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Thus did Job +continually.</p> + +<p>1:6 Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present +themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them.</p> + +<p>1:7 And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan +answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the +earth, and from walking up and down in it.</p> + +<p>1:8 And 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?</p> + +<p>1:9 Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for +nought?</p> + +<p>1:10 Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, +and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed +the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the +land.</p> + +<p>1:11 But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and +he will curse thee to thy face.</p> + +<p>1:12 And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in +thy power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand. So +Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD.</p> + +<p>1:13 And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were +eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house:</p> + +<p>1:14 And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were +plowing, and the asses feeding beside them:</p> + +<p>1:15 And the Sabeans fell upon them, and took them away; yea, they +have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only +am escaped alone to tell thee.</p> + +<p>1:16 While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, +The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the +sheep, and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am +escaped alone to tell thee.</p> + +<p>1:17 While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, +The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels, +and have carried them away, yea, and slain the servants with +the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell +thee.</p> + +<p>1:18 While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, +Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in +their eldest brother's house:</p> + +<p>1:19 And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and +smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the +young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to +tell thee.</p> + +<p>1:20 Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and +fell down upon the ground, and worshipped,</p> + +<p>1:21 And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked +shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken +away; blessed be the name of the LORD.</p> + +<p>1:22 In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly.</p> + +<a name="2" /></a><p>2:1 Again 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.</p> + +<p>2:2 And 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.</p> + +<p>2:3 And 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.</p> + +<p>2:4 And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all +that a man hath will he give for his life.</p> + +<p>2:5 But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his +flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.</p> + +<p>2:6 And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, he is in thine hand; but +save his life.</p> + +<p>2:7 So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote +Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.</p> + +<p>2:8 And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he +sat down among the ashes.</p> + +<p>2:9 Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine +integrity? curse God, and die.</p> + +<p>2:10 But 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.</p> + +<p>2:11 Now 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.</p> + +<p>2:12 And 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.</p> + +<p>2:13 So 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.</p> + +<a name="3" /></a><p>3:1 After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.</p> + +<p>3:2 And Job spake, and said,</p> + +<p>3:3 Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which +it was said, There is a man child conceived.</p> + +<p>3:4 Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, +neither let the light shine upon it.</p> + +<p>3:5 Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud +dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.</p> + +<p>3:6 As 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.</p> + +<p>3:7 Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come +therein.</p> + +<p>3:8 Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise +up their mourning.</p> + +<p>3:9 Let 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:</p> + +<p>3:10 Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid +sorrow from mine eyes.</p> + +<p>3:11 Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost +when I came out of the belly?</p> + +<p>3:12 Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should +suck?</p> + +<p>3:13 For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have +slept: then had I been at rest,</p> + +<p>3:14 With kings and counsellors of the earth, which build desolate +places for themselves;</p> + +<p>3:15 Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with +silver:</p> + +<p>3:16 Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants +which never saw light.</p> + +<p>3:17 There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be +at rest.</p> + +<p>3:18 There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of +the oppressor.</p> + +<p>3:19 The small and great are there; and the servant is free from +his master.</p> + +<p>3:20 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life +unto the bitter in soul;</p> + +<p>3:21 Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more +than for hid treasures;</p> + +<p>3:22 Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find +the grave?</p> + +<p>3:23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God +hath hedged in?</p> + +<p>3:24 For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured +out like the waters.</p> + +<p>3:25 For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that +which I was afraid of is come unto me.</p> + +<p>3:26 I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; +yet trouble came.</p> + +<a name="4" /></a><p>4:1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,</p> + +<p>4:2 If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but +who can withhold himself from speaking?</p> + +<p>4:3 Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened +the weak hands.</p> + +<p>4:4 Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast +strengthened the feeble knees.</p> + +<p>4:5 But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth +thee, and thou art troubled.</p> + +<p>4:6 Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the +uprightness of thy ways?</p> + +<p>4:7 Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or +where were the righteous cut off?</p> + +<p>4:8 Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow +wickedness, reap the same.</p> + +<p>4:9 By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his +nostrils are they consumed.</p> + +<p>4:10 The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and +the teeth of the young lions, are broken.</p> + +<p>4:11 The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's +whelps are scattered abroad.</p> + +<p>4:12 Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received +a little thereof.</p> + +<p>4:13 In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep +falleth on men,</p> + +<p>4:14 Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to +shake.</p> + +<p>4:15 Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh +stood up:</p> + +<p>4:16 It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an +image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a +voice, saying,</p> + +<p>4:17 Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more +pure than his maker?</p> + +<p>4:18 Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he +charged with folly:</p> + +<p>4:19 How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose +foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?</p> + +<p>4:20 They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for +ever without any regarding it.</p> + +<p>4:21 Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, +even without wisdom.</p> + +<a name="5" /></a><p>5:1 Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which +of the saints wilt thou turn?</p> + +<p>5:2 For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly +one.</p> + +<p>5:3 I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his +habitation.</p> + +<p>5:4 His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the +gate, neither is there any to deliver them.</p> + +<p>5:5 Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of +the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.</p> + +<p>5:6 Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth +trouble spring out of the ground;</p> + +<p>5:7 Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.</p> + +<p>5:8 I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:</p> + +<p>5:9 Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things +without number:</p> + +<p>5:10 Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the +fields:</p> + +<p>5:11 To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn +may be exalted to safety.</p> + +<p>5:12 He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their +hands cannot perform their enterprise.</p> + +<p>5:13 He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of +the froward is carried headlong.</p> + +<p>5:14 They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope in the +noonday as in the night.</p> + +<p>5:15 But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and +from the hand of the mighty.</p> + +<p>5:16 So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.</p> + +<p>5:17 Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore +despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:</p> + +<p>5:18 For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands +make whole.</p> + +<p>5:19 He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there +shall no evil touch thee.</p> + +<p>5:20 In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the +power of the sword.</p> + +<p>5:21 Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither +shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.</p> + +<p>5:22 At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou +be afraid of the beasts of the earth.</p> + +<p>5:23 For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and +the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.</p> + +<p>5:24 And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be in peace; and +thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin.</p> + +<p>5:25 Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine +offspring as the grass of the earth.</p> + +<p>5:26 Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of +corn cometh in in his season.</p> + +<p>5:27 Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou +it for thy good.</p> + +<a name="6" /></a><p>6:1 But Job answered and said,</p> + +<p>6:2 Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid +in the balances together!</p> + +<p>6:3 For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: +therefore my words are swallowed up.</p> + +<p>6:4 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison +whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set +themselves in array against me.</p> + +<p>6:5 Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox +over his fodder?</p> + +<p>6:6 Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there +any taste in the white of an egg?</p> + +<p>6:7 The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful +meat.</p> + +<p>6:8 Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me +the thing that I long for!</p> + +<p>6:9 Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let +loose his hand, and cut me off!</p> + +<p>6:10 Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in +sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words +of the Holy One.</p> + +<p>6:11 What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, +that I should prolong my life?</p> + +<p>6:12 Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of +brass?</p> + +<p>6:13 Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?</p> + +<p>6:14 To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his +friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.</p> + +<p>6:15 My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the +stream of brooks they pass away;</p> + +<p>6:16 Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow +is hid:</p> + +<p>6:17 What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are +consumed out of their place.</p> + +<p>6:18 The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, +and perish.</p> + +<p>6:19 The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for +them.</p> + +<p>6:20 They were confounded because they had hoped; they came +thither, and were ashamed.</p> + +<p>6:21 For now ye are nothing; ye see my casting down, and are +afraid.</p> + +<p>6:22 Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of your +substance?</p> + +<p>6:23 Or, Deliver me from the enemy's hand? or, Redeem me from the +hand of the mighty?</p> + +<p>6:24 Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to +understand wherein I have erred.</p> + +<p>6:25 How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing +reprove?