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Thus did Job continually. +001:006 Now it happened on the day when the God's sons came to present + themselves before Yahweh, that Satan also came among them. +001:007 Yahweh said to Satan, "Where have you come from?" + Then Satan answered Yahweh, and said, "From going back and forth + in the earth, and from walking up and down in it." +001:008 Yahweh said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant, Job? For there + is none like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, + one who fears God, and turns away from evil." +001:009 Then Satan answered Yahweh, and said, "Does Job fear + God for nothing? +001:010 Haven't you made a hedge around him, and around his house, + and around all that he has, on every side? You have blessed + the work of his hands, and his substance is increased + in the land. +001:011 But put forth your hand now, and touch all that he has, + and he will renounce you to your face." +001:012 Yahweh said to Satan, "Behold, all that he has is in your power. + Only on himself don't put forth your hand." So Satan went + forth from the presence of Yahweh. +001:013 It fell on a day when his sons and his daughters were eating + and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house, +001:014 that there came a messenger to Job, and said, "The oxen + were plowing, and the donkeys feeding beside them, +001:015 and the Sabeans attacked, and took them away. Yes, they have + killed the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone + have escaped to tell you." +001:016 While he was still speaking, there also came another, and said, + "The fire of God has fallen from the sky, and has burned up + the sheep and the servants, and consumed them, and I alone + have escaped to tell you." +001:017 While he was still speaking, there came also another, and said, + "The Chaldeans made three bands, and swept down on the camels, + and have taken them away, yes, and killed the servants with + the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell you." +001:018 While he was still speaking, there came also another, and said, + "Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine + in their eldest brother's house, +001:019 and behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and struck + the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young men, + and they are dead. I alone have escaped to tell you." +001:020 Then Job arose, and tore his robe, and shaved his head, + and fell down on the ground, and worshiped. +001:021 He said, "Naked I came out of my mother's womb, and naked shall + I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. + Blessed be the name of Yahweh." +001:022 In all this, Job did not sin, nor charge God with wrongdoing. +002:001 Again it happened on the day when the God's sons came to present + themselves before Yahweh, that Satan came also among them + to present himself before Yahweh. +002:002 Yahweh said to Satan, "Where have you come from?" + Satan answered Yahweh, and said, "From going back and forth + in the earth, and from walking up and down in it." +002:003 Yahweh said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? For there + is none like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, + one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still + maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, + to ruin him without cause." +002:004 Satan answered Yahweh, and said, "Skin for skin. Yes, all that + a man has he will give for his life. +002:005 But put forth your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, + and he will renounce you to your face." +002:006 Yahweh said to Satan, "Behold, he is in your hand. + Only spare his life." +002:007 So Satan went forth from the presence of Yahweh, and struck Job + with painful sores from the sole of his foot to his head. +002:008 He took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with, + and he sat among the ashes. +002:009 Then his wife said to him, "Do you still maintain your integrity? + Renounce God, and die." +002:010 But he said to her, "You speak as one of the foolish women + would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, + and shall we not receive evil?" In all this Job didn't sin + with his lips. +002:011 Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil + that had come on him, they each came from his own place: + Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, + and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize + with him and to comfort him. +002:012 When they lifted up their eyes from a distance, and didn't + recognize him, they raised their voices, and wept; + and they each tore his robe, and sprinkled dust on their heads + toward the sky. +002:013 So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, + and none spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief + was very great. +003:001 After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth. +003:002 Job answered: +003:003 "Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, + 'There is a boy conceived.' +003:004 Let that day be darkness. Don't let God from above seek for it, + neither let the light shine on it. +003:005 Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. + Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black + the day terrify it. +003:006 As for that night, let thick darkness seize on it. + Let it not rejoice among the days of the year. + Let it not come into the number of the months. +003:007 Behold, let that night be barren. Let no joyful voice come therein. +003:008 Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to + rouse up leviathan. +003:009 Let the stars of the twilight of it be dark. Let it look + for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids + of the morning, +003:010 because it didn't shut up the doors of my mother's womb, + nor did it hide trouble from my eyes. +003:011 "Why didn't I die from the womb? Why didn't I give up the spirit + when my mother bore me? +003:012 Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, + that I should suck? +003:013 For now should I have lain down and been quiet. + I should have slept, then I would have been at rest, +003:014 with kings and counselors of the earth, who built up waste + places for themselves; +003:015 or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver: +003:016 or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants + who never saw light. +003:017 There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary + are at rest. +003:018 There the prisoners are at ease together. They don't hear + the voice of the taskmaster. +003:019 The small and the great are there. The servant is free + from his master. +003:020 "Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the + bitter in soul, +003:021 Who long for death, but it doesn't come; and dig for it more + than for hidden treasures, +003:022 who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can + find the grave? +003:023 Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, whom God + has hedged in? +003:024 For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured + out like water. +003:025 For the thing which I fear comes on me, That which I am afraid + of comes to me. +003:026 I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest; + but trouble comes." +004:001 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, +004:002 "If someone ventures to talk with you, will you be grieved? + But who can withhold himself from speaking? +004:003 Behold, you have instructed many, you have strengthened + the weak hands. +004:004 Your words have supported him who was falling, You have made + firm the feeble knees. +004:005 But now it is come to you, and you faint. It touches you, + and you are troubled. +004:006 Isn't your piety your confidence? Isn't the integrity of your + ways your hope? +004:007 "Remember, now, whoever perished, being innocent? + Or where were the upright cut off? +004:008 According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity, + and sow trouble, reap the same. +004:009 By the breath of God they perish. By the blast of his anger + are they consumed. +004:010 The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, + the teeth of the young lions, are broken. +004:011 The old lion perishes for lack of prey. The cubs of the lioness + are scattered abroad. +004:012 "Now a thing was secretly brought to me. My ear received + a whisper of it. +004:013 In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep + falls on men, +004:014 fear came on me, and trembling, which made all my bones shake. +004:015 Then a spirit passed before my face. The hair of my + flesh stood up. +004:016 It stood still, but I couldn't discern its appearance. + A form was before my eyes. Silence, then I heard a voice, saying, +004:017 'Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more + pure than his Maker? +004:018 Behold, he puts no trust in his servants. He charges his + angels with error. +004:019 How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation + is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth! +004:020 Between morning and evening they are destroyed. + They perish forever without any regarding it. +004:021 Isn't their tent cord plucked up within them? They die, + and that without wisdom.' +005:001 "Call now; is there any who will answer you? To which of the holy + ones will you turn? +005:002 For resentment kills the foolish man, and jealousy kills the simple. +005:003 I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly I + cursed his habitation. +005:004 His children are far from safety. They are crushed in the gate. + Neither is there any to deliver them, +005:005 whose harvest the hungry eats up, and take it even out of the thorns. + The snare gapes for their substance. +005:006 For affliction doesn't come forth from the dust, neither does + trouble spring out of the ground; +005:007 but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward. +005:008 "But as for me, I would seek God. I would commit my cause to God, +005:009 who does great things that can't be fathomed, marvelous + things without number; +005:010 who gives rain on the earth, and sends waters on the fields; +005:011 so that he sets up on high those who are low, those who mourn + are exalted to safety. +005:012 He frustrates the devices of the crafty, So that their hands + can't perform their enterprise. +005:013 He takes the wise in their own craftiness; the counsel + of the cunning is carried headlong. +005:014 They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday + as in the night. +005:015 But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy + from the hand of the mighty. +005:016 So the poor has hope, and injustice shuts her mouth. +005:017 "Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do + not despise the chastening of the Almighty. +005:018 For he wounds, and binds up. He injures, and his hands make whole. +005:019 He will deliver you in six troubles; yes, in seven there shall + no evil touch you. +005:020 In famine he will redeem you from death; in war, from the power + of the sword. +005:021 You shall be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, neither shall + you be afraid of destruction when it comes. +005:022 At destruction and famine you shall laugh, neither shall you + be afraid of the animals of the earth. +005:023 For you shall be in league with the stones of the field. + The animals of the field shall be at peace with you. +005:024 You shall know that your tent is in peace. You shall visit + your fold, and shall miss nothing. +005:025 You shall know also that your seed shall be great, Your offspring + as the grass of the earth. +005:026 You shall come to your grave in a full age, like a shock + of grain comes in its season. +005:027 Look this, we have searched it, so it is. Hear it, and know + it for your good." +006:001 Then Job answered, +006:002 "Oh that my anguish were weighed, and all my calamity laid + in the balances! +006:003 For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas, + therefore have my words been rash. +006:004 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My spirit + drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves + in array against me. +006:005 Does the wild donkey bray when he has grass? Or does the ox + low over his fodder? +006:006 Can that which has no flavor be eaten without salt? + Or is there any taste in the white of an egg? +006:007 My soul refuses to touch them. They are as loathsome food to me. +006:008 "Oh that I might have my request, that God would grant the thing + that I long for, +006:009 even that it would please God to crush me; that he would let + loose his hand, and cut me off! +006:010 Be it still my consolation, yes, let me exult in pain that + doesn't spare, that I have not denied the words of the Holy One. +006:011 What is my strength, that I