Jubilee2000 - Job

Chapter 1

1:1  There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name [was] Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God and departed from evil.

1:2  And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters.

1:3  His substance was seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred she asses, and a very great store of servants, so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.

1:4  And his sons went and had banquets [in their] houses, each one on his day, and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.

1:5  And it was so, when the days of [their] banquets were over, that Job sent and sanctified them and rose up early in the morning and offered burnt offerings [according] to the number of them all; for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned and blasphemed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.

1:6  Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them.

1:7  And the LORD said unto Satan, Where dost thou come from? Then Satan answered the LORD and said, From going to and fro in the earth and from walking up and down in it.

1:8  And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that [there is] none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that fears God and has departed from evil?

1:9  Then Satan answered the LORD and said, Does Job fear God for nothing?

1:10  Hast thou not made a hedge about him and about his house and about all that he has on every side? Thou hast blessed the work of his hands; therefore, his substance has increased in the land.

1:11  But put forth thy hand now and touch all that he has, [and thou shalt see] if he will not blaspheme thee to thy face.

1:12  And the LORD said to Satan, Behold, all that he has [is] in thy power; only upon himself do not put forth thy hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD.

1:13  And there was a day when his sons and his daughters [were] eating and drinking wine in the house of their brother, the firstborn;

1:14  and a messenger came unto Job and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them;

1:15  and the Sabeans fell [upon them] and took them away; they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell thee.

1:16  While he [was] yet speaking, another came who said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven and has burned up the sheep and the servants and consumed them; and I alone have escaped to tell thee.

1:17  While he [was] yet speaking, another came and said, The Chaldeans made three bands and fell upon the camels and have carried them away and have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell thee.

1:18  While he [was] yet speaking, there another came and said, Thy sons and thy daughters [were] eating and drinking wine in the house of their brother, the firstborn;

1:19  and, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I alone have escaped to tell thee.

1:20  Then Job arose and rent his mantle and shaved his head and fell down upon the ground and worshipped

1:21  and said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return there. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.

1:22  In all this Job did not sin nor charge God with folly.:

Chapter 2

2:1  Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them to present himself before the LORD.

2:2  And the LORD said unto Satan, Where dost thou come from? And Satan answered the LORD and said, From going to and fro in the earth and from walking up and down in it.

2:3  And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that [there is] none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that fears God and has departed from evil and that he still retains his perfection, although thou didst incite me against him to destroy him without cause.

2:4  And Satan answered the LORD and said, Skin for skin, all that a man has he will give for his life.

2:5  But put forth thy hand now and touch his bone and his flesh, [and thou shalt see] if he does not blaspheme thee to thy face.

2:6  And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, he [is] in thy hand, but preserve his life.

2:7  So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto the crown of his head.

2:8  And he took a potsherd to scratch himself with, and he was sitting among the ashes.

2:9  Then his wife said unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? Blaspheme God and die.

2:10  But he said unto her, Thou hast spoken as any of the foolish women speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God and shall we not receive evil? In all this Job did not sin with his lips.

2:11  Now three friends of Job, Eliphaz, the Temanite, Bildad, the Shuhite, and Zophar, the Naamathite, [when] they heard of all this evil that had come upon him, each one came from his own place; for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.

2:12  And when they lifted up their eyes afar off and knew him not, they lifted up their voice and wept; and each one rent his mantle and sprinkled dust upon his head toward heaven.

2:13  So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word unto him; for they saw that [his] grief was very great.:

Chapter 3

3:1  After this Job opened his mouth and cursed his day.

3:2  And Job spoke and said,

3:3  Let the day perish in which I was born and the night [in which] it was said, There is a man child conceived.

3:4  Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above; neither let the light shine upon it.

3:5  Let darkness and the shadow of death redeem it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

3:6  As [for] that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months.

3:7  O, let that night be solitary; let no song come therein!

3:8  Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.

3:9  Let the stars of its dawn be darkened; they waited for light, but [have] none; neither let them see the dawning of the day;

3:10  because it did not shut up the doors of my [mother's] womb nor hide the misery from my eyes.

3:11  Why did I not die from the womb? [Why] did I [not] give up the spirit when I came out of the belly?

3:12  Why did the knees receive me? Of what use the breasts that I should suck?

3:13  For now I should have lain still and been quiet; I should have slept; then I would have been at rest,

3:14  with the kings and the counsellors of the earth, who built desolate places for themselves;

3:15  or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver.

3:16  Or, [why] was I not hidden as an untimely birth, as infants [who] never saw light?

3:17  There the wicked cease [from] troubling; and there the weary are at rest.

3:18  [There] the prisoners rest together, they do not hear the voice of the oppressor.

3:19  The small and the great are there, and the servant [is] free from his master.

3:20  Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter [in] soul;

3:21  who long for death, but it [comes] not; and search for it more than for hid treasures;

3:22  who rejoice exceedingly [and] are glad when they can find the grave;

3:23  to the man who does not know which way he goes and whom God has hedged in?

3:24  For my sighing comes before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.

3:25  For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.

3:26  I never had prosperity, nor did I secure myself, neither was I at rest; yet trouble came.:

Chapter 4

4:1  Then Eliphaz, the Temanite, answered and said,

4:2  If we attempt to commune with thee, thou wilt be grieved. But who can withhold himself from speaking?

4:3  Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands.

4:4  Thy words have upheld the one that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.

4:5  But now that it is come upon thee, thou art grieved; it touches thee, and thou art troubled.

4:6  Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the integrity of thy ways?

4:7  Remember, I pray thee, who [ever] perished, being innocent? Or where were the righteous cut off?

4:8  Even as I have seen, those that plow iniquity and sow wickedness, reap the same.

4:9  By the breath of God they perish, and by the spirit of his anger they are consumed.

4:10  The roaring of the lion and the voice of the fierce lion and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.

4:11  The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad.

4:12  Now the matter was also hidden from me, but my ear has perceived a little of it.

4:13  In imaginations of visions of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men,

4:14  fear came upon me and trembling, which made all my bones to shake.

4:15  Then a spirit passed before me which caused the hair of my flesh to stand up.

4:16  A ghost stood in front of me, whose face I did not recognize, and I heard it say,

4:17  Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his maker?

4:18  Behold, he put no trust in his servants, and his angels he charged with folly.

4:19  How much more [with] those that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation [is] in the dust, [who] shall be crushed by the moth!

4:20  They are destroyed from morning to evening; they perish for ever without anyone regarding [it].

4:21  Does their beauty perish with them? They die and do not know.:

Chapter 5

5:1  Call now, if there shall be anyone to answer thee; and if there shall be any of the saints for thee to look unto?

5:2  It is certain that wrath kills the foolish man, and envy consumes the covetous one.

5:3  I have seen the foolish taking root, but at the same time I cursed his habitation.

5:4  His sons are far from saving health, and they shall be crushed in the gate, and there shall be no one to deliver [them].

5:5  The hungry shall eat up his harvest, and even take it out from among the thorns, and the thirsty shall drink up their substance.

5:6  For the iniquity does not come forth out of the dust; neither does chastisement spring up out of the ground;

5:7  yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

5:8  I would certainly seek God, and unto God would I commit my affairs;

5:9  who does great things that no one can understand, and marvels that have no explanation;

5:10  who gives rain upon the earth and sends waters abroad;

5:11  who sets up the humble on high, that those who mourn may be lifted up with saving health.

5:12  He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform [their] enterprise.

5:13  He takes the wise in their own prudence, and the counsel of his adversaries is turned to folly.

5:14  They meet with darkness in the daytime and grope in the noonday as in the night.

5:15  But he saves the poor from the sword, from the mouth of the wicked, and from the hand of the violent.

5:16  Who is the hope of the poor, and iniquity closes her mouth.

5:17  Behold, blessed [is] the man whom God chastens; therefore, do not despise not the correction of the Almighty.

5:18  For he makes sore, and binds up; he wounds, and his hands make whole.

5:19  He shall deliver thee in six tribulations, and in the seventh no evil shall touch thee.

5:20  In famine he shall ransom thee from death, and in war from the power of the sword.

5:21  Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue; neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it comes.

5:22  At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh; neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth;

5:23  for thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field; and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.

5:24  And thou shalt know that there is peace in thy tent, and thou shalt visit thy habitation and shalt not sin.

5:25  Thou shalt know that thy seed [is] great and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.

5:26  Thou shalt come to [thy] grave in a full age, like a shock [of wheat] that is gathered in its season.

5:27  Behold that which we have searched out, so it [is]; hear it and judge [it] for thyself.:

Chapter 6

6:1  And Job answered and said,

6:2  Oh that my grief and calamity were justly weighed and laid equally in the balances!

6:3  For it would be heavier than the sand of the sea; therefore, my words are swallowed up.

6:4  For the arrows of the Almighty [are] within me; my spirit drinks of the poison; and terrors of God combat me.

6:5  Does the wild ass bray when he has grass? Does the ox low over his fodder?

6:6  Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? Or is there [any] taste in the white of an egg?

6:7  The things [that] my soul refused to touch [before, now] by my sorrow [are] my food.

6:8  Oh, that I might have my request and that God would grant [me] the thing that I long for!

6:9  Even that it would please God to destroy me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!

6:10  Then should my comfort grow; I would hold on to sorrow without mercy; for I have not contradicted the words of the Holy One.

6:11  What [is] my strength that I should hope? What [is] my end that I should prolong my life?

6:12  [Is] my strength the strength of stones? Or [is] my flesh of steel?

6:13  Am I not doing all that I can, and [even with all this] I lack the power to do anything?

6:14  He that is afflicted [deserves] mercy from his friend; but he has forsaken the fear of the Almighty.

6:15  My brethren have lied to me as a brook; they passed away as an impetuous stream,

6:16  which was hidden by ice and covered by snow.

6:17  Which in the time of heat, they vanish; when they are heated, they disappear out of their place;

6:18  they turn aside out of the paths of their way; they go to nothing and perish.

6:19  The travelers of Tema looked; the traveling companies of Sheba waited for them.

6:20  They were put to shame because of their hope; they came there and found them confused.

6:21  Now ye are certainly as they; ye have seen the torment and are afraid.

6:22  Did I say, Bring unto me and pay for me out of your substance

6:23  and deliver me from the enemy's hand and ransom me from the hand of the mighty?