</p> + +<p>6:26 Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that +is desperate, which are as wind?</p> + +<p>6:27 Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your +friend.</p> + +<p>6:28 Now therefore be content, look upon me; for it is evident unto +you if I lie.</p> + +<p>6:29 Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, +my righteousness is in it.</p> + +<p>6:30 Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern +perverse things?</p> + +<a name="7" /></a><p>7:1 Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his +days also like the days of an hireling?</p> + +<p>7:2 As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling +looketh for the reward of his work:</p> + +<p>7:3 So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights +are appointed to me.</p> + +<p>7:4 When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be +gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of +the day.</p> + +<p>7:5 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is +broken, and become loathsome.</p> + +<p>7:6 My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent +without hope.</p> + +<p>7:7 O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see +good.</p> + +<p>7:8 The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine +eyes are upon me, and I am not.</p> + +<p>7:9 As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth +down to the grave shall come up no more.</p> + +<p>7:10 He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place +know him any more.</p> + +<p>7:11 Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the +anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my +soul.</p> + +<p>7:12 Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?</p> + +<p>7:13 When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my +complaints;</p> + +<p>7:14 Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through +visions:</p> + +<p>7:15 So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my +life.</p> + +<p>7:16 I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days +are vanity.</p> + +<p>7:17 What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou +shouldest set thine heart upon him?</p> + +<p>7:18 And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him +every moment?</p> + +<p>7:19 How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I +swallow down my spittle?</p> + +<p>7:20 I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of +men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am +a burden to myself?</p> + +<p>7:21 And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away +my iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt +seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.</p> + +<a name="8" /></a><p>8:1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,</p> + +<p>8:2 How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the +words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?</p> + +<p>8:3 Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert +justice?</p> + +<p>8:4 If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them +away for their transgression;</p> + +<p>8:5 If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy +supplication to the Almighty;</p> + +<p>8:6 If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for +thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.</p> + +<p>8:7 Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should +greatly increase.</p> + +<p>8:8 For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare +thyself to the search of their fathers:</p> + +<p>8:9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our +days upon earth are a shadow:)</p> + +<p>8:10 Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out +of their heart?</p> + +<p>8:11 Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without +water?</p> + +<p>8:12 Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it +withereth before any other herb.</p> + +<p>8:13 So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's +hope shall perish:</p> + +<p>8:14 Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a +spider's web.</p> + +<p>8:15 He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall +hold it fast, but it shall not endure.</p> + +<p>8:16 He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in +his garden.</p> + +<p>8:17 His roots are wrapped about the heap, and seeth the place of +stones.</p> + +<p>8:18 If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, +saying, I have not seen thee.</p> + +<p>8:19 Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall +others grow.</p> + +<p>8:20 Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he +help the evil doers:</p> + +<p>8:21 Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with +rejoicing.</p> + +<p>8:22 They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the +dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.</p> + +<a name="9" /></a><p>9:1 Then Job answered and said,</p> + +<p>9:2 I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with +God?</p> + +<p>9:3 If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a +thousand.</p> + +<p>9:4 He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened +himself against him, and hath prospered?</p> + +<p>9:5 Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which +overturneth them in his anger.</p> + +<p>9:6 Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars +thereof tremble.</p> + +<p>9:7 Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up +the stars.</p> + +<p>9:8 Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the +waves of the sea.</p> + +<p>9:9 Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers +of the south.</p> + +<p>9:10 Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders +without number.</p> + +<p>9:11 Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not: he passeth on also, but +I perceive him not.</p> + +<p>9:12 Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto +him, What doest thou?</p> + +<p>9:13 If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop +under him.</p> + +<p>9:14 How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to +reason with him?</p> + +<p>9:15 Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I +would make supplication to my judge.</p> + +<p>9:16 If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not +believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.</p> + +<p>9:17 For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds +without cause.</p> + +<p>9:18 He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with +bitterness.</p> + +<p>9:19 If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, +who shall set me a time to plead?</p> + +<p>9:20 If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I +say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.</p> + +<p>9:21 Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would +despise my life.</p> + +<p>9:22 This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the +perfect and the wicked.</p> + +<p>9:23 If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of +the innocent.</p> + +<p>9:24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth +the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he?</p> + +<p>9:25 Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see +no good.</p> + +<p>9:26 They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that +hasteth to the prey.</p> + +<p>9:27 If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my +heaviness, and comfort myself:</p> + +<p>9:28 I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold +me innocent.</p> + +<p>9:29 If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?</p> + +<p>9:30 If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so +clean;</p> + +<p>9:31 Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes +shall abhor me.</p> + +<p>9:32 For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we +should come together in judgment.</p> + +<p>9:33 Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his +hand upon us both.</p> + +<p>9:34 Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear +terrify me:</p> + +<p>9:35 Then would I speak, and not fear him; but it is not so with +me.</p> + +<a name="10" /></a><p>10:1 My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon +myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.</p> + +<p>10:2 I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou +contendest with me.</p> + +<p>10:3 Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou +shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the +counsel of the wicked?</p> + +<p>10:4 Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth?</p> + +<p>10:5 Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man's days,</p> + +<p>10:6 That thou enquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after +my sin?</p> + +<p>10:7 Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can +deliver out of thine hand.</p> + +<p>10:8 Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round +about; yet thou dost destroy me.</p> + +<p>10:9 Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; +and wilt thou bring me into dust again?</p> + +<p>10:10 Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like +cheese?</p> + +<p>10:11 Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me +with bones and sinews.</p> + +<p>10:12 Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath +preserved my spirit.</p> + +<p>10:13 And these things hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that +this is with thee.</p> + +<p>10:14 If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me +from mine iniquity.</p> + +<p>10:15 If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I +not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see +thou mine affliction;</p> + +<p>10:16 For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again +thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.</p> + +<p>10:17 Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine +indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.</p> + +<p>10:18 Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh +that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!</p> + +<p>10:19 I should have been as though I had not been; I should have +been carried from the womb to the grave.</p> + +<p>10:20 Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may +take comfort a little,</p> + +<p>10:21 Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of +darkness and the shadow of death;</p> + +<p>10:22 A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of +death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.</p> + +<a name="11" /></a><p>11:1 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,</p> + +<p>11:2 Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a +man full of talk be justified?</p> + +<p>11:3 Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou +mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?</p> + +<p>11:4 For thou hast said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in +thine eyes.</p> + +<p>11:5 But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against thee;</p> + +<p>11:6 And that he would shew thee the secrets of wisdom, that they +are double to that which is! Know therefore that God exacteth +of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth.</p> + +<p>11:7 Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the +Almighty unto perfection?</p> + +<p>11:8 It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; +what canst thou know?</p> + +<p>11:9 The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than +the sea.</p> + +<p>11:10 If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can +hinder him?</p> + +<p>11:11 For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also; will he not +then consider it?</p> + +<p>11:12 For vain men would be wise, though man be born like a wild +ass's colt.</p> + +<p>11:13 If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands +toward him;</p> + +<p>11:14 If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not +wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.</p> + +<p>11:15 For then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; yea, thou +shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear:</p> + +<p>11:16 Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as +waters that pass away:</p> + +<p>11:17 And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday: thou shalt +shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning.</p> + +<p>11:18 And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope; yea, thou +shalt dig about thee, and thou shalt take thy rest in safety.</p> + +<p>11:19 Also thou shalt lie down, and none shall make thee afraid; +yea, many shall make suit unto thee.</p> + +<p>11:20 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.</p> + +<a name="12" /></a><p>12:1 And Job answered and said,</p> + +<p>12:2 No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.</p> + +<p>12:3 But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to +you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these?</p> + +<p>12:4 I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and +he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn.</p> + +<p>12:5 He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised +in the thought of him that is at ease.</p> + +<p>12:6 The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God +are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.</p> + +<p>12:7 But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the +fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee:</p> + +<p>12:8 Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes +of the sea shall declare unto thee.