should wait? What is my end, + that I should be patient? +006:012 Is my strength the strength of stones? Or is my flesh of brass? +006:013 Isn't it that I have no help in me, That wisdom is driven + quite from me? +006:014 "To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from + his friend; even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty. +006:015 My brothers have dealt deceitfully as a brook, as the channel + of brooks that pass away; +006:016 Which are black by reason of the ice, in which the snow hides itself. +006:017 In the dry season, they vanish. When it is hot, they are + consumed out of their place. +006:018 The caravans that travel beside them turn aside. + They go up into the waste, and perish. +006:019 The caravans of Tema looked. The companies of Sheba + waited for them. +006:020 They were distressed because they were confident. + They came there, and were confounded. +006:021 For now you are nothing. You see a terror, and are afraid. +006:022 Did I say, 'Give to me?' or, 'Offer a present for me + from your substance?' +006:023 or, 'Deliver me from the adversary's hand?' or, 'Redeem me + from the hand of the oppressors?' +006:024 "Teach me, and I will hold my peace. Cause me to understand + wherein I have erred. +006:025 How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, + what does it reprove? +006:026 Do you intend to reprove words, seeing that the speeches + of one who is desperate are as wind? +006:027 Yes, you would even cast lots for the fatherless, and make + merchandise of your friend. +006:028 Now therefore be pleased to look at me, for surely I shall + not lie to your face. +006:029 Please return. Let there be no injustice. Yes, return again. + My cause is righteous. +006:030 Is there injustice on my tongue? Can't my taste + discern mischievous things? +007:001 "Isn't a man forced to labor on earth? Aren't his days + like the days of a hired hand? +007:002 As a servant who earnestly desires the shadow, as a hireling + who looks for his wages, +007:003 so am I made to possess months of misery, wearisome nights + are appointed to me. +007:004 When I lie down, I say, 'When shall I arise, and the night be gone?' + I toss and turn until the dawning of the day. +007:005 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. + My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh. +007:006 My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are + spent without hope. +007:007 Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye shall no + more see good. +007:008 The eye of him who sees me shall see me no more. + Your eyes shall be on me, but I shall not be. +007:009 As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes + down to Sheol shall come up no more. +007:010 He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place + know him any more. +007:011 "Therefore I will not keep silent. I will speak in the anguish + of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. +007:012 Am I a sea, or a sea monster, that you put a guard over me? +007:013 When I say, 'My bed shall comfort me. My couch shall + ease my complaint;' +007:014 then you scare me with dreams, and terrify me through visions: +007:015 so that my soul chooses strangling, death rather than my bones. +007:016 I loathe my life. I don't want to live forever. + Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath. +007:017 What is man, that you should magnify him, that you should set + your mind on him, +007:018 that you should visit him every morning, and test him every moment? +007:019 How long will you not look away from me, nor leave me alone + until I swallow down my spittle? +007:020 If I have sinned, what do I do to you, you watcher of men? + Why have you set me as a mark for you, so that I am + a burden to myself? +007:021 Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? + For now shall I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, + but I shall not be." +008:001 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered, +008:002 "How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your + mouth be a mighty wind? +008:003 Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty + pervert righteousness? +008:004 If your children have sinned against him, He has delivered + them into the hand of their disobedience. +008:005 If you want to seek God diligently, make your supplication + to the Almighty. +008:006 If you were pure and upright, surely now he would awaken for you, + and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous. +008:007 Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end + would greatly increase. +008:008 "Please inquire of past generations. Find out about the learning + of their fathers. +008:009 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our + days on earth are a shadow.) +008:010 Shall they not teach you, tell you, and utter words out + of their heart? +008:011 "Can the papyrus grow up without mire? Can the rushes + grow without water? +008:012 While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withers + before any other reed. +008:013 So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless + man shall perish, +008:014 Whose confidence shall break apart, Whose trust is a spider's web. +008:015 He shall lean on his house, but it shall not stand. + He shall cling to it, but it shall not endure. +008:016 He is green before the sun. His shoots go forth over his garden. +008:017 His roots are wrapped around the rock pile. He sees + the place of stones. +008:018 If he is destroyed from his place, then it shall deny him, + saying, 'I have not seen you.' +008:019 Behold, this is the joy of his way: out of the earth, + others shall spring. +008:020 "Behold, God will not cast away a blameless man, neither will + he uphold the evil-doers. +008:021 He will still fill your mouth with laughter, your lips with shouting. +008:022 Those who hate you shall be clothed with shame. + The tent of the wicked shall be no more." +009:001 Then Job answered, +009:002 "Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God? +009:003 If he is pleased to contend with him, he can't answer him + one time in a thousand. +009:004 God who is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: + who has hardened himself against him, and prospered? +009:005 He removes the mountains, and they don't know it, when he overturns + them in his anger. +009:006 He shakes the earth out of its place. Its pillars tremble. +009:007 He commands the sun, and it doesn't rise, and seals up the stars. +009:008 He alone stretches out the heavens, and treads on the waves + of the sea. +009:009 He makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the chambers + of the south. +009:010 He does great things past finding out; yes, marvelous + things without number. +009:011 Behold, he goes by me, and I don't see him. He passes on also, + but I don't perceive him. +009:012 Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, + 'What are you doing?' +009:013 "God will not withdraw his anger. The helpers of Rahab + stoop under him. +009:014 How much less shall I answer him, And choose my words to + argue with him? +009:015 Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn't answer him. + I would make supplication to my judge. +009:016 If I had called, and he had answered me, yet I wouldn't believe + that he listened to my voice. +009:017 For he breaks me with a storm, and multiplies my + wounds without cause. +009:018 He will not allow me to catch my breath, but fills + me with bitterness. +009:019 If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty! + If of justice, 'Who,' says he, 'will summon me?' +009:020 Though I am righteous, my own mouth shall condemn me. + Though I am blameless, it shall prove me perverse. +009:021 I am blameless. I don't regard myself. I despise my life. +009:022 "It is all the same. Therefore I say he destroys the blameless + and the wicked. +009:023 If the scourge kills suddenly, he will mock at the trial + of the innocent. +009:024 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. + He covers the faces of the judges of it. If not he, + then who is it? +009:025 "Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away, + they see no good, +009:026 They have passed away as the swift ships, as the eagle that + swoops on the prey. +009:027 If I say, 'I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, + and cheer up;' +009:028 I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that you will not + hold me innocent. +009:029 I shall be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain? +009:030 If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye, +009:031 yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes + shall abhor me. +009:032 For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, + that we should come together in judgment. +009:033 There is no umpire between us, that might lay his hand + on us both. +009:034 Let him take his rod away from me. Let his terror not + make me afraid; +009:035 then I would speak, and not fear him, for I am not so in myself. +010:001 "My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to + my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. +010:002 I will tell God, 'Do not condemn me. Show me why you + contend with me. +010:003 Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should + despise the work of your hands, and smile on the counsel + of the wicked? +010:004 Do you have eyes of flesh? Or do you see as man sees? +010:005 Are your days as the days of mortals, or your years as man's years, +010:006 that you inquire after my iniquity, and search after my sin? +010:007 Although you know that I am not wicked, there is no one who can + deliver out of your hand. +010:008 "'Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether, + yet you destroy me. +010:009 Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. + Will you bring me into dust again? +010:010 Haven't you poured me out like milk, and curdled me like cheese? +010:011 You have clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together + with bones and sinews. +010:012 You have granted me life and loving kindness. Your visitation + has preserved my spirit. +010:013 Yet you hid these things in your heart. I know that this + is with you: +010:014 if I sin, then you mark me. You will not acquit me + from my iniquity. +010:015 If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still shall + not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious + of my affliction. +010:016 If my head is held high, you hunt me like a lion. + Again you show yourself powerful to me. +010:017 You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your indignation + on me. Changes and warfare are with me. +010:018 "'Why, then, have you brought me forth out of the womb? + I wish I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me. +010:019 I should have been as though I had not been. I should have + been carried from the womb to the grave. +010:020 Aren't my days few? Cease then. Leave me alone, that I may + find a little comfort, +010:021 before I go where I shall not return from, to the land + of darkness and of the shadow of death; +010:022 the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, + where the light is as midnight.'" +011:001 Then Zophar, the Naamathite, answered, +011:002 "Shouldn't the multitude of words be answered? Should a man + full of talk be justified? +011:003 Should your boastings make men hold their peace? + When you mock, shall no man make you ashamed? +011:004 For you say, 'My doctrine is pure. I am clean in your eyes.' +011:005 But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against you, +011:006 that he would show you the secrets of wisdom! For true wisdom + has two sides. Know therefore that God exacts of you less + than your iniquity deserves. +011:007 "Can you fathom the mystery of God? Or can you probe the limits + of the Almighty? +011:008 They are high as heaven. What can you do? They are deeper + than Sheol. What can you know? +011:009 Its measure is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea. +011:010 If he passes by, or confines, or convenes a court, then who + can oppose him? +011:011 For he knows false men. He sees iniquity also, even though + he doesn't consider it. +011:012 An empty-headed man becomes wise when a man is born as a + wild donkey's colt. +011:013 "If you set your heart aright, stretch out your hands toward him. +011:014 If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away. Don't let + unrighteousness dwell in your tents. +011:015 Surely then shall you lift up your face without spot; + Yes, you shall be steadfast, and shall not fear: +011:016 for you shall forget your misery. You shall remember it + as waters that are passed away. +011:017 Life shall be clearer than the noonday. Though there is darkness, + it shall be as the morning. +011:018 You shall be secure, because there