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It is uncertain who +was the writer of it. Some attribute it to Job himself; others to Moses, +or some one of the prophets. In the Hebrew it is written in verse, from +the beginning of the third chapter to the forty-second chapter. + + +Job Chapter 1 + +1:1. There was a man in the land of Hus, whose name was Job, and that +man was simple and upright, and fearing God, and avoiding evil. + +Hus... The land of Hus was a part of Edom; as appears from Lam. 4.21. +Ibid. Simple... That is, innocent, sincere, and without guile. + +1:2. And there were born to him seven sons and three daughters. + +1:3. And his possession was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand +camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a +family exceedingly great: and this man was great among all the people of +the east. + +1:4. And his sons went, and made a feast by houses, every one in his +day. And sending, they called their three sisters, to eat and drink with +them. + +And made a feast by houses... That is, each made a feast in his own +house and had his day, inviting the others, and their sisters. + +1:5. And when the days of their feasting were gone about, Job sent to +them, and sanctified them: and rising up early, offered holocausts for +every one of them. For he said: Lest perhaps my sons have sinned, and +have blessed God in their hearts. So did Job all days. + +Blessed... For greater horror of the very thought of blasphemy, the +scripture both here and ver. 11, and in the following chapter, ver. 5 +and 9, uses the word bless to signify its contrary. + +1:6. Now on a certain day, when the sons of God came to stand before the +Lord, Satan also was present among them. + +The sons of God... The angels.-Ibid. Satan also, etc.. This passage +represents to us in a figure, accommodated to the ways and +understandings of men, 1. The restless endeavours of Satan against the +servants of God; 2. That he can do nothing without God's permission; 3. +That God doth not permit him to tempt them above their strength: but +assists them by his divine grace in such manner, that the vain efforts +of the enemy only serve to illustrate their virtue and increase their +merit. + +1:7. And the Lord said to him: Whence comest thou? And he answered and +said: I have gone round about the earth, and walked through it. + +1:8. And the Lord said to him: Hast thou considered my servant, Job, +that there is none like him in the earth, a simple and upright man, and +fearing God, and avoiding evil? + +1:9. And Satan answering, said: Doth Job fear God in vain? + +1:10. Hast thou not made a fence for him, and his house, and all his +substance round about, blessed the works of his hands, and his +possession hath increased on the earth? + +1:11. But stretch forth thy hand a little, and touch all that he hath, +and see if he bless thee not to thy face. + +1:12. Then the Lord said to Satan: Behold, all that he hath is in thy +hand: only put not forth thy hand upon his person. And Satan went forth +from the presence of the Lord. + +1:13. Now upon a certain day, when his sons and daughters were eating +and drinking wine, in the house of their eldest brother, + +1:14. There came a messenger to Job, and said: The oxen were ploughing, +and the asses feeding beside them, + +1:15. And the Sabeans rushed in, and took all away, and slew the +servants with the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell thee. + +1:16. And while he was yet speaking, another came, and said: The fire of +God fell from heaven, and striking the sheep and the servants, hath +consumed them; and I alone have escaped to tell thee. + +1:17. And while he also was yet speaking, there came another, and said: +The Chaldeans made three troops, and have fallen upon the camels, and +taken them; moreover, they have slain the servants with the sword: and I +alone have escaped to tell thee. + +1:18. He was yet speaking, and behold another came in, and said: Thy +sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in the house of their +eldest brother, + +1:19. A violent wind came on a sudden from the side of the desert, and +shook the four corners of the house, and it fell upon thy children, and +they are dead: and I alone have escaped to tell thee. + +1:20. Then Job rose up, and rent his garments, and having shaven his +head, fell down upon the ground, and worshipped, + +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: as it hath +pleased the Lord, so is it done: blessed be the name of the Lord. + +1:22. In all these things Job sinned not by his lips, nor spoke he any +foolish thing against God. + +Job Chapter 2 + +2:1. And it came to pass, when on a certain day the sons of God came, +and stood before the Lord, and Satan came amongst them, and stood in his +sight, + +2:2. That the Lord said to Satan: Whence comest thou? And he answered, +and said: I have gone round about the earth, and walked through it. + +2:3. And the Lord said to Satan: Hast thou considered my servant, Job, +that there is none like him in the earth, a man simple and upright, and +fearing God, and avoiding evil, and still keeping his innocence? But +thou hast moved me against him, that I should afflict him without cause. + +2:4. And Satan answered, and said: Skin for skin; and all that a man +hath, he will give for his life: + +2:5. But put forth thy hand, and touch his bone and his flesh, and then +thou shalt see that he will bless thee to thy face. + +2:6. And the Lord said to Satan: Behold, he is in thy hand, but yet save +his life. + +2:7. So Satan went forth from the presence of the Lord, and struck Job +with a very grievous ulcer, from the sole of the foot even to the top of +his head: + +2:8. And he took a potsherd and scraped the corrupt matter, sitting on a +dunghill. + +2:9. And his wife said to him: Dost thou still continue in thy +simplicity? bless God and die. + +2:10. And he said to her: Thou hast spoken like one of the foolish +women: If we have received good things at the hand of God, why should we +not receive evil? In all these things Job did not sin with his lips. + +2:11. Now when Job's three friends heard all the evil that had befallen +him, they came every one from his own place, Eliphaz, the Themanite, and +Baldad, the Suhite, and Sophar, the Naamathite. For they had made an +appointment to come together and visit him, and comfort him. + +2:12. And when they had lifted up their eyes afar off, they knew him +not, and crying out, they wept, and rending their garments, they +sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven. + +2:13. And they sat with him on the ground seven day and seven nights and +no man spoke to him a word: for they saw that his grief was very great. + +Job Chapter 3 + +3:1. After this, Job opened his mouth, and cursed his day, + +Cursed his day... Job cursed the day of his birth, not by way of wishing +evil to any thing of God's creation; but only to express in a stronger +manner his sense of human miseries in general, and of his own calamities +in particular. + +3:2. And he said: + +3:3. Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it +was said: A man child is conceived. + +3:4. Let that day be turned into darkness, let not God regard it from +above, and let not the light shine upon it. + +3:5. Let darkness, and the shadow of death, cover it, let a mist +overspread it, and let it be wrapped up in bitterness. + +3:6. Let a darksome whirlwind seize upon that night, let it not be +counted in the days of the year, nor numbered in the months. + +3:7. Let that night be solitary, and not worthy of praise. + +3:8. Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to raise up a +leviathan: + +3:9. Let the stars be darkened with the mist thereof: let it expect +light, and not see it, nor the rising of the dawning of the day: + +3:10. Because it shut not up the doors of the womb that bore me, nor +took away evils from my eyes. + +3:11. Why did I not die in the womb? why did I not perish when I came +out of the belly? + +3:12. Why received upon the knees? why suckled at the breasts? + +3:13. For now I should have been asleep and still, and should have rest +in my sleep: + +3:14. With kings and consuls of the earth, who build themselves +solitudes: + +3:15. Or with princes, that possess gold, and fill their houses with +silver: + +3:16. Or as a hidden untimely birth, I should not be; or as they that, +being conceived, have not seen the light. + +3:17. There the wicked cease from tumult, and there the wearied in +strength are at rest. + +3:18. And they sometime bound together without disquiet, have not heard +the voice of the oppressor. + +3:19. The small and great are there, and the servant is free from his +master. + +3:20. Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life to them that +are in bitterness of soul? + +3:21. That look for death, and it cometh not, as they that dig for a +treasure: + +3:22. And they rejoice exceedingly when they have found the grave? + +3:23. To a man whose way is hidden, and God hath surrounded him with +darkness? + +3:24. Before I eat I sigh: and as overflowing waters, so is my roaring: + +3:25. For the fear which I feared, hath come upon me: and that which I +was afraid of, hath befallen me. + +3:26. Have I not dissembled? have I not kept silence? have I not been +quiet? and indignation is come upon me. + +Job Chapter 4 + +4:1. Then Eliphaz, the Themanite, answered, and said: + +4:2. If we begin to speak to thee, perhaps thou wilt take it ill; but +who can withhold the words he hath conceived? + +4:3. Behold thou hast taught many, and thou hast strengthened the weary +hands: + +4:4. Thy words have confirmed them that were staggering, and thou hast +strengthened the trembling knees: + +4:5. But now the scourge is come upon thee, and thou faintest: It hath +touched thee, and thou art troubled. + +4:6. Where is thy fear, thy fortitude, thy patience, and the perfection +of thy ways? + +4:7. Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished being innocent? or when +were the just destroyed? + +4:8. On the contrary, I have seen those who work iniquity, and sow +sorrows, and reap them, + +4:9. Perishing by the blast of God, and consumed by the spirit of his +wrath. + +4:10. The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the lioness, and the +teeth of the whelps of lions, are broken: + +4:11. The tiger hath perished for want of prey, and the young lions are +scattered abroad. + +4:12. Now there was a word spoken to me in private, and my ears by +stealth, as it were, received the veins of its whisper. + +4:13. In the horror of a vision by night, when deep sleep is wont to +hold men, + +4:14. Fear seized upon me, and trembling, and all my bones were +affrighted: + +4:15. And when a spirit passed before me, the hair of my flesh stood up. + +4:16. There stood one whose countenance I knew not, an image before my +eyes, and I heard the voice, as it were, of a gentle wind. + +4:17. Shall man be justified in comparison of God, or shall a man be +more pure than his maker? + +Shall man be justified in comparison of God, etc... These are the words +which Eliphaz had heard from an angel, which, ver. 15, he calls a +spirit. + +4:18. Behold, they that serve him are not steadfast, and in his angels +he found wickedness: + +4:19. How much more shall they that dwell in houses of clay, who have an +earthly foundation, be consumed as with the moth? + +4:20. From morning till evening they shall be cut down: and because no +one understandeth, they shall perish for ever. + +4:21. And they that shall be left, shall be taken away from them: they +shall die, and not in wisdom. + +Job Chapter 5 + +5:1. Call now, if there be any that will answer thee, and turn to some +of the saints. + +5:2. Anger indeed killeth the foolish, and envy slayeth the little one. + +5:3. I have seen a fool with a strong root, and I cursed his beauty +immediately. + +5:4. His children shall be far from safety, and shall be destroyed in +the gate, and there shall be none to deliver them. + +5:5. Whose harvest the hungry shall eat, and the armed man shall take +him by violence, and the thirsty shall drink up his riches. + +5:6. Nothing upon earth is done without a cause, and sorrow doth not +spring out of the ground. + +5:7. Man is born to labour, and the bird to fly. + +5:8. Wherefore I will pray to the Lord, and address my speech to God: + +5:9. Who doth great things, and unsearchable and wonderful things +without number: + +5:10. Who giveth rain upon the face of the earth, and watereth all +things with waters: + +5:11. Who setteth up the humble on high, and comforteth with health +those that mourn. + +5:12. Who bringeth to nought the designs of the malignant, so that their +hands cannot accomplish what they had begun: + +5:13. Who catcheth the wise in their craftiness, and disappointeth the +counsel of the wicked: + +5:14. They shall meet with darkness in the day, and grope at noonday as +in the night. + +5:15. But he shall save the needy from the sword of their mouth, and the +poor from the hand of the violent. + +5:16. And to the needy there shall be hope, but iniquity shall draw in +her mouth. + +5:17. Blessed is the man whom God correcteth: refuse not, therefore, the +chastising of the Lord. + +5:18. For he woundeth, and cureth: he striketh, and his hands shall +heal. + +5:19. In six troubles he shall deliver thee, and in the seventh, evil +shall not touch thee. + +5:20. In famine he shall deliver thee from death; and in battle, from +the hand of the sword. + +5:21. Thou shalt be hidden from the scourge of the tongue: and thou +shalt not fear calamity when it cometh. + +5:22. In destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: and thou shalt not be +afraid of the beasts of the earth. + +5:23. But thou shalt have a covenant with the stones of the lands, and +the beasts of the earth shall be at peace with thee. + +5:24. And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle is in peace, and visiting +thy beauty, thou shalt not sin. + +5:25. Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be multiplied, and thy +offspring like the grass of the earth. + +5:26. Thou shalt enter into the grave in abundance, as a heap of wheat +is brought in in its season. + +5:27. Behold, this is even so, as we have searched out: which thou +having heard, consider it thoroughly in thy mind. + +Job Chapter 6 + +6:1. But Job answered, and said: + +6:2. O that my sins, whereby I have deserved wrath, and the calamity +that I suffer, were weighed in a balance. + +My sins, etc... He does not mean to compare his sufferings with his real +sins: but with the imaginary crimes which his friends imputed to him: +and especially with his wrath, or grief, expressed in the third chapter, +which they so much accused. Though, as he tells them here, it bore no +proportion with the greatness of his calamity. + +6:3. As the sand of the sea, this would appear heavier: therefore, my +words are full of sorrow: + +6:4. For the arrows of the Lord are in me, the rage whereof drinketh up +my spirit, and the terrors of the Lord war against me. + +6:5. Will the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or will the ox low when +he standeth before a full manger? + +6:6. Or can an unsavoury thing be eaten, that is not seasoned with salt? +or can a man taste that which, when tasted, bringeth death? + +6:7. The things which before my soul would not touch, now, through +anguish, are my meats. + +6:8. Who will grant that my request may come: and that God may give me +what I look for? + +6:9. And that he that hath begun may destroy me, that he may let loose +his hand, and cut me off? + +6:10. And that this may be my comfort, that afflicting me with sorrow, +he spare not, nor I contradict the words of the Holy one. + +6:11. For what is my strength, that I can hold out? or what is my end, +that I should keep patience? + +6:12. My strength is not the strength of stones, nor is my flesh of +brass. + +6:13. Behold there is no help for me in myself, and my familiar friends +also are departed from me. + +6:14. He that taketh away mercy from his friend, for saketh the fear of +the Lord. + +6:15. My brethren have passed by me, as the torrent that passeth swiftly +in the valleys. + +6:16. They that fear the hoary frost, the snow shall fall upon them. + +6:17. At the time when they shall be scattered they shall perish: and +after it groweth hot, they shall be melted out of their place. + +6:18. The paths of their steps are entangled: they shall walk in vain, +and shall perish. + +6:19. Consider the paths of Thema, the ways of Saba, and wait a little +while. + +6:20. They arc confounded, because I have hoped: they are come also even +unto me, and are covered with shame. + +6:21. Now you are come: and now, seeing my affliction, you are afraid. + +6:22. Did I say: Bring to me, and give me of your substance? + +6:23. Or deliver me from the hand of the enemy, and rescue me out of the +hand of the mighty? + +6:24. Teach me, and I will hold my peace: and if I have been ignorant of +any thing, instruct me. + +6:25. Why have you detracted the words of truth, whereas there is none +of you that can reprove me? + +6:26. You dress up speeches only to rebuke, and you utter words to the +wind. + +6:27. You rush in upon the fatherless, and you endeavour to overthrow +your friend. + +6:28. However, finish what you have begun: give ear and see whether I +lie. + +6:29. Answer, I beseech you, without contention: and speaking that which +is just, judge ye. + +6:30. And you shall not find iniquity in my tongue, neither shall folly +sound in my mouth. + +Job Chapter 7 + +7:1. The life of man upon earth is a warfare, and his days are like the +days of a hireling. + +7:2. As a servant longeth for the shade, as the hireling looketh for the +end of his work; + +7:3. So I also have had empty months, and have numbered to myself +wearisome nights. + +7:4. If I lie down to sleep, I shall say: When shall I rise? and again, +I shall look for the evening, and shall be filled with sorrows even till +darkness. + +7:5. My flesh is clothed with rottenness and the filth of dust; my skin +is withered and drawn together. + +7:6. My days have passed more swiftly than the web is cut by the weaver, +and are consumed without any hope. + +7:7. Remember that my life is but wind, and my eye shall not return to +see good things. + +7:8. Nor shall the sight of man behold me: thy eyes are upon me, and I +shall be no more. + +7:9. As a cloud is consumed, and passeth away: so he that shall go down +to hell shall not come up. + +7:10. Nor shall he return any more into his house, neither shall his +place know him any more. + +7:11. Wherefore, I will not spare my month, I will speak in the +affliction of my spirit: I will talk with the bitterness of my soul. + +7:12. Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou hast inclosed me in a prison? + +7:13. If I say: My bed shall comfort me, and I shall be relieved, +speaking with myself on my couch: + +7:14. Thou wilt frighten me with dreams, and terrify me with visions. + +7:15. So that my soul rather chooseth hanging, and my bones death. + +7:16. I have done with hope, I shall now live no longer: spare me, for +my days are nothing. + +7:17. What is a man, that thou shouldst magnify him or why dost thou set +thy heart upon him? + +7:18. Thou visitest him early in the morning, and thou provest him +suddenly. + +7:19. How long wilt thou not spare me, nor suffer me to swallow down my +spittle? + +7:20. I have sinned: what shall I do to thee, O keeper of men? why hast +thou set me opposite to thee and am I become burdensome to myself? + +7:21. Why dost thou not remove my sin, and why dost thou not take away +my iniquity? Behold now I shall sleep in the dust: and if thou seek me +in the morning, I shall not be. + +Job Chapter 8 + +8:1. Then Baldad, the Suhite, answered, and said: + +8:2. How long wilt thou speak these things, and how long shall the words +of thy mouth be like a strong wind? + +8:3. Doth God pervert judgment, or doth the Almighty overthrow that +which is just? + +8:4. Although thy children have sinned against him, and he hath left +them in the hand of their iniquity: + +8:5. Yet if thou wilt arise early to God, and wilt beseech the Almighty: + +8:6. If thou wilt walk clean and upright, he will presently awake unto +thee, and will make the dwelling of thy justice peaceable: + +8:7. In so much, that if thy former things were small thy latter things +would be multiplied exceedingly. + +8:8. For inquire of the former generation, and search diligently into +the memory of the fathers: + +8:9. (For we are but of yesterday, and are ignorant that our days upon +earth are but a shadow.) + +8:10. And they shall teach thee: they shall speak to thee, and utter +words out of their hearts. + +8:11. Can the rush be green without moisture? or sedge bush grow without +water? + +8:12. When it is yet in flower, and is not plucked u with the hand, it +withereth before all herbs. + +8:13. Even so are the ways of all that forget God, an the hope of the +hypocrite shall perish: + +8:14. His folly shall not please him, and his trust shall be like the +spider's web. + +8:15. He shall lean upon his house, and it shall no stand: he shall prop +it up, and it shall not rise: + +8:16. He seemeth to have moisture before the sun cometh; and at his +rising, his blossom shall shoot forth. + +8:17. His roots shall be thick upon a heap of stones; and among the +stones he shall abide. + +8:18. If one swallow him up out of his place, he shall deny him, and +shall say: I know thee not. + +8:19. For this is the joy of his way, that others may spring again out +of the earth. + +8:20. God will not cast away the simple, nor reach out his hand to the +evil doer: + +8:21. Until thy mouth be filled with laughter, and thy lips with +rejoicing. + +8:22. They that hate thee, shall be clothed with confusion: and the +dwelling of the wicked shall not stand. + +Job Chapter 9 + +9:1. And Job answered, and said: + +9:2. Indeed I know it is so, and that man cannot be justified, compared +with God. + +9:3. If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one for a +thousand. + +9:4. He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath resisted him, +and hath had peace? + +9:5. Who hath removed mountains, and they whom he overthrew in his +wrath, knew it not. + +9:6. Who shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof +tremble. + +9:7. Who commandeth the sun, and it riseth not: and shutteth up the +stars, as it were, under a seal: + +9:8. Who alone spreadeth out the heavens, and walketh upon the waves of +the sea, + +9:9. Who maketh Arcturus, and Orion, and Hyades, and the inner parts of +the south. + +Arcturus, etc... These are names of stars or constellations. In Hebrew, +Ash, Cesil, and Cimah. See note chap. 38, ver. 31. + +9:10. Who doth things great and incomprehensible, and wonderful, of +which there is no number. + +9:11. If he come to me, I shall not see him: if he depart, I shall not +understand. + +9:12. If he examine on a sudden, who shall answer him? or who can say: +Why dost thou so? + +9:13. God, whose wrath no man can resist, and under whom they stoop that +bear up the world. + +9:14. What am I then, that I should answer him, and have words with him? + +9:15. I, who although I should have any just thing, would not answer, +but would make supplication to my judge. + +9:16. And if he should hear me when I call, I should not believe that he +had heard my voice. + +9:17. For he shall crush me in a whirlwind, and multiply my wounds even +without cause. + +Without cause... That is, without my knowing the cause: or without any +crime of mine. + +9:18. He alloweth not my spirit to rest, and he filleth me with +bitterness. + +9:19. If strength be demanded, he is most strong: if equity of judgment, +no man dare bear witness for me. + +9:20. If I would justify myself, my own mouth shall condemn me: if I +would shew myself innocent, he shall prove me wicked. + +9:21. Although I should be simple, even this my soul shall be ignorant +of, and I shall be weary of my life. + +9:22. One thing there is that I have spoken, both the innocent and the +wicked he consumeth. + +9:23. If he scourge, let him kill at once, and not laugh at the pains of +the innocent. + +9:24. The earth is given into the hand of the wicked, he covereth the +face of the judges thereof: and if it be not he, who is it then? + +9:25. My days have been swifter than a post: they have fled away and +have not seen good. + +9:26. They have passed by as ships carrying fruits, as an eagle flying +to the prey. + +9:27. If I say: I will not speak so: I change my face, and am tormented +with sorrow. + +9:28. I feared all my works, knowing that thou didst not spare the +offender. + +9:29. But if so also I am wicked, why have I laboured in vain? + +9:30. If I be washed, as it were, with snow waters, and my hands shall +shine ever 80. clean: + +9:31. Yet thou shalt plunge me in filth, and my garments shall abhor me. + +9:32. For I shall not answer a man that is like myself: nor one that may +be heard with me equally in judgment. + +9:33. There is none that may be able to reprove both, and to put his +hand between both. + +9:34. Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify +me. + +9:35. I will speak, and will not fear him: for I cannot answer while I +am in fear. + +Job Chapter 10 + +10:1. My soul is weary of my life, I will let go my speech against +myself, I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. + +10:2. I will say to God: Do not condemn me: tell me why thou judgest me +so? + +10:3. Doth it seem good to thee that thou shouldst calumniate me, and +oppress me, the work of thy own hands, and help the counsel of the +wicked? + +10:4. Hast thou eyes of flesh: or, shalt thou see as man seeth? + +10:5. Are thy days as the days of man, and are thy years as the times of +men: + +10:6. That thou shouldst inquire after my iniquity, and search after my +sin? + +10:7. And shouldst know that I have done no wicked thing, whereas there +is no man that can deliver out of thy hand? + +10:8. Thy hands have made me, and fashioned me wholly round about, and +dost thou thus cast me down headlong on a sudden? + +10:9. Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay, and +thou wilt bring me into dust. + +10:10. Hast thou not milked me as milk, and curdled me like cheese? + +10:11. Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh: thou hast put me +together with bones and sinews: + +10:12. Thou hast granted me life and mercy, and thy visitation hath +preserved my spirit. + +10:13. Although thou conceal these things in thy heart, yet I know that +thou rememberest all things. + +10:14. If I have sinned, and thou hast spared me for an hour: why dost +thou not suffer me to be clean from my iniquity? + +10:15. And if I be wicked, woe unto me: and if just, I shall not lift up +my head, being filled with affliction and misery. + +10:16. And for pride thou wilt take me as a lioness, and returning, thou +tormentest me wonderfully. + +10:17. Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and multipliest thy wrath +upon me, and pains war against me. + +10:18. Why didst thou bring me forth out of the womb? O that I had been +consumed, that eye might not see me! + +10:19. I should have been as if I had not been, carried from the womb to +the grave. + +10:20. Shall not the fewness of my days be ended shortly? Suffer me, +therefore, that I may lament my sorrow a little: + +10:21. Before I go and return no more, to a land that is dark and +covered with the mist of death: + +10:22. A land of misery and darkness, where the shadow of death, and no +order, but everlasting horror dwelleth. + +Job Chapter 11 + +Sophar reproves Job, for justifying himself, and invites him to +repentance. + +11:1. Then Sophar the Naamathite answered, and said: + +11:2. Shall not he that speaketh much, hear also? or shall a man full of +talk be justified? + +11:3. Shall men hold their peace to thee only? and when thou hast mocked +others, shall no man confute thee? + +11:4. For thou hast said: My word is pure, and I am clean in thy sight. + +11:5. And I wish that God would speak with thee, and would open his lips +to thee, + +11:6. That he might shew thee the secrets of wisdom, and that his law is +manifold, and thou mightest understand that he exacteth much less of +thee, than thy iniquity deserveth. + +11:7. Peradventure thou wilt comprehend the steps of God, and wilt find +out the Almighty perfectly? + +11:8. He is higher than heaven, and what wilt thou do? he is deeper than +hell, and how wilt thou know? + +11:9. The measure of him is longer than the earth, and broader than the +sea. + +11:10. If he shall overturn all things, or shall press them together, +who shall contradict him? + +11:11. For he knoweth the vanity of men, and when he seeth iniquity, +doth he not consider it? + +11:12. A vain man is lifted up into pride, and thinketh himself born +free like a wild ass's colt. + +11:13. But thou hast hardened thy heart, and hast spread thy hands to +him. + +11:14. If thou wilt put away from thee the iniquity that is in thy hand, +and let not injustice remain in thy tabernacle: + +11:15. Then mayst thou lift up thy face without spot, and thou shalt be +steadfast, and shalt not fear. + +11:16. Thou shalt also forget misery, and remember it only as waters +that are passed away. + +11:17. And brightness like that of the noonday, shall arise to thee at +evening: and when thou shalt think thyself consumed, thou shalt rise as +the day star. + +11:18. And thou shalt have confidence, hope being set before thee, and +being buried thou