannot
behold Him: He hides Himself on the Right Hand, that I
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10 But He knows the halacha that I take: when He has
tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
11 My foot has held to His steps, His halacha have I kept,
and not declined.
12 Neither have I backslidden from the commandment of
His lips; I have esteemed the words of His mouth more
than my necessary food.
13 But He is in echad, and who can turn Him? And what
His being desires, even that He does.
14 For He performs the thing that He has appointed for
me: and many such things are with Him.
15 Therefore am I troubled at His shechinah: when I
consider it, I am afraid of Him.
16 For El makes my lev soft, and the Almighty troubles
me:
17 Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither
has He covered the darkness from my face.
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Times are not hidden from the Almighty, and why do
those who know Him not see more days?
2 Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away
flocks, and feed on it.
3 They drive away the donkey of the fatherless; they take
the widow’s ox for a pledge.
4 They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the
earth hide themselves together.
5 See, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go forth to their
work; rising for a prey: the wilderness yields food for
them and for their children.
6 They reap each one his corn in the field: and they gather
the vintage of the wicked.
7 They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that
they have no covering in the cold.
8 They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and
embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
9 They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a
pledge from the poor.
10 They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they
take away the sheaf from the hungry;