is hope. Yes, you shall search, + and shall take your rest in safety. +011:019 Also you shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid. + Yes, many shall court your favor. +011:020 But the eyes of the wicked shall fail. They shall have no way + to flee. Their hope shall be the giving up of the spirit." +012:001 Then Job answered, +012:002 "No doubt, but you are the people, and wisdom shall die with you. +012:003 But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. + Yes, who doesn't know such things as these? +012:004 I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, + and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke. +012:005 In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt + for misfortune. It is ready for them whose foot slips. +012:006 The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, + who carry their God in their hands. +012:007 "But ask the animals, now, and they shall teach you; + the birds of the sky, and they shall tell you. +012:008 Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach you. The fish + of the sea shall declare to you. +012:009 Who doesn't know that in all these, the hand of Yahweh + has done this, +012:010 in whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath + of all mankind? +012:011 Doesn't the ear try words, even as the palate tastes its food? +012:012 With aged men is wisdom, in length of days understanding. +012:013 "With God is wisdom and might. He has counsel and understanding. +012:014 Behold, he breaks down, and it can't be built again. + He imprisons a man, and there can be no release. +012:015 Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up. Again, he sends + them out, and they overturn the earth. +012:016 With him is strength and wisdom. The deceived and the + deceiver are his. +012:017 He leads counselors away stripped. He makes judges fools. +012:018 He loosens the bond of kings. He binds their waist with a belt. +012:019 He leads priests away stripped, and overthrows the mighty. +012:020 He removes the speech of those who are trusted, and takes away + the understanding of the elders. +012:021 He pours contempt on princes, and loosens the belt of the strong. +012:022 He uncovers deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light + the shadow of death. +012:023 He increases the nations, and he destroys them. + He enlarges the nations, and he leads them captive. +012:024 He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people + of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness + where there is no way. +012:025 They grope in the dark without light. He makes them stagger + like a drunken man. +013:001 "Behold, my eye has seen all this. My ear has heard + and understood it. +013:002 What you know, I know also. I am not inferior to you. +013:003 "Surely I would speak to the Almighty. I desire to reason with God. +013:004 But you are forgers of lies. You are all physicians of no value. +013:005 Oh that you would be completely silent! Then you would be wise. +013:006 Hear now my reasoning. Listen to the pleadings of my lips. +013:007 Will you speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for him? +013:008 Will you show partiality to him? Will you contend for God? +013:009 Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceives + a man, will you deceive him? +013:010 He will surely reprove you if you secretly show partiality. +013:011 Shall not his majesty make you afraid, And his dread fall on you? +013:012 Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defenses + are defenses of clay. +013:013 "Be silent, leave me alone, that I may speak. Let come on + me what will. +013:014 Why should I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life + in my hand? +013:015 Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will + maintain my ways before him. +013:016 This also shall be my salvation, that a godless man shall + not come before him. +013:017 Hear diligently my speech. Let my declaration be in your ears. +013:018 See now, I have set my cause in order. I know that I am righteous. +013:019 Who is he who will contend with me? For then would I hold + my peace and give up the spirit. +013:020 "Only don't do two things to me; then I will not hide myself + from your face: +013:021 withdraw your hand far from me; and don't let your terror + make me afraid. +013:022 Then call, and I will answer; or let me speak, and you answer me. +013:023 How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me know my disobedience + and my sin. +013:024 Why hide you your face, and hold me for your enemy? +013:025 Will you harass a driven leaf? Will you pursue the dry stubble? +013:026 For you write bitter things against me, and make me inherit + the iniquities of my youth: +013:027 You also put my feet in the stocks, and mark all my paths. + You set a bound to the soles of my feet, +013:028 though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment + that is moth-eaten. +014:001 "Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble. +014:002 He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees + like a shadow, and doesn't continue. +014:003 Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into + judgment with you? +014:004 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one. +014:005 Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is + with you, and you have appointed his bounds that he can't pass; +014:006 Look away from him, that he may rest, until he shall accomplish, + as a hireling, his day. +014:007 "For there is hope for a tree, If it is cut down, that it will + sprout again, that the tender branch of it will not cease. +014:008 Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stock dies + in the ground, +014:009 yet through the scent of water it will bud, and put forth + boughs like a plant. +014:010 But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, + and where is he? +014:011 As the waters fail from the sea, and the river wastes and dries up, +014:012 so man lies down and doesn't rise. Until the heavens are no more, + they shall not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep. +014:013 "Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would keep me secret, + until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time, + and remember me! +014:014 If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my warfare + would I wait, until my release should come. +014:015 You would call, and I would answer you. You would have a desire + to the work of your hands. +014:016 But now you number my steps. Don't you watch over my sin? +014:017 My disobedience is sealed up in a bag. You fasten up my iniquity. +014:018 "But the mountain falling comes to nothing. The rock is removed + out of its place; +014:019 The waters wear the stones. The torrents of it wash away + the dust of the earth. So you destroy the hope of man. +014:020 You forever prevail against him, and he departs. + You change his face, and send him away. +014:021 His sons come to honor, and he doesn't know it. + They are brought low, but he doesn't perceive it of them. +014:022 But his flesh on him has pain, and his soul within him mourns." +015:001 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, +015:002 "Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself + with the east wind? +015:003 Should he reason with unprofitable talk, or with speeches + with which he can do no good? +015:004 Yes, you do away with fear, and hinder devotion before God. +015:005 For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language + of the crafty. +015:006 Your own mouth condemns you, and not I. Yes, your own lips + testify against you. +015:007 "Are you the first man who was born? Or were you brought + forth before the hills? +015:008 Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit + wisdom to yourself? +015:009 What do you know, that we don't know? What do you understand, + which is not in us? +015:010 With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, + much elder than your father. +015:011 Are the consolations of God too small for you, even the word + that is gentle toward you? +015:012 Why does your heart carry you away? Why do your eyes flash, +015:013 That you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go + out of your mouth? +015:014 What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born + of a woman, that he should be righteous? +015:015 Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones. Yes, the heavens + are not clean in his sight; +015:016 how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks + iniquity like water! +015:017 "I will show you, listen to me; that which I have seen + I will declare: +015:018 (Which wise men have told by their fathers, and have not hidden it; +015:019 to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them): +015:020 the wicked man writhes in pain all his days, even the number + of years that are laid up for the oppressor. +015:021 A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer + shall come on him. +015:022 He doesn't believe that he shall return out of darkness. + He is waited for by the sword. +015:023 He wanders abroad for bread, saying, 'Where is it?' + He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand. +015:024 Distress and anguish make him afraid. They prevail against him, + as a king ready to the battle. +015:025 Because he has stretched out his hand against God, and behaves + himself proudly against the Almighty; +015:026 he runs at him with a stiff neck, with the thick shields + of his bucklers; +015:027 because he has covered his face with his fatness, and gathered + fat on his thighs. +015:028 He has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no one inhabited, + which were ready to become heaps. +015:029 He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, + neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth. +015:030 He shall not depart out of darkness. The flame shall dry up + his branches. By the breath of God's mouth shall he go away. +015:031 Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself; for emptiness + shall be his reward. +015:032 It shall be accomplished before his time. His branch shall + not be green. +015:033 He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall + cast off his flower as the olive tree. +015:034 For the company of the godless shall be barren, and fire shall + consume the tents of bribery. +015:035 They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity. + Their heart prepares deceit." +016:001 Then Job answered, +016:002 "I have heard many such things. You are all miserable comforters! +016:003 Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer? +016:004 I also could speak as you do. If your soul were in my + soul's place, I could join words together against you, + and shake my head at you, +016:005 but I would strengthen you with my mouth. The solace of my + lips would relieve you. +016:006 "Though I speak, my grief is not subsided. Though I forbear, + what am I eased? +016:007 But now, God, you have surely worn me out. You have made + desolate all my company. +016:008 You have shriveled me up. This is a witness against me. + My leanness rises up against me. It testifies to my face. +016:009 He has torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me. + He has gnashed on me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens + his eyes on me. +016:010 They have gaped on me with their mouth. They have struck + me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves + together against me. +016:011 God delivers me to the ungodly, and casts me into the hands + of the wicked. +016:012 I was at ease, and he broke me apart. Yes, he has taken me + by the neck, and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up + for his target. +016:013 His archers surround me. He splits my kidneys apart, + and does not spare. He pours out my gall on the ground. +016:014 He breaks me with breach on breach. He runs on me like a giant. +016:015 I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and have thrust my horn + in the dust. +016:016 My face is red with weeping. Deep darkness is on my eyelids. +016:017 Although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure. +016:018 "Earth, don't cover my blood. Let my cry have no place to rest. +016:019 Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven. He who vouches + for me is on high. +016:020 My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God, +016:021 that he would maintain the right of a man with God, of a son + of man with his neighbor! +016:022 For when a few years are come, I shall go the way from whence + I shall not return. +017:001 "My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct, And the grave + is ready for me. +017:002 Surely there are mockers with me. My eye dwells + on their provocation. +017:003 "Now give a pledge, be collateral for me with yourself. + Who