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…and he called that place Bethel, though previously the city had been named Luz.

But his father refused. “I know, my son, I know!” he said. “He too shall become a people, and he too shall be great; nevertheless, his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his offspring shall become a multitude of nations.”

But I have raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display My power to you, and that My name might be proclaimed in all the earth.

“Yet as surely as I live and as surely as the whole earth is filled with the glory of the LORD,

They named it Dan, after their forefather Dan, who was born to Israel—though the city was formerly named Laish.

But David again vowed, “Your father knows very well that I have found favor in your eyes, and he has said, ‘Jonathan must not know of this, or he will be grieved.’ As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, there is but a step between me and death.”

Otherwise, as surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, who has restrained me from harming you, if you had not come quickly to meet me, then surely no male belonging to Nabal would have been left alive by morning light.”

Meanwhile, the servants of the king of Aram said to him, “Their gods are gods of the hills. That is why they prevailed over us. Instead, we should fight them on the plains; surely then we will prevail.

But stretch out Your hand and strike all that he has, and he will surely curse You to Your face.”

But stretch out Your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse You to Your face.”

However, if I were you, I would appeal to God and lay my cause before Him—

But if only God would speak and open His lips against you,

But ask the animals, and they will instruct you; ask the birds of the air, and they will tell you.

Yet I desire to speak to the Almighty and argue my case before God.

You, however, smear with lies; you are all worthless physicians.

But as a mountain erodes and crumbles and a rock is dislodged from its place,

But come back and try again, all of you. For I will not find a wise man among you.

“But now, O Job, hear my speech, and listen to all my words.

As for me, however, I am filled with power by the Spirit of the LORD, with justice and courage, to declare to Jacob his transgression and to Israel his sin.