6:24  Teach me, and I will be silent; and cause me to understand in what I have erred.

6:25  How forcible are the words of rectitude! But what does your argument reprove?

6:26  Are ye not thinking up words of reproof and [throw] to the wind words that are lost?

6:27  Ye also overwhelm the fatherless and dig a pit before your friend.

6:28  Now, therefore, if ye desire, look upon me and [see] if I shall lie in your presence.

6:29  Turn now, and there is no iniquity; return again [to look] for my righteousness in this.

6:30  If there is iniquity in my tongue or if my taste cannot discern the torments.:

Chapter 7

7:1  Man certainly has an appointed [amount of] time upon earth, and his days are like the days of a hireling.

7:2  As a servant earnestly desires the shade and as a hireling waits for [rest from] his work,

7:3  so I am made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.

7:4  When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise? I measure the night, and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.

7:5  My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken and abominable.

7:6  My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle and are spent without hope.

7:7  Remember thou that my life [is] wind and that my eyes shall not return to see good.

7:8  The eyes of those that see me [now] shall not see me again; thine eyes [shall be] upon me, and I will cease to be.

7:9  As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he that goes down to Sheol, who shall not come up again;

7:10  he shall return no more to his house; neither shall his place know him any more.

7:11  Therefore, I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

7:12  [Am] I a sea, or a dragon, that thou settest a watch over me?

7:13  When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;

7:14  then thou dost scare me with dreams and terrify me with visions.

7:15  And my soul thought it better to be strangled [and desired] death more than my bones.

7:16  I loathed [life]; I do not [desire] to live for ever; let me alone; for my days [are] vanity.

7:17  What [is] man that thou should magnify him and that thou should set thine heart upon him

7:18  and [that] thou should visit him every morning [and] try him every moment?

7:19  For how long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone until I swallow down my spittle?

7:20  If I have sinned, what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? Why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?

7:21  And why dost thou not take away my rebellion and pass over my iniquity? For now I shall sleep in the dust; and if thou shalt seek me in the morning, I shall not be found.:

Chapter 8

8:1  Then Bildad, the Shuhite, answered and said,

8:2  How long wilt thou speak such things and [how long shall] the words of thy mouth [be like] a strong wind?

8:3  Shall God pervert that which is right or shall the Almighty pervert justice?

8:4  Because thy sons sinned against him, he cast them away in the place of their rebellion;

8:5  if thou would seek God early and make thy supplication to the Almighty,

8:6  if thou [wert] pure and upright, surely now he would awake upon thee and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.

8:7  [In such a way] that thy beginning would have been small, [in comparison] to the great increase of thy latter.

8:8  Ask, I pray thee, of the former age, and be willing to enquire of thy fathers regarding them;

8:9  for we are but of yesterday and know nothing because our days upon earth are as a shadow.

8:10  Shall they not teach thee [and] tell thee and utter [these] words out of their heart?

8:11  Can the rush grow up without mire? Can the meadow grow without water?

8:12  Whilst it [is] yet in its greenness [and] not cut down, it withers before any [other] herb.

8:13  So [are] the paths of all that forget God, and the hypocrite's hope shall perish.

8:14  For his hope shall be cut off, and his trust is a spider's web.

8:15  He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand; he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.

8:16  [Like a tree], he [is] green before the sun, and his branches go forth over his garden;

8:17  his roots weave themselves around a spring [and] secure themselves even in a stony place.

8:18  If he is uprooted from his place, then [it] shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee.

8:19  Behold, this [is] the joy of his way, and out of the earth from where he was [transplanted] others, shall grow.

8:20  Behold, God will not cast away a perfect [man]; neither will he help the evil doers.

8:21  He will yet fill thy mouth with laughing and thy lips with shouts of joy.

8:22  Those that hate thee shall be clothed with shame, and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.:

Chapter 9

9:1  Then Job answered and said,

9:2  I know [it is] so of a truth, but how shall a man be justified with God?

9:3  If he desires to contend with him, he will not be able to answer him one [thing] of a thousand.

9:4  [He is] wise in heart and mighty in strength; who has hardened [himself] against him and remained in peace?

9:5  Who uproots the mountains in his anger, and they know not who overturned them.

9:6  Who removes the earth out of her place and causes her pillars to tremble.

9:7  Who commands the sun, and it rises not; and seals up the stars.

9:8  He alone extends the heavens and walks upon the waves of the sea.

9:9  He who made Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the secret places of the south.

9:10  He who does great things past finding out, and wonders without number.

9:11  Behold, he shall pass before me, and I shall not see him; and he shall pass on, and I shall not understand him.

9:12  Behold, he shall take away, who can cause him to restore? Who shall say unto him, What doest thou?

9:13  God will not withdraw his anger, and under him those who help, unto pride are bent over.

9:14  How much less shall I answer him [and] choose out my words to [reason] with him?

9:15  Who even though I am righteous, [yet] I would not answer, [but] I would make supplication to my judge.

9:16  Who if I were to invoke him, and he answered me; [yet] I would not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.

9:17  For he has broken me with a tempest and has multiplied my wounds without cause.

9:18  He will not suffer me to take my breath but has filled me with bitterness.

9:19  If [we were to speak] of [his] strength, he is certainly strong; and if of [his] judgment, who shall cause us to meet?

9:20  If I justify myself, my own mouth shall condemn me: [if I say], I [am] perfect, he shall prove me perverse.

9:21  [If] I [say I am] imperfect, I know not my soul; I would condemn my life.

9:22  One thing remains, that I say, He consumes the perfect and the wicked.

9:23  If [it is] the scourge, it slays suddenly, and it does not laugh at the trial of the innocent.

9:24  The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; he covers the faces of its judges; if [it is] not [he who does this then], who is it and where [is] he?

9:25  Now my days are swifter than a post; they fled away, they never saw good.

9:26  They are passed away as the ships of Ebeh as the eagle [that] throws himself on the prey.

9:27  If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness and comfort [myself];

9:28  I am afraid of all my troubles; I know that thou wilt not hold me guiltless.

9:29  [If] I am wicked, why then shall I toil in vain?

9:30  If I wash myself with snow water and make my hands never so clean;

9:31  yet thou shalt plunge me into the pit, and my own clothes shall abhor me.

9:32  For [he is] not a man, as I [am], [that] I should answer him, [and] we should come together unto judgment.

9:33  Neither is there any arbiter between us, [that] might lay his hand upon us both.

9:34  Let him take his tormentor away from me, and his terror will not perturb me.

9:35  [Then] I would speak and not fear him, because in this state I am not myself.:

Chapter 10

10:1  My soul is cut off in my life; [therefore], I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

10:2  I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; cause me to understand why thou dost contend with me.

10:3  [Is it] good unto thee that thou should oppress, that thou should reject the work of thine hands and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?

10:4  Hast thou eyes of flesh? Dost thou see as man sees?

10:5  [Are] thy days as the days of man? [Are] thy years as man's days,

10:6  that thou dost enquire after my iniquity and search after my sin?

10:7  Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and [there is] no one that can deliver out of thy hand.

10:8  Thine hands have formed me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.

10:9  Remember now that thou hast formed me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?

10:10  Hast thou not poured me out as milk and curdled me like cheese?

10:11  Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh and hast hedged me with bones and sinews.

10:12  Thou hast granted me life and mercy, and thy visitation has kept my spirit.

10:13  And these [things] thou hast hid in thine heart; I know that this [is] with thee.

10:14  If I sinned, wilt thou mark me and not cleanse me from my iniquity?

10:15  If I am wicked, woe unto me; and [if] I am righteous, I will not lift up my head, being full of dishonour and of seeing my affliction.

10:16  And thou dost increase. Thou dost hunt me as a fierce lion; turning and doing marvels in me.

10:17  Thou dost renew thy plagues against me and increase thine indignation upon me, bringing up armies against me.

10:18  Why then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the spirit and no eye had seen me!

10:19  I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

10:20  [Are] not my days few? Cease [then], [and] let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

10:21  before I go, to not return, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;

10:22  land of darkness, as darkness [itself], [and] of the shadow of death, without any order, and [where] the light [is] as darkness.:

Chapter 11

11:1  Then Zophar, the Naamathite, answered and said,

11:2  Should not the multitude of words be answered? And should a man full of talk be justified?

11:3  Should thy lies make men be silent? Shalt thou mock, and shall no man make thee ashamed?

11:4  For thou hast said, My doctrine [is] pure, and I am clean before thine eyes.

11:5  But oh, that God would speak and open his lips against thee

11:6  and that he would show thee the secrets of wisdom! For thou dost deserve double according to sound wisdom; and thou dost know that God has forgotten thee because of thine iniquity.

11:7  Canst thou by searching find out God? Canst thou come unto the perfection of the Almighty?

11:8  It is higher than the heavens; what canst thou do? It is deeper than Sheol; how canst thou know it?

11:9  The measure of it [is] longer than the earth and broader than the sea.

11:10  If he cuts off, or shuts up, or gathers together, then who can hinder him?

11:11  For he knows the vain men; and he sees the iniquity; will he not then understand [it]?

11:12  The vain man shall make himself understood, though man is born [like] a wild ass's colt.

11:13  If thou would prepare thine heart and stretch out thine hands toward him;

11:14  if there is any iniquity in thy hand and thou dost put it far away and dost not consent that wickedness dwell in thy habitations,

11:15  then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; thou shalt be strongly established and shalt not fear;

11:16  and thou shalt forget [thy] misery [and] remember [it] as waters that passed away;

11:17  and [thine] age shall be clearer than the noonday; thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning.

11:18  And thou shalt trust because there is hope; [yea], thou shalt dig and sleep in safety;

11:19  thou shalt lie down, and no one shall make [thee] afraid; and many shall make requests unto thee.

11:20  But the eyes of the wicked shall consume themselves, and they shall have no refuge, and their hope [shall be] agony of the soul.:

Chapter 12

12:1  And Job answered and said,

12:2  No doubt but ye [are] the people, and wisdom shall die with you.

12:3  But I have a heart as well as you; I [am] not inferior to you; and who shall not be able to say as much again?

12:4  He who invokes God and he answers him is mocked by his friend; the just and perfect [man is] laughed to scorn.

12:5  The torch is held in low esteem in the thought of him that is prosperous, which was prepared to guard against a slip of the feet.

