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11 There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job and
that man was perfect and upright and one that feared God and
eschewed evil .

12 And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters .

13 His substance also was seven thousand sheep and three
thousand camels and five hundred yoke of oxen and five hundred
she asses and a very great household so that this man was the
greatest of all the men of the east .

14 And his sons went and feasted in their houses every one his
day and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to
drink with them .

15 And it was so when the days of their feasting were gone
about that Job sent and sanctified them and rose up early in the
morning and offered burnt offerings according to the number of
them all for Job said It may be that my sons have sinned and
cursed God in their hearts Thus did Job continually .

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

17 And the LORD said unto Satan Whence comest thou Then Satan
answered the LORD and said From going to and fro in the earth
and from walking up and down in it .

18 And the LORD said unto Satan Hast thou considered my servant
Job that there is none like him in the earth a perfect and an
upright man one that feareth God and escheweth evil .

19 Then Satan answered the LORD and said Doth Job fear God for
nought .

110 Hast not thou made an hedge about him and about his house
and about all that he hath on every side thou hast blessed the
work of his hands and his substance is increased in the land .

111 But put forth thine hand now and touch all that he hath and
he will curse thee to thy face .

112 And the LORD said unto Satan Behold all that he hath is in
thy power only upon himself put not forth thine hand So Satan
went forth from the presence of the LORD .

113 And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were
eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house .

114 And there came a messenger unto Job and said The oxen were
plowing and the asses feeding beside them .

115 And the Sabeans fell upon them and took them away yea they
have slain the servants with the edge of the sword and I only am
escaped alone to tell thee .

116 While he was yet speaking there came also another and said
The fire of God is fallen from heaven and hath burned up the
sheep and the servants and consumed them and I only am escaped
alone to tell thee .

117 While he was yet speaking there came also another and said
The Chaldeans made out three bands and fell upon the camels and
have carried them away yea and slain the servants with the edge
of the sword and I only am escaped alone to tell thee .

118 While he was yet speaking there came also another and said
Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in
their eldest brother's house .

119 And behold there came a great wind from the wilderness and
smote the four corners of the house and it fell upon the young
men and they are dead and I only am escaped alone to tell thee .

120 Then Job arose and rent his mantle and shaved his head and
fell down upon the ground and worshipped .

121 And said Naked came I out of my mother's womb and naked
shall I return thither the LORD gave and the LORD hath taken
away blessed be the name of the LORD .

122 In all this Job sinned not nor charged God foolishly .

* 21 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 .

22 And the LORD said unto Satan From whence comest thou And
Satan answered the LORD and said From going to and fro in the
earth and from walking up and down in it .

23 And the LORD said unto Satan Hast thou considered my servant
Job that there is none like him in the earth a perfect and an
upright man one that feareth God and escheweth evil and still he
holdeth fast his integrity although thou movedst me against him
to destroy him without cause .

24 And Satan answered the LORD and said Skin for skin yea all
that a man hath will he give for his life .

25 But put forth thine hand now and touch his bone and his
flesh and he will curse thee to thy face .

26 And the LORD said unto Satan Behold he is in thine hand but
save his life .

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

28 And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal and he
sat down among the ashes .

29 Then said his wife unto him Dost thou still retain thine
integrity curse God and die .

210 But he said unto her Thou speakest as one of the foolish
women speaketh What shall we receive good at the hand of God and
shall we not receive evil In all this did not Job sin with his
lips .

211 Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that
was come upon him they came every one from his own place Eliphaz
the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite
for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with
him and to comfort him .

212 And when they lifted up their eyes afar off and knew him
not they lifted up their voice and wept and they rent every one
his mantle and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven .

213 So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and
seven nights and none spake a word unto him for they saw that
his grief was very great .

* 31 After this opened Job his mouth and cursed his day .

32 And Job spake and said .

33 Let the day perish wherein I was born and the night in which
it was said There is a man child conceived .

34 Let that day be darkness let not God regard it from above
neither let the light shine upon it .

35 Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it let a cloud
dwell upon it let the blackness of the day terrify it .

36 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 .

37 Lo let that night be solitary let no joyful voice come
therein .

38 Let them curse it that curse the day who are ready to raise
up their mourning .

39 Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark let it look
for light but have none neither let it see the dawning of the
day .

310 Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb nor
hid sorrow from mine eyes .

311 Why died I not from the womb why did I not give up the
ghost when I came out of the belly .

312 Why did the knees prevent me or why the breasts that I
should suck .

313 For now should I have lain still and been quiet I should
have slept then had I been at rest .

314 With kings and counsellors of the earth which built
desolate places for themselves .

315 Or with princes that had gold who filled their houses with
silver .

316 Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been as infants
which never saw light .

317 There the wicked cease from troubling and there the weary
be at rest .

318 There the prisoners rest together they hear not the voice
of the oppressor .

319 The small and great are there and the servant is free from
his master .

320 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery and life
unto the bitter in soul .

321 Which long for death but it cometh not and dig for it more
than for hid treasures .

322 Which rejoice exceedingly and are glad when they can find
the grave .

323 Why is light given to a man whose way is hid and whom God
hath hedged in .

324 For my sighing cometh before I eat and my roarings are
poured out like the waters .

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

326 I was not in safety neither had I rest neither was I quiet
yet trouble came .

* 41 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said .

42 If we assay to commune with thee wilt thou be grieved but
who can withhold himself from speaking .

43 Behold thou hast instructed many and thou hast strengthened
the weak hands .

44 Thy words have upholden him that was falling and thou hast
strengthened the feeble knees .

45 But now it is come upon thee and thou faintest it toucheth
thee and thou art troubled .

46 Is not this thy fear thy confidence thy hope and the
uprightness of thy ways .

47 Remember I pray thee who ever perished being innocent or
where were the righteous cut off .

48 Even as I have seen they that plow iniquity and sow
wickedness reap the same .

49 By the blast of God they perish and by the breath of his
nostrils are they consumed .

410 The roaring of the lion and the voice of the fierce lion
and the teeth of the young lions are broken .

411 The old lion perisheth for lack of prey and the stout
lion's whelps are scattered abroad .

412 Now a thing was secretly brought to me and mine ear
received a little thereof .

413 In thoughts from the visions of the night when deep sleep
falleth on men

414 Fear came upon me and trembling which made all my bones to
shake .

415 Then a spirit passed before my face the hair of my flesh
stood up .

416 It stood still but I could not discern the form thereof an
image was before mine eyes there was silence and I heard a voice
saying .

417 Shall mortal man be more just than God shall a man be more
pure than his maker .

418 Behold he put no trust in his servants and his angels he
charged with folly .

419 How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay whose
foundation is in the dust which are crushed before the moth .

420 They are destroyed from morning to evening they perish for
ever without any regarding it .

421 Doth not their excellency which is in them go away they die
even without wisdom .

* 51 Call now if there be any that will answer thee and to
which of the saints wilt thou turn .

52 For wrath killeth the foolish man and envy slayeth the silly
one .

53 I have seen the foolish taking root but suddenly I cursed
his habitation .

54 His children are far from safety and they are crushed in the
gate neither is there any to deliver them .

55 Whose harvest the hungry eateth up and taketh it even out of
the thorns and the robber swalloweth up their substance .

56 Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust neither
doth trouble spring out of the ground .

57 Yet man is born unto trouble as the sparks fly upward .

58 I would seek unto God and unto God would I commit my cause .

59 Which doeth great things and unsearchable marvellous things
without number .

510 Who giveth rain upon the earth and sendeth waters upon the
fields .

511 To set up on high those that be low that those which mourn
may be exalted to safety .

512 He disappointeth the devices of the crafty so that their
hands cannot perform their enterprise .

513 He taketh the wise in their own craftiness and the counsel
of the froward is carried headlong .

514 They meet with darkness in the daytime and grope in the
noonday as in the night .

515 But he saveth the poor from the sword from their mouth and
from the hand of the mighty .

516 So the poor hath hope and iniquity stoppeth her mouth .

517 Behold happy is the man whom God correcteth therefore
despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty .

518 For he maketh sore and bindeth up he woundeth and his hands
make whole .

519 He shall deliver thee in six troubles yea in seven there
shall no evil touch thee .

520 In famine he shall redeem thee from death and in war from
the power of the sword .

521 Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue neither
shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh .

522 At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh neither shalt
thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth .

523 For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field
and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee .

524 And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be in peace
and thou shalt visit thy habitation and shalt not sin .

525 Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great and thine
offspring as the grass of the earth .

526 Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age like as a shock
of corn cometh in in his season .

527 Lo this we have searched it so it is hear it and know thou
it for thy good .

* 61 But Job answered and said .

62 Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed and my calamity
laid in the balances together .

63 For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea
therefore my words are swallowed up .

64 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me the poison
whereof drinketh up my spirit the terrors of God do set
themselves in array against me .

65 Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass or loweth the ox
over his fodder .

66 Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt or is
there any taste in the white of an egg .

67 The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful
meat .

68 Oh that I might have my request and that God would grant me
the thing that I long for .

69 Even that it would please God to destroy me that he would
let loose his hand and cut me off .

610 Then should I yet have comfort yea I would harden myself in
sorrow let him not spare for I have not concealed the words of
the Holy One .

611 What is my strength that I should hope and what is mine end
that I should prolong my life .

612 Is my strength the strength of stones or is my flesh of
brass .

613 Is not my help in me and is wisdom driven quite from me .

614 To him that is afflicted pity should be showed from his
friend but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty .

615 My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook and as the
stream of brooks they pass away .

616 Which are blackish by reason of the ice and wherein the
snow is hid .

617 What time they wax warm they vanish when it is hot they are
consumed out of their place .

618 The paths of their way are turned aside they go to nothing
and perish .

619 The troops of Tema looked the companies of Sheba waited for
them .

620 They were confounded because they had hoped they came
thither and were ashamed .

621 For now ye are nothing ye see my casting down and are
afraid .

622 Did I say Bring unto me or Give a reward for me of your
substance .

623 Or Deliver me from the enemy's hand or Redeem me from the
hand of the mighty .

624 Teach me and I will hold my tongue and cause me to
understand wherein I have erred .

625 How forcible are right words but what doth your arguing
reprove .

626 Do ye imagine to reprove words and the speeches of one that
is desperate which are as wind .

627 Yea ye overwhelm the fatherless and ye dig a pit for your
friend .

628 Now therefore be content look upon me for it is evident
unto you if I lie .

629 Return I pray you let it not be iniquity yea return again
my righteousness is in it .

630 Is there iniquity in my tongue cannot my taste discern
perverse things .

* 71 Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth are not
his days also like the days of an hireling .

72 As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow and as an
hireling looketh for the reward of his work .

73 So am I made to possess months of vanity and wearisome
nights are appointed to me .

74 When I lie down I say When shall I arise and the night be
gone and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of
the day .

75 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust my skin is
broken and become loathsome .

76 My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle and are spent
without hope .

77 O remember that my life is wind mine eye shall no more see
good .

78 The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more thine
eyes are upon me and I am not .

79 As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away so he that goeth
down to the grave shall come up no more .

710 He shall return no more to his house neither shall his
place know him any more .

711 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 .

712 Am I a sea or a whale that thou settest a watch over me .

713 When I say My bed shall comfort me my couch shall ease my
complaint .

714 Then thou scarest me with dreams and terrifiest me through
visions .

715 So that my soul chooseth strangling and death rather than
my life .

716 I loathe it I would not live alway let me alone for my days
are vanity .

717 What is man that thou shouldest magnify him and that thou
shouldest set thine heart upon him .

718 And that thou shouldest visit him every morning and try him
every moment .

719 How long wilt thou not depart from me nor let me alone till
I swallow down my spittle .

720 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 .

721 And why dost thou not pardon my transgression and take away
mine iniquity for now shall I sleep in the dust and thou shalt
seek me in the morning but I shall not be .

* 81 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite and said .

82 How long wilt thou speak these things and how long shall the
words of thy mouth be like a strong wind .

83 Doth God pervert judgment or doth the Almighty pervert
justice .

84 If thy children have sinned against him and he have cast
them away for their transgression .

85 If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes and make thy
supplication to the Almighty .

86 If thou wert pure and upright surely now he would awake for
thee and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous .

87 Though thy beginning was small yet thy latter end should
greatly increase .

88 For inquire I pray thee of the former age and prepare
thyself to the search of their fathers .

89 For we are but of yesterday and know nothing because our
days upon earth are a shadow .

810 Shall not they teach thee and tell thee and utter words out
of their heart .

811 Can the rush grow up without mire can the flag grow without
water .

812 Whilst it is yet in his greenness and not cut down it
withereth before any other herb .

813 So are the paths of all that forget God and the hypocrite's
hope shall perish .

814 Whose hope shall be cut off and whose trust shall be a
spider's web .

815 He shall lean upon his house but it shall not stand he
shall hold it fast but it shall not endure .

816 He is green before the sun and his branch shooteth forth in
his garden .

817 His roots are wrapped about the heap and seeth the place of
stones .

818 If he destroy him from his place then it shall deny him
saying I have not seen thee .

819 Behold this is the joy of his way and out of the earth
shall others grow .

820 Behold God will not cast away a perfect man neither will he
help the evil doers .

821 Till he fill thy mouth with laughing and thy lips with
rejoicing .

822 They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame and the
dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought .

* 91 Then Job answered and said .

92 I know it is so of a truth but how should man be just with
God .

93 If he will contend with him he cannot answer him one of a
thousand .

94 He is wise in heart and mighty in strength who hath hardened
himself against him and hath prospered .

95 Which removeth the mountains and they know not which
overturneth them in his anger .

96 Which shaketh the earth out of her place and the pillars
thereof tremble .

97 Which commandeth the sun and it riseth not and sealeth up
the stars .

98 Which alone spreadeth out the heavens and treadeth upon the
waves of the sea .

99 Which maketh Arcturus Orion and Pleiades and the chambers of
the south .

910 Which doeth great things past finding out yea and wonders
without number .

911 Lo he goeth by me and I see him not he passeth on also but
I perceive him not .

912 Behold he taketh away who can hinder him who will say unto
him What doest thou .

913 If God will not withdraw his anger the proud helpers do
stoop under him .

914 How much less shall I answer him and choose out my words to
reason with him .

915 Whom though I were righteous yet would I not answer but I
would make supplication to my judge .

916 If I had called and he had answered me yet would I not
believe that he had hearkened unto my voice .

917 For he breaketh me with a tempest and multiplieth my wounds
without cause .

918 He will not suffer me to take my breath but filleth me with
bitterness .

919 If I speak of strength lo he is strong and if of judgment
who shall set me a time to plead .

920 If I justify myself mine own mouth shall condemn me if I
say I am perfect it shall also prove me perverse .

921 Though I were perfect yet would I not know my soul I would
despise my life .

922 This is one thing therefore I said it He destroyeth the
perfect and the wicked .

923 If the scourge slay suddenly he will laugh at the trial of
the innocent .

924 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked he covereth
the faces of the judges thereof if not where and who is he .

925 Now my days are swifter than a post they flee away they see
no good .

926 They are passed away as the swift ships as the eagle that
hasteth to the prey .

927 If I say I will forget my complaint I will leave off my
heaviness and comfort myself .

928 I am afraid of all my sorrows I know that thou wilt not
hold me innocent .

929 If I be wicked why then labour I in vain .

930 If I wash myself with snow water and make my hands never so
clean .

931 Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch and mine own clothes
shall abhor me .

932 For he is not a man as I am that I should answer him and we
should come together in judgment .

933 Neither is there any daysman betwixt us that might lay his
hand upon us both .

934 Let him take his rod away from me and let not his fear
terrify me .

935 Then would I speak and not fear him but it is not so with
me .

* 101 My soul is weary of my life I will leave my complaint
upon myself I will speak in the bitterness of my soul .

102 I will say unto God Do not condemn me show me wherefore
thou contendest with me .

103 Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress that thou
shouldest despise the work of thine hands and shine upon the
counsel of the wicked .

104 Hast thou eyes of flesh or seest thou as man seeth .

105 Are thy days as the days of man are thy years as man's days
.

106 That thou inquirest after mine iniquity and searchest after
my sin .

107 Thou knowest that I am not wicked and there is none that
can deliver out of thine hand .

108 Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round
about yet thou dost destroy me .

109 Remember I beseech thee that thou hast made me as the clay
and wilt thou bring me into dust again .

1010 Hast thou not poured me out as milk and curdled me like
cheese .

1011 Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh and hast fenced
me with bones and sinews .

1012 Thou hast granted me life and favour and thy visitation
hath preserved my spirit .

1013 And these things hast thou hid in thine heart I know that
this is with thee .

1014 If I sin then thou markest me and thou wilt not acquit me
from mine iniquity .

1015 If I be wicked woe unto me and if I be righteous yet will
I not lift up my head I am full of confusion therefore see thou
mine affliction .

1016 For it increaseth Thou huntest me as a fierce lion and
again thou showest thyself marvellous upon me .

1017 Thou renewest thy witnesses against me and increasest
thine indignation upon me changes and war are against me .

1018 Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb
Oh that I had given up the ghost and no eye had seen me .

1019 I should have been as though I had not been I should have
been carried from the womb to the grave .

1020 Are not my days few cease then and let me alone that I may
take comfort a little .

1021 Before I go whence I shall not return even to the land of
darkness and the shadow of death .

1022 A land of darkness as darkness itself and of the shadow of
death without any order and where the light is as darkness .

* 111 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite and said .

112 Should not the multitude of words be answered and should a
man full of talk be justified .

113 Should thy lies make men hold their peace and when thou
mockest shall no man make thee ashamed .

114 For thou hast said My doctrine is pure and I am clean in
thine eyes .

115 But oh that God would speak and open his lips against thee .

116 And that he would show thee the secrets of wisdom that they
are double to that which is Know therefore that God exacteth of
thee less than thine iniquity deserveth .

117 Canst thou by searching find out God canst thou find out
the Almighty unto perfection .

118 It is as high as heaven what canst thou do deeper than hell
what canst thou know .

119 The measure thereof is longer than the earth and broader
than the sea .

1110 If he cut off and shut up or gather together then who can
hinder him .

1111 For he knoweth vain men he seeth wickedness also will he
not then consider it .

1112 For vain man would be wise though man be born like a wild
ass's colt .

1113 If thou prepare thine heart and stretch out thine hands
toward him .

1114 If iniquity be in thine hand put it far away and let not
wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles .

1115 For then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot yea thou
shalt be stedfast and shalt not fear .

1116 Because thou shalt forget thy misery and remember it as
waters that pass away .

1117 And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday thou shalt
shine forth thou shalt be as the morning .

1118 And thou shalt be secure because there is hope yea thou
shalt dig about thee and thou shalt take thy rest in safety .

1119 Also thou shalt lie down and none shall make thee afraid
yea many shall make suit unto thee .

1120 But the eyes of the wicked shall fail and they shall not
escape and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost .

* 121 And Job answered and said .

122 No doubt but ye are the people and wisdom shall die with
you .

123 But I have understanding as well as you I am not inferior
to you yea who knoweth not such things as these .

124 I am as one mocked of his neighbour who calleth upon God
and he answereth him the just upright man is laughed to scorn .

