A Conservative Version
2001 by Walter Porter
Job 1:1 ¶ There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job, and that man was perfect and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.
Job 1:2 And there were born to him seven sons and three daughters.
Job 1:3 His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she-donkeys, and a very great household, so that this man was the greatest of all the sons of the east.
Job 1:4 ¶ And his sons went and held a feast in the house of each one upon his day, and they sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.
Job 1:5 And it was so, when the days of their feasting were completed, 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 renounced God in their hearts. Thus Job did continually.
Job 1:6 ¶ Now it came to pass on the day when the sons of God came to present themselves before LORD, that Satan also came among them.
Job 1:7 And LORD said to Satan, From where do thou come? Then Satan answered LORD, and said, From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down on it.
Job 1:8 And LORD said to Satan, Have thou considered my servant Job? For there is none like him on the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil.
Job 1:9 Then Satan answered LORD, and said, Does Job fear God for nothing?
Job 1:10 Have thou not made a hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he has, on every side? Thou have blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.
Job 1:11 But put forth thy hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will renounce thee to thy face.
Job 1:12 And LORD said to Satan, Behold, all that he has is in thy power, only upon himself do not put forth thy hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of LORD.
Job 1:13 ¶ And it fell on a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother’s house,
Job 1:14 that there came a messenger to Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the donkeys feeding beside them,
Job 1:15 and the Sabeans fell [upon them], and took them away. Yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword, and only I alone have escaped to tell thee.
Job 1:16 While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God fell from heaven, and has burned up the sheep and the servants, and consumed them, and only I alone have escaped to tell thee.
Job 1:17 While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have taken them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword, and only I alone have escaped to tell thee.
Job 1:18 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.
Job 1:19 And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead, and only I alone have escaped to tell thee.
Job 1:20 ¶ Then Job arose, and tore his robe, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped.
Job 1:21 And he said, Naked I came out of my mother’s womb, and naked I shall return there. LORD gave, and LORD has taken away, blessed be the name of LORD.
Job 1:22 In all this Job did not sin, nor foolishly accuse God.
Job 2:1 ¶ Again it came to pass on the day when the sons of God came to present themselves before LORD, that Satan came also among them to present himself before LORD.
Job 2:2 And LORD said to Satan, From where did thou come? And Satan answered LORD, and said, From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down on it.
Job 2:3 And LORD said to Satan, Have thou considered my servant Job? For there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. And he still holds fast his integrity, although thou moved me against him, to destroy him without cause.
Job 2:4 And Satan answered LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man has he will give for his life.
Job 2:5 But put forth thy hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce thee to thy face.
Job 2:6 And LORD said to Satan, Behold, he is in thy hand, only spare his life.
Job 2:7 ¶ So Satan went forth from the presence of LORD, and smote Job with severe boils from the sole of his foot to his crown.
Job 2:8 And he took a potsherd for him to scrape himself with it, and he sat among the ashes.
Job 2:9 Then his wife said to him, Do thou still hold fast thine integrity? Renounce God, and die.
Job 2:10 But he said to her, Thou speak as one of the foolish women speaks. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this Job did not sin with his lips.
Job 2:11 ¶ Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that came upon him, they came each one from his own place—Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite—and they made an appointment together to come to bemoan him and to comfort him.
Job 2:12 And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and did not recognize him, they lifted up their voice, and wept. And each one tore his robe, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.
Job 2:13 So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights. And none spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.
Job 3:1 ¶ After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed his day.
Job 3:2 And Job answered and said,
Job 3:3 Let the day perish in which I was born, and the night which said, There is a man-child conceived.
Job 3:4 Let that day be darkness. Let not God from above seek for it, nor let the light shine upon it.
Job 3:5 Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell upon it. Let blackness come upon it.
Job 3:6 As for that night, let thick darkness seize upon it. Let it not rejoice among the days of the year. Let it not come into the number of the months.
Job 3:7 Lo, let that night be barren. Let no joyful voice come in it.
Job 3:8 Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.
Job 3:9 Let the stars of the twilight of it be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, nor let it behold the eyelids of the morning.
Job 3:10 Because it did not shut up the doors of my [mother’s] womb, nor hide trouble from my eyes.
Job 3:11 ¶ Why did I not die from the womb? Why did I not give up the spirit when my mother bore me?
Job 3:12 Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should suck?
Job 3:13 For now I should have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept. Then I would have been at rest
Job 3:14 with kings and counselors of the earth, who built waste places for themselves,
Job 3:15 or with rulers who had gold, who filled their houses with silver.
Job 3:16 Or I should have been as a hidden untimely birth, as infants that never saw light.
Job 3:17 There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest.
Job 3:18 There the prisoners are at ease together. They do not hear the voice of the taskmaster.
Job 3:19 The small and the great are there. And the servant is free from his master.
Job 3:20 ¶ Why is light given to him who is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul,
Job 3:21 who long for death, but it comes not, and dig for it more than for hid treasures,
Job 3:22 who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad when they can find the grave?
Job 3:23 [Why is light given] to a man whose way is hid, and whom God has hedged in?
Job 3:24 For my sighing comes before I eat, and my groanings are poured out like water.
Job 3:25 For the thing which I fear comes upon me, and that which I am afraid of comes to me.
Job 3:26 I am not at ease, nor am I quiet, neither have I rest, but trouble comes.
Job 4:1 ¶ Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, and said,
Job 4:2 If a man tries to converse with thee, will thou be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?
Job 4:3 Behold, thou have instructed many, and thou have strengthened the weak hands.
Job 4:4 Thy words have upheld him who was falling, and thou have made firm the feeble knees.
Job 4:5 But now it comes to thee, and thou faint. It touches thee, and thou are troubled.
Job 4:6 Is not thy fear [of God] thy confidence, the integrity of thy ways thy hope?
Job 4:7 ¶ Remember, I pray thee, who [ever] perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?
Job 4:8 According as I have seen, those who plow iniquity, and sow trouble, reap the same.
Job 4:9 By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his anger they are consumed.
Job 4:10 The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
Job 4:11 The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the whelps of the lioness are scattered abroad.
Job 4:12 ¶ Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and my ear received a whisper of it.
Job 4:13 In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men,
Job 4:14 fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake.
Job 4:15 Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up.
Job 4:16 It stood still, but I could not discern the appearance of it. A form was before my eyes. [There was] silence, and I heard a voice, [saying],
Job 4:17 Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his maker?
Job 4:18 Behold, he puts no trust in his servants, and he charges his agents with folly.
Job 4:19 How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!
Job 4:20 Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.
Job 4:21 Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.
Job 5:1 ¶ Call now, is there any who will answer thee? And to which of the holy ones will thou turn?
Job 5:2 For vexation kills the foolish man, and jealousy slays the silly one.
Job 5:3 I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
Job 5:4 His sons are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,
Job 5:5 whose harvest the hungry eat up, and takes it even out of the thorns, and the snare gapes for their substance.
Job 5:6 ¶ For affliction does not come forth from the dust, nor does trouble spring out of the ground,
Job 5:7 but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
Job 5:8 But as for me, I would seek to God. And to God I would commit my cause,
Job 5:9 who does great things and unsearchable, marvelous things without number,
Job 5:10 who gives rain upon the earth, and sends waters upon the fields,
Job 5:11 so that he sets up on high those who are low, and those who mourn are exalted to safety.
Job 5:12 He frustrates the devices of the crafty so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
Job 5:13 He takes the wise in their own craftiness, and the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.
Job 5:14 They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope at noonday as in the night.
Job 5:15 But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty.
Job 5:16 So a poor man has hope, and iniquity stops her mouth.
Job 5:17 ¶ Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise thou the chastening of the Almighty.
Job 5:18 For he injures, and binds up. He wounds, and his hands make whole.
Job 5:19 He will deliver thee in six troubles. Yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.
Job 5:20 In famine he will redeem thee from death, and in war from the power of the sword.
Job 5:21 Thou shall be hid from the scourge of the tongue. Neither shall thou be afraid of destruction when it comes.
Job 5:22 At destruction and dearth thou shall laugh, nor shall thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.
Job 5:23 For thou shall be in league with the stones of the field, and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.
Job 5:24 And thou shall know that thy tent is in peace, and thou shall visit thy fold, and shall miss nothing.
Job 5:25 Thou shall know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.
Job 5:26 Thou shall come to thy grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season.
Job 5:27 Lo this, we have searched it, so it is. Hear it, and know thou it for thy good.
Job 6:1 ¶ Then Job answered and said,
Job 6:2 O that my grief were but weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!
Job 6:3 For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas. Therefore my words have been rash.
Job 6:4 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison of which my spirit drinks up. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.
Job 6:5 Does the wild donkey bray when he has grass? Or the ox moo over his fodder?
Job 6:6 Can that which has no savor be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
Job 6:7 My soul refuses to touch [them]. They are as loathsome food to me.
Job 6:8 ¶ O that I might have my request, and that God would grant [me] the thing that I long for!
Job 6:9 Even that it would please God to crush me, that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
Job 6:10 And be it still my consolation, yea, let me exult (in pain that does not spare), that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.
Job 6:11 What is my strength that I should wait? And what is my end that I should be patient?
Job 6:12 Is my strength the strength of stones? Or is my flesh of brass?
Job 6:13 Is it not that I have no help in me, and that wisdom is driven quite from me?
Job 6:14 ¶ To him who is ready to faint, kindness [should be] from his friend, even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty.
Job 6:15 My brothers have dealt deceitfully as a brook, as the channel of brooks that pass away,
Job 6:16 which are black because of the ice, in which the snow hides itself.
Job 6:17 What time they grow warm, they vanish. When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
Job 6:18 The caravans [that travel] by the way of them turn aside. They go up into the waste, and perish.
Job 6:19 The caravans of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.
Job 6:20 They were put to shame because they had hoped. They came there, and were confounded.
Job 6:21 For now ye are nothing. Ye see a terror, and are afraid.
Job 6:22 ¶ Did I say, Give to me? Or, Offer a present for me from your substance?
Job 6:23 Or, Deliver me from the adversary’s hand? Or, Redeem me from the hand of the oppressors?
Job 6:24 Teach me, and I will be quiet. And cause me to understand how I have erred.
Job 6:25 How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what does it reprove?
