God gives me up to the ungodly and casts me into the hands of the wicked.
and you have not delivered me into the hand of the enemy; you have set my feet in a broad place.
Give me not up to the will of my adversaries; for false witnesses have risen against me, and they breathe out violence.
So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited.
For God has consigned all to disobedience, that he may have mercy on all.
So he delivered him over to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus,
Behold, the wicked man conceives evil and is pregnant with mischief and gives birth to lies.
So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord and struck Job with loathsome sores from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head.
Now there was a day when his sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother's house, and there came a messenger to Job and said, “The oxen were plowing and the donkeys feeding beside them, and the Sabeans fell upon them and took them and struck down the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you.” While he was yet speaking, there came another and said, “The fire of God fell from heaven and burned up the sheep and the servants and consumed them, and I alone have escaped to tell you.” While he was yet speaking, there came another and said, “The Chaldeans formed three groups and made a raid on the camels and took them and struck down the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”
And you have declared this day how you have dealt well with me, in that you did not kill me when the Lord put me into your hands.
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