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\BibleBook{THE WISDOM OF SOLOMON.}

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\BibleMainTitle{THE WISDOM OF SOLOMON. }
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\chapterNumber{1}Love righteousness, ye that be judges of the earth, 
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Think ye of the Lord \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{1:1  }Gr. \fqa in goodness. } with a good mind, 
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And in singleness of heart seek ye him; 
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\verseNumber{2}Because he is found of them that tempt him not, 
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And is manifested to them that do not distrust him. 
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\verseNumber{3}For crooked thoughts separate from God; 
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And the \BibleCharacterStyleADD{supreme } Power, when it is brought to the proof, \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{1:3  }Gr. \fqa convicteth. } putteth to confusion the foolish: 
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\verseNumber{4}Because wisdom will not enter into a soul that deviseth evil, 
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Nor dwell in a body that is held in pledge by sin. 
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\verseNumber{5}For a holy spirit of discipline will flee deceit. 
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And will start away from thoughts that are without understanding, 
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And will be \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{1:5  }Gr. \fqa convicted. } put to confusion when unrighteousness hath come in. 
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\verseNumber{6}For \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{1:6  }Some authorities read \fqa the spirit of wisdom is loving to man. } wisdom is a spirit that loveth man, 
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And she will not hold a \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{1:6  }Or, \fqa reviler } blasphemer guiltless for his lips; 
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Because God beareth witness of his reins, 
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And is a true overseer of his heart, 
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And a hearer of his tongue: 
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\verseNumber{7}Because the spirit of the Lord hath filled \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{1:7  }Gr. \fqa the inhabited earth. } the world, 
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And that which holdeth all things together hath knowledge of \BibleCharacterStyleADD{every } voice. 
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\verseNumber{8}Therefore no man that uttereth unrighteous things shall be unseen; 
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\BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{1:8  }Some authorities read \fqa Nor indeed. } Neither shall Justice, when it convicteth, pass him by. 
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\verseNumber{9}For in \BibleCharacterStyleADD{the midst of } his counsels the ungodly shall be searched out; 
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And the sound of his words shall come unto the Lord 
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To bring to conviction his lawless deeds: 
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\verseNumber{10}Because \BibleCharacterStyleADD{there is } an ear of jealousy \BibleCharacterStyleADD{that } listeneth to all things, 
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And the noise of murmurings is not hid. 
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\verseNumber{11}Beware then of unprofitable murmuring, 
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And refrain your tongue from backbiting; 
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Because no secret utterance shall go on its way void, 
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And a mouth that belieth destroyeth a soul. 
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\verseNumber{12}Court not death in the error of your life; 
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Neither draw upon yourselves destruction by the works of your hands: 
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\verseNumber{13}Because God made not death; 
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Neither delighteth he when the living perish: 
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\verseNumber{14}For he created all things that they might have being: 
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And\BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{1:14  }Or, all \fqa the races of creatures \fqa in the world } the generative powers of the world \BibleCharacterStyleADD{are } healthsome, 
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And there is no poison of destruction in them: 
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Nor hath Hades \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{1:14  }Or, \fqa a royal house } royal dominion upon earth, 
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\verseNumber{15}For righteousness is immortal: 
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\verseNumber{16}But ungodly men by their hands and their words called \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{1:16  }Or, \fqa Hades Gr. \fqa him. } death unto them: 
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Deeming him a friend they \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{1:16  }Or, \fqa were consumed with love of him } consumed away, 
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And they made a covenant with him, 
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Because they are worthy to be of his portion. 
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\chapterNumber{2}For they said \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{2:1  }Or, \fqa among } within themselves, reasoning not aright, 
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Short and sorrowful is our life; 
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And there is no healing when a man cometh to his end, 
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And none was ever known that \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{2:1  }Or, \fqa returned out of Hades } gave release from Hades. 
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\verseNumber{2}Because by mere chance were we born, 
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And hereafter we shall be as though we had never been: 
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Because the breath in our nostrils is smoke, 
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And \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{2:2  }Or, \fqa reason is a spark kindled \fqa by the beating of our heart } while our heart beateth reason is a spark, 
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\verseNumber{3}Which being extinguished, the body shall be turned into ashes, 
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And the spirit shall be dispersed as thin air; 
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\verseNumber{4}And our name shall be forgotten in time, 
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And no man shall remember our works; 
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And our life shall pass away as the traces of a cloud, 
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And shall be scattered as is a mist, 
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When it is chased by the beams of the sun, 
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And \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{2:4  }Gr. \fqa weighed down. } overcome by the heat thereof. 
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\verseNumber{5}For our alloted time is the passing of a shadow, 
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And \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{2:5  }Or, \fqa there is no putting back of our end } our end retreateth not; 
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Because it is fast sealed, and none \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{2:5  }Or, \fqa cometh again } turneth it back. 
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\verseNumber{6}Come therefore and let us enjoy the good things \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{2:6  }Or, \fqa that are } that \BibleCharacterStyleADD{now } are; 
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And let us use the creation \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{2:6  }Gr. \fqa earnestly. } with all our soul \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{2:6  Some authorities read \fqa even as our youth. } as youth’s \BibleCharacterStyleADD{possession.} 
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\verseNumber{7}Let us fill ourselves with costly wine and perfumes; 
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And let no flower of \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{2:7  }Some authorities read \fqa air. } spring pass us by: 
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\verseNumber{8}Let us crown ourselves with rosebuds, before they be withered: 
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\verseNumber{9}Let none of us go without his share in our proud revelry: 
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Everywhere let us leave tokens of \BibleCharacterStyleADD{our } mirth: 
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Because this is our portion, and our lot is this. 
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\verseNumber{10}Let us oppress the righteous poor; 
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Let us not spare the widow, 
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Nor reverence the hairs of the old man gray for length of years. 
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\verseNumber{11}But let our strength be \BibleCharacterStyleADD{to us } a law of righteousness; 
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For that which is weak is \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{2:11  }Gr. \fqa convicted. } found to be of no service. 
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\verseNumber{12}But let us lie in wait for the righteous man, 
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Because he is of disservice to us, 
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And is contrary to our works, 
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And upbraideth us with sins against \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{2:12  }Or, \fqa law } the law, 
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And layeth to our charge sins against our discipline. 
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\verseNumber{13}He professeth to have knowledge of God, 
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And nameth himself \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{2:13  }Or, \fqa child } servant of the Lord. 
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\verseNumber{14}He became to us a reproof of our thoughts. 
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\verseNumber{15}He is grievous unto us even to behold, 
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Because his life is unlike other men’s, 
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And his paths are of strange fashion. 
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\verseNumber{16}We were accounted of him as base metal, 
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And he abstaineth from our ways as from uncleannesses. 
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The latter end of the righteous he calleth happy; 
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And he vaunteth that God is his father. 
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\verseNumber{17}Let us see if his words be true, 
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And let us try what shall befall in the ending of his \BibleCharacterStyleADD{life. } 
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\verseNumber{18}For if the righteous man is God’s son, he will uphold him, 
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And he will deliver him out of the hand of his adversaries. 
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\verseNumber{19}With outrage and torture let us put him to the test, 
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That we may learn his gentleness, 
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And may prove his patience under wrong. 
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\verseNumber{20}Let us condemn him to a shameful death; 
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For \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{2:20  }Gr. \fqa there shall be a visitation of him out of his words. } he shall be visited according to his words. 
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\verseNumber{21}Thus reasoned they, and they were led astray; 
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For their \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{2:21  }Or, \fqa malice } wickedness blinded them, 
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\verseNumber{22}And they knew not the mysteries of God, 
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Neither hoped they for wages of holiness, 
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Nor did they judge \BibleCharacterStyleADD{that there is } a prize for blameless souls. 
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\verseNumber{23}Because God created man for incorruption, 
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And made him an image of his own \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{2:23  }Some authorities read \fqa everlastingness. } proper being; 
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\verseNumber{24}But by the envy of the devil death entered into the world, 
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And they that are of his portion make trial thereof. 
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\chapterNumber{3}But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, 
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And no torment shall touch them. 
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\verseNumber{2}In the eyes of the foolish they seemed to have died; 
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And their departure was accounted \BibleCharacterStyleADD{to be their } hurt, 
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\verseNumber{3}And their journeying away from us \BibleCharacterStyleADD{to be their } ruin: 
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But they are in peace. 
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\verseNumber{4}For even if in the sight of men they be punished, 
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Their hope is full of immortality; 
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\verseNumber{5}And having borne a little chastening, they shall receive great good; 
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Because God made trial of them, and found them worthy of himself. 
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\verseNumber{6}As gold in the furnace he proved them, 
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And as a whole burnt offering he accepted them. 
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\verseNumber{7}And in the time of their visitation they shall shine forth, 
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And as sparks among stubble they shall run to and fro. 
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\verseNumber{8}They shall judge nations, and have dominion over peoples; 
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And the Lord shall reign over them for evermore. 
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\verseNumber{9}They that trust on him shall understand truth, 
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And \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{3:9  }Or, \fqa they that are faithful through love shall abide with him } the faithful shall abide with him in love; 
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Because grace and mercy are to his chosen. 
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\verseNumber{10}But the ungodly shall be requited even as they reasoned, 
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They which lightly regarded \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{3:10  }Or, \fqa that which is righteous } the righteous \BibleCharacterStyleADD{man, } and revolted from the Lord; 
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\verseNumber{11}(For he that setteth at nought wisdom and discipline is miserable;) 
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And void is their hope and their toils unprofitable, 
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And useless are their works: 
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\verseNumber{12}Their wives are foolish, and wicked are their children; 
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\verseNumber{13}Accursed is their begetting. 
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Because happy is the barren that is undefiled, 
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She who hath not conceived in transgression; 
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She shall have fruit when \BibleCharacterStyleADD{God } visiteth souls. 
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\verseNumber{14}And \BibleCharacterStyleADD{happy is } the eunuch which hath wrought no lawless deed with his hands, 
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Nor imagined wicked things against the Lord; 
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For there shall be given him for his faithfulness \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{3:14  }Or, \fqa the grace of God’s \fqa chosen Gr. \fqa a chosen grace. } a peculiar favour, 
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And a lot in the sanctuary of the Lord more delightsome \BibleCharacterStyleADD{than wife or children. } 
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\verseNumber{15}For good labours have fruit of great renown; 
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And the root of understanding cannot fail. 
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\verseNumber{16}But children of adulterers shall not come to maturity, 
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And the seed of an unlawful bed shall vanish away. 
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\verseNumber{17}For if they live long, they shall be held in no account, 
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And at the last their old age shall be without honour. 
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\verseNumber{18}And if they die quickly, they \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{3:18  }Some authorities read \fqa have } shall have no hope, 
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Nor in the day of decision \BibleCharacterStyleADD{shall they have } consolation. 
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\verseNumber{19}For \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{3:19  }Gr. \fqa the ends...are grievous.} the end of an unrighteous generation is alway grievous. 
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\chapterNumber{4}Better \BibleCharacterStyleADD{than this } is childishness with virtue; 
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For in the memory \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{4:1  }Gr. \fqa of it. } of virtue is immortality: 
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Because it is recognised both before God and before men. 