12:6  The tents of robbers are at ease, and those that provoke God and those who carry gods in their hands live secure.

12:7  But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the heavens, and they shall show thee;

12:8  or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee; the fishes of the sea shall declare [it] unto thee [also].

12:9  What thing of all these does not know that the hand of the LORD made them?

12:10  In his hand [is] the soul of every living thing and the spirit of all flesh of man.

12:11  Certainly the ear proves words and the mouth tastes foods.

12:12  With the ancient [is] wisdom; and in length of days intelligence.

12:13  With him [is] wisdom and strength; he has counsel and intelligence.

12:14  Behold, he shall break down, and it shall not be built again; he shall shut up a man, and no one shall be able to open unto him.

12:15  Behold, he shall withhold the waters, and they shall dry up; also he shall send them forth, and they shall destroy the earth.

12:16  With him [is] strength and existence; he who errs and he who leads astray [are] his.

12:17  He causes the counsellors to walk away stripped of counsel and makes the judges to be fools.

12:18  He looses the bond of kings and girds their loins with a girdle.

12:19  He leads priests away spoiled and overthrows the mighty.

12:20  He impedes the lips of those that speak the truth and takes away the counsel of the aged.

12:21  He pours contempt upon princes and weakens the strength of the mighty.

12:22  He uncovers the depths of the darkness and brings out to light the shadow of death.

12:23  He multiplies the Gentiles and destroys them; he scatters the Gentiles and gathers them [again].

12:24  He takes away the heart of the heads of the people of the earth and causes them to become lost, wandering without a way.

12:25  They grope in the darkness and not the light, and he causes them to err like drunken [men].:

Chapter 13

13:1  Behold, my eyes have seen all [this]; my ears have heard and understood it.

13:2  As you know it, I know it; I [am] not inferior unto you.

13:3  But I would speak with the Almighty, and I desired to dispute with God.

13:4  That ye are certainly forgers of lies; ye [are] all physicians of no value.

13:5  O that ye would altogether be silent! And it would be unto you [instead of] wisdom.

13:6  Hear now my dispute, and hearken to the arguments of my lips.

13:7  Are ye to speak iniquity for God? Are ye to speak deceitfully for him?

13:8  Are ye to bring honour unto him? Are ye to contend for God?

13:9  Would it be good for him to search you out? As one man mocks another, do ye [so] mock him?

13:10  He will reprove you severely, if in secret you give him such honour.

13:11  Certainly his excellency should make you afraid, and his dread should fall upon you.

13:12  Your memories shall be compared unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.

13:13  Listen to me, and I will speak, and afterward let come on me what [will].

13:14  Why shall I take my flesh in my teeth and put my life in the palm of my [hand]?

13:15  Though he slay me, yet I will trust in him; but I will defend my ways before him.

13:16  He also [shall be] my saving health; for the hypocrite shall not enter into his presence.

13:17  Hear diligently my reason and my declaration with your ears.

13:18  Behold now, if I draw near unto the judgment; I know that I shall be justified.

13:19  Who [is] he [that] will contend with me? For now, if I remain silent, I shall die.

13:20  At the least, grant me these two things; then I will not hide myself from thee:

13:21  withdraw thy hand from me; and let not thy dread make me afraid.

13:22  Then call, and I will answer; or let me speak, and answer thou me.

13:23  How many [are] my iniquities and sins? Make me to know my transgression and my sin.

13:24  Why dost thou hide thy face, and hold me for thine enemy?

13:25  Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? Wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?

13:26  Why dost thou write bitter things against me and make me carry the iniquities of my youth.

13:27  Thou dost put my feet also in the stocks and look narrowly unto all my paths; thou dost set a print upon the heels of my feet.

13:28  And [man], is as a rotten thing that is being consumed, as a garment that is moth eaten.:

Chapter 14

14:1  Man [that is] born of a woman [is] of few days and full of trouble.

14:2  He comes forth like an open flower and is cut down; he flees as a shadow and does not remain.

14:3  And dost thou open thine eyes upon such a one and bring me into judgment with thee?

14:4  Who can bring a clean [thing] out of an unclean? No one.

14:5  Seeing his days [are] determined, the number of his months [are] with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass.

14:6  If thou should leave him, he will cease [to exist]; until then, he shall desire, as a hireling, his day.

14:7  For there is yet hope for a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again and that its tender branch will not cease.

14:8  Though its root waxes old in the earth and its trunk is dead in the ground,

14:9  at the scent of water it will bud and bring forth boughs like a new plant.

14:10  But [when] man shall die and be cut off, and the man shall perish, where shall he be?

14:11  The waters from the sea went, and the river ran out, it dried up.

14:12  So man lies down and does not rise; until there is no heaven, they shall not awake nor be raised out of their sleep.

14:13  O that thou would hide me in Sheol, that thou would keep me covered until thy wrath is past, that thou would appoint me a set time and remember me!

14:14  If a man dies, shall he live [again]? All the days of my appointed time I will wait until my transformation comes.

14:15  [Then] thou shalt call, and I will answer thee; thou wilt have a desire towards the work of thine hands.

14:16  For now thou dost number my steps; thou dost not open up my sin.

14:17  My transgression [is] sealed up in a bag, and thou dost sew up my iniquity.

14:18  And certainly the mountain that falls is undone, and the rocks are removed out of their place.

14:19  The impetuous waters break the stones and wash away the dust of the earth; in like manner thou dost cause man to lose hope.

14:20  Thou shalt be stronger than him for ever, and he passes; thou dost change his countenance and send him away.

14:21  His sons shall be honoured and he shall not know [of it]; or they shall be afflicted, but he shall not perceive of them.

14:22  But [while] his flesh [is] upon him, he shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.:

Chapter 15

15:1  Then Eliphaz, the Temanite, answered, and said,

15:2  Should a wise man utter vain knowledge and fill his belly with the east wind?

15:3  Should he dispute with useless words and with reasons that are not profitable?

15:4  Thou dost also cast off fear and undermine prayer before God.

15:5  For thy mouth has declared thine iniquity, and thou hast chosen the tongue of the crafty.

15:6  Thine own mouth shall condemn thee, and not I; thine own lips shall testify against thee.

15:7  Wast thou born before Adam? Or wast thou formed before the hills?

15:8  Hast thou heard the secret of God, that thou dost detain wisdom in thee alone?

15:9  What dost thou know that we do not? [What] dost thou understand, which [is] not in us?

15:10  Among us [are] also gray hairs; there are also aged men, much elder than thy father.

15:11  [Are] the consolations of God in such small esteem with thee? Is there by chance any secret thing concerning thee?

15:12  Why does thine heart carry thee away, and why do thine eyes blink,

15:13  that thou dost reply unto God with thy spirit and bring forth such words out of thy mouth?

15:14  What [is] man that he should be clean and that he that is born of a woman should be justified?

15:15  Behold, he puts no trust in his saints, and not even the heavens are clean in his sight.

15:16  How much less the man who is abominable and filthy, who drinks iniquity like water?

15:17  Listen to me and I will show thee and declare unto thee that [which] I have seen,

15:18  that which the wise men have told us of their fathers and have not hid [it],

15:19  unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.

15:20  The wicked man travails with pain all [his] days, and the number of years is hidden from the violent.

15:21  Fearful sounds are in his ears; in peace the destroyer shall come upon him.

15:22  He will not believe that he shall return out of darkness, and he is always watching the sword.

15:23  He wanders abroad for bread, [saying], Where [is it]? He knows that the day of darkness is prepared for him.

15:24  Tribulation and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

15:25  Because he extended his hand against God and strengthens himself against the Almighty,

15:26  he shall run him through in the neck, upon the thick shoulder pieces of his shields;

15:27  for he covered his face with his fatness and made collops of fat on [his] flanks;

15:28  and he dwelt in desolate cities [and] in houses which no one inhabited, which were in heaps.

15:29  He shall not become rich, nor shall his strength be established, neither shall he extend his beauty upon the earth.

15:30  He shall not escape from the darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth he shall perish.

15:31  He shall not be established; in vanity he shall err; therefore, he shall be changed into vanity.

15:32  He shall be cut off before his time, and his branch shall not be green.

15:33  He shall shake off his sour grapes as the vine and shall cast off his flower as the olive.

15:34  For the congregation of the hypocrites shall be made desolate, and fire shall consume the tents of bribery.

15:35  They conceive pain and bring forth iniquity, and their belly meditates deceit.:

Chapter 16

16:1  Then Job answered and said,

16:2  Many times I have heard such things; miserable comforters [are] ye all.

16:3  Shall vain words have an end? Or what is it that emboldens thee to answer?

16:4  I also could speak as ye [do]. I wish your soul were in my soul's stead, that I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you.

16:5  [But] I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the consolation of my lips would assuage [the pain].

16:6  Though if I speak, my pain does not cease; and if I forbear [to speak], it does not depart from me.

16:7  But now he has made me weary; thou hast made desolate all my company.

16:8  And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, [which] is a witness [against me]: and my leanness rising up in me bears witness to my face.

16:9  His wrath has torn me and has been against me; he gnashed upon me with his teeth; my enemy sharpened his eyes upon me.

16:10  They have opened their mouth against me; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.

16:11  God has delivered me unto the liar, and in the hands of the wicked he has caused me to tremble.

16:12  I was prosperous, but he has broken me asunder; he has taken [me] by my neck and shaken me to pieces and set me up for his mark.

16:13  His archers compassed me round about; he cleaved my kidneys asunder and did not spare; he poured out my gall upon the ground.

16:14  He broke me with breach upon breach; he ran upon me like a giant.

16:15  I have sewn sackcloth upon my skin and put dust over my head.

16:16  My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids [is] the shadow of death,

16:17  even though there is no injustice in my hands, and my prayer [has been] pure.

16:18  O earth, do not cover my blood; and let there be no place [where] my cry [is hidden].

16:19  Certainly my witness [is] even now in the heavens, and my record [is] on high.

16:20  Those who dispute with me are my friends, [but] my eyes shall pour out [tears] unto God.

16:21  O that a man might dispute with God, as he can with his neighbour!

16:22  When the counted years are come, then I shall go the way from which I shall not return.:

Chapter 17

17:1  My breath is corrupt, my days are cut off, and the grave is ready for me.

17:2  [Now there are] only mockers with me, upon whose bitterness my eye continues [to gaze].

