RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION Study Bible

the mighty.
20 He removes the speech of the trusted, and takes away
the binah of the aged.
21 He pours contempt on princes, and weakens the
strength of the mighty.
22 He discovers deep things out of darkness, and brings
to light the shadow of death.
23 He increases the nations, and destroys them: He
enlarges the nations, and straitens them again.
24 He takes away the lev of the leaders of the peoples of
the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness
where there is no derech.
25 They grope in the dark without light, and He makes
them stagger like a drunken man.
13 Look, my eye has seen all this, my ear has heard and
understood it.
2 What you know, the same do I know also: I am not
inferior to you.
3 Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to
reason with El.
4 But you are forgers of lies; you are all physicians of no
value.
5 O that you would altogether hold your silence! And
then it would be your chochmah.
6 Hear now my reasoning, and listen to the pleadings of
my lips.
7 Will you speak wickedly for El? And talk deceitfully
for Him?
8 Will you accept His person? Will you contend for El?
9 Would it be tov with you if He should search you out?
Or, as one man mocks another, do you mock Him?
10 He will surely reprove you, if you do secretly display
partiality.
11 Shall not His excellence make you afraid? And His
fear fall on you?
12 Your memories are like ashes, your bodies as bodies
of clay.
13 Hold your silence, leave me alone, that I may speak,
and let come on me whatever will be.
14 Why do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my
chayim in my hand?
15 Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him: but I will
maintain my own halacha before Him.
16 He also shall be my Yahshua: for a hypocrite shall not
come before Him.
17 Listen diligently to my speech, and my declaration
with your ears.
18 See now, I have prepared my case; I know that I shall
be justified.
19 Who is he that will strive with me? For then I would
keep silent, and die.
20 Only do not two things to me: then will I not be hidden
from Your face.
21 Withdraw Your hand far from me: and let not Your
fear make me afraid.
22 Then call, and I will answer: or let me speak, and You
can answer me.
23 How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me to
know my transgression and my sin.
24 Why do You hide Your face, and count me as Your
enemy?
25 Will You break a leaf driven to and fro? And would
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You pursue dry stubble?
26 For You write bitter things against me, and make me
to possess the iniquities of my youth.
27 You put my feet also in the stocks, and look closely at
all my paths; You set a limit for the soles of my feet.
28 And I, as a rotten thing, waste away, as a garment that
is moth eaten.
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Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full
of trouble.
2 He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down: he flees
also as a shadow, and continues not.
3 And do You open Your eyes on such a one, to bring me
into mishpat with You?
4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not
one.
5 Seeing his days are determined, the numbers of his
months are with You, You have appointed his bounds that
he cannot pass;
6 Turn from him, that he may rest, until as a hired man,
he enjoys his day.
7 For there is tikvah for an eytz, if it were cut down, that
it would sprout again, and that its tender branch will not
cease. 4043
8 Though its root grows old in the earth, and the stump
dies in the ground;
9 Yet through the scent of mayim it will bud, and bring
forth foliage like a plant.
10 But man dies, and wastes away: yes, man gives up the
ruach, and where is he?
11 As the mayim disappear from the sea, and the river
dries up:
12 So man lies down, and rises not: until the shamayim
are no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of
their sleep.
13 O that You would hide me in Sheol, that You would
keep me concealed, until Your anger is past, that You
would appoint me a set time, and remember me! 4044
14 If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my
appointed time will I wait, until my change comes. 4045
15 You shall call, and I will answer You: You will yearn
for the work of Your hands. 4046
16 For now You number my steps; do You not also watch
over my sin?
17 My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and You cover
my iniquity.
18 And surely the mountain falling comes to nothing, and
the rock is removed out of its place.
19 The mayim wears away the stones: You wash away
the things that grow out of the dust of the earth; and You
destroy the tikvah of man.
20 You prevail le-olam-va-ed against him, and he passes:
You change his countenance, and send him away.
21 His sons come to honor, and he will not know it; and
they are brought low, but he will not perceive it.
22 But his flesh on him shall have pain, and his being
within him shall mourn.
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Then answered Elifaz the Temanite, and said,
2 Should a wise man answer with vain da’at, and fill his
belly with the east wind?
3 Should he reason with unprofitable talk? Or, with
speeches by which he can do no tov?