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<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/13-25.htm" target="_top"><b>25</b></a></span>Will You cause a driven leaf to tremble?<br>         Or will You pursue the dry chaff? <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/13-26.htm" target="_top"><b>26</b></a></span>For You write bitter things against me<br>         And make me to inherit the iniquities of my youth. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/13-27.htm" target="_top"><b>27</b></a></span>You put my feet in the stocks<br>         And watch all my paths;<br>         You set a limit for the soles of my feet, <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/13-28.htm" target="_top"><b>28</b></a></span>While I am decaying like a rotten thing,<br>         Like a garment that is moth-eaten. <p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/job/13.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />Hear diligently my speech, And let my declaration be in your ears.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/job/13.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Hear ye my speech, and receive with Sour ears hidden truths. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/job/13.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />Hear attentively my speech and my declaration with your ears.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/job/13.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />Hear diligently my speech, and let my declaration be in your ears.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/job/13.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/job/13.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />Hear diligently my speech. Let my declaration be in your ears.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/job/13.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> Hear ye diligently my word, And my declaration with your ears.<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_6_1860/struggles_of_conscience.htm">Struggles of Conscience</a><br></span><span class="snippet">I shall attempt to address you in the following order this morning. First, a little by way of consolation; then, a little by way of instruction; a little more upon discrimination or caution; and in the last place, a few sentences by way of exhortation. I. First, beloved, let me speak to you who are desiring to feel more and more your sins, and whose prayer is the prayer of the text, "Lord how many are mine iniquities and my sins, make me to know my transgression and my sin." Let me try to COMFORT <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_6_1860/struggles_of_conscience.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Haddon Spurgeon—</span><span class="citation2">Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 6: 1860</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/moody/sowing_and_reaping/chapter_ii_be_not_deceived.htm">Be not Deceived; God is not Mocked. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">"Let no man deceive you."--Eph. v: 6. "As one man mocketh another, do ye so mock Him?"--Job xiii: 9. Be Not Deceived: God Is Not Mocked. We have all lived long enough to know what it is to be deceived. We have been deceived by our friends, by our enemies, our neighbors, our relatives. Ungodly companions have deceived us. At every turn of life we have been imposed upon in one way or another. False teachers have crossed our path, and under pretence of doing us good, have poisoned our mind with <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/moody/sowing_and_reaping/chapter_ii_be_not_deceived.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Dwight L. Moody—</span><span class="citation2">Sowing and Reaping</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_indulgences_are_as_effective.htm">Whether Indulgences are as Effective as they Claim to Be?</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Objection 1: It would seem that indulgences are not as effective as they claim to be. For indulgences have no effect save from the power of the keys. Now by the power of the keys, he who has that power can only remit some fixed part of the punishment due for sin, after taking into account the measure of the sin and of the penitent's sorrow. Since then indulgences depend on the mere will of the grantor, it seems that they are not as effective as they claim to be. Objection 2: Further, the debt of <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_indulgences_are_as_effective.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Saint Thomas Aquinas—</span><span class="citation2">Summa Theologica</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_7_1861/not_now_but_hereafter.htm">Not Now, but Hereafter!</a><br></span><span class="snippet">It is mainly my business, today, to deal with those who may wickedly continue in sin because their judgment tarries. If the Lord does not in this world visit the ungodly with stripes, this is but the surer evidence that in the world to come there is a solemn retribution for the impenitent. If the affliction which is here accorded to men be not the punishment of sin, we turn to Scripture and discover what that punishment will be, and we are soon informed that it is something far heavier than any calamities <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_7_1861/not_now_but_hereafter.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Haddon Spurgeon—</span><span class="citation2">Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 7: 1861</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/brown/christ_the_way_the_truth_and_the_life/chapter_xvii_how_to_make.htm">How to Make Use of Christ as the Truth, that we May Get Our Case and Condition Cleared up to Us. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">The believer is oft complaining of darkness concerning his case and condition, so as he cannot tell what to say of himself, or what judgment to pass on himself, and he knoweth not how to win to a distinct and clear discovery of his state and condition. Now, it is truth alone, and the Truth, that can satisfy them as to this. The question then is, how they shall make use of, and apply themselves to this truth, to the end they may get the truth of their condition discovered to them. But first let us <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/brown/christ_the_way_the_truth_and_the_life/chapter_xvii_how_to_make.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Brown (of Wamphray)—</span><span class="citation2">Christ The Way, The Truth, and The Life</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_fraud_pertains_to_craftiness.htm">Whether Fraud Pertains to Craftiness?