17:3  Put up now, give me surety with thee; who [is] he [that] will strike hands with me?

17:4  For with these, thou hast hid their heart from understanding; therefore, thou shalt not exalt [them].

17:5  He that speaks flattery to [his] neighbour, even the eyes of his sons shall fail.

17:6  He has made me a byword of the peoples; and before [them] I have been as a tambourine.

17:7  My eyes are dim by reason of sorrow, and all my thoughts [are] as a shadow.

17:8  Upright [men] shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.

17:9  The righteous shall hold on to his way, and he that has clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.

17:10  But return all of you, and come now; for I shall not find [one that is] wise among you.

17:11  My days are past, my thoughts were broken off, [even] the purposes of my heart.

17:12  They changed the night into day; the light [is] short because of the darkness.

17:13  If I wait, Sheol [is] my house; I have made my bed in the darkness.

17:14  I have said to the pit, Thou [art] my father; to the worms, my mother, and my sister.

17:15  And where shall my hope be now? As for my hope, who shall see it?

17:16  They shall go down to the bars of Sheol, and together they shall rest in the dust.:

Chapter 18

18:1  Then Bildad, the Shuhite, answered and said,

18:2  How long [will it be ere] ye make an end of words? Understand, and afterwards we will speak.

18:3  Why are we counted as beasts? Are we vile in your sight?

18:4  O thou that dost tear thy soul in thine anger; shall the earth be forsaken because of thee and shall the rocks be removed out of their place?

18:5  The light of the wicked shall certainly be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.

18:6  The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.

18:7  The steps of his strength shall be cut down, and his own counsel shall cast him down.

18:8  For a net shall be cast at his feet, and he shall walk upon a network.

18:9  The snare shall take [him] by the heel, [and] the robber shall prevail against him.

18:10  The cord is hidden in the ground and a trap for him in the way.

18:11  Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and his own feet shall drive him away.

18:12  His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction [shall be] ready at his side.

18:13  They shall devour the protection of his skin; the firstborn of death shall devour his members.

18:14  His confidence shall be rooted out of his tent, and he shall be brought to the king of terrors.

18:15  He shall dwell in his tent, as if it were not his; brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.

18:16  His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above his branch shall be cut off.

18:17  His memory shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the streets.

18:18  He shall be driven from the light into the darkness and chased out of the world.

18:19  He shall have neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any to succeed him in his dwellings.

18:20  Those that come after [him] shall be dismayed at his day, as those that went before were overcome with fear.

18:21  Surely such [are] the dwellings of the wicked, and this [is] the place [of him that] does not know God.:

Chapter 19

19:1  And Job replied and said,

19:2  How long will ye anguish my soul and break me in pieces with words?

19:3  These ten times ye have reproached me; are ye not ashamed to make yourselves strange to me?

19:4  And if indeed I have erred, my error shall remain with me.

19:5  If indeed ye will magnify [yourselves] against me and reprove me of my reproach,

19:6  know now that God has overthrown me and has compassed me with his net.

19:7  Behold, I shall cry out that I have been wronged, and I shall not be heard; I shall cry aloud, and [there] shall be no judgment.

19:8  He has walled off my way and I shall not pass, and he has set darkness in my paths.

19:9  He has stripped me of my glory and taken the crown [from] my head.

19:10  He has pulled me up on every side, and I am dried up; he has caused my hope to pass like an uprooted tree.

19:11  He has kindled his wrath against me, and he counted me unto him as [one of] his enemies.

19:12  His troops came together and raised up their way over me and encamp round about my tent.

19:13  He has put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintances are verily estranged from me.

19:14  My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.

19:15  Those that dwell in my house and my maids have counted me for a stranger; I was an alien in their sight.

19:16  I called my servant, and he gave [me] no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.

19:17  My spirit came to be strange to my wife, although I intreated her for the sons of my own body.

19:18  Even the young children despised me; as I arose, they spoke against me.

19:19  All my intimate friends abhorred me; and those whom I loved are turned against me.

19:20  My bones cleave to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.

19:21  Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God has touched me.

19:22  Why do ye persecute me as God and are not satisfied with my flesh?

19:23  Oh, that my words were now written! Oh, that they were printed in a book!

19:24  That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!

19:25  For I know [that] my redeemer lives and [that] he shall rise at the latter [day] over the dust;

19:26  and afterward from this, my stricken skin and from my own flesh, I must see God:

19:27  whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another, [though] my kidneys be consumed within me.

19:28  But ye should say, Why should we persecute him, seeing that the root of the matter is found in me?

19:29  Be ye afraid of the sword; for the wrath of the sword [comes] because of the iniquities, that ye may know [there is] a judgment.:

Chapter 20

20:1  Then Zophar, the Naamathite, answered and said,

20:2  My thoughts certainly cause me to answer, and therefore, I make haste.

20:3  I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my intelligence causes me to answer.

20:4  Dost thou not know this that always was, since man was placed upon earth,

20:5  that the triumphing of the wicked [is] short, and the joy of the hypocrite [but] for a moment?

20:6  Though his excellency mounts up to the heavens, and his head reaches unto the clouds,

20:7  [yet] he shall perish for ever like his own dung; those who have seen him shall say, What is become of him?

20:8  He shall fly away as a dream and shall not be found: [yea], he shall flee away as a vision of the night.

20:9  The eye [which] saw him shall [see him] no more; neither shall his place behold him any more.

20:10  His poor sons shall go forth begging, and their hands shall restore that which he stole.

20:11  His bones are full [of the sins] of his youth, which shall be buried with him in the dust.

20:12  If wickedness was sweet in his mouth, if he hid it under his tongue,

20:13  if it seemed good unto him, and he did not forsake it, but savored it within his mouth,

20:14  his food shall be changed in his bowels, [it shall be] the gall of asps within him.

20:15  He has swallowed down riches, but he shall vomit them up again; God shall cast them out of his belly.

20:16  He shall suck the poison of asps; the viper's tongue shall slay him.

20:17  He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.

20:18  He shall restore the work [that was not his]; according to the substance that he took; neither shall he devour, nor rejoice.

20:19  Because he oppressed [and] forsook the poor; [because] he has violently taken away houses which he did not build,

20:20  therefore, he shall not feel quietness in his belly; he shall not escape with that which he desired.

20:21  Nothing is left that he did not eat; therefore, his goods shall not last.

20:22  In the fullness of his sufficiency, he shall come into anguish; the hands of all the wicked shall come upon him.

20:23  [When] he is about to fill his belly, [God] shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him and shall rain [it] upon him and upon his food.

20:24  He shall flee from the weapons of iron, [and] the bow of bronze shall strike him through.

20:25  He shall draw forth [an arrow] from his quiver, and [like] lightning it shall strike through his gall; terrors shall come upon him.

20:26  All darkness is kept for his secrets; a fire not blown shall consume him; his successor shall be broken in his tent.

20:27  The heavens shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.

20:28  The increase of his house shall be taken captive; they shall be scattered in the day of his wrath.

20:29  This [is] the portion of a wicked man from God and the heritage that God appoints unto him by his word.:

Chapter 21

21:1  But Job answered and said,

21:2  Hear diligently my speech, and let this be [instead of] your consolations.

21:3  Suffer me that I may speak; and after I have spoken, mock on.

21:4  As for me, [is] my complaint to man? And if so, why should not my spirit be troubled?

21:5  Look upon me and be astonished and lay [your] hand upon [your] mouth.

21:6  [Even I myself], when I remember, I am afraid, and trembling takes hold on my flesh.

21:7  Why do the wicked live and become old and even increase in riches?

21:8  Their seed is with them, established in their sight, and their offspring before their eyes.

21:9  Their houses [are] safe from fear; neither [is] the rod of God upon them.

21:10  Their cows conceive, and do not abort; their cows calve and do not cast forth their young.

21:11  They send forth their little ones like [a flock of] sheep, and their children dance.

21:12  They jump at the sound of the timbrel and harp and rejoice at the sound of the organ.

21:13  They spend their days in pleasure and in a moment go down to Sheol.

21:14  Therefore, they say unto God, Depart from us; for we do not desire the knowledge of thy ways.

21:15  Who [is] the Almighty that we should serve him? And what profit should we have if we pray unto him?

21:16  Behold that their good [is] not in their hands; the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

21:17  How often is the candle of the wicked put out and their destruction comes upon them, and [God] distributes sorrows upon them in his anger.

21:18  They shall be as stubble before the wind and as chaff taken up by the whirlwind.

21:19  God shall lay up his violence for [their] sons; and he will reward him so that he shall know [it].

21:20  His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

21:21  For what delight shall he have in his house after him, being cut off in the number of his months?

21:22  Shall he teach God knowledge, seeing he judges those that are high?

21:23  This one shall die in the full strength of his beauty, being completely at ease and quiet.

21:24  His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow.

21:25  And another dies in the bitterness of his soul, never having eaten with pleasure.

21:26  They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.

21:27  Behold, I know your thoughts and the imaginations which ye devise against me.

21:28  For ye say, What [is] of the house of the prince, and what of the tent of the habitation of the wicked?

21:29  Have ye not asked those that go by the way, and do ye not know their tokens?

21:30  That the wicked is reserved for the day of destruction, they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.

21:31  Who shall declare his way to his face? And who shall repay him [what] he has done?

21:32  He shall yet be brought to the grave and shall remain in the tomb.

21:33  The clods of the river [valley] shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall be drawn after him, as [there were] innumerable before him.

21:34  How then do ye comfort me in vain, [given] that your answers remain as falsehood?:

Chapter 22

22:1  Then Eliphaz, the Temanite, answered and said,

22:2  Can a man be profitable unto God? For he that is wise is profitable unto himself.

22:3  [Is it] any pleasure to the Almighty that thou art justified? Or [is it] gain [to him] that thou makest thy ways perfect?

22:4  Will he reprove thee or will he enter with thee into judgment because he fears thee?

22:5  Certainly thy wickedness is great and thine iniquities have no end.

22:6  For thou didst take a pledge from thy brother without cause and stripped the naked of their clothing.

22:7  Thou didst not give water to drink to the weary, and thou hast withheld bread from the hungry.

22:8  But the man of means had the earth; and the honourable man dwelt in it.