</p> + +<p>12:9 Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the LORD hath +wrought this?</p> + +<p>12:10 In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the +breath of all mankind.</p> + +<p>12:11 Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat?</p> + +<p>12:12 With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days +understanding.</p> + +<p>12:13 With him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and +understanding.</p> + +<p>12:14 Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he +shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.</p> + +<p>12:15 Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he +sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.</p> + +<p>12:16 With him is strength and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver +are his.</p> + +<p>12:17 He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and maketh the judges +fools.</p> + +<p>12:18 He looseth the bond of kings, and girdeth their loins with a +girdle.</p> + +<p>12:19 He leadeth princes away spoiled, and overthroweth the mighty.</p> + +<p>12:20 He removeth away the speech of the trusty, and taketh away the +understanding of the aged.</p> + +<p>12:21 He poureth contempt upon princes, and weakeneth the strength +of the mighty.</p> + +<p>12:22 He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out +to light the shadow of death.</p> + +<p>12:23 He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he enlargeth +the nations, and straiteneth them again.</p> + +<p>12:24 He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the +earth, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there +is no way.</p> + +<p>12:25 They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to +stagger like a drunken man.</p> + +<a name="13" /></a><p>13:1 Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and +understood it.</p> + +<p>13:2 What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto +you.</p> + +<p>13:3 Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason +with God.</p> + +<p>13:4 But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.</p> + +<p>13:5 O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be +your wisdom.</p> + +<p>13:6 Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my +lips.</p> + +<p>13:7 Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?</p> + +<p>13:8 Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?</p> + +<p>13:9 Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man +mocketh another, do ye so mock him?</p> + +<p>13:10 He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.</p> + +<p>13:11 Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall +upon you?</p> + +<p>13:12 Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies +of clay.</p> + +<p>13:13 Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come +on me what will.</p> + +<p>13:14 Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in +mine hand?</p> + +<p>13:15 Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will +maintain mine own ways before him.</p> + +<p>13:16 He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come +before him.</p> + +<p>13:17 Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.</p> + +<p>13:18 Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be +justified.</p> + +<p>13:19 Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my +tongue, I shall give up the ghost.</p> + +<p>13:20 Only do not two things unto me: then will I not hide myself +from thee.</p> + +<p>13:21 Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me +afraid.</p> + +<p>13:22 Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer +thou me.</p> + +<p>13:23 How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my +transgression and my sin.</p> + +<p>13:24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine +enemy?</p> + +<p>13:25 Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue +the dry stubble?</p> + +<p>13:26 For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to +possess the iniquities of my youth.</p> + +<p>13:27 Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly +unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my +feet.</p> + +<p>13:28 And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is +moth eaten.</p> + +<a name="14" /></a><p>14:1 Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of +trouble.</p> + +<p>14:2 He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also +as a shadow, and continueth not.</p> + +<p>14:3 And doth thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest +me into judgment with thee?</p> + +<p>14:4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.</p> + +<p>14:5 Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are +with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;</p> + +<p>14:6 Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as +an hireling, his day.</p> + +<p>14:7 For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will +sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not +cease.</p> + +<p>14:8 Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock +thereof die in the ground;</p> + +<p>14:9 Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth +boughs like a plant.</p> + +<p>14:10 But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, +and where is he?</p> + +<p>14:11 As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and +drieth up:</p> + +<p>14:12 So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no +more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.</p> + +<p>14:13 O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest +keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest +appoint me a set time, and remember me!</p> + +<p>14:14 If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my +appointed time will I wait, till my change come.</p> + +<p>14:15 Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a +desire to the work of thine hands.</p> + +<p>14:16 For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my +sin?</p> + +<p>14:17 My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up +mine iniquity.</p> + +<p>14:18 And surely the mountains falling cometh to nought, and the +rock is removed out of his place.</p> + +<p>14:19 The waters wear the stones: thou washest away the things which +grow out of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the +hope of man.</p> + +<p>14:20 Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou +changest his countenance, and sendest him away.</p> + +<p>14:21 His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are +brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.</p> + +<p>14:22 But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within +him shall mourn.</p> + +<a name="15" /></a><p>15:1 Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,</p> + +<p>15:2 Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly +with the east wind?</p> + +<p>15:3 Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches +wherewith he can do no good?</p> + +<p>15:4 Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.</p> + +<p>15:5 For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the +tongue of the crafty.</p> + +<p>15:6 Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own +lips testify against thee.</p> + +<p>15:7 Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before +the hills?</p> + +<p>15:8 Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain +wisdom to thyself?</p> + +<p>15:9 What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, +which is not in us?</p> + +<p>15:10 With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder +than thy father.</p> + +<p>15:11 Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any +secret thing with thee?</p> + +<p>15:12 Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes +wink at,</p> + +<p>15:13 That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such +words go out of thy mouth?</p> + +<p>15:14 What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of +a woman, that he should be righteous?</p> + +<p>15:15 Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens +are not clean in his sight.</p> + +<p>15:16 How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh +iniquity like water?</p> + +<p>15:17 I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will +declare;</p> + +<p>15:18 Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid +it:</p> + +<p>15:19 Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed +among them.</p> + +<p>15:20 The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the +number of years is hidden to the oppressor.</p> + +<p>15:21 A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer +shall come upon him.</p> + +<p>15:22 He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he +is waited for of the sword.</p> + +<p>15:23 He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth +that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.</p> + +<p>15:24 Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail +against him, as a king ready to the battle.</p> + +<p>15:25 For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth +himself against the Almighty.</p> + +<p>15:26 He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses +of his bucklers:</p> + +<p>15:27 Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh +collops of fat on his flanks.</p> + +<p>15:28 And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man +inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.</p> + +<p>15:29 He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, +neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the +earth.</p> + +<p>15:30 He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up +his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.</p> + +<p>15:31 Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall +be his recompence.</p> + +<p>15:32 It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall +not be green.</p> + +<p>15:33 He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall +cast off his flower as the olive.</p> + +<p>15:34 For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire +shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.</p> + +<p>15:35 They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their +belly prepareth deceit.</p> + +<a name="16" /></a><p>16:1 Then Job answered and said,</p> + +<p>16:2 I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye +all.</p> + +<p>16:3 Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that +thou answerest?</p> + +<p>16:4 I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's +stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head +at you.</p> + +<p>16:5 But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my +lips should asswage your grief.</p> + +<p>16:6 Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I +forbear, what am I eased?</p> + +<p>16:7 But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my +company.</p> + +<p>16:8 And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness +against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to +my face.</p> + +<p>16:9 He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me +with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.</p> + +<p>16:10 They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me +upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves +together against me.</p> + +<p>16:11 God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into +the hands of the wicked.</p> + +<p>16:12 I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also +taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up +for his mark.</p> + +<p>16:13 His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins +asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the +ground.</p> + +<p>16:14 He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me +like a giant.</p> + +<p>16:15 I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in +the dust.</p> + +<p>16:16 My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow +of death;</p> + +<p>16:17 Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.</p> + +<p>16:18 O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no +place.</p> + +<p>16:19 Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on +high.</p> + +<p>16:20 My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.</p> + +<p>16:21 O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth +for his neighbour!</p> + +<p>16:22 When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I +shall not return.</p> + +<a name="17" /></a><p>17:1 My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are +ready for me.</p> + +<p>17:2 Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue +in their provocation?</p> + +<p>17:3 Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that +will strike hands with me?</p> + +<p>17:4 For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore +shalt thou not exalt them.</p> + +<p>17:5 He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his +children shall fail.</p> + +<p>17:6 He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I +was as a tabret.</p> + +<p>17:7 Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members +are as a shadow.</p> + +<p>17:8 Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall +stir up himself against the hypocrite.</p> + +<p>17:9 The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath +clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.</p> + +<p>17:10 But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot +find one wise man among you.</p> + +<p>17:11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the +thoughts of my heart.</p> + +<p>17:12 They change the night into day: the light is short because of +darkness.</p> + +<p>17:13 If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the +darkness.