Job 6:26 Do ye think to reprove words, seeing that the speeches of a man who is desperate are as wind?
Job 6:27 Yea, ye would cast [lots] upon the fatherless, and make merchandise of your friend.
Job 6:28 Now therefore be pleased to look upon me, for truly I shall not lie to your face.
Job 6:29 Return, I pray you, let there be no injustice. Yea, return again, my cause is righteous.
Job 6:30 Is there injustice on my tongue? Cannot my taste discern mischievous things?
Job 7:1 ¶ Is there not a warfare to man upon earth? And are not his days like the days of a hireling?
Job 7:2 As a servant who earnestly desires the shadow, and as a hireling who looks for his wages,
Job 7:3 so I am made to possess months of misery, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
Job 7:4 When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? And I am full of tossing to and fro to the dawning of the day.
Job 7:5 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.
Job 7:6 My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.
Job 7:7 ¶ O remember that my life is a breath. My eye shall no more see good.
Job 7:8 The eye of him who sees me shall behold me no more. Thine eyes shall be upon me, but I shall not be.
Job 7:9 As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol shall come up no more.
Job 7:10 He shall return no more to his house, nor shall his place know him any more.
Job 7:11 Therefore I will not refrain my mouth. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
Job 7:12 Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, that thou set a watch over me?
Job 7:13 When I say, My bed shall comfort me. My couch shall ease my complaint.
Job 7:14 Then thou scare me with dreams, and terrify me through visions,
Job 7:15 so that my soul chooses strangling and death rather than [these] my bones.
Job 7:16 I loathe [my life]. I would not live always. Let me alone, for my days are vanity.
Job 7:17 ¶ What is man, that thou should magnify him, and that thou should set thy mind upon him,
Job 7:18 and that thou should visit him every morning, and try him every moment?
Job 7:19 How long will thou not look away from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
Job 7:20 If I have sinned, what do I do to thee, O thou watcher of men? Why have thou set me as a mark for thee, so that I am a burden to myself?
Job 7:21 And why do thou not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? For now I shall lie down in the dust, and thou will seek me diligently, but I shall not be.
Job 8:1 ¶ Then Bildad the Shuhite answered, and said,
Job 8:2 How long will thou speak these things? And [how long] shall the words of thy mouth be [like] a mighty wind?
Job 8:3 Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?
Job 8:4 If thy sons have sinned against him, and he has delivered them into the hand of their transgression,
Job 8:5 if thou would seek diligently to God, and make thy supplication to the Almighty,
Job 8:6 if thou were pure and upright, surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
Job 8:7 And though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end would greatly increase.
Job 8:8 ¶ For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and apply thyself to that which their fathers have searched out
Job 8:9 (for we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow).
Job 8:10 Shall they not teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?
Job 8:11 Can the rush grow up without mire? Can a reed grow without water?
Job 8:12 While it is yet in its greenness, [and] not cut down, it withers before any [other] herb.
Job 8:13 So are the paths of all who forget God. And the hope of the profane man shall perish,
Job 8:14 whose confidence shall break apart, and whose trust is a spider’s web.
Job 8:15 He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand. He shall hold fast thereby, but it shall not endure.
Job 8:16 He is green before the sun, and his shoots go forth over his garden.
Job 8:17 His roots are wrapped around the [stone] heap. He beholds the place of stones.
Job 8:18 If he is destroyed from his place, then it shall deny him, [saying], I have not seen thee.
Job 8:19 Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth others shall spring.
Job 8:20 ¶ Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, nor will he uphold the evil-doers.
Job 8:21 He will yet fill thy mouth with laughter, and thy lips with shouting.
Job 8:22 Those who hate thee shall be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked shall be no more.
Job 9:1 ¶ Then Job answered and said,
Job 9:2 Of a truth I know that it is so. But how can man be just with God?
Job 9:3 If he is pleased to contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.
Job 9:4 [He is] wise in heart, and mighty in strength. Who has hardened himself against him, and prospered?
Job 9:5 [He] who removes the mountains, and they do not know it when he overturns them in his anger,
Job 9:6 who shakes the earth out of its place, and the pillars of it tremble,
Job 9:7 who commands the sun, and it does not rise, and seals up the stars,
Job 9:8 who alone stretches out the heavens, and treads upon the waves of the sea,
Job 9:9 who makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the chambers of the south,
Job 9:10 who does great things past finding out, yea, marvelous things without number.
Job 9:11 Lo, he goes by me, and I do not see him. He also passes on, but I do not perceive him.
Job 9:12 Behold, he seizes; who can hinder him? Who will say to him, What are thou doing?
Job 9:13 God will not withdraw his anger. The helpers of Rahab stoop under him.
Job 9:14 ¶ How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words [to reason] with him?
Job 9:15 Whom, though I were righteous, yet I would not answer. I would make supplication to my judge.
Job 9:16 If I had called, and he had answered me, yet I would not believe that he hearkened to my voice.
Job 9:17 For he breaks me with a tempest, and multiplies my wounds without cause.
Job 9:18 He will not allow me to take my breath, but fills me with bitterness.
Job 9:19 If of strength, lo, [he is] mighty! And if of justice, who will summon me?
Job 9:20 Though I be righteous, my own mouth shall condemn me. Though I be perfect, it shall prove me perverse.
Job 9:21 Though I were perfect, I do not regard myself. I despise my life.
Job 9:22 ¶ It is all one thing. Therefore I say, He destroys the perfect and the wicked.
Job 9:23 If the scourge kills suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.
Job 9:24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of the judges of it. If not [he], who then is it?
Job 9:25 ¶ Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away. They see no good,
Job 9:26 They are passed away as the swift ships, as the eagle that swoops on the prey.
Job 9:27 If I say, I will forget my complaint. I will put off my [sad] countenance, and be of good cheer,
Job 9:28 I am afraid of all my sorrows. I know that thou will not hold me innocent.
Job 9:29 I shall be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain?
Job 9:30 If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands ever so clean,
Job 9:31 yet thou will plunge me in the ditch, and my own clothes shall abhor me.
Job 9:32 For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment.
Job 9:33 There is no umpire between us who might lay his hand upon us both.
Job 9:34 Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his terror make me afraid.
Job 9:35 Then I would speak, and not be afraid of him, for I am not so in myself.
Job 10:1 ¶ My soul is weary of my life. I will give free reign to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Job 10:2 I will say to God, Do not condemn me. Show me why thou contend with me.
Job 10:3 Is it good to thee that thou should oppress, that thou should despise the work of thy hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?
Job 10:4 Have thou eyes of flesh? Or do thou see as man sees?
Job 10:5 Are thy days as the days of man, or thy years as man’s days,
Job 10:6 that thou inquire after my iniquity, and search after my sin,
Job 10:7 although thou know that I am not wicked. And there is none that can deliver out of thy hand?
Job 10:8 ¶ Thy hands have made me and fashioned me together round about, yet thou destroy me.
Job 10:9 Remember, I beseech thee, that thou have fashioned me as clay. And will thou bring me into dust again?
Job 10:10 Have thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?
Job 10:11 Thou have clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.
Job 10:12 Thou have granted me life and loving kindness, and thy visitation has preserved my spirit.
Job 10:13 Yet these things thou hid in thy heart. I know that this is with thee.
Job 10:14 ¶ If I sin, then thou mark me. And thou will not acquit me from my iniquity.
Job 10:15 If I be wicked, woe to me. And if I be righteous, yet I shall not lift up my head, being filled with shame, and looking upon my affliction.
Job 10:16 And if [my head] exalts itself, thou hunt me as a lion. And again thou show thyself marvelous upon me.
Job 10:17 Thou renew thy witnesses against me, and increase thine indignation upon me. Changes and warfare are with me.
Job 10:18 Why then have thou brought me forth out of the womb? I would have given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me.
Job 10:19 I should have been as though I had not been. I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
Job 10:20 Are not my days few? Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little
Job 10:21 before I go where I shall not return, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death,
Job 10:22 the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as midnight.
Job 11:1 ¶ Then Zophar the Naamathite answered, and said,
Job 11:2 Should not the multitude of words be answered? And should a man full of talk be justified?
Job 11:3 Should thy boastings make men hold their peace? And when thou mock, shall no man make thee ashamed?
Job 11:4 For thou say, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes.
Job 11:5 But O that God would speak, and open his lips against thee,
Job 11:6 and that he would show thee the secrets of wisdom! For he is manifold in understanding. Know therefore that God exacts of thee less than thine iniquity deserves.
Job 11:7 ¶ Can thou find out God by searching? Can thou find out the Almighty to perfection?
Job 11:8 It is high as heaven; what can thou do? Deeper than Sheol; what can thou know?
Job 11:9 The measure of it is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
Job 11:10 If he passes through, and shuts up, and all to judgment, then who can hinder him?
Job 11:11 For he knows false men. He also sees iniquity. Will he not then consider it?
Job 11:12 But vain man is void of understanding. Yea, man is born [as] a wild donkey’s colt.
Job 11:13 ¶ If thou set thy heart aright, and stretch out thy hands toward him,
Job 11:14 if iniquity is in thy hand, put it far away, and let not unrighteousness dwell in thy tents.
Job 11:15 Surely then thou shall lift up thy face without spot. Yea, thou shall be steadfast, and shall not fear.
Job 11:16 For thou shall forget thy misery. Thou shall remember it as waters that are passed away.
Job 11:17 And [thy] life shall be clearer than the noonday. Though there be darkness, it shall be as the morning.
Job 11:18 And thou shall be secure, because there is hope. Yea, thou shall search [about thee], and shall take thy rest in safety.
Job 11:19 Also thou shall lie down, and none shall make thee afraid. Yea, many shall correspond with thee.
Job 11:20 But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall have no way to flee. And their hope shall be the giving up of the spirit.
Job 12:1 ¶ Then Job answered and said,
Job 12:2 No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.
Job 12:3 But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who does not know such things as these?
Job 12:4 I am as a man who is a laughing-stock to his neighbor. I who called upon God, and he answered. The just, the perfect man is a laughing-stock.
Job 12:5 In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune. It is ready for those whose foot slips.
Job 12:6 ¶ The tents of robbers prosper, and those who provoke God are secure. Into whose hand God brings [abundantly].
Job 12:7 But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee, and the birds of the heavens, and they shall tell thee.