22:9  Thou hast sent the widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

22:10  Therefore, snares [are] round about thee, and sudden fear troubles thee

22:11  or darkness, [that] thou canst not see, and abundance of waters cover thee.

22:12  [Is] not God in the height of the heavens? Behold the height of the stars, how high they are!

22:13  And thou shalt say, What does God know? How can he judge through the darkness?

22:14  Thick clouds are his hiding place, and he does not see; and he walks in the circuit of heaven.

22:15  Dost thou desire to keep the old way which wicked men have trodden?

22:16  Who were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood.

22:17  Who said unto God, Depart from us; and what can the Almighty do unto us?

22:18  He had filled their houses with good [things]. Therefore, the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

22:19  The righteous shall see [it] and be glad; and the innocent laughs them to scorn.

22:20  Whereas our substance was not cut down, when the fire had consumed the rest of them.

22:21  Make up thy friendship now with him, and thou shalt have peace; thereby good shall come unto thee.

22:22  Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.

22:23  If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tent;

22:24  then thou shalt lay up gold as dust and the [gold] of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.

22:25  And the Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou shalt have plenty of silver.

22:26  For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty and shalt lift up thy face unto God.

22:27  Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.

22:28  Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee; and the light shall shine upon thy ways.

22:29  When [others] are cast down, then thou shalt say, [There is] lifting up; and he shall save the humble person.

22:30  He shall deliver the island of the innocent; and in the pureness of thine hands thou shalt be kept.:

Chapter 23

23:1  Then Job answered and said,

23:2  Today I will also speak with bitterness; my stroke is heavier than my groaning.

23:3  Oh, that I knew where I might find him! [That] I might come [even] to his seat!

23:4  I would order judgment before him and fill my mouth with arguments.

23:5  I would know the words [which] he would answer me and understand what he would say unto me.

23:6  Will he plead against me with [his] great power? No, but rather he would put it in me.

23:7  There the righteous might dispute with him; and should I escape for ever from the one who condemns me.

23:8  Behold, I shall go to the east and not find him; and to the west, but I cannot perceive him;

23:9  if he is working to the north, I shall not see him; to the south, he hides himself, that I shall not see [him].

23:10  But he has known the way that I take; he has tried me, and I have come forth as gold.

23:11  My feet have held to his steps, I have kept his way, and have not departed.

23:12  Neither have I separated myself from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary [food].

23:13  But if he determines something, who can turn him? His soul desired [it], and he did [it].

23:14  Therefore, he will finish that which is necessary for me; and [there are] many such things in him.

23:15  Therefore, I shall fear before his face; I shall consider, and I shall fear him.

23:16  For God has made my heart tender, and the Almighty has frightened me.

23:17  Why was I not cut off before the darkness, [neither] has he covered my face with the darkness.:

Chapter 24

24:1  Why, seeing that times are not hidden from the Almighty, do those that know him not see his days?

24:2  [Some] remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks and feed [thereof].

24:3  They drive away the ass of the fatherless; they take the widow's ox for a pledge.

24:4  They turn the needy out of the way; and all the poor of the earth hide themselves [from them].

24:5  Behold, [as] wild asses in the desert, they go forth to their work, rising early for a prey; the wilderness [yields] food for them [and] for [their] children.

24:6  In the field they reap their fodder, and the wicked gather the vintage [that is not theirs].

24:7  They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that [they have] no covering in the cold.

24:8  They are wet with the floods of the mountains and embrace the rock for want of a covering.

24:9  They pluck the fatherless from the breast and take a pledge of the poor.

24:10  They cause the naked to go without clothing, and they take away the sheaves [from] the hungry.

24:11  They press oil within their walls [and] tread [their] winepresses and suffer thirst.

24:12  Men groan from out of the city, and the souls of the dead cry out; yet God did not hinder [them].

24:13  They are among those that rebel against the light; they have never known its ways nor abided in its paths.

24:14  The murderer rises with the light, kills the poor and the needy, and in the night is as a thief.

24:15  The eye of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me; and disguises [his] face.

24:16  In the dark they dig through houses, [which] they had marked for themselves in the daytime; they do not know the light.

24:17  For the morning [is] to them even as the shadow of death; if they are known, the terrors of the shadow of death [come over them].

24:18  They are swift upon the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth; they never come by the way of the vineyards.

24:19  Drought and heat consume the snow waters; [so does] Sheol [consume those who] have sinned.

24:20  The Merciful One shall forget them; the worm shall feed sweetly on them; they shall never be remembered again; and iniquity shall be broken as a tree.

24:21  He afflicted the barren woman that did not conceive and never did good unto the widow.

24:22  He furthered the violent with his power; he did not lend to anyone in his life.

24:23  [If] he gave credit [to some] to take [them] over, his eyes [were] upon their ways.

24:24  They were exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all [others] and cut off as the tops of the heads of grain.

24:25  And if [it is] not so now, who will make me a liar or reduce my speech to nothing?:

Chapter 25

25:1  Then Bildad, the Shuhite, answered, and said,

25:2  Dominion and fear [are] with [God]; he makes peace in his high places.

25:3  Is there any number to his armies? And upon whom does his light not arise?

25:4  How then can man be justified with God? Or how can he that is born of a woman be clean?

25:5  Behold, even the moon shall not shine, neither are the stars pure in his sight.

25:6  How much less man, [who is as] a worm, and the son of man, [who is also] a worm?:

Chapter 26

26:1  Job answered and said,

26:2  How hast thou helped the one who has no power? Hast thou saved with thy arm the one who has no strength?

26:3  How hast thou counselled the one that has no wisdom? and [how] hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is?

26:4  To whom hast thou uttered words, and whose is the spirit that comes forth from thee?

26:5  Dead [things] are formed under the waters and of its dwelling places.

26:6  Sheol [is] naked before him, and hell has no covering.

26:7  He stretches out the north wind over the empty place [and] hangs the earth upon nothing.

26:8  He binds up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.

26:9  He holds back the face of his throne [and] spreads his cloud upon it.

26:10  He has compassed the waters with bounds until the end of light and darkness.

26:11  The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof.

26:12  He divides the sea with his power, and by his intelligence he smites its pride.

26:13  By his spirit he has adorned the heavens; his hand has formed the fleeing serpent.

26:14  Behold, these [are] parts of his ways; but how little a portion have we heard of him? For the thunder of his power, who shall understand?:

Chapter 27

27:1  Moreover, Job continued his parable and said,

27:2  As God lives, [who] has taken away my rights; and the Almighty, [who] has made my soul bitter,

27:3  that all the while my breath [is] in me, and the spirit of God [is] in my nostrils,

27:4  my lips shall not speak iniquity, nor my tongue utter deceit.

27:5  In no wise should I justify you; until I die I will not remove my integrity from me.

27:6  I hold fast to my righteousness and will not let it go; my heart shall not reproach [me] so long as I live.

27:7  Let my enemy be as the wicked and my adversary as the unrighteous.

27:8  For what [is] the hope of the hypocrite, though he has stolen much, when God takes away his soul?

27:9  Will God hear his cry when the tribulation comes upon him?

27:10  Will he delight himself in the Almighty? Will he always call upon God?

27:11  I will teach you [what there is] in the hand of God; I will not conceal that which [is] regarding the Almighty.

27:12  Behold, all ye yourselves have seen [it]; why then are ye so completely vain?

27:13  This [is] the portion of a wicked man with God and the heritage of the violent, [which] they shall receive of the Almighty.

27:14  If their sons are multiplied, [it is] for the sword; and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

27:15  Those that remain of him shall be buried in death; and their widows shall not weep.

27:16  Though he heaps up silver as the dust and prepares raiment as the clay,

27:17  he may prepare [it], but the just shall put [it] on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.

27:18  He built his house as a moth and as a booth [that] the keeper makes.

27:19  The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered; he shall open his eyes and not see anyone.

27:20  Terrors shall take hold on him as waters; a whirlwind shall carry him away in the night.

27:21  The east wind shall take him away, and he shall depart; the storm shall catch him up out of his place.

27:22  For [God] shall cast down on him and not spare; he would attempt to flee out of his hand.

27:23  [Men] shall clap their hands at him, and from his place they shall hiss at him.:

Chapter 28

28:1  Surely there is a mine for the silver, and a place for gold [where] they refine [it].

28:2  Iron is taken out of the dust, and bronze [is] melted [out of] the stone.

28:3  He set a border unto the darkness, and unto every perfect work that he made, he [placed] a stone of darkness and shadow of death.

28:4  The river breaks forth next to the inhabitant; [even the waters] forgotten of the foot, that were higher than man, are gone away.

28:5  Land out of which bread comes forth, and underneath it shall be as [if] it were converted in fire.

28:6  A place where its stones shall be sapphires; and it shall have dust of gold.

28:7  A path which no fowl knows and which the vulture's eye has never seen;

28:8  the young of the proud have not trodden it, nor has the fierce lion passed by it.

28:9  He put his hand upon the flint and overturned the mountains from the root.

28:10  He cut rivers out of the rocks; and his eye saw every precious thing.

28:11  He detained the rivers in their source and caused that which was hid to be brought to light.

28:12  But where shall wisdom be found? And where [is] the place of understanding?

28:13  Man never knew its price; neither is it found in the land of the living.

28:14  The deep saith, It [is] not in me; and the sea saith, [It is] not with me.

28:15  It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed [for] its price.

28:16  It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx or the sapphire.

28:17  Gold cannot equal it, nor can diamond; neither shall it be exchanged for vessels of fine gold.

28:18  No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls; for wisdom is better than precious stones.

28:19  The emerald of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold.

28:20  Where then does wisdom come from? And where [is] the place of understanding?

28:21  Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living and kept concealed from every fowl of the heaven.

28:22  Hell and death say, We have heard its fame with our ears.

28:23  God understands its way, and he [alone] knows its place.

28:24  For he looks unto the ends of the earth [and] sees under the whole heaven,

28:25  To make a weight for the wind and to supply water by measure,

28:26  when he made a law for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunders.

28:27  Then he saw it and counted it; he prepared it and also searched it out.

28:28  And unto man he said, Behold, that the fear of the Lord, [is] wisdom; and to depart from evil [is] understanding.:

Chapter 29

29:1  Moreover, Job continued his parable and said,

29:2  Oh, that I were as [in] months past, as [in] the days [when] God preserved me;

29:3  when his candle shone upon my head, and by its light I walked in the darkness;

29:4  as I was in the days of my youth, when God was familiar in my tent;

29:5  when the Almighty [was] yet with me, [when] my children [were] about me;

29:6  when I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil!