125 He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp
despised in the thought of him that is at ease .

126 The tabernacles of robbers prosper and they that provoke
God are secure into whose hand God bringeth abundantly .

127 But ask now the beasts and they shall teach thee and the
fowls of the air and they shall tell thee .

128 Or speak to the earth and it shall teach thee and the
fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee .

129 Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the LORD hath
wrought this .

1210 In whose hand is the soul of every living thing and the
breath of all mankind .

1211 Doth not the ear try words and the mouth taste his meat .

1212 With the ancient is wisdom and in length of days
understanding .

1213 With him is wisdom and strength he hath counsel and
understanding .

1214 Behold he breaketh down and it cannot be built again he
shutteth up a man and there can be no opening .

1215 Behold he withholdeth the waters and they dry up also he
sendeth them out and they overturn the earth .

1216 With him is strength and wisdom the deceived and the
deceiver are his .

1217 He leadeth counsellors away spoiled and maketh the judges
fools .

1218 He looseth the bond of kings and girdeth their loins with
a girdle .

1219 He leadeth princes away spoiled and overthroweth the
mighty .

1220 He removeth away the speech of the trusty and taketh away
the understanding of the aged .

1221 He poureth contempt upon princes and weakeneth the
strength of the mighty .

1222 He discovereth deep things out of darkness and bringeth
out to light the shadow of death .

1223 He increaseth the nations and destroyeth them he enlargeth
the nations and straiteneth them again .

1224 He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the
earth and causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is
no way .

1225 They grope in the dark without light and he maketh them to
stagger like a drunken man .

* 131 Lo mine eye hath seen all this mine ear hath heard and
understood it .

132 What ye know the same do I know also I am not inferior unto
you .

133 Surely I would speak to the Almighty and I desire to reason
with God .

134 But ye are forgers of lies ye are all physicians of no
value .

135 O that ye would altogether hold your peace and it should be
your wisdom .

136 Hear now my reasoning and hearken to the pleadings of my
lips .

137 Will ye speak wickedly for God and talk deceitfully for him
.

138 Will ye accept his person will ye contend for God .

139 Is it good that he should search you out or as one man
mocketh another do ye so mock him .

1310 He will surely reprove you if ye do secretly accept
persons .

1311 Shall not his excellency make you afraid and his dread
fall upon you .

1312 Your remembrances are like unto ashes your bodies to
bodies of clay .

1313 Hold your peace let me alone that I may speak and let come
on me what will .

1314 Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth and put my life
in mine hand .

1315 Though he slay me yet will I trust in him but I will
maintain mine own ways before him .

1316 He also shall be my salvation for an hypocrite shall not
come before him .

1317 Hear diligently my speech and my declaration with your
ears .

1318 Behold now I have ordered my cause I know that I shall be
justified .

1319 Who is he that will plead with me for now if I hold my
tongue I shall give up the ghost .

1320 Only do not two things unto me then will I not hide myself
from thee .

1321 Withdraw thine hand far from me and let not thy dread make
me afraid .

1322 Then call thou and I will answer or let me speak and
answer thou me .

1323 How many are mine iniquities and sins make me to know my
transgression and my sin .

1324 Wherefore hidest thou thy face and holdest me for thine
enemy .

1325 Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro and wilt thou
pursue the dry stubble .

1326 For thou writest bitter things against me and makest me to
possess the iniquities of my youth .

1327 Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks and lookest
narrowly unto all my paths thou settest a print upon the heels
of my feet .

1328 And he as a rotten thing consumeth as a garment that is
moth eaten .

* 141 Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of
trouble .

142 He cometh forth like a flower and is cut down he fleeth
also as a shadow and continueth not .

143 And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one and bringest
me into judgment with thee .

144 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean not one .

145 Seeing his days are determined the number of his months are
with thee thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass .

146 Turn from him that he may rest till he shall accomplish as
an hireling his day .

147 For there is hope of a tree if it be cut down that it will
sprout again and that the tender branch thereof will not cease .

148 Though the root thereof wax old in the earth and the stock
thereof die in the ground .

149 Yet through the scent of water it will bud and bring forth
boughs like a plant .

1410 But man dieth and wasteth away yea man giveth up the ghost
and where is he .

1411 As the waters fail from the sea and the flood decayeth and
drieth up .

1412 So man lieth down and riseth not till the heavens be no
more they shall not awake nor be raised out of their sleep .

1413 O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave that thou
wouldest keep me secret until thy wrath be past that thou
wouldest appoint me a set time and remember me .

1414 If a man die shall he live again all the days of my
appointed time will I wait till my change come .

1415 Thou shalt call and I will answer thee thou wilt have a
desire to the work of thine hands .

1416 For now thou numberest my steps dost thou not watch over
my sin .

1417 My transgression is sealed up in a bag and thou sewest up
mine iniquity .

1418 And surely the mountain falling cometh to nought and the
rock is removed out of his place .

1419 The waters wear the stones thou washest away the things
which grow out of the dust of the earth and thou destroyest the
hope of man .

1420 Thou prevailest for ever against him and he passeth thou
changest his countenance and sendest him away .

1421 His sons come to honour and he knoweth it not and they are
brought low but he perceiveth it not of them .

1422 But his flesh upon him shall have pain and his soul within
him shall mourn .

* 151 Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite and said .

152 Should a wise man utter vain knowledge and fill his belly
with the east wind .

153 Should he reason with unprofitable talk or with speeches
wherewith he can do no good .

154 Yea thou castest off fear and restrainest prayer before God
.

155 For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity and thou choosest the
tongue of the crafty .

156 Thine own mouth condemneth thee and not I yea thine own
lips testify against thee .

157 Art thou the first man that was born or wast thou made
before the hills .

158 Hast thou heard the secret of God and dost thou restrain
wisdom to thyself .

159 What knowest thou that we know not what understandest thou
which is not in us .

1510 With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men much
elder than thy father .

1511 Are the consolations of God small with thee is there any
secret thing with thee .

1512 Why doth thine heart carry thee away and what do thy eyes
wink at .

1513 That thou turnest thy spirit against God and lettest such
words go out of thy mouth .

1514 What is man that he should be clean and he which is born
of a woman that he should be righteous .

1515 Behold he putteth no trust in his saints yea the heavens
are not clean in his sight .

1516 How much more abominable and filthy is man which drinketh
iniquity like water .

1517 I will show thee hear me and that which I have seen I will
declare .

1518 Which wise men have told from their fathers and have not
hid it .

1519 Unto whom alone the earth was given and no stranger passed
among them .

1520 The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days and the
number of years is hidden to the oppressor .

1521 A dreadful sound is in his ears in prosperity the
destroyer shall come upon him .

1522 He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness and
he is waited for of the sword .

1523 He wandereth abroad for bread saying Where is it he
knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand .

1524 Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid they shall
prevail against him as a king ready to the battle .

1525 For he stretcheth out his hand against God and
strengtheneth himself against the Almighty .

1526 He runneth upon him even on his neck upon the thick bosses
of his bucklers .

1527 Because he covereth his face with his fatness and maketh
collops of fat on his flanks .

1528 And he dwelleth in desolate cities and in houses which no
man inhabiteth which are ready to become heaps .

1529 He shall not be rich neither shall his substance continue
neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth .

1530 He shall not depart out of darkness the flame shall dry up
his branches and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away .

1531 Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity for vanity
shall be his recompense .

1532 It shall be accomplished before his time and his branch
shall not be green .

1533 He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine and shall
cast off his flower as the olive .

1534 For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate and
fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery .

1535 They conceive mischief and bring forth vanity and their
belly prepareth deceit .

* 161 Then Job answered and said .

162 I have heard many such things miserable comforters are ye
all .

163 Shall vain words have an end or what emboldeneth thee that
thou answerest .

164 I also could speak as ye do if your soul were in my soul's
stead I could heap up words against you and shake mine head at
you .

165 But I would strengthen you with my mouth and the moving of
my lips should asswage your grief .

166 Though I speak my grief is not asswaged and though I
forbear what am I eased .

167 But now he hath made me weary thou hast made desolate all
my company .

168 And thou hast filled me with wrinkles which is a witness
against me and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my
face .

169 He teareth me in his wrath who hateth me he gnasheth upon
me with his teeth mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me .

1610 They have gaped upon me with their mouth they have smitten
me upon the cheek reproachfully they have gathered themselves
together against me .

1611 God hath delivered me to the ungodly and turned me over
into the hands of the wicked .

1612 I was at ease but he hath broken me asunder he hath also
taken me by my neck and shaken me to pieces and set me up for
his mark .

1613 His archers compass me round about he cleaveth my reins
asunder and doth not spare he poureth out my gall upon the
ground .

1614 He breaketh me with breach upon breach he runneth upon me
like a giant .

1615 I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin and defiled my horn in
the dust .

1616 My face is foul with weeping and on my eyelids is the
shadow of death .

1617 Not for any injustice in mine hands also my prayer is pure
.

1618 O earth cover not thou my blood and let my cry have no
place .

1619 Also now behold my witness is in heaven and my record is
on high .

1620 My friends scorn me but mine eye poureth out tears unto
God .

1621 O that one might plead for a man with God as a man
pleadeth for his neighbour .

1622 When a few years are come then I shall go the way whence I
shall not return .

* 171 My breath is corrupt my days are extinct the graves are
ready for me .

172 Are there not mockers with me and doth not mine eye
continue in their provocation .

173 Lay down now put me in a surety with thee who is he that
will strike hands with me .

174 For thou hast hid their heart from understanding therefore
shalt thou not exalt them .

175 He that speaketh flattery to his friends even the eyes of
his children shall fail .

176 He hath made me also a byword of the people and aforetime I
was as a tabret .

177 Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow and all my members
are as a shadow .