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\verseNumber{2}When it is present, \BibleCharacterStyleADD{men } imitate it; 
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And they long after it when it is departed: 
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And \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{4:2  }Gr. \fqa in the age. } throughout all time it marcheth crowned in triumph, 
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Victorious in the strife for the prizes that are undefiled. 
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\verseNumber{3}But the multiplying brood of the ungodly shall be of no profit, 
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And \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{4:3  }Gr. \fqa from } with bastard \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{4:3  Or, \fqa offshoots } slips they shall not strike deep root, 
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Nor shall they establish a sure hold. 
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\verseNumber{4}For even if these \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{4:4  }Gr. \fqa in boughs flourish. } put forth boughs and flourish for a season, 
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\BibleCharacterStyleADD{Yet, } standing unsure, they shall be shaken by the wind, 
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And by the violence of winds they shall be rooted out. 
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\verseNumber{5}\BibleCharacterStyleADD{Their } branches shall be broken off before they come to maturity, 
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and their fruit \BibleCharacterStyleADD{shall be } useless, 
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Never ripe to eat, and fit for nothing. 
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\verseNumber{6}For children unlawfully begotten are witnesses of wickedness 
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Against parents when \BibleCharacterStyleADD{God } searcheth them out. 
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\verseNumber{7}But a righteous man, though he die before his time, shall be at rest. 
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\verseNumber{8}(For honourable old age is not that which standeth in length of time, 
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Nor is its measure given by number of years: 
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\verseNumber{9}But understanding is gray hairs unto men, 
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And an unspotted life is ripe old age.) 
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\verseNumber{10}Being found well-pleasing unto God he was beloved \BibleCharacterStyleADD{of him, } 
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And while living among sinners he was translated: 
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\verseNumber{11}He was caught away, lest \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{4:11  }Or, \fqa malice } wickedness should change his understanding, 
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Or guile deceive his soul. 
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\verseNumber{12}(For the bewitching of naughtiness bedimmeth the things which are good, 
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And the giddy whirl of desire perverteth an innocent mind.) 
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\verseNumber{13}Being made perfect in a little while, he fulfilled long \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{4:13  }Gr. \fqa times. } years; 
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\verseNumber{14}For his soul was pleasing unto the Lord: 
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Therefore \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{4:14  }Or, \fqa he hastened him \fqa away } hasted he out of the midst of wickedness. 
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\verseNumber{15}But as for the peoples, seeing and understanding not, 
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Neither laying \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{4:15  }Gr. \fqa such a thing as this. } this to heart, 
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That grace and mercy are with his chosen, 
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And that \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{4:15  }Gr. \fqa his visitation is with. } he visiteth his holy ones:- 
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\verseNumber{16}But a righteous man that is dead shall condemn the ungodly that are living, 
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And youth that is quickly perfected the many years of an unrighteous man’s old age; 
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\verseNumber{17}For \BibleCharacterStyleADD{the ungodly } shall see a wise man’s end, 
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And shall not understand what the Lord purposed concerning him, 
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And for what he safely kept him:- 
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\verseNumber{18}They shall see, and they shall despise; 
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But them the Lord shall laugh to scorn. 
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And after this they shall become a dishonoured carcase, 
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And \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{4:18  }Or, \fqa be for outrage } a reproach among the dead for ever: 
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\verseNumber{19}Because he shall dash them speechless to the ground, 
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And shall shake them from the foundations, 
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And they shall \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{4:19  }Or, \fqa be a perpetual desolation } lie utterly waste, and they shall be in anguish, 
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And their memory shall perish. 
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\verseNumber{20}They shall come, \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{4:20  }Or, \fqa when they reckon up their sins } when their sins are reckoned up, with coward fear; 
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And their lawless deeds shall convict them to their face. 
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\chapterNumber{5}Then shall the righteous man stand in great boldness 
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Before the face of them that afflicted him, 
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And them that make his labours of no account. 
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\verseNumber{2}When they see \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{5:2  }Or, \fqa him } it, they shall be troubled with terrible fear, 
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And shall be amazed at the marvel of \BibleCharacterStyleADD{God’s } salvation. 
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\verseNumber{3}They shall say \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{5:3  }Or, \fqa among } within themselves repenting, 
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And for distress of spirit shall they groan, 
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This was he whom aforetime we had in derision, 
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And \BibleCharacterStyleADD{made } a parable of \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{5:3  }Or, \fqa reproach, we fools: we accounted } reproach: 
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\verseNumber{4}We fools accounted his life madness, 
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And his end without honour: 
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\verseNumber{5}How was he numbered among sons of God? 
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And \BibleCharacterStyleADD{how } is his lot among saints? 
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\verseNumber{6}Verily we went astray from the way of truth, 
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And the light of righteousness shined not for us, 
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And the sun rose not for us. 
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\verseNumber{7}We \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{5:7  }See Prov. xiv. 14. } took our fill of the paths of lawlessness and destruction, 
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And we journeyed through trackless deserts, 
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But the way of the Lord we knew not. 
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\verseNumber{8}What did our arrogancy profit us? 
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And what good have riches \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{5:8  }Gr. \fqa with } and vaunting brought us? 
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\verseNumber{9}Those things all passed away as a shadow, 
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And as a message that runneth by: 
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\verseNumber{10}As a ship passing through the billowy water, 
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Whereof, when it is gone by, there is no trace to be found, 
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Neither pathway of its keel in the billows: 
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\verseNumber{11}Or as when a bird flieth through the air, 
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No token of \BibleCharacterStyleADD{her } passage is found, 
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But the light wind, lashed with the stroke of her pinions, 
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And rent asunder \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{5:11  }Or, \fqa with the violent rush, is passed through by the motion of her wings } with the violent rush of the moving wings, is passed through, 
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And afterwards no sign of \BibleCharacterStyleADD{her } coming is found therein: 
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\verseNumber{12}Or as when an arrow is shot at a mark, 
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The air disparted closeth up again immediately, 
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So that men know not where it passed through: 
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\verseNumber{13}So we also, as soon as we were born, \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{5:13  }Gr. \fqa failed. } ceased to be; 
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And of virtue we had no sign to shew, 
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But in our wickedness we were utterly consumed. 
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\verseNumber{14}Because the hope of the ungodly man is as chaff carried by the wind, 
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And \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{5:14  }Gr. \fqa as foam chased to thinness: or, \fqa as thin foam chased. } as \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{5:14  Most Greek authorities read \fqa hoar frost: some authorities, perhaps rightly, \fqa a spider’s web.} foam vanishing before a tempest; 
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And is scattered as smoke \BibleCharacterStyleADD{is scattered } by the wind, 
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And passeth by as the remembrance of a guest that tarrieth but a day. 
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\verseNumber{15}But the righteous live for ever, 
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And in the Lord is their reward, 
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And the care for them with the Most High. 
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\verseNumber{16}Therefore shall they receive the crown of royal dignity 
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And the diadem of beauty from the Lord’s hand; 
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Because with his right hand shall he cover them, 
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And with his arm shall he shield them. 
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\verseNumber{17}He shall take his jealousy as complete armour, 
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And shall make the \BibleCharacterStyleADD{whole } creation his weapons \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{5:17  }Or, \fqa to repel his enemies } for vengeance on \BibleCharacterStyleADD{his } enemies: 
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\verseNumber{18}He shall put on righteousness as a breastplate, 
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And shall array himself with judgement unfeigned as with a helmet; 
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\verseNumber{19}He shall take holiness as an invincible shield, 
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\verseNumber{20}And he shall sharpen stern wrath for a sword: 
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And the world shall go forth with him to fight against \BibleCharacterStyleADD{his } insensate \BibleCharacterStyleADD{foes.} 
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\verseNumber{21}Shafts of lightning shall fly with true aim, 
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And from the clouds, as from a well drawn bow, shall they leap to the mark. 
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\verseNumber{22}And \BibleCharacterStyleADD{as } from an engine of war shall be hurled hailstones full of wrath; 
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The water of the sea shall be angered against them, 
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And rivers shall sternly overwhelm them; 
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\verseNumber{23}A mighty blast shall encounter them, 
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And as a tempest shall it winnow them away: 
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And \BibleCharacterStyleADD{so } shall lawlessness make all the land desolate, 
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And their evil-doing shall overturn the thrones of princes. 
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\chapterNumber{6}Hear therefore, ye kings, and understand; 
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Learn, ye judges of the ends of the earth: 
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\verseNumber{2}Give ear, ye that have dominion over much people, 
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And make your boast \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{6:2  }Or, \fqa in the multitudes of your nations } in multitudes of nations. 
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\verseNumber{3}Because your dominion was given you from the Lord, 
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And your sovereignty from the Most High; 
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Who shall search out your works, 
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And shall make inquisition of your counsels: 
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\verseNumber{4}Because being officers of his kingdom ye did not judge aright, 
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Neither kept ye \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{6:4  }Or, \fqa the law } law, nor walked after the counsel of God. 
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\verseNumber{5}Awfully and swiftly shall he come upon you; 
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Because a stern judgement befalleth them that be in high place: 
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\verseNumber{6}For the man of low estate may be pardoned in mercy, 
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But mighty men shall be \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{6:6  }Gr. \fqa put to the test. } searched out mightily. 
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\verseNumber{7}For the Sovereign Lord of all will not refrain himself for any \BibleCharacterStyleADD{man’s } person, 
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Neither will he reverence greatness; 
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Because it is he that made \BibleCharacterStyleADD{both } small and great, 
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And alike he taketh thought for all; 
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\verseNumber{8}But \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{6:8  }Gr. \fqa strong. } strict is the scrutiny that cometh upon the powerful. 
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\verseNumber{9}Unto you therefore, O princes, are my words, 
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That ye may learn wisdom and \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{6:9  }Gr. \fqa fall not aside. } fall not from the right way. 
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\verseNumber{10}For they that have kept holily the things that are holy shall \BibleCharacterStyleADD{themselves } be \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{6:10  }Or, \fqa accounted holy } hallowed; 
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And they that have been taught them shall find what to answer; 
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\verseNumber{11}Set your desire therefore on my words; 
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Long for \BibleCharacterStyleADD{them, } and ye shall be \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{6:11  }Gr. \fqa disciplined. } trained by \BibleCharacterStyleADD{their } discipline. 
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\verseNumber{12}Wisdom is radiant and fadeth not away; 
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And easily is she beheld of them that love her, 
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And found of them that seek her. 
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\verseNumber{13}She forestalleth them that desire \BibleCharacterStyleADD{to know her,} making herself first known. 
\verseNumber{14}He that riseth up early to \BibleCharacterStyleADD{seek} her shall have no toil, 
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For he shall find her sitting at his gates. 
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\verseNumber{15}For to think upon her is perfectness of understanding, 
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And he that watcheth for her sake shall quickly be free from care. 
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\verseNumber{16}Because she goeth about, herself seeking them that are worthy of her, 
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And in their paths she appeareth unto them graciously, 
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And in every purpose she meeteth them. 
