The Emphasised Bible
also called Rotherham Version
1902 by Joseph Rotherham
Job 1:1 ¶ A man, there was––in the land of Uz, Job, his name,––and that man was blameless and upright, and one who revered God, and avoided evil.
Job 1:2 And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters.
Job 1:3 And his substance was––seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she–asses, and a body of servants exceeding large,––thus was that man the greatest of all the sons of the East.
Job 1:4 ¶ Now his sons were wont to go, and make a banquet, at the house of each one upon his day,––and to send and call their three sisters, to eat and to drink with them.
Job 1:5 And so it was, when the days of the banquet came round, that Job sent and hallowed them, and rising early in the morning offered ascending–sacrifices according to the number of them all; for Job said, Peradventure my sons have sinned, and have cursed God in their hearts. Thus and thus, was Job wont to do all the days.
Job 1:6 ¶ Now there came a certain day, when the sons of God entered in to present themselves unto Yahweh,––so the accuser also entered, in their midst.
Job 1:7 And Yahweh said unto the accuser, Whence comest thou? And the accuser answered Yahweh, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and wandering about therein.
Job 1:8 And Yahweh said unto the accuser, Hast thou applied thy heart unto my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a man blameless and upright, one revering God and avoiding evil?
Job 1:9 And the accuser answered Yahweh, and said, Is it, for nought, that Job revereth God?
Job 1:10 Hast not, thou thyself, made a hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath, on every side? The work of his hands, thou hast blessed, and, his substance, hath broken forth in the land.
Job 1:11 But, in very deed, put forth, I pray thee, thy hand, and smite all that he hath,––verily, unto thy face, will he curse thee.
Job 1:12 And Yahweh said unto the accuser, Lo! all that he hath, is in thy hand, only, against himself, do not put forth thy hand. So the accuser went forth from the presence of Yahweh.
Job 1:13 ¶ And there came a certain day,––when his sons and his daughters were eating, and drinking wine, in the house of their eldest brother.
Job 1:14 And, a messenger, came in unto Job, and said,––The oxen, were plowing, and, the asses, feeding beside them;
Job 1:15 when the Sabeans swooped down, and took them, and, the young men, smote they with the edge of the sword,––and escaped am, only I alone, too tell thee.
Job 1:16 Yet was this one speaking, when, another, came in and said,––A fire of God, fell out of the heavens, and burned up the sheep and the young men, and consumed them; and escaped am, only I alone, to tell thee.
Job 1:17 Yet was this one speaking, when, another, came in and said, The Chaldeans, appointed three chiefs, and spread out against the camels, and took them, and, the young men, smote they with the edge of the sword; and escaped am, only I alone, to tell thee.
Job 1:18 Yet was this one speaking, when, another, came in and said,––Thy sons and thy daughters, were eating, and drinking wine, in the house of their eldest brother;
Job 1:19 when lo! a great wind, came from over the desert, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they died,––and escaped am, only I alone, to tell thee.
Job 1:20 ¶ Then Job arose, and rent his robe, and shaved his head, and fell to the earth and worshipped;
Job 1:21 and said––Naked came I forth from the womb of my mother, and naked must I return thither, Yahweh, gave, and, Yahweh, hath taken away,––The name of Yahweh be blessed!
Job 1:22 In all this, Job sinned not, nor imputed folly unto God.
Job 2:1 ¶ And there came a certain day when the sons of God entered in, to present themselves unto Yahweh––so the accuser also entered in their midst, to present himself unto Yahweh.
Job 2:2 And Yahweh said unto the accuser, Whence comest thou? And the accuser answered Yahweh, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from wandering about therein.
Job 2:3 And Yahweh said unto the accuser, Hast thou applied thy heart unto my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a man blameless and upright, one who revereth God, and avoideth evil; and still he is holding fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against him, to swallow him up without cause.
Job 2:4 Then the accuser answered Yahweh, and said, Skin for skin, and so, all that a man hath, will he give for his life.