178 Upright men shall be astonied at this and the innocent
shall stir up himself against the hypocrite .

179 The righteous also shall hold on his way and he that hath
clean hands shall be stronger and stronger .

1710 But as for you all do ye return and come now for I cannot
find one wise man among you .

1711 My days are past my purposes are broken off even the
thoughts of my heart .

1712 They change the night into day the light is short because
of darkness .

1713 If I wait the grave is mine house I have made my bed in
the darkness .

1714 I have said to corruption Thou art my father to the worm
Thou art my mother and my sister .

1715 And where is now my hope as for my hope who shall see it .

1716 They shall go down to the bars of the pit when our rest
together is in the dust .

* 181 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite and said .

182 How long will it be ere ye make an end of words mark and
afterwards we will speak .

183 Wherefore are we counted as beasts and reputed vile in your
sight .

184 He teareth himself in his anger shall the earth be forsaken
for thee and shall the rock be removed out of his place .

185 Yea the light of the wicked shall be put out and the spark
of his fire shall not shine .

186 The light shall be dark in his tabernacle and his candle
shall be put out with him .

187 The steps of his strength shall be straitened and his own
counsel shall cast him down .

188 For he is cast into a net by his own feet and he walketh
upon a snare .

189 The gin shall take him by the heel and the robber shall
prevail against him .

1810 The snare is laid for him in the ground and a trap for him
in the way .

1811 Terrors shall make him afraid on every side and shall
drive him to his feet .

1812 His strength shall be hungerbitten and destruction shall
be ready at his side .

1813 It shall devour the strength of his skin even the
firstborn of death shall devour his strength .

1814 His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle and
it shall bring him to the king of terrors .

1815 It shall dwell in his tabernacle because it is none of his
brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation .

1816 His roots shall be dried up beneath and above shall his
branch be cut off .

1817 His remembrance shall perish from the earth and he shall
have no name in the street .

1818 He shall be driven from light into darkness and chased out
of the world .

1819 He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people nor
any remaining in his dwellings .

1820 They that come after him shall be astonied at his day as
they that went before were affrighted .

1821 Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked and this is
the place of him that knoweth not God .

* 191 Then Job answered and said .

192 How long will ye vex my soul and break me in pieces with
words .

193 These ten times have ye reproached me ye are not ashamed
that ye make yourselves strange to me .

194 And be it indeed that I have erred mine error remaineth
with myself .

195 If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me and plead
against me my reproach .

196 Know now that God hath overthrown me and hath compassed me
with his net .

197 Behold I cry out of wrong but I am not heard I cry aloud
but there is no judgment .

198 He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass and he hath set
darkness in my paths .

199 He hath stripped me of my glory and taken the crown from my
head .

1910 He hath destroyed me on every side and I am gone and mine
hope hath he removed like a tree .

1911 He hath also kindled his wrath against me and he counteth
me unto him as one of his enemies .

1912 His troops come together and raise up their way against me
and encamp round about my tabernacle .

1913 He hath put my brethren far from me and mine acquaintance
are verily estranged from me .

1914 My kinsfolk have failed and my familiar friends have
forgotten me .

1915 They that dwell in mine house and my maids count me for a
stranger I am an alien in their sight .

1916 I called my servant and he gave me no answer I entreated
him with my mouth .

1917 My breath is strange to my wife though I entreated for the
children's sake of mine own body .

1918 Yea young children despised me I arose and they spake
against me .

1919 All my inward friends abhorred me and they whom I loved
are turned against me .

1920 My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh and I am
escaped with the skin of my teeth .

1921 Have pity upon me have pity upon me O ye my friends for
the hand of God hath touched me .

1922 Why do ye persecute me as God and are not satisfied with
my flesh .

1923 Oh that my words were now written oh that they were
printed in a book .

1924 That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the
rock for ever .

1925 For I know that my redeemer liveth and that he shall stand
at the latter day upon the earth .

1926 And though after my skin worms destroy this body yet in my
flesh shall I see God .

1927 Whom I shall see for myself and mine eyes shall behold and
not another though my reins be consumed within me .

1928 But ye should say Why persecute we him seeing the root of
the matter is found in me .

1929 Be ye afraid of the sword for wrath bringeth the
punishments of the sword that ye may know there is a judgment .

* 201 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite and said .

202 Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer and for this I
make haste .

203 I have heard the check of my reproach and the spirit of my
understanding causeth me to answer .

204 Knowest thou not this of old since man was placed upon
earth .

205 That the triumphing of the wicked is short and the joy of
the hypocrite but for a moment .

206 Though his excellency mount up to the heavens and his head
reach unto the clouds .

207 Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung they which
have seen him shall say Where is he .

208 He shall fly away as a dream and shall not be found yea he
shall be chased away as a vision of the night .

209 The eye also which saw him shall see him no more neither
shall his place any more behold him .

2010 His children shall seek to please the poor and his hands
shall restore their goods .

2011 His bones are full of the sin of his youth which shall lie
down with him in the dust .

2012 Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth though he hide it
under his tongue .

2013 Though he spare it and forsake it not but keep it still
within his mouth .

2014 Yet his meat in his bowels is turned it is the gall of
asps within him .

2015 He hath swallowed down riches and he shall vomit them up
again God shall cast them out of his belly .

2016 He shall suck the poison of asps the viper's tongue shall
slay him .

2017 He shall not see the rivers the floods the brooks of honey
and butter .

2018 That which he laboured for shall he restore and shall not
swallow it down according to his substance shall the restitution
be and he shall not rejoice therein .

2019 Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor
because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded
not .

2020 Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly he shall
not save of that which he desired .

2021 There shall none of his meat be left therefore shall no
man look for his goods .

2022 In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits
every hand of the wicked shall come upon him .

2023 When he is about to fill his belly God shall cast the fury
of his wrath upon him and shall rain it upon him while he is
eating .

2024 He shall flee from the iron weapon and the bow of steel
shall strike him through .

2025 It is drawn and cometh out of the body yea the glittering
sword cometh out of his gall terrors are upon him .

2026 All darkness shall be hid in his secret places a fire not
blown shall consume him it shall go ill with him that is left in
his tabernacle .

2027 The heaven shall reveal his iniquity and the earth shall
rise up against him .

2028 The increase of his house shall depart and his goods shall
flow away in the day of his wrath .

2029 This is the portion of a wicked man from God and the
heritage appointed unto him by God .

* 211 But Job answered and said .

212 Hear diligently my speech and let this be your consolations
.

213 Suffer me that I may speak and after that I have spoken
mock on .

214 As for me is my complaint to man and if it were so why
should not my spirit be troubled .

215 Mark me and be astonished and lay your hand upon your mouth
.

216 Even when I remember I am afraid and trembling taketh hold
on my flesh .

217 Wherefore do the wicked live become old yea are mighty in
power .

218 Their seed is established in their sight with them and
their offspring before their eyes .

219 Their houses are safe from fear neither is the rod of God
upon them .

2110 Their bull gendereth and faileth not their cow calveth and
casteth not her calf .

2111 They send forth their little ones like a flock and their
children dance .

2112 They take the timbrel and harp and rejoice at the sound of
the organ .

2113 They spend their days in wealth and in a moment go down to
the grave .

2114 Therefore they say unto God Depart from us for we desire
not the knowledge of thy ways .

2115 What is the Almighty that we should serve him and what
profit should we have if we pray unto him .

2116 Lo their good is not in their hand the counsel of the
wicked is far from me .

2117 How oft is the candle of the wicked put out and how oft
cometh their destruction upon them God distributeth sorrows in
his anger .

2118 They are as stubble before the wind and as chaff that the
storm carrieth away .

2119 God layeth up his iniquity for his children he rewardeth
him and he shall know it .

2120 His eyes shall see his destruction and he shall drink of
the wrath of the Almighty .

2121 For what pleasure hath he in his house after him when the
number of his months is cut off in the midst .

2122 Shall any teach God knowledge seeing he judgeth those that
are high .

2123 One dieth in his full strength being wholly at ease and
quiet .

2124 His breasts are full of milk and his bones are moistened
with marrow .

2125 And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul and never
eateth with pleasure .

2126 They shall lie down alike in the dust and the worms shall
cover them .

2127 Behold I know your thoughts and the devices which ye
wrongfully imagine against me .

2128 For ye say Where is the house of the prince and where are
the dwelling places of the wicked .

2129 Have ye not asked them that go by the way and do ye not
know their tokens

2130 That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction they
shall be brought forth to the day of wrath .

2131 Who shall declare his way to his face and who shall repay
him what he hath done .

2132 Yet shall he be brought to the grave and shall remain in
the tomb .

2133 The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him and every
man shall draw after him as there are innumerable before him .

2134 How then comfort ye me in vain seeing in your answers
there remaineth falsehood .

* 221 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said .

222 Can a man be profitable unto God as he that is wise may be
profitable unto himself .

223 Is it any pleasure to the Almighty that thou art righteous
or is it gain to him that thou makest thy ways perfect .

224 Will he reprove thee for fear of thee will he enter with
thee into judgment .

225 Is not thy wickedness great and thine iniquities infinite .

226 For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought
and stripped the naked of their clothing .

227 Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink and thou
hast withholden bread from the hungry .

228 But as for the mighty man he had the earth and the
honourable man dwelt in it .

229 Thou hast sent widows away empty and the arms of the
fatherless have been broken .

2210 Therefore snares are round about thee and sudden fear
troubleth thee .

2211 Or darkness that thou canst not see and abundance of
waters cover thee .

2212 Is not God in the height of heaven and behold the height
of the stars how high they are .

2213 And thou sayest How doth God know can he judge through the
dark cloud .

2214 Thick clouds are a covering to him that he seeth not and
he walketh in the circuit of heaven .

2215 Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden
.