Job 12:8 Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee, and the fishes of the sea shall declare to thee.
Job 12:9 Who does not know in all these, that the hand of LORD has wrought this,
Job 12:10 in whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?
Job 12:11 Does not the ear try words, even as the palate tastes its food?
Job 12:12 ¶ With aged men is wisdom, and in length of days understanding.
Job 12:13 With [God] is wisdom and might. He has counsel and understanding.
Job 12:14 Behold, he breaks down, and it cannot be built again. He shuts up a man, and there can be no opening.
Job 12:15 Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up. Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.
Job 12:16 With him is strength and wisdom. The deceived and the deceiver are his.
Job 12:17 He leads counselors away stripped, and he makes judges fools.
Job 12:18 He loosens the bond of kings, and he binds their loins with a belt.
Job 12:19 He leads priests away stripped, and overthrows the mighty.
Job 12:20 He removes the speech of the trustworthy, and takes away the understanding of the elders.
Job 12:21 He pours contempt upon rulers, and weakens the strength of the strong.
Job 12:22 He uncovers deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death.
Job 12:23 He increases the nations, and he destroys them. He enlarges the nations, and he leads them captive.
Job 12:24 He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
Job 12:25 They grope in the dark without light, and he makes them to stagger like a drunken man.
Job 13:1 ¶ Lo, my eye has seen all [this]. My ear has heard and understood it.
Job 13:2 What ye know, I also know; I am not inferior to you.
Job 13:3 Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
Job 13:4 But ye are forgers of lies. Ye are all physicians of no value.
Job 13:5 O that ye would altogether be silent! And it would be your wisdom.
Job 13:6 Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
Job 13:7 Will ye speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for him?
Job 13:8 Will ye show partiality to him? Will ye contend for God?
Job 13:9 Is it good that he should search you out? Or as deceiving a man, will ye deceive him?
Job 13:10 He will surely reprove you if ye secretly show partiality.
Job 13:11 Shall not his majesty make you afraid, and his dread fall upon you?
Job 13:12 Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes. Your defenses are defenses of clay.
Job 13:13 ¶ Be quiet. Let me alone that I may speak, and let come on me what will.
Job 13:14 Why should I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand?
Job 13:15 Behold, he will kill me; I have no hope. Nevertheless I will maintain my ways before him.
Job 13:16 This also shall be my salvation, that a profane man shall not come before him.
Job 13:17 Hear diligently my speech, and let my declaration be in your ears.
Job 13:18 Behold now, I have set my case in order. I know that I am righteous.
Job 13:19 Who is he who will contend with me? For then I would keep silent and give up the spirit.
Job 13:20 Only do not do two things to me, then I will not hide myself from thy face:
Job 13:21 Withdraw thy hand far from me, and do not let thy dread make me afraid.
Job 13:22 Then call thou, and I will answer, or let me speak, and answer thou me.
Job 13:23 ¶ How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me to know my transgression and my sin.
Job 13:24 Why do thou hide thy face, and reckon me for thine enemy?
Job 13:25 Will thou harass a driven leaf? And will thou pursue the dry stubble?
Job 13:26 For thou write bitter things against me, and make me to inherit the iniquities of my youth.
Job 13:27 Thou also put my feet in the stocks, and mark all my paths. Thou set a bound to the soles of my feet.
Job 13:28 Though I am like a rotten thing that decays, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
Job 14:1 ¶ Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.
Job 14:2 He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He too flees as a shadow, and does not continue.
Job 14:3 And do thou open thine eyes upon such a one, and bring me into judgment with thee?
Job 14:4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.
Job 14:5 Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with thee, and thou have appointed his bounds that he cannot pass,
Job 14:6 look away from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.
Job 14:7 ¶ For there is hope of a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch of it will not cease.
Job 14:8 Though the root of it grows old in the earth, and the trunk of it dies in the ground,
Job 14:9 yet through the scent of water it will bud, and put forth boughs like a plant.
Job 14:10 But man dies, and is laid low. Yea, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?
Job 14:11 [As] the waters fail from the sea, and the river wastes away and dries up,
Job 14:12 so man lies down and does not rise. Till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep.
Job 14:13 O that thou would hide me in Sheol, that thou would keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou would appoint for me a set time, and remember me!
Job 14:14 If a man dies, shall he live [again]? All the days of my warfare I would wait till my release should come.
Job 14:15 Thou would call, and I would answer thee. Thou would have a desire to the work of thy hands.
Job 14:16 ¶ But now thou number my steps. Do thou not watch over my sin?
Job 14:17 My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou fasten up my iniquity.
Job 14:18 But the falling mountain comes to nothing, and the rock is removed out of its place.
Job 14:19 The waters wear the stones. The overflowings of it wash away the dust of the earth. So thou destroy the hope of man.
Job 14:20 Thou prevail forever against him, and he passes. Thou change his countenance, and send him away.
Job 14:21 His sons come to honor, and he does not know it, and they are brought low, but he does not perceive it of them.
Job 14:22 But his flesh upon him has pain, and his soul within him mourns.
Job 15:1 ¶ Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, and said,
Job 15:2 Should a wise man make answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?
Job 15:3 Should he reason with unprofitable talk, or with speeches with which he can do no good?
Job 15:4 Yea, thou do away with fear, and hinder devotion before God.
Job 15:5 For thine iniquity teaches thy mouth. And thou choose the tongue of the crafty.
Job 15:6 Thine own mouth condemns thee, and not I. Yes, thine own lips testify against thee.
Job 15:7 Are thou the first man who was born? Or were thou brought forth before the hills?
Job 15:8 Have thou heard the secret counsel of God? And do thou limit wisdom to thyself?
Job 15:9 What do thou know, that we do not know? What do thou understand, which is not in us?
Job 15:10 With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, much older than thy father.
Job 15:11 Are the consolations of God too small for thee, even the word that is gentle toward thee?
Job 15:12 Why does thy heart carry thee away? And why do thine eyes flash,
Job 15:13 that against God thou turn thy spirit, and let words go out of thy mouth?
Job 15:14 What is man, that he should be clean? And he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
Job 15:15 Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones. Yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight:
Job 15:16 How much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!
Job 15:17 ¶ I will show thee. Hear thou me, and that which I have seen I will declare,
Job 15:18 which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it,
Job 15:19 to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them:
Job 15:20 The wicked man travails with pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.
Job 15:21 A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
Job 15:22 He does not believe that he shall return out of darkness. And he is awaited by the sword.
Job 15:23 He wanders abroad for bread, [saying], Where is it? He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
Job 15:24 Distress and anguish make him afraid. They prevail against him as a king ready to the battle.
Job 15:25 Because he has stretched out his hand against God, and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty.
Job 15:26 He runs upon him with a [stiff] neck, with the thick studs of his bucklers,
Job 15:27 because he has covered his face with his fatness, and gathered fat upon his loins.
Job 15:28 And he has dwelt in desolate cities, in houses which no man inhabited, which were ready to become heaps.
Job 15:29 He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth.
Job 15:30 He shall not depart out of darkness. The flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of [God’s] mouth he shall go away.
Job 15:31 Let him not trust in vanity, deceiving himself. For vanity shall be his recompense.
Job 15:32 It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.
Job 15:33 He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive tree.
Job 15:34 For the company of the hypocrites shall be barren, and fire shall consume the tents of bribery.
Job 15:35 They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity, and their heart prepares deceit.
Job 16:1 ¶ Then Job answered, and said,
Job 16:2 I have heard many such things. Miserable comforters are ye all.
Job 16:3 Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes thee that thou answer?
Job 16:4 I also could speak as ye do, if your soul were in my soul’s stead. I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you.
Job 16:5 [But] I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips would assuage [your grief].
Job 16:6 ¶ Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged, and though I forbear, what am I eased?
Job 16:7 But now he has made me weary. Thou have made desolate all my company.
Job 16:8 And thou have laid fast hold on me, [which] is a witness [against me]. And my leanness rises up against me; it testifies to my face.
Job 16:9 He has torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me. He has gnashed upon me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes upon me.
Job 16:10 They have gaped upon me with their mouth. They have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.
Job 16:11 God delivers me to the perverse, and casts me into the hands of the wicked.
Job 16:12 I was at ease, and he broke me apart. Yea, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up for his mark.
Job 16:13 His archers encompass me round about. He splits my reins apart, and does not spare. He pours out my gall upon the ground.
Job 16:14 He breaks me with breach upon breach. He runs upon me like a giant.
Job 16:15 I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and have laid my horn in the dust.
Job 16:16 My face is red with weeping, and the shadow of death is on my eyelids,
Job 16:17 ¶ although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
Job 16:18 O earth, do not cover thou my blood, and let my cry have no [resting] place.
Job 16:19 Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and he who vouches for me is on high.
Job 16:20 My friends scoff at me. My eye pours out tears to God
Job 16:21 that he would maintain the right of a man with God, and of a son of man with his neighbor!
Job 16:22 For when a few years are come, I shall go the way where I shall not return.
Job 17:1 ¶ My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, the grave is [ready] for me.
Job 17:2 Surely there are mockers with me, and my eye dwells upon their provocation.
Job 17:3 Give now a pledge, be surety for me with thyself. Who is there that will strike hands with me?
Job 17:4 For thou have hid their heart from understanding. Therefore thou shall not exalt [them].
Job 17:5 He who denounces his friends for a prey, even the eyes of his sons shall fail.
Job 17:6 But he has made me a byword of the people, and they spit in my face.
Job 17:7 My eye also is dim because of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
Job 17:8 Upright men shall be astonished at this, and the innocent shall stir himself up against the profane.
Job 17:9 Yet the righteous shall hold on his way. And he who has clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger.
Job 17:10 ¶ But as for you all, come on now again, and I shall not find a wise man among you.
Job 17:11 My days are past. My purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
Job 17:12 They change the night into day. The light, [they say], is near to the darkness.
Job 17:13 If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,
Job 17:14 if I have said to corruption, Thou are my father, to the worm, My mother, and my sister,
Job 17:15 where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it?
Job 17:16 It shall go down to the bars of Sheol when once there is rest in the dust.
Job 18:1 ¶ Then Bildad the Shuhite answered, and said,
Job 18:2 How long will ye hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.
Job 18:3 Why are we counted as beasts, [and] have become unclean in your sight?