Job 2:5 In very deed, put forth, I pray thee thy hand, and smite unto his bone, and unto his flesh,––verily, unto thy face, will he curse thee.
Job 2:6 And Yahweh said unto the accuser, Behold him! in thy hand,––only, his life, preserve thou!
Job 2:7 ¶ So the accuser went forth from the presence of Yahweh,––and smote Job with a sore boil, from the sole of his foot, unto his crown.
Job 2:8 And he took him a potsherd, to scrape himself therewith; he being seated in the midst of ashes.
Job 2:9 Then said his wife unto him, Art thou still holding fast thine integrity? Curse God, and die!
Job 2:10 And he said unto her, As one of the base women speaketh, speakest thou? Blessing, shall we accept from God, and, misfortune, shall we not accept? In all this, Job sinned not with his lips.
Job 2:11 ¶ Now when the three friends of Job heard of all this misfortune which had befallen him,––they came, every man from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite,––for they had by appointment met together to come to shew sympathy with him, and to comfort him.
Job 2:12 And, when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept––and rent, every one his robe, and sprinkled dust upon their heads, toward the heavens.
Job 2:13 And they sat with him upon the ground, seven days and seven nights,––and none was speaking unto him a word, for they saw that, exceeding great, was the stinging pain.
Job 3:1 ¶ After this, opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
Job 3:2 So then Job began, and said:
Job 3:3 Perish, the day wherein I was born, and the night it was said, Lo! a manchild!
Job 3:4 That day, be it darkness,––Let not God enquire after it from above, May there shine upon it no clear beam:
Job 3:5 Let darkness and death–shade buy it back, May there settle down upon it a cloud, Let a day’s dark eclipse cause it terror:
Job 3:6 That night, darkness take it,––May it not rejoice among the days of the year, Into the number of months, let it not enter.
Job 3:7 Lo! that night, be it barren, Let no joyous shouting enter therein:
Job 3:8 Let day–cursers denounce it, Those skilled in rousing the dragon of the sky:
Job 3:9 Darkened be the stars of its twilight,––Let it wait for light, and there be none, neither let it see the eyelashes of the dawn:
Job 3:10 Because it closed not the doors of the womb wherein I was, and so hid trouble from mine eyes.
Job 3:11 ¶ Wherefore, in the womb, did I not die? From the womb, come forth and cease to breathe?
Job 3:12 For what reason, were there prepared for me––knees? and why––breasts, that I might suck?
Job 3:13 Surely, at once, had I lain down, and been quiet, I had fallen asleep, then, had I been at rest:
Job 3:14 With kings, and counselors of the earth, who had built them pyramids:
Job 3:15 Or with rulers possessing, gold,––Who had filled their houses with silver:
Job 3:16 Or that, like an untimely birth hidden away, I had not come into being, like infants that never saw light:
Job 3:17 There, the lawless, cease from raging, and there the toil–worn are at rest:
Job 3:18 At once are prisoners at peace, they hear not the voice of a driver:
Job 3:19 Small and great, there, they are, and, the slave, is free from his master.
Job 3:20 ¶ Wherefore give, to the wretched, light? Or, life, to the embittered in soul?––
Job 3:21 Who long for death, and it is not, And have digged for it, beyond hid treasures:
Job 3:22 Who rejoice unto exultation, Are glad, when they can find the grave:
Job 3:23 To a man, whose way is concealed, And GOD hath straitly enclosed him?
Job 3:24 For, in the face of my food, my sighing, cometh in, and, poured out like the water, are my groans:
Job 3:25 For, a dread, I dreaded, and it hath come upon me, and, that from which I shrank, hath overtaken me.
Job 3:26 I was not careless, nor was I secure, nor had I settled down,––when there came––consternation!
Job 4:1 ¶ Then responded Eliphaz the Temanite, and said:––
Job 4:2 If one attempt a word unto thee, wilt thou be impatient? But, to restrain speech, who, can endure?