is there who will strike hands with me? +017:004 For you have hidden their heart from understanding, + Therefore shall you not exalt them. +017:005 He who denounces his friends for a prey, Even the eyes of his + children shall fail. +017:006 "But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit + in my face. +017:007 My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are + as a shadow. +017:008 Upright men shall be astonished at this. The innocent shall + stir up himself against the godless. +017:009 Yet shall the righteous hold on his way. He who has clean + hands shall grow stronger and stronger. +017:010 But as for you all, come on now again; I shall not find a wise + man among you. +017:011 My days are past, my plans are broken off, as are the thoughts + of my heart. +017:012 They change the night into day, saying 'The light is near' + in the presence of darkness. +017:013 If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch + in the darkness, +017:014 If I have said to corruption, 'You are my father;' to the worm, + 'My mother,' and 'my sister;' +017:015 where then is my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it? +017:016 Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend + together into the dust?" +018:001 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered, +018:002 "How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards + we will speak. +018:003 Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean + in your sight? +018:004 You who tear yourself in your anger, shall the earth be forsaken + for you? Or shall the rock be removed out of its place? +018:005 "Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out, The spark + of his fire shall not shine. +018:006 The light shall be dark in his tent. His lamp above him shall + be put out. +018:007 The steps of his strength shall be shortened. His own counsel + shall cast him down. +018:008 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he wanders + into its mesh. +018:009 A snare will take him by the heel. A trap will catch him. +018:010 A noose is hidden for him in the ground, a trap for him + in the way. +018:011 Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall chase + him at his heels. +018:012 His strength shall be famished. Calamity shall be ready + at his side. +018:013 The members of his body shall be devoured. The firstborn + of death shall devour his members. +018:014 He shall be rooted out of his tent where he trusts. + He shall be brought to the king of terrors. +018:015 There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his. + Sulfur shall be scattered on his habitation. +018:016 His roots shall be dried up beneath. Above shall his branch + be cut off. +018:017 His memory shall perish from the earth. He shall have no name + in the street. +018:018 He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out + of the world. +018:019 He shall have neither son nor grandson among his people, + nor any remaining where he sojourned. +018:020 Those who come after shall be astonished at his day, + as those who went before were frightened. +018:021 Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous. + This is the place of him who doesn't know God." +019:001 Then Job answered, +019:002 "How long will you torment me, and crush me with words? +019:003 You have reproached me ten times. You aren't ashamed that + you attack me. +019:004 If it is true that I have erred, my error remains with myself. +019:005 If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, and plead + against me my reproach; +019:006 know now that God has subverted me, and has surrounded me + with his net. +019:007 "Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. + I cry for help, but there is no justice. +019:008 He has walled up my way so that I can't pass, and has set + darkness in my paths. +019:009 He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head. +019:010 He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. + My hope he has plucked up like a tree. +019:011 He has also kindled his wrath against me. He counts me + among his adversaries. +019:012 His troops come on together, build a siege ramp against me, + and encamp around my tent. +019:013 "He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are + wholly estranged from me. +019:014 My relatives have gone away. My familiar friends have forgotten me. +019:015 Those who dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger. + I am an alien in their sight. +019:016 I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer. + I beg him with my mouth. +019:017 My breath is offensive to my wife. I am loathsome to the children + of my own mother. +019:018 Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me. +019:019 All my familiar friends abhor me. They whom I loved have + turned against me. +019:020 My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped + by the skin of my teeth. +019:021 "Have pity on me, have pity on me, you my friends; for the hand + of God has touched me. +019:022 Why do you persecute me as God, and are not satisfied + with my flesh? +019:023 "Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed + in a book! +019:024 That with an iron pen and lead they were engraved in + the rock forever! +019:025 But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, + he will stand upon the earth. +019:026 After my skin is destroyed, then in my flesh shall I see God, +019:027 Whom I, even I, shall see on my side. My eyes shall see, + and not as a stranger. "My heart is consumed within me. +019:028 If you say, 'How we will persecute him!' because the root + of the matter is found in me, +019:029 be afraid of the sword, for wrath brings the punishments + of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment." +020:001 Then Zophar the Naamathite answered, +020:002 "Therefore do my thoughts give answer to me, even by reason + of my haste that is in me. +020:003 I have heard the reproof which puts me to shame. + The spirit of my understanding answers me. +020:004 Don't you know this from old time, since man was placed on earth, +020:005 that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless + but for a moment? +020:006 Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach + to the clouds, +020:007 yet he shall perish forever like his own dung. + Those who have seen him shall say, 'Where is he?' +020:008 He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found. + Yes, he shall be chased away like a vision of the night. +020:009 The eye which saw him shall see him no more, neither shall + his place any more see him. +020:010 His children shall seek the favor of the poor. His hands + shall give back his wealth. +020:011 His bones are full of his youth, but youth shall lie down + with him in the dust. +020:012 "Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hide it + under his tongue, +020:013 though he spare it, and will not let it go, but keep it still + within his mouth; +020:014 yet his food in his bowels is turned. It is cobra venom within him. +020:015 He has swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again. + God will cast them out of his belly. +020:016 He shall suck cobra venom. The viper's tongue shall kill him. +020:017 He shall not look at the rivers, the flowing streams of + honey and butter. +020:018 That for which he labored he shall restore, and shall not swallow + it down. According to the substance that he has gotten, + he shall not rejoice. +020:019 For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently + taken away a house, and he shall not build it up. +020:020 "Because he knew no quietness within him, he shall not save + anything of that in which he delights. +020:021 There was nothing left that he didn't devour, therefore his + prosperity shall not endure. +020:022 In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress shall overtake him. + The hand of everyone who is in misery shall come on him. +020:023 When he is about to fill his belly, God will cast the fierceness + of his wrath on him. It will rain on him while he is eating. +020:024 He shall flee from the iron weapon. The bronze arrow shall + strike him through. +020:025 He draws it forth, and it comes out of his body. + Yes, the glittering point comes out of his liver. + Terrors are on him. +020:026 All darkness is laid up for his treasures. An unfanned fire + shall devour him. It shall consume that which is left + in his tent. +020:027 The heavens shall reveal his iniquity. The earth shall rise + up against him. +020:028 The increase of his house shall depart. They shall rush away + in the day of his wrath. +020:029 This is the portion of a wicked man from God, the heritage + appointed to him by God." +021:001 Then Job answered, +021:002 "Listen diligently to my speech. Let this be your consolation. +021:003 Allow me, and I also will speak; After I have spoken, mock on. +021:004 As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn't I be impatient? +021:005 Look at me, and be astonished. Lay your hand on your mouth. +021:006 When I remember, I am troubled. Horror takes hold of my flesh. +021:007 "Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow mighty in power? +021:008 Their child is established with them in their sight, + their offspring before their eyes. +021:009 Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of + God upon them. +021:010 Their bulls breed without fail. Their cows calve, + and don't miscarry. +021:011 They send forth their little ones like a flock. + Their children dance. +021:012 They sing to the tambourine and harp, and rejoice at the sound + of the pipe. +021:013 They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go + down to Sheol. +021:014 They tell God, 'Depart from us, for we don't want to know + about your ways. +021:015 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? + What profit should we have, if we pray to him?' +021:016 Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel + of the wicked is far from me. +021:017 "How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out, + that their calamity comes on them, that God distributes + sorrows in his anger? +021:018 How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, + as chaff that the storm carries away? +021:019 You say, 'God lays up his iniquity for his children.' + Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it. +021:020 Let his own eyes see his destruction. Let him drink of the wrath + of the Almighty. +021:021 For what does he care for his house after him, when the number + of his months is cut off? +021:022 "Shall any teach God knowledge, seeing he judges those + who are high? +021:023 One dies in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet. +021:024 His pails are full of milk. The marrow of his bones is moistened. +021:025 Another dies in bitterness of soul, and never tastes of good. +021:026 They lie down alike in the dust. The worm covers them. +021:027 "Behold, I know your thoughts, the devices with which you + would wrong me. +021:028 For you say, 'Where is the house of the prince? + Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?' +021:029 Haven't you asked wayfaring men? Don't you know their evidences, +021:030 that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, + That they are led forth to the day of wrath? +021:031 Who shall declare his way to his face? Who shall repay him + what he has done? +021:032 Yet he will be borne to the grave. Men shall keep watch + over the tomb. +021:033 The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him. All men shall + draw after him, as there were innumerable before him. +021:034 So how can you comfort me with nonsense, seeing that in your + answers there remains only falsehood?" +022:001 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, +022:002 "Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is + profitable to himself. +022:003 Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that you are righteous? + Or does it benefit him, that you make your ways perfect? +022:004 Is it for your piety that he reproves you, that he enters + with you into judgment? +022:005 Isn't your wickedness great? Neither is there any end + to your iniquities. +022:006 For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, + and stripped the naked of their clothing. +022:007 You haven't given water to the weary to drink, and you have + withheld bread from the hungry. +022:008 But as for the mighty man, he had the earth. The honorable man, + he lived in it. +022:009 You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless + have been broken. +022:010 Therefore snares are round about you. Sudden fear troubles you, +022:011 or darkness, so that you can not see, and floods of waters cover you. +022:012 "Isn't God in the heights of heaven? See the height of the stars, + how high they are! +022:013 You say, 'What does God know? Can he judge through + the thick