Job 18:4 Thou who tear thyself in thine anger, shall the earth be forsaken for thee? Or shall the rock be removed out of its place?
Job 18:5 ¶ Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.
Job 18:6 The light shall be dark in his tent, and his lamp above him shall be put out.
Job 18:7 The steps of his strength shall be restricted, and his own counsel shall cast him down.
Job 18:8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks upon the toils.
Job 18:9 A trap shall take [him] by the heel. A snare shall lay hold on him.
Job 18:10 A noose is hid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.
Job 18:11 ¶ Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall chase him at his heels.
Job 18:12 His strength shall be weakened by hunger, and calamity shall be ready at his side.
Job 18:13 The members of his body shall be devoured. The firstborn of death shall devour his body-parts.
Job 18:14 He shall be rooted out of his tent where he trusts, and he shall be brought to the king of terrors.
Job 18:15 There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his. Brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
Job 18:16 His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.
Job 18:17 His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.
Job 18:18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
Job 18:19 He shall have neither son nor son’s son among his people, nor any remaining where he sojourned.
Job 18:20 Those who come after shall be astonished at his day, as those who went before were frightened.
Job 18:21 Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous, and this is the place of him who does not know God.
Job 19:1 ¶ Then Job answered, and said,
Job 19:2 How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
Job 19:3 These ten times ye have reproached me. Ye are not ashamed that ye deal hardly with me.
Job 19:4 And be it indeed that I have erred, my error remains with myself.
Job 19:5 If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach,
Job 19:6 know now that God has subverted me, and has encompassed me with his net.
Job 19:7 Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice.
Job 19:8 ¶ He has walled up my way that I cannot pass, and has set darkness in my paths.
Job 19:9 He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
Job 19:10 He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. And he has plucked up my hope like a tree.
Job 19:11 He has also kindled his wrath against me. And he considers me to him as his adversaries.
Job 19:12 His troops come on together, and cast up their way against me, and encamp round about my tent.
Job 19:13 He has put my brothers far from me, and my acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.
Job 19:14 My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
Job 19:15 Those who dwell in my house, and my maids, reckon me for a stranger; I am an alien in their sight.
Job 19:16 I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer. I entreat him with my mouth.
Job 19:17 My breath is strange to my wife, and my supplication to the sons of my own mother.
Job 19:18 Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me.
Job 19:19 All my familiar friends abhor me, and those whom I loved are turned against me.
Job 19:20 My bone cleaves to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped with the skin of my teeth.
Job 19:21 Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends, for the hand of God has touched me.
Job 19:22 Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
Job 19:23 ¶ O that my words were now written! O that they were inscribed in a book,
Job 19:24 that they were engraved in the rock forever with an iron pen and lead!
Job 19:25 But as for me I know that my Redeemer lives, and at last he will stand up upon the earth.
Job 19:26 And after my skin, this [body], is destroyed, then outside my flesh I shall see God,
Job 19:27 whom I, even I, shall see on my side, and my eyes shall behold, and not as a stranger. My heart is consumed within me.
Job 19:28 If ye say, How we will persecute him! And that the root of the matter is found in me,
Job 19:29 be ye afraid of the sword. For wrath [brings] the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.
Job 20:1 ¶ Then Zophar the Naamathite answered, and said,
Job 20:2 Therefore my thoughts cause me to answer, even because of my haste that is in me.
Job 20:3 I have heard the reproof which puts me to shame, and the spirit of my understanding answers me.
Job 20:4 Know thou this of old time, since man was placed upon earth,
Job 20:5 that the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the profane but for a moment?
Job 20:6 Though his height mounts up to the heavens, and his head reaches to the clouds,
Job 20:7 yet he shall perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him shall say, Where is he?
Job 20:8 He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found. Yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
Job 20:9 The eye which saw him shall see him no more, neither shall his place any more behold him.
Job 20:10 ¶ His sons shall seek the favor of the poor, and his hands shall give back his wealth.
Job 20:11 His bones are full of his youth, but it shall lie down with him in the dust.
Job 20:12 Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue,
Job 20:13 though he spares it, and will not let it go, but keep it still within his mouth,
Job 20:14 yet his food in his bowels is turned. It is the gall of asps within him.
Job 20:15 He has swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly.
Job 20:16 He shall suck the poison of asps. The viper’s tongue shall kill him.
Job 20:17 He shall not look upon the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and butter.
Job 20:18 That which he labored for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down. According to the substance that he has gotten, he shall not rejoice.
Job 20:19 For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.
Job 20:20 Because he knew no quietness within him, he shall not save any of that in which he delights.
Job 20:21 There was nothing left that he did not devour, therefore his prosperity shall not endure.
Job 20:22 In the fullness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits. The hand of everyone who is in misery shall come upon him.
Job 20:23 ¶ When he is about to fill his belly, [God] will cast the fierceness of his wrath upon him, and will rain it upon him while he is eating.
Job 20:24 He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of brass shall strike him through.
Job 20:25 He draws it forth, and it comes out of his body, yea, the glittering point comes out of his gall. Terrors are upon him.
Job 20:26 All darkness is laid up for his treasures. A fire not blown shall devour him. It shall consume that which is left in his tent.
Job 20:27 The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and the earth shall rise up against him.
Job 20:28 The increase of his house shall depart, flowed away in the day of his wrath.
Job 20:29 This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed to him by God.
Job 21:1 ¶ Then Job answered, and said,
Job 21:2 Hear diligently my speech, And let this be your consolations.
Job 21:3 Allow me, and I also will speak, and after I have spoken, mock on.
Job 21:4 As for me, is my complaint to man? And why should I not be impatient?
Job 21:5 Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.
Job 21:6 Even when I remember, I am troubled, and horror takes hold on my flesh.
Job 21:7 ¶ Why do the wicked live, become old, yea, grow mighty in power?
Job 21:8 Their seed is established with them in their sight, and their offspring before their eyes.
Job 21:9 Their houses are safe from fear, nor is the rod of God upon them.
Job 21:10 Their bull breeds, and does not fail. Their cow brings forth safely, and does not miscarry.
Job 21:11 They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.
Job 21:12 They sing to the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.
Job 21:13 They spend their days in prosperity, and in a moment they go down to Sheol.
Job 21:14 And they say to God, Depart from us, for we do not desire the knowledge of thy ways.
Job 21:15 What is the Almighty that we should serve him? And what profit should we have, if we pray to him?
Job 21:16 Lo, [is] their prosperity not in their hand. (The counsel of the wicked is far from me.)
Job 21:17 ¶ How often is it that the lamp of the profane is put out, that their calamity comes upon them, that [God] distributes sorrows in his anger,
Job 21:18 that they are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carries away?
Job 21:19 [Ye say], God lays up his iniquity for his sons. Let him recompense it to himself that he may know it.
Job 21:20 Let his own eyes see his destruction, and let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
Job 21:21 For what does he care for his house after him when the number of his months is cut off?
Job 21:22 Shall any teach God knowledge, seeing he judges those who are high?
Job 21:23 One man dies in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.
Job 21:24 His pails are full of milk, and the marrow of his bones is moistened.
Job 21:25 And another man dies in bitterness of soul, and never tastes of good.
Job 21:26 They lie down alike in the dust, and the worm covers them.
Job 21:27 ¶ Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices with which ye would wrong me.
Job 21:28 For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? And where is the tent in which the wicked dwelt?
Job 21:29 Have ye not asked wayfaring men? And do ye not know their evidences,
Job 21:30 that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity? That they are led forth to the day of wrath?
Job 21:31 Who shall declare his way to his face? And who shall repay him what he has done?
Job 21:32 Yet he shall be borne to the grave, and men shall keep watch over the tomb.
Job 21:33 The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him. And all men shall draw after him, as there were innumerable before him.
Job 21:34 How then ye comfort me in vain, seeing in your answers there remains falsehood?
Job 22:1 ¶ Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, and said,
Job 22:2 Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.
Job 22:3 Is it any pleasure to the Almighty that thou are righteous? Or is it gain [to him] that thou make thy ways perfect?
Job 22:4 Is it for thy fear [of him] that he reproves thee, that he enters with thee into judgment?
Job 22:5 ¶ Is not thy wickedness great? Neither is there any end to thine iniquities.
Job 22:6 For thou have taken pledges from thy brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
Job 22:7 Thou have not given water to the weary to drink, and thou have withheld bread from the hungry.
Job 22:8 But as for the mighty man, he had the land. And the honorable man, he dwelt in it.
Job 22:9 Thou have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
Job 22:10 Therefore snares are round about thee, and sudden fear troubles thee,
Job 22:11 or darkness, so that thou cannot see, and abundance of waters cover thee.
Job 22:12 Is not God in the height of heaven? And behold the height of the stars, how high they are!
Job 22:13 And thou say, What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?
Job 22:14 Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he does not see, and he walks on the vault of heaven.
Job 22:15 ¶ Will thou keep the old way which wicked men have trodden?
Job 22:16 Who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was poured out as a stream,
Job 22:17 who said to God, Depart from us, and, What can the Almighty do for us?
Job 22:18 Yet he filled their houses with good things. But the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
Job 22:19 The righteous see it, and are glad. And the innocent laugh them to scorn,
Job 22:20 [Saying], Surely those who rose up against us are cut off, and the remnant of them, the fire has consumed.
Job 22:21 ¶ Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace. By this good shall come to thee.
Job 22:22 Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thy heart.
Job 22:23 If thou return to the Almighty, thou shall be built up, thou put away unrighteousness far from thy tents.
Job 22:24 Then thou shall lay up gold as dust, and [the gold of] Ophir as the stones of the brooks.
Job 22:25 Yea, the Almighty will be thy treasure, and precious silver to thee.
Job 22:26 For then shall thou delight thyself in the Almighty, and shall lift up thy face to God.
Job 22:27 Thou shall make thy prayer to him, and he will hear thee, and thou shall pay thy vows.
Job 22:28 Thou shall also decree a thing, and it shall be established to thee. And light shall shine upon thy ways.
Job 22:29 When they cast [thee] down, thou shall say, [There is] lifting up, and he will save the humble man.
Job 22:30 He will deliver [even] him who is not innocent. Yea, he shall be delivered through the cleanness of thy hands.
Job 23:1 ¶ Then Job answered and said,
Job 23:2 Even today my complaint is rebellious. My stroke is heavier than my groaning.