</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Objection 1: It would seem that fraud does not pertain to craftiness. For a man does not deserve praise if he allows himself to be deceived, which is the object of craftiness; and yet a man deserves praise for allowing himself to be defrauded, according to 1 Cor. 6:1, "Why do you not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?" Therefore fraud does not belong to craftiness. Objection 2: Further, fraud seems to consist in unlawfully taking or receiving external things, for it is written (Acts 5:1) that <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_fraud_pertains_to_craftiness.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Saint Thomas Aquinas—</span><span class="citation2">Summa Theologica</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/ryle/the_upper_room_being_a_few_truths_for_the_times/chapter_xix_tit_2_6_thoughts.htm">Tit. 2:06 Thoughts for Young Men</a><br></span><span class="snippet">WHEN St. Paul wrote his Epistle to Titus about his duty as a minister, he mentioned young men as a class requiring peculiar attention. After speaking of aged men and aged women, and young women, he adds this pithy advice, "Young men likewise exhort to be sober-minded" (Tit. 2:6). I am going to follow the Apostle's advice. I propose to offer a few words of friendly exhortation to young men. I am growing old myself, but there are few things I remember so well as the days of my youth. I have a most <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/ryle/the_upper_room_being_a_few_truths_for_the_times/chapter_xix_tit_2_6_thoughts.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Charles Ryle—</span><span class="citation2">The Upper Room: Being a Few Truths for the Times</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/edersheim/sketches_of_jewish_social_life/chapter_12_commerce.htm">Commerce</a><br></span><span class="snippet">The remarkable change which we have noticed in the views of Jewish authorities, from contempt to almost affectation of manual labour, could certainly not have been arbitrary. But as we fail to discover here any religious motive, we can only account for it on the score of altered political and social circumstances. So long as the people were, at least nominally, independent, and in possession of their own land, constant engagement in a trade would probably mark an inferior social stage, and imply <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/edersheim/sketches_of_jewish_social_life/chapter_12_commerce.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alfred Edersheim—</span><span class="citation2">Sketches of Jewish Social Life</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_hypocrisy_is_always_a.htm">Whether Hypocrisy is Always a Mortal Sin?</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Objection 1: It seems that hypocrisy is always a mortal sin. For Jerome says on Is. 16:14: "Of the two evils it is less to sin openly than to simulate holiness": and a gloss on Job 1:21 [*St. Augustine on Ps. 63:7], "As it hath pleased the Lord," etc., says that "pretended justice is no justice, but a twofold sin": and again a gloss on Lam. 4:6, "The iniquity . . . of my people is made greater than the sin of Sodom," says: "He deplores the sins of the soul that falls into hypocrisy, which is a greater <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_hypocrisy_is_always_a.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Saint Thomas Aquinas—</span><span class="citation2">Summa Theologica</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/bunyan/the_works_of_john_bunyan_volumes_1-3/the_life_and_death_of.htm">The Life and Death of Mr. Badman,</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Presented to the World in a Familiar Dialogue Between Mr. Wiseman and Mr. Attentive. By John Bunyan ADVERTISEMENT BY THE EDITOR. The life of Badman is a very interesting description, a true and lively portraiture, of the demoralized classes of the trading community in the reign of King Charles II; a subject which naturally led the author to use expressions familiar among such persons, but which are now either obsolete or considered as vulgar. In fact it is the only work proceeding from the prolific <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/bunyan/the_works_of_john_bunyan_volumes_1-3/the_life_and_death_of.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Bunyan—</span><span class="citation2">The Works of John Bunyan Volumes 1-3</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/kempis/imitation_of_christ/chapter_l_how_a_desolate.htm">How a Desolate Man Ought to Commit Himself into the Hands of God</a><br></span><span class="snippet">O Lord, Holy Father, be Thou blessed now and evermore; because as Thou wilt so it is done, and what Thou doest is good. Let Thy servant rejoice in Thee, not in himself, nor in any other; because Thou alone art the true joy, Thou art my hope and my crown, Thou art my joy and my honour, O Lord. What hath Thy servant, which he received not from Thee, even without merit of his own? Thine are all things which Thou hast given, and which Thou hast made. I am poor and in misery even from my youth up,(1) <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/kempis/imitation_of_christ/chapter_l_how_a_desolate.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Thomas A Kempis—</span><span class="citation2">Imitation of Christ</span><p><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/job/13-17.htm">Job 13:17 NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/job/13-17.htm">Job 13:17 NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/job/13-17.htm">Job 13:17 ESV</a> • <a href="/nasb/job/13-17.htm">Job 13:17 NASB</a> • <a href="/kjv/job/13-17.htm">Job 13:17 KJV</a> • <a href="//bibleapps.com/job/13-17.htm">Job 13:17 Bible Apps</a> • <a href="/job/13-17.htm">Job 13:17 Parallel</a> • <a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../job/13-16.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Job 13:16"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Job 13:16" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../job/13-18.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Job 13:18"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Job 13:18" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mp/job/13-17.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframebhbl.htm" width="122" height="250" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhparnew.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>