darkness? +022:014 Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he doesn't see. + He walks on the vault of the sky.' +022:015 Will you keep the old way, which wicked men have trodden, +022:016 who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation + was poured out as a stream, +022:017 who said to God, 'Depart from us;' and, 'What can the Almighty + do for us?' +022:018 Yet he filled their houses with good things, but the counsel + of the wicked is far from me. +022:019 The righteous see it, and are glad. The innocent ridicule them, +022:020 saying, 'Surely those who rose up against us are cut off. + The fire has consumed the remnant of them.' +022:021 "Acquaint yourself with him, now, and be at peace. + Thereby good shall come to you. +022:022 Please receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words + in your heart. +022:023 If you return to the Almighty, you shall be built up, if you + put away unrighteousness far from your tents. +022:024 Lay your treasure in the dust, the gold of Ophir among the stones + of the brooks. +022:025 The Almighty will be your treasure, and precious silver to you. +022:026 For then you will delight yourself in the Almighty, and shall + lift up your face to God. +022:027 You shall make your prayer to him, and he will hear you. + You shall pay your vows. +022:028 You shall also decree a thing, and it shall be established to you. + Light shall shine on your ways. +022:029 When they cast down, you shall say, 'be lifted up.' + He will save the humble person. +022:030 He will even deliver him who is not innocent. Yes, he shall + be delivered through the cleanness of your hands." +023:001 Then Job answered, +023:002 "Even today my complaint is rebellious. His hand is heavy + in spite of my groaning. +023:003 Oh that I knew where I might find him! That I might come + even to his seat! +023:004 I would set my cause in order before him, and fill my + mouth with arguments. +023:005 I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand + what he would tell me. +023:006 Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power? + No, but he would listen to me. +023:007 There the upright might reason with him, so I should be delivered + forever from my judge. +023:008 "If I go east, he is not there; if west, I can't find him; +023:009 He works to the north, but I can't see him. He turns south, + but I can't catch a glimpse of him. +023:010 But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, + I shall come forth like gold. +023:011 My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way, + and not turned aside. +023:012 I haven't gone back from the commandment of his lips. + I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than + my necessary food. +023:013 But he stands alone, and who can oppose him? What his soul desires, + even that he does. +023:014 For he performs that which is appointed for me. + Many such things are with him. +023:015 Therefore I am terrified at his presence. When I consider, + I am afraid of him. +023:016 For God has made my heart faint. The Almighty has terrified me. +023:017 Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither did + he cover the thick darkness from my face. +024:001 "Why aren't times laid up by the Almighty? Why don't those + who know him see his days? +024:002 There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently + take away flocks, and feed them. +024:003 They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take + the widow's ox for a pledge. +024:004 They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth + all hide themselves. +024:005 Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go forth to their work, + seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them + bread for their children. +024:006 They cut their provender in the field. They glean the vineyard + of the wicked. +024:007 They lie all night naked without clothing, and have no covering + in the cold. +024:008 They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace + the rock for lack of a shelter. +024:009 There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, + and take a pledge of the poor, +024:010 So that they go around naked without clothing. Being hungry, + they carry the sheaves. +024:011 They make oil within the walls of these men. They tread + wine presses, and suffer thirst. +024:012 From out of the populous city, men groan. The soul of the wounded + cries out, yet God doesn't regard the folly. +024:013 "These are of those who rebel against the light. + They don't know its ways, nor abide in its paths. +024:014 The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. + In the night he is like a thief. +024:015 The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, + 'No eye shall see me.' He disguises his face. +024:016 In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up + in the daytime. They don't know the light. +024:017 For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, + for they know the terrors of the thick darkness. +024:018 "They are foam on the surface of the waters. Their portion + is cursed in the earth. They don't turn into the way + of the vineyards. +024:019 Drought and heat consume the snow waters, so does Sheol + those who have sinned. +024:020 The womb shall forget him. The worm shall feed sweetly on him. + He shall be no more remembered. Unrighteousness shall be + broken as a tree. +024:021 He devours the barren who don't bear. He shows no kindness + to the widow. +024:022 Yet God preserves the mighty by his power. He rises up who has + no assurance of life. +024:023 God gives them security, and they rest in it. His eyes are + on their ways. +024:024 They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone. + Yes, they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as + all others, and are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain. +024:025 If it isn't so now, who will prove me a liar, and make my + speech worth nothing?" +025:001 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered, +025:002 "Dominion and fear are with him. He makes peace in his high places. +025:003 Can his armies be counted? On whom does his light not arise? +025:004 How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born + of a woman be clean? +025:005 Behold, even the moon has no brightness, and the stars are + not pure in his sight; +025:006 How much less man, who is a worm, the son of man, who is a worm!" +026:001 Then Job answered, +026:002 "How have you helped him who is without power! How have you + saved the arm that has no strength! +026:003 How have you counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully + declared sound knowledge! +026:004 To whom have you uttered words? Whose spirit came forth from you? +026:005 "Those who are deceased tremble, those beneath the waters + and all that live in them. +026:006 Sheol{Sheol is the lower world or the grave.} is naked before God, + and Abaddon{Abaddon means Destroyer.} has no covering. +026:007 He stretches out the north over empty space, and hangs + the earth on nothing. +026:008 He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud + is not burst under them. +026:009 He encloses the face of his throne, and spreads his cloud on it. +026:010 He has described a boundary on the surface of the waters, + and to the confines of light and darkness. +026:011 The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his rebuke. +026:012 He stirs up the sea with his power, and by his understanding + he strikes through Rahab. +026:013 By his Spirit the heavens are garnished. His hand has pierced + the swift serpent. +026:014 Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways. + How small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder + of his power who can understand?" +027:001 Job again took up his parable, and said, +027:002 "As God lives, who has taken away my right, the Almighty, + who has made my soul bitter. +027:003 (For the length of my life is still in me, and the spirit + of God is in my nostrils); +027:004 surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, neither shall + my tongue utter deceit. +027:005 Far be it from me that I should justify you. Until I die I + will not put away my integrity from me. +027:006 I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go. + My heart shall not reproach me so long as I live. +027:007 "Let my enemy be as the wicked. Let him who rises up against + me be as the unrighteous. +027:008 For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, + when God takes away his life? +027:009 Will God hear his cry when trouble comes on him? +027:010 Will he delight himself in the Almighty, and call on God + at all times? +027:011 I will teach you about the hand of God. That which is with + the Almighty will I not conceal. +027:012 Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves; why then have you + become altogether vain? +027:013 "This is the portion of a wicked man with God, the heritage + of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty. +027:014 If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword. + His offspring shall not be satisfied with bread. +027:015 Those who remain of him shall be buried in death. + His widows shall make no lamentation. +027:016 Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare clothing + as the clay; +027:017 he may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent + shall divide the silver. +027:018 He builds his house as the moth, as a booth which the watchman makes. +027:019 He lies down rich, but he shall not do so again. + He opens his eyes, and he is not. +027:020 Terrors overtake him like waters. A storm steals him away + in the night. +027:021 The east wind carries him away, and he departs. + It sweeps him out of his place. +027:022 For it hurls at him, and does not spare, as he flees away + from his hand. +027:023 Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out + of his place. +028:001 "Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold + which they refine. +028:002 Iron is taken out of the earth, and copper is smelted out + of the ore. +028:003 Man sets an end to darkness, and searches out, to the furthest bound, + the stones of obscurity and of thick darkness. +028:004 He breaks open a shaft away from where people live. + They are forgotten by the foot. They hang far from men, + they swing back and forth. +028:005 As for the earth, out of it comes bread; Underneath it is turned + up as it were by fire. +028:006 Sapphires come from its rocks. It has dust of gold. +028:007 That path no bird of prey knows, neither has the falcon's + eye seen it. +028:008 The proud animals have not trodden it, nor has the fierce lion + passed by there. +028:009 He puts forth his hand on the flinty rock, and he overturns + the mountains by the roots. +028:010 He cuts out channels among the rocks. His eye sees + every precious thing. +028:011 He binds the streams that they don't trickle. The thing + that is hidden he brings forth to light. +028:012 "But where shall wisdom be found? Where is the place + of understanding? +028:013 Man doesn't know its price; Neither is it found in the land + of the living. +028:014 The deep says, 'It isn't in me.' The sea says, 'It isn't with me.' +028:015 It can't be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed + for its price. +028:016 It can't be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, + or the sapphire{or, lapis lazuli}. +028:017 Gold and glass can't equal it, neither shall it be exchanged + for jewels of fine gold. +028:018 No mention shall be made of coral or of crystal. Yes, the price + of wisdom is above rubies. +028:019 The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, Neither shall it + be valued with pure gold. +028:020 Whence then comes wisdom? Where is the place of understanding? +028:021 Seeing it is hidden from the eyes of all living, and kept + close from the birds of the sky. +028:022 Destruction and Death say, 'We have heard a rumor of it + with our ears.' +028:023 "God understands its way, and he knows its place. +028:024 For he looks to the ends of the earth, and sees under + the whole sky. +028:025 He establishes the force of the wind. Yes, he measures out + the waters by measure. +028:026 When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning + of the thunder; +028:027 then he saw it, and declared it. He established it, yes, + and searched it out. +028:028 To man he said, 'Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. + To depart from evil is understanding.'" +029:001 Job again took up his parable, and said, +029:002 "Oh that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God + watched over me; +029:003 when his lamp shone on my head, and by his light I + walked through darkness, +029:004 as I was in the ripeness of my days, when the friendship of God + was in my tent, +029:005 when the Almighty was yet with me, and my