2216 Which were cut down out of time whose foundation was
overflown with a flood .

2217 Which said unto God Depart from us and what can the
Almighty do for them .

2218 Yet he filled their houses with good things but the
counsel of the wicked is far from me .

2219 The righteous see it and are glad and the innocent laugh
them to scorn .

2220 Whereas our substance is not cut down but the remnant of
them the fire consumeth .

2221 Acquaint now thyself with him and be at peace thereby good
shall come unto thee .

2222 Receive I pray thee the law from his mouth and lay up his
words in thine heart .

2223 If thou return to the Almighty thou shalt be built up thou
shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles .

2224 Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust and the gold of Ophir
as the stones of the brooks .

2225 Yea the Almighty shall be thy defence and thou shalt have
plenty of silver .

2226 For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty and
shalt lift up thy face unto God .

2227 Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him and he shall hear thee
and thou shalt pay thy vows .

2228 Thou shalt also decree a thing and it shall be established
unto thee and the light shall shine upon thy ways .

2229 When men are cast down then thou shalt say There is
lifting up and he shall save the humble person .

2230 He shall deliver the island of the innocent and it is
delivered by the pureness of thine hands .

* 231 Then Job answered and said .

232 Even to day is my complaint bitter my stroke is heavier
than my groaning .

233 Oh that I knew where I might find him that I might come
even to his seat .

234 I would order my cause before him and fill my mouth with
arguments .

235 I would know the words which he would answer me and
understand what he would say unto me .

236 Will he plead against me with his great power No but he
would put strength in me .

237 There the righteous might dispute with him so should I be
delivered for ever from my judge .

238 Behold I go forward but he is not there and backward but I
cannot perceive him .

239 On the left hand where he doth work but I cannot behold him
he hideth himself on the right hand that I cannot see him .

2310 But he knoweth the way that I take when he hath tried me I
shall come forth as gold .

2311 My foot hath held his steps his way have I kept and not
declined .

2312 Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips
I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary
food .

2313 But he is in one mind and who can turn him and what his
soul desireth even that he doeth .

2314 For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me and
many such things are with him .

2315 Therefore am I troubled at his presence when I consider I
am afraid of him .

2316 For God maketh my heart soft and the Almighty troubleth me
.

2317 Because I was not cut off before the darkness neither hath
he covered the darkness from my face .

* 241 Why seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty do they
that know him not see his days .

242 Some remove the landmarks they violently take away flocks
and feed thereof .

243 They drive away the ass of the fatherless they take the
widow's ox for a pledge .

244 They turn the needy out of the way the poor of the earth
hide themselves together .

245 Behold as wild asses in the desert go they forth to their
work rising betimes for a prey the wilderness yieldeth food for
them and for their children .

246 They reap every one his corn in the field and they gather
the vintage of the wicked .

247 They cause the naked to lodge without clothing that they
have no covering in the cold .

248 They are wet with the showers of the mountains and embrace
the rock for want of a shelter .

249 They pluck the fatherless from the breast and take a pledge
of the poor .

2410 They cause him to go naked without clothing and they take
away the sheaf from the hungry .

2411 Which make oil within their walls and tread their
winepresses and suffer thirst .

2412 Men groan from out of the city and the soul of the wounded
crieth out yet God layeth not folly to them .

2413 They are of those that rebel against the light they know
not the ways thereof nor abide in the paths thereof .

2414 The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and
needy and in the night is as a thief .

2415 The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight
saying No eye shall see me and disguiseth his face .

2416 In the dark they dig through houses which they had marked
for themselves in the daytime they know not the light .

2417 For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death if
one know them they are in the terrors of the shadow of death .

2418 He is swift as the waters their portion is cursed in the
earth he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards .

2419 Drought and heat consume the snow waters so doth the grave
those which have sinned .

2420 The womb shall forget him the worm shall feed sweetly on
him he shall be no more remembered and wickedness shall be
broken as a tree .

2421 He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not and doeth
not good to the widow .

2422 He draweth also the mighty with his power he riseth up and
no man is sure of life .

2423 Though it be given him to be in safety whereon he resteth
yet his eyes are upon their ways .

2424 They are exalted for a little while but are gone and
brought low they are taken out of the way as all other and cut
off as the tops of the ears of corn .

2425 And if it be not so now who will make me a liar and make
my speech nothing worth .

* 251 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite and said .

252 Dominion and fear are with him he maketh peace in his high
places .

253 Is there any number of his armies and upon whom doth not
his light arise .

254 How then can man be justified with God or how can he be
clean that is born of a woman .

255 Behold even to the moon and it shineth not yea the stars
are not pure in his sight .

256 How much less man that is a worm and the son of man which
is a worm .

* 261 But Job answered and said .

262 How hast thou helped him that is without power how savest
thou the arm that hath no strength .

263 How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom and how
hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is .

264 To whom hast thou uttered words and whose spirit came from
thee .

265 Dead things are formed from under the waters and the
inhabitants thereof .

266 Hell is naked before him and destruction hath no covering .

267 He stretcheth out the north over the empty place and
hangeth the earth upon nothing .

268 He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds and the cloud
is not rent under them .

269 He holdeth back the face of his throne and spreadeth his
cloud upon it .

2610 He hath compassed the waters with bounds until the day and
night come to an end .

2611 The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his
reproof .

2612 He divideth the sea with his power and by his
understanding he smiteth through the proud .

2613 By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens his hand hath
formed the crooked serpent .

2614 Lo these are parts of his ways but how little a portion is
heard of him but the thunder of his power who can understand .

* 271 Moreover Job continued his parable and said .

272 As God liveth who hath taken away my judgment and the
Almighty who hath vexed my soul .

273 All the while my breath is in me and the spirit of God is
in my nostrils .

274 My lips shall not speak wickedness nor my tongue utter
deceit .

275 God forbid that I should justify you till I die I will not
remove mine integrity from me .

276 My righteousness I hold fast and will not let it go my
heart shall not reproach me so long as I live .

277 Let mine enemy be as the wicked and he that riseth up
against me as the unrighteous .

278 For what is the hope of the hypocrite though he hath gained
when God taketh away his soul .

279 Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him .

2710 Will he delight himself in the Almighty will he always
call upon God .

2711 I will teach you by the hand of God that which is with the
Almighty will I not conceal .

2712 Behold all ye yourselves have seen it why then are ye thus
altogether vain .

2713 This is the portion of a wicked man with God and the
heritage of oppressors which they shall receive of the Almighty .

2714 If his children be multiplied it is for the sword and his
offspring shall not be satisfied with bread .

2715 Those that remain of him shall be buried in death and his
widows shall not weep .

2716 Though he heap up silver as the dust and prepare raiment
as the clay .

2717 He may prepare it but the just shall put it on and the
innocent shall divide the silver .

2718 He buildeth his house as a moth and as a booth that the
keeper maketh .

2719 The rich man shall lie down but he shall not be gathered
he openeth his eyes and he is not .

2720 Terrors take hold on him as waters a tempest stealeth him
away in the night .

2721 The east wind carrieth him away and he departeth and as a
storm hurleth him out of his place .

2722 For God shall cast upon him and not spare he would fain
flee out of his hand .

2723 Men shall clap their hands at him and shall hiss him out
of his place .

* 281 Surely there is a vein for the silver and a place for
gold where they fine it .

282 Iron is taken out of the earth and brass is molten out of
the stone .

283 He setteth an end to darkness and searcheth out all
perfection the stones of darkness and the shadow of death .

284 The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant even the waters
forgotten of the foot they are dried up they are gone away from
men .

285 As for the earth out of it cometh bread and under it is
turned up as it were fire .

286 The stones of it are the place of sapphires and it hath
dust of gold .

287 There is a path which no fowl knoweth and which the
vulture's eye hath not seen .

288 The lion's whelps have not trodden it nor the fierce lion
passed by it .

289 He putteth forth his hand upon the rock he overturneth the
mountains by the roots .

2810 He cutteth out rivers among the rocks and his eye seeth
every precious thing .

2811 He bindeth the floods from overflowing and the thing that
is hid bringeth he forth to light .

2812 But where shall wisdom be found and where is the place of
understanding .

2813 Man knoweth not the price thereof neither is it found in
the land of the living .

2814 The depth saith It is not in me and the sea saith It is
not with me .

2815 It cannot be gotten for gold neither shall silver be
weighed for the price thereof .

2816 It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir with the
precious onyx or the sapphire .

2817 The gold and the crystal cannot equal it and the exchange
of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold .

2818 No mention shall be made of coral or of pearls for the
price of wisdom is above rubies .

2819 The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it neither shall it
be valued with pure gold .

2820 Whence then cometh wisdom and where is the place of
understanding .

2821 Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living and kept
close from the fowls of the air .

2822 Destruction and death say We have heard the fame thereof
with our ears .

2823 God understandeth the way thereof and he knoweth the place
thereof .

2824 For he looketh to the ends of the earth and seeth under
the whole heaven .

2825 To make the weight for the winds and he weigheth the
waters by measure .

2826 When he made a decree for the rain and a way for the
lightning of the thunder .

2827 Then did he see it and declare it he prepared it yea and
searched it out .

2828 And unto man he said Behold the fear of the Lord that is
wisdom and to depart from evil is understanding .

* 291 Moreover Job continued his parable and said .

292 Oh that I were as in months past as in the days when God
preserved me .

293 When his candle shined upon my head and when by his light I
walked through darkness .

294 As I was in the days of my youth when the secret of God was
upon my tabernacle .

295 When the Almighty was yet with me when my children were
about me .

296 When I washed my steps with butter and the rock poured me
out rivers of oil .

297 When I went out to the gate through the city when I
prepared my seat in the street .

298 The young men saw me and hid themselves and the aged arose
and stood up .

299 The princes refrained talking and laid their hand on their
mouth .

2910 The nobles held their peace and their tongue cleaved to
the roof of their mouth .

2911 When the ear heard me then it blessed me and when the eye
saw me it gave witness to me .

2912 Because I delivered the poor that cried and the fatherless
and him that had none to help him .

2913 The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me
and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy .

2914 I put on righteousness and it clothed me my judgment was
as a robe and a diadem .

2915 I was eyes to the blind and feet was I to the lame .

2916 I was a father to the poor and the cause which I knew not
I searched out .

2917 And I brake the jaws of the wicked and plucked the spoil
out of his teeth .

2918 Then I said I shall die in my nest and I shall multiply my
days as the sand .

2919 My root was spread out by the waters and the dew lay all
night upon my branch .

2920 My glory was fresh in me and my bow was renewed in my hand
.

2921 Unto me men gave ear and waited and kept silence at my
counsel .

2922 After my words they spake not again and my speech dropped
upon them .

2923 And they waited for me as for the rain and they opened
their mouth wide as for the latter rain .

2924 If I laughed on them they believed it not and the light of
my countenance they cast not down .

2925 I chose out their way and sat chief and dwelt as a king in
the army as one that comforteth the mourners .

* 301 But now they that are younger than I have me in derision
whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs
of my flock .

302 Yea whereto might the strength of their hands profit me in
whom old age was perished .

303 For want and famine they were solitary fleeing into the
wilderness in former time desolate and waste .

304 Who cut up mallows by the bushes and juniper roots for
their meat .

305 They were driven forth from among men (they cried after
them as after a thief .

306 To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys in caves of the earth
and in the rocks .

307 Among the bushes they brayed under the nettles they were
gathered together .

308 They were children of fools yea children of base men they
were viler than the earth .

309 And now am I their song yea I am their byword .

3010 They abhor me they flee far from me and spare not to spit
in my face .

3011 Because he hath loosed my cord and afflicted me they have
also let loose the bridle before me .

3012 Upon my right hand rise the youth they push away my feet
and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction .

3013 They mar my path they set forward my calamity they have no
helper .

3014 They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters in the
desolation they rolled themselves upon me .

3015 Terrors are turned upon me they pursue my soul as the wind
and my welfare passeth away as a cloud .

3016 And now my soul is poured out upon me the days of
affliction have taken hold upon me .

3017 My bones are pierced in me in the night season and my
sinews take no rest .

3018 By the great force of my disease is my garment changed it
bindeth me about as the collar of my coat .

3019 He hath cast me into the mire and I am become like dust
and ashes .

3020 I cry unto thee and thou dost not hear me I stand up and
thou regardest me not .

3021 Thou art become cruel to me with thy strong hand thou
opposest thyself against me .

3022 Thou liftest me up to the wind thou causest me to ride
upon it and dissolvest my substance .

3023 For I know that thou wilt bring me to death and to the
house appointed for all living .

3024 Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave
though they cry in his destruction .

3025 Did not I weep for him that was in trouble was not my soul
grieved for the poor .

3026 When I looked for good then evil came unto me and when I
waited for light there came darkness .

3027 My bowels boiled and rested not the days of affliction
prevented me .

3028 I went mourning without the sun I stood up and I cried in
the congregation .

3029 I am a brother to dragons and a companion to owls .

3030 My skin is black upon me and my bones are burned with heat
.

3031 My harp also is turned to mourning and my organ into the
voice of them that weep .

* 311 I made a covenant with mine eyes why then should I think
upon a maid .

312 For what portion of God is there from above and what
inheritance of the Almighty from on high .

313 Is not destruction to the wicked and a strange punishment
to the workers of iniquity .

314 Doth not he see my ways and count all my steps .

315 If I have walked with vanity or if my foot hath hasted to
deceit .

316 Let me be weighed in an even balance that God may know mine
integrity .

317 If my step hath turned out of the way and mine heart walked
after mine eyes and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands .

318 Then let me sow and let another eat yea let my offspring be
rooted out .

319 If mine heart have been deceived by a woman or if I have
laid wait at my neighbour's door .

3110 Then let my wife grind unto another and let others bow
down upon her .

3111 For this is an heinous crime yea it is an iniquity to be
punished by the judges .

3112 For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction and would
root out all mine increase .

3113 If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my
maidservant when they contended with me .

3114 What then shall I do when God riseth up and when he
visiteth what shall I answer him .

3115 Did not he that made me in the womb make him and did not
one fashion us in the womb .

3116 If I have withheld the poor from their desire or have
caused the eyes of the widow to fail .

3117 Or have eaten my morsel myself alone and the fatherless
hath not eaten thereof .

3118 (For from my youth he was brought up with me as with a
father and I have guided her from my mother's womb .

3119 If I have seen any perish for want of clothing or any poor
without covering .

3120 If his loins have not blessed me and if he were not warmed
with the fleece of my sheep .

3121 If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless when I
saw my help in the gate .

3122 Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade and mine arm
be broken from the bone .

3123 For destruction from God was a terror to me and by reason
of his highness I could not endure .

3124 If I have made gold my hope or have said to the fine gold
Thou art my confidence .

3125 If I rejoiced because my wealth was great and because mine
hand had gotten much .

3126 If I beheld the sun when it shined or the moon walking in
brightness .

3127 And my heart hath been secretly enticed or my mouth hath
kissed my hand .

3128 This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge for
I should have denied the God that is above .

3129 If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me or
lifted up myself when evil found him .

3130 Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse
to his soul .

3131 If the men of my tabernacle said not Oh that we had of his
flesh we cannot be satisfied .

3132 The stranger did not lodge in the street but I opened my
doors to the traveller .

3133 If I covered my transgressions as Adam by hiding mine
iniquity in my bosom .

3134 Did I fear a great multitude or did the contempt of
families terrify me that I kept silence and went not out of the
door .

3135 Oh that one would hear me behold my desire is that the
Almighty would answer me and that mine adversary had written a
book .

3136 Surely I would take it upon my shoulder and bind it as a
crown to me .

3137 I would declare unto him the number of my steps as a
prince would I go near unto him .

3138 If my land cry against me or that the furrows likewise
thereof complain .

3139 If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money or have
caused the owners thereof to lose their life .

3140 Let thistles grow instead of wheat and cockle instead of
barley The words of Job are ended .

* 321 So these three men ceased to answer Job because he was
righteous in his own eyes .

322 Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the
Buzite of the kindred of Ram against Job was his wrath kindled
because he justified himself rather than God .

323 Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled
because they had found no answer and yet had condemned Job .

324 Now Elihu had waited till Job had spoken because they were
elder than he .

325 When Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of
these three men then his wrath was kindled .

326 And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said
I am young and ye are very old wherefore I was afraid and durst
not show you mine opinion .

327 I said Days should speak and multitude of years should
teach wisdom .

328 But there is a spirit in man and the inspiration of the
Almighty giveth them understanding .

329 Great men are not always wise neither do the aged
understand judgment .

3210 Therefore I said Hearken to me I also will show mine
opinion .

3211 Behold I waited for your words I gave ear to your reasons
whilst ye searched out what to say .

3212 Yea I attended unto you and behold there was none of you
that convinced Job or that answered his words .

3213 Lest ye should say We have found out wisdom God thrusteth
him down not man .

3214 Now he hath not directed his words against me neither will
I answer him with your speeches .

3215 They were amazed they answered no more they left off
speaking .

3216 When I had waited (for they spake not but stood still and
answered no more .

3217 I said I will answer also my part I also will show mine
opinion .

3218 For I am full of matter the spirit within me constraineth
me .

3219 Behold my belly is as wine which hath no vent it is ready
to burst like new bottles .

3220 I will speak that I may be refreshed I will open my lips
and answer .

3221 Let me not I pray you accept any man's person neither let
me give flattering titles unto man .

3222 For I know not to give flattering titles in so doing my
maker would soon take me away .

* 331 Wherefore Job I pray thee hear my speeches and hearken to
all my words .

332 Behold now I have opened my mouth my tongue hath spoken in
my mouth .

333 My words shall be of the uprightness of my heart and my
lips shall utter knowledge clearly .

334 The spirit of God hath made me and the breath of the
Almighty hath given me life .

335 If thou canst answer me set thy words in order before me
stand up .

336 Behold I am according to thy wish in God's stead I also am
formed out of the clay .

337 Behold my terror shall not make thee afraid neither shall
my hand be heavy upon thee .

338 Surely thou hast spoken in mine hearing and I have heard
the voice of thy words saying .

339 I am clean without transgression I am innocent neither is
there iniquity in me .

3310 Behold he findeth occasions against me he counteth me for
his enemy .

3311 He putteth my feet in the stocks he marketh all my paths .

3312 Behold in this thou art not just I will answer thee that
God is greater than man .

3313 Why dost thou strive against him for he giveth not account
of any of his matters .

3314 For God speaketh once yea twice yet man perceiveth it not .

3315 In a dream in a vision of the night when deep sleep
falleth upon men in slumberings upon the bed .

3316 Then he openeth the ears of men and sealeth their
instruction .

3317 That he may withdraw man from his purpose and hide pride
from man .

3318 He keepeth back his soul from the pit and his life from
perishing by the sword .

3319 He is chastened also with pain upon his bed and the
multitude of his bones with strong pain .

3320 So that his life abhorreth bread and his soul dainty meat .

3321 His flesh is consumed away that it cannot be seen and his
bones that were not seen stick out .

3322 Yea his soul draweth near unto the grave and his life to
the destroyers .

3323 If there be a messenger with him an interpreter one among
a thousand to show unto man his uprightness .

3324 Then he is gracious unto him and saith Deliver him from
going down to the pit I have found a ransom .

3325 His flesh shall be fresher than a child's he shall return
to the days of his youth .

3326 He shall pray unto God and he will be favourable unto him
and he shall see his face with joy for he will render unto man
his righteousness .