shalt sleep secure. + +11:19. Thou shalt rest, and there shall be none to make thee afraid: and +many shall entreat thy face. + +11:20. But the eyes of the wicked shall decay, and the way to escape +shall fail them, and their hope the abomination of the soul. + +Job Chapter 12 + +Job's reply to Sophar. He extols God's power and wisdom. + +12:1. Then Job answered, and said: + +12:2. Are you then men alone, and shall wisdom die with you? + +12:3. I also have a heart as well as you: for who is ignorant of these +things, which you know? + +12:4. He that is mocked by his friends as I, shall call upon God and he +will hear him: for the simplicity of the just man is laughed to scorn. + +12:5. The lamp despised in the thoughts of the rich, is ready for the +time appointed. + +12:6. The tabernacles of robbers abound, and they provoke God boldly; +whereas it is he that hath given all into their hands: + +12:7. But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee: and the birds +of the air, and they shall tell thee. + +12:8. Speak to the earth, and it shall answer thee: and the fishes of +the sea shall tell. + +12:9. Who is ignorant that the hand of the Lord hath made all these +things? + +12:10. In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the spirit +of all flesh of man. + +12:11. Doth not the ear discern words, and the palate of him that +eateth, the taste? + +12:12. In the ancient is wisdom, and in length of days prudence. + +12:13. With him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and +understanding. + +12:14. If he pull down, there is no man that can build up: if he shut up +a man, there is none that can open. + +12:15. If he withhold the waters, all things shall be dried up: and if +he send them out, they shall overturn the earth. + +12:16. With him is strength and wisdom: he knoweth both the deceivers, +and him that is deceived. + +12:17. He bringeth counsellors to a foolish end, and judges to +insensibility. + +12:18. He looseth the belt of kings, and girdeth their loins with a +cord. + +12:19. He leadeth away priests without glory, and overthroweth nobles. + +12:20. He changeth the speech of the true speakers, and taketh away the +doctrine of the aged. + +12:21. He poureth contempt upon princes, and relieveth them that were +oppressed. + +12:22. He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth up to +light the shadow of death. + +12:23. He multiplieth nations, and destroyeth them, and restoreth them +again after they were overthrown. + +12:24. He changeth the heart of the princes of the people of the earth, +and deceiveth them that they walk in vain where there is no way. + +12:25. They shall grope as in the dark, and not in the light, and he +shall make them stagger like men that are drunk. + +Job Chapter 13 + +Job persists in maintaining his innocence: and reproves his friends. + +13:1. Behold my eye hath seen all these things, and my ear hath heard +them, and I have understood them all. + +13:2. According to your knowledge I also know: neither am I inferior to +you. + +13:3. But yet I will speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with +God. + +13:4. Having first shewn that you are forgers of lies, and maintainers +of perverse opinions. + +13:5. And I wish you would hold your peace, that you might be thought to +be wise men. + +13:6. Hear ye therefore my reproof, and attend to the judgment of my +lips. + +13:7. Hath God any need of your lie, that you should speak deceitfully +for him? + +13:8. Do you accept this person, and do you endeavour to judge for God? + +13:9. Or shall it please him, from whom nothing can be concealed? or +shall he be deceived as a man, with your deceitful dealings? + +13:10. He shall reprove you, because in secret you accept his person. + +13:11. As soon as he shall move himself, he shall trouble you: and his +dread shall fall upon you. + +13:12. Your remembrance shall be compared to ashes, and your necks shall +be brought to clay. + +13:13. Hold your peace a little while, that I may speak whatsoever my +mind shall suggest to me. + +13:14. Why do I tear my flesh with my teeth, and carry my soul in my +hands? + +13:15. Although he should kill me, I will trust in him: but yet I will +reprove my ways in his sight. + +13:16. And he shall be my saviour: for no hypocrite shall come before +his presence. + +13:17. Hear ye my speech, and receive with your ears hidden truths. + +13:18. If I shall be judged, I know that I shall be found just. + +13:19. Who is he that will plead against me? let him come: why am I +consumed holding my peace? + +13:20. Two things only do not to me, and then from thy face I shall not +be hid: + +13:21. Withdraw thy hand far from me, and let not thy dread terrify me. + +13:22. Call me, and I will answer thee: or else I will speak, and do +thou answer me. + +13:23. How many are my iniquities and sins? make me know my crimes and +offenses. + +13:24. Why hidest thou thy face, and thinkest me thy enemy? + +13:25. Against a leaf, that is carried away with the wind, thou shewest +thy power, and thou pursuest a dry straw. + +13:26. For thou writest bitter things against me, and wilt consume me +for the sins of my youth. + +13:27. Thou hast put my feet in the stocks, and hast observed all my +paths, and hast considered the steps of my feet: + +13:28. Who am to be consumed as rottenness, and as a garment that is +motheaten. + +Job Chapter 14 + +Job declares the shortness of man's days: and professes his belief of a +resurrection. + +14:1. Man born of a woman, living for a short time, is filled with many +miseries. + +14:2. Who cometh forth like a flower, and is destroyed, and fleeth as a +shadow, and never continueth in the same state. + +14:3. And dost thou think it meet to open thy eyes upon such an one, and +to bring him into judgment with thee? + +14:4. Who can make him clean that is conceived of unclean seed? is it +not thou who only art? + +14:5. The days of man are short, and the number of his months is with +thee: thou hast appointed his bounds which cannot be passed. + +14:6. Depart a little from him, that he may rest until his wished for +day come, as that of the hireling. + +14:7. A tree hath hope: if it be cut, it growth green again, and the +boughs thereof sprout. + +14:8. If its roots be old in the earth, and its stock be dead in the +dust: + +14:9. At the scent of water, it shall spring, and bring forth leaves, as +when it was first planted. + +14:10. But man when he shall be dead, and stripped and consumed, I pray +you where is he? + +14:11. As if the waters should depart out of the sea, and an emptied +river should be dried up; + +14:12. So man when he is fallen asleep shall not rise again; till the +heavens be broken, he shall not awake, nor rise up out of his sleep. + +14:13. Who will grant me this, that thou mayst protect me in hell, and +hide me till thy wrath pass, and appoint me a time when thou wilt +remember me? + +That thou mayst protect me in hell... That is, in the state of the dead; +and in the place where the souls are kept waiting for their Redeemer. + +14:14. Shall man that is dead, thinkest thou, live again? all the days +in which I am now in warfare, I expect until my change come. + +14:15. Thou shalt call me, and I will answer thee: to the work of thy +hands thou shalt reach out thy right hand. + +14:16. Thou indeed hast numbered my steps, but spare my sins. + +14:17. Thou hast sealed up my offences as it were in a bag, but hast +cured my iniquity. + +14:18. A mountain falling cometh to nought, and a rock is removed out of +its place. + +14:19. Waters wear away the stones, and with inundation the ground by +little and little is washed away: so in like manner thou shalt destroy +man. + +14:20. Thou hast strengthened him for a little while, that he may pass +away for ever: thou shalt change his face, and shalt send him away. + +14:21. Whether his children come to honour or dishonour, he shall not +understand. + +14:22. But yet his flesh, while he shall live, shall have pain, and his +soul shall mourn over him. + +Job Chapter 15 + +Eliphaz returns to the charge against Job, and describes the wretched +state of the wicked. + +15:1. And Eliphaz the Themanite, answered, and said: + +15:2. Will a wise man answer as if he were speaking in the wind, and +fill his stomach with burning heat? + +15:3. Thou reprovest him by words, who is not equal to thee, and thou +speakest that which is not good for thee. + +15:4. As much as is in thee, thou hast made void fear, and hast taken +away prayers from before God. + +Thou hast made void fear... That is, cast off the fear of offending God. + +15:5. For thy iniquity hath taught thy mouth, and thou imitatest the +tongue of blasphemers. + +15:6. Thy own mouth shall condemn thee, and not I: and thy own lips +shall answer thee. + +15:7. Art thou the first man that was born, or wast thou made before the +hills? + +15:8. Hast thou heard God's counsel, and shall his wisdom be inferior to +thee? + +15:9. What knowest thou that we are ignorant of? what dost thou +understand that we know not? + +15:10. There are with us also aged and ancient men, much elder than thy +fathers. + +15:11. Is it a great matter that God should comfort thee? but thy wicked +words hinder this. + +15:12. Why doth thy heart elevate thee, and why dost thou stare with thy +eyes, as if they were thinking great things? + +15:13. Why doth thy spirit swell against God, to utter such words out of +thy mouth? + +15:14. What is man that he should be without spot, and he that is born +of a woman that he should appear just? + +15:15. Behold among his saints none is unchangeable, and the heavens are +not pure in his sight. + +15:16. How much more is man abominable, and unprofitable, who drinketh +iniquity like water? + +15:17. I will shew thee, hear me: and I will tell thee what I have seen. + +15:18. Wise men confess and hide not their fathers. + +Wise men confess and hide not their fathers... That is, the knowledge +and documents they have received from their fathers they are not ashamed +to own. + +15:19. To whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger hath passed +among them. + +15:20. The wicked man is proud all his days, and the number of the years +of his tyranny is uncertain. + +15:21. The sound of dread is always in his ears: and when there is +peace, he always suspecteth treason. + +15:22. He believeth not that he may return from darkness to light, +looking round about for the sword on every side. + +15:23. When he moveth himself to seek bread, he knoweth that the day of +darkness is ready at his hand. + +15:24. Tribulation shall terrify him, and distress shall surround him, +as a king that is prepared for the battle. + +15:25. For he hath stretched out his hand against God, and hath +strengthened himself against the Almighty. + +15:26. He hath run against him with his neck raised up, and is armed +with a fat neck. + +15:27. Fatness hath covered his face, and the fat hangeth down on his +sides. + +15:28. He hath dwelt in desolate cities, and in desert houses that are +reduced into heaps. + +15:29. He shall not be enriched, neither shall his substance continue, +neither shall he push his root in the earth. + +15:30. He shall not depart out of darkness: the flame shall dry up his +branches, and he shall be taken away by the breath of his own mouth. + +15:31. He shall not believe, being vainly deceived by error, that he may +be redeemed with any price. + +15:32. Before his days be full he shall perish: and his hands shall +wither away. + +15:33. He shall be blasted as a vine when its grapes are in the first +flower, and as an olive tree that casteth its flower. + +15:34. For the congregation of the hypocrite is barren, and fire shall +devour their tabernacles, who love to take bribes. + +15:35. He hath conceived sorrow, and hath brought forth iniquity, and +his womb prepareth deceits. + +Job Chapter 16 + +Job expostulates with his friends: and appeals to the judgment of God. + +16:1. Then Job answered, and said: + +16:2. I have often heard such things as these: you are all troublesome +comforters. + +16:3. Shall windy words have no end? or is it any trouble to thee to +speak? + +16:4. I also could speak like you: and would God your soul were for my +soul. + +16:5. I would comfort you also with words, and would wag my head over +you. + +16:6. I would strengthen you with my mouth, and would move my lips, as +sparing you. + +16:7. But what shall I do? If I speak, my pain will not rest: and if I +hold my peace, it will not depart from me. + +16:8. But now my sorrow hath oppressed me, and all my limbs are brought +to nothing. + +16:9. My wrinkles bear witness against me, and a false speaker riseth up +against my face, contradicting me. + +16:10. He hath gathered together his fury against me, and threatening me +he hath gnashed with his teeth upon me: my enemy hath beheld me with +terrible eyes. + +16:11. They have opened their mouths upon me, and reproaching me they +have struck me on the cheek, they are filled with my pains. + +16:12. God hath shut me up with the unjust man, and hath delivered me +into the hands of the wicked. + +16:13. I that was formerly so wealthy, am all on a sudden broken to +pieces: he hath taken me by my neck, he hath broken me, and hath set me +up to be his mark. + +16:14. He hath compassed me round about with his lances, he hath wounded +my loins, he hath not spared, and hath poured out my bowels on the +earth, + +16:15. He hath torn me with wound upon wound, he hath rushed in upon me +like a giant. + +16:16. I have sowed sackcloth upon my skin, and have covered my flesh +with ashes. + +16:17. My face is swollen with weeping, and my eyelids are dim. + +16:18. These things have I suffered without the iniquity of my hand, +when I offered pure prayers to God. + +16:19. O earth, cover not thou my blood, neither let my cry find a +hiding place in thee. + +16:20. For behold my witness is in heaven, and he that knoweth my +conscience is on high. + +16:21. My friends are full of words: my eye poureth out tears to God. + +16:22. And O that a man might so be judged with God, as the son of man +is judged with his companion! + +16:23. For behold short years pass away, and I am walking in a path by +which I shall not return. + +Job Chapter 17 + +Job's hope in God: he expects rest in death. + +17:1. My spirit shall be wasted, my days shall be shortened and only the +grave remaineth for me. + +17:2. I have not sinned, and my eye abideth in bitterness. + +Not sinned... That is, I am not guilty of such sins as they charge me +with. + +17:3. Deliver me, O Lord, and set me beside thee, and let any man's hand +fight against me. + +17:4. Thou hast set their heart far from understanding, therefore they +shall not be exalted. + +17:5. He promiseth a prey to his companions, and the eyes of his +children shall fail. + +17:6. He