Job 23:3 O that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even to his seat!
Job 23:4 I would set my case in order before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
Job 23:5 I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say to me.
Job 23:6 Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power? No, but he would give heed to me.
Job 23:7 There the upright might reason with him. So I should be delivered forever from my judge.
Job 23:8 ¶ Behold, I go forward, but he is not [there], and backward, but I cannot perceive him,
Job 23:9 on the left hand, when he works, but I cannot behold him. He hides himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him.
Job 23:10 But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Job 23:11 My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way, and not turned aside.
Job 23:12 I have not gone back from the commandment of his lips, I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
Job 23:13 ¶ But he is in one [mind], and who can turn him? And what his soul desires, even that he does.
Job 23:14 For he performs that which is appointed for me. And many such things are with him.
Job 23:15 Therefore I am terrified at his presence. When I consider, I am afraid of him.
Job 23:16 For God has made my heart faint, and the Almighty has terrified me,
Job 23:17 because I was not cut off before the darkness, nor did he cover the thick darkness from my face.
Job 24:1 ¶ Why are times not laid up by the Almighty? And why do those who know him not see his days?
Job 24:2 There are [men] who remove the landmarks. They take away flocks violently, and feed them.
Job 24:3 They drive away the donkey of the fatherless. They take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
Job 24:4 They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves.
Job 24:5 Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness [yields] them bread for their sons.
Job 24:6 They cut their provender in the field, and they glean the vintage of the wicked.
Job 24:7 They lie all night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.
Job 24:8 They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
Job 24:9 There are [men] who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,
Job 24:10 [so that] they go about naked without clothing, and being hungry they carry the sheaves.
Job 24:11 They make oil within the walls of these men. They tread [their] winepresses, and suffer thirst.
Job 24:12 From out of the populous city men groan, and the soul of the wounded cries out. Yet God does not regard the folly.
Job 24:13 ¶ These are of those who rebel against the light. They do not know the ways of it, nor abide in the paths of it.
Job 24:14 The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. And in the night he is as a thief.
Job 24:15 The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me. And he disguises his face.
Job 24:16 In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They do not know the light.
Job 24:17 For the morning is to all of them as thick darkness. For they know the terrors of the thick darkness.
Job 24:18 ¶ Swiftly they [pass away] upon the face of the waters. Their portion is cursed in the earth. They do not turn into the way of the vineyards.
Job 24:19 Drought and heat consume the snow waters, [and] Sheol [those who] have sinned.
Job 24:20 The womb shall forget him. The worm shall feed sweetly on him. He shall be no more remembered. And unrighteousness shall be broken as a tree.
Job 24:21 He devours the barren who do not bear, and does no good to the widow.
Job 24:22 Yet [God] preserves the mighty by his power. He rises up who has no assurance of life.
Job 24:23 [God] gives them to be in security, and they rest in it. And his eyes are upon their ways.
Job 24:24 They are exalted. Yet a little while, and they are gone. Yea, they are brought low. They are taken out of the way as all others, and are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.
Job 24:25 And if it be not so now, who will prove me a liar, and make my speech worth nothing?
Job 25:1 ¶ Then Bildad the Shuhite answered, and said,
Job 25:2 Dominion and fear are with him. He makes peace in his high places.
Job 25:3 Is there any number of his armies? And upon whom does his light not arise?
Job 25:4 How then can man be just with God? Or how can he be clean who is born of a woman?
Job 25:5 Behold, even the moon has no brightness. And the stars are not pure in his sight.
Job 25:6 How much less man, who is a worm! And the son of man, who is a worm!
Job 26:1 ¶ Then Job answered, and said,
Job 26:2 How thou have helped him who is without power! How thou have saved the arm that has no strength!
Job 26:3 How thou have counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge!
Job 26:4 To whom have thou uttered words? And whose spirit came forth from thee?
Job 26:5 ¶ Those who are deceased tremble beneath the waters and the inhabitants of it.
Job 26:6 Sheol is naked before [God], and Abaddon has no covering.
Job 26:7 He stretches out the north over empty space, and hangs the earth upon nothing.
Job 26:8 He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not rent under them.
Job 26:9 He encloses the face of his throne, and spreads his cloud upon it.
Job 26:10 He has described a boundary upon the face of the waters, to the confines of light and darkness.
Job 26:11 The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his rebuke.
Job 26:12 He stirs up the sea with his power, and by his understanding he smites through Rahab.
Job 26:13 By his Spirit the heavens are garnished. His hand has pierced the swift serpent.
Job 26:14 Lo, these are but the periphery of his ways. And how small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?
Job 27:1 ¶ And Job again took up his parable, and said,
Job 27:2 As God lives, who has taken away my right, and the Almighty, who has vexed my soul.
Job 27:3 (For my life is yet whole in me. And the spirit of God is in my nostrils.)
Job 27:4 Surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, nor shall my tongue utter deceit.
Job 27:5 Far be it from me that I should justify you. Till I die I will not put away my integrity from me.
Job 27:6 I hold fast my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart shall not reproach [me] so long as I live.
Job 27:7 ¶ Let my enemy be as the wicked, and let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous.
Job 27:8 For what is the hope of the profane, though he gets him gain, when God takes away his soul?
Job 27:9 Will God hear his cry when trouble comes upon him?
Job 27:10 Will he delight himself in the Almighty, and call upon God at all times?
Job 27:11 ¶ I will teach you concerning the hand of God. That which is with the Almighty I will not conceal.
Job 27:12 Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it. Why then have ye become altogether vain?
Job 27:13 This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty.
Job 27:14 If his sons be multiplied, it is for the sword. And his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
Job 27:15 Those who remain of him shall be buried in death, and his widows shall make no lamentation.
Job 27:16 Though he heaps up silver as the dust, and prepares raiment as the clay,
Job 27:17 he may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.
Job 27:18 He builds his house as the moth, and as a booth which the keeper makes.
Job 27:19 He lies down rich, but he shall not be gathered [to his fathers]. He opens his eyes, and he is not.
Job 27:20 Terrors overtake him like waters. A tempest steals him away in the night.
Job 27:21 The east wind carries him away, and he departs, and it sweeps him out of his place.
Job 27:22 For [God] shall hurl at him, and not spare. He would gladly flee out of his hand.
Job 27:23 Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.
Job 28:1 ¶ Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold which they refine.
Job 28:2 Iron is taken out of the earth, and copper is molten out of the stone.
Job 28:3 [Man] sets an end to darkness, and searches out to the furthest bound the stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.
Job 28:4 He breaks open a shaft away from where men sojourn, [paths] forgotten by the foot. They hang afar from men; they swing to and fro.
Job 28:5 As for the earth, out of it comes bread, and underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.
Job 28:6 The stones of it are the place of sapphires, and it has dust of gold.
Job 28:7 No bird of prey knows that path, nor has the falcon’s eye seen it.
Job 28:8 The proud beasts have not trodden it, nor has the fierce lion passed thereby.
Job 28:9 He puts forth his hand upon the flinty rock. He overturns the mountains by the roots.
Job 28:10 He cuts out channels among the rocks, and his eye sees every precious thing.
Job 28:11 He binds the streams that they not trickle. And the thing that is hid he brings forth to light.
Job 28:12 But where shall wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding?
Job 28:13 Man does not know the price of it, nor is it found in the land of the living.
Job 28:14 ¶ The deep says, It is not in me. And the sea says, It is not with me.
Job 28:15 It cannot be gotten for gold, nor shall silver be weighed for the price of it.
Job 28:16 It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
Job 28:17 Gold and glass cannot equal it, nor shall it be exchanged for jewels of fine gold.
Job 28:18 No mention shall be made of coral or of crystal. Yea, the price of wisdom is above rubies.
Job 28:19 The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, nor shall it be valued with pure gold.
Job 28:20 ¶ Where then does wisdom come from? And where is the place of understanding?
Job 28:21 Since it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept closed from the birds of the heavens.
Job 28:22 Destruction and Death say, We have heard a rumor of it with our ears.
Job 28:23 God understands the way of it, and he knows the place of it.
Job 28:24 For he looks to the ends of the earth, and sees under the whole heaven,
Job 28:25 to make a weight for the wind. Yea, he distributes the waters by measure.
Job 28:26 When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder,
Job 28:27 then he saw it, and declared it. He established it, yea, and searched it out.
Job 28:28 And to man he said, Behold, the fear of LORD, that is wisdom, and to depart from evil is understanding.
Job 29:1 ¶ And Job again took up his parable, and said,
Job 29:2 O that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me,
Job 29:3 when his lamp shone upon my head, and by his light I walked through darkness,
Job 29:4 as I was in the ripeness of my days, when the friendship of God was upon my tent,
Job 29:5 when the Almighty was yet with me, and my sons were about me,
Job 29:6 when my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured out streams of oil to me,
Job 29:7 ¶ when I went forth to the gate to the city, when I prepared my seat in the street.
Job 29:8 The young men saw me and hid themselves, and the aged rose up and stood.
Job 29:9 The rulers refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.
Job 29:10 The voice of the ranking men was hushed, and their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.
Job 29:11 For when the ear heard [me], then it blessed me, and when the eye saw [me], it gave witness to me.
Job 29:12 Because I delivered the poor who cried, also the fatherless who had none to help him.
Job 29:13 The blessing of him who was ready to perish came upon me, and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.
Job 29:14 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem.
Job 29:15 I was eyes to the blind, and I was feet to the lame.
Job 29:16 I was a father to the needy, and I searched out the case of him whom I did not know.
Job 29:17 And I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the prey out of his teeth.
Job 29:18 ¶ Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.
Job 29:19 My root is spread out to the waters, and the dew lays all night upon my branch.
Job 29:20 My glory is fresh in me, and my bow is renewed in my hand.
Job 29:21 To me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence for my counsel.
Job 29:22 After my words they spoke not again, and my speech distilled upon them.
Job 29:23 And they waited for me as for the rain. And they opened their mouth wide [as] for the latter rain.
Job 29:24 I smiled on them when they had no confidence, and they did not cast down the light of my countenance.
Job 29:25 I chose out their way, and sat [as] chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as a man who comforts the mourners.
Job 30:1 ¶ But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.
Job 30:2 Yea, the strength of their hands, to what should it profit me? Men in whom ripe age is perished.