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\verseNumber{17}For \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{6:17  }Or, \fqa her beginning is the true desire } her \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{6:17  Gr. \fqa truest. } true beginning is desire of discipline; 
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And the care for discipline is love \BibleCharacterStyleADD{of her; } 
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\verseNumber{18}And love \BibleCharacterStyleADD{of her } is observance of her laws; 
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And to give heed to \BibleCharacterStyleADD{her } laws confirmeth incorruption; 
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\verseNumber{19}And incorruption \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{6:19  }Gr. \fqa maketh to be near. } bringeth near unto God; 
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\verseNumber{20}So then desire of wisdom promoteth to a kingdom. 
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\verseNumber{21}If therefore ye delight in thrones and sceptres, ye princes of peoples, 
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Honour wisdom, that ye may reign for ever. 
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\verseNumber{22}But what wisdom is, and how she came into being, I will declare, 
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And I will not hide mysteries from you; 
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But I will trace \BibleCharacterStyleADD{her } out \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{6:22  }Or, \fqa from her first beginning } from the beginning of creation, 
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And bring the knowledge of her into clear light, 
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And I will not pass by the truth; 
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\verseNumber{23}Neither indeed will I take \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{6:23  }Gr. \fqa wasted. } pining envy for my companion in the way, 
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Because \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{6:23  }Gr. \fqa this } envy shall have no fellowship with wisdom. 
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\verseNumber{24}But a multitude of wise men is salvation to the world, 
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And an understanding king is tranquillity to \BibleCharacterStyleADD{his } people. 
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\verseNumber{25}Wherefore be disciplined by my words, and \BibleCharacterStyleADD{thereby } shall ye profit. 
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\chapterNumber{7}I myself also am \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{7:1  }Many authorities read \fqa a mortal man.} mortal, like to all, 
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And am sprung from one born of the earth, \BibleCharacterStyleADD{the man } first formed, 
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\verseNumber{2}And in the womb of a mother was I moulded into flesh in the time of ten months, 
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Being compacted in blood of the seed of man and pleasure that came with sleep. 
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\verseNumber{3}And I also, when I was born, drew in the common air, 
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And fell upon the \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{7:3  }Gr. \fqa of like qualities. } kindred earth, 
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Uttering, like all, for my first voice, the selfsame wail: 
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\verseNumber{4}In swaddling clothes was I nursed, and \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{7:4  }Gr. \fqa in. } with \BibleCharacterStyleADD{watchful } cares. 
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\verseNumber{5}For no king had any other first beginning; 
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\verseNumber{6}But all men have one entrance into life, and a like departure. 
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\verseNumber{7}For this cause I prayed, and understanding was given me: 
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I called upon \BibleCharacterStyleADD{God, } and there came to me a spirit of wisdom. 
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\verseNumber{8}I preferred her before sceptres and thrones, 
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And riches I esteemed nothing in comparison of her. 
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\verseNumber{9}Neither did I liken to her any priceless gem, 
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Because all the gold \BibleCharacterStyleADD{of the earth } in her presence is a little sand, 
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And silver shall be accounted as clay before her. 
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\verseNumber{10}Above health and comeliness I loved her, 
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And I chose to have her rather than light, 
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Because her bright shining is never laid to sleep. 
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\verseNumber{11}But with her there came to me all good things together, 
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And in her hands innumerable riches: 
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\verseNumber{12}And I rejoiced over \BibleCharacterStyleADD{them } all because wisdom leadeth them; 
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Though I knew not that she was the \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{7:12  }Some authorities read \fqa first origin. } mother of them. 
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\verseNumber{13}As I learned without guile, I impart without grudging; 
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I do not hide her riches. 
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\verseNumber{14}For she is unto men a treasure that faileth not, 
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And they that use it \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{7:14  }Gr. \fqa prepare for themselves. } obtain friendship with God, 
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Commended \BibleCharacterStyleADD{to him } \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{7:14  }Gr. \fqa for the sake of the presents that come of discipline. } by the gifts which they through discipline present \BibleCharacterStyleADD{to him. } 
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\verseNumber{15}But to me may God give to speak \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{7:15  }Or, \fqa according to his \fqa mind Or, \fqa according to my \fqa mind } with judgement, 
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And to conceive thoughts worthy of what \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{7:15  }Some authorities read \fqa is said. } hath been given \BibleCharacterStyleADD{me; } 
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Because himself is one that guideth even wisdom and that correcteth the wise. 
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\verseNumber{16}For in his hand are both we and our words; 
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All understanding, and \BibleCharacterStyleADD{all } acquaintance with divers crafts. 
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\verseNumber{17}For himself gave me an unerring knowledge of the things that are, 
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To know the constitution of the world, and the operation of the elements; 
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\verseNumber{18}The beginning and end and middle of times, 
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The alternations of the solstices and the changes of seasons, 
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\verseNumber{19}The circuits of years and the \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{7:19  }Or, \fqa constellations } positions of stars; 
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\verseNumber{20}The natures of living creatures and the ragings of wild beasts, 
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The violences of \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{7:20  }Or, \fqa spirits } winds and the thoughts of men, 
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The diversities of plants and the virtues of roots: 
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\verseNumber{21}All things that are either secret or manifest I learned, 
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\verseNumber{22}For she that is the artificer of all things taught me, \BibleCharacterStyleADD{even } wisdom. 
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For there is in her a spirit quick of understanding, holy, 
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\BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{7:22  }Gr. \fqa Sole-born. } Alone in kind, manifold, 
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Subtil, freely moving, 
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Clear in utterance, unpolluted, 
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Distinct, unharmed, 
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Loving what is good, keen, unhindered, 
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\verseNumber{23}Beneficent, loving toward man, 
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Stedfast, sure, free from care, 
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All-powerful, all-surveying, 
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And penetrating through all spirits 
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That are quick of understanding, pure, most subtil: 
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\verseNumber{24}For wisdom is more mobile than any motion; 
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Yea, she pervadeth and penetrateth all things by reason of her pureness. 
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\verseNumber{25}For she is a \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{7:25  }Gr. \fqa vapour. } breath of the power of God, 
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And a clear effluence of the glory of the Almighty; 
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Therefore can nothing defiled find entrance into her. 
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\verseNumber{26}For she is an effulgence from everlasting light, 
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And an unspotted mirror of the working of God, 
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And an image of his goodness. 
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\verseNumber{27}And she, being one, hath power to do all things; 
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And remaining in herself, reneweth all things: 
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And from generation to generation passing into holy souls 
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She maketh \BibleCharacterStyleADD{men } friends of God and prophets. 
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\verseNumber{28}For nothing doth God love save him that dwelleth with wisdom. 
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\verseNumber{29}For she is fairer than the sun, 
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And above \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{7:29  }Gr. \fqa every arrangement of stars. } all the constellations of the stars: 
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Being compared with light, she is found \BibleCharacterStyleADD{to be } before it; 
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\verseNumber{30}For \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{7:30  }Gr. \fqa to this. } to the light \BibleCharacterStyleADD{of day } succeedeth night, 
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But against wisdom evil doth not prevail; 
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\chapterNumber{8}But she \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{8:1  }Or, \fqa reacheth from end onward unto end mightily } reacheth from one end \BibleCharacterStyleADD{of the world } to the other with full strength, 
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And ordereth all things \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{8:1  }Or, \fqa unto good use } graciously. 
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\verseNumber{2}Her I loved and sought out from my youth, 
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And I sought to take her for my bride, 
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And I became enamoured of her beauty. 
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\verseNumber{3}She glorifieth \BibleCharacterStyleADD{her } noble birth in that it is given her to live with God, 
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And the Sovereign Lord of all loved her. 
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\verseNumber{4}For she is initiated into the knowledge of God, 
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And she \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{8:4  }Some authorities read \fqa deviseth for him. } chooseth out \BibleCharacterStyleADD{for him } his works. 
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\verseNumber{5}But if riches are a desired possession in life, 
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What is richer than wisdom, which worketh all things? 
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\verseNumber{6}\BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{8:6  }The Greek text of this clause is perhaps corrupt. } And if understanding worketh, 
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Who more than \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{8:6  }Gr. \fqa she. } wisdom is an artificer of the things that are? 
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\verseNumber{7}And if a man loveth righteousness, 
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\BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{8:7  }Gr. \fqa Her labours are. } The fruits of wisdom’s labour are virtues, 
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For she teacheth soberness and understanding, righteousness and courage; 
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And there is nothing in life for men more profitable than these. 
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\verseNumber{8}And if a man longeth even for much experience, 
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She knoweth \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{8:8  }Some authorities read \fqa how to divine the things of old and the things to come. } the things of old, and \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{8:8  Gr. \fqa conjectureth. } divineth the things to come: 
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She understandeth subtilties of speeches and interpretations of dark sayings: 
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She foreseeth signs and wonders, and the issues of seasons and times. 
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\verseNumber{9}I determined therefore to take her unto me to live with me, 
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Knowing that she is one who would \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{8:9  }Or, \fqa hold counsel with me for good things, and...against cares and grief } give me good \BibleCharacterStyleADD{thoughts } for counsel, 
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And \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{8:9  }Or, \fqa exhort Or, \fqa advise } encourage me in cares and grief. 
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\verseNumber{10}Because of her I shall have glory among multitudes, 
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And honour in the sight of elders, though I be young. 
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\verseNumber{11}I shall be found of a quick conceit when I give judgement, 
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And in the presence of \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{8:11  }Or, \fqa mighty men } princes I shall be admired. 
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\verseNumber{12}When I am silent, they shall wait for me; 
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And when I open my lips, they shall give heed unto me; 
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And if I continue speaking, they shall lay their hand upon their mouth. 
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\verseNumber{13}Because of her I shall have immortality, 
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And leave behind an eternal memory to them that come after me. 
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\verseNumber{14}I shall govern peoples, 
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And nations shall be subjected to me. 
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\verseNumber{15}Dread princes shall fear me when they hear \BibleCharacterStyleADD{of me: } 
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Among \BibleCharacterStyleADD{my } \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{8:15  }Gr. \fqa multitude. } people I shall shew myself a good \BibleCharacterStyleADD{ruler, } and in war courageous. 
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\verseNumber{16}When I am come into my house, I shall find rest with her; 
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For converse with her hath no bitterness, 
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And to live with her hath no pain, but gladness and joy. 
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\verseNumber{17}When I considered these things in myself, 
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And took thought in my heart how that in kinship unto wisdom is immortality, 
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\verseNumber{18}And in her friendship is good delight, 
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And in the labours of her hands is wealth that faileth not, 
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And in \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{8:18  }Gr. \fqa practice of communion. } assiduous communing with her is understanding, 
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And great renown in having fellowship with her words, 
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I went about seeking how to take her unto myself. 
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\verseNumber{19}Now I was \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{8:19  }Or, \fqa a goodly child } a child of parts, and a good soul fell to my lot; 
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\verseNumber{20}Nay rather, being good, I came into a body undefiled. 