29:7  When I went out to the gate to judgment, [when] I had my seat prepared in the plaza!

29:8  The young men would see me and hide themselves, and the aged would arise [and] stand.

29:9  The princes would refrain from talking and lay [their] hand on their mouth;

29:10  the voice of the principals would not be noticed, and their tongue would cleave to the roof of their mouth.

29:11  When the ears that heard me, called me blessed; and when the eyes that saw me, gave witness to me:

29:12  because I delivered the poor that cried and the fatherless who had no one to help him.

29:13  The blessing of the one that was ready to perish came upon me; and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

29:14  I put on righteousness, and it clothed me as a robe; and my diadem was judgment.

29:15  I was eyes to the blind and feet to the lame.

29:16  I [was] a father to the needy; and the cause [which] I did not know I searched out.

29:17  And I broke the fangs of the wicked and caused their teeth to release the prey.

29:18  Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply [my] days as the sand.

29:19  My root [is] spread out by the waters, and the dew shall remain upon my branches.

29:20  My glory is renewed with me, and my bow is renewed in my hand.

29:21  They would hear me and wait, and keep silent at my counsel.

29:22  After my words they would not reply, but my reason dropped upon them.

29:23  And they waited for me as for the rain, and they opened their mouth wide [as] for the latter rain.

29:24  [If] I laughed at them, they did not believe [it]; and they did not cast down the light of my countenance.

29:25  I approved their way and sat at the head and dwelt as a king in the army, as one [that] comforts the mourners.:

Chapter 30

30:1  But now [those that are] younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.

30:2  For, unto what [might] the strength of their hands [profit] me, in whom time was lost?

30:3  For want and famine [they walked] alone; fleeing into solitude, to the dark place, desolate and waste.

30:4  Who cut up mallows among the bushes and juniper roots [for] their food.

30:5  They were driven forth from among [men] (they cried after them as [after] a thief).

30:6  They dwelt in the clifts of the valleys, [in] caves of the earth, and [in] the rocks.

30:7  Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.

30:8  [They were] sons of fools and men without names; they were lower than the earth.

30:9  And now I am their song, and I am their byword.

30:10  They abhor me, they distance themselves from me, and do not spare to spit in my face.

30:11  Because [God] has loosed my cord and afflicted me, they have also gone out of control before my face.

30:12  Upon [my] right [hand] rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.

30:13  They cast down my path, they took advantage of my calamity, against them there was no helper.

30:14  They came in as through a wide breach; they were stirred up because of my calamity.

30:15  They have loosed terrors upon me; they fought my will as the wind and my saving health as a cloud that passes.

30:16  And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.

30:17  My bones pierce me in the night, and my sinews take no rest.

30:18  By the great force [of my disease] my garment is changed; it binds me about as the collar of my coat.

30:19  He has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.

30:20  I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me; I present myself, and thou regardest me [not].

30:21  Thou art become cruel to me; with the strength of thy hand thou dost hate me.

30:22  Thou didst lift me up and cause me to ride upon the wind, and didst dissolve my being.

30:23  For I know [that] thou dost conduct me unto death and [to] the house appointed for all living.

30:24  But he will not stretch out [his] hand against the grave; do those who are buried cry out when he destroys them?

30:25  Did I not weep for the one that was in trouble? Was [not] my soul grieved for the needy?

30:26  When I expected good, then evil came [unto me]; and when I waited for light, there came darkness.

30:27  My bowels boil and do not rest; the days of affliction came upon me.

30:28  I went about darkened, but not by the sun; I stood up and cried out in the congregation.

30:29  I have become a brother to dragons and a companion to owls.

30:30  My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.

30:31  My harp is [turned] to mourning, and my organ into the voice of those that weep.:

Chapter 31

31:1  I made a covenant with my eyes; why then should I look upon a maid?

31:2  For what reward would God [give me] from above and [what] inheritance of the Almighty from on high?

31:3  Is there no destruction for the wicked? And banishment for the workers of iniquity?

31:4  Does he not see my ways and count all my steps?

31:5  If I have walked with falsehood or if my foot has hastened to deceit,

31:6  let me be weighed in a just balance, that God may know my integrity.

31:7  If my step has turned out of the way and my heart walked after my eyes and if any blot has cleaved to my hands,

31:8  [then] let me sow, and let another eat, and let my offspring be rooted out.

31:9  If my heart has been deceived regarding a woman, or [if] I have laid in wait at my neighbour's door,

31:10  [then] let my wife grind for another, and let others bow down upon her.

31:11  For this is lewdness and iniquity that is proven.

31:12  For it [is] a fire [that] consumes unto Sheol and would root out all my increase.

31:13  If I had despised the right of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;

31:14  what then would I do when God rises up? And when he visits, what would I answer him?

31:15  Did not he that made me in the belly [also] make him? And did not [the same] one fashion us in the womb?

31:16  If I have disturbed the desire of the poor or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;

31:17  or have eaten my morsel alone and the fatherless has not eaten thereof;

31:18  (for from my youth the [fatherless] was brought up with me, as [with] a father, and I have guided the [widow] from my mother's womb)

31:19  if I have seen any perish for want of clothing or any needy without [a] covering;

31:20  if his loins have not blessed me and [if] he were [not] warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

31:21  if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, even when I saw that they would all help me in the gate;

31:22  [then] let my back fall from my shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from its joint.

31:23  For I feared destruction [from] God, against whose highness I could have no power.

31:24  If I have made gold my hope or have said to the fine gold, [Thou art] my confidence;

31:25  if I rejoiced because my wealth [was] being multiplied, and because my hand had gotten much;

31:26  if I beheld the sun when it shone or the moon walking [in] beauty;

31:27  and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my mouth kissed my hand;

31:28  this would also be a proven iniquity; for I should have denied the God that is sovereign.

31:29  If I rejoiced at the destruction of the one that hated me or lifted up myself when evil found him;

31:30  for I have never even suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse upon his soul;

31:31  when the servants of my tent said, Oh that we had of his flesh! We would never be satisfied.

31:32  The stranger did not lodge in the street, [but] I opened my doors to the traveller.

31:33  If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom;

31:34  if I feared a great multitude or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, [and] did not go out of the door?

31:35  Oh that someone would hear me! Behold, my mark [is], [that] the Almighty will testify for me, even though my adversary had written down the charges.

31:36  Surely I would take it upon my shoulder [and] bind it [as] a crown to me.

31:37  I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince I would go near unto him.

31:38  If my land cries against me and all its furrows likewise complain;

31:39  if I ate of its strength without money or have afflicted the soul of its owners;

31:40  let thistles grow up unto me instead of wheat and stinkweed instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.:

Chapter 32

32:1  So these three men ceased to answer Job because he [was] righteous in his own eyes.

32:2  Then the wrath of Elihu, the son of Barachel, the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram, was kindled; against Job was his wrath kindled, because he justified himself rather than God.

32:3  Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled because they had found no answer, and [yet] had condemned Job.

32:4  Now Elihu had waited until Job had spoken because they [were all] elder than he.

32:5  But when Elihu saw that [there was] no answer in the mouth of [these] three men, then his wrath was kindled.

32:6  And Elihu, the son of Barachel, the Buzite, answered and said, I [am] younger, and ye [are] older; therefore, I was afraid, and I feared to declare unto you my opinion.

32:7  I said, Days shall speak, and the multitude of years shall declare wisdom.

32:8  Certainly [there is] a spirit in man, and the inspiration of the Almighty gives them understanding.

32:9  Great men are not [always] wise; neither do the aged understand judgment.

32:10  Therefore I said, Hearken to me; I also will declare my knowledge.

32:11  Behold, I waited for your words; I gave ear to your arguments, while ye searched out what to say.

32:12  Even so, I attended unto you, and, behold, [there was] none of you to reproved Job [or] to answer his words.

32:13  Lest ye should say, We have found out wisdom; it is needful that God thrust him down, and not man.

32:14  Now he has not directed [his] words against me; neither will I answer him with your reasons.

32:15  They were amazed, they answered no more; they left off speaking.

32:16  And I waited, (for they did not speak, but stopped, [and] answered no more);

32:17  [I said], I will also answer my part, I will also declare my opinion.

32:18  For I am full of words; the spirit within me constrains me.

32:19  Behold, my belly [is] as wine [which] has no vent; it is ready to burst forth like spirits.

32:20  I will speak, that I may be able to breathe; I will open my lips and answer.

32:21  I will not now be a respecter of persons, neither will I give flattering titles unto man.

32:22  For I do not know [how] to give flattering titles; [otherwise] my maker would soon take me away.:

Chapter 33

33:1  Therefore, Job, hear now my reasons, and hearken to all my words.

33:2  Behold, now I shall open my mouth, my tongue shall speak in my mouth.

33:3  My reasons declare the uprightness of my heart; and my lips shall utter pure knowledge.

33:4  The Spirit of God made me, and the breath of the Almighty gave me life.

33:5  If thou canst answer me, set [thy words] in order before me, stand up.

33:6  Behold, I [am] according to thy wish in God's stead; I also am formed out of the clay.

33:7  Behold, my terror shall not make thee afraid, neither shall my hand be heavy upon thee.

33:8  Surely thou hast spoken in my hearing, and I have heard the voice of [thy] words, [saying],

33:9  I am clean without rebellion, I [am] innocent; neither [is there] iniquity in me.

33:10  Behold, [God] sought occasions against me, he counts me for his enemy,

33:11  he put my feet in the stocks, he guards all my paths.

33:12  Behold, [in] this thou art not just; I will answer thee, that God is greater than man.

33:13  Why dost thou strive against him? For he will not answer all of thy words.

33:14  Nevertheless, in one or two manners God speaks to the one who does not see.

33:15  In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;

33:16  then he opens the ears of men and seals their instruction,

33:17  that he may withdraw the man [from his own] work and cover the man from pride.

33:18  [Thus] he keeps back his soul from the pit and his life from perishing by the sword.

33:19  He is chastened also upon his bed with strong pain in all his bones,

33:20  so that his life abhorrs bread and his soul dainty food.

33:21  His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones [that] were not seen stick out.

