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