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\verseNumber{21}But perceiving that I could not otherwise \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{8:21  }This is the probable sense: the Greek text is perhaps defective. } possess \BibleCharacterStyleADD{wisdom } except God gave \BibleCharacterStyleADD{her } me 
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(Yea and to know \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{8:21  }Gr. \fqa of whom is the grace. } by whom the grace is given, this \BibleCharacterStyleADD{too } came of understanding), 
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I pleaded with the Lord and besought him, and with my whole heart I said, 
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\chapterNumber{9}O God of the fathers, and \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{9:1  }Gr. \fqa Lord of thy mercy. Compare 2 Sam. vii. 15; Ps. lxxxix. 49. } Lord who keepest thy mercy, 
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Who madest all things \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{9:1  }Gr. \fqa in. } by thy word; 
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\verseNumber{2}And by thy wisdom thou formedst man, 
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That he should have dominion over the creatures that were made by thee, 
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\verseNumber{3}And rule the world in holiness and righteousness, 
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And execute judgement in uprightness of soul; 
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\verseNumber{4}Give me wisdom, her that sitteth by thee on thy \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{9:4  }Gr. \fqa thrones. } throne; 
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And reject me not from among thy \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{9:4  }Or, \fqa children } servants: 
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\verseNumber{5}Because I am thy bondman and the son of thy handmaid, 
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A man weak and short-lived, 
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And of small power to understand judgement and laws. 
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\verseNumber{6}For even if a man be perfect among the sons of men, 
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\BibleCharacterStyleADD{Yet } if the wisdom that cometh from thee be not with him, he shall be held in no account. 
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\verseNumber{7}Thou didst choose me before \BibleCharacterStyleADD{my brethren } to be king of thy people, 
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And to do judgement for thy sons and daughters. 
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\verseNumber{8}Thou gavest command to build a sanctuary in thy holy mountain, 
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And \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{9:8  }Or, \fqa a place of sacrifice } an altar in the city of thy \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{9:8  Gr. \fqa tabernacling. } habitation, 
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A copy of the holy tabernacle which thou preparedst aforehand from the beginning. 
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\verseNumber{9}And with thee is wisdom, which knoweth thy works, 
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And was present when thou wast making the world, 
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And which understandeth what is pleasing in thine eyes, 
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And what is right \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{9:9  }Gr. \fqa in. } according to thy commandments. 
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\verseNumber{10}Send her forth out of the holy heavens, 
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And from the throne of thy glory bid her come, 
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That being present with me she may toil \BibleCharacterStyleADD{with me, } 
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And \BibleCharacterStyleADD{that } I may learn what is well-pleasing before thee. 
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\verseNumber{11}For she knoweth all things and hath understanding \BibleCharacterStyleADD{thereof, } 
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And in my doings she shall guide me in \BibleCharacterStyleADD{ways of } soberness, 
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And she shall guard me in her glory. 
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\verseNumber{12}And \BibleCharacterStyleADD{so } shall my works be acceptible, 
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And I shall judge thy people righteously, 
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And I shall be worthy of my father’s \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{9:12  }Gr. \fqa thrones. } throne. 
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\verseNumber{13}For what man shall know the counsel of God? 
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Or who shall conceive what the Lord willeth? 
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\verseNumber{14}For the thoughts of mortals are \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{9:14  }The Greek text here is perhaps corrupt. } timorous, 
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And our devices are prone to fail. 
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\verseNumber{15}For a corruptible body weigheth down the soul, 
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And the earthy frame lieth heavy on a mind that \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{9:15  }Or, \fqa museth upon many things } is full of cares. 
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\verseNumber{16}And hardly do we \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{9:16  }Gr. \fqa conjecture. } divine the things that are on earth, 
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And the things that are close at hand we find with labour; 
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But the things that are in the heavens who \BibleCharacterStyleADD{ever yet } traced out? 
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\verseNumber{17}And who \BibleCharacterStyleADD{ever } gained knowledge of thy counsel, except thou \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{9:17  }Or, \fqa hadst given...and sent } gavest wisdom, 
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And sentest thy holy spirit \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{9:17  }Gr. \fqa from the highest. } from on high? 
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\verseNumber{18}And it was thus that the ways of them which are on earth were corrected, 
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And men were taught the things that are pleasing unto thee; 
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And through wisdom were they saved. 
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\chapterNumber{10}\BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{10:1  }Gr. \fqa She. } Wisdom guarded to the end the first formed father of the world, that was created alone, 
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And delivered him out of his own transgression, 
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\verseNumber{2}And gave him strength to get dominion over all things. 
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\verseNumber{3}But when an unrighteous man fell away from her in his anger, 
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He perished himself in the rage wherewith he slew his brother. 
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\verseNumber{4}And when for his cause the earth was drowning with a flood, 
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Wisdom again saved it, 
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Guiding the righteous man’s course by a poor piece of wood. 
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\verseNumber{5}Moreover, when nations consenting together in wickedness had been confounded, 
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\BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{10:5  }Gr. \fqa She } Wisdom knew the righteous man, and preserved him blameless unto God, 
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And kept him strong when his heart yearned toward his child. 
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\verseNumber{6}While the ungodly were perishing, \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{10:6  }Gr. \fqa she } wisdom delivered a righteous man, 
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When he fled from the fire that descended out of heaven on \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{10:6  }That is, \fqa the region of the five cities. } Pentapolis. 
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\verseNumber{7}To whose wickedness a smoking waste still witnesseth, 
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And plants bearing fair fruit that cometh not to ripeness; 
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\BibleCharacterStyleADD{Yea and } a \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{10:7  }Or, \fqa distrustful } disbelieving soul hath a memorial \BibleCharacterStyleADD{there, } a pillar of salt \BibleCharacterStyleADD{still } standing. 
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\verseNumber{8}For having passed wisdom by, 
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Not only were they disabled from recognising the things which are good, 
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But they also left behind them \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{10:8  }Or, \fqa by their life } for \BibleCharacterStyleADD{human } life a monument of their folly; 
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To the end that \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{10:8  }Gr. \fqa wherein. } where they \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{10:8  Gr. \fqa stumbled. } went astray they might fail even to be unseen: 
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\verseNumber{9}But wisdom delivered out of troubles those that waited on her. 
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\verseNumber{10}When a righteous man was a fugitive from a brother’s wrath, \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{10:10  }Gr. \fqa she. } wisdom guided him in straight paths; 
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She shewed him God’s kingdom, and gave him knowledge of holy things; 
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She prospered him in his toils, and multiplied the fruits of his labour; 
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\verseNumber{11}When in their covetousness \BibleCharacterStyleADD{men } dealt hardly with him, 
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She stood by him and made him rich; 
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\verseNumber{12}She guarded him from enemies, 
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And from those that lay in wait she kept him safe, 
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And over his sore conflict she watched as judge, 
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That he might know that godliness is more powerful than \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{10:12  }Gr. \fqa every one. } all. 
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\verseNumber{13}When a righteous man was sold, \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{10:13  }Gr. \fqa she. } wisdom forsook him not, 
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But \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{10:13  }Or, \fqa from the sin of his brethren...\fqa into a pit } from sin she delivered him; 
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She went down with him into a dungeon, 
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\verseNumber{14}And in bonds she left him not, 
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Till she brought him the sceptre of a kingdom, 
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And authority over those that dealt tyrannously with him; 
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She shewed them also to be false that had mockingly accused him, 
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And gave him eternal glory. 
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\verseNumber{15}\BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{10:15  }Gr. \fqa she. } Wisdom delivered a holy people and a blameless seed from a nation of oppressors. 
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\verseNumber{16}She entered into the soul of a servant of the Lord, 
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And withstood terrible kings in wonders and signs. 
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\verseNumber{17}She rendered unto holy men a reward of their toils; 
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She guided them along a marvellous way, 
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And became unto them a covering in the day-time, 
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And a flame of stars through the night. 
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\verseNumber{18}She brought them over the Red sea, 
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And led them through much water; 
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\verseNumber{19}But their enemies she drowned, 
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And out of the bottom of the deep she cast them up. 
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\verseNumber{20}Therefore the righteous spoiled the ungodly; 
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And they sang praise to thy holy name, O Lord, 
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And extolled with one accord thy hand that fought for them: 
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\verseNumber{21}Because wisdom opened the mouth of the dumb, 
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And made the tongues of babes to speak clearly. 
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\chapterNumber{11}She prospered their works in the hand of a holy prophet. 
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\verseNumber{2}They journeyed through a desert without inhabitant, 
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And in trackless regions they pitched their tents. 
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\verseNumber{3}They withstood enemies, and \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{11:3  }Or, \fqa took vengeance on foes } repelled foes. 
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\verseNumber{4}They thirsted, and they called upon thee, 
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And there was given them water out of \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{11:4  }Or, \fqa the steep rock } the \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{11:4  See Deut. viii. 15; Ps. cxiv. 8. } flinty rock, 
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And healing of their thirst out of the hard stone. 
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\verseNumber{5}For by what things their foes were punished, 
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By these they in their need were benefited. 
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\verseNumber{6}\BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{11:6  }The text of this verse is perhaps corrupt. } When \BibleCharacterStyleADD{the enemy } were troubled with clotted blood instead of a river’s ever-flowing fountain, 
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\verseNumber{7}To rebuke the decree for the slaying of babes, 
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Thou gavest them abundant water beyond all hope, 
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\verseNumber{8}Having shewn \BibleCharacterStyleADD{them } by \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{11:8  }Gr. \fqa the then thirst. } the thirst which they had suffered how thou didst punish the adversaries. 
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\verseNumber{9}For when they were tried, albeit but in mercy chastened, 
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They learned how the ungodly were tormented, being judged with wrath: 
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\verseNumber{10}For these, as a father, admonishing them, thou didst prove; 
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But those, as a stern king, condemning them, thou didst search out. 
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\verseNumber{11}Yea and whether they were far off \BibleCharacterStyleADD{from the righteous } or near \BibleCharacterStyleADD{them, } they were alike distressed; 
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\verseNumber{12}For a double grief took hold on them, 
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And a groaning at the remembrance of things past. 
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\verseNumber{13}For when they heard that through their own punishments the others \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{11:13  }Some authorities read \fqa were being. } had been benefited, 
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They felt \BibleCharacterStyleADD{the presence of } the Lord; 
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\verseNumber{14}For him who long before was \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{11:14  }Some authorities read \fqa cast forth in hatred they. } cast forth and exposed they left off mocking: 
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In the last issue of what came to pass \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{11:14  }Or, \fqa they marvelled at him } they marvelled, 
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Having thirsted in another manner than the righteous. 
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\verseNumber{15}But in requital of the senseless imaginings of their unrighteousness, 
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Wherein they were led astray to worship irrational reptiles and wretched vermin, 
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Thou didst send upon them a multitude of irrational creatures for vengeance; 
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\verseNumber{16}That they might learn, that by what things a man sinneth, by these he is punished. 
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\verseNumber{17}For thine all-powerful hand, 
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That created the world out of formless matter, 
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Lacked not means to send upon them a multitude of bears, or fierce lions, 
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\verseNumber{18}Or \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{11:18  }Some authorities read \fqa unknown wild beasts, full of new-created rage. } new-created wild beasts, full of rage, \BibleCharacterStyleADD{of } unknown \BibleCharacterStyleADD{kind, } 
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Either breathing out a blast of fiery breath, 
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Or blowing forth \BibleCharacterStyleADD{from their nostrils } noisome smoke, 
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Or flashing dreadful sparkles from their eyes; 
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\verseNumber{19}Which had power not only to consume them by their \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{11:19  }Gr. \fqa harmfulness. } violence, 
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But to destroy them even by the terror of their sight. 
