TAKE THY REST

JOB 11:7-20
  

CANST THOU
BY SEARCHING
FIND OUT GOD?  
CANST THOU FIND OUT THE ALMIGHTY UNTO PERFECTION?
IT IS AS HIGH AS HEAVEN; 
WHAT CANST THOU DO?
DEEPER THAN HELL; 
WHAT CANST THOU KNOW?
THE MEASURE THEREOF 
IS LONGER THAN THE EARTH,
AND BROADER THAN THE SEA.
IF HE CUT OFF, AND SHUT UP, 
OR
GATHER TOGETHER,
THEN WHO CAN HINDER HIM?

FOR HE KNOWETH VAIN MEN: 
HE SEETH 
WICKEDNESS ALSO; 
WILL HE NOT THEN CONSIDER IT?
FOR VAIN MEN WOULD BE WISE,
THOUGH MAN BE BORN 
LIKE A WILD ASS'S COLT.
IF THOU PREPARE THINE HEART,
AND 
STRETCH OUT THINE 
HANDS TOWARD HIM;
IF INIQUITY BE IN THINE HAND, 
PUT IT FAR AWAY, 
AND LET NOT WICKEDNESS
DWELL IN THY TABERNACLES.

FOR THEN SHALT THOU
LIFT UP THY FACE WITHOUT 
SPOT,
YEA, THOU SHALT
BE STEDFAST,
AND
SHALT NOT FEAR:
BECAUSE THOU SHALT FORGET 
THY MISERY,
AND REMEMBER IT AS 
WATERS THAT PASS AWAY.
AND
THINE AGE
SHALL BE CLEARER THAN THE NOONDAY:
THOU SHALT SHINE FORTH,
THOU SHALT BE AS THE MORNING. AND THOU SHALT BE SECURE,
BECAUSE THERE IS HOPE;
YEA, THOU SHALT DIG ABOUT THEE,
AND THOU SHALT
TAKE THY REST
IN SAFETY.

ALSO THOU SHALT LIE DOWN,
AND NONE SHALL MAKE 
THEE AFRAID;
YEA, MANY SHALL MAKE 
SUIT UNTO THEE.
BUT THE EYES OF THE 
WICKED SHALL FAIL,
AND THEY SHALL NOT ESCAPE,
AND THEIR HOPE SHALL BE AS THE
GIVING UP OF THE GHOST.


LOVE

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