Job 4:3 Lo! thou hast admonished many, and, slack hands, hast thou been wont to uphold:
Job 4:4 Him that was stumbling, have thy words raised up, and, sinking knees, hast thou strengthened.
Job 4:5 But, now, it cometh upon thee, and thou despairest, It smiteth even thee, and thou art dismayed.
Job 4:6 Is not, thy reverence, thy confidence? And is not, thy hope, the very integrity of thy ways?
Job 4:7 ¶ Remember, I pray thee, who, being innocent, hath perished, or when, the upright, have been cut off.
Job 4:8 So far as I have seen, They who plow for iniquity and sow misery, reap the same:
Job 4:9 By the blast of GOD, they perish, And, by the breath of his nostrils, are they consumed:
Job 4:10 [Notwithstanding] the roaring of the lion, and the noise of the howling lion, yet, the teeth of the fierce lions, are broken:
Job 4:11 The strong lion perishing for lack of prey, Even the whelps of the lioness, are scattered.
Job 4:12 ¶ But, unto me, something was brought by stealth,––and mine ear caught a whispering of the same:
Job 4:13 When there were thoughts, from visions of the night,––When deep sleep falleth upon men,
Job 4:14 Dread, came upon me, and trembling, The multitude of my bones, it put in dread:
Job 4:15 Then, a spirit, over my face, floated along, The hair of my flesh bristled–up:
Job 4:16 It stood still, but I could not distinguish its appearance, I looked, but there was no form before mine eyes,––A whispering voice, I heard:––
Job 4:17 Shall, mortal man, be more just than GOD? Or a man be more pure than, his Maker?
Job 4:18 Lo! in his own servants, he trusteth not, and, his own messengers, he chargeth with error:
Job 4:19 How much more the dwellers in houses of clay, which, in the dust, have their foundation, which are crushed sooner than a moth:
Job 4:20 Betwixt morning and evening, are they broken in pieces, With none to save, they utterly perish:
Job 4:21 Is not their tent–rope within them, torn away? They die, disrobed of wisdom!
Job 5:1 ¶ Call, I pray thee––is there one to answer thee? Or, to which of the holy ones, wilt thou turn?
Job 5:2 For, to the foolish man, death is caused by vexation, and, the simple one, is slain by jealousy.
Job 5:3 I, have seen the foolish taking root, and then hath his home decayed, in a moment:
Job 5:4 His children are far removed from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, and there is none to deliver:
Job 5:5 Whose harvest, the hungry, eateth up, and, even out of thorn hedges, he taketh it, and the snare gapeth for their substance.
Job 5:6 ¶ For sorrow, cometh not forth out of the dust,––nor, out of the ground, sprouteth trouble.
Job 5:7 Though, man, to trouble, were born, as, sparks, on high, do soar,
Job 5:8 Yet indeed, I, would seek unto El, and, unto Elohim, would I set forth any cause:––
Job 5:9 Who doeth great things, beyond all search,––Wondrous things, till they cannot be recounted;
Job 5:10 Who giveth rain, upon the face of the earth, and sendeth forth waters, over the face of the open fields;
Job 5:11 Setting the lowly on high, and, mourners, are uplifted to safety;
Job 5:12 Who doth frustrate the schemes of the crafty, that their hands cannot achieve abiding success;
Job 5:13 Who captureth the wise in their own craftiness, yea the headlong counsel of the crooked:
Job 5:14 By day, they encounter darkness, and, as though it were night, they grope at high noon.
Job 5:15 But he saveth from the sword, out of their mouth, and, out of the hand of the strong, the needy.
Job 5:16 Thus to the poor hath come hope, and, perversity, hath shut her mouth.
Job 5:17 ¶ Lo! how happy is the man whom God correcteth! Therefore, the chastening of the Almighty, do not thou refuse;
Job 5:18 For, he, woundeth that he may bind up, He smiteth through, that, his own hands, may heal.