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\verseNumber{20}Yea and without these might they have fallen by a single breath, 
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Being pursued by Justice, and scattered abroad by the breath of thy power. 
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But by measure and number and weight thou didst order all things. 
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\verseNumber{21}For to be greatly strong is thine at all times; 
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And the might of thine arm who shall withstand? 
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\verseNumber{22}Because the whole world before thee is as \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{11:22  }Gr. \fqa that which just turneth. } a grain \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{11:22  Gr. \fqa from. } in a balance, 
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And as a drop of dew that at morning cometh down upon the earth. 
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\verseNumber{23}But thou hast mercy on all men, because thou hast power to do all things, 
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And thou overlookest the sins of men to the end they may repent. 
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\verseNumber{24}For thou lovest all things that are, 
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And abhorrest none of the things which thou didst make; 
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For never wouldest thou have formed anything if thou didst hate it. 
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\verseNumber{25}And how would anything have endured, except thou hadst willed it? 
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Or that which was not called by thee, \BibleCharacterStyleADD{how would } it have been preserved? 
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\verseNumber{26}But thou sparest all things, because they are thine, 
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O Soverign Lord, thou lover of \BibleCharacterStyleADD{men’s } \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{11:26  }Or, \fqa souls } lives; 
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\chapterNumber{12}For thine incorruptible spirit is in all things. 
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\verseNumber{2}Wherefore thou convictest by little and little them that \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{12:2  }Gr. \fqa fall aside. } fall from the right way, 
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And, putting them in remembrance by the \BibleCharacterStyleADD{very } things wherein they sin, dost thou admonish them, 
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That escaping from their wickedness they may believe on thee, O Lord. 
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\verseNumber{3}For verily the old inhabitants of thy holy land, 
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\verseNumber{4}Hating \BibleCharacterStyleADD{them } because they practised detestable works of enchantments and unholy rites 
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\verseNumber{5}\BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{12:5  }The words rendered \fqa slaughters and \fqa impious in verses 5 and 6 differ but slightly from the readings of the Greek text, which here yield no sense. }(Merciless slaughters of children, 
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And sacrificial banquets of men’s flesh and of blood), 
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\verseNumber{6}Confederates in an impious fellowship, 
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And murderers of their own helpless babes, 
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It was thy counsel to destroy by the hands of our fathers; 
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\verseNumber{7}That the land which in thy sight is most precious of all \BibleCharacterStyleADD{lands } 
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Might receive a worthy colony of God’s \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{12:7  }Or, \fqa children } servants. 
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\verseNumber{8}Nevertheless even these thou didst spare as \BibleCharacterStyleADD{being } men, 
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And thou sentest \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{12:8  }Or, \fqa wasps } hornets as forerunners of thy host, 
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To cause them to perish by little and little; 
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\verseNumber{9}Not that thou wast unable to subdue the ungodly under the hand of the righteous in battle, 
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Or by terrible beasts or by \BibleCharacterStyleADD{one } stern word to make away with them at once; 
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\verseNumber{10}But judging them by little and little thou gavest them a place of repentance, 
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Not being ignorant that their nature by birth was evil, and their wickedness inborn, 
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And that their manner of thought would in no wise ever be changed, 
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\verseNumber{11}For they were a seed accursed from the beginning: 
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Neither was it through fear of any that thou didst leave them \BibleCharacterStyleADD{then } unpunished for their sins. 
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\verseNumber{12}For who shall say, What hast thou done? 
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Or who shall withstand thy judgement? 
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And who shall accuse thee for the perishing of nations which thou didst make? 
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Or who shall come and stand before thee as an avenger for unrighteous men? 
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\verseNumber{13}For neither is there any God beside thee that careth for all, 
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That thou mightest shew \BibleCharacterStyleADD{unto him } that thou didst not judge unrighteously: 
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\verseNumber{14}Neither shall king or prince be able to look thee in the face \BibleCharacterStyleADD{to plead } for those whom thou hast punished. 
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\verseNumber{15}But being righteous thou rulest all things righteously, 
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Deeming it a thing alien from thy power 
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To condemn one that doth not himself deserve to be punished. 
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\verseNumber{16}For thy strength is the beginning of righteousness, 
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And thy sovereignty over all maketh thee to forbear all. 
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\verseNumber{17}For when men believe not that thou art perfect in power, thou shewest thy strength, 
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\BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{12:17  }The Greek text here is perhaps corrupt. } And \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{12:17  Or, \fqa in them } in dealing with them that know \BibleCharacterStyleADD{it } thou puttest their boldness to confusion. 
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\verseNumber{18}But thou, being sovereign over \BibleCharacterStyleADD{thy } strength, judgest in gentleness, 
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And with great forbearance dost thou govern us; 
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For the power is thine whensoever thou hast the will. 
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\verseNumber{19}But thou didst teach thy people by such works as these, 
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How that the righteous must be a lover of men; 
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And thou didst make thy sons to be of good hope, 
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Because thou givest repentance when men have sinned. 
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\verseNumber{20}For if on them that were enemies of thy \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{12:20  }Or, \fqa children } servants and due to death 
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Thou didst take vengeance with so great heedfulness and indulgence, 
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Giving them times and place whereby they might escape from their wickedness; 
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\verseNumber{21}With how great carefulness didst thou judge thy sons, 
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To whose fathers thou gavest oaths and covenants of good promises! 
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\verseNumber{22}While therefore thou dost chasten us, thou scourgest our enemies ten thousand times more, 
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To the intent that we may ponder thy goodness when we judge, 
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And when we are judged may look for mercy. 
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\verseNumber{23}Wherefore also the unrighteous that lived in folly of life 
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Thou didst torment through their own abominations. 
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\verseNumber{24}For verily they went astray very far \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{12:24  }Or, \fqa even beyond } in the ways of error, 
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Taking as gods those \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{12:24  }Gr. \fqa living creatures: and so elsewhere in this book. } animals which even among their enemies were held in dishonour, 
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Deceived like foolish babes. 
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\verseNumber{25}Therefore, as unto unreasoning children, thou didst send thy judgement to mock them. 
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\verseNumber{26}But they that would not be admonished \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{12:26  }Or, \fqa by a correction, which was as children’s play Gr. \fqa by child-play of correction. } by a mocking correction as of children 
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Shall have experience of a judgement worthy of God. 
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\verseNumber{27}For through the sufferings whereat they were indignant, 
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Being punished in these creatures which they supposed to be gods, 
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They saw, and recognised as the true God him whom before they \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{12:27  }Or, \fqa denied that they knew } refused to know: 
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Wherefore also the last end of condemnation came upon them. 
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\chapterNumber{13}For verily all men by nature \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{13:1  }Or, are } \BibleCharacterStyleADD{were but } vain who had no perception of God, 
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And from the good things that are seen they gained not power to know him that is, 
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Neither by giving heed to the works did they recognise the artificer; 
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\verseNumber{2}But either fire, or wind, or swift air, 
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Or \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{13:2  }Gr. \fqa circle of stars. } circling stars, or raging water, or \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{13:2  Or, \fqa luminaries of heaven, rulers of the world, they thought to be gods } luminaries of heaven, 
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They thought to be gods that rule the world. 
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\verseNumber{3}And if it was through delight in their beauty that they took them to be gods, 
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Let them know how much better than these is their Sovereign Lord; 
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For the first author of beauty created them: 
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\verseNumber{4}But if it was through astonishment at their power and \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{13:4  }Gr. \fqa efficacy. } influence, 
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Let them understand from them how much more powerful is he that formed them; 
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\verseNumber{5}For from the \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{13:5  }Some authorities read \fqa greatness and beauty of. } greatness of the beauty \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{13:5  Some authorities omit \fqa even. } even of created things 
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\BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{13:5  }Or, \fqa Correspondently } In like proportion \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{13:5  Gr. \fqa is the first maker of them beheld. } does man form the image of their first maker. 
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\verseNumber{6}But yet for these \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{13:6  }Or, \fqa things } men there is but small blame, 
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For they too peradventure do \BibleCharacterStyleADD{but } go astray 
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While they are seeking God and desiring to find him. 
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\verseNumber{7}For \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{13:7  }Or, \fqa being occupied with } living among his works they make diligent search, 
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And they \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{13:7  }Or, \fqa trust their sight that the things } yield themselves up to sight, because the things that they look upon are beautiful. 
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\verseNumber{8}But again even they are not to be excused. 
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\verseNumber{9}For if they had power to know so much, 
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That they should be able to explore \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{13:9  }Or, \fqa life Or, \fqa the world Gr. \fqa the age. } the course \BibleCharacterStyleADD{of things, } 
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How is it that they did not sooner find the Sovereign Lord of these \BibleCharacterStyleADD{his works? } 
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\verseNumber{10}But miserable \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{13:10  }Or, are } \BibleCharacterStyleADD{were } they, and \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{13:10  Or, \fqa amongst } in dead things \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{13:10  Or, are } \BibleCharacterStyleADD{were } their hopes, 
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Who called them gods which are works of men’s hands, 
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Gold and silver, wrought with careful art, and likenesses of animals, 
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Or a useless stone, the work of an ancient hand. 
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\verseNumber{11}Yea and if some \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{13:11  }Gr. \fqa carpenter who is a woodcutter. } woodcutter, having sawn down a \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{13:11  Gr. \fqa plant. The Greek word, slightly changed, would mean \fqa trunk } tree that is easily moved, 
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Skilfully strippeth away all its bark, 
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And fashioning it in comely form maketh a vessel useful for the service of life; 
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\verseNumber{12}And burning the refuse of his handywork to dress his food, eateth his fill; 
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\verseNumber{13}And taking the very refuse thereof which served to no use, 
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A crooked piece of wood and full of knots, 
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Carveth it with the diligence of his idleness, 
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And shapeth it by the skill of his \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{13:13  }Or, \fqa leisure } indolence; 
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\BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{13:13  }Or, And } \BibleCharacterStyleADD{Then } he giveth it the semblance of the image of a man, 
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\verseNumber{14}Or maketh it like some paltry animal, 
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Smearing it with vermilion, and with \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{13:14  }Gr. \fqa rouge. } paint colouring it red, 
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And smearing over every stain that is therein; 
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\verseNumber{15}And having made for it a chamber worthy of it, 
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He setteth it in a wall, making it fast with iron. 
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\verseNumber{16}While then he taketh thought for it that it may not fall down, 
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Knowing that it is unable to help itself; 
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(For verily it is an image, and hath need of help;) 
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\verseNumber{17}When he maketh his prayer concerning goods and his marriage and children, 
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He is not ashamed to speak to that which hath no life; 
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\verseNumber{18}Yea for health he calleth upon that which is weak, 
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And for life he beseecheth that which is dead, 
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And for aid he supplicateth that which hath least experience. 