</p> + +<p>17:14 I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, +Thou art my mother, and my sister.</p> + +<p>17:15 And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?</p> + +<p>17:16 They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest +together is in the dust.</p> + +<a name="18" /></a><p>18:1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,</p> + +<p>18:2 How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and +afterwards we will speak.</p> + +<p>18:3 Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your +sight?</p> + +<p>18:4 He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken +for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?</p> + +<p>18:5 Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark +of his fire shall not shine.</p> + +<p>18:6 The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle +shall be put out with him.</p> + +<p>18:7 The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own +counsel shall cast him down.</p> + +<p>18:8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon +a snare.</p> + +<p>18:9 The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall +prevail against him.</p> + +<p>18:10 The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in +the way.</p> + +<p>18:11 Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive +him to his feet.</p> + +<p>18:12 His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be +ready at his side.</p> + +<p>18:13 It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn +of death shall devour his strength.</p> + +<p>18:14 His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it +shall bring him to the king of terrors.</p> + +<p>18:15 It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: +brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.</p> + +<p>18:16 His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his +branch be cut off.</p> + +<p>18:17 His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have +no name in the street.</p> + +<p>18:18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of +the world.</p> + +<p>18:19 He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any +remaining in his dwellings.</p> + +<p>18:20 They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they +that went before were affrighted.</p> + +<p>18:21 Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the +place of him that knoweth not God.</p> + +<a name="19" /></a><p>19:1 Then Job answered and said,</p> + +<p>19:2 How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with +words?</p> + +<p>19:3 These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that +ye make yourselves strange to me.</p> + +<p>19:4 And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with +myself.</p> + +<p>19:5 If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead +against me my reproach:</p> + +<p>19:6 Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me +with his net.</p> + +<p>19:7 Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, +but there is no judgment.</p> + +<p>19:8 He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set +darkness in my paths.</p> + +<p>19:9 He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my +head.</p> + +<p>19:10 He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine +hope hath he removed like a tree.</p> + +<p>19:11 He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me +unto him as one of his enemies.</p> + +<p>19:12 His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, +and encamp round about my tabernacle.</p> + +<p>19:13 He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are +verily estranged from me.</p> + +<p>19:14 My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have +forgotten me.</p> + +<p>19:15 They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a +stranger: I am an alien in their sight.</p> + +<p>19:16 I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him +with my mouth.</p> + +<p>19:17 My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the +children's sake of mine own body.</p> + +<p>19:18 Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake +against me.</p> + +<p>19:19 All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are +turned against me.</p> + +<p>19:20 My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped +with the skin of my teeth.</p> + +<p>19:21 Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the +hand of God hath touched me.</p> + +<p>19:22 Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my +flesh?</p> + +<p>19:23 Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed +in a book!</p> + +<p>19:24 That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock +for ever!</p> + +<p>19:25 For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at +the latter day upon the earth:</p> + +<p>19:26 And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my +flesh shall I see God:</p> + +<p>19:27 Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and +not another; though my reins be consumed within me.</p> + +<p>19:28 But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of +the matter is found in me?</p> + +<p>19:29 Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments +of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.</p> + +<a name="20" /></a><p>20:1 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,</p> + +<p>20:2 Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I +make haste.</p> + +<p>20:3 I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my +understanding causeth me to answer.</p> + +<p>20:4 Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,</p> + +<p>20:5 That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the +hypocrite but for a moment?</p> + +<p>20:6 Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head +reach unto the clouds;</p> + +<p>20:7 Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which +have seen him shall say, Where is he?</p> + +<p>20:8 He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he +shall be chased away as a vision of the night.</p> + +<p>20:9 The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither +shall his place any more behold him.</p> + +<p>20:10 His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands +shall restore their goods.</p> + +<p>20:11 His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie +down with him in the dust.</p> + +<p>20:12 Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it +under his tongue;</p> + +<p>20:13 Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still +within his mouth:</p> + +<p>20:14 Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps +within him.</p> + +<p>20:15 He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up +again: God shall cast them out of his belly.</p> + +<p>20:16 He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall +slay him.</p> + +<p>20:17 He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey +and butter.</p> + +<p>20:18 That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not +swallow it down: according to his substance shall the +restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein.</p> + +<p>20:19 Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because +he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;</p> + +<p>20:20 Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not +save of that which he desired.</p> + +<p>20:21 There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man +look for his goods.</p> + +<p>20:22 In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: +every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.</p> + +<p>20:23 When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of +his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is +eating.</p> + +<p>20:24 He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall +strike him through.</p> + +<p>20:25 It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering +sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him.</p> + +<p>20:26 All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not +blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left +in his tabernacle.</p> + +<p>20:27 The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise +up against him.</p> + +<p>20:28 The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall +flow away in the day of his wrath.</p> + +<p>20:29 This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage +appointed unto him by God.</p> + +<a name="21" /></a><p>21:1 But Job answered and said,</p> + +<p>21:2 Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.</p> + +<p>21:3 Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock +on.</p> + +<p>21:4 As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why +should not my spirit be troubled?</p> + +<p>21:5 Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.</p> + +<p>21:6 Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on +my flesh.</p> + +<p>21:7 Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in +power?</p> + +<p>21:8 Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their +offspring before their eyes.</p> + +<p>21:9 Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God +upon them.</p> + +<p>21:10 Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and +casteth not her calf.</p> + +<p>21:11 They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their +children dance.</p> + +<p>21:12 They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of +the organ.</p> + +<p>21:13 They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to +the grave.</p> + +<p>21:14 Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not +the knowledge of thy ways.</p> + +<p>21:15 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what +profit should we have, if we pray unto him?</p> + +<p>21:16 Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked +is far from me.</p> + +<p>21:17 How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft +cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows +in his anger.</p> + +<p>21:18 They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the +storm carrieth away.</p> + +<p>21:19 God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, +and he shall know it.</p> + +<p>21:20 His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the +wrath of the Almighty.</p> + +<p>21:21 For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the +number of his months is cut off in the midst?</p> + +<p>21:22 Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that +are high.</p> + +<p>21:23 One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and +quiet.</p> + +<p>21:24 His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with +marrow.</p> + +<p>21:25 And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never +eateth with pleasure.</p> + +<p>21:26 They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall +cover them.</p> + +<p>21:27 Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye +wrongfully imagine against me.</p> + +<p>21:28 For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are +the dwelling places of the wicked?</p> + +<p>21:29 Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know +their tokens,</p> + +<p>21:30 That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they +shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.</p> + +<p>21:31 Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him +what he hath done?</p> + +<p>21:32 Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the +tomb.</p> + +<p>21:33 The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man +shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.</p> + +<p>21:34 How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there +remaineth falsehood?</p> + +<a name="22" /></a><p>22:1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,</p> + +<p>22:2 Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be +profitable unto himself?</p> + +<p>22:3 Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? +or is it gain to him, that thou makest thy ways perfect?</p> + +<p>22:4 Will he reprove thee for fear of thee? will he enter with thee +into judgment?</p> + +<p>22:5 Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite?</p> + +<p>22:6 For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and +stripped the naked of their clothing.</p> + +<p>22:7 Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast +withholden bread from the hungry.</p> + +<p>22:8 But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the +honourable man dwelt in it.</p> + +<p>22:9 Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the +fatherless have been broken.</p> + +<p>22:10 Therefore snares are round about thee, and sudden fear +troubleth thee;</p> + +<p>22:11 Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters +cover thee.</p> + +<p>22:12 Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of +the stars, how high they are!</p> + +<p>22:13 And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the +dark cloud?</p> + +<p>22:14 Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he +walketh in the circuit of heaven.</p> + +<p>22:15 Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?</p> + +<p>22:16 Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was +overflown with a flood:</p> + +<p>22:17 Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty +do for them?</p> + +<p>22:18 Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel +of the wicked is far from me.</p> + +<p>22:19 The righteous see it, and are glad: and the innocent laugh +them to scorn.</p> + +<p>22:20 Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them +the fire consumeth.</p> + +<p>22:21 Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good +shall come unto thee.