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Job 21:15

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what doth it profit us if we pray to him?

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But he answered: Who is the Lord, that I should hear his voice, and let Israel go? I know not the Lord, neither will I let Israel go.

For he hath said: Man shall not please God, although he run with him.

I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth. I have not said to the seed of Jacob: Seek me in vain. I am the Lord that speak justice, that declare right things.

Take away from me the way turn away the path from me. Let the Holy One of Israel cease from before us.

Lest perhaps being filled, I should be tempted to deny, and say: Who is the Lord? or being compelled by poverty, I should steal, and forswear the name of my God.

Consider, and hear me, O Lord my God. Enlighten my eyes that I never sleep in death:

For thou saidst: That which is right doth not please thee: or what will it profit thee if I sin?

Ask, and it shall be given you: seek, and you shall find: knock, and it shall be opened to you.

According to their pastures they were filled, and were made full: and they lifted up their heart, and have forgotten me.

Hitherto you have not asked any thing in my name. Ask, and you shall receive; that your joy may be full.

Who said to God: Depart from us: and looked upon the Almighty as if he could do nothing:

Thou by thy strength didst make the sea firm: thou didst crush the heads of the dragons in the waters.

Thy habitation is in the midst of deceit: Through deceit they have refused to know me, saith the Lord.

What doth it profit God if thou be just? Or what dost thou give him if thy way be unspotted?

And you have said: What have we spoken against thee? You have said: He laboureth in vain that serveth God, and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinances, and that we have walked sorrowful before the Lord of hosts?




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