They lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roars like the sea; and they ride on horses, everyone set in array, as a man to the battle, against you, daughter of Babylon.
For, behold, I will stir up and cause to come up against Babylon a company of great nations from the north country; and they shall set themselves in array against her; from there she shall be taken: their arrows shall be as of an expert mighty man; none shall return in vain.
"Run back and forth through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places of it, if you can find a man, if there are any who does justly, who seeks truth; and I will pardon her.
Every man is become brutish [and is] without knowledge; every goldsmith is disappointed by his image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
and with you will I break in pieces the chariot and him who rides therein; and with you will I break in pieces man and woman; and with you will I break in pieces the old man and the youth; and with you will I break in pieces the young man and the virgin;
Her cities are become a desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land in which no man dwells, neither does any son of man pass thereby.
My people, go away from the midst of her, and save yourselves every man from the fierce anger of the LORD.
Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and save every man his life; don't be cut off in her iniquity: for it is the time of the LORD's vengeance; he will render to her a recompense.
and say, the LORD, you have spoken concerning this place, to cut it off, that none shall dwell therein, neither man nor animal, but that it shall be desolate forever.
They take hold of bow and spear. They are cruel, and have no mercy. Their voice roars like the sea, and they ride on horses, everyone set in array, as a man to the battle, against you, daughter of Zion."
Therefore thus says the Lord the LORD: Behold, my anger and my wrath shall be poured out on this place, on man, and on animal, and on the trees of the field, and on the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.
For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor;
I listened and heard, but they didn't speak aright: no man repents him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? everyone turns to his course, as a horse that rushes headlong in the battle.
Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and [who is] he to whom the mouth of the LORD has spoken, that he may declare it? why is the land perished and burned up like a wilderness, so that none passes through?
Thus says the LORD, Don't let the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, don't let the rich man glory in his riches;
Do you have eyes of flesh? Or do you see as man sees?
Are your days as the days of mortals, or your years as man's years,
There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.
An empty-headed man becomes wise when a man is born as a wild donkey's colt.
"Shouldn't the multitude of words be answered? Should a man full of talk be justified?
Should your boastings make men hold their peace? When you mock, shall no man make you ashamed?
Behold, he breaks down, and it can't be built again. He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.
They grope in the dark without light. He makes them stagger like a drunken man.
I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke.
His possessions also were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the children of the east.
This also shall be my salvation, that a godless man shall not come before him.
Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceives a man, will you deceive him?
"Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.
But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?
so man lies down and doesn't rise. Until the heavens are no more, they shall not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep.
If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my warfare would I wait, until my release should come.
The waters wear the stones. The torrents of it wash away the dust of the earth. So you destroy the hope of man.
What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!
"Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?
the wicked man writhes in pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.
"Are you the first man who was born? Or were you brought forth before the hills?
that he would maintain the right of a man with God, of a son of man with his neighbor!
But as for you all, come on now again; I shall not find a wise man among you.
the LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant, Job? For there is none like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil."
This is the portion of a wicked man from God, the heritage appointed to him by God."
Don't you know this from old time, since man was placed on earth,
that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, That they are led forth to the day of wrath?
As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn't I be impatient?
"Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.
But as for the mighty man, he had the earth. The honorable man, he lived in it.
the LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? For there is none like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause."
Satan answered the LORD, and said, "Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.
How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?
How much less man, who is a worm, the son of man, who is a worm!"
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