Job 5:19 In six troubles, he will rescue thee, and, in seven, there shall smite thee no misfortune:
Job 5:20 In famine, he will ransom thee from death, and in battle from the power of the sword;
Job 5:21 During the scourge of the tongue, shalt thou be hid, neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh;
Job 5:22 At destruction and at hunger, shalt thou laugh, and, of the wild beast of the earth, be not thou afraid;
Job 5:23 For, with the stones of the field, shall be thy covenant, and, the wild beast of the field, hath been made thy friend;
Job 5:24 And thou shalt know that, at peace, is thy tent, and shalt visit thy fold, and miss nothing;
Job 5:25 And thou shalt know, that numerous is thy seed, and, thine offspring, like the young shoots of the field.
Job 5:26 Thou shalt come, yet robust, to the grave, as a stack of sheaves mounteth up in its season.
Job 5:27 Lo! as for this, we have searched it out––so, it is, Hear it, and know, thou, for thyself.
Job 6:1 ¶ Then responded Job, and said:––
Job 6:2 Oh that, weighed, were my vexation, and, my engulfing ruin––into the balances, they would lift up all at once!
Job 6:3 For, now, beyond the sand of the seas, would it be heavy, On this account, my words, have wandered.
Job 6:4 For, the arrows of the Almighty, are in me, The heat whereof, my spirit is drinking up, The, terrors of GOD, array themselves against me.
Job 6:5 Doth the wild ass bray over grass? Or loweth the ox over his fodder?
Job 6:6 Can that which hath no savour be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
Job 6:7 My soul hath refused to touch, Those things, are like disease in my food.
Job 6:8 ¶ Oh that my request would come! and, my hope, oh that GOD would grant!
Job 6:9 That it would please GOD to crush me, That he would set free his hand, and cut me off!
Job 6:10 So might it still be my comfort, And I might exult in the anguish he would not spare,––That I had not concealed the sayings of the Holy One.
Job 6:11 What is my strength, that I should hope? Or what mine end, that I should prolong my desire?
Job 6:12 Is my strength, the strength of stones? Or is, my flesh, of bronze?
Job 6:13 Is there any help at all in me? Is not, abiding success, driven from me?
Job 6:14 ¶ The despairing, from his friend, should have lovingkindness, or, the reverence of the Almighty, he may forsake.
Job 6:15 Mine own brethren, have proved treacherous like a torrent, like a channel of torrents which disappear:
Job 6:16 Which darken by reason of the cold, over them, is a covering made by the snow:
Job 6:17 By the time they begin to thaw, they are dried up, as soon as it is warm, they have vanished out of their place.
Job 6:18 Caravans turn aside by their course, they go up into a waste, and are lost:
Job 6:19 The caravans of Tema looked about, the travelling companies of Sheba, hoped for them:
Job 6:20 They are ashamed that they had trusted, They have come up to one of them, and are confounded.
Job 6:21 For, now, ye have come to him, ye see something fearful, and fear.
Job 6:22 ¶ Is it that I said, Make me a gift, or, out of your abundance, offer a bribe on my behalf;
Job 6:23 And deliver me from the hand of the adversary? And, out of the hand of tyrants, ransom me?
Job 6:24 Show me, and, I, will hold my peace, And, wherein I have erred, cause me to understand.
Job 6:25 How pleasant are the sayings that are right! But what can a decision from you, decide?
Job 6:26 To decide words, do ye intend, When, to the wind, are spoken the sayings of one in despair?
Job 6:27 Surely, the fatherless, ye would assail, and make merchandise of your friend!
Job 6:28 But, now, be pleased to turn to me, that it may be, to your faces, if I speak falsehood,
Job 6:29 Reply, I pray you, let there be no perversity, Yea reply even yet, my vindication is in it!
Job 6:30 Is there, in my tongue, perversity? Or can, my sense, not discern, engulfing ruin?
Job 7:1 ¶ Is there not a warfare to a mortal, upon earth? And, as the days of a hireling, are not his days?