33:22  His soul shall draw near to the grave, and his life to those that would bury him.

33:23  If there is a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show unto man his uprightness;

33:24  to tell him that [God] had mercy on him, that he delivered him from going down to the pit; that he found a ransom;

33:25  his flesh shall become more tender than a child's; and he shall return to the days of his youth.

33:26  He shall pray unto God, and he will love him; and he shall see his face with shouts of joy; for he will render unto the man the recompense of his righteousness.

33:27  He looks upon men, and [if any] say, I have sinned and perverted [that which was] right, and it did not profit me;

33:28  [God] will ransom his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.

33:29  Behold, God does all these thing two and three times with man,

33:30  to turn back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living.

33:31  Hear me, O Job, hearken unto me; be silent, and I will speak.

33:32  If thou hast anything to say, answer me; speak, for I desire to justify thee.

33:33  If not, hearken unto me; be silent, and I shall teach thee wisdom.:

Chapter 34

34:1  Furthermore, Elihu answered and said,

34:2  Hear my words, O ye wise [men]; and give ear unto me, ye that have knowledge.

34:3  For the ear tries words, as the mouth tasts food.

34:4  Let us choose our judgment; let us know among ourselves what [is] good.

34:5  For Job has said, I am righteous; and God has taken away my right.

34:6  In my judgment he was a liar, my arrow [wound] is grievous without [my having committed a] transgression.

34:7  What man [is] like Job, [who] drinks up the scorn like water?

34:8  Who goes in company with the workers of iniquity, and walks with wicked men.

34:9  For he said, It shall profit a man nothing that he should conform his will with God.

34:10  Therefore, hearken unto me, ye men of understanding: far be it from God, [that he should do] wickedness; and [from] the Almighty, [that he should commit] iniquity.

34:11  For he shall pay man [according] to his work and cause every man to find according to [his] ways.

34:12  Yea, surely God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert judgment.

34:13  Who visited the earth for him? And who set the whole world in order?

34:14  If he were to set his heart upon man and gather unto himself his spirit and his breath,

34:15  all flesh would perish together, and man would turn again unto dust.

34:16  If now [thou hast] understanding, hear this: hearken to the voice of my words.

34:17  Shall even he that hates judgment govern? And wilt thou condemn the Mighty One that is righteous?

34:18  [Is it fit] to say to the king, [Thou art of] Belial [and] to the princes, Ye [are] ungodly?

34:19  [How much less to him] who is not a respecter of the persons of princes, nor respects the rich more than the poor; for they all [are] the work of his hands.

34:20  In a moment they shall die, and the peoples shall be troubled at midnight and shall pass away; and the mighty shall be taken away without hand.

34:21  For his eyes [are] upon the ways of man, and he sees all his steps.

34:22  [There is] no darkness nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

34:23  For he will not lay upon man more [than that which is just]; that he should enter into judgment with God.

34:24  He shall break in pieces mighty men without number and set others in their stead.

34:25  Therefore, he shall cause their works to be notorious, when he shall overturn [them] in the night, so that they are destroyed.

34:26  He shall strike them as wicked men in the open sight of others

34:27  because thus they turned back from him and would not consider any of his ways

34:28  so that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto him, and he hears the cry of the afflicted.

34:29  When he gives rest, who then can make trouble? If he hides [his] face, who then can behold him? This applies to a nation and the same to a man,

34:30  that the hypocrite not reign, lest the people be ensnared.

34:31  For it is of God to say, I have forgiven, I will no longer destroy.

34:32  Teach me that which I do not see; if I have done iniquity, I will do it no more.

34:33  Will he, perchance finish his work by thee; whether thou refuse or whether thou choose, or by me? Speak what thou knowest.

34:34  The men of understanding will say as I [say], and the wise man will hearken unto me.

34:35  Job has spoken without knowledge, and his words [were] without prudence.

34:36  My desire [is that] Job may be tried unto the end, that there may be answers against wicked men.

34:37  For he added rebellion unto his sin, he claps [his hands] among us and multiplies his words against God.:

Chapter 35

35:1  Elihu proceeded in his reasoning and said,

35:2  Dost thou think this to be right, [when] thou didst say, I am more righteous than God?

35:3  For thou didst say, What advantage will it be unto thee? [And], What profit shall I have, [if] I am cleansed] from my sin?

35:4  I will answer thee and thy companions with thee.

35:5  Look unto the heavens and see; and behold the heavens [which] are higher than thou.

35:6  If thou dost sin, what hast thou done against him? Or [if] thy rebellion is multiplied, what doest thou unto him?

35:7  If thou art righteous, what shalt thou give him? Or what shall he receive of thine hand?

35:8  Thy wickedness [shall hurt] a man as thou [art]; and thy righteousness [shall profit] the son of man.

35:9  By reason of the great violence they shall call out; they cry out because of the strength of the many.

35:10  But no one shall say, Where [is] God my maker, who gives songs in the night;

35:11  who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the fowls of heaven?

35:12  There they shall cry, but he shall give no answer because of the pride of those that are evil.

35:13  Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty look upon it.

35:14  For much that thou dost say, he will not look upon it, [submit to] judgment before him, and trust thou in him.

35:15  But now, because he has not visited in wrath; nor is it known in great extremity;

35:16  therefore, Job opened his mouth in vain and multiplied words without knowledge.:

Chapter 36

36:1  And Elihu added and said,

36:2  Wait for me a little, and I will teach thee; for I yet speak on God's behalf.

36:3  I will take my knowledge from afar and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

36:4  For truly my words [are] not lies; [for I share] perfect knowledge with thee.

36:5  Behold, God [is] mighty and does not despise; [he is] mighty in virtue of heart.

36:6  He shall not give life to the wicked; but to the poor he shall give their right.

36:7  He shall not withdraw his eyes from the righteous; but with kings he shall place them on the throne for ever, and they shall be exalted.

36:8  And if they were bound in fetters and captive in cords of affliction,

36:9  then he shall show them their work and that their rebellions prevailed.

36:10  He opens their ear to instruction and commands that they turn from iniquity.

36:11  If they hearken and serve [him], they shall spend their days in goodness and their years in delight.

36:12  But if they do not hearken, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.

36:13  But the hypocrites in heart shall irritate him more; they shall not cry out when he binds them.

36:14  Their soul shall die in youth, and their life [is] among the male [pagan cult] prostitutes.

36:15  He shall deliver the poor from his poverty, and in affliction shall open their ears.

36:16  Likewise, he would have removed thee out of the mouth of anguish [into] a broad place where [there is] no distress and should have set thy table full of fatness.

36:17  But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked, against the judgment and the justice that sustain [everything].

36:18  Therefore it is to be feared that he take thee away with [a] stroke, which cannot be avoided even with a great ransom.

36:19  Will he esteem thy riches? [No], not gold, nor all the forces of strength.

36:20  Do not desire the night, when he cuts people off in their place.

36:21  Take heed, do not regard iniquity, to chose it rather than poverty.

36:22  Behold, God is exalted by his power; what teacher is like him?

36:23  Who has prescribed his way unto him? Or who shall say unto him, Thou hast wrought iniquity?

36:24  Remember to magnify his work, which men behold.

36:25  Every man may see it; man may behold [it] afar off.

36:26  Behold, God [is] great, and we know [him] not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.

36:27  For he detains the drops of water; when the rain pours down rain out of its vapour,

36:28  which the clouds do drop [and] distil upon man abundantly.

36:29  Shall you understand the spreadings of the clouds [or] the noise of his tent?

36:30  Behold, he spreads his light upon it and covers the roots of the sea.

36:31  For by them he judges the peoples; he gives food to the multitude.

36:32  With the clouds he covers the light and commands them [to come] against [the light].

36:33  [The one] gives news of the other; [the one] acquires wrath against the one that comes.:

Chapter 37

37:1  At this also my heart trembles and is moved out of its place.

37:2  Hear attentively his terrible voice and the word [that] goes out of his mouth.

37:3  He shall place it straight under the whole of the heavens, and his light [shall extend] unto the ends of the earth.

37:4  After it shall the sound roar; his valiant voice shall thunder; and he will not stay them even when his voice is heard.

37:5  God shall thunder marvelously with his voice; he does great things, which we cannot comprehend.

37:6  For he saith to the snow, Be thou [on] the earth; rain after rain, and rain after rain in his strength.

37:7  He seals up the hand of every man that all men may know his work.

37:8  Then the beast shall go into its lair and inhabit its dwelling.

37:9  Out of the south comes the whirlwind and cold out of the north wind.

37:10  By the breath of God ice is given; and the broad waters are constrained.

37:11  In addition to this, with clarity he wearies the thick clouds; and he scatters them with his light.

37:12  And they are turned round about by his counsels; that they may do whatever he commands them upon the face of the world in the earth.

37:13  On some occasions for correction, on others for his land, on others for mercy he causes them to appear.

37:14  Hearken unto this, Job; stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God.

37:15  Dost thou know when God disposed them and caused the light of his cloud to shine?

37:16  Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of the one who is perfect in knowledge?

37:17  How thy garments [are] warm, when he quiets the earth by the south [wind]?

37:18  Hast thou with him spread out the sky, [which is] strong [and] as a molten looking glass?

37:19  Teach us what we should say unto him; [for] we cannot order [our speech] by reason of darkness.

37:20  Shall it be told him when I speak? When someone is swallowed up shall it be told him?

37:21  Also, sometimes the clear light which [is] in the heavens is not seen, but the wind passes and cleanses them.

37:22  Fair weather comes out of the north; with God [is] terrible majesty.

37:23  [Touching] the Almighty, we cannot find him out; [he is] excellent in power and in judgment, and in plenty of righteousness he will not afflict.

37:24  Men, therefore, shall fear him; all the crafty of heart shall not see him.:

Chapter 38

38:1  Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind and said,

38:2  Who [is] this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?

38:3  Now gird up thy loins like a man; for I will enquire of thee, and answer thou me.

38:4  Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? Cause me to know, if thou hast understanding.

38:5  Who ordered its dimensions, if thou knowest? Or who has stretched the line upon it?

38:6  Upon what are its foundations founded? Or who laid its corner stone;

38:7  when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

38:8  Or [who] shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth, [as if] it had issued out of the womb?