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And for a \BibleCharacterStyleADD{good } journey that which cannot so much as move a step, 
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\verseNumber{19}And for gaining and \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{13:19  }Or, \fqa handywork } getting and good success of his hands 
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He asketh ability of that which with its hands is most unable. 
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\chapterNumber{14}Again, one preparing to sail, and about to journey over raging waves, 
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Calleth upon a piece of wood more rotten than the vessel that carrieth him; 
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\verseNumber{2}For that \BibleCharacterStyleADD{vessel } the hunger for gains devised, 
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And an artificer, \BibleCharacterStyleADD{even } wisdom, built it; 
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\verseNumber{3}And thy providence, O Father, guideth it along, 
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Because even in the sea thou gavest a way, 
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And in the waves a sure path, 
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\verseNumber{4}Shewing that thou canst save out of every \BibleCharacterStyleADD{danger, } 
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That \BibleCharacterStyleADD{so } even without art a man may put to sea; 
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\verseNumber{5}And it is thy will that the works of thy wisdom should be not idle; 
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Therefore also do men intrust their lives to a little piece of wood,, 
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And passing through the surge \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{14:5  }Gr. \fqa by. } on a raft are brought safe \BibleCharacterStyleADD{to land. } 
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\verseNumber{6}For \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{14:6  }The Greek text here is perhaps corrupt. } in the old time also, when proud giants were perishing, 
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The hope of the world, taking refuge on a raft, 
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Left to \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{14:6  }Or, \fqa future time Gr. \fqa age. } the race of men a seed of generations \BibleCharacterStyleADD{to come, } 
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Thy hand guiding the helm. 
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\verseNumber{7}For blessed \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{14:7  }Or, \fqa is } hath been wood through which cometh righteousness: 
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\verseNumber{8}But the \BibleCharacterStyleADD{idol } made with hands is accursed, itself and he that made it; 
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Because his was the working, and the corruptible thing was named a god: 
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\verseNumber{9}For both the ungodly doer and his ungodliness are alike hateful to God; 
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\verseNumber{10}For verily the deed shall be punished together with him that committed it. 
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\verseNumber{11}Therefore also \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{14:11  }Or, \fqa upon Gr. \fqa in. } among the idols of the nations shall there be a visitation, 
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Because, though formed of things which God created, they were made an abomination, 
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And stumblingblocks to the souls of men, 
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And a snare to the feet of the foolish. 
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\verseNumber{12}For the devising of idols was the beginning of fornication, 
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And the invention of them the corruption of life: 
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\verseNumber{13}For neither were they from the beginning, neither shall they be for ever; 
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\verseNumber{14}For by the vaingloriousness of men they entered into the world, 
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And therefore was a speedy end devised for them. 
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\verseNumber{15}For a father worn with untimely grief, 
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Making an image of the child quickly taken away, 
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Now honoured him as a god which was then a dead man, 
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And delivered to those that were under him mysteries and solemn rites. 
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\verseNumber{16}Afterward the ungodly custom, in process of time grown strong, was kept as a law, 
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And by the commandments of princes the graven images received worship. 
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\verseNumber{17}And when men could not honour them in presence because they dwelt far off, 
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Imagining the likeness from afar, 
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They made a visible image of the king whom they honoured, 
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That by their zeal they might flatter the absent as if present. 
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\verseNumber{18}But unto a yet higher pitch was worship raised even by them that knew \BibleCharacterStyleADD{him } not, 
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Urged forward by the ambition of the artificer: 
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\verseNumber{19}For he, wishing peradventure to please one in authority, 
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Used his art to force the likeness toward a greater beauty; 
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\verseNumber{20}And the multitude, allured by reason of the grace of his handywork, 
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Now accounted as an object of devotion him that a little before was honoured as a man. 
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\verseNumber{21}And this became \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{14:21  }Gr. \fqa an ambush. } a hidden danger unto life, 
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Because men, in bondage either to calamity or to tyranny, 
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Invested stones and stocks with the incommunicable Name. 
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\verseNumber{22}Afterward it was not enough for them to go astray as touching the knowledge of God; 
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But also, while they live \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{14:22  }Or, \fqa for } in \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{14:22  Gr. \fqa a great war of ignorance. } sore conflict through ignorance \BibleCharacterStyleADD{of him. } 
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That multitude of evils they call peace. 
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\verseNumber{23}For either slaughtering children in solemn rites, or celebrating secret mysteries, 
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Or holding frantic revels of strange ordinances, 
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\verseNumber{24}No longer do they \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{14:24  }Or, \fqa keep unstained either life or marriage } guard either life or purity of marriage, 
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But one brings upon another either death by treachery, or anguish by adulterate offspring. 
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\verseNumber{25}And all things confusedly are filled with blood and murder, theft and deceit, 
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Corruption, faithlessness, tumult, perjury, 
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\verseNumber{26}\BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{14:26  }Or, \fqa troubling of the good, forgetfulness of favours } turmoil, 
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Ingratitude for benefits \BibleCharacterStyleADD{received, } 
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Defiling of souls, confusion of \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{14:26  }Or, \fqa kind } sex, 
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Disorder in marriage, adultery and wantonness. 
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\verseNumber{27}For the worship of \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{14:27  }Or, \fqa idols that may not be named See Ex. xxiii. 13; Ps. xvi. 4; Hos. ii. 17. } those \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{14:27  See ver. 21. } nameless idols 
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Is a beginning and cause and end of every evil. 
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\verseNumber{28}For \BibleCharacterStyleADD{their worshippers } either make merry unto madness, or prophesy lies, 
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Or live unrighteously, or lightly forswear themselves. 
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\verseNumber{29}For putting their trust in lifeless idols, 
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When they have sworn a wicked oath, they expect not to suffer harm. 
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\verseNumber{30}But for both \BibleCharacterStyleADD{sins } shall the just doom pursue them, 
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Because they had evil thoughts of God by giving heed to idols, 
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And swore unrighteously in deceit through contempt for holiness. 
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\verseNumber{31}For it is not the power of them by whom men swear, 
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But it is \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{14:31  }Gr. \fqa the Justice of them that sin. } that Justice which hath regard to them that sin, 
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That visiteth always the transgression of the unrighteous. 
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\chapterNumber{15}But thou, our God, art gracious and true, 
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Longsuffering, and in mercy ordering all things. 
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\verseNumber{2}For even if we sin, we are thine, knowing thy dominion; 
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But we shall not sin, knowing that we have been accounted thine: 
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\verseNumber{3}For to be acquainted with thee is \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{15:3  }Gr. \fqa entire. } perfect righteousness, 
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And to know thy dominion is the root of immortality. 
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\verseNumber{4}For neither were we led astray by any evil device of men’s art, 
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Nor yet by painters’ fruitless labour, 
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A form stained with varied colours; 
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\verseNumber{5}The sight whereof leadeth fools into \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{15:5  }Some authorities read \fqa reproach. } lust: 
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\BibleCharacterStyleADD{Their } desire is for the breathless form of a dead image. 
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\verseNumber{6}Lovers of evil things, and worthy of such hopes \BibleCharacterStyleADD{as these,} 
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Are both they that do, and they that desire, and they that worship. 
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\verseNumber{7}For a potter, kneading soft earth, 
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Laboriously mouldeth each several \BibleCharacterStyleADD{vessel } for our service: 
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Nay, out of the same clay doth he fashion 
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Both the vessels that minister to clean uses, and those of a contrary sort, 
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All in like manner; 
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But what shall be the use of each \BibleCharacterStyleADD{vessel } of either sort, 
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The \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{15:7  }Gr. \fqa worker in clay. } craftsman \BibleCharacterStyleADD{himself } is the judge. 
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\verseNumber{8}And also, labouring to an evil end, he mouldeth a vain god out of the same clay, 
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He who, having but a little before been made of earth, 
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After a short space goeth his way \BibleCharacterStyleADD{to the earth } out of which he was taken, 
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When he is required to render back the \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{15:8  }Or, \fqa life } soul which was lent him. 
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\verseNumber{9}Howbeit he hath anxious care, 
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Not because his powers must fail, 
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Nor because his span of life is short; 
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But he matcheth himself against goldsmiths and \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{15:9  }Gr. \fqa silver-founders. } silversmiths, 
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And he imitateth moulders in \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{15:9  }Or, \fqa copper } brass, 
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And esteemeth it glory that he mouldeth counterfeits. 
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\verseNumber{10}His heart is ashes, 
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And his hope of less value than earth, 
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And his life of less honour than clay: 
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\verseNumber{11}Because he was ignorant of him that moulded him, 
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And of him that inspired into him \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{15:11  }Gr. \fqa a soul that moveth to activity. } an active \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{15:11  Or, \fqa life } soul, 
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And breathed into him a vital spirit. 
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\verseNumber{12}But \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{15:12  }Some authorities read \fqa they accounted. } he accounted our \BibleCharacterStyleADD{very } life to be a \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{15:12  Or, \fqa sport } plaything, 
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And our \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{15:12  }Or, \fqa way of life } lifetime a gainful \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{15:12  Or, \fqa keeping of festival } fair; 
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For, saith he, one must get gain whence one can, though it be by evil. 
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\verseNumber{13}For this man beyond all others knoweth that he sinneth, 
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Out of earthy matter making brittle vessels and graven images. 
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\verseNumber{14}But most foolish \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{15:14  }Or, \fqa are } \BibleCharacterStyleADD{were } they all, and \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{15:14  Gr. \fqa more wretched than the soul of a babe. } of feebler soul than a babe, 
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The enemies of thy people, who oppressed them; 
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\verseNumber{15}Because they even accounted all the idols of the nations \BibleCharacterStyleADD{to be } gods; 
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Which have neither the use of eyes for seeing, 
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Nor nostrils for drawing breath, 
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Nor ears to hear, 
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Nor fingers for handling, 
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And their feet are helpless for walking. 
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\verseNumber{16}For a man made them, 
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And one whose own spirit is borrowed moulded them; 
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For no one hath power, \BibleCharacterStyleADD{being } a man, to mould a god like unto himself, 
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\verseNumber{17}But, being mortal, he maketh a dead thing by the work of lawless hands; 
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For he is better than the objects of his worship, 
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\BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{15:17  }Most authorities read \fqa Of which, he indeed. } Forasmuch as he indeed had life, but they never. 
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\verseNumber{18}Yea, and the creatures that are most hateful do they worship, 
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\BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{15:18  }The Greek text here is perhaps corrupt. } For, being compared as to want of sense, these are worse than all others; 
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\verseNumber{19}Neither, as seen beside \BibleCharacterStyleADD{other } creatures, are they beautiful, so that one should desire them, 
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But they have escaped both the praise of God and his blessing. 
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\chapterNumber{16}For this cause were \BibleCharacterStyleADD{these men } worthily punished through \BibleCharacterStyleADD{creatures } like \BibleCharacterStyleADD{those which they worship, } 
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And tormented through a multitude of vermin. 