Job 7:2 As, a bondman, panteth for the shadow, and as, a hireling, longeth for his wage,
Job 7:3 So, have I been made to inherit months of calamity, and, nights of weariness, have been appointed me.
Job 7:4 As soon as I lie down, I say, When shall I arise? yet he lengtheneth out the evening, and I am wearied with tossings until the breeze of twilight.
Job 7:5 My flesh is clothed with worms and a coating of dust, My skin, hath hardened, and then run afresh:
Job 7:6 My days, are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and they are spent, without hope.
Job 7:7 ¶ Remember thou, that, a wind, is my life, not again shall mine eye see blessing:
Job 7:8 Nor shall see me––the eye that used to behold me, Thine eyes, are upon me, and I am not.
Job 7:9 A cloud faileth, and is gone, So, he that descendeth to hades, shall not come up:
Job 7:10 He shall not return again to his house, and his own place shall be acquainted with him no more.
Job 7:11 I also, cannot restrain my mouth,––I must speak, in the anguish of my spirit, I must find utterance, in the bitterness of my soul.
Job 7:12 Am, I, a sea, or a sea–monster,––That thou shouldst set over me a watch?
Job 7:13 When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall help to carry my complaint,
Job 7:14 Then thou scarest me with dreams, and, by visions, dost thou terrify me:
Job 7:15 So that my soul chooseth strangling, Death, rather than [these] my bones!
Job 7:16 I am wasted away, Not, to times age–abiding, can I live, Let me alone, for, a breath, are my days.
Job 7:17 ¶ What is a mortal, that thou shouldst nurture him? Or that thou shouldst fix upon him thy mind?
Job 7:18 That thou shouldst inspect him morning by morning, moment by moment, shouldst test him?
Job 7:19 How long wilt thou not look away from me? Wilt thou not let me alone, till I can swallow my spittle?
Job 7:20 I have sinned, What can I do for thee, thou watcher of men? Wherefore hast thou set me as thine object of attack, or have I become, unto thee, a burden?
Job 7:21 And why wilt thou not remove my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? For, now, in the dust, should I lie down, and thou shouldst seek me diligently, and I should not be.
Job 8:1 ¶ Then responded Bildad the Shuhite, and said:––
Job 8:2 How long wilt thou speak these things? Or, as a mighty wind, shall be the sayings of thy mouth?
Job 8:3 Should, GOD, pervert justice? Or, the Almighty, pervert righteousness?
Job 8:4 Though, thy children, sinned against him, and he delivered them into the hand of their transgression,
Job 8:5 Yet, if, thou thyself, wilt diligently seek unto GOD,––and, unto the Almighty, wilt make supplication;
Job 8:6 If, pure and upright, thou thyself, art, surely, now, will he answer thy prayer, and will prosper thy righteous habitation:
Job 8:7 So shall thy beginning appear small,––when, thy latter end, he shall greatly increase!
Job 8:8 ¶ For inquire, I pray thee, of a former generation, and prepare thyself for the research of their fathers; ––
Job 8:9 For, of yesterday, are, we, and cannot know, for, a shadow, are our days upon earth:
Job 8:10 Shall, they, not teach thee––tell thee, and, out of their memory, bring forth words?
Job 8:11 Can the paper–reed grow up, without a marsh? Or the rush grow up, without water?
Job 8:12 Though while still, in its freshness, it be not plucked off, yet, before any kind of grass, it doth wither:
Job 8:13 So, shall be the latter end of all who forget GOD, and, the hope of the impious, shall perish:
Job 8:14 Whose trust shall be contemptible,––and, a spider’s web, his confidence:
Job 8:15 He leaneth upon his house, and it will not stand, he holdeth it fast, and it will not remain erect.
Job 8:16 Full of moisture he is, before the sun, and, over his garden, his shoot goeth forth:
Job 8:17 Over a heap, his roots are entwined, a place of stones, he descrieth;
Job 8:18 If one destroy him out of his place, then will it disown him [saying]––I have not seen thee.