</p> + +<p>22:22 Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his +words in thine heart.</p> + +<p>22:23 If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou +shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.</p> + +<p>22:24 Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as +the stones of the brooks.</p> + +<p>22:25 Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou shalt have +plenty of silver.</p> + +<p>22:26 For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and +shalt lift up thy face unto God.</p> + +<p>22:27 Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, +and thou shalt pay thy vows.</p> + +<p>22:28 Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established +unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.</p> + +<p>22:29 When men are cast down, then thou shalt say, There is lifting +up; and he shall save the humble person.</p> + +<p>22:30 He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is +delivered by the pureness of thine hands.</p> + +<a name="23" /></a><p>23:1 Then Job answered and said,</p> + +<p>23:2 Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than +my groaning.</p> + +<p>23:3 Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even +to his seat!</p> + +<p>23:4 I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with +arguments.</p> + +<p>23:5 I would know the words which he would answer me, and +understand what he would say unto me.</p> + +<p>23:6 Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he +would put strength in me.</p> + +<p>23:7 There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be +delivered for ever from my judge.</p> + +<p>23:8 Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I +cannot perceive him:</p> + +<p>23:9 On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: +he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him:</p> + +<p>23:10 But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I +shall come forth as gold.</p> + +<p>23:11 My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not +declined.</p> + +<p>23:12 Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I +have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary +food.</p> + +<p>23:13 But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul +desireth, even that he doeth.</p> + +<p>23:14 For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many +such things are with him.</p> + +<p>23:15 Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am +afraid of him.</p> + +<p>23:16 For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:</p> + +<p>23:17 Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he +covered the darkness from my face.</p> + +<a name="24" /></a><p>24:1 Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they +that know him not see his days?</p> + +<p>24:2 Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, +and feed thereof.</p> + +<p>24:3 They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the +widow's ox for a pledge.</p> + +<p>24:4 They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide +themselves together.</p> + +<p>24:5 Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their +work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food +for them and for their children.</p> + +<p>24:6 They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the +vintage of the wicked.</p> + +<p>24:7 They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have +no covering in the cold.</p> + +<p>24:8 They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace +the rock for want of a shelter.</p> + +<p>24:9 They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge +of the poor.</p> + +<p>24:10 They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take +away the sheaf from the hungry;</p> + +<p>24:11 Which make oil within their walls, and tread their +winepresses, and suffer thirst.</p> + +<p>24:12 Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded +crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.</p> + +<p>24:13 They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not +the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.</p> + +<p>24:14 The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, +and in the night is as a thief.</p> + +<p>24:15 The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, +saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.</p> + +<p>24:16 In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for +themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.</p> + +<p>24:17 For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one +know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.</p> + +<p>24:18 He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the +earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.</p> + +<p>24:19 Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave +those which have sinned.</p> + +<p>24:20 The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; +he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken +as a tree.</p> + +<p>24:21 He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not +good to the widow.</p> + +<p>24:22 He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and +no man is sure of life.</p> + +<p>24:23 Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; +yet his eyes are upon their ways.</p> + +<p>24:24 They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought +low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off +as the tops of the ears of corn.</p> + +<p>24:25 And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my +speech nothing worth?</p> + +<a name="25" /></a><p>25:1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,</p> + +<p>25:2 Dominion and fear are with him, he maketh peace in his high +places.</p> + +<p>25:3 Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth not his +light arise?</p> + +<p>25:4 How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean +that is born of a woman?</p> + +<p>25:5 Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars +are not pure in his sight.</p> + +<p>25:6 How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which +is a worm?</p> + +<a name="26" /></a><p>26:1 But Job answered and said,</p> + +<p>26:2 How hast thou helped him that is without power? how savest +thou the arm that hath no strength?</p> + +<p>26:3 How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom? and how hast +thou plentifully declared the thing as it is?</p> + +<p>26:4 To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from +thee?</p> + +<p>26:5 Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the +inhabitants thereof.</p> + +<p>26:6 Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.</p> + +<p>26:7 He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth +the earth upon nothing.</p> + +<p>26:8 He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is +not rent under them.</p> + +<p>26:9 He holdeth back the face of his throne, and spreadeth his +cloud upon it.</p> + +<p>26:10 He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and +night come to an end.</p> + +<p>26:11 The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his +reproof.</p> + +<p>26:12 He divideth the sea with his power, and by his understanding +he smiteth through the proud.</p> + +<p>26:13 By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath +formed the crooked serpent.</p> + +<p>26:14 Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is +heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?</p> + +<a name="27" /></a><p>27:1 Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,</p> + +<p>27:2 As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment; and the +Almighty, who hath vexed my soul;</p> + +<p>27:3 All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in +my nostrils;</p> + +<p>27:4 My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter +deceit.</p> + +<p>27:5 God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not +remove mine integrity from me.</p> + +<p>27:6 My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart +shall not reproach me so long as I live.</p> + +<p>27:7 Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against +me as the unrighteous.</p> + +<p>27:8 For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, +when God taketh away his soul?</p> + +<p>27:9 Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him?</p> + +<p>27:10 Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call +upon God?</p> + +<p>27:11 I will teach you by the hand of God: that which is with the +Almighty will I not conceal.</p> + +<p>27:12 Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye thus +altogether vain?</p> + +<p>27:13 This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage +of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty.</p> + +<p>27:14 If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his +offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.</p> + +<p>27:15 Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his +widows shall not weep.</p> + +<p>27:16 Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as +the clay;</p> + +<p>27:17 He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the +innocent shall divide the silver.</p> + +<p>27:18 He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth that the +keeper maketh.</p> + +<p>27:19 The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he +openeth his eyes, and he is not.</p> + +<p>27:20 Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him +away in the night.</p> + +<p>27:21 The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a +storm hurleth him out of his place.</p> + +<p>27:22 For God shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee +out of his hand.</p> + +<p>27:23 Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of +his place.</p> + +<a name="28" /></a><p>28:1 Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold +where they fine it.</p> + +<p>28:2 Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the +stone.</p> + +<p>28:3 He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all +perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.</p> + +<p>28:4 The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; even the waters +forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away +from men.</p> + +<p>28:5 As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is +turned up as it were fire.</p> + +<p>28:6 The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust +of gold.</p> + +<p>28:7 There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's +eye hath not seen:</p> + +<p>28:8 The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion +passed by it.</p> + +<p>28:9 He putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he overturneth the +mountains by the roots.</p> + +<p>28:10 He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every +precious thing.</p> + +<p>28:11 He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and the thing that is +hid bringeth he forth to light.</p> + +<p>28:12 But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of +understanding?</p> + +<p>28:13 Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the +land of the living.</p> + +<p>28:14 The depth saith, It is not in me: and the sea saith, It is not +with me.</p> + +<p>28:15 It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed +for the price thereof.</p> + +<p>28:16 It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious +onyx, or the sapphire.</p> + +<p>28:17 The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of +it shall not be for jewels of fine gold.</p> + +<p>28:18 No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price +of wisdom is above rubies.</p> + +<p>28:19 The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be +valued with pure gold.</p> + +<p>28:20 Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of +understanding?</p> + +<p>28:21 Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close +from the fowls of the air.</p> + +<p>28:22 Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with +our ears.</p> + +<p>28:23 God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place +thereof.</p> + +<p>28:24 For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the +whole heaven;</p> + +<p>28:25 To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters +by measure.</p> + +<p>28:26 When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the +lightning of the thunder:</p> + +<p>28:27 Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and +searched it out.</p> + +<p>28:28 And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the LORD, that is +wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.</p> + +<a name="29" /></a><p>29:1 Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,</p> + +<p>29:2 Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God +preserved me;</p> + +<p>29:3 When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I +walked through darkness;</p> + +<p>29:4 As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was +upon my tabernacle;</p> + +<p>29:5 When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about +me;</p> + +<p>29:6 When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out +rivers of oil;</p> + +<p>29:7 When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared +my seat in the street!</p> + +<p>29:8 The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, +and stood up.</p> + +<p>29:9 The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their +mouth.</p> + +<p>29:10 The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the +roof of their mouth.</p> + +<p>29:11 When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye +saw me, it gave witness to me:</p> + +<p>29:12 Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, +and him that had none to help him.