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Job 2:1-3:26

2:1Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them to present himself before the LORD. 2:2And the LORD said unto Satan, From whence comest thou? And Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it. 2:3And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? and still he holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause. 2:4And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life. 2:5But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face. 2:6And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, he is in thine hand; but save his life. 2:7So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown. 2:8And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes. 2:9Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die. 2:10But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips. 2:11Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him. 2:12And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven. 2:13So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great.

3:1After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.3:2And Job spake, and said,3:3Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.3:4Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.3:5Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.3:6As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.3:7Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.3:8Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.3:9Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:3:10Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.3:11Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?3:12Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?3:13For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,3:14With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;3:15Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:3:16Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.3:17There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.3:18There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.3:19The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.3:20Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;3:21Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;3:22Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?3:23Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?3:24For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.3:25For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.3:26I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.

John 4:1-26

1When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John,2(Though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples,)3He left Judaea, and departed again into Galilee.4And he must needs go through Samaria.5Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.6Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour.7There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink.8(For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.)9Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.10Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.11The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?12Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?13Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again:14But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.15The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw.16Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither.17The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband:18For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly.19The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.20Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.21Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.22Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.23But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.24God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.25The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things.26Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he.