3327 He looketh upon men and if any say I have sinned and
perverted that which was right and it profited me not .

3328 He will deliver his soul from going into the pit and his
life shall see the light .

3329 Lo all these things worketh God oftentimes with man .

3330 To bring back his soul from the pit to be enlightened with
the light of the living .

3331 Mark well O Job hearken unto me hold thy peace and I will
speak .

3332 If thou hast any thing to say answer me speak for I desire
to justify thee .

3333 If not hearken unto me hold thy peace and I shall teach
thee wisdom .

* 341 Furthermore Elihu answered and said .

342 Hear my words O ye wise men and give ear unto me ye that
have knowledge .

343 For the ear trieth words as the mouth tasteth meat .

344 Let us choose to us judgment let us know among ourselves
what is good .

345 For Job hath said I am righteous and God hath taken away my
judgment .

346 Should I lie against my right my wound is incurable without
transgression .

347 What man is like Job who drinketh up scorning like water .

348 Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity and
walketh with wicked men .

349 For he hath said It profiteth a man nothing that he should
delight himself with God .

3410 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 .

3411 For the work of a man shall he render unto him and cause
every man to find according to his ways .

3412 Yea surely God will not do wickedly neither will the
Almighty pervert judgment .

3413 Who hath given him a charge over the earth or who hath
disposed the whole world .

3414 If he set his heart upon man if he gather unto himself his
spirit and his breath .

3415 All flesh shall perish together and man shall turn again
unto dust .

3416 If now thou hast understanding hear this hearken to the
voice of my words .

3417 Shall even he that hateth right govern and wilt thou
condemn him that is most just .

3418 Is it fit to say to a king Thou art wicked and to princes
Ye are ungodly .

3419 How much less to him that accepteth not the persons of
princes nor regardeth the rich more than the poor for they all
are the work of his hands .

3420 In a moment shall they die and the people shall be
troubled at midnight and pass away and the mighty shall be taken
away without hand .

3421 For his eyes are upon the ways of man and he seeth all his
goings .

3422 There is no darkness nor shadow of death where the workers
of iniquity may hide themselves .

3423 For he will not lay upon man more than right that he
should enter into judgment with God .

3424 He shall break in pieces mighty men without number and set
others in their stead .

3425 Therefore he knoweth their works and he overturneth them
in the night so that they are destroyed .

3426 He striketh them as wicked men in the open sight of others
.

3427 Because they turned back from him and would not consider
any of his ways .

3428 So that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto him
and he heareth the cry of the afflicted .

3429 When he giveth quietness who then can make trouble and
when he hideth his face who then can behold him whether it be
done against a nation or against a man only .

3430 That the hypocrite reign not lest the people be ensnared .

3431 Surely it is meet to be said unto God I have borne
chastisement I will not offend any more .

3432 That which I see not teach thou me if I have done iniquity
I will do no more .

3433 Should it be according to thy mind he will recompense it
whether thou refuse or whether thou choose and not I therefore
speak what thou knowest .

3434 Let men of understanding tell me and let a wise man
hearken unto me .

3435 Job hath spoken without knowledge and his words were
without wisdom .

3436 My desire is that Job may be tried unto the end because of
his answers for wicked men .

3437 For he addeth rebellion unto his sin he clappeth his hands
among us and multiplieth his words against God .

* 351 Elihu spake moreover and said .

352 Thinkest thou this to be right that thou saidst My
righteousness is more than God's .

353 For thou saidst What advantage will it be unto thee and
What profit shall I have if I be cleansed from my sin .

354 I will answer thee and thy companions with thee .

355 Look unto the heavens and see and behold the clouds which
are higher than thou .

356 If thou sinnest what doest thou against him or if thy
transgressions be multiplied what doest thou unto him .

357 If thou be righteous what givest thou him or what receiveth
he of thine hand .

358 Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art and thy
righteousness may profit the son of man .

359 By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the
oppressed to cry they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty
.

3510 But none saith Where is God my maker who giveth songs in
the night .

3511 Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth and
maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven .

3512 There they cry but none giveth answer because of the pride
of evil men .

3513 Surely God will not hear vanity neither will the Almighty
regard it .

3514 Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him yet judgment
is before him therefore trust thou in him .

3515 But now because it is not so he hath visited in his anger
yet he knoweth it not in great extremity .

3516 Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain he multiplieth
words without knowledge .

* 361 Elihu also proceeded and said .

362 Suffer me a little and I will show thee that I have yet to
speak on God's behalf .

363 I will fetch my knowledge from afar and will ascribe
righteousness to my Maker .

364 For truly my words shall not be false he that is perfect in
knowledge is with thee .

365 Behold God is mighty and despiseth not any he is mighty in
strength and wisdom .

366 He preserveth not the life of the wicked but giveth right
to the poor .

367 He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous but with
kings are they on the throne yea he doth establish them for ever
and they are exalted .

368 And if they be bound in fetters and be holden in cords of
affliction .

369 Then he showeth them their work and their transgressions
that they have exceeded .

3610 He openeth also their ear to discipline and commandeth
that they return from iniquity .

3611 If they obey and serve him they shall spend their days in
prosperity and their years in pleasures .

3612 But if they obey not they shall perish by the sword and
they shall die without knowledge .

3613 But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath they cry not
when he bindeth them .

3614 They die in youth and their life is among the unclean .

3615 He delivereth the poor in his affliction and openeth their
ears in oppression .

3616 Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait into
a broad place where there is no straitness and that which should
be set on thy table should be full of fatness .

3617 But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked
judgment and justice take hold on thee .

3618 Because there is wrath beware lest he take thee away with
his stroke then a great ransom cannot deliver thee .

3619 Will he esteem thy riches no not gold nor all the forces
of strength .

3620 Desire not the night when people are cut off in their
place .

3621 Take heed regard not iniquity for this hast thou chosen
rather than affliction .

3622 Behold God exalteth by his power who teacheth like him .

3623 Who hath enjoined him his way or who can say Thou hast
wrought iniquity .

3624 Remember that thou magnify his work which men behold .

3625 Every man may see it man may behold it afar off .

3626 Behold God is great and we know him not neither can the
number of his years be searched out .

3627 For he maketh small the drops of water they pour down rain
according to the vapour thereof .

3628 Which the clouds do drop and distil upon man abundantly .

3629 Also can any understand the spreadings of the clouds or
the noise of his tabernacle .

3630 Behold he spreadeth his light upon it and covereth the
bottom of the sea .

3631 For by them judgeth he the people he giveth meat in
abundance .

3632 With clouds he covereth the light and commandeth it not to
shine by the cloud that cometh betwixt .

3633 The noise thereof showeth concerning it the cattle also
concerning the vapour .

* 371 At this also my heart trembleth and is moved out of his
place .

372 Hear attentively the noise of his voice and the sound that
goeth out of his mouth .

373 He directeth it under the whole heaven and his lightning
unto the ends of the earth .

374 After it a voice roareth he thundereth with the voice of
his excellency and he will not stay them when his voice is heard
.

375 God thundereth marvellously with his voice great things
doeth he which we cannot comprehend .

376 For he saith to the snow Be thou on the earth likewise to
the small rain and to the great rain of his strength .

377 He sealeth up the hand of every man that all men may know
his work .

378 Then the beasts go into dens and remain in their places .

379 Out of the south cometh the whirlwind and cold out of the
north .

3710 By the breath of God frost is given and the breadth of the
waters is straitened .

3711 Also by watering he wearieth the thick cloud he scattereth
his bright cloud .

3712 And it is turned round about by his counsels that they may
do whatsoever he commandeth them upon the face of the world in
the earth .

3713 He causeth it to come whether for correction or for his
land or for mercy .

3714 Hearken unto this O Job stand still and consider the
wondrous works of God .

3715 Dost thou know when God disposed them and caused the light
of his cloud to shine .

3716 Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds the wondrous
works of him which is perfect in knowledge .

3717 How thy garments are warm when he quieteth the earth by
the south wind .

3718 Hast thou with him spread out the sky which is strong and
as a molten looking glass .

3719 Teach us what we shall say unto him for we cannot order
our speech by reason of darkness .

3720 Shall it be told him that I speak if a man speak surely he
shall be swallowed up .

3721 And now men see not the bright light which is in the
clouds but the wind passeth and cleanseth them .

3722 Fair weather cometh out of the north with God is terrible
majesty .

3723 Touching the Almighty we cannot find him out he is
excellent in power and in judgment and in plenty of justice he
will not afflict .

3724 Men do therefore fear him he respecteth not any that are
wise of heart .

* 381 Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind and said .

382 Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without
knowledge .

383 Gird up now thy loins like a man for I will demand of thee
and answer thou me .

384 Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth
declare if thou hast understanding .

385 Who hath laid the measures thereof if thou knowest or who
hath stretched the line upon it .

386 Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened or who laid
the corner stone thereof .

387 When the morning stars sang together and all the sons of
God shouted for joy .

388 Or who shut up the sea with doors when it brake forth as if
it had issued out of the womb .

389 When I made the cloud the garment thereof and thick
darkness a swaddlingband for it

3810 And brake up for it my decreed place and set bars and
doors .

3811 And said Hitherto shalt thou come but no further and here
shall thy proud waves be stayed .

3812 Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days and caused
the dayspring to know his place .