</p> + +<p>29:13 The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and +I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.</p> + +<p>29:14 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as +a robe and a diadem.</p> + +<p>29:15 I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.</p> + +<p>29:16 I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I +searched out.</p> + +<p>29:17 And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out +of his teeth.</p> + +<p>29:18 Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my +days as the sand.</p> + +<p>29:19 My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all +night upon my branch.</p> + +<p>29:20 My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.</p> + +<p>29:21 Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my +counsel.</p> + +<p>29:22 After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped +upon them.</p> + +<p>29:23 And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their +mouth wide as for the latter rain.</p> + +<p>29:24 If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of +my countenance they cast not down.</p> + +<p>29:25 I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in +the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.</p> + +<a name="30" /></a><p>30:1 But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, +whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs +of my flock.</p> + +<p>30:2 Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in +whom old age was perished?</p> + +<p>30:3 For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the +wilderness in former time desolate and waste.</p> + +<p>30:4 Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their +meat.</p> + +<p>30:5 They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them +as after a thief;)</p> + +<p>30:6 To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, in caves of the earth, +and in the rocks.</p> + +<p>30:7 Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were +gathered together.</p> + +<p>30:8 They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they +were viler than the earth.</p> + +<p>30:9 And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.</p> + +<p>30:10 They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in +my face.</p> + +<p>30:11 Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have +also let loose the bridle before me.</p> + +<p>30:12 Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and +they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.</p> + +<p>30:13 They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no +helper.</p> + +<p>30:14 They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the +desolation they rolled themselves upon me.</p> + +<p>30:15 Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: +and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.</p> + +<p>30:16 And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction +have taken hold upon me.</p> + +<p>30:17 My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews +take no rest.</p> + +<p>30:18 By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it +bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.</p> + +<p>30:19 He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and +ashes.</p> + +<p>30:20 I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and +thou regardest me not.</p> + +<p>30:21 Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou +opposest thyself against me.</p> + +<p>30:22 Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon +it, and dissolvest my substance.</p> + +<p>30:23 For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house +appointed for all living.</p> + +<p>30:24 Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though +they cry in his destruction.</p> + +<p>30:25 Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul +grieved for the poor?</p> + +<p>30:26 When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I +waited for light, there came darkness.</p> + +<p>30:27 My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction +prevented me.</p> + +<p>30:28 I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in +the congregation.</p> + +<p>30:29 I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.</p> + +<p>30:30 My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.</p> + +<p>30:31 My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the +voice of them that weep.</p> + +<a name="31" /></a><p>31:1 I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon +a maid?</p> + +<p>31:2 For what portion of God is there from above? and what +inheritance of the Almighty from on high?</p> + +<p>31:3 Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to +the workers of iniquity?</p> + +<p>31:4 Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?</p> + +<p>31:5 If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to +deceit;</p> + +<p>31:6 Let me be weighed in an even balance that God may know mine +integrity.</p> + +<p>31:7 If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked +after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands;</p> + +<p>31:8 Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be +rooted out.</p> + +<p>31:9 If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid +wait at my neighbour's door;</p> + +<p>31:10 Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down +upon her.</p> + +<p>31:11 For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be +punished by the judges.</p> + +<p>31:12 For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root +out all mine increase.</p> + +<p>31:13 If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my +maidservant, when they contended with me;</p> + +<p>31:14 What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, +what shall I answer him?</p> + +<p>31:15 Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one +fashion us in the womb?</p> + +<p>31:16 If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused +the eyes of the widow to fail;</p> + +<p>31:17 Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath +not eaten thereof;</p> + +<p>31:18 (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a +father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;)</p> + +<p>31:19 If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor +without covering;</p> + +<p>31:20 If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed +with the fleece of my sheep;</p> + +<p>31:21 If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw +my help in the gate:</p> + +<p>31:22 Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be +broken from the bone.</p> + +<p>31:23 For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of +his highness I could not endure.</p> + +<p>31:24 If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, +Thou art my confidence;</p> + +<p>31:25 If I rejoice because my wealth was great, and because mine +hand had gotten much;</p> + +<p>31:26 If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in +brightness;</p> + +<p>31:27 And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath +kissed my hand:</p> + +<p>31:28 This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I +should have denied the God that is above.</p> + +<p>31:29 If I rejoice at the destruction of him that hated me, or +lifted up myself when evil found him:</p> + +<p>31:30 Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to +his soul.</p> + +<p>31:31 If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his +flesh! we cannot be satisfied.</p> + +<p>31:32 The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my +doors to the traveller.</p> + +<p>31:33 If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine +iniquity in my bosom:</p> + +<p>31:34 Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families +terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door?</p> + +<p>31:35 Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the +Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written +a book.</p> + +<p>31:36 Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a +crown to me.</p> + +<p>31:37 I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince +would I go near unto him.</p> + +<p>31:38 If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise +thereof complain;</p> + +<p>31:39 If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have +caused the owners thereof to lose their life:</p> + +<p>31:40 Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of +barley. The words of Job are ended.</p> + +<a name="32" /></a><p>32:1 So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was +righteous in his own eyes.</p> + +<p>32:2 Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the +Buzite, of the kindred of Ram: against Job was his wrath +kindled, because he justified himself rather than God.</p> + +<p>32:3 Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because +they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.</p> + +<p>32:4 Now Elihu had waited till Job had spoken, because they were +elder than he.</p> + +<p>32:5 When Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these +three men, then his wrath was kindled.</p> + +<p>32:6 And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I +am young, and ye are very old; wherefore I was afraid, and +durst not shew you mine opinion.</p> + +<p>32:7 I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach +wisdom.</p> + +<p>32:8 But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the +Almighty giveth them understanding.</p> + +<p>32:9 Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand +judgment.</p> + +<p>32:10 Therefore I said, Hearken to me; I also will shew mine +opinion.</p> + +<p>32:11 Behold, I waited for your words; I gave ear to your reasons, +whilst ye searched out what to say.</p> + +<p>32:12 Yea, I attended unto you, and, behold, there was none of you +that convinced Job, or that answered his words:</p> + +<p>32:13 Lest ye should say, We have found out wisdom: God thrusteth +him down, not man.</p> + +<p>32:14 Now he hath not directed his words against me: neither will I +answer him with your speeches.</p> + +<p>32:15 They were amazed, they answered no more: they left off +speaking.</p> + +<p>32:16 When I had waited, (for they spake not, but stood still, and +answered no more;)</p> + +<p>32:17 I said, I will answer also my part, I also will shew mine +opinion.</p> + +<p>32:18 For I am full of matter, the spirit within me constraineth me.</p> + +<p>32:19 Behold, my belly is as wine which hath no vent; it is ready to +burst like new bottles.</p> + +<p>32:20 I will speak, that I may be refreshed: I will open my lips and +answer.</p> + +<p>32:21 Let me not, I pray you, accept any man's person, neither let +me give flattering titles unto man.</p> + +<p>32:22 For I know not to give flattering titles; in so doing my maker +would soon take me away.</p> + +<a name="33" /></a><p>33:1 Wherefore, Job, I pray thee, hear my speeches, and hearken to +all my words.</p> + +<p>33:2 Behold, now I have opened my mouth, my tongue hath spoken in +my mouth.</p> + +<p>33:3 My words shall be of the uprightness of my heart: and my lips +shall utter knowledge clearly.</p> + +<p>33:4 The spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty +hath given me life.</p> + +<p>33:5 If thou canst answer me, set thy words in order before me, +stand up.</p> + +<p>33:6 Behold, I am according to thy wish in God's stead: I also am +formed out of the clay.</p> + +<p>33:7 Behold, my terror shall not make thee afraid, neither shall my +hand be heavy upon thee.</p> + +<p>33:8 Surely thou hast spoken in mine hearing, and I have heard the +voice of thy words, saying,</p> + +<p>33:9 I am clean without transgression, I am innocent; neither is +there iniquity in me.</p> + +<p>33:10 Behold, he findeth occasions against me, he counteth me for +his enemy,</p> + +<p>33:11 He putteth my feet in the stocks, he marketh all my paths.</p> + +<p>33:12 Behold, in this thou art not just: I will answer thee, that +God is greater than man.</p> + +<p>33:13 Why dost thou strive against him? for he giveth not account of +any of his matters.</p> + +<p>33:14 For God speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not.</p> + +<p>33:15 In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth +upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;</p> + +<p>33:16 Then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their +instruction,</p> + +<p>33:17 That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from +man.</p> + +<p>33:18 He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from +perishing by the sword.</p> + +<p>33:19 He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude +of his bones with strong pain:</p> + +<p>33:20 So that his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty meat.</p> + +<p>33:21 His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his +bones that were not seen stick out.</p> + +<p>33:22 Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the +destroyers.</p> + +<p>33:23 If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a +thousand, to shew unto man his uprightness:</p> + +<p>33:24 Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from +going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.</p> + +<p>33:25 His flesh shall be fresher than a child's: he shall return to +the days of his youth:</p> + +<p>33:26 He shall pray unto God, and he will be favourable unto him: +and he shall see his face with joy: for he will render unto +man his righteousness.</p> + +<p>33:27 He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and +perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;</p> + +<p>33:28 He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life +shall see the light.