children were around me, +029:006 when my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured + out streams of oil for me, +029:007 when I went forth to the city gate, when I prepared my seat + in the street. +029:008 The young men saw me and hid themselves. The aged rose + up and stood. +029:009 The princes refrained from talking, and laid their hand + on their mouth. +029:010 The voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue stuck + to the roof of their mouth. +029:011 For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye + saw me, it commended me: +029:012 Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, + who had none to help him, +029:013 the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, + and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. +029:014 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was + as a robe and a diadem. +029:015 I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. +029:016 I was a father to the needy. The cause of him who I didn't know, + I searched out. +029:017 I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the prey + out of his teeth. +029:018 Then I said, 'I shall die in my own house, I shall number + my days as the sand. +029:019 My root is spread out to the waters. The dew lies all night + on my branch. +029:020 My glory is fresh in me. My bow is renewed in my hand.' +029:021 "Men listened to me, waited, and kept silence for my counsel. +029:022 After my words they didn't speak again. My speech fell on them. +029:023 They waited for me as for the rain. Their mouths drank + as with the spring rain. +029:024 I smiled on them when they had no confidence. They didn't + reject the light of my face. +029:025 I chose out their way, and sat as chief. I lived as a king + in the army, as one who comforts the mourners. +030:001 "But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, + whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs. +030:002 Of what use is the strength of their hands to me, men in whom + ripe age has perished? +030:003 They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, + in the gloom of waste and desolation. +030:004 They pluck salt herbs by the bushes. The roots of the broom + are their food. +030:005 They are driven out from the midst of men. They cry after them + as after a thief; +030:006 So that they dwell in frightful valleys, and in holes of the earth + and of the rocks. +030:007 Among the bushes they bray; and under the nettles they + are gathered together. +030:008 They are children of fools, yes, children of base men. + They were flogged out of the land. +030:009 "Now I have become their song. Yes, I am a byword to them. +030:010 They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, and don't hesitate + to spit in my face. +030:011 For he has untied his cord, and afflicted me; and they have + thrown off restraint before me. +030:012 On my right hand rise the rabble. They thrust aside my feet, + They cast up against me their ways of destruction. +030:013 They mar my path, They set forward my calamity, + without anyone's help. +030:014 As through a wide breach they come, in the midst of the ruin + they roll themselves in. +030:015 Terrors have turned on me. They chase my honor as the wind. + My welfare has passed away as a cloud. +030:016 "Now my soul is poured out within me. Days of affliction + have taken hold on me. +030:017 In the night season my bones are pierced in me, and the pains + that gnaw me take no rest. +030:018 By great force is my garment disfigured. It binds me about + as the collar of my coat. +030:019 He has cast me into the mire. I have become like dust and ashes. +030:020 I cry to you, and you do not answer me. I stand up, and you + gaze at me. +030:021 You have turned to be cruel to me. With the might of your hand + you persecute me. +030:022 You lift me up to the wind, and drive me with it. + You dissolve me in the storm. +030:023 For I know that you will bring me to death, To the house + appointed for all living. +030:024 "However doesn't one stretch out a hand in his fall? + Or in his calamity therefore cry for help? +030:025 Didn't I weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn't my soul + grieved for the needy? +030:026 When I looked for good, then evil came; When I waited for light, + there came darkness. +030:027 My heart is troubled, and doesn't rest. Days of affliction + have come on me. +030:028 I go mourning without the sun. I stand up in the assembly, + and cry for help. +030:029 I am a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches. +030:030 My skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are + burned with heat. +030:031 Therefore my harp has turned to mourning, and my pipe into + the voice of those who weep. +031:001 "I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look + lustfully at a young woman? +031:002 For what is the portion from God above, and the heritage + from the Almighty on high? +031:003 Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the + workers of iniquity? +031:004 Doesn't he see my ways, and number all my steps? +031:005 "If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot has hurried to deceit +031:006 (let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may + know my integrity); +031:007 if my step has turned out of the way, if my heart walked + after my eyes, if any defilement has stuck to my hands, +031:008 then let me sow, and let another eat. Yes, let the produce + of my field be rooted out. +031:009 "If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have laid wait + at my neighbor's door, +031:010 then let my wife grind for another, and let others sleep with her. +031:011 For that would be a heinous crime. Yes, it would be an iniquity + to be punished by the judges: +031:012 For it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root + out all my increase. +031:013 "If I have despised the cause of my male servant or of my + female servant, when they contended with me; +031:014 What then shall I do when God rises up? When he visits, + what shall I answer him? +031:015 Didn't he who made me in the womb make him? Didn't one fashion + us in the womb? +031:016 "If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused + the eyes of the widow to fail, +031:017 or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not + eaten of it +031:018 (no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, + her have I guided from my mother's womb); +031:019 if I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or that the needy + had no covering; +031:020 if his heart hasn't blessed me, if he hasn't been warmed + with my sheep's fleece; +031:021 if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I + saw my help in the gate, +031:022 then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder blade, and my arm + be broken from the bone. +031:023 For calamity from God is a terror to me. Because his majesty, + I can do nothing. +031:024 "If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, + 'You are my confidence;' +031:025 If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my + hand had gotten much; +031:026 if I have seen the sun when it shined, or the moon moving in splendor, +031:027 and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my hand threw + a kiss from my mouth, +031:028 this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges; + for I should have denied the God who is above. +031:029 "If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, + or lifted up myself when evil found him; +031:030 (yes, I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking his life + with a curse); +031:031 if the men of my tent have not said, 'Who can find one who has + not been filled with his meat?' +031:032 (the foreigner has not lodged in the street, but I have opened + my doors to the traveler); +031:033 if like Adam I have covered my transgressions, by hiding + my iniquity in my heart, +031:034 because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt + of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and didn't + go out of the door-- +031:035 oh that I had one to hear me! (behold, here is my signature, + let the Almighty answer me); let the accuser write my indictment! +031:036 Surely I would carry it on my shoulder; and I would bind it + to me as a crown. +031:037 I would declare to him the number of my steps. as a prince + would I go near to him. +031:038 If my land cries out against me, and the furrows of it weep together; +031:039 if I have eaten the fruits of it without money, or have caused + the owners of it to lose their life, +031:040 let briars grow instead of wheat, and stinkweed instead of barley." + The words of Job are ended. +032:001 So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous + in his own eyes. +032:002 Then the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel, the Buzite, + of the family of Ram, was kindled against Job. His wrath + was kindled because he justified himself rather than God. +032:003 Also his wrath was kindled against his three friends, + because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job. +032:004 Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job, because they were + elder than he. +032:005 When Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these + three men, his wrath was kindled. +032:006 Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered, "I am young, + and you are very old; Therefore I held back, and didn't dare + show you my opinion. +032:007 I said, 'Days should speak, and multitude of years + should teach wisdom.' +032:008 But there is a spirit in man, and the breath of the Almighty + gives them understanding. +032:009 It is not the great who are wise, nor the aged + who understand justice. +032:010 Therefore I said, 'Listen to me; I also will show my opinion.' +032:011 "Behold, I waited for your words, and I listened for your reasoning, + while you searched out what to say. +032:012 Yes, I gave you my full attention, but there was no one who + convinced Job, or who answered his words, among you. +032:013 Beware lest you say, 'We have found wisdom, God may refute + him, not man;' +032:014 for he has not directed his words against me; neither will I + answer him with your speeches. +032:015 "They are amazed. They answer no more. They don't have + a word to say. +032:016 Shall I wait, because they don't speak, because they stand still, + and answer no more? +032:017 I also will answer my part, and I also will show my opinion. +032:018 For I am full of words. The spirit within me constrains me. +032:019 Behold, my breast is as wine which has no vent; like new + wineskins it is ready to burst. +032:020 I will speak, that I may be refreshed. I will open my + lips and answer. +032:021 Please don't let me respect any man's person, neither will I + give flattering titles to any man. +032:022 For I don't know how to give flattering titles; or else my Maker + would soon take me away. +033:001 "However, Job, Please hear my speech, and listen to all my words. +033:002 See now, I have opened my mouth. My tongue has spoken + in my mouth. +033:003 My words shall utter the uprightness of my heart. + That which my lips know they shall speak sincerely. +033:004 The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty + gives me life. +033:005 If you can, answer me. Set your words in order before me, + and stand forth. +033:006 Behold, I am toward God even as you are. I am also formed + out of the clay. +033:007 Behold, my terror shall not make you afraid, neither shall + my pressure be heavy on you. +033:008 "Surely you have spoken in my hearing, I have heard the voice + of your words, saying, +033:009 'I am clean, without disobedience. I am innocent, neither is + there iniquity in me. +033:010 Behold, he finds occasions against me. He counts me for his enemy. +033:011 He puts my feet in the stocks. He marks all my paths.' +033:012 "Behold, I will answer you. In this you are not just, + for God is greater than man. +033:013 Why do you strive against him, because he doesn't give account + of any of his matters? +033:014 For God speaks once, yes twice, though man pays no attention. +033:015 In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls + on men, in slumbering on the bed; +033:016 Then he opens the ears of men, and seals their instruction, +033:017 That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man. +033:018 He keeps back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing + by the sword. +033:019 He is chastened also with pain on his bed, with continual + strife in his bones; +033:020 So that his life abhors bread, and his soul dainty food. +033:021 His flesh is so consumed away, that it can't be seen. + His bones that were not seen stick out. +033:022 Yes, his soul draws near to the pit, and his life to the destroyers. +033:023 "If there is beside him an angel, an interpreter, one among + a thousand, to show to man what is right for him; +033:024 then God is gracious to him, and says, 'Deliver him from going + down to the pit, I have found a ransom.' +033:025 His flesh shall be fresher than a child's. He returns to the days + of his youth. +033:026 He prays to God, and he is favorable to him, so that he sees + his face with joy. He restores to man his righteousness. +033:027 He sings before men, and says, 'I have sinned, and perverted + that which was right, and it didn't profit me. +033:028 He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit. + My life shall see the light.' +033:029 "Behold, God works all these things, twice, yes three times, + with a man, +033:030 to bring back his soul from the pit, that he may be enlightened + with the light of the living. +033:031 Mark well, Job, and listen to me. Hold your peace, + and I will speak. +033:032 If you have anything to say, answer me. Speak, for I desire + to justify you. +033:033 If not, listen to me. Hold your peace, and I will teach you wisdom." +034:001 Moreover Elihu answered, +034:002 "Hear my words, you wise men. Give ear to me, + you who have knowledge. +034:003 For the ear tries words, as the palate tastes food. +034:004 Let us choose for us that which is right. Let us know among + ourselves what is good. +034:005 For Job has said, 'I am righteous, God has taken away my right: +034:006 Notwithstanding my right I am considered a liar. + My wound is incurable, though I am without disobedience.' +034:007 What man is like Job, who drinks scorn like water, +034:008 Who goes in company with the workers of iniquity, and walks + with wicked men? +034:009 For he has said, 'It profits a man nothing that he should + delight himself with God.' +034:010 "Therefore listen to me, you men of understanding: far be it + from God, that he should do wickedness, from the Almighty, + that he should commit iniquity. +034:011 For the work of a man he will render to him, and cause every + man to find according to his ways. +034:012 Yes surely, God will not do wickedly, neither will the + Almighty pervert justice. +034:013 Who gave him a charge over the earth? or who has appointed + him over the whole world? +034:014 If he set his heart on himself, If he gathered to himself + his spirit and his breath, +034:015 all flesh would perish together, and man would turn again to dust. +034:016 "If now you have understanding, hear this. Listen to the voice + of my words. +034:017 Shall even one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn + him who is righteous and mighty?-- +034:018 Who says to a king, 'Vile!' or to nobles, 'Wicked!'? +034:019 Who doesn't respect the persons of princes, nor regards the rich + more than the poor; for they all are the work of his hands. +034:020 In a moment they die, even at midnight. The people are shaken + and pass away. The mighty are taken away without a hand. +034:021 "For his eyes are on the ways of a man. He sees all his goings. +034:022 There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, where the workers + of iniquity may hide themselves. +034:023 For he doesn't need to consider a man further, that he should + go before God in judgment. +034:024 He breaks in pieces mighty men in ways past finding out, + and sets others in their place. +034:025 Therefore he takes knowledge of their works. He overturns + them in the night, so that they are destroyed. +034:026 He strikes them as wicked men in the open sight of others; +034:027 because they turned aside from following him, and wouldn't + pay attention to any of his ways, +034:028 so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him. + He heard the cry of the afflicted. +034:029 When he gives quietness, who then can condemn? When he hides + his face, who then can see him? Alike whether to a nation, + or to a man, +034:030 that the godless man may not reign, that there be no one + to ensnare the people. +034:031 "For has any said to God, 'I am guilty, but I will not + offend any more. +034:032 Teach me that which I don't see. If I have done iniquity, + I will do it no more'? +034:033 Shall his recompense be as you desire, that you refuse it? + For you must choose, and not I. Therefore speak what you know. +034:034 Men of understanding will tell me, yes, every wise man + who hears me: +034:035 'Job speaks without knowledge. His words are without wisdom.' +034:036 I wish that Job were tried to the end, because of his answering + like wicked men. +034:037 For he adds rebellion to his sin. He claps his hands among us, + and multiplies his words against God." +035:001 Moreover Elihu answered, +035:002 "Do you think this to be your right, or do you say, + 'My righteousness is more than God's,' +035:003 That you ask, 'What advantage will it be to you? + What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?' +035:004 I will answer you, and your companions with you. +035:005 Look to the heavens, and see. See the skies, which are + higher than you. +035:006 If you have sinned, what effect do you have against him? + If your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him? +035:007 If you are righteous, what do you give him? Or what does + he receive from your hand? +035:008 Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are, and your righteousness + may profit a son of man. +035:009 "By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out. + They cry for help by reason of the arm of the mighty. +035:010 But none says, 'Where is God my Maker, who gives songs + in the night, +035:011 who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes + us wiser than the birds of the sky?' +035:012 There they cry, but none gives answer, because of the pride + of evil men. +035:013 Surely God will not hear an empty cry, neither will the + Almighty regard it. +035:014 How much less when you say you don't see him. The cause + is before him, and you wait for him! +035:015 But now, because he has not visited in his anger, neither does + he greatly regard arrogance. +035:016 Therefore Job opens his mouth with empty talk, and he multiplies + words without knowledge." +036:001 Elihu also continued, and said, +036:002 "Bear with me a little, and I will show you; for I still + have something to say on God's behalf. +036:003 I will get my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness + to my Maker. +036:004 For truly my words are not false. One who is perfect in knowledge + is with you. +036:005 "Behold, God is mighty, and doesn't despise anyone. + He is mighty in strength of understanding. +036:006 He doesn't preserve the life of the wicked, but gives to + the afflicted their right. +036:007 He doesn't withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but with kings + on the throne, he sets them forever, and they are exalted. +036:008 If they are bound in fetters, and are taken in the + cords of afflictions, +036:009 then he shows them their work, and their transgressions, + that they have behaved themselves proudly. +036:010 He also opens their ears to instruction, and commands that they + return from iniquity. +036:011 If they listen and serve him, they shall spend their days + in prosperity, and their years in pleasures. +036:012 But if they don't listen, they shall perish by the sword; + they shall die without knowledge. +036:013 "But those who are godless in heart lay up anger. + They don't cry for help when he binds them. +036:014 They die in youth. Their life perishes among the unclean. +036:015 He delivers the afflicted by their affliction, and opens + their ear in oppression. +036:016 Yes, he would have allured you out of distress, into a broad place, + where there is no restriction. That which is set on your table + would be full of fatness. +036:017 "But you are full of the judgment of the wicked. + Judgment and justice take hold of you. +036:018 Don't let riches entice you to wrath, neither let the great + size of a bribe turn you aside. +036:019 Would your wealth sustain you in distress, or all the might + of your strength? +036:020 Don't desire the night, when people are cut off in their place. +036:021 Take heed, don't regard iniquity; for you have chosen this + rather than affliction. +036:022 Behold, God is exalted in his power. Who is a teacher like him? +036:023 Who has prescribed his way for him? Or who can say, + 'You have committed unrighteousness?' +036:024 "Remember that you magnify his work, whereof men have sung. +036:025 All men have looked thereon. Man sees it afar off. +036:026 Behold, God is great, and we don't know him. The number + of his years is unsearchable. +036:027 For he draws up the drops of water, which distill in rain + from his vapor, +036:028 Which the skies pour down and which drop on man abundantly. +036:029 Yes, can any understand the spreading of the clouds, + and the thunderings of his pavilion? +036:030 Behold, he spreads his light around him. He covers the bottom + of the sea. +036:031 For by these he judges the people. He gives food in abundance. +036:032 He covers his hands with the lightning, and commands it + to strike the mark. +036:033 Its noise tells about him, and the livestock also concerning + the storm that comes up. +037:001 "Yes, at this my heart trembles, and is moved out of its place. +037:002 Hear, oh, hear the noise of his voice, the sound that goes + out of his mouth. +037:003 He sends it forth under the whole sky, and his lightning + to the ends of the earth. +037:004 After it a voice roars. He thunders with the voice of his majesty. + He doesn't hold back anything when his voice is heard. +037:005 God thunders marvelously with his voice. He does great things, + which we can't comprehend. +037:006 For he says to the snow, 'Fall on the earth;' likewise to + the shower of rain, and to the showers of his mighty rain. +037:007 He seals up the hand of every man, that all men whom he has + made may know it. +037:008 Then the animals take cover, and remain in their dens. +037:009 Out of its chamber comes the storm, and cold out of the north. +037:010 By the breath of God, ice is given, and the breadth of the + waters is frozen. +037:011 Yes, he loads the thick cloud with moisture. He spreads abroad + the cloud of his lightning. +037:012 It is turned round about by his guidance, that they may do + whatever he commands them on the surface of the habitable world, +037:013 Whether it is for correction, or for his land, or for loving kindness, + that he causes it to come. +037:014 "Listen to this, Job. Stand still, and consider the wondrous + works of God. +037:015 Do you know how God controls them, and causes the lightning + of his cloud to shine? +037:016 Do you know the workings of the clouds, the wondrous works + of him who is perfect in knowledge? +037:017 You whose clothing is warm, when the earth is still by reason + of the south wind? +037:018 Can you, with him, spread out the sky, which is strong as a + cast metal mirror? +037:019 Teach us what we shall tell him, for we can't make our case + by reason of darkness. +037:020 Shall it be told him that I would speak? Or should a man wish + that he were swallowed up? +037:021 Now men don't see the light which is bright in the skies, + but the wind passes, and clears them. +037:022 Out of the north comes golden splendor. With God is awesome majesty. +037:023 We can't reach the Almighty. He is exalted in power. + In justice and great righteousness, he will not oppress. +037:024 Therefore men revere him. He doesn't regard any who are + wise of heart." +038:001 Then Yahweh answered Job out of the whirlwind, +038:002 "Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge? +038:003 Brace yourself like a man, for I will question you, + then you answer me! +038:004 "Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? + Declare, if you have understanding. +038:005 Who determined the measures of it, if you know? + Or who stretched the line on it? +038:006 Whereupon were the foundations of it fastened? + Or who laid its cornerstone, +038:007 when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God + shouted for joy? +038:008 "Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth + from the womb, +038:009 when I made clouds its garment, and wrapped it in thick darkness, +038:010 marked out for it my bound, set bars and doors, +038:011 and said, 'Here you may come, but no further. Here shall + your proud waves be stayed?' +038:012 "Have you commanded the morning in your days, and caused + the dawn to know its place; +038:013 that it might take hold of the ends of the earth, and shake + the wicked out of it? +038:014 It is changed as clay under the seal, and stands forth + as a garment. +038:015 From the wicked, their light is withheld. The high arm is broken. +038:016 "Have you entered into the springs of the sea? Or have you + walked in the recesses of the deep? +038:017 Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you + seen the gates of the shadow of death? +038:018 Have you comprehended the earth in its breadth? Declare, if