<p class="poetry">A wise person is cautious<n id="1" /> and turns from evil,p> <p class="poetry">but a fool throws off restraint<n id="2" /> and is overconfident.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Therefore they will now be the first to go into exile,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and the religious banquets<n id="2" /> where they sprawl on couches<n id="3" /> will end.p>

But the garment or the warp or the woof or any article of leather which you wash and infection disappears from it<n id="1" /> is to be washed a second time and it will be clean.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">Ahimelech replied to the king, &#8220;Who among all your servants is faithful like David? He is the king&#8217;s son-in-law, the leader of your bodyguard, and honored in your house!

<t /><n id="2" /><p class="bodytext">There was a man<n id="3" /> in the land of Uz<n id="4" /> whose<n id="5" /> name was Job.<n id="6" /> And that man was pure<n id="7" /> and upright,<n id="8" /> one who feared God and turned away from evil.<n id="9" />

He touched my mouth with it and said, &#8220;Look, this coal has touched your lips. Your evil is removed; your sin is forgiven.&#8221;<n id="1" />

<p class="poetry">I will break Assyria<n id="1" /> in my land,p> <p class="poetry">I will trample them<n id="2" /> underfoot on my hills.p> <p class="poetry">Their yoke will be removed from my people,p> <p class="poetry">the burden will be lifted from their shoulders.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Honesty has disappeared;p> <p class="poetry">the one who tries to avoid evil is robbed.p> <p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> watches and is displeased,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">for there is no justice.p>

<p class="bodytext">Moses said, &#8220;I am going to go out<n id="1" /> from you and pray to the <sc>Lordsc>, and the swarms of flies will go away from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people tomorrow. Only do not let Pharaoh deal falsely again<n id="2" /> by not releasing<n id="3" /> the people to sacrifice to the <sc>Lordsc>.&#8221;

Finally he told her his secret.<n id="1" /> He said to her, &#8220;My hair has never been cut,<n id="2" /> for I have been dedicated to God<n id="3" /> from the time I was conceived.<n id="4" /> If my head<n id="5" /> were shaved, my strength would leave me; I would become weak, and be just like all other men.&#8221;

So the <sc>Lordsc> said to Satan, &#8220;Have you considered<n id="1" /> my servant Job? There<n id="2" /> is no one like him on the earth, a pure and upright man, one who fears God and turns away<n id="3" /> from evil.&#8221;p>

Then the <sc>Lordsc> said to Satan, &#8220;Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him on the earth, a pure and upright man, one who fears God and turns away from evil. And he still holds firmly<n id="1" /> to his integrity,<n id="2" /> so that<n id="3" /> you stirred me up to destroy him<n id="4" /> without reason.&#8221;<n id="5" />p>