3813 That it might take hold of the ends of the earth that the
wicked might be shaken out of it .

3814 It is turned as clay to the seal and they stand as a
garment .

3815 And from the wicked their light is withholden and the high
arm shall be broken .

3816 Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea or hast thou
walked in the search of the depth .

3817 Have the gates of death been opened unto thee or hast thou
seen the doors of the shadow of death .

3818 Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth declare if
thou knowest it all .

3819 Where is the way where light dwelleth and as for darkness
where is the place thereof .

3820 That thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof and that
thou shouldest know the paths to the house thereof .

3821 Knowest thou it because thou wast then born or because the
number of thy days is great .

3822 Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow or hast
thou seen the treasures of the hail .

3823 Which I have reserved against the time of trouble against
the day of battle and war .

3824 By what way is the light parted which scattereth the east
wind upon the earth .

3825 Who hath divided a watercourse for the overflowing of
waters or a way for the lightning of thunder .

3826 To cause it to rain on the earth where no man is on the
wilderness wherein there is no man .

3827 To satisfy the desolate and waste ground and to cause the
bud of the tender herb to spring forth .

3828 Hath the rain a father or who hath begotten the drops of
dew .

3829 Out of whose womb came the ice and the hoary frost of
heaven who hath gendered it .

3830 The waters are hid as with a stone and the face of the
deep is frozen .

3831 Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades or loose
the bands of Orion .

3832 Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season or canst
thou guide Arcturus with his sons .

3833 Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven canst thou set the
dominion thereof in the earth .

3834 Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds that abundance
of waters may cover thee .

3835 Canst thou send lightnings that they may go and say unto
thee Here we are .

3836 Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts or who hath given
understanding to the heart .

3837 Who can number the clouds in wisdom or who can stay the
bottles of heaven .

3838 When the dust groweth into hardness and the clods cleave
fast together .

3839 Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion or fill the appetite
of the young lions .

3840 When they couch in their dens and abide in the covert to
lie in wait .

3841 Who provideth for the raven his food when his young ones
cry unto God they wander for lack of meat .

* 391 Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock
bring forth or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve .

392 Canst thou number the months that they fulfil or knowest
thou the time when they bring forth .

393 They bow themselves they bring forth their young ones they
cast out their sorrows .

394 Their young ones are in good liking they grow up with corn
they go forth and return not unto them .

395 Who hath sent out the wild ass free or who hath loosed the
bands of the wild ass .

396 Whose house I have made the wilderness and the barren land
his dwellings .

397 He scorneth the multitude of the city neither regardeth he
the crying of the driver .

398 The range of the mountains is his pasture and he searcheth
after every green thing .

399 Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee or abide by thy
crib .

3910 Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow or
will he harrow the valleys after thee .

3911 Wilt thou trust him because his strength is great or wilt
thou leave thy labour to him .

3912 Wilt thou believe him that he will bring home thy seed and
gather it into thy barn .

3913 Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks or wings
and feathers unto the ostrich .

3914 Which leaveth her eggs in the earth and warmeth them in
dust .

3915 And forgetteth that the foot may crush them or that the
wild beast may break them .

3916 She is hardened against her young ones as though they were
not hers her labour is in vain without fear .

3917 Because God hath deprived her of wisdom neither hath he
imparted to her understanding .

3918 What time she lifteth up herself on high she scorneth the
horse and his rider .

3919 Hast thou given the horse strength hast thou clothed his
neck with thunder .

3920 Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper the glory of
his nostrils is terrible .

3921 He paweth in the valley and rejoiceth in his strength he
goeth on to meet the armed men .

3922 He mocketh at fear and is not affrighted neither turneth
he back from the sword .

3923 The quiver rattleth against him the glittering spear and
the shield .

3924 He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage neither
believeth he that it is the sound of the trumpet .

3925 He saith among the trumpets Ha ha and he smelleth the
battle afar off the thunder of the captains and the shouting .

3926 Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom and stretch her wings
toward the south .

3927 Doth the eagle mount up at thy command and make her nest
on high .

3928 She dwelleth and abideth on the rock upon the crag of the
rock and the strong place .

3929 From thence she seeketh the prey and her eyes behold afar
off .

3930 Her young ones also suck up blood and where the slain are
there is she .

* 401 Moreover the LORD answered Job and said .

402 Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct him he
that reproveth God let him answer it .

403 Then Job answered the LORD and said .

404 Behold I am vile what shall I answer thee I will lay mine
hand upon my mouth .

405 Once have I spoken but I will not answer yea twice but I
will proceed no further .

406 Then answered the LORD unto Job out of the whirlwind and
said .

407 Gird up thy loins now like a man I will demand of thee and
declare thou unto me .

408 Wilt thou also disannul my judgment wilt thou condemn me
that thou mayest be righteous .

409 Hast thou an arm like God or canst thou thunder with a
voice like him .

4010 Deck thyself now with majesty and excellency and array
thyself with glory and beauty .

4011 Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath and behold every one
that is proud and abase him .

4012 Look on every one that is proud and bring him low and
tread down the wicked in their place .

4013 Hide them in the dust together and bind their faces in
secret .

4014 Then will I also confess unto thee that thine own right
hand can save thee .

4015 Behold now behemoth which I made with thee he eateth grass
as an ox .

4016 Lo now his strength is in his loins and his force is in
the navel of his belly .

4017 He moveth his tail like a cedar the sinews of his stones
are wrapped together .

4018 His bones are as strong pieces of brass his bones are like
bars of iron .

4019 He is the chief of the ways of God he that made him can
make his sword to approach unto him .

4020 Surely the mountains bring him forth food where all the
beasts of the field play .

4021 He lieth under the shady trees in the covert of the reed
and fens .

4022 The shady trees cover him with their shadow the willows of
the brook compass him about .

4023 Behold he drinketh up a river and hasteth not he trusteth
that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth .

4024 He taketh it with his eyes his nose pierceth through
snares .

* 411 Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook or his tongue
with a cord which thou lettest down .

412 Canst thou put an hook into his nose or bore his jaw
through with a thorn .

413 Will he make many supplications unto thee will he speak
soft words unto thee .

414 Will he make a covenant with thee wilt thou take him for a
servant for ever .

415 Wilt thou play with him as with a bird or wilt thou bind
him for thy maidens .

416 Shall the companions make a banquet of him shall they part
him among the merchants .

417 Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons or his head with
fish spears .

418 Lay thine hand upon him remember the battle do no more .

419 Behold the hope of him is in vain shall not one be cast
down even at the sight of him .

4110 None is so fierce that dare stir him up who then is able
to stand before me .

4111 Who hath prevented me that I should repay him whatsoever
is under the whole heaven is mine .

4112 I will not conceal his parts nor his power nor his comely
proportion .

4113 Who can discover the face of his garment or who can come
to him with his double bridle .

4114 Who can open the doors of his face his teeth are terrible
round about .

4115 His scales are his pride shut up together as with a close
seal .

4116 One is so near to another that no air can come between
them .

4117 They are joined one to another they stick together that
they cannot be sundered .

4118 By his neesings a light doth shine and his eyes are like
the eyelids of the morning .

4119 Out of his mouth go burning lamps and sparks of fire leap
out .

4120 Out of his nostrils goeth smoke as out of a seething pot
or caldron .

4121 His breath kindleth coals and a flame goeth out of his
mouth .

4122 In his neck remaineth strength and sorrow is turned into
joy before him .

4123 The flakes of his flesh are joined together they are firm
in themselves they cannot be moved .

4124 His heart is as firm as a stone yea as hard as a piece of
the nether millstone .

4125 When he raiseth up himself the mighty are afraid by reason
of breakings they purify themselves .

4126 The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold the spear
the dart nor the habergeon .

4127 He esteemeth iron as straw and brass as rotten wood .

4128 The arrow cannot make him flee slingstones are turned with
him into stubble .

4129 Darts are counted as stubble he laugheth at the shaking of
a spear .

4130 Sharp stones are under him he spreadeth sharp pointed
things upon the mire .

4131 He maketh the deep to boil like a pot he maketh the sea
like a pot of ointment .

4132 He maketh a path to shine after him one would think the
deep to be hoary .

4133 Upon earth there is not his like who is made without fear .

4134 He beholdeth all high things he is a king over all the
children of pride .

* 421 Then Job answered the LORD and said .

422 I know that thou canst do every thing and that no thought
can be withholden from thee .

423 Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge therefore
have I uttered that I understood not things too wonderful for me
which I knew not .

424 Hear I beseech thee and I will speak I will demand of thee
and declare thou unto me .

425 I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear but now mine
eye seeth thee .

426 Wherefore I abhor myself and repent in dust and ashes .

427 And it was so that after the LORD had spoken these words
unto Job the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite My wrath is
kindled against thee and against thy two friends for ye have not
spoken of me the thing that is right as my servant Job hath .

428 Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams
and go to my servant Job and offer up for yourselves a burnt
offering and my servant Job shall pray for you for him will I
accept lest I deal with you after your folly in that ye have not
spoken of me the thing which is right like my servant Job .

429 So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar
the Naamathite went and did according as the LORD commanded them
the LORD also accepted Job .

4210 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 .

4211 Then came there unto him all his brethren and all his
sisters and all they that had been of his acquaintance before
and did eat bread with him in his house and they bemoaned him
and comforted him over all the evil that the LORD had brought
upon him every man also gave him a piece of money and every one
an earring of gold .

4212 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 .

4213 He had also seven sons and three daughters .

4214 And he called the name of the first Jemima and the name of
the second Kezia and the name of the third Kerenhappuch .

4215 And in all the land were no women found so fair as the
daughters of Job and their father gave them inheritance among
their brethren .

4216 After this lived Job an hundred and forty years and saw
his sons and his sons' sons even four generations .

4217 So Job died being old and full of days .









  
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