you + know it all. +038:019 "What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, + where is its place, +038:020 that you should take it to its bound, that you should discern + the paths to its house? +038:021 Surely you know, for you were born then, and the number of your + days is great! +038:022 Have you entered the treasuries of the snow, or have you seen + the treasures of the hail, +038:023 which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day + of battle and war? +038:024 By what way is the lightning distributed, or the east wind + scattered on the earth? +038:025 Who has cut a channel for the flood water, or the path + for the thunderstorm; +038:026 To cause it to rain on a land where no man is; on the wilderness, + in which there is no man; +038:027 to satisfy the waste and desolate ground, to cause the tender + grass to spring forth? +038:028 Does the rain have a father? Or who fathers the drops of dew? +038:029 Out of whose womb came the ice? The gray frost of the sky, + who has given birth to it? +038:030 The waters become hard like stone, when the surface of the + deep is frozen. +038:031 "Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades, or loosen + the cords of Orion? +038:032 Can you lead forth the constellations in their season? + Or can you guide the Bear with her cubs? +038:033 Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you establish + the dominion of it over the earth? +038:034 "Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, That abundance + of waters may cover you? +038:035 Can you send forth lightnings, that they may go? + Do they report to you, 'Here we are?' +038:036 Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given + understanding to the mind? +038:037 Who can number the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out + the bottles of the sky, +038:038 when the dust runs into a mass, and the clods of + earth stick together? +038:039 "Can you hunt the prey for the lioness, or satisfy the appetite + of the young lions, +038:040 when they crouch in their dens, and lie in wait in the thicket? +038:041 Who provides for the raven his prey, when his young ones cry + to God, and wander for lack of food? +039:001 "Do you know the time when the mountain goats give birth? + Do you watch when the doe bears fawns? +039:002 Can you number the months that they fulfill? Or do you know + the time when they give birth? +039:003 They bow themselves, they bring forth their young, they end + their labor pains. +039:004 Their young ones become strong. They grow up in the open field. + They go forth, and don't return again. +039:005 "Who has set the wild donkey free? Or who has loosened + the bonds of the swift donkey, +039:006 Whose home I have made the wilderness, and the salt land + his dwelling place? +039:007 He scorns the tumult of the city, neither does he hear + the shouting of the driver. +039:008 The range of the mountains is his pasture, He searches after + every green thing. +039:009 "Will the wild ox be content to serve you? Or will he stay + by your feeding trough? +039:010 Can you hold the wild ox in the furrow with his harness? + Or will he till the valleys after you? +039:011 Will you trust him, because his strength is great? + Or will you leave to him your labor? +039:012 Will you confide in him, that he will bring home your seed, + and gather the grain of your threshing floor? +039:013 "The wings of the ostrich wave proudly; but are they the feathers + and plumage of love? +039:014 For she leaves her eggs on the earth, warms them in the dust, +039:015 and forgets that the foot may crush them, or that the wild + animal may trample them. +039:016 She deals harshly with her young ones, as if they were not hers. + Though her labor is in vain, she is without fear, +039:017 because God has deprived her of wisdom, neither has he imparted + to her understanding. +039:018 When she lifts up herself on high, she scorns the horse + and his rider. +039:019 "Have you given the horse might? Have you clothed his neck + with a quivering mane? +039:020 Have you made him to leap as a locust? The glory of his + snorting is awesome. +039:021 He paws in the valley, and rejoices in his strength. + He goes out to meet the armed men. +039:022 He mocks at fear, and is not dismayed, neither does he turn + back from the sword. +039:023 The quiver rattles against him, the flashing spear and the javelin. +039:024 He eats up the ground with fierceness and rage, neither does + he stand still at the sound of the trumpet. +039:025 As often as the trumpet sounds he snorts, 'Aha!' He smells + the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, + and the shouting. +039:026 "Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars, and stretches her + wings toward the south? +039:027 Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up, and makes + his nest on high? +039:028 On the cliff he dwells, and makes his home, on the point + of the cliff, and the stronghold. +039:029 From there he spies out the prey. His eyes see it afar off. +039:030 His young ones also suck up blood. Where the slain are, + there he is." +040:001 Moreover Yahweh answered Job, +040:002 "Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues + with God, let him answer it." +040:003 Then Job answered Yahweh, +040:004 "Behold, I am of small account. What shall I answer you? + I lay my hand on my mouth. +040:005 I have spoken once, and I will not answer; Yes, twice, but I + will proceed no further." +040:006 Then Yahweh answered Job out of the whirlwind, +040:007 "Now brace yourself like a man. I will question you, and you + will answer me. +040:008 Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, + that you may be justified? +040:009 Or do you have an arm like God? Can you thunder with a + voice like him? +040:010 "Now deck yourself with excellency and dignity. + Array yourself with honor and majesty. +040:011 Pour out the fury of your anger. Look at everyone who is proud, + and bring him low. +040:012 Look at everyone who is proud, and humble him. Crush the wicked + in their place. +040:013 Hide them in the dust together. Bind their faces in + the hidden place. +040:014 Then I will also admit to you that your own right hand + can save you. +040:015 "See now, behemoth, which I made as well as you. + He eats grass as an ox. +040:016 Look now, his strength is in his thighs. His force is in + the muscles of his belly. +040:017 He moves his tail like a cedar. The sinews of his thighs + are knit together. +040:018 His bones are like tubes of brass. His limbs are like + bars of iron. +040:019 He is the chief of the ways of God. He who made him gives + him his sword. +040:020 Surely the mountains produce food for him, where all the animals + of the field play. +040:021 He lies under the lotus trees, in the covert of the reed, + and the marsh. +040:022 The lotuses cover him with their shade. The willows of + the brook surround him. +040:023 Behold, if a river overflows, he doesn't tremble. + He is confident, though the Jordan swells even to his mouth. +040:024 Shall any take him when he is on the watch, or pierce through + his nose with a snare? +041:001 "Can you draw out Leviathan{Leviathan is a name for a crocodile + or similar creature.} with a fishhook, or press down his tongue + with a cord? +041:002 Can you put a rope into his nose, or pierce his jaw through + with a hook? +041:003 Will he make many petitions to you, or will he speak soft + words to you? +041:004 Will he make a covenant with you, that you should take him + for a servant forever? +041:005 Will you play with him as with a bird? Or will you bind him + for your girls? +041:006 Will traders barter for him? Will they part him among the merchants? +041:007 Can you fill his skin with barbed irons, or his head + with fish spears? +041:008 Lay your hand on him. Remember the battle, and do so no more. +041:009 Behold, the hope of him is in vain. Won't one be cast down + even at the sight of him? +041:010 None is so fierce that he dare stir him up. Who then is + he who can stand before me? +041:011 Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? + Everything under the heavens is mine. +041:012 "I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, nor his + mighty strength, nor his goodly frame. +041:013 Who can strip off his outer garment? Who shall come + within his jaws? +041:014 Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth is terror. +041:015 Strong scales are his pride, shut up together with a close seal. +041:016 One is so near to another, that no air can come between them. +041:017 They are joined one to another. They stick together, + so that they can't be pulled apart. +041:018 His sneezing flashes out light. His eyes are like the eyelids + of the morning. +041:019 Out of his mouth go burning torches. Sparks of fire leap forth. +041:020 Out of his nostrils a smoke goes, as of a boiling pot over + a fire of reeds. +041:021 His breath kindles coals. A flame goes forth from his mouth. +041:022 There is strength in his neck. Terror dances before him. +041:023 The flakes of his flesh are joined together. They are firm on him. + They can't be moved. +041:024 His heart is as firm as a stone, yes, firm as the lower millstone. +041:025 When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid. + They retreat before his thrashing. +041:026 If one attacks him with the sword, it can't prevail; + nor the spear, the dart, nor the pointed shaft. +041:027 He counts iron as straw; and brass as rotten wood. +041:028 The arrow can't make him flee. Sling stones are like chaff to him. +041:029 Clubs are counted as stubble. He laughs at the rushing + of the javelin. +041:030 His undersides are like sharp potsherds, leaving a trail + in the mud like a threshing sledge. +041:031 He makes the deep to boil like a pot. He makes the sea + like a pot of ointment. +041:032 He makes a path shine after him. One would think the deep + had white hair. +041:033 On earth there is not his equal, that is made without fear. +041:034 He sees everything that is high. He is king over all + the sons of pride." +042:001 Then Job answered Yahweh, +042:002 "I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours + can be restrained. +042:003 You asked, 'Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?' + therefore I have uttered that which I did not understand, + things too wonderful for me, which I didn't know. +042:004 You said, 'Listen, now, and I will speak; I will question you, + and you will answer me.' +042:005 I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my + eye sees you. +042:006 Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes." +042:007 It was so, that after Yahweh had spoken these words + to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "My wrath + is kindled against you, and against your two friends; + for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, + as my servant Job has. +042:008 Now therefore, take to yourselves seven bulls 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 I will accept him, + that I not deal with you according to your folly. + For you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, + as my servant Job has." +042:009 So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar + the Naamathite went, and did what Yahweh commanded them, + and Yahweh accepted Job. +042:010 Yahweh turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends. + Yahweh gave Job twice as much as he had before. +042:011 Then came there to him all his brothers, and all his sisters, + and all those who had been of his acquaintance before, and ate + bread with him in his house. They comforted him, and consoled + him concerning all the evil that Yahweh had brought on him. + Everyone also gave him a piece of money,{literally, kesitah, + a unit of money, probably silver} and everyone a ring of gold. +042:012 So Yahweh blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. + He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, + one thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys. +042:013 He had also seven sons and three daughters. +042:014 He called the name of the first, Jemimah; and the name of + the second, Keziah; and the name of the third, Keren Happuch. +042:015 In all the land were no women found so beautiful as the + daughters of Job. Their father gave them an inheritance + among their brothers. +042:016 After this Job lived one hundred forty years, and saw his sons, + and his sons' sons, to four generations. +042:017 So Job died, being old and full of days. + + + + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, THE WORLD ENGLISH BIBLE (WEB): JOB *** + +This file should be named 8245.txt or 8245.zip + +Project Gutenberg eBooks are often created from several printed +editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the US +unless a copyright notice is included. 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