And the Lord said to the Satan, See, I give all he has into your hands, only do not put a finger on the man himself. And the Satan went out from before the Lord.
He does not get wealth for himself, and is unable to keep what he has got; the heads of his grain are not bent down to the earth.
And the Lord said to the Satan, Have you taken note of my servant Job, for there is no one like him on the earth, a man without sin and upright, fearing God and keeping himself far from evil?
You say, God keeps punishment stored up for his children. Let him send it on the man himself, so that he may have the punishment of it!
Is it possible for a man to be of profit to God? No, for a man's wisdom is only of profit to himself.
And the Lord said to the Satan, Have you taken note of my servant Job, for there is no one like him on the earth, a man without sin and upright, fearing God and keeping himself far from evil? and he still keeps his righteousness, though you have been moving me to send destruction on him without cause.
And he took a broken bit of a pot, and, seated in the dust, was rubbing himself with the sharp edge of it.
So these three men gave no more answers to Job, because he seemed to himself to be right.
And Elihu, the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was angry, burning with wrath against Job, because he seemed to himself more right than God;
If he made his spirit come back to him, taking his breath into himself again,
And Jesus himself was weeping.
He did not say this of himself, but being the high priest that year he said, as a prophet, that Jesus would be put to death for the nation;
(He said this, not because he had any love for the poor; but because he was a thief, and, having the money-bag, took for himself what was put into it.)
If God is given glory in him, God will give him glory in himself, and will give him glory even now.
If a man does not keep himself in me, he becomes dead and is cut off like a dry branch; such branches are taken up and put in the fire and burned.
However, when he, the Spirit of true knowledge, has come, he will be your guide into all true knowledge: for his words will not come from himself, but whatever has come to his hearing, that he will say: and he will make clear to you the things to come.
For the Father himself gives his love to you, because you have given your love to me and have had faith that I came from God.
He himself was not the light: he was sent to give witness about the light.
Now the servants and the police had made a fire of coals because it was cold; they were warming themselves in front of it and Peter was there with them, warming himself.
But Simon Peter was still there warming himself by the fire. They said to him, Are you not one of his disciples? He said, No, I am not.
Hearing this, Pilate had a desire to let him go free, but the Jews said in a loud voice, If you let this man go, you are not Caesar's friend: everyone who makes himself a king goes against Caesar.
So when these words came to Pilate's ear, he took Jesus out, seating himself in the judge's seat in a place named in Hebrew, Gabbatha, or the Stone Floor.
After these things Jesus let himself be seen again by the disciples at the sea of Tiberias; and it came about in this way.
Now this was the third time that Jesus let himself be seen by the disciples after he had come back from the dead.
He had no need for any witness about man; for he himself had knowledge of what was in man.
Are you greater than our father Jacob who gave us the fountain and took the water of it himself, with his children and his cattle?
(Though, in fact, it was his disciples who gave baptism, not Jesus himself),
And a great number more of them came to have faith in him because of what he himself said.
For Jesus himself said that a prophet has no honour in the country of his birth.
For this cause the Jews had an even greater desire to put Jesus to death, because not only did he not keep the Sabbath but he said God was his Father, so making himself equal with God.
So Jesus made answer and said, Truly I say to you, The Son is not able to do anything himself; he is able to do only what he sees the Father doing; whatever the Father does the Son does it in the same way.
For even as the Father has life in himself, so he has given to the Son to have life in himself.
And the Father himself who sent me has given witness about me. Not one of you has ever given ear to his voice; his form you have not seen.
I have come in my Father's name, and your hearts are not open to me. If another comes with no other authority but himself, you will give him your approval.
Now when Jesus saw that the people were about to come and take him by force to make him a king, he went away again up the mountain by himself.
This he said, testing him: for he had no doubt what he himself would do.
The man whose words come from himself is looking for glory for himself, but he who is looking for the glory of him who sent him--that man is true and there is no evil in him.
Nicodemus--he who had come to Jesus before, being himself one of them--said to them,
And when his words came to their ears, they went out one by one, starting with the oldest even to the last, because they were conscious of what was in their hearts: and Jesus was there by himself with the woman before him.
But how it is he is now able to see, or who made his eyes open, we are not able to say: put the question to him; he is old enough to give an answer for himself.
And the word came to the king of Nineveh, and he got up from his seat of authority, and took off his robe, and covering himself with haircloth, took his seat in the dust.
Then Jonah went out of the town, and took his seat on the east side of the town and made himself a roof of branches and took his seat under its shade till he saw what would become of the town.
Then when the sun came up, God sent a burning east wind: and so great was the heat of the sun on his head that Jonah was overcome, and, requesting death for himself, said, Death is better for me than life.
That we have made ourselves an altar, being false to the Lord, keep us not safe from death this day; and if for the purpose of offering burned offerings on it and meal offerings, or peace-offerings, let the Lord himself send punishment for it;
Now in those days, when there was no king in Israel, a certain Levite was living in the inmost parts of the hill-country of Ephraim, and he got for himself a servant-wife from Beth-lehem-judah.
And they went off the road there with the purpose of stopping for the night in Gibeah: and he went in, seating himself in the street of the town, for no one took them into his house for the night.
So Ehud made himself a two-edged sword, a cubit long, which he put on at his right side under his robe.
But he himself, turning back from the stone images at Gilgal, said, I have something to say to you in secret, O king. And he said, Let there be quiet. Then all those who were waiting before him went out.
Then Ehud came in to him while he was seated by himself in his summer-house. And Ehud said, I have a word from God for you. And he got up from his seat.
Now Heber the Kenite, separating himself from the rest of the Kenites, from the children of Hobab, the brother-in-law of Moses, had put up his tent as far away as the oak-tree in Zaanannim, by Kedesh.
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