Job 30:3 They are gaunt with want and famine. They gnaw the dry ground in the gloom of waste and desolation.
Job 30:4 They pluck mallows by the bushes, and the roots of the juniper are their food.
Job 30:5 They are driven forth from the midst [of men]. They cry out after them as after a thief,
Job 30:6 so that they dwell in frightful valleys, in holes of the earth and of the rocks.
Job 30:7 Among the bushes they bray, under the nettles they are gathered together.
Job 30:8 [They are] sons of fools, yea, sons of base men. They were scourged out of the land.
Job 30:9 And now I have become their song, Yea, I am a byword to them.
Job 30:10 They abhor me. They stand aloof from me, and do not spare to spit in my face.
Job 30:11 For he has loosed his cord, and afflicted me. And they have cast off the bridle before me.
Job 30:12 Upon my right hand rise the rabble. They thrust aside my feet, and they cast up against me their ways of destruction.
Job 30:13 They mar my path. They set forward my calamity, [even] men who have no helper.
Job 30:14 As through a wide breach they come. In the midst of the ruin they roll themselves [upon me].
Job 30:15 ¶ Terrors are turned upon me. They chase my honor as the wind, and my welfare is passed away as a cloud.
Job 30:16 And now my soul is poured out within me. Days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
Job 30:17 In the night season my bones are pierced in me, and the [pains] that gnaw me take no rest.
Job 30:18 By the great force my garment is disfigured. It binds me about as the collar of my coat.
Job 30:19 He has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.
Job 30:20 I cry to thee, and thou do not answer me. I stand up, and thou gaze at me.
Job 30:21 Thou have turned to be cruel to me. With the might of thy hand thou persecute me.
Job 30:22 Thou lift me up to the wind. Thou cause me to ride [upon it], and thou disintegrate me in the storm.
Job 30:23 For I know that thou will bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
Job 30:24 However does not a man stretch out the hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?
Job 30:25 Did I not weep for him who was in trouble? Was not my soul grieved for the needy?
Job 30:26 When I looked for good, then evil came. And when I waited for light, there came darkness.
Job 30:27 My heart is troubled, and does not rest. Days of affliction have come upon me.
Job 30:28 I go mourning without the sun. I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.
Job 30:29 I am a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches.
Job 30:30 My skin is black, [and falls] from me. And my bones are burned with heat.
Job 30:31 Therefore my harp has [turned] to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of those who weep.
Job 31:1 ¶ I made a covenant with my eyes. How then should I look upon a virgin?
Job 31:2 For what is the portion from God above, and the heritage from the Almighty on high?
Job 31:3 Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?
Job 31:4 Does he not see my ways, and number all my steps?
Job 31:5 If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot has hastened to deceit
Job 31:6 (let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity);
Job 31:7 if my step has turned out of the way, and my heart walked after my eyes, and if any spot has clung to my hands,
Job 31:8 then let me sow, and let another eat, yea, let the produce of my field be rooted out.
Job 31:9 ¶ If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbor’s door,
Job 31:10 then let my wife grind to another, and let others bow down upon her.
Job 31:11 For that is a heinous crime, yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.
Job 31:12 For it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase.
Job 31:13 If I have despised the case of my man-servant or of my maid-servant when they contended with me,
Job 31:14 what then shall I do when God rises up? And when he visits, what shall I answer him?
Job 31:15 Did not he who made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb?
Job 31:16 ¶ If I have withheld the poor from [their] desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
Job 31:17 or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it
Job 31:18 (no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, and her I have guided from my mother’s womb);
Job 31:19 if I have seen any perish for lack of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;
Job 31:20 if his loins have not blessed me, and if he has not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
Job 31:21 if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate,
Job 31:22 then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder-blade, and my arm be broken from the bone.
Job 31:23 For calamity from God is a terror to me, and I can do nothing because of his majesty.
Job 31:24 ¶ If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, [Thou are] my confidence;
Job 31:25 if I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;
Job 31:26 if I have beheld the sun when it shone, or the moon walking in brightness,
Job 31:27 and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my mouth has kissed my hand
Job 31:28 (this also is an iniquity to be punished by the judges, for I would have denied the God that is above);
Job 31:29 if I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him
Job 31:30 (yea, I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse);
Job 31:31 if the men of my tent have not said, Who can find one who has not been filled with his food?
Job 31:32 (the sojourner has not lodged in the street, but I have opened my doors to the traveler);
Job 31:33 ¶ if like Adam I have covered my transgressions by hiding my iniquity in my bosom
Job 31:34 because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me so that I kept silence, and did not go out of the door—
Job 31:35 O that I had someone to hear me (Lo, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me), and [that I had] the indictment which my adversary has written!
Job 31:36 Surely I would carry it upon my shoulder. I would bind it to me as a crown.
Job 31:37 I would declare to him the number of my steps. I would go near to him as a prince.
Job 31:38 If my land cries out against me, and the furrows of it weep together;
Job 31:39 if I have eaten the fruits of it without money, or have caused the owners of it to lose their lives,
Job 31:40 let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.
Job 32:1 ¶ So these three men ceased to answer Job because he was righteous in his own eyes.
Job 32:2 Then the anger of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was kindled. His anger was kindled against Job because he justified himself rather than God.
Job 32:3 His anger was also kindled against his three friends because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.
Job 32:4 Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job, because they were older than he.
Job 32:5 And when Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, his anger was kindled.
Job 32:6 ¶ And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am young, and ye are very old. Therefore I held back, and dared not show you my opinion.
Job 32:7 I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.
Job 32:8 But there is a spirit in man, and the breath of the Almighty gives them understanding.
Job 32:9 It is not the great who are wise, nor the aged who understand justice.
Job 32:10 Therefore I said, Hearken to me, I also will show my opinion.
Job 32:11 Behold, I waited for your words, I listened for your reasonings, while ye searched out what to say.
Job 32:12 Yea, I attended to you. And, behold, there was none who convinced Job, or who answered his words among you.
Job 32:13 Beware lest ye say, We have found wisdom. God may vanquish him, not man.
Job 32:14 For he has not directed his words against me. Neither will I answer him with your speeches.
Job 32:15 ¶ They are amazed, they answer no more. They have not a word to say.
Job 32:16 And shall I wait because they do not speak, because they stand still, and answer no more?
Job 32:17 I also will answer my part. I also will show my opinion,
Job 32:18 for I am full of words. The spirit within me compels me.
Job 32:19 Behold, my breast is as wine which has no vent. Like new wine-skins it is ready to burst.
Job 32:20 I will speak that I may be refreshed. I will open my lips and answer.
Job 32:21 Let me not, I pray you, respect any man’s person. Neither will I give flattering titles to any man.
Job 32:22 For I know not to give flattering titles, [else] my maker would soon take me away.
Job 33:1 ¶ However, Job, I pray thee, hear my speech, and hearken to all my words.
Job 33:2 Behold now, I have opened my mouth. My tongue has spoken in my mouth.
Job 33:3 My words [shall utter] the uprightness of my heart, and that which my lips know they shall speak sincerely.
Job 33:4 The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
Job 33:5 If thou can, answer thou me. Set [thy words] in order before me. Stand forth.
Job 33:6 Behold, I am toward God even as thou are. I also am formed out of the clay.
Job 33:7 Behold, my terror shall not make thee afraid, nor shall my pressure be heavy upon thee.
Job 33:8 ¶ Surely thou have spoken in my hearing, and I have heard the voice of [thy] words, [saying],
Job 33:9 I am clean, without transgression. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me.
Job 33:10 [Thou say,] Behold, he finds occasions against me. He counts me for his enemy.
Job 33:11 He puts my feet in the stocks. He marks all my paths.
Job 33:12 Behold, I will answer thee. In this thou are not just, for God is greater than man.
Job 33:13 Why do thou strive against him because he does not give of any of his matters?
Job 33:14 ¶ For God speaks once, yea twice, [though man] does not regard it.
Job 33:15 In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men, in slumberings upon the bed.
Job 33:16 Then he opens the ears of men, and seals their instruction
Job 33:17 that he may withdraw man [from his] purpose, and hide pride from man.
Job 33:18 He keeps back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.
Job 33:19 ¶ He also is chastened with pain upon his bed, and with continual strife in his bones,
Job 33:20 so that his life abhors bread, and his soul dainty food.
Job 33:21 His flesh is consumed away that it cannot be seen. And his bones that were not seen stick out.
Job 33:22 Yea, his soul draws near to the pit, and his life to the destroyers.
Job 33:23 If there be with him an agent, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show to man what is right for him,
Job 33:24 then [God] is gracious to him, and says, Deliver him from going down to the pit; I have found a ransom.
Job 33:25 His flesh shall be fresher than a child’s. He returns to the days of his youth.
Job 33:26 He prays to God, and he is favorable to him, so that he sees his face with joy, and he restores to man his righteousness.
Job 33:27 He sings before men, and says, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it did not profit me.
Job 33:28 He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit, and my life shall behold the light.
Job 33:29 ¶ Lo, all these things God works twice, [yea] thrice, with a man,
Job 33:30 to bring back his soul from the pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of the living.
Job 33:31 Mark well, O Job, hearken to me. Keep silent, and I will speak.
Job 33:32 If thou have anything to say, answer me. Speak, for I desire to justify thee.
Job 33:33 If not, hearken thou to me. Keep silent, and I will teach thee.
Job 34:1 ¶ Moreover Elihu answered, and said,
Job 34:2 Hear my words, ye wise men, and give ear to me, ye who have knowledge.
Job 34:3 For the ear tries words as the palate tastes food.
Job 34:4 Let us choose for us that which is right. Let us know among ourselves what is good.
Job 34:5 For Job has said, I am righteous, and God has taken away my right.
Job 34:6 Notwithstanding my right I am [accounted] a liar. My wound is incurable, [though I am] without transgression.
Job 34:7 What man is like Job, who drinks up scorning like water,
Job 34:8 saying, I have not sinned, nor committed unrighteousness, nor had fellowship with workers of iniquity to go with the profane.
Job 34:9 For thou should not say, There shall be no visitation to a man, [whereas] visitation [is] to him from LORD.
Job 34:10 ¶ Therefore hearken to me, ye men of understanding. Far be it from me to sin before LORD, and pervert righteousness before the Almighty.