hath made me as it were a byword of the people, and I am an +example before them. + +17:7. My eye is dim through indignation, and my limbs are brought as it +were to nothing. + +17:8. The just shall be astonished at this, and the innocent shall be +raised up against the hypocrite. + +17:9. And the just man shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean +hands shall be stronger and stronger. + +17:10. Wherefore be you all converted, and come, and I shall not find +among you any wise man. + +17:11. My days have passed away, my thoughts are dissipated, tormenting +my heart. + +17:12. They have turned night into day, and after darkness I hope for +light again. + +17:13. If I wait hell is my house, and I have made my bed in darkness. + +Hell... Sheol. The region of the dead. + +17:14. I have said to rottenness: Thou art my father; to worms, my +mother and my sister. + +17:15. Where is now then my expectation, and who considereth my +patience? + +17:16. All that I have shall go down into the deepest pit: thinkest thou +that there at least I shall have rest? + +Deepest pit... Literally, hell. + +Job Chapter 18 + +Baldad again reproves Job and describes the miseries of the wicked. + +18:1. Then Baldad the Suhite answered, and said: + +18:2. How long will you throw out words? understand first, and so let us +speak. + +18:3. Why are we reputed as beasts, and counted vile before you? + +18:4. Thou that destroyest thy soul in thy fury, shall the earth be +forsaken for thee, and shall rocks be removed out of their place? + +18:5. Shall not the light of the wicked be extinguished, and the flame +of his fire not shine? + +18:6. The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and the lamp that is +over him, shall be put out. + +18:7. The step of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel +shall cast him down headlong. + +18:8. For he hath thrust his feet into a net, and walketh in its meshes. + +18:9. The sole of his foot shall be held in a snare, and thirst shall +burn against him. + +18:10. A gin is hidden for him in the earth, and his trap upon the path. + +18:11. Fears shall terrify him on every side, and shall entangle his +feet. + +18:12. Let his strength be wasted with famine, and let hunger invade his +ribs. + +18:13. Let it devour the beauty of his skin, let the firstborn death +consume his arms. + +18:14. Let his confidence be rooted out of his tabernacle, and let +destruction tread upon him like a king. + +18:15. Let the companions of him that is not, dwell in his tabernacle, +let brimstone be sprinkled in his tent. + +18:16. Let his roots be dried up beneath, and his harvest destroyed +above. + +18:17. Let the memory of him perish from the earth, and let not his name +be renowned in the streets. + +18:18. He shall drive him out of light into darkness, and shall remove +him out of the world. + +18:19. His seed shall not subsist, nor his offspring among his people, +nor any remnants in his country. + +18:20. They that come after him shall be astonished at his day, and +horror shall fall upon them that went before. + +18:21. These then are the tabernacles of the wicked, and this the place +of him that knoweth not God. + +Job Chapter 19 + +Job complains of the cruelty of his friends; he describes his own +sufferings: and his belief of a future resurrection. + +19:1. Then Job answered, and said: + +19:2. How long do you afflict my soul, and break me in pieces with +words? + +19:3. Behold, these ten times you confound me, and are not ashamed to +oppress me. + +19:4. For if I have been ignorant, my ignorance shall be with me. + +19:5. But you set yourselves up against me, and reprove me with my +reproaches. + +19:6. At least now understand, that God hath not afflicted me with an +equal judgment, and compassed me with his scourges. + +With an equal judgment... St. Gregory explains these words thus: Job +being a just man, and truly considering his own life, thought that his +affliction was greater than his sins deserved: and in that respect, that +the punishment was not equal, yet it was just, as coming from God, who +gives a crown of justice to those who suffer for righteousness' sake, +and proves the just with tribulations, as gold is tried by fire. + +19:7. Behold I shall cry suffering violence, and no one will hear: I +shall cry aloud, and there is none to judge. + +19:8. He hath hedged in my path round about, and I cannot pass, and in +my way he hath set darkness. + +19:9. He hath stripped me of my glory, and hath taken the crown from my +head. + +19:10. He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am lost, and he hath +taken away my hope, as from a tree that is plucked up. + +19:11. His wrath is kindled against me, and he hath counted me as his +enemy. + +19:12. His troops have come together, and have made themselves a way by +me, and have besieged my tabernacle round about. + +19:13. He hath put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintance like +strangers have departed from me. + +19:14. My kinsmen have forsaken me, and they that knew me, have +forgotten me. + +19:15. They that dwell in my house, and my maidservants have counted me +as a stranger, and I have been like an alien in their eyes. + +19:16. I called my servant, and he gave me no answer, I entreated him +with my own mouth. + +19:17. My wife hath abhorred my breath, and I entreated the children of +my womb. + +19:18. Even fools despised me, and when I was gone from them, they spoke +against me. + +19:19. They that were sometime my counsellors, have abhorred me: and he +whom I loved most is turned against me. + +19:20. The flesh being consumed, my bone hath cleaved to my skin, and +nothing but lips are left about my teeth. + +19:21. Have pity on me, have pity on me, at least you my friends, +because the hand of the Lord hath touched me. + +19:22. Why do you persecute me as God, and glut yourselves with my +flesh? + +19:23. Who will grant me that my words may be written? who will grant me +that they may be marked down in a book? + +19:24. With an iron pen and in a plate of lead, or else be graven with +an instrument in flint stone? + +19:25. For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and in the last day I shall +rise out of the earth. + +Ver. 25, 26, and 27 shew Job's explicit belief in his Redeemer, and also +of the resurrection of the flesh, not as one tree riseth in place of +another, but that the selfsame flesh shall rise at the last day, by the +power of God, changed in quality but not in substance, every one to +receive sentence according to his works in this life. + +19:26. And I shall be clothed again with my skin, and in my flesh I +shall see my God. + +19:27. Whom I myself shall see, and my eyes shall behold, and not +another: this my hope is laid up in my bosom. + +19:28. Why then do you say now: Let us persecute him, and let us find +occasion of word against him? + +19:29. Flee then from the face of the sword, for the sword is the +revenger of iniquities: and know ye that there is a judgment. + +Job Chapter 20 + +Sophar declares the shortness of the prosperity of the wicked: and their +sudden downfall. + +20:1. Then Sophar the Naamathite answered, and said: + +20:2. Therefore various thoughts succeed one another in me, and my mind +is hurried away to different things. + +20:3. The doctrine with which thou reprovest me, I will hear, and the +spirit of my understanding shall answer for me. + +20:4. This I know from the beginning, since man was placed upon the +earth, + +20:5. That the praise of the wicked is short, and the joy of the +hypocrite but for a moment. + +20:6. If his pride mount up even to heaven, and his head touch the +clouds: + +20:7. In the end he shall be destroyed like a dunghill, and they that +had seen him, shall say: Where is he? + +20:8. As a dream that fleeth away he shall not be found, he shall pass +as a vision of the night: + +20:9. The eyes that had seen him, shall see him no more, neither shall +his place any more behold him. + +20:10. His children shall be oppressed with want, and his hands shall +render to him his sorrow. + +20:11. His bones shall be filled with the vices of his youth, and they +shall sleep with him in the dust. + +20:12. For when evil shall be sweet in his mouth, he will hide it under +his tongue. + +20:13. He will spare it, and not leave it, and will hide it in his +throat. + +20:14. His bread in his belly shall be turned into the gall of asps +within him, + +20:15. The riches which he hath swallowed, he shall vomit up, and God +shall draw them out of his belly. + +20:16. He shall suck the head of asps, and the viper's tongue shall kill +him. + +20:17. Let him not see the streams of the river, the brooks of honey and +of butter. + +20:18. He shall be punished for all that he did, and yet shall not be +consumed: according to the multitude of his devices so also shall he +suffer. + +According to the multitude of his devices... That is, his stratagems to +gratify his passions and to oppress and destroy the poor. + +20:19. Because he broke in and stripped the poor: he hath violently +taken away a house which he did not build. + +20:20. And yet his belly was not filled: and when he hath the things he +coveted, he shall not be able to possess them. + +20:21. There was nothing left of his meat, and therefore nothing shall +continue of his goods: + +20:22. When he shall be filled, he shall be straitened, he shall burn, +and every sorrow shall fall upon him. + +20:23. May his belly be filled, that God may send forth the wrath of his +indignation upon him, and rain down his war upon him. + +20:24. He shall flee from weapons of iron, and shall fall upon a bow of +brass. + +20:25. The sword is drawn out, and cometh forth from its scabbard, and +glittereth in his bitterness: the terrible ones shall go and come upon +him. + +20:26. All darkness is hid in his secret places: a fire that is not +kindled shall devour him, he shall be afflicted when left in his +tabernacle. + +20:27. The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and the earth shall rise +up against him. + +20:28. The offspring of his house shall be exposed, he shall be pulled +down in the day of God's wrath. + +20:29. This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the inheritance +of his doings from the Lord. + +Job Chapter 21 + +Job shews that the wicked often prosper in this world, even to the end +of their life: but that their judgment is in another world. + +21:1. Then Job answered, and said: + +21:2. Hear, I beseech you, my words, and do penance. + +21:3. Suffer me, and I will speak, and after, if you please, laugh at my +words. + +21:4. Is my debate against man, that I should not have just reason to be +troubled? + +21:5. Hearken to me and be astonished, and lay your finger on your +mouth. + +21:6. As for me, when I remember, I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold +on my flesh. + +21:7. Why then do the wicked live, are they advanced, and strengthened +with riches? + +21:8. Their seed continueth before them, a multitude of kinsmen, and of +children's children in their sight. + +21:9. Their houses are secure and peaceable, and the rod of God is not +upon them. + +21:10. Their cattle have conceived, and failed not: their cow has +calved, and is not deprived of her fruit. + +21:11. Their little ones go out like a flock, and their children dance +and play. + +21:12. They take the timbrel, and the harp, and rejoice at the sound of +the organ. + +21:13. They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment they go down to +hell. + +21:14. Who have said to God: Depart from us, we desire not the knowledge +of thy ways. + +21:15. Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what doth it +profit us if we pray to him? + +21:16. Yet because their good things are not in their hand, may the +counsel of the wicked be far from me. + +21:17. How often shall the lamp of the wicked be put out, and a deluge +come upon them, and he shall distribute the sorrows of his wrath? + +21:18. They shall be as chaff before the face of the wind, and as ashes +which the whirlwind scattereth. + +21:19. God shall lay up the sorrow of the father for his children: and +when he shall repay, then shall he know. + +21:20. His eyes shall see his own destruction, and he shall drink of the +wrath of the Almighty. + +21:21. For what is it to him what befalleth his house after him: and if +the number of his months be diminished by one half? + +21:22. Shall any one teach God knowledge, who judgeth those that are +high? + +21:23. One man dieth strong, and hale, rich and happy. + +21:24. His bowels are full of fat, and his bones are moistened with +marrow. + +21:25. But another dieth in bitterness of soul without any riches: + +21:26. And yet they shall sleep together in the dust, and worms shall +cover them. + +21:27. Surely I know your thoughts, and your unjust judgments against +me. + +21:28. For you say: Where is the house of the prince? and where are the +dwelling places of the wicked? + +21:29. Ask any one of them that go by the way, and you shall perceive +that he knoweth these same things. + +21:30. Because the wicked man is reserved to the day of destruction, and +he shall be brought to the day of wrath. + +21:31. Who shall reprove his way to his face? and who shall repay him +what he hath done? + +21:32. He shall be brought to the graves, and shall watch in the heap of +the dead. + +21:33. He hath been acceptable to the gravel of Cocytus, and he shall +draw every man after him, and there are innumerable before him. + +Acceptable to the gravel of Cocytus... The Hebrew word, which St. Jerome +has here rendered by the name Cocytus, (which the poets represent as a +river in hell,) signifies a valley or a torrent: and in this place, is +taken for the low region of death and hell: which willingly, as it were, +receives the wicked at their death: who are ushered in by innumerable +others that have gone before them; and are followed by multitudes above +number. + +21:34. How then do ye comfort me in vain, whereas your answer is shewn +to be repugnant to truth? + +Job Chapter 22 + +Eliphaz falsely imputes many crimes to Job, but promises him prosperity +if he will repent. + +22:1. Then Eliphaz the Themanite answered, and said: + +22:2. Can man be compared with God, even though he were of perfect +knowledge? + +22:3. What doth it profit God if thou be just? or what dost thou give +him if thy way be unspotted? + +22:4. Shall he reprove thee for fear, and come with thee into judgment: + +22:5. And not for thy manifold wickedness and thy infinite iniquities? + +22:6. For thou hast taken away the pledge of thy brethren without cause, +and stripped the naked of their clothing. + +22:7. Thou hast not given water to the weary, thou hast withdrawn bread +from the hungry. + +22:8. In the strength of thy arm thou didst possess the land, and being +the most mighty thou holdest it. + +22:9. Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless +thou hast broken in pieces. + +22:10. Therefore art thou surrounded with shares, and sudden fear +troubleth thee. + +22:11. And didst thou think that thou shouldst not see darkness, and +that thou shouldst not be covered with the violence of overflowing +waters? + +22:12. Dost not thou think that God is higher than heaven, and is +elevated above the height of the stars? + +22:13. And thou sayst: What doth God know? and he judgeth as it were +through a mist. + +22:14. The clouds are his covert, and he doth not consider our things, +and he walketh about the poles of heaven. + +22:15. Dost thou desire to keep the path of ages, which wicked men have +trodden? + +22:16. Who were taken away before their time, and a flood hath +overthrown their foundation. + +22:17. Who said to God: Depart from us: and looked upon the Almighty as +if he could do nothing: + +22:18. Whereas he had filled their houses with good things: whose way of +thinking be far from me. + +22:19. The just shall see, and shall rejoice, and the innocent shall +laugh them to scorn. + +22:20. Is not their exaltation cut down, and hath not fire devoured the +remnants of them? + +22:21. Submit thyself then to him, and be at peace: and thereby thou +shalt have the best fruits. + +22:22. Receive the law of his mouth, and lay up his words in thy heart. + +22:23. If thou wilt return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, and +shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacle. + +22:24. He shall give for earth flint, and for flint torrents of gold. + +22:25. And the Almighty shall be against thy enemies, and silver shall +be heaped together for thee. + +22:26. Then shalt thou abound in delights in the Almighty, and shalt +lift up thy face to God. + +22:27. Thou shalt pray to him, and he will hear thee, and thou shalt pay +vows. + +22:28. Thou shalt decree a thing, and it shall come to thee, and light +shall shine in thy ways. + +22:29. For he that hath been humbled, shall be in glory: and he that +shall bow down his eyes, he shall be saved. + +22:30. The innocent shall be saved, and he shall be saved by the +cleanness of his hands. + +Job Chapter 23 + +Job wishes to be tried at God's tribunal. + +23:1. Then Job answered, and said: + +23:2. Now also my words are in bitterness, and the hand of my scourge is +more grievous than my mourning. + +23:3. Who will grant me that I might know and find him, and come even to +his throne? + +23:4. I would set judgment before him, and would fill my mouth with +complaints. + +23:5. That I might know the words that he would answer me, and +understand what he would say to me. + +23:6. I would not that he should contend with me with much strength, nor +overwhelm me with the weight of his greatness. + +23:7. Let him propose equity against me, and let my judgment come to +victory. + +23:8. But if I go to the east, he appeareth not; if to the west, I shall +not understand him. + +23:9. If to the left hand, what shall I do? I shall not take hold on +him: if I turn myself to the right hand, I shall not see him. + +23:10. But he knoweth my way, and has tried me as gold that passeth +through the fire: + +23:11. My foot hath followed his steps, I have kept his way, and have +not declined from it. + +23:12. I have not departed from the commandments of his lips, and the +words of his mouth I have hid in my bosom. + +23:13. For he is alone, and no man can turn away his thought: and +whatsoever his soul hath desired, that hath he done. + +23:14. And when he shall have fulfilled his will in me, many other like +things are also at hand with him. + +23:15. And therefore I am troubled at his presence, and when I consider +him I am made pensive with fear. + +23:16. God hath softened my heart, and the Almighty hath troubled me. + +23:17. For I have not perished because of the darkness that hangs over +me, neither hath the mist covered my face. + +Job Chapter 24 + +God's providence often suffers the wicked to go on a long time in their +sins: but punisheth them in another life. + +24:1. Times are not hid from the Almighty: but they that know him, know +not his days. + +24:2. Some have removed landmarks, have taken away flocks by force, and +fed them. + +24:3. They have driven away the ass of the fatherless, and have taken +away the widow's ox for a pledge. + +24:4. They have overturned the way of the poor, and have oppressed +together the meek of the earth. + +24:5. Others like wild asses in the desert go forth to their work: by +watching for a prey they get bread for their children. + +24:6. They reap the field that is not their own, and gather the vintage +of his vineyard whom by violence they have oppressed. + +24:7. They send men away naked, taking away their clothes who have no +covering in the cold: + +24:8. Who are wet, with the showers of the mountains, and having no +covering embrace the stones. + +24:9. They have violently robbed the fatherless, and stripped the poor +common people. + +24:10. From the naked and them that go without clothing, and from the +hungry they have taken away the ears of corn. + +24:11. They have taken their rest at noon among the stores of them, who +after having trodden the winepresses suffer thirst. + +24:12. Out of the cities they have made men to groan, and the soul of +the wounded hath cried out, and God doth not suffer it to pass +unrevenged. + +24:13. They have been rebellious to the light, they have not known his +ways, neither have they returned by his paths. + +24:14. The murderer riseth at the very break of day, he killeth the +needy, and the poor man: but in the night he will be as a thief. + +24:15. The eye of the adulterer observeth darkness, saying: No eye shall +see me: and he will cover his face. + +24:16. He diggeth through houses in the dark, as in the day they had +appointed for themselves, and they have not known the light. + +24:17. If the morning suddenly appear, it is to them the shadow of +death: and they walk in darkness as if it were in light. + +24:18. He is light upon the face of the water: cursed be his portion on +the earth, let him not walk by the way of the vineyards. + +24:19. Let him pass from the snow waters to excessive heat, and his sin +even to hell. + +24:20. Let mercy forget him: may worms be his sweetness: let him be +remembered no more, but be broken in pieces as an unfruitful tree. + +24:21. For he hath fed the barren that beareth not, and to the widow he +hath done no good. + +24:22. He hath pulled down the strong by his might: and when he standeth +up, he shall not trust to his life. + +24:23. God hath given him place for penance, and he abuseth it unto +pride: but his eyes are upon his ways. + +24:24. They are lifted up for a little while and shall not stand, and +shall be brought down as all things, and shall be taken away, and as the +tops of the ears of corn they shall be broken. + +24:25. And if it be not so, who can convince me that I have lied, and +set my words before God? + +Job Chapter 25 + +God's providence often suffers the wicked to go on a long time in their +sins: but punisheth them in another life. + +25:1. Then Baldad the Suhite answered, and I said: + +25:2. Power and terror are with him, who maketh peace in his high places. + +25:3. Is there any numbering of his soldiers? and upon whom shall not his light arise? + +25:4. Can man be justified compared with God, or he that is born of a woman appear clean? + +25:5. Behold even the moon doth not shine, and the stars are not pure in his sight. + +25:6. How much less man that is rottenness and the son of man who is a worm? + +Job Chapter 26 + +Job declares his sentiments of the wisdom and power of God. + +26:1. Then Job answered, and said: + +26:2. Whose helper art thou? is it of him that is weak? and dost thou +hold up the arm of him that has no strength? + +26:3. To whom hast thou given counsel? perhaps to him that hath no +wisdom, and thou hast shewn thy very great prudence. + +26:4. Whom hast thou desired to teach? was it not him that made life? + +26:5. Behold the giants groan under the waters, and they that dwell with +them. + +26:6. Hell is naked before him, and there is no covering for +destruction. + +26:7. He stretched out the north over the empty space, and hangeth the +earth upon nothing. + +26:8. He bindeth up the waters in his clouds, so that they break not out +and fall down together. + +26:9. He withholdeth the face of his throne, and spreadeth his cloud +over it. + +26:10. He hath set bounds about the waters, till light and darkness come +to an end. + +26:11. The pillars of heaven tremble, and dread at his beck. + +26:12. By his power the seas are suddenly gathered together, and his +wisdom has struck the proud one. + +26:13. His spirit hath adorned the heavens, and his obstetric hand +brought forth the winding serpent. + +His obstetric hand brought forth the winding serpent... That is, the +omnipotent power of God: which brought forth all things created in time, +but conceived in the Divine mind from all eternity. The winding serpent, +a constellation of fixed stars winding round the north pole, called +Draco. This appears from the foregoing part of the same verse, His +spirit hath adorned the heavens. + +26:14. Lo, these things are said in part of his ways: and seeing we have +heard scarce a little drop of his word, who shall be able to behold the +thunder of his greatness? + +Job Chapter 27 + +Job persists in asserting his own innocence, and that hypocrites will be +punished in the end. + +27:1. Job also added, taking up his parable, and said: + +27:2. As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment, and the Almighty, +who hath brought my soul to bitterness, + +27:3. As long as breath remaineth in me, and the spirit of God in my +nostrils, + +27:4. My lips shall not speak iniquity, neither shall my tongue contrive +lying. + +27:5. God forbid that I should judge you to be just: till I die I will +not depart from my innocence. + +27:6. My justification, which I have begun to hold, I will not forsake: +for my heart doth not reprehend me in all my life. + +27:7. Let my enemy be as the ungodly, and my adversary as the wicked +one. + +27:8. For what is the hope of the hypocrite if through covetousness he +take by violence, and God deliver not his soul? + +27:9. Will God hear his cry, when distress shall come upon him? + +27:10. Or can he delight himself in the Almighty, and call upon God at +all times? + +27:11. I will teach you by the hand of God, what the Almighty hath, and +I will not conceal it. + +27:12. Behold you all know it, and why do you speak vain things without +cause? + +27:13. This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the inheritance +of the violent, which they shall receive of the Almighty. + +27:14. If his sons be multiplied, they shall be for the sword, and his +grandsons shall not be filled with bread. + +27:15. They that shall remain of him, shall be buried in death, and his +widows shall not weep. + +27:16. If he shall heap together silver as earth, and prepare raiment as +clay, + +27:17. He shall prepare indeed, but the just man shall be clothed with +it: and the innocent shall divide the silver. + +27:18. He hath built his house as a moth, and as a keeper he hath made a +booth. + +27:19. The rich man when he shall sleep shall take away nothing with +him: he shall open his eyes and find nothing. + +27:20. Poverty like water shall take hold on him, a tempest shall +oppress him in the night: + +27:21. A burning wind shall take him up, and carry him away, and as a +whirlwind shall snatch him from his place. + +27:22. And he shall cast upon him, and shall not spare: out of his hand +he would willingly flee. + +27:23. He shall clasp his hands upon him, and shall hiss at him, +beholding his place. + +Job Chapter 28 + +Man's industry searcheth out many things: true wisdom is taught by God +alone. + +28:1. Silver hath beginnings of its veins, and gold hath a place wherein +it is melted. + +28:2. Iron is taken out of the earth, and stone melted with heat is +turned into brass. + +28:3. He hath set a time for darkness, and the end of all things he +considereth, the stone also that is in the dark and the shadow of death. + +28:4. The flood divideth from the people that are on their journey, +those whom the food of the needy man hath forgotten, and who cannot be +come at. + +28:5. The land, out of which bread grew in its place, hath been +overturned with fire. + +28:6. The stones of it are the place of sapphires, and the clods of it +are gold. + +28:7. The bird hath not known the path, neither hath the eye of the +vulture beheld it. + +28:8. The children of the merchants have not trodden it, neither hath +the lioness passed by it. + +28:9. He hath stretched forth his hand to the flint, he hath overturned +mountains from the roots. + +28:10. In the rocks he hath cut out rivers, and his eye hath seen every +precious thing. + +28:11. The depths also of rivers he hath searched, and hidden things he +hath brought forth to light. + +28:12. But where is wisdom to be found, and where is the place of +understanding? + +28:13. Man knoweth not the price thereof, neither is it found in the +land of them that live in delights. + +28:14. The depth saith: It is not in me: and the sea saith: It is not +with me. + +28:15. The finest gold shall not purchase it, neither shall silver be +weighed in exchange for it. + +28:16. It shall not be compared with the dyed colours of India, or with +the most precious stone sardonyx, or the sapphire. + +28:17. Gold or crystal cannot equal it, neither shall any vessels of +gold be changed for it. + +28:18. High and eminent things shall not be mentioned in comparison of +it: but wisdom is drawn out of secret places. + +28:19. The topaz of Ethiopia shall not be equal to it, neither shall it +be compared to the cleanest dyeing. + +28:20. Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of +understanding? + +28:21. It is hid from the eyes of all living, and the fowls of the air +know it not. + +28:22. Destruction and death have said: With our ears we have heard the +fame thereof. + +28:23. God understandeth the way of it, and he knoweth the place +thereof. + +28:24. For he beholdeth the ends of the world: and looketh on all things +that are under heaven. + +28:25. Who made a weight for the winds, and weighed the waters by +measure. + +28:26. When he gave a law for the rain, and a way for the sounding +storms. + +28:27. Then he saw it, and declared, and prepared, and searched it. + +28:28. And he said to man: Behold the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom: +and to depart from evil, is understanding. + +Job Chapter 29 + +Job relates his former happiness, and the respect that all men shewed +him. + +29:1. Job also added, taking up his parable, and said: + +29:2. Who will grant me, that I might be according to the months past, +according to the days in which God kept me? + +29:3. When his lamp shined over my head, and I walked by his light in +darkness? + +29:4. As I was in the days of my youth, when God was secretly in my +tabernacle? + +29:5. When the Almighty was with me: and my servants round about me? + +29:6. When I washed my feet with butter, and the rock poured me out +rivers of oil? + +29:7. When I went out to the gate of the city, and in the street they +prepared me a chair? + +29:8. The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the old men rose up +and stood. + +29:9. The princes ceased to speak, and laid the finger on their mouth. + +29:10. The rulers held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to their +throat. + +29:11. The ear that heard me blessed me, and the eye that saw me gave +witness to me: + +29:12. Because I had delivered the poor man that cried out; and the +fatherless, that had no helper. + +29:13. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me, and I +comforted the heart of the widow. + +29:14. I was clad with justice: and I clothed myself with my judgment, +as with a robe and a diadem. + +29:15. I was an eye to the blind, and a foot to the lame. + +29:16. I was the father of the poor: and the cause which I knew not, I +searched out most diligently. + +29:17. I broke the jaws of the wicked man, and out of his teeth I took +away the prey. + +29:18. And I said: I shall die in my nest, and as a palm tree shall +multiply my days. + +29:19. My root is opened beside the waters, and dew shall continue in my +harvest. + +29:20. My glory shall always be renewed, and my bow in my hand shall be +repaired. + +29:21. They that heard me, waited for my sentence, and being attentive +held their peace at my counsel. + +29:22. To my words they durst add nothing, and my speech dropped upon +them. + +29:23. They waited for me as for rain, and they opened their mouth as +for a latter shower. + +29:24. If at any time I laughed on them, they believed not, and the +light of my countenance fell not on earth. + +29:25. If I had a mind to go to them, I sat first, and when I sat as a +king, with his army standing about him, yet I was a comforter of them +that mourned. + +Job Chapter 30 + +Job shews the wonderful change of his temporal estate, from welfare to +great calamity. + +30:1. But now the younger in time scorn me, whose fathers I would not +have set with the dogs of my flock: + +But now the younger in time... That is, younger than I am, and as it +were obscure, when I was conspicuous and in magnificence; they now look +down on me. + +30:2. The strength of whose hands was to me as nothing, and they were +thought unworthy of life itself. + +30:3. Barren with want and hunger, who gnawed in the wilderness, +disfigured with calamity and misery. + +30:4. And they ate grass, and barks of trees, and the root of junipers +was their food. + +30:5. Who snatched up these things out of the valleys, and when they had +found any of them, they ran to them with a cry. + +30:6. They dwelt in the desert places of torrents, and in caves of +earth, or upon the gravel. + +30:7. They pleased themselves among these kind of things, and counted it +delightful to be under the briers. + +30:8. The children of foolish and base men, and not appearing at all +upon the earth. + +30:9. Now I am turned into their song, and am become their byword. + +30:10. They abhor me, and flee far from me, and are not afraid to spit +in my face. + +30:11. For he hath opened his quiver, and hath afflicted me, and hath +put a bridle into my mouth. + +30:12. At the right hand of my rising, my calamities forthwith arose: +they have overthrown my feet, and have overwhelmed me with their paths +as with waves. + +30:13. They have destroyed my ways, they have lain in wait against me, +and they have prevailed, and there was none to help. + +30:14. They have rushed in upon me, as when a wall is broken, and a gate +opened, and have rolled themselves down to my miseries. + +30:15. I am brought to nothing: as a wind thou hast taken away my +desire: and my prosperity hath passed away like a cloud. + +30:16. And now my soul fadeth within myself, and the days of affliction +possess me. + +30:17. In the night my bone is pierced with sorrows: and they that feed +upon me, do not sleep. + +30:18. With the multitude of them my garment is consumed, and they have +girded me about, as with the collar of my coat. + +30:19. I am compared to dirt, and am likened to embers and ashes. + +30:20. I cry to thee, and thou hearest me not: I stand up, and thou dost +not regard me. + +30:21. Thou art changed to be cruel toward me, and in the hardness of +thy hand thou art against me. + +30:22. Thou hast lifted me up, and set me as it were upon the wind, and +thou hast mightily dashed me. + +30:23. I know that thou wilt deliver me to death, where a house is +appointed for every one that liveth. + +30:24. But yet thou stretchest not forth thy hand to their consumption: +and if they shall fall down thou wilt save. + +30:25. I wept heretofore for him that was afflicted, and my soul had +compassion on the poor. + +30:26. I expected good things, and evils are come upon me: I waited for +light, and darkness broke out. + +30:27. My inner parts have boiled without any rest, the days of +affliction have prevented me. + +30:28. I went mourning without indignation; I rose up, and cried in the +crowd. + +30:29. I was the brother of dragons, and companion of ostriches. + +Brother of dragons, etc... Imitating these creatures in their lamentable +noise. + +30:30. My skin is become black upon me, and my bones are dried up with +heat. + +30:31. My harp is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of +those that weep. + +Job Chapter 31 + +Job, to defend himself from the unjust judgments of his friends, gives a +sincere account of his own virtues. + +31:1. I made a covenant with my eyes, that I would not so much as think +upon a virgin. + +31:2. For what part should God from above have in me, and what +inheritance the Almighty from on high? + +31:3. Is not destruction to the wicked, and aversion to them that work +iniquity? + +31:4. Doth not he consider my ways, and number all my steps? + +31:5. If I have walked in vanity, and my foot hath made haste to deceit: + +31:6. Let him weigh me in a just balance, and let God know my +simplicity. + +31:7. If my step hath turned out of the way, and if my heart hath +followed my eyes, and if a spot hath cleaved to my hands: + +31:8. Then let me sow and let another reap: and let my offspring be +rooted out. + +31:9. If my heart hath been deceived upon a woman, and if I have laid +wait at my friend's door: + +31:10. Let my wife be the harlot of another, and let other men lie with +her. + +31:11. For this is a heinous crime, and a most grievous iniquity. + +31:12. It is a fire that devoureth even to destruction, and rooteth up +all things that spring. + +31:13. If I have despised to abide judgment with my manservant, or my +maidservant, when they had any controversy against me: + +31:14. For what shall I do when God shall rise to judge? and when he +shall examine, what shall I answer him? + +31:15. Did not he that made me in the womb make him also: and did not +one and the same form me in the womb? + +31:16. If I have denied to the poor what they desired, and have made the +eyes of the widow wait: + +31:17. If I have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless hath not +eaten thereof: + +31:18. (For from my infancy mercy grew up with me: and it came out with +me from my mother's womb:) + +31:19. If I have despised him that was perishing for want of clothing, +and the poor man that had no covering: + +31:20. If his sides have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with +the fleece of my sheep: + +31:21. If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, even when I +saw myself superior in the gate: + +31:22. Let my shoulder fall from its joint, and let my arm with its +bones be broken. + +31:23. For I have always feared God as waves swelling over me, and his +weight I was unable to bear. + +31:24. If I have thought gold my strength, and have said to fine gold: +My confidence: + +31:25. If I have rejoiced over my great riches, and because my hand had +gotten much. + +31:26. If I beheld the sun when it shined and the moon going in +brightness: + +If I beheld the sun, etc... If I behold the sun and moon with +admiration, knowing them to be created and governed by the power of God, +I call on my adversaries to produce any thing against me, whereby I +could be charged with worshipping the sun or moon. + +31:27. And my heart in secret hath rejoiced, and I have kissed my hand +with, my mouth: + +31:28. Which is a very great iniquity, and a denial against the most +high God. + +31:29. If I have been glad at the downfall of him that hated me, and +have rejoiced that evil had found him. + +31:30. For I have not given my mouth to sin, by wishing a curse to his +soul. + +31:31. If the men of my tabernacle have not said: Who will give us of +his flesh that we may be filled? + +31:32. The stranger did not stay without, my door was open to the +traveller. + +31:33. If as a man I have hid my sin, and have concealed my iniquity in +my bosom. + +31:34. If I have been afraid at a very great multitude, and the contempt +of kinsmen hath terrified me: and have not rather held my peace, and not +gone out of the door. + +31:35. Who would grant me a hearing, that the Almighty may hear my +desire: and that he himself that judgeth would write a book, + +31:36. That I may carry it on my shoulder, and put it about me as a +crown? + +31:37. At every step of mine I would pronounce it, and offer it as to a +prince. + +31:38. If my land cry against me, and with it the furrows thereof mourn: + +31:39. If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, and have +afflicted the son of the tillers thereof: + +31:40. Let thistles grow up to me instead of wheat, and thorns instead +of barley. + +The words of Job are ended. + +Job Chapter 32 + +Eliu is angry with Job and his friends. He boasts of himself. + +32:1. So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he seemed just to +himself. + +32:2. And Eliu the son of Barachel the Buzite of the kindred of Ram, was +angry and was moved to indignation: now he was angry against Job, +because he said he was just before God. + +32:3. And he was angry with his friends, because they had not found a +reasonable answer, but only had condemned Job. + +32:4. So Eliu waited while Job was speaking because they were his elders +that were speaking. + +32:5. But when he saw that the three were not able to answer, he was +exceedingly angry. + +32:6. Then Eliu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered, and said: I am +younger in days, and you are more ancient, therefore hanging down my +head, I was afraid to shew you my opinion. + +32:7. For I hoped that greater age would speak, and that a multitude of +years would teach wisdom. + +32:8. But, as I see, there is a spirit in men, and the inspiration of +the Almighty giveth understanding. + +32:9. They that are aged are not the wise men, neither do the ancients +understand judgment. + +32:10. Therefore I will speak: Hearken to me, I also will shew you my +wisdom. + +32:11. For I have waited for your words, I have given ear to your +wisdom, as long as you were disputing in words. + +32:12. And as long as I thought you said some thing, I considered: but, +as I see, there is none of you that can convince Job, and answer his +words. + +32:13. Lest you should say: We have found wisdom, God hath cast him +down, not man. + +32:14. He hath spoken nothing to me, and I will not answer him according +to your words. + +32:15. They were afraid, and answered no more, and they left off +speaking. + +32:16. Therefore because I have waited, and they have not spoken: they +stood, and answered no more: + +32:17. I also will answer my part, and will shew my knowledge. + +32:18. For I am full of matter to speak of, and the spirit of my bowels +straiteneth me. + +32:19. Behold, my belly is as new wine which wanteth vent, which +bursteth the new vessels. + +32:20. I will speak and take breath a little: I will open my lips, and +will answer. + +32:21. I will not accept the person of man, and I will not level God +with man. + +I will not level God with man... Here Eliu considers that Job hath put +himself on a level with God, by the manner he assumed to justify his own +life in speaking to God as if he spoke to an equal: Eliu expresses in +the following ver. 22 his fear of punishment hereafter for such an +attempt. + +32:22. For I know not how long I shall continue, and whether after a +while my Maker may take me away. + +Job Chapter 33 + +Eliu blames Job for asserting his own innocence. + +33:1. Hear therefore, O Job, my speeches, and hearken to all my words. + +33:2. Behold now I have opened my mouth, let my tongue speak within my +jaws. + +33:3. My words are from my upright heart, and my lips shall speak a pure +sentence. + +33:4. The spirit of God made me, and the breath of the Almighty gave me +life. + +33:5. If thou canst, answer me, and stand up against my face. + +33:6. Behold God hath made me as well as thee, and of the same clay I +also was formed. + +33:7. But yet let not my wonder terrify thee, and let not my eloquence +be burdensome to thee. + +33:8. Now thou hast said in my hearing, and I have heard the voice of +thy words: + +33:9. I am clean, and without sin: I am unspotted, and there is no +iniquity in me. + +33:10. Because he hath found complaints against me, therefore he hath +counted me for his enemy. + +33:11. He hath put my feet in the stocks, he hath observed all my paths. + +33:12. Now this is the thing in which thou art not justified: I will +answer thee, that God is greater than man. + +33:13. Dost thou strive against him, because he hath not answered thee +to all words? + +33:14. God speaketh once, and repeateth not the selfsame thing the +second time. + +33:15. By a dream in a vision by night, when deep sleep falleth upon +men, and they are sleeping in their beds: + +33:16. Then he openeth the ears of men, and teaching instructeth them in +what they are to learn. + +33:17. That he may withdraw a man from the things he is doing, and may +deliver him from pride. + +33:18. Rescuing his soul from corruption: and his life from passing to +the sword. + +33:19. He rebuketh also by sorrow in the bed, and he maketh all his +bones to wither. + +33:20. Bread becometh abominable to him in his life, and to his soul the +meat which before he desired. + +33:21. His flesh shall be consumed away, and his bones that were covered +shall be made bare. + +33:22. His soul hath drawn near to corruption, and his