Job 8:19 Lo! that, is the joy of his way,––and, out of the dust, shall others spring up.
Job 8:20 ¶ Lo! GOD, will not reject a blameless man, neither will he grasp the hand of evil–doers:
Job 8:21 At length he shall fill with laughter thy mouth, and thy lips, with a shout of triumph:
Job 8:22 They who hate thee, shall be clothed with shame, but, the tent of the lawless, shall not be!
Job 9:1 ¶ Then responded Job, and said––
Job 9:2 Of a truth, I know that so it is, But how can a mortal be just with GOD?
Job 9:3 If he choose to contend with him, he cannot answer him, one of a thousand:
Job 9:4 Wise in heart, and alert in vigour, What man hath hardened himself against him, and prospered!
Job 9:5 Who removeth mountains, unawares, Who overturneth them in his anger;
Job 9:6 Who shaketh the earth, out of its place, and, the pillars thereof, shudder;
Job 9:7 Who commandeth the sun, and it breaketh not forth, and, about the stars, he putteth a seal;
Job 9:8 Who spreadeth out fire heavens, by himself alone! and marcheth along, on the heights of the sea;
Job 9:9 Who made the Bear, the Giant and the Cluster, and the chambers of the south;
Job 9:10 Who doeth great things, past finding out, and marvels, beyond number.
Job 9:11 Lo! he cometh upon me, yet can I not see him, Yea he passeth on, yet can I not discern him.
Job 9:12 Lo! he snatcheth away, who can bring it back? Who shall say unto him, What wouldst thou do?
Job 9:13 As for GOD, if he withdraw not his anger, under him, will have submitted themselves––the proud helpers.
Job 9:14 ¶ How much less that, I, should answer him, should choose my words with him?
Job 9:15 Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, to be absolved, I would make supplication.
Job 9:16 Though I had called, and he had answered me, I could not believe, that he would lend an ear to my voice.
Job 9:17 For, with a tempest, would he fall upon me, and would multiply my wounds without need;
Job 9:18 He would not suffer me to recover my breath, for he would surfeit me with bitter things.
Job 9:19 If it regardeth vigour, bold is he! If justice, who could summon him?
Job 9:20 If I should justify myself, mine own mouth, would condemn me,––I blameless? then had it shewn me perverse.
Job 9:21 I blameless? I should not know my own soul, I should despise my own life!
Job 9:22 ¶ One thing, there is, for which cause, I have said it, The blameless and the lawless, he bringeth to an end.
Job 9:23 If, a scourge, slay suddenly, at the despair of innocent ones, he mocketh.
Job 9:24 The earth, hath been given into the hand of a lawless one, The faces of her judges, he covereth, If not, then who is it?
Job 9:25 ¶ My days, therefore, are swifter than a runner, They have fled, they have seen no good.
Job 9:26 They have passed away with boats of paper–reed, like a vulture [which] rusheth upon food.
Job 9:27 If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will lay aside my sad countenance, and brighten up,
Job 9:28 I am afraid of all my pains, I know, that thou wilt not pronounce me innocent.
Job 9:29 I, shall be held guilty,––Wherefore then, in vain, should I toil?
Job 9:30 Though I bathe myself in snow water, and cleanse, in cleanness itself, my hands,
Job 9:31 Then, in a ditch, wouldst thou plunge me, and mine own clothes should abhor me:
Job 9:32 For he is not a man like myself, whom I might answer, nor could we come together into judgment:
Job 9:33 There is not, between us, a mediator, who might lay his hand upon us both.
Job 9:34 Let him take from off me his rod, and, his terror, let it not startle me:
Job 9:35 I could speak, and not be afraid of him, although, not so, am, I, in myself!
Job 10:1 ¶ My soul doth loathe my life,––I let loose my complaint, I speak, in the bitterness of my soul.
Job 10:2 I say unto GOD, Do not hold me guilty, Let me know, on what account thou contendest with me!