</p> + +<p>33:29 Lo, all these things worketh God oftentimes with man,</p> + +<p>33:30 To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with +the light of the living.</p> + +<p>33:31 Mark well, O Job, hearken unto me: hold thy peace, and I will +speak.</p> + +<p>33:32 If thou hast anything to say, answer me: speak, for I desire +to justify thee.</p> + +<p>33:33 If not, hearken unto me: hold thy peace, and I shall teach +thee wisdom.</p> + +<a name="34" /></a><p>34:1 Furthermore Elihu answered and said,</p> + +<p>34:2 Hear my words, O ye wise men; and give ear unto me, ye that +have knowledge.</p> + +<p>34:3 For the ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat.</p> + +<p>34:4 Let us choose to us judgment: let us know among ourselves what +is good.</p> + +<p>34:5 For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my +judgment.</p> + +<p>34:6 Should I lie against my right? my wound is incurable without +transgression.</p> + +<p>34:7 What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?</p> + +<p>34:8 Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, and +walketh with wicked men.</p> + +<p>34:9 For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should +delight himself with God.</p> + +<p>34:10 Therefore hearken unto me ye men of understanding: far be it +from God, that he should do wickedness; and from the Almighty, +that he should commit iniquity.</p> + +<p>34:11 For the work of a man shall he render unto him, and cause +every man to find according to his ways.</p> + +<p>34:12 Yea, surely God will not do wickedly, neither will the +Almighty pervert judgment.</p> + +<p>34:13 Who hath given him a charge over the earth? or who hath +disposed the whole world?</p> + +<p>34:14 If he set his heart upon man, if he gather unto himself his +spirit and his breath;</p> + +<p>34:15 All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto +dust.</p> + +<p>34:16 If now thou hast understanding, hear this: hearken to the +voice of my words.</p> + +<p>34:17 Shall even he that hateth right govern? and wilt thou condemn +him that is most just?</p> + +<p>34:18 Is it fit to say to a king, Thou art wicked? and to princes, +Ye are ungodly?</p> + +<p>34:19 How much less to him that accepteth not the persons of +princes, nor regardeth the rich more than the poor? for they +all are the work of his hands.</p> + +<p>34:20 In a moment shall they die, and the people shall be troubled +at midnight, and pass away: and the mighty shall be taken away +without hand.</p> + +<p>34:21 For his eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his +goings.</p> + +<p>34:22 There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers +of iniquity may hide themselves.</p> + +<p>34:23 For he will not lay upon man more than right; that he should +enter into judgment with God.</p> + +<p>34:24 He shall break in pieces mighty men without number, and set +others in their stead.</p> + +<p>34:25 Therefore he knoweth their works, and he overturneth them in +the night, so that they are destroyed.</p> + +<p>34:26 He striketh them as wicked men in the open sight of others;</p> + +<p>34:27 Because they turned back from him, and would not consider any +of his ways:</p> + +<p>34:28 So that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto him, and +he heareth the cry of the afflicted.</p> + +<p>34:29 When he giveth quietness, who then can make trouble? and when +he hideth his face, who then can behold him? whether it be +done against a nation, or against a man only:</p> + +<p>34:30 That the hypocrite reign not, lest the people be ensnared.</p> + +<p>34:31 Surely it is meet to be said unto God, I have borne +chastisement, I will not offend any more:</p> + +<p>34:32 That which I see not teach thou me: if I have done iniquity, I +will do no more.</p> + +<p>34:33 Should it be according to thy mind? he will recompense it, +whether thou refuse, or whether thou choose; and not I: +therefore speak what thou knowest.</p> + +<p>34:34 Let men of understanding tell me, and let a wise man hearken +unto me.</p> + +<p>34:35 Job hath spoken without knowledge, and his words were without +wisdom.</p> + +<p>34:36 My desire is that Job may be tried unto the end because of his +answers for wicked men.</p> + +<p>34:37 For he addeth rebellion unto his sin, he clappeth his hands +among us, and multiplieth his words against God.</p> + +<a name="35" /></a><p>35:1 Elihu spake moreover, and said,</p> + +<p>35:2 Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My +righteousness is more than God's?</p> + +<p>35:3 For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, +What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?</p> + +<p>35:4 I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.</p> + +<p>35:5 Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which +are higher than thou.</p> + +<p>35:6 If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy +transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?</p> + +<p>35:7 If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth +he of thine hand?</p> + +<p>35:8 Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy +righteousness may profit the son of man.</p> + +<p>35:9 By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the +oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the +mighty.</p> + +<p>35:10 But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the +night;</p> + +<p>35:11 Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh +us wiser than the fowls of heaven?</p> + +<p>35:12 There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride +of evil men.</p> + +<p>35:13 Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty +regard it.</p> + +<p>35:14 Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is +before him; therefore trust thou in him.</p> + +<p>35:15 But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; +yet he knoweth it not in great extremity:</p> + +<p>35:16 Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth +words without knowledge.</p> + +<a name="36" /></a><p>36:1 Elihu also proceeded, and said,</p> + +<p>36:2 Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee that I have yet to +speak on God's behalf.</p> + +<p>36:3 I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe +righteousness to my Maker.</p> + +<p>36:4 For truly my words shall not be false: he that is perfect in +knowledge is with thee.</p> + +<p>36:5 Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any: he is mighty in +strength and wisdom.</p> + +<p>36:6 He preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth right to +the poor.</p> + +<p>36:7 He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings +are they on the throne; yea, he doth establish them for ever, +and they are exalted.</p> + +<p>36:8 And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of +affliction;</p> + +<p>36:9 Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions that +they have exceeded.</p> + +<p>36:10 He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that +they return from iniquity.</p> + +<p>36:11 If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in +prosperity, and their years in pleasures.</p> + +<p>36:12 But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they +shall die without knowledge.</p> + +<p>36:13 But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when +he bindeth them.</p> + +<p>36:14 They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean.</p> + +<p>36:15 He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their +ears in oppression.</p> + +<p>36:16 Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a +broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which +should be set on thy table should be full of fatness.</p> + +<p>36:17 But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment +and justice take hold on thee.</p> + +<p>36:18 Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his +stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.</p> + +<p>36:19 Will he esteem thy riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of +strength.</p> + +<p>36:20 Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.</p> + +<p>36:21 Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen +rather than affliction.</p> + +<p>36:22 Behold, God exalteth by his power: who teacheth like him?</p> + +<p>36:23 Who hath enjoined him his way? or who can say, Thou hast +wrought iniquity?</p> + +<p>36:24 Remember that thou magnify his work, which men behold.</p> + +<p>36:25 Every man may see it; man may behold it afar off.</p> + +<p>36:26 Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the +number of his years be searched out.</p> + +<p>36:27 For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain +according to the vapour thereof:</p> + +<p>36:28 Which the clouds do drop and distil upon man abundantly.</p> + +<p>36:29 Also can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the +noise of his tabernacle?</p> + +<p>36:30 Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the +bottom of the sea.</p> + +<p>36:31 For by them judgeth he the people; he giveth meat in +abundance.</p> + +<p>36:32 With clouds he covereth the light; and commandeth it not to +shine by the cloud that cometh betwixt.</p> + +<p>36:33 The noise thereof sheweth concerning it, the cattle also +concerning the vapour.</p> + +<a name="37" /></a><p>37:1 At this also my heart trembleth, and is moved out of his +place.</p> + +<p>37:2 Hear attentively the noise of his voice, and the sound that +goeth out of his mouth.</p> + +<p>37:3 He directeth it under the whole heaven, and his lightning unto +the ends of the earth.</p> + +<p>37:4 After it a voice roareth: he thundereth with the voice of his +excellency; and he will not stay them when his voice is heard.</p> + +<p>37:5 God thundereth marvellously with his voice; great things doeth +he, which we cannot comprehend.</p> + +<p>37:6 For he saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth; likewise to +the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength.</p> + +<p>37:7 He sealeth up the hand of every man; that all men may know his +work.</p> + +<p>37:8 Then the beasts go into dens, and remain in their places.</p> + +<p>37:9 Out of the south cometh the whirlwind: and cold out of the +north.</p> + +<p>37:10 By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the +waters is straitened.</p> + +<p>37:11 Also by watering he wearieth the thick cloud: he scattereth +his bright cloud:</p> + +<p>37:12 And it is turned round about by his counsels: that they may do +whatsoever he commandeth them upon the face of the world in +the earth.</p> + +<p>37:13 He causeth it to come, whether for correction, or for his +land, or for mercy.</p> + +<p>37:14 Hearken unto this, O Job: stand still, and consider the +wondrous works of God.</p> + +<p>37:15 Dost thou know when God disposed them, and caused the light of +his cloud to shine?</p> + +<p>37:16 Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous +works of him which is perfect in knowledge?</p> + +<p>37:17 How thy garments are warm, when he quieteth the earth by the +south wind?</p> + +<p>37:18 Hast thou with him spread out the sky, which is strong, and as +a molten looking glass?</p> + +<p>37:19 Teach us what we shall say unto him; for we cannot order our +speech by reason of darkness.</p> + +<p>37:20 Shall it be told him that I speak? if a man speak, surely he +shall be swallowed up.</p> + +<p>37:21 And now men see not the bright light which is in the clouds: +but the wind passeth, and cleanseth them.</p> + +<p>37:22 Fair weather cometh out of the north: with God is terrible +majesty.</p> + +<p>37:23 Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out: he is excellent +in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice: he will +not afflict.</p> + +<p>37:24 Men do therefore fear him: he respecteth not any that are wise +of heart.</p> + +<a name="38" /></a><p>38:1 Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,</p> + +<p>38:2 Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?</p> + +<p>38:3 Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, +and answer thou me.</p> + +<p>38:4 Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? +declare, if thou hast understanding.</p> + +<p>38:5 Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who +hath stretched the line upon it?</p> + +<p>38:6 Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid +the corner stone thereof;</p> + +<p>38:7 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God +shouted for joy?</p> + +<p>38:8 Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if +it had issued out of the womb?</p> + +<p>38:9 When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness +a swaddlingband for it,</p> + +<p>38:10 And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,</p> + +<p>38:11 And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here +shall thy proud waves be stayed?</p> + +<p>38:12 Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the +dayspring to know his place;</p> + +<p>38:13 That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the +wicked might be shaken out of it?</p> + +<p>38:14 It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment.</p> + +<p>38:15 And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high +arm shall be broken.</p> + +<p>38:16 Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou +walked in the search of the depth?</p> + +<p>38:17 Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? or hast thou +seen the doors of the shadow of death?</p> + +<p>38:18 Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if thou +knowest it all.