life to the +destroyers. + +33:23. If there shall be an angel speaking for him, one among thousands, +to declare man's uprightness, + +33:24. He shall have mercy on him, and shall say: Deliver him, that he +may not go down to corruption: I have found wherein I may be merciful to +him. + +33:25. His flesh is consumed with punishments, let him return to the +days of his youth. + +33:26. He shall pray to God, and he will be gracious to him: and he +shall see his face with joy, and he will render to man his justice. + +33:27. He shall look upon men, and shall say: I have sinned, and indeed +I have offended, and I have not received what I have deserved. + +33:28. He hath delivered his soul from going into destruction, that it +may live and see the light. + +33:29. Behold, all these things God worketh three times within every +one. + +33:30. That he may withdraw their souls from corruption, and enlighten +them with the light of the living. + +33:31. Attend, Job, and hearken to me, and hold thy peace, whilst I +speak. + +33:32. But if thou hast any thing to say, answer me, speak: for I would +have thee to appear just. + +33:33. And if thou have not, hear me: hold thy peace, and I will teach +thee wisdom. + +Job Chapter 34 + +Eliu charges Job with blasphemy: and sets forth the power and justice of +God. + +34:1. And Eliu continued his discourse, and said: + +34:2. Hear ye, wise men, my words, and ye learned, hearken to me: + +34:3. For the ear trieth words, and the mouth discerneth meats by the +taste. + +34:4. Let us choose to us judgment, and let us see among ourselves what +is the best. + +34:5. For Job hath said: I am just, and God hath overthrown my judgment. + +34:6. For in judging me there is a lie: my arrow is violent without any +sin. + +34:7. What man is there like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water? + +34:8. Who goeth in company with them that work iniquity, and walketh +with wicked men? + +34:9. For he hath said: Man shall not please God, although he run with +him. + +34:10. Therefore, ye men of understanding, hear me: far from God be +wickedness, and iniquity from the Almighty. + +34:11. For he will render to a man his work, and according to the ways +of every one he will reward them. + +34:12. For in very deed God will not condemn without cause, neither will +the Almighty pervert judgment. + +34:13. What other hath he appointed over the earth? or whom hath he set +over the world which he made? + +34:14. If he turn his heart to him, he shall draw his spirit and breath +unto himself. + +34:15. All flesh shall perish together, and man shall return into ashes. + +34:16. If then thou hast understanding, hear what is said, and hearken +to the voice of my words. + +34:17. Can he be healed that loveth not judgment? and how dost thou so +far condemn him that is just? + +34:18. Who saith to the king: Thou art an apostate: who calleth rulers +ungodly: + +34:19. Who accepteth not the persons of princes: nor hath regarded the +tyrant, when he contended against the poor man: for all are the work of +his hands. + +34:20. They shall suddenly die, and the people shall be troubled at +midnight, and they shall pass, and take away the violent without hand. + +34:21. For his eyes are upon the ways of men, and he considereth all +their steps. + +34:22. There is no darkness, and there is no shadow of death, where they +may be hid who work iniquity. + +34:23. For it is no longer in the power of man to enter into judgment +with God. + +34:24. He shall break in pieces many and innumerable, and shall make +others to stand in their stead. + +34:25. For he knoweth their works: and therefore he shall bring night on +them, and they shall be destroyed. + +34:26. He hath struck them, as being wicked, in open sight. + +34:27. Who as it were on purpose have revolted from him, and would not +understand all his ways: + +34:28. So that they caused the cry of the needy to come to him, and he +heard the voice of the poor. + +34:29. For when he granteth peace, who is there that can condemn? When +he hideth his countenance, who is there that can behold him, whether it +regard nations, or all men? + +34:30. Who maketh a man that is a hypocrite to reign for the sins of the +people? + +34:31. Seeing then I have spoken of God, I will not hinder thee in thy +turn. + +34:32. If I have erred, teach thou me: if I have spoken iniquity, I will +add no more. + +34:33. Doth God require it of thee, because it hath displeased thee? for +thou begannest to speak, and not I: but if thou know any thing better, +speak. + +34:34. Let men of understanding speak to me, and let a wise man hearken +to me. + +34:35. But Job hath spoken foolishly, and his words sound not +discipline. + +34:36. My father, let Job be tried even to the end: cease not from the +man of iniquity. + +34:37. Because he addeth blasphemy upon his sins, let him be tied fast +in the mean time amongst us: and then let him provoke God to judgment +with his speeches. + +Job Chapter 35 + +Eliu declares that the good or evil done by man cannot reach God. + +35:1. Moreover Eliu spoke these words: + +35:2. Doth thy thought seem right to thee, that thou shouldst say: I am +more just than God? + +35:3. For thou saidst: That which is right doth not please thee: or what +will it profit thee if I sin? + +35:4. Therefore I will answer thy words, and thy friends with thee. + +35:5. Look up to heaven and see, and behold the sky, that it is higher +than thee. + +35:6. If thou sin, what shalt thou hurt him? and if thy iniquities be +multiplied, what shalt thou do against him? + +35:7. And if thou do justly, what shalt thou give him, or what shall he +receive of thy hand? + +35:8. Thy wickedness may hurt a man that is like thee: and thy justice +may help the son of man. + +35:9. By reason of the multitude of oppressors they shall cry out: and +shall wail for the violence of the arm of tyrants. + +35:10. And he hath not said: Where is God, who made me, who hath given +songs in the night? + +35:11. Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and +instructeth us more than the fowls of the air. + +35:12. There shall they cry, and he will not hear, because of the pride +of evil men. + +35:13. God therefore will not hear in vain, and the Almighty will look +into the causes of every one. + +35:14. Yea, when thou shalt say: He considereth not: be judged before +him, and expect him. + +35:15. For he doth not now bring on his fury, neither doth he revenge +wickedness exceedingly. + +35:16. Therefore Job openeth his mouth in vain, and multiplieth words +without knowledge. + +Job Chapter 36 + +Eliu proceeds in setting forth the justice and power of God. + +36:1. Eliu also proceeded, and said: + +36:2. Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee: for I have yet somewhat +to speak in God's behalf. + +36:3. I will repeat my knowledge from the beginning, and I will prove my +Maker just. + +36:4. For indeed my words are without a lie, and perfect knowledge shall +be proved to thee. + +36:5. God doth not cast away the mighty, whereas he himself also is +mighty. + +36:6. But he saveth not the wicked, and he giveth judgment to the poor. + +36:7. He will not take away his eyes from the just, and he placeth kings +on the throne for ever, and they are exalted. + +36:8. And if they shall be in chains, and be bound with the cords of +poverty: + +36:9. He shall shew them their works, and their wicked deeds, because +they have been violent. + +36:10. He also shall open their ear, to correct them: and shall speak, +that they may return from iniquity. + +36:11. If they shall hear and observe, they shall accomplish their days +in good, and their years in glory. + +36:12. But if they hear not, they shall pass by the sword, and shall be +consumed in folly. + +36:13. Dissemblers and crafty men prove the wrath of God, neither shall +they cry when they are bound. + +36:14. Their soul shall die in a storm, and their life among the +effeminate. + +36:15. He shall deliver the poor out of his distress, and shall open his +ear in affliction. + +36:16. Therefore he shall set thee at large out of the narrow mouth, and +which hath no foundation under it: and the rest of thy table shall be +full of fatness. + +Out of the narrow mouth... That is, out of hell, whose entrance is +narrow, and its depth bottomless; but figuratively meant here, that is, +from his miseries and calamity to be restored to his former state of +happiness. + +36:17. Thy cause hath been judged as that of the wicked, cause and +judgment thou shalt recover. + +36:18. Therefore let not anger overcome thee to oppress any man: neither +let multitude of gifts turn thee aside. + +36:19. Lay down thy greatness without tribulation, and all the mighty of +strength. + +36:20. Prolong not the night that people may come up for them. + +36:21. Beware thou turn not aside to iniquity: for this thou hast begun +to follow after misery. + +For this thou hast begun to follow after misery... Eliu charges Job, +that notwithstanding his misery, he does not fear God as he ought: but +in his judgment, falls into iniquity. + +36:22. Behold, God is high in his strength, and none is like him among +the lawgivers. + +36:23. Who can search out his ways? or who can say to him: Thou hast +wrought iniquity? + +36:24. Remember that thou knowest not his work, concerning which men +have sung. + +36:25. All men see him, every one beholdeth afar off. + +36:26. Behold, God is great, exceeding our knowledge: the number of his +years is inestimable. + +36:27. He lifteth up the drops of rain, and poureth out showers like +floods: + +36:28. Which flow from the clouds that cover all above. + +36:29. If he will spread out clouds as his tent, + +36:30. And lighten with his light from above, he shall cover also the +ends of the sea. + +36:31. For by these he judgeth people, and giveth food to many mortals. + +36:32. In his hands he hideth the light, and commandeth it to come +again. + +36:33. He sheweth his friend concerning it, that it is his possession, +and that he may come up to it. + +Job Chapter 37 + +Eliu goes on in his discourse, shewing God's wisdom and power, by his +wonderful works. + +37:1. At this my heart trembleth, and is moved out of its place. + +37:2. Hear ye attentively the terror of his voice, and the sound that +cometh out of his mouth. + +37:3. He beholdeth under all the heavens, and his light is upon the ends +of the earth. + +37:4. After it a noise shall roar, he shall thunder with the voice of +his majesty, and shall not be found out, when his voice shall be heard. + +37:5. God shall thunder wonderfully with his voice, he that doth great +and unsearchable things. + +37:6. He commandeth the snow to go down upon the earth, and the winter +rain, and the shower of his strength. + +37:7. He sealeth up the hand of all men, that every one may know his +works. + +He sealeth up, etc... When he sends those showers of his strength, that +is, those storms of rain, he seals up, that is, he shuts up the hands of +men from their usual works abroad, and confines them within doors, to +consider his works; or to forecast their works, that is, what they +themselves are to do. + +37:8. Then the beast shall go into his covert, and shall abide in his +den. + +37:9. Out of the inner parts shall a tempest come, and cold out of the +north. + +37:10. When God bloweth there cometh frost, and again the waters are +poured out abundantly. + +37:11. Corn desireth clouds, and the clouds spread their light: + +37:12. Which go round about, whithersoever the will of him that +governeth them shall lead them, to whatsoever he shall command them upon +the face of the whole earth: + +37:13. Whether in one tribe, or in his own land, or in what place soever +of his mercy he shall command them to be found. + +37:14. Hearken to these things, Job: Stand, and consider the wondrous +works of God. + +37:15. Dost thou know when God commanded the rains, to shew his light of +his clouds? + +37:16. Knowest thou the great paths of the clouds, and the perfect +knowledges? + +37:17. Are not thy garments hot, when the south wind blows upon the +earth? + +37:18. Thou perhaps hast made the heavens with him, which are most +strong, as if they were of molten brass. + +37:19. Shew us what we may say to him: or we are wrapped up in darkness. + +37:20. Who shall tell him the things I speak? even if a man shall speak, +he shall be swallowed up. + +He shall be swallowed up... All that man can say when he speaks of God, +is so little and inconsiderable in comparison with the subject, that man +is lost, and as it were swallowed up in so immense an ocean. + +37:21. But now they see not the light: the air on a sudden shall be +thickened into clouds, and the wind shall pass and drive them away. + +37:22. Cold cometh out of the north, and to God praise with fear. + +37:23. We cannot find him worthily: he is great in strength, and in +judgment, and in justice, and he is ineffable. + +37:24. Therefore men shall fear him, and all that seem to themselves to +be wise, shall not dare to behold him. + +Job Chapter 38 + +God interposes and shews from the things he hath made, that man cannot +comprehend his power and wisdom. + +38:1. Then the Lord answered Job out of a whirlwind, and said: + +The Lord.. That is, an angel speaking in the name of the Lord. + +38:2. Who is this that wrappeth up sentences in unskilful words? + +38:3. Gird up thy loins like a man: I will ask thee, and answer thou me. + +38:4. Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? tell me +if thou hast understanding. + +38:5. Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest or who hath +stretched the line upon it? + +38:6. Upon what are its bases grounded? or who laid the corner stone +thereof, + +38:7. When the morning stars praised me together, and all the sons of +God made a joyful melody? + +38:8. Who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth as issuing out +of the womb: + +38:9. When I made a cloud the garment thereof, and wrapped it in a mist +as in swaddling bands? + +38:10. I set my bounds around it, and made it bars and doors: + +38:11. And I said: Hitherto thou shalt come, and shalt go no further, +and here thou shalt break thy swelling waves. + +38:12. Didst thou since thy birth command the morning, and shew the +dawning of the day its place? + +38:13. And didst thou hold the extremities of the earth shaking them, +and hast thou shaken the ungodly out of it? + +38:14. The seal shall be restored as clay, and shall stand as a garment. + +38:15. From the wicked their light shall be taken away, and the high arm +shall be broken. + +38:16. Hast thou entered into the depths of the sea, and walked in the +lowest parts of the deep? + +38:17. Have the gates of death been opened to thee, and hast thou seen +the darksome doors? + +38:18. Hast thou considered the breadth of the earth? tell me, if thou +knowest all things? + +38:19. Where is the way where light dwelleth, and where is the place of +darkness? + +38:20. That thou mayst bring every thing to its own bounds, and +understand the paths of the house thereof. + +38:21. Didst thou know then that thou shouldst be born? and didst thou +know the number of thy days? + +38:22. Hast thou entered into the storehouses of the snow, or hast thou +beheld the treasures of the hail: + +38:23. Which I have prepared for the time of the enemy, against the day +of battle and war? + +38:24. By what way is the light spread, and heat divided upon the earth? + +38:25. Who gave a course to violent showers, or a way for noisy thunder: + +38:26. That it should rain on the earth without man in the wilderness, +where no mortal dwelleth: + +38:27. That it should fill the desert and desolate land, and should +bring forth green grass? + +38:28. Who is the father of rain? or who begot the drops of dew? + +38:29. Out of whose womb came the ice? and the frost from heaven who +hath gendered it? + +38:30. The waters are hardened like a stone, and the surface of the deep +is congealed. + +38:31. Shalt thou be able to join together the shining stars the +Pleiades, or canst thou stop the turning about of Arcturus? + +Pleiades... Hebrew, Cimah. A cluster of seven stars in the constellation +Taurus or the Bull. Arcturus, a bright star in the constellation Bootes. +The Hebrew name Cesil, is variously interpreted; by some, Orion; by +others, the Great Bear is understood. + +38:32. Canst thou bring forth the day star in its time, and make the +evening star to rise upon the children of the earth? + +38:33. Dost thou know the order of heaven, and canst thou set down the +reason thereof on the earth? + +38:34. Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that an abundance of +waters may cover thee? + +38:35. Canst thou send lightnings, and will they go, and will they +return and say to thee: Here we are? + +38:36. Who hath put wisdom in the heart of man? or who gave the cock +understanding? + +Understanding... That instinct by which he distinguishes the times of +crowing in the night. + +38:37. Who can declare the order of the heavens, or who can make the +harmony of heaven to sleep? + +38:38. When was the dust poured on the earth, and the clods fastened +together? + +38:39. Wilt thou take the prey for the lioness, and satisfy the appetite +of her whelps, + +38:40. When they couch in the dens and lie in wait in holes? + +38:41. Who provideth food for the raven, when her young ones cry to God, +wandering about, because they have no meat? + +Job Chapter 39 The wonders of the power and providence of God in many of +his creatures. + +39:1. Knowest thou the time when the wild goats bring forth among the +rocks, or hast thou observed the hinds when they fawn? + +39:2. Hast thou numbered the months of their conceiving, or knowest thou +the time when they bring forth? + +39:3. They bow themselves to bring forth young, and they cast them, and +send forth roarings. + +39:4. Their young are weaned and go to feed: they go forth, and return +not to them. + +39:5. Who hath sent out the wild ass free, and who hath loosed his +bonds? + +39:6. To whom I have given a house in the wilderness, and his dwellings +in the barren land. + +39:7. He scorneth the multitude of the city, he heareth not the cry of +the driver. + +39:8. He looketh round about the mountains of his pasture, and seeketh +for every green thing, + +39:9. Shall the rhinoceros be willing to serve thee, or will he stay at +thy crib? + +39:10. Canst thou bind the rhinoceros with thy thong to plough, or will +he break the clods of the valleys after thee? + +39:11. Wilt thou have confidence in his great strength, and leave thy +labours to him? + +39:12. Wilt thou trust him that he will render thee the seed, and gather +it into thy barnfloor? + +39:13. The wing of the ostrich is like the wings of the heron, and of +the hawk. + +39:14. When she leaveth her eggs on the earth, thou perhaps wilt warm +them in the dust. + +39:15. She forgetteth that the foot may tread upon them, or that the +beasts of the field may break them. + +39:16. She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not +hers, she hath laboured in vain, no fear constraining her. + +39:17. For God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he given her +understanding. + +39:18. When time shall be, she setteth up her wings on high: she +scorneth the horse and his rider. + +39:19. Wilt thou give strength to the horse or clothe his neck with +neighing? + +39:20. Wilt thou lift him up like the locusts? the glory of his nostrils +is terror. + +39:21. He breaketh up the earth with his hoof, he pranceth boldly, he +goeth forward to meet armed men. + +39:22. He despiseth fear, he turneth not his back to the sword. + +39:23. Above him shall the quiver rattle, the spear and shield shall +glitter. + +39:24. Chasing and raging he swalloweth the ground, neither doth he make +account when the noise of the trumpet soundeth. + +39:25. When he heareth the trumpet he saith: Ha, ha: he smelleth the +battle afar off, the encouraging of the captains, and the shouting of +the army. + +39:26. Doth the hawk wax feathered by thy wisdom, spreading her wings to +the south? + +39:27. Will the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest in high +places? + +39:28. She abideth among the rocks, and dwelleth among cragged flints, +and stony hills, where there is no access. + +39:29. From thence she looketh for the prey, and her eyes behold afar +off. + +39:30. Her young ones shall suck up blood: and wheresoever the carcass +shall be, she is immediately there. + +39:31. And the Lord went on, and said to Job: + +39:32. Shall he that contendeth with God be so easily silenced? surely +he that reproveth God, ought to answer him. + +39:33. Then Job answered the Lord, and said: + +39:34. What can I answer, who hath spoken inconsiderately? I will lay my +hand upon my mouth. + +Spoken inconsiderately... If we discuss all Job's words (saith St. +Gregory), we shall find nothing impiously spoken; as may be gathered +from the words of the Lord himself, chap. 42, ver. 7, 8; but what was +reprehensible in him, was the manner of expressing himself at times, +speaking too much of his own affliction, and too little of God's +goodness towards him, which here he acknowledges as inconsiderate. + +39:35. One thing I have spoken, which I wish I had not said: and +another, to which I will add no more. + +Job Chapter 40 + +Of the power of God in the behemoth and the leviathan. + +40:1. And the Lord answering Job out of the whirlwind, said: + +40:2. Gird up thy loins like a man: I will ask thee, and do thou tell +me. + +40:3. Wilt thou make void my judgment: and condemn me, that thou mayst +be justified? + +40:4. And hast thou an arm like God, and canst thou thunder with a voice +like him? + +40:5. Clothe thyself with beauty, and set thyself up on high, and be +glorious, and put on goodly garments. + +40:6. Scatter the proud in thy indignation, and behold every arrogant +man, and humble him. + +40:7. Look on all that are proud, and confound them, and crush the +wicked in their place, + +40:8. Hide them in the dust together, and plunge their faces into the +pit. + +40:9. Then I will confess that thy right hand is able to save thee. + +40:10. Behold behemoth whom I made with thee, he eateth grass like an +ox. + +Behemoth... In Hebrew, behema, which signifies in general an animal; but +many authors explain, that here it is put for the elephant. + +40:11. His strength is in his loins, and his force in the navel of his +belly. + +40:12. He setteth up his tail like a cedar, the sinews of his testicles +are wrapped together. + +40:13. His bones are like pipes of brass, his gristle like plates of +iron. + +40:14. He is the beginning of the ways of God, who made him, he will +apply his sword. + +He will apply his sword... This text is variously explained: some +explain the sword, the horn given to the animal for his defence: others, +the power that God hath given to the animal for his defence: others, the +power that God hath given to man to slay him, notwithstanding his great +size and strength. + +40:15. To him the mountains bring forth grass: there all the beasts of +the field shall play. + +40:16. He sleepeth under the shadow, in the covert of the reed, and in +moist places. + +40:17. The shades cover his shadow, the willows of the brook shall +compass him about. + +40:18. Behold, he will drink up a river, and not wonder: and he trusteth +that the Jordan may run into his mouth. + +40:19. In his eyes as with a hook he shall take him, and bore through +his nostrils with stakes. + +40:20. Canst thou draw out the leviathan with a hook, or canst thou tie +his tongue with a cord? + +Leviathan... The whale or some sea monster. + +40:21. Canst thou put a ring in his nose, or bore through his jaw with a +buckle? + +40:22. Will he make many supplications to thee, or speak soft words to +thee? + +40:23. Will he make a covenant with thee, and wilt thou take him to be a +servant for ever, + +40:24. Shalt thou play with him as with a bird, or tie him up for thy +handmaids? + +40:25. Shall friends cut him in pieces, shall merchants divide him? + +40:26. Wilt thou fill nets with his skin, and the cabins of fishes with +his head? + +40:27. Lay thy hand upon him: remember the battle, and speak no more. + +40:28. Behold his hope shall fail him, and in the sight of all he shall +be cast down. + +Job Chapter 41 + +A further description of the leviathan. + +41:1. I will not stir him up, like one that is cruel, for who can resist +my countenance? + +41:2. Who hath given me before that I should repay him? All things that +are under heaven are mine. + +41:3. I will not spare him, nor his mighty words, and framed to make +supplication. + +41:4. Who can discover the face of his garment? or who can go into the +midst of his mouth? + +41:5. Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round +about. + +41:6. His body is like molten shields, shut close up with scales +pressing upon one another. + +41:7. One is joined to another, and not so much as any air can come +between them: + +41:8. They stick one to another and they hold one another fast, and +shall not be separated. + +41:9. His sneezing is like the shining of fire, and his eyes like the +eyelids of the morning. + +41:10. Out of his mouth go forth lamps, like torches of lighted fire. + +41:11. Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, like that of a pot heated and +boiling. + +41:12. His breath kindleth coals, and a flame cometh forth out of his +mouth. + +41:13. In his neck strength shall dwell, and want goeth before his face. + +41:14. The members of his flesh cleave one to another: he shall send +lightnings against him, and they shall not be carried to another place. + +41:15. His heart shall be as hard as a stone, and as firm as a smith's +anvil, + +41:16. When he shall raise him up, the angels shall fear, and being +affrighted shall purify themselves. + +Angels... Elim, Hebrew: which signifies here, the mighty, the most +valiant, shall fear this monstrous fish, and in their fear shall seek to +be purified. + +41:17. When a sword shall lay at him, it shall not be able to hold, nor +a spear, nor a breastplate. + +41:18. For he shall esteem iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood. + +41:19. The archer shall not put him to flight, the stones of the sling +are to him like stubble. + +41:20. As stubble will he esteem the hammer, and he will laugh him to +scorn who shaketh the spear. + +41:21. The beams of the sun shall be under him, and he shall strew gold +under him like mire. + +Under him... He shall not value the beams of the sun; and gold to him +shall be like mire. + +41:22. He shall make the deep sea to boil like a pot, and shall make it +as when ointments boil. + +41:23. A path shall shine after him, he shall esteem the deep as growing +old. + +The deep as growing old... Growing hoary, as it were with the froth +which he leaves behind him. + +41:24. There is no power upon earth that can be compared with him who +was made to fear no one, + +41:25. He beholdeth every high thing, he is king over all the children +of pride. + +He is king, etc... He is superior in strength to all that are great and +strong amongst living creatures: mystically it is understood of the +devil, who is king over all the proud. + +Job Chapter 42 + +Job submits himself. God pronounces in his favour. Job offers sacrifice +for his friends. He is blessed with riches and children, and dies +happily, + +42:1. Then Job answered the Lord, and said: + +42:2. I know that thou canst do all things, and no thought is hid from +thee. + +42:3. Who is this that hideth counsel without knowledge? Therefore I +have spoken unwisely, and things that above measure exceeded my +knowledge. + +42:4. Hear, and I will speak: I will ask thee, and do thou tell me. + +42:5. With the hearing of the ear, I have heard thee, but now my eye +seeth thee. + +42:6. Therefore I reprehend myself, and do penance in dust and ashes. + +42:7. And after the Lord had spoken these words to Job, he said to +Eliphaz the Themanite: My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy +two friends, because you have not spoken the thing that is right before +me, as my servant Job hath. + +42:8. Take unto you therefore seven oxen and seven rams, and go to my +servant Job, and offer for yourselves a holocaust, and my servant Job +shall pray for you: his face I will accept, that folly be not imputed to +you: for you have not spoken right things before me, as my servant Job +hath. + +42:9. So Eliphaz the Themanite, and Baldad the Suhite, and Sophar the +Naamathite went, and did as the Lord had spoken to them, and the Lord +accepted the face of Job. + +42:10. The Lord also was turned at the penance of Job, when he prayed +for his friends. And the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before. + +42:11. And all his brethren came to him, and all his sisters, and all +that knew him before, and they ate bread with him in his house: and +bemoaned him, and comforted him upon all the evil that God had brought +upon him. And every man gave him one ewe, and one earring of gold. + +42:12. And the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his +beginning. And he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, +and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses. + +42:13. And he had seven sons, and three daughters. + +42:14. And he called the name of one Dies, and the name of the second +Cassia, and the name of the third Cornustibii. + +42:15. And there were not found in all the earth women so beautiful as +the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their +brethren. + +42:16. 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