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\verseNumber{2}Instead of which punishment, thou, bestowing benefits on thy people, 
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Preparedst quails for food, 
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\BibleCharacterStyleADD{Food of } \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{16:2  }Gr. \fqa strange. } rare taste, to \BibleCharacterStyleADD{satisfy } the desire of \BibleCharacterStyleADD{their } appetite; 
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\verseNumber{3}To the end that \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{16:3  }Gr. \fqa those. } thine enemies, desiring food, 
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Might for the hideousness of the \BibleCharacterStyleADD{creatures } sent among them 
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Loathe even the necessary appetite; 
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But these, \BibleCharacterStyleADD{thy people, } having for a short space suffered want, 
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Might even partake of \BibleCharacterStyleADD{food of } \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{16:3  }Gr. \fqa strange. } rare taste. 
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\verseNumber{4}For it was needful that upon those should come inexorable want in their tyrannous dealing, 
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But that to these it should only be shewed how their enemies were tormented. 
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\verseNumber{5}For even when terrible raging of wild beasts came upon \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{16:5  }Gr. \fqa them. } thy people, 
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And they were perishing by the bites of crooked serpents, 
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Thy wrath continued not to the uttermost; 
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\verseNumber{6}But for admonition were they troubled for a short space, 
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Having a token of salvation, 
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To put them in remembrance of the commandment of thy law: 
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\verseNumber{7}For he that turned toward it was not saved because of that which was beheld, 
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But because of thee, the Saviour of all. 
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\verseNumber{8}Yea, and in this didst thou persuade our enemies, 
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That thou art he that delivereth out of every evil. 
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\verseNumber{9}For them verily the bites of locusts and flies did slay, 
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And there was not found a healing for their life, 
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Because they were worthy to be punished by such \BibleCharacterStyleADD{as these; } 
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\verseNumber{10}But thy sons not the very teeth of venomous dragons overcame, 
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For thy mercy passed by where they were, and healed them. 
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\verseNumber{11}For they were \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{16:11  }Gr. \fqa pricked } bitten, to put them in remembrance of thine oracles; 
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And were quickly saved, lest, falling into deep forgetfulness, 
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They should become \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{16:11  }Some authorities read \fqa bereft of help from thy beneficence. } unable to be \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{16:11  Gr. \fqa distracted, or, \fqa drawn away. The meaning is somewhat obscure. } roused by thy beneficence: 
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\verseNumber{12}For of a truth it was neither herb nor mollifying plaister that cured them, 
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But thy word, O Lord, which healeth all things; 
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\verseNumber{13}For thou hast authority over life and death, 
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And thou leadest down to the gates of Hades, and leadest up again. 
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\verseNumber{14}But though a man \BibleCharacterStyleADD{may } slay by his \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{16:14  }Or, \fqa malice } wickedness, 
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Yet the spirit that is gone forth he turneth not again, 
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Neither giveth release to the soul that \BibleCharacterStyleADD{Hades } hath received. 
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\verseNumber{15}But thy hand it is not possible to escape; 
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\verseNumber{16}For ungodly men, \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{16:16  }Or, \fqa denying that they knew thee } refusing to know thee, were scourged in the strength of thine arm, 
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Pursued with strange rains and hails and showers inexorable, 
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And utterly consumed with fire; 
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\verseNumber{17}For, what was most marvellous \BibleCharacterStyleADD{of all, } 
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In the water which quencheth all things the fire wrought yet more mightily; 
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For the world fighteth for the righteous. 
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\verseNumber{18}For at one time the flame lost its fierceness, 
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That it might not burn up the creatures sent against the ungodly, 
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But that \BibleCharacterStyleADD{these } themselves as they looked might \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{16:18  }Some authorities read \fqa know. } see that they were chased through the judgement of God: 
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\verseNumber{19}And at another time even in the midst of water it burneth above the power of fire, 
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That it may destroy the \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{16:19  }Gr. \fqa products } fruits of an unrighteous land. 
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\verseNumber{20}Instead whereof thou gavest thy people angels’ food to eat, 
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And bread ready \BibleCharacterStyleADD{for their use } didst thou provide for them from heaven without \BibleCharacterStyleADD{their } toil, 
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\BibleCharacterStyleADD{Bread } having the virtue of every pleasant savour, 
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And agreeing to every taste; 
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\verseNumber{21}For \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{16:21  }Some authorities read \fqa the substance thereof. } thy \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{16:21  Or, \fqa creation Gr. \fqa substance. } nature manifested thy sweetness toward \BibleCharacterStyleADD{thy } children; 
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While \BibleCharacterStyleADD{that bread, } ministering to the desire of the eater, 
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Tempered itself according to every man’s choice. 
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\verseNumber{22}But snow and ice endured fire, and melted not, 
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That \BibleCharacterStyleADD{men } might know that fire was destroying the fruits of the enemies, 
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Burning in the hail and flashing in the rains; 
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\verseNumber{23}And \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{16:23  }Some authorities omit \fqa that. } that this \BibleCharacterStyleADD{element } again, in order that righteous men may be nourished, 
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Hath even forgotten its own power. 
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\verseNumber{24}For the creation, ministering to thee its maker, 
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Straineth its force against the unrighteous, for punishment, 
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And slackeneth it in behalf of them that trust in thee, for beneficence. 
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\verseNumber{25}Therefore at that time also, converting itself into all forms, 
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It ministered to thine all-nourishing bounty, 
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According to the desire of them that \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{16:25  }Or, \fqa had need } made supplication; 
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\verseNumber{26}That thy sons, whom thou lovedst, O Lord, might learn 
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That it is not the \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{16:26  }Gr. \fqa generations. } growth of \BibleCharacterStyleADD{the earth’s } fruits that nourisheth a man, 
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But that thy word preserveth them that trust thee. 
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\verseNumber{27}For that which was not marred by fire, 
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When it was simply warmed by a faint sunbeam melted away; 
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\verseNumber{28}That it might be known that \BibleCharacterStyleADD{we } must rise before the sun to give thee thanks, 
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And must plead with thee at the dawning of the light: 
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\verseNumber{29}For the hope of the unthankful shall melt as the winter’s hoar frost, 
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And shall flow away as water that hath no use. 
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\chapterNumber{17}For great are thy judgements, and hard to \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{17:1  }Or, \fqa set forth } interpret; 
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Therefore souls undisciplined went astray. 
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\verseNumber{2}For when lawless men had supposed that they held a holy nation in their power, 
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They, \BibleCharacterStyleADD{themselves, } prisoners of darkness, and bound in the fetters of a long night, 
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Close kept beneath their roofs, 
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Lay exiled from the eternal providence. 
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\verseNumber{3}For while they thought that they were unseen in \BibleCharacterStyleADD{their } secret sins, 
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They were \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{17:3  }Gr. \fqa scattered by. } sundered one from another by a dark curtain of forgetfulness, 
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Stricken with terrible awe, and sore troubled by spectral forms. 
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\verseNumber{4}For neither did \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{17:4  }Gr. \fqa the recess. } the dark recesses that held them guard them from fears, 
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But sounds \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{17:4  }Some authorities read \fqa troubling them sore. } rushing down rang around them, 
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And phantoms appeared, cheerless with unsmiling faces. 
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\verseNumber{5}And no force of fire prevailed to give \BibleCharacterStyleADD{them } light, 
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Neither were the brightest flames of the stars strong enough to illumine that gloomy night: 
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\verseNumber{6}But only there appeared to them the glimmering of a fire self-kindled, full of fear; 
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And in terror they deemed the things which they saw 
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To be worse than that sight, on which they could not gaze. 
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\verseNumber{7}\BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{17:7  }Some authorities read \fqa And the mockeries of magic art lay low, and shameful was the rebuke &c. } And they lay \BibleCharacterStyleADD{helpless, } made the sport of magic art, 
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And a shameful rebuke of their vaunts of understanding: 
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\verseNumber{8}For they that promised to drive away terrors and troublings from a sick soul, 
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These were \BibleCharacterStyleADD{themselves } sick with a ludicrous fearfulness: 
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\verseNumber{9}For even if no troublous thing affrighted them, 
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Yet, scared with the creepings of vermin and hissings of serpents, 
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\verseNumber{10}they perished \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{17:10  }Or, \fqa trembling, and refusing to } for very trembling, 
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Refusing even to look on the air, which could on no side be escaped. 
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\verseNumber{11}\BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{17:11  }This is the probable sense: the Greek text is perhaps slightly corrupt. } For wickedness, condemned by a witness within, is a coward thing, 
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And, being pressed hard by conscience, always \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{17:11  }Most authorities read \fqa hath added. } forecasteth the worst \BibleCharacterStyleADD{lot: } 
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\verseNumber{12}For fear is nothing else but a surrender of the succours which reason offereth; 
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\verseNumber{13}And from within \BibleCharacterStyleADD{the heart } the expectation \BibleCharacterStyleADD{of them } being less 
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Maketh of greater account the ignorance of the cause that bringeth the torment. 
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\verseNumber{14}But they, all through the night which was powerless indeed, 
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And which came upon them out of the recesses of powerless Hades, 
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\BibleCharacterStyleADD{All } sleeping the same sleep, 
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\verseNumber{15}Now were haunted by monstrous apparitions, 
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And now were paralysed by their soul’s surrendering; 
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For fear sudden and unlooked for \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{17:15  }Some authorities read \fqa was poured upon them. } came upon them. 
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\verseNumber{16}So then \BibleCharacterStyleADD{every man, } whosoever it might be, sinking down \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{17:16  }Gr. \fqa there. } in his place, 
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Was kept in ward shut up in that prison which was barred not with iron: 
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\verseNumber{17}For whether he were a husbandman, or a shepherd, 
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Or a labourer whose toils were in the wilderness, 
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He was overtaken, and endured that inevitable necessity, 
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For with one chain of darkness were they all bound. 
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\verseNumber{18}Whether there were a whistling wind, 
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Or a melodious noise of birds among the spreading branches, 
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Or a measured fall of water running violently, 
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\verseNumber{19}Or a harsh crashing of rocks hurled down, 
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Or the swift course of animals bounding along unseen, 
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Or the voice of wild beasts harshly roaring, 
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Or an echo rebounding from \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{17:19  }Or, \fqa a hollow } the hollows of the mountains, 
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\BibleCharacterStyleADD{All these things } paralysed them with terror. 
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\verseNumber{20}For the whole world \BibleCharacterStyleADD{beside } was enlightened with clear light, 
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And was occupied with unhindered works; 
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\verseNumber{21}While over them alone was spread a heavy night, 
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An image of the darkness that should afterward receive them; 
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But yet heavier than darkness were they unto themselves. 
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\chapterNumber{18}But for thy holy ones there was great light; 
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And \BibleCharacterStyleADD{the Egyptians, } hearing their voice but seeing not their form, 
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Counted it a happy thing that they too had suffered, 
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\verseNumber{2}Yet for that they do not hurt them \BibleCharacterStyleADD{now, } though wronged \BibleCharacterStyleADD{by them } before, they are thankful; 
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And because they had been at variance \BibleCharacterStyleADD{with them, } they made supplication \BibleCharacterStyleADD{to them. } 
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\verseNumber{3}Whereas thou didst provide \BibleCharacterStyleADD{for thy people } a burning pillar of fire, 
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To be a guide for \BibleCharacterStyleADD{their } unknown journey, 
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And withal a \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{18:3  }Gr. \fqa unharmful. } kindly sun for \BibleCharacterStyleADD{their } \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{18:3  Or, \fqa aspiring } proud exile. 
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\verseNumber{4}For well did \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{18:4  }Gr. \fqa they. } the Egyptians deserve to be deprived of light and imprisoned by darkness, 
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They who had kept in close ward thy sons, 
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Through whom the incorruptible light of the law was to be given to \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{18:4  }Or, \fqa future time Gr. \fqa the age. } the race of men. 
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\verseNumber{5}After they had taken counsel to slay the babes of the holy ones, 
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And when a single child had been cast forth and saved \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{18:5  }Or, \fqa to be to them \fqa a rebuke } to convict \BibleCharacterStyleADD{them of their sin, } 
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Thou tookest away from them their multitude of children, 
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And destroyedst all \BibleCharacterStyleADD{their host } together in a mighty flood. 
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\verseNumber{6}Of that night were our fathers made aware beforehand, 
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That, having sure knowledge, they might be cheered by the oaths which they had trusted: 
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\verseNumber{7}\BibleCharacterStyleADD{So } by thy people was expected salvation of the righteous and destruction of the enemies; 
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\verseNumber{8}For as thou didst take vengeance on the adversaries, 
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\BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{18:8  }Gr. \fqa By this. } By the same means, calling us unto thyself, thou didst glorify us. 
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\verseNumber{9}For holy children \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{18:9  }Or, \fqa of blessing Gr. \fqa of good men, or, \fqa of good things. } of good men offered sacrifice in secret, 
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And with one consent they took upon themselves the covenant of the \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{18:9  }Gr. \fqa law of divineness. } divine law, 
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That \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{18:9  }Some authorities read \fqa the saints would partake...perils; already leading the fathers’ songs of praise. } they would partake alike in the same good things and the same perils; 
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The fathers already leading the sacred songs of praise. 
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\verseNumber{10}But there sounded back in discord the cry of the enemies, 
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\BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{18:10  }Some authorities read \fqa And was piteously borne abroad in lamentation for children. } And a piteous voice of lamentation for children was borne abroad. 
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\verseNumber{11}And servant along with master punished with a like just doom, 
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And commoner suffering the same as king, 
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\verseNumber{12}Yea, all \BibleCharacterStyleADD{the people } together, under one form of death, 
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Had \BibleCharacterStyleADD{with them } corpses without number; 
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For the living were not sufficient even to bury them, 
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Since at a single \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{18:12  }Gr. \fqa turn of the scale. } stroke their \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{18:12  Or, \fqa more cherished } nobler offspring was consumed. 
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\verseNumber{13}For while they were disbelieving all things by reason of the enchantments, 
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Upon the destruction of the firstborn they confessed the people to be God’s son. 
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\verseNumber{14}For while peaceful silence enwrapped all things, 
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And night in her own swiftness was in mid course, 
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\verseNumber{15}Thine all-powerful word leaped from heaven out of \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{18:15  }Or, thy } \BibleCharacterStyleADD{the } royal \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{18:15  Gr. \fqa thrones. } throne, 
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A stern warrior, into the midst of the \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{18:15  }Or, \fqa destroying } doomed land, 
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\verseNumber{16}Bearing as a sharp sword thine unfeigned commandment; 
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And standing it filled all things with death; 
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And while it touched the heaven it trode upon the earth. 
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\verseNumber{17}Then forthwith apparitions in dreams terribly troubled them, 
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And fears came upon them unlooked for. 
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\verseNumber{18}And \BibleCharacterStyleADD{each, } one thrown here half dead, another there, 
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Made manifest wherefore he was dying: 
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\verseNumber{19}For the dreams, perturbing them, did foreshew this, 
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That they might not perish without knowing why they were afflicted. 
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\verseNumber{20}But it \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{18:20  }Gr. \fqa touched. } befell the righteous also to make trial of death, 
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And a multitude were stricken in the wilderness: 
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Howbeit the wrath endured not for long. 
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\verseNumber{21}For a blameless man hasted to be their champion: 
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Bringing the weapon of his own ministry, 
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\BibleCharacterStyleADD{Even } prayer and the propitiation of incense, 
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He withstood the indignation, and set an end to the calamity, 
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Shewing that he was thy servant. 
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\verseNumber{22}And he overcame the \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{18:22  }The word rendered \fqa anger differs only by the transposition of two letters from the reading of the Greek text, which here yields no sense. } anger, 
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Not by strength of body, not by efficacy of weapons; 
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But \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{18:22  }Or, \fqa to a word did he subject } by word did he subdue \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{18:22  Gr. \fqa him who was punishing.} the minister of punishment, 
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By bringing to remembrance oaths and covenants made with the fathers. 
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\verseNumber{23}For when the dead were already fallen in heaps one upon another, 
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Standing between he stopped the \BibleCharacterStyleADD{advancing } wrath, 
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And \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{18:23  }Gr. \fqa cleft asunder. } cut off the way to the living. 
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\verseNumber{24}For upon \BibleCharacterStyleADD{his } long \BibleCharacterStyleADD{high-priestly } robe was the whole world, 
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And the glories of the fathers \BibleCharacterStyleADD{were } upon the graving of the four rows of \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{18:24  }Gr. \fqa stone. } precious stones, 
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And thy majesty \BibleCharacterStyleADD{was } upon the diadem of his head. 
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\verseNumber{25}To these the destroyer gave place, and these \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{18:25  }Some authorities read \fqa he feared. } \BibleCharacterStyleADD{the people } feared; 
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For it was enough only to make trial of the wrath. 
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\chapterNumber{19}But upon the ungodly there came unto the end indignation without mercy; 
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For their future also \BibleCharacterStyleADD{God } foreknew, 
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\verseNumber{2}How that, having changed their minds to \BibleCharacterStyleADD{let thy people } go, 
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And having speeded them eagerly on their way, 
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They would repent themselves and pursue them. 
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\verseNumber{3}For while they were yet in the midst of their mourning, 
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And making lamentation at the graves of the dead, 
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They drew upon themselves another counsel of folly, 
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And pursued as fugitives those whom with intreaties they had cast out. 
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\verseNumber{4}For \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{19:4  }Or, \fqa their desert by necessity was } the doom which they deserved was drawing them \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{19:4  Some authorities read \fqa unto this at last. } unto this end, 
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And it made them forget the things that had befallen them, 
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That they might fill up the punishment which was yet wanting to their torments, 
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\verseNumber{5}And that thy people might \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{19:5  }Some authorities read \fqa make trial of. } journey on by a marvellous road, 
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But they \BibleCharacterStyleADD{themselves } might find a strange death. 
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\verseNumber{6}For the whole creation, \BibleCharacterStyleADD{each part } in its several kind, was fashioned again anew, 
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Ministering to \BibleCharacterStyleADD{thy } several commandments, 
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That thy \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{19:6  }Or, \fqa children } servants might be guarded free from hurt. 
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\verseNumber{7}\BibleCharacterStyleADD{Then } was beheld the cloud that shadowed the camp, 
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And dry land rising up out of what before was water, 
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Out of the Red sea an unhindered highway, 
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And a grassy plain out of the violent surge; 
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\verseNumber{8}\BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{19:8  }Or, \fqa Through } By which they passed over with all their hosts, 
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These that were covered with thy hand, 
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Having beheld strange marvels. 
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\verseNumber{9}For like horses they roamed at large, 
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And they skipped about like lambs, 
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Praising thee, O Lord, who wast their deliverer. 
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\verseNumber{10}For they still remembered the things that came to pass in the time of their sojourning, 
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How that instead of \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{19:10  }Or, \fqa birth of cattle } bearing \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{19:10  Gr. \fqa living creatures. } cattle the land brought forth \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{19:10  Or, \fqa sandflies } lice, 
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And instead of \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{19:10  }Gr. \fqa creatures of the waters. } fish the river cast up a multitude of frogs. 
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\verseNumber{11}But afterwards they saw also a new \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{19:11  }Or, \fqa production Gr. \fqa generation. } race of birds, 
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When, led on by desire, they asked for luxurious dainties; 
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\verseNumber{12}For, to solace them, there came up for them quails from the sea. 
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\verseNumber{13}And upon the sinners came the punishments 
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Not without the tokens that were given \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{19:13  }Some authorities omit \fqa beforehand. } beforehand by the force of the thunders; 
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For justly did they suffer through their own wickednesses, 
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For \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{19:13  }Or, \fqa yet more grievous was } grievous indeed was the hatred which they practised toward guests. 
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\verseNumber{14}\BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{19:14  }The Greek text of this and the following verse is perhaps corrupt. } For whereas the \BibleCharacterStyleADD{men of Sodom } received not \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{19:14  Gr. \fqa them who knew them not. } the strangers when they came among \BibleCharacterStyleADD{them; } 
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\BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{19:14  }Gr. \fqa These. } The Egyptians made slaves of guests who were their benefactors. 
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\verseNumber{15}And not only so, \BibleCharacterStyleADD{but God } shall \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{19:15  }Or, \fqa visit them...sort: since the men of Sodom \fqa received...aliens } visit \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{19:15  Gr. \fqa them. } the men of Sodom after another sort, 
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Since they received as enemies them that were aliens; 
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\verseNumber{16}Whereas these \BibleCharacterStyleADD{first } welcomed with feastings, 
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And \BibleCharacterStyleADD{then } afflicted with dreadful toils, 
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Them that had already shared \BibleCharacterStyleADD{with them } in the same rights. 
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\verseNumber{17}And moreover they were stricken with loss of sight 
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(Even as were those \BibleCharacterStyleADD{others } at the righteous man’s doors), 
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When, being compassed about with yawning darkness, 
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They sought every one the passage through his own door. 
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\verseNumber{18}For as the notes of a psaltery vary the character of the rhythm, 
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Even so \BibleCharacterStyleADD{did } the elements, changing their order one with another, 
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Continuing always \BibleCharacterStyleADD{the same, each } in its \BibleCharacterStyleADD{several } sound; 
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As may clearly be \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{19:18  }Gr. \fqa conjectured. } divined from the sight of the things that are come to pass. 
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\verseNumber{19}For creatures of the dry land were turned into creatures of the waters, 
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And creatures that swim trode \BibleCharacterStyleADD{now } upon the earth: 
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\verseNumber{20}Fire kept the mastery of its own power in \BibleCharacterStyleADD{the midst of } water, 
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And water forgat its quenching nature: 
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\verseNumber{21}Contrariwise, flames wasted not the flesh of perishable creatures that walked among them; 
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Neither \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{19:21  }The Greek authorities read \fqa could be melted. The Latin seems to have preserved the original Greek text. } melted they the \BibleFootnote{+ \BibleFootnoteAnchor{19:21  Gr. \fqa ice-like kind. } ice-like grains of ambrosial food, that were \BibleCharacterStyleADD{of nature } apt to melt. 
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\verseNumber{22}For in all things, O Lord, thou didst magnify thy people, 
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And thou didst glorify them and not lightly regard them; 
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Standing by their side in every time and place. 
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