38:9  When I made the clouds its garment and thick darkness a swaddling band for it,

38:10  and established my decree upon it, and set bars and doors,

38:11  and said, Thou shalt come unto here, but no further; and there shall the pride of thy waves be stayed.

38:12  Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days? Hast thou shown the dayspring its place,

38:13  that it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?

38:14  It is transformed as clay [to] the seal and then stands as a garment;

38:15  but the light of the wicked is taken from them, and the high arm is broken.

38:16  Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? Or hast thou walked searching out the deep?

38:17  Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? Or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?

38:18  Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? Declare if thou knowest it all.

38:19  Where [is] the way to the habitation of the light, and where is the place of the darkness?

38:20  If thou shalt take it in its borders, and if thou should understand the paths [to] its house?

38:21  If thou didst know when thou wast to be born or if the number of thy days was to be great?

38:22  Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow, and hast thou seen the treasures of the hail,

38:23  which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?

38:24  By what way is the light divided; from where is the east wind scattered upon the earth?

38:25  Who has divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters or a way for the lightning of thunder,

38:26  to cause it to rain on the earth, [where] no man [is]; [on] the wilderness, in which [there is] no man;

38:27  to satisfy the desolate and waste [ground] and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?

38:28  Has the rain a father? Or who has begotten the drops of the dew?

38:29  Out of whose womb came the ice, and the hoary frost of heaven, who has begotten it?

38:30  The waters harden as stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.

38:31  Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?

38:32  Canst thou bring forth the signs of the heavens in their season, or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?

38:33  Dost thou know the ordinances of the heavens? Canst thou use its power in the earth?

38:34  Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee?

38:35  Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go and say unto thee, Here we [are]?

38:36  Who put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who gave intelligence to understanding?

38:37  Who declared the heavens in wisdom? Or who can stay the bottles of heaven

38:38  when the dust hardens and the clods cleave fast together?

38:39  Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion or fill the appetite of the young lions,

38:40  when they crouch in [their] dens [and] abide in their lairs to lie in wait?

38:41  Who provided food for the raven; when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of food?:

Chapter 39

39:1  Knowest thou the time when the mountain goats bring forth? Hast thou observed when the hinds calve?

39:2  Canst thou number the months [that] they fulfil, and knowest thou the time when they bring forth?

39:3  [How] they crouch down, they bring forth their young ones, and dismiss their pain.

39:4  Their young ones are healthy, they grow up with grain; they go forth and never return unto them again.

39:5  Who freed the wild ass, and who loosed its bands?

39:6  Unto whom I made a house in the wilderness, and his dwellings in the salty land.

39:7  He laughs at the multitude of the city, neither does he hearken to the voice of the exactor [of tribute].

39:8  The range of the mountains [is] his pasture, and he searches after every green thing.

39:9  Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee or abide by thy crib?

39:10  Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? Will he harrow the valleys after thee?

39:11  Wilt thou trust him because his strength [is] great? Or wilt thou leave thy labour to him?

39:12  Wilt thou trust him, that he will bring home thy seed and gather [it into] thy barn?

39:13  Didst thou give beautiful wings unto the peacock, or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?

39:14  Who leaves her eggs in the earth and warms them in dust

39:15  and forgets that the foot may crush them or that the wild beast may break them.

39:16  She is hardened against her young ones, as though [they were] not hers, not fearing that her labour is in vain,

39:17  because God caused her to forget wisdom and did not give her understanding.

39:18  In her time she lifts up herself on high; she scorns the horse and his rider.

39:19  Hast thou given the horse strength? Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder?

39:20  Canst thou make him leap as a grasshopper? The glory of his nostrils [is] formidable.

39:21  He paws at the earth and rejoices in [his] strength; he goes forth to meet the armed [men].

39:22  He mocks fear and is not afraid; neither does he turn his face from the sword.

39:23  The quiver rattles against him, the glittering spear and the shield.

39:24  He swallows the ground with fierceness and rage; the sound of the shofar does not trouble him;

39:25  for the blasts of the shofar fill him with courage; he smells the battle afar off, the thunder of the princes and the sound of the battle-cry.

39:26  Does the hawk fly by thy industry [and] stretch her wings toward the south?

39:27  Does the eagle mount up at thy command and make her nest on high?

39:28  She dwells and abides on the rock upon the crag of the rock and the strong place.

39:29  From there she seeks food, [and] her eyes behold afar off.

39:30  Her young ones suck up the blood; and wherever the slain [are], there she [is].:

Chapter 40

40:1  Moreover, the LORD answered Job and said,

40:2  Shall he that contends with the Almighty instruct [him]? Let him that disputes with God answer this.

40:3  Then Job answered the LORD and said,

40:4  Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay my hand over my mouth.

40:5  Once I have spoken; but I will not answer; even twice, but I will proceed no further.

40:6  Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind and said,

40:7  Gird up thy loins now like a man; I will ask thee, and explain thou unto me.

40:8  Wilt thou disannul my judgment? Wilt thou condemn me, that thou may be justified?

40:9  Hast thou an arm like God? And canst thou thunder with a voice like him?

40:10  Deck thyself now [with] majesty and excellency; and array thyself with glory and beauty.

40:11  Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath; and behold every one [that is] proud and bring him down.

40:12  Look on every one [that is] proud, [and] bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place.

40:13  Hide them in the dust together; [and] blindfold their faces in darkness.

40:14  Then I will also confess unto thee that thine own right hand can save thee.

40:15  Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eats grass as an ox.

40:16  Behold now, his strength [is] in his loins, and his force [is] in the navel of his belly.

40:17  He moves his tail like a cedar; the sinews of his stones are wrapped together.

40:18  His bones [are as] strong as brass; his members [are] like bars of iron.

40:19  He is the beginning of the ways of God; he that made him shall make his sword draw near [unto him].

40:20  Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play.

40:21  He shall lie down under the shade, in the covert of the reeds and of the damp places.

40:22  The shady [trees] cover him [with] their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about.

40:23  Behold, he shall drink up a river [and] not change; he trusts that he can draw up the Jordan into his mouth.

40:24  His maker shall take him by [the weakness of] his eyes in a snare, and pierce through his nose.:

Chapter 41

41:1  Canst thou draw out leviathan with a hook or with the cord [which] thou lettest down on his tongue?

41:2  Canst thou put a hook into his nose or bore his jaw through with a thorn?

41:3  Will he make many supplications unto thee? Will he speak soft [words] unto thee?

41:4  Will he make a covenant with thee that thou shall take him for a servant for ever?

41:5  Wilt thou play with him as [with] a bird, or wilt thou tie him up for thy maidens?

41:6  Shall the companions make a banquet of him? Shall they part him among the merchants?

41:7  Canst thou cut his skin with knives or his head with a fish spear?

41:8  Lay thine hand upon him; thou shalt remember the battle and do no more.

41:9  Behold, your hope [regarding] him shall fail; for even at the sight of him they shall faint.

41:10  No one [is so] bold as to dare stir him up; who then shall be able to stand before me?

41:11  Who has preceded me, that I should repay [him]? All that is under the whole heaven is mine.

41:12  I will not conceal his lies, nor his might, nor the beauty of his order.

41:13  Who shall uncover the face of his garment? [Or] who shall come to him with a double bridle?

41:14  Who shall open the doors of his face? The orders of his teeth [are] terrible.

41:15  His scales [are his] pride, shut up together [as with] a close seal.

41:16  One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.

41:17  They are joined one to another; they stick together, that they cannot be separated.

41:18  By his sneezings lights are lit, and his eyes [are] like the eyelids of the morning.

41:19  Out of his mouth go burning lamps, [and] sparks of fire leap out.

41:20  Out of his nostrils goes forth smoke, as [out] of a seething pot or caldron.

41:21  His breath kindles coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth.

41:22  In his neck dwells strength, and before him the work is undone.

41:23  The failings of his flesh are joined together; [his flesh] is firm in him and does not move.

41:24  His heart is as firm as a stone; as hard as a piece of the lower [millstone].

41:25  Of his greatness, the mighty are afraid; by reason of breakings they remove sin from themselves.

41:26  When one catches up to him, no sword or spear or dart or coat of mail shall endure [against him].

41:27  He esteems iron as straw [and] bronze as rotten wood.

41:28  The arrow cannot make him flee; with him, slingstones are turned into stubble.

41:29  He counts any weapon as stubble; he laughs at the shaking of a spear.

41:30  Broken clay vessels [are] under him; he carves his imprint upon the mire.

41:31  He makes the deep to boil like a pot; he makes the sea like a pot of ointment.

41:32  He makes the path shine after him; [one] would think the deep [to be] hoary.

41:33  Upon earth there is not his like, who behaves without fear.

41:34  He despises all exalted [things]; he is king over all the sons of pride.:

Chapter 42

42:1  Then Job answered the LORD, and said,

42:2  I know that thou canst do every [thing] and [that] there is no thought hidden from thee.

42:3  Who [is] he that hides counsel without knowledge? Therefore, I have denounced that which I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.

42:4  Hear, now, and I will speak; I will ask of thee, and thou shalt cause me to know.

42:5  With [my ears] I had heard thee; but now my eyes see thee.

42:6  Therefore, I abhor [myself] and repent in dust and ashes.

42:7  And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz, the Temanite, My wrath has been kindled against thee, and against thy two friends; for ye have not spoken by me in uprightness, as my servant Job [has].

42:8  Therefore, take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you; for only because I will accept him, I shall not deal with you [according to your] folly, in that ye have not spoken by me in uprightness, like my servant Job.

42:9  So Eliphaz, the Temanite, and Bildad, the Shuhite, [and] Zophar, the Naamathite, went, and did according as the LORD commanded them; and the LORD accepted Job.

42:10  And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends; also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.

42:11  Then all his brethren came unto him and all his sisters and all those that had been of his acquaintance before and ate bread with him in his house; and they condoled him and comforted him over all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him; each one also gave him an ewe, and an earring of gold.

42:12  So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning; for he had fourteen thousand sheep and six thousand camels and a thousand yoke of oxen and a thousand she asses.

42:13  He also had seven sons and three daughters.

42:14  And he called the name of the first, Jemima, and the name of the second, Kezia, and the name of the third, Kerenhappuch.

42:15  And in all the land no women were found [as] beautiful as the daughters of Job; and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.

42:16  After this Job lived one hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, [even] four generations.

42:17  So Job died, [being] old and full of days.: