The One Year Bible KJV (240 page)
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Authors: Tyndale
12
 For our [Paul's and his coworkers'] rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
13
 For we write none other things unto you, than what ye read or acknowledge; and I trust ye shall acknowledge even to the end;
14
 as also ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are your rejoicing, even as ye also
are
ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.
15
 And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before, that ye might have a second benefit;
16
 and to pass by you into Macedonia, and to come again out of Macedonia unto you, and of you to be brought on my way toward Judaea.
17
 When I therefore was thus minded, did I use lightness? or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be yea yea, and nay nay?
18
 But
as
God
is
true, our word toward you was not yea and nay.
19
 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us,
even
by me and Silvanus and Timotheus, was not yea and nay, but in him was yea.
20
 For all the promises of God in him
are
yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.
21
 Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us,
is
God;
22
 who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.
23
 Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet unto Corinth.
24
 Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for by faith ye stand.
2:
1
 But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.
2
 For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me?
3
 And I wrote this same unto you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is
the joy
of you all.
4
 For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.
5
 But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part: that I may not overcharge you all.
6
 Sufficient to such a man
is
this punishment, which
was inflicted
of many.
7
 So that contrariwise ye
ought
rather to forgive
him,
and comfort
him,
lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.
8
 Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm
your
love toward him.
9
 For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all things.
10
 To whom ye forgive any thing, I
forgive
also: for if I forgave any thing, to whom I forgave
it,
for your sakes
forgave I it
in the person of Christ;
11
 lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.
1
 Blessed
is
he that considereth the poor: the L
ORD
will deliver him in time of trouble.
2
 The L
ORD
will preserve him, and keep him alive;
and
he shall be blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies.
3
 The L
ORD
will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.
4
 I said, L
ORD
, be merciful unto me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee.
5
 Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish?
6
 And if he come to see
me,
he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself;
when
he goeth abroad, he telleth
it.
7
 All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt.
8
 An evil disease,
say they,
cleaveth fast unto him: and
now
that he lieth he shall rise up no more.
9
 Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up
his
heel against me.
10
 But thou, O L
ORD
, be merciful unto me, and raise me up, that I may requite them.
11
 By this I know that thou favourest me, because mine enemy doth not triumph over me.
12
 And as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity, and settest me before thy face for ever.
13
 Blessed
be
the L
ORD
God of Israel from everlasting, and to everlasting. Amen, and Amen.
5
 Thorns
and
snares
are
in the way of the froward: he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them.
6
 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
1
 Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold
where
they fine
it.
2
 Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass
is
molten
out of
the stone.
3
 He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.
4
 The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant;
even the waters
forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.
5
Â
As for
the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.
6
 The stones of it
are
the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold.
7
Â
There is
a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen:
8
 The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.
9
 He putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he overturneth the mountains by the roots.
10
 He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing.
11
 He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and
the thing that is
hid bringeth he forth to light.
12
 But where shall wisdom be found? and where
is
the place of understanding?
13
 Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living.
14
 The depth saith, It
is
not in me: and the sea saith,
It is
not with me.
15
 It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed
for
the price thereof.
16
 It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
17
 The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it
shall not be for
jewels of fine gold.
18
 No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom
is
above rubies.
19
 The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold.
20
 Whence then cometh wisdom? and where
is
the place of understanding?
21
 Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air.
22
 Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.
23
 God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.
24
 For he looketh to the ends of the earth,
and
seeth under the whole heaven;
25
 To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.
26
 When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:
27
 Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out.
28
 And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that
is
wisdom; and to depart from evil
is
understanding.
29:
1
 Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,
2
 Oh that I were as
in
months past, as
in
the days
when
God preserved me;
3
 When his candle shined upon my head,
and when
by his light I walked
through
darkness;
4
 As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God
was
upon my tabernacle;
5
 When the Almighty
was
yet with me,
when
my children
were
about me;
6
 When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;
7
 When I went out to the gate through the city,
when
I prepared my seat in the street!
8
 The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose,
and
stood up.
9
 The princes refrained talking, and laid
their
hand on their mouth.
10
 The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.
11
 When the ear heard
me,
then it blessed me; and when the eye saw
me,
it gave witness to me:
12
 Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and
him that had
none to help him.
13
 The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
14
 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment
was
as a robe and a diadem.
15
 I was eyes to the blind, and feet
was
I to the lame.
16
 I
was
a father to the poor: and the cause
which
I knew not I searched out.
17
 And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
18
 Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply
my
days as the sand.
19
 My root
was
spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.
20
 My glory
was
fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.
21
 Unto me
men
gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel.
22
 After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them.
23
 And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide
as
for the latter rain.
24
Â
If
I laughed on them, they believed
it
not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.
25
 I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one
that
comforteth the mourners.
30:
1
 But now
they that are
younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.
2
 Yea, whereto
might
the strength of their hands
profit
me, in whom old age was perished?
3
 For want and famine
they were
solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
4
 Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots
for
their meat.
5
 They were driven forth from among
men,
(they cried after them as
after
a thief;)
6
 To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys,
in
caves of the earth, and
in
the rocks.
7
 Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.
8
Â
They were
children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
9
 And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
10
 They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.
11
 Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.
12
 Upon
my
right
hand
rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.
13
 They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.
14
 They came
upon me
as a wide breaking in
of waters:
in the desolation they rolled themselves
upon me.
15
 Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.
16
 And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
17
 My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
18
 By the great force
of my disease
is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.
19
 He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
20
 I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me
not.
21
 Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.
22
 Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride
upon it,
and dissolvest my substance.
23
 For I know
that
thou wilt bring me
to
death, and
to
the house appointed for all living.
24
 Howbeit he will not stretch out
his
hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.
25
 Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was
not
my soul grieved for the poor?
26
 When I looked for good, then evil came
unto me:
and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
27
 My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.
28
 I went mourning without the sun: I stood up,
and
I cried in the congregation.
29
 I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
30
 My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
31
 My harp also is
turned
to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.