Job 34:11 For the work of a man he will render to him, and cause every man to find according to his ways.
Job 34:12 Yea, certainly God will not do wrong. Neither will the Almighty pervert justice.
Job 34:13 Who gave him a charge over the earth? Or who has disposed the whole world?
Job 34:14 If he sets his heart upon himself, [if] he gathers his spirit and his breath to himself,
Job 34:15 all flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again to dust.
Job 34:16 ¶ If now [thou be] understanding, hear this. Hearken to the voice of words.
Job 34:17 Behold thou him who hates lawlessness, and who destroys evil men, who is forever righteousness,
Job 34:18 [him] who says to a king, [Thou are] vile, to ranking men, [Ye are] wicked,
Job 34:19 who does not respect the persons of rulers, nor regards the rich more than the poor. For they all are the work of his hands.
Job 34:20 In a moment they die, even at midnight. The people are shaken and pass away, and the mighty are taken away without hand.
Job 34:21 For his eyes are upon the ways of a man, and he sees all his goings.
Job 34:22 There is no darkness, nor thick gloom where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
Job 34:23 For he needs no further to consider a man, that he should go before God in judgment.
Job 34:24 He breaks in pieces mighty men [in ways] past finding out, and sets others in their stead.
Job 34:25 Therefore he takes knowledge of their works, and he overturns them in the night, so that they are destroyed.
Job 34:26 He strikes them as wicked men in the open sight of others
Job 34:27 because they turned aside from following him, and would not have regard in any of his ways,
Job 34:28 so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him, and he heard the cry of the afflicted.
Job 34:29 When he gives quietness, who then can condemn? And when he hides his face, who then can behold him? [It is] the same whether to a nation, or to a man,
Job 34:30 that the profane man not reign, that there be none to ensnare the people.
Job 34:31 ¶ For has any said to God, I have borne [chastisement], I will not offend [any more].
Job 34:32 Teach thou me that which I do not see. If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more?
Job 34:33 Shall his recompense be as thou desire, that thou refuse it? For thou must choose, and not I. Therefore speak what thou know.
Job 34:34 Men of understanding will say to me, yes, every wise man who hears me,
Job 34:35 Job speaks without knowledge, and his words are without wisdom.
Job 34:36 But surely not. Learn thou Job not to still give an answer like the foolish,
Job 34:37 so that we may not add to our sins, and lawlessness will be reckoned against us, speaking many words before LORD.
Job 35:1 ¶ Moreover Elihu answered, and said,
Job 35:2 What [is] this thou think in judgment? Who are thou that thou said, I am righteousness before LORD?
Job 35:3 That thou said, What advantage will it be to thee? [And], What profit shall I have more than if I had sinned?
Job 35:4 I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.
Job 35:5 Look to the heavens, and see. And behold the skies, which are higher than thou.
Job 35:6 If thou have sinned, what do thou effect against him? And if thy transgressions be multiplied, what do thou to him?
Job 35:7 If thou be righteous, what do thou give him? Or what does he receive of thy hand?
Job 35:8 Thy wickedness [is] a man as thou are, and thy righteousness [is] a son of man.
Job 35:9 ¶ Because of the multitude of oppressions they cry out. They cry for help because of the arm of the mighty.
Job 35:10 But none says, Where is God my maker who gives songs in the night,
Job 35:11 who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?
Job 35:12 There they cry, but none gives answer, because of the pride of evil men.
Job 35:13 Surely God will not hear an empty [cry], nor will the Almighty regard it.
Job 35:14 ¶ How much less when thou say thou do not behold him. The case is before him, and thou wait for him!
Job 35:15 But now, because he has not visited in his anger, nor does he greatly regard folly,
Job 35:16 so Job opens his mouth in vanity. He multiplies words without knowledge.
Job 36:1 ¶ Elihu also proceeded, and said,
Job 36:2 Allow me a little, and I will show thee. For I have yet somewhat to say on God’s behalf.
Job 36:3 I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my maker.
Job 36:4 (For truly my words are not false.) He who is perfect in knowledge is with thee.
Job 36:5 ¶ Behold, God is mighty, and does not despise. He is mighty in strength of understanding.
Job 36:6 He does not preserve the life of the wicked, but gives to the afflicted [their] right.
Job 36:7 He does not withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but he sets them forever with kings upon the throne, and they are exalted.
Job 36:8 And if they be bound in fetters, and be taken in the cords of afflictions,
Job 36:9 then he shows them their work, and their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly.
Job 36:10 He also opens their ear to instruction, and commands that they return from iniquity.
Job 36:11 If they hearken and serve [him], they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
Job 36:12 But if they do not hearken, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.
Job 36:13 But those who are godless in heart lay up anger. They do not cry for help when he binds them.
Job 36:14 They die in youth, and their life [perishes] among the unclean.
Job 36:15 ¶ He delivers the afflicted by their affliction, and opens their ear in oppression.
Job 36:16 Yea, he would have allured thee out of distress into a broad place, where there is no confinement, and that which is set on thy table would be full of fatness.
Job 36:17 But thou have fulfilled the judgment of the wicked. Judgment and justice take hold,
Job 36:18 and there shall be wrath upon the impious because of the ungodliness of bribes which the unrighteous receive.
Job 36:19 Will thy cry not avail in distress, or all the forces of strength?
Job 36:20 Do not desire the night, when peoples are cut off in their place.
Job 36:21 Take heed. Do not turn to iniquity, for thou have fixed on this because of affliction.
Job 36:22 Behold, God does loftily in his power. Who is a teacher like him?
Job 36:23 Who has enjoined him his way? Or who can say, Thou have wrought unrighteousness?
Job 36:24 ¶ Remember that thou magnify his work, of which men have sung.
Job 36:25 All men have looked on it. Man beholds it afar off.
Job 36:26 Behold, God is great, and we do not know him. The number of his years is unsearchable.
Job 36:27 For he draws up the drops of water, which distil in rain from his vapor,
Job 36:28 which the skies pour down and drop upon man abundantly.
Job 36:29 Yea, can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, the thunderings of his pavilion?
Job 36:30 Behold, he spreads his light around him, and he covers the bottom of the sea.
Job 36:31 For by these he judges the peoples. he gives food in abundance.
Job 36:32 He covers his hands with the lightning, and gives it a command that it strike the mark.
Job 36:33 The noise of it tells concerning him. The cattle also concerning [the storm] that comes up.
Job 37:1 ¶ Yea, at this my heart trembles, and is moved out of its place.
Job 37:2 Hear, O, hear the noise of his voice, and the sound that goes out of his mouth.
Job 37:3 He sends it forth under the whole heaven, and his lightning to the ends of the earth.
Job 37:4 After it a voice roars. He thunders with the voice of his majesty, and he does not restrain [the lightnings] when his voice is heard.
Job 37:5 God thunders marvelously with his voice. He does great things which we cannot comprehend.
Job 37:6 ¶ For he says to the snow, Fall thou on the earth, likewise to the shower of rain, and to the showers of his mighty rain.
Job 37:7 He seals up the hand of every man, that all men whom he has made may know [it].
Job 37:8 Then the beasts go into coverts, and remain in their dens.
Job 37:9 Out of the chamber [of the south] comes the storm, and cold out of the north.
Job 37:10 By the breath of God ice is given, and the breadth of the waters is narrowed.
Job 37:11 Yea, he loads the thick cloud with moisture. He spreads abroad the cloud of his lightning,
Job 37:12 and it is turned round about by his guidance, that they may do whatever he commands them upon the face of the habitable world.
Job 37:13 He causes it to come, whether it be for correction, or for his land, or for loving kindness.
Job 37:14 ¶ Hearken to this, O Job. Stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God.
Job 37:15 Do thou know how God lays [his charge] upon them, and causes the lightning of his cloud to shine?
Job 37:16 Do thou know the balancing of the clouds, the wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge?
Job 37:17 How thy garments are warm when the earth is still because of the south [wind]?
Job 37:18 Can thou with him spread out the sky, which is strong as a molten mirror?
Job 37:19 Teach us what we shall say to him. We cannot set in array because of darkness.
Job 37:20 Shall it be told him that I would speak? Or should a man wish that he were swallowed up?
Job 37:21 ¶ And now men do not see the light which is bright in the skies, but the wind passes, and clears them.
Job 37:22 Out of the north comes golden splendor. God has upon him awesome majesty.
Job 37:23 [O] the Almighty, we cannot find him out. He is excellent in power. And in justice and abundant righteousness he will not afflict.
Job 37:24 Men therefore fear him. He does not regard any who are wise of heart.
Job 38:1 ¶ Then LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
Job 38:2 Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?
Job 38:3 Gird up now thy loins like a man, for I will demand of thee, and declare thou to me.
Job 38:4 ¶ Where were thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if thou have understanding.
Job 38:5 Who determined the measures of it, if thou know? Or who stretched the line upon it?
Job 38:6 Upon what were the foundations of it fastened? Or who laid the corner-stone of it
Job 38:7 when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Job 38:8 Or [who] shut up the sea with doors when it broke forth, [like] it had issued out of the womb,
Job 38:9 when I made clouds the garment of it, and thick darkness a swaddling-band for it,
Job 38:10 and marked out for it my bound, and set bars and doors,
Job 38:11 and said, This far thou shall come, but no further, and here thy proud waves shall be stayed?
Job 38:12 ¶ Have thou commanded the morning since thy days [began], [and] caused the dayspring to know its place
Job 38:13 that it might take hold of the ends of the earth, and the wicked be shaken out of it?
Job 38:14 It is changed as clay under the seal, and [all things] stand forth as a garment.
Job 38:15 And from the wicked their light is withheld, and the high arm is broken.
Job 38:16 Have thou entered into the springs of the sea? Or have thou walked in the recesses of the deep?
Job 38:17 Have the gates of death been revealed to thee? Or have thou seen the gates of the shadow of death?
Job 38:18 Have thou comprehended the earth in its breadth? Declare, if thou know it all.
Job 38:19 Where is the way to the dwelling of light? And as for darkness, where is the place of it
Job 38:20 that thou should take it to the bound of it, and that thou should discern the paths to the house of it?
Job 38:21 Thou know, for thou were born then, and the number of thy days is great!
Job 38:22 Have thou entered the treasuries of the snow, or have thou seen the treasures of the hail,
Job 38:23 which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?