</p> + +<p>38:19 Where is the way where light dwelleth? and as for darkness, +where is the place thereof,</p> + +<p>38:20 That thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof, and that +thou shouldest know the paths to the house thereof?</p> + +<p>38:21 Knowest thou it, because thou wast then born? or because the +number of thy days is great?</p> + +<p>38:22 Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? or hast thou +seen the treasures of the hail,</p> + +<p>38:23 Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the +day of battle and war?</p> + +<p>38:24 By what way is the light parted, which scattereth the east +wind upon the earth?</p> + +<p>38:25 Who hath divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, +or a way for the lightning of thunder;</p> + +<p>38:26 To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; on the +wilderness, wherein there is no man;</p> + +<p>38:27 To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud +of the tender herb to spring forth?</p> + +<p>38:28 Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew?</p> + +<p>38:29 Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, +who hath gendered it?</p> + +<p>38:30 The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep +is frozen.</p> + +<p>38:31 Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the +bands of Orion?</p> + +<p>38:32 Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou +guide Arcturus with his sons?</p> + +<p>38:33 Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set the +dominion thereof in the earth?</p> + +<p>38:34 Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of +waters may cover thee?</p> + +<p>38:35 Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go and say unto +thee, Here we are?</p> + +<p>38:36 Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? or who hath given +understanding to the heart?</p> + +<p>38:37 Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the +bottles of heaven,</p> + +<p>38:38 When the dust groweth into hardness, and the clods cleave fast +together?</p> + +<p>38:39 Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the appetite of +the young lions,</p> + +<p>38:40 When they couch in their dens, and abide in the covert to lie +in wait?</p> + +<p>38:41 Who provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones cry +unto God, they wander for lack of meat.</p> + +<a name="39" /></a><p>39:1 Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring +forth? or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?</p> + +<p>39:2 Canst thou number the months that they fulfil? or knowest thou +the time when they bring forth?</p> + +<p>39:3 They bow themselves, they bring forth their young ones, they +cast out their sorrows.</p> + +<p>39:4 Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; +they go forth, and return not unto them.</p> + +<p>39:5 Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the +bands of the wild ass?</p> + +<p>39:6 Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land +his dwellings.</p> + +<p>39:7 He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he +the crying of the driver.</p> + +<p>39:8 The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth +after every green thing.</p> + +<p>39:9 Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy +crib?</p> + +<p>39:10 Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or +will he harrow the valleys after thee?</p> + +<p>39:11 Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great? or wilt +thou leave thy labour to him?</p> + +<p>39:12 Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring home thy seed, and +gather it into thy barn?</p> + +<p>39:13 Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and +feathers unto the ostrich?</p> + +<p>39:14 Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust,</p> + +<p>39:15 And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild +beast may break them.</p> + +<p>39:16 She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were +not her's: her labour is in vain without fear;</p> + +<p>39:17 Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he +imparted to her understanding.</p> + +<p>39:18 What time she lifteth up herself on high, she scorneth the +horse and his rider.</p> + +<p>39:19 Hast thou given the horse strength? hast thou clothed his neck +with thunder?</p> + +<p>39:20 Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? the glory of his +nostrils is terrible.</p> + +<p>39:21 He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: he +goeth on to meet the armed men.</p> + +<p>39:22 He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted; neither turneth he +back from the sword.</p> + +<p>39:23 The quiver rattleth against him, the glittering spear and the +shield.</p> + +<p>39:24 He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage: neither +believeth he that it is the sound of the trumpet.</p> + +<p>39:25 He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha; and he smelleth the +battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the +shouting.</p> + +<p>39:26 Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom, and stretch her wings toward +the south?</p> + +<p>39:27 Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on +high?</p> + +<p>39:28 She dwelleth and abideth on the rock, upon the crag of the +rock, and the strong place.</p> + +<p>39:29 From thence she seeketh the prey, and her eyes behold afar +off.</p> + +<p>39:30 Her young ones also suck up blood: and where the slain are, +there is she.</p> + +<a name="40" /></a><p>40:1 Moreover the LORD answered Job, and said,</p> + +<p>40:2 Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct him? he +that reproveth God, let him answer it.</p> + +<p>40:3 Then Job answered the LORD, and said,</p> + +<p>40:4 Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine +hand upon my mouth.</p> + +<p>40:5 Once have I spoken; but I will not answer: yea, twice; but I +will proceed no further.</p> + +<p>40:6 Then answered the LORD unto Job out of the whirlwind, and +said,</p> + +<p>40:7 Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and +declare thou unto me.</p> + +<p>40:8 Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, +that thou mayest be righteous?</p> + +<p>40:9 Hast thou an arm like God? or canst thou thunder with a voice +like him?</p> + +<p>40:10 Deck thyself now with majesty and excellency; and array +thyself with glory and beauty.</p> + +<p>40:11 Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath: and behold every one that +is proud, and abase him.</p> + +<p>40:12 Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread +down the wicked in their place.</p> + +<p>40:13 Hide them in the dust together; and bind their faces in +secret.</p> + +<p>40:14 Then will I also confess unto thee that thine own right hand +can save thee.</p> + +<p>40:15 Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass +as an ox.</p> + +<p>40:16 Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the +navel of his belly.</p> + +<p>40:17 He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are +wrapped together.</p> + +<p>40:18 His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like +bars of iron.</p> + +<p>40:19 He is the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make +his sword to approach unto him.</p> + +<p>40:20 Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the +beasts of the field play.</p> + +<p>40:21 He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and +fens.</p> + +<p>40:22 The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of +the brook compass him about.</p> + +<p>40:23 Behold, he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not: he trusteth +that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth.</p> + +<p>40:24 He taketh it with his eyes: his nose pierceth through snares.</p> + +<a name="41" /></a><p>41:1 Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with +a cord which thou lettest down?</p> + +<p>41:2 Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through +with a thorn?</p> + +<p>41:3 Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft +words unto thee?</p> + +<p>41:4 Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a +servant for ever?</p> + +<p>41:5 Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him +for thy maidens?</p> + +<p>41:6 Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part +him among the merchants?</p> + +<p>41:7 Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with +fish spears?</p> + +<p>41:8 Lay thine hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more.</p> + +<p>41:9 Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not one be cast down +even at the sight of him?</p> + +<p>41:10 None is so fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to +stand before me?</p> + +<p>41:11 Who hath prevented me, that I should repay him? whatsoever is +under the whole heaven is mine.</p> + +<p>41:12 I will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely +proportion.</p> + +<p>41:13 Who can discover the face of his garment? or who can come to +him with his double bridle?</p> + +<p>41:14 Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible +round about.</p> + +<p>41:15 His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close +seal.</p> + +<p>41:16 One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.</p> + +<p>41:17 They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they +cannot be sundered.</p> + +<p>41:18 By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the +eyelids of the morning.</p> + +<p>41:19 Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap +out.</p> + +<p>41:20 Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot or +caldron.</p> + +<p>41:21 His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.</p> + +<p>41:22 In his neck remaineth strength, and sorrow is turned into joy +before him.</p> + +<p>41:23 The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in +themselves; they cannot be moved.</p> + +<p>41:24 His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of +the nether millstone.</p> + +<p>41:25 When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason +of breakings they purify themselves.</p> + +<p>41:26 The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold: the spear, +the dart, nor the habergeon.</p> + +<p>41:27 He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.</p> + +<p>41:28 The arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones are turned with +him into stubble.</p> + +<p>41:29 Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the shaking of a +spear.</p> + +<p>41:30 Sharp stones are under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things +upon the mire.</p> + +<p>41:31 He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like +a pot of ointment.</p> + +<p>41:32 He maketh a path to shine after him; one would think the deep +to be hoary.</p> + +<p>41:33 Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear.</p> + +<p>41:34 He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the +children of pride.</p> + +<a name="42" /></a><p>42:1 Then Job answered the LORD, and said,</p> + +<p>42:2 I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can +be withholden from thee.</p> + +<p>42:3 Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore +have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for +me, which I knew not.</p> + +<p>42:4 Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, +and declare thou unto me.</p> + +<p>42:5 I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine +eye seeth thee.</p> + +<p>42:6 Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.</p> + +<p>42:7 And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto +Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is +kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have +not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job +hath.</p> + +<p>42:8 Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and +go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt +offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will +I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye +have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my +servant Job.</p> + +<p>42:9 So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the +Naamathite went, and did according as the LORD commanded them: +the LORD also accepted Job.</p> + +<p>42:10 And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for +his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had +before.</p> + +<p>42:11 Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his +sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance +before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they +bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the +LORD had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of +money, and every one an earring of gold.</p> + +<p>42:12 So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his +beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six +thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand +she asses.</p> + +<p>42:13 He had also seven sons and three daughters.</p> + +<p>42:14 And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of +the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Kerenhappuch.</p> + +<p>42:15 And in all the land were no women found so fair as the +daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among +their brethren.</p> + +<p>42:16 After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his +sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.</p> + +<p>42:17 So Job died, being old and full of days.</p> + + +<a href="book17.htm">Previous</a> <a href="10900-h.htm">Home</a> <a href="book10.htm">Next</a> + +</td></tr> +</table> +</center> + +</body> +</html> + |