Job 38:24 By what way is the light divided, or the east wind scattered upon the earth?
Job 38:25 ¶ Who has cleft a channel for the water flood, or the way for the lightning of the thunder,
Job 38:26 to cause it to rain on a land where no man is, on the wilderness, in which there is no man,
Job 38:27 to satisfy the waste and desolate [ground], and to cause the tender grass to spring forth?
Job 38:28 Has the rain a father? Or who has begotten the drops of dew?
Job 38:29 Out of whose womb came the ice? And the hoary frost of heaven, who has engendered it?
Job 38:30 The waters hide themselves [and become] like stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.
Job 38:31 Can thou bind the cluster of the Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?
Job 38:32 Can thou lead forth the Mazzaroth in their season? Or can thou guide the Bear with her train?
Job 38:33 Do thou know the ordinances of the heavens? Can thou establish the dominion of it on the earth?
Job 38:34 Can thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee?
Job 38:35 Can thou send forth lightnings, that they may go, and say to thee, Here we are?
Job 38:36 Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given understanding to the mind?
Job 38:37 Who can number the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the bottles of heaven
Job 38:38 when the dust runs into a mass, and the clods cleave fast together?
Job 38:39 Can thou hunt the prey for the lioness, or satisfy the appetite of the young lions
Job 38:40 when they couch in their dens, [and] abide in the covert to lie in wait?
Job 38:41 Who provides for the raven his prey when his young ones cry to God, [and] wander for lack of food?
Job 39:1 ¶ Do thou know the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? [Or] can thou mark when the hinds do calve?
Job 39:2 Can thou number the months that they fulfill? Or do thou know the time when they bring forth?
Job 39:3 They bow themselves. They bring forth their young. They cast out their pains.
Job 39:4 Their young ones become strong. They grow up in the open field. They go forth, and return not again.
Job 39:5 Who has sent out the wild donkey free? Or who has loosed the bonds of the swift donkey
Job 39:6 whose home I have made the wilderness, and the salt land his dwelling-place?
Job 39:7 He scorns the tumult of the city, neither does he hear the shoutings of the driver.
Job 39:8 The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searches after every green thing.
Job 39:9 Will the wild-ox be content to serve thee? Or will he abide by thy crib?
Job 39:10 Can thou bind the wild-ox with his band in the furrow? Or will he harrow the valleys after thee?
Job 39:11 Will thou trust him because his strength is great? Or will thou leave to him thy labor?
Job 39:12 Will thou confide in him that he will bring home thy seed, and gather [the grain] of thy threshing-floor?
Job 39:13 ¶ The wings of the ostrich wave proudly, [but] are they the pinions and plumage of love?
Job 39:14 For she leaves her eggs on the ground, and warms them in the dust.
Job 39:15 And she forgets that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may trample them.
Job 39:16 She deals hardly with her young ones, as if they were not hers. Though her labor be in vain, [she is] without fear,
Job 39:17 because God has deprived her of wisdom, nor has he imparted understanding to her.
Job 39:18 The time she lifts up herself on high she scorns the horse and his rider.
Job 39:19 ¶ Have thou given the horse [his] might? Have thou clothed his neck with the quivering mane?
Job 39:20 Have thou made him to leap as a locust? The glory of his snorting is awesome.
Job 39:21 He paws in the valley, and rejoices in his strength. He goes out to meet the armed men.
Job 39:22 He mocks at fear, and is not dismayed. Neither does he turn back from the sword.
Job 39:23 The quiver rattles against him, the flashing spear and the javelin.
Job 39:24 He swallows the ground with fierceness and rage, nor does he believe that it is the voice of the trumpet.
Job 39:25 As often as the trumpet [sounds] he says, Aha! And he smells the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
Job 39:26 ¶ Is it by thy wisdom that the hawk soars, (and) stretches her wings toward the south?
Job 39:27 Is it at thy command that the eagle mounts up, and makes her nest on high?
Job 39:28 She dwells on the cliff, and makes her home upon the point of the cliff and the stronghold.
Job 39:29 From there she spies out the prey. Her eyes behold it afar off.
Job 39:30 Her young ones also suck up blood. And where the slain are, there is she.
Job 40:1 ¶ Moreover LORD answered Job, and said,
Job 40:2 Shall he who quibbles contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.
Job 40:3 Then Job answered LORD, and said,
Job 40:4 Behold, I am of small account. What shall I answer thee? I lay my hand upon my mouth.
Job 40:5 I have spoken once, and I will not answer, yes, twice, but I will proceed no further.
Job 40:6 ¶ Then LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
Job 40:7 Gird up thy loins now like a man. I will demand of thee, and declare thou to me.
Job 40:8 Will thou even annul my judgment? Will thou condemn me, that thou may be justified?
Job 40:9 Or have thou an arm like God? And can thou thunder with a voice like him?
Job 40:10 Deck thyself now with excellency and dignity, and array thyself with honor and majesty.
Job 40:11 Pour forth the overflowings of thine anger, and look upon everyone who is proud, and abase him.
Job 40:12 Look on everyone who is proud, [and] bring him low, and tread down the wicked where they stand.
Job 40:13 Hide them in the dust together. Bind their faces in the hidden [place].
Job 40:14 Then I will also confess of thee that thine own right hand can save thee.
Job 40:15 ¶ Behold now behemoth, which I made as well as thee. He eats grass as an ox.
Job 40:16 Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the muscles of his belly.
Job 40:17 He moves his tail like a cedar. The sinews of his thighs are knit together.
Job 40:18 His bones are [as] tubes of brass. His limbs are like bars of iron.
Job 40:19 He is a beginning of the ways of God. He who made him gives him his sword.
Job 40:20 Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play.
Job 40:21 He lies under the lotus trees, in the covert of the reed, and the fen.
Job 40:22 The lotus trees cover him with their shade. The willows of the brook encompass him about.
Job 40:23 Behold, if a river overflows, he does not tremble. He is confident though a Jordan swell even to his mouth.
Job 40:24 Shall any take him when he is on the watch, or pierce through his nose with a snare?
Job 41:1 ¶ Can thou draw out leviathan with a fishhook, or press down his tongue with a cord?
Job 41:2 Can thou put a rope into his nose, or pierce his jaw through with a hook?
Job 41:3 Will he make many supplications to thee? Or will he speak soft words to thee?
Job 41:4 Will he make a covenant with thee, that thou should take him for a servant forever?
Job 41:5 Will thou play with him as with a bird? Or will thou bind him for thy maidens?
Job 41:6 Will the bands make traffic of him? Will they part him among the merchants?
Job 41:7 Can thou fill his skin with barbed irons, or his head with fish-spears?
Job 41:8 Lay thy hand upon him. Remember the battle, and do so no more.
Job 41:9 Behold, the hope of him is in vain. Will not [a man] be cast down even at the sight of him?
Job 41:10 None is so fierce that he dare stir him up. Who then is he who can stand before me?
Job 41:11 ¶ Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? Under the whole heaven is mine.
Job 41:12 I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, nor his mighty strength, nor his goodly frame.
Job 41:13 Who can strip off his outer garment? Who shall come within his jaws?
Job 41:14 Who can open the doors of his face? Round about his teeth is terror.
Job 41:15 [His] strong scales are [his] pride, shut up together [like] a close seal.
Job 41:16 One is so near to another that no air can come between them.
Job 41:17 They are joined one to another. They stick together, so that they cannot be parted.
Job 41:18 His sneezings flash forth light, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
Job 41:19 Out of his mouth go burning torches, and sparks of fire leap forth.
Job 41:20 Out of his nostrils a smoke goes, as of a boiling pot and [burning] rushes.
Job 41:21 His breath kindles coals, and a flame goes forth from his mouth.
Job 41:22 In his neck abides strength, and terror dances before him.
Job 41:23 The flakes of his flesh are joined together. They are firm upon him. They cannot be moved.
Job 41:24 His heart is as firm as a stone, Yea, firm as the nether millstone.
Job 41:25 When he raises himself up the mighty are afraid. Because of consternation they are beside themselves.
Job 41:26 If a man lays at him with the sword it cannot avail, nor the spear, the dart, nor the pointed shaft.
Job 41:27 He counts iron as straw, [and] brass as rotten wood.
Job 41:28 The arrow cannot make him flee. Sling-stones are turned into stubble with him.
Job 41:29 Clubs are counted as stubble. He laughs at the rushing of the javelin.
Job 41:30 His underparts are [like] sharp potsherds. He spreads out [as] a threshing-wagon upon the mire.
Job 41:31 He makes the deep to boil like a pot. He makes the sea like a pot of ointment.
Job 41:32 He makes a path to shine after him. [A man] would think the deep to be hoary.
Job 41:33 Upon earth there is not his like who is made without fear.
Job 41:34 He beholds everything that is high. He is king over all the sons of pride.
Job 42:1 ¶ Then Job answered LORD, and said,
Job 42:2 I know that thou can do all things, and that no purpose of thine can be restrained.
Job 42:3 Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge? Therefore I have uttered that which I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.
Job 42:4 Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak, I will ask of thee, and declare thou to me.
Job 42:5 I had heard of thee by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees thee.
Job 42:6 Therefore I abhor [myself], and repent in dust and ashes.
Job 42:7 ¶ And it was so, that, after LORD had spoken these words to Job, 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 has.
Job 42:8 Now therefore, take to you 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 I will accept, that I not deal with you after your folly. For ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.
Job 42:9 So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went and did according as LORD commanded them, and LORD accepted Job.
Job 42:10 ¶ And LORD turned [back] the captivity of Job when he prayed for his friends. And LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.
Job 42:11 Then there came to him all his brothers, and all his sisters, and all those who had been of his acquaintance before, and ate bread with him in his house. And they bemoaned him, and comforted him concerning all the evil that LORD had brought upon him. Each man also gave him a piece of money, and each one a ring of gold.
Job 42:12 So LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. And he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she-donkeys.
Job 42:13 He had also seven sons and three daughters.
Job 42:14 And he called the name of the first, Jemimah, and the name of the second, Keziah, and the name of the third, Keren-happuch.
Job 42:15 And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job. And their father gave them inheritance among their brothers.
Job 42:16 And after this Job lived a hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, [even] four generations.
Job 42:17 So Job died, being old and full of days.