Job 10:3 Is it seemly in thee, that thou shouldst oppress? that thou shouldst despise the labour of thine own hand, when, upon the counsel of the lawless, thou hast shone?
Job 10:4 Eyes of flesh, hast thou? or, as a mortal seeth, seest thou?
Job 10:5 As the days of a mortal, are thy days? or, thy years, as the days of a man?
Job 10:6 That thou shouldst seek for mine iniquity, and, for my sin, shouldst make search:
Job 10:7 Though it is, within thine own knowledge, that I would not be lawless, and, none, out of thy hand, can deliver?
Job 10:8 ¶ Thine own hands, shaped me, and made me, all in unison round about, and yet thou hast confounded me.
Job 10:9 Remember, I pray thee, that, as clay, thou didst make me, and, unto dust, thou wilt cause me to return.
Job 10:10 Didst thou not, like milk, pour me forth? and, as cheese, curdle me?
Job 10:11 With skin and flesh, clothe me? and, with bones and sinews, interweave me?
Job 10:12 Life and lovingkindness, thou didst bestow upon me,––and, thy watchful care, preserved my breath.
Job 10:13 Yet, these things, thou didst hide in thy heart, I know that, this, hath been with thee!
Job 10:14 ¶ If I have sinned, then couldst thou watch me, and, from mine iniquity, thou wouldst not acquit me:
Job 10:15 If I have been lawless, alas for me! Or, if I am righteous, I will not lift up my head, Surfeited with shame, look thou then on my humiliation.
Job 10:16 When it is lifted up, like a howling lion, thou dost hunt me, Then again thou dost shew thyself marvelous against me.
Job 10:17 Thou renewest thy witnesses before me, and dost increase thy vexation with me, Relays––yea an army, is with me.
Job 10:18 Wherefore then, from the womb, didst thou bring me forth? I might have breathed my last, and, no eye, have seen me.
Job 10:19 As though I had not been, should I have become,––from the womb to the grave, might I have been borne.
Job 10:20 Are not my days, few?––then forbear, and set me aside, that I may brighten up for a little;
Job 10:21 Before I go, and not return, unto a land of darkness and death–shade:
Job 10:22 A land of obscurity, like thick darkness, of death–shade and disorder, and which shineth like thick darkness.
Job 11:1 ¶ Then responded Zophar the Naamathite, and said:––
Job 11:2 Should, the multitude of words, not be answered? Or should, a man full of talk, be justified?
Job 11:3 Shall, thy pratings, cause men to hold their peace? When thou hast mocked, shall there be none to put thee to shame?
Job 11:4 Since thou hast said, Right is my doctrine, and pure am I in his eyes.
Job 11:5 But, in very deed, oh that GOD would speak, that he would open his lips with thee:
Job 11:6 That he would declare to thee the secrets of wisdom, for they are double to that which actually is,––Know then that GOD could bring into forgetfulness for thee, a portion of thine iniquity.
Job 11:7 ¶ The hidden depth of GOD canst thou discover? Or, unto the furthest limit of the Almighty, canst thou attain?
Job 11:8 The heights of the heavens, what canst thou do? Depths deeper than hades, what canst thou know?
Job 11:9 Longer than the earth, is the measure thereof, and broader than the sea.
Job 11:10 If he sweep on, or shut up, or call together, Who then shall hinder him?
Job 11:11 For, he, knoweth men of falsity, and seeth iniquity, and him that doth not diligently consider.
Job 11:12 But, an empty person, will get sense, when, a wild ass’s colt, is born a man!
Job 11:13 ¶ If, thou, hast prepared thy heart, and wilt spread forth, unto him, thy hands––
Job 11:14 If, iniquity, be in thy hand, Put it far away, and let there not dwell in thy tents perversity,
Job 11:15 Surely, then, shalt thou lift up thy face free from blemish, and shalt be established, and not fear.
Job 11:16 For, now, shalt thou forget, sorrow, Like waters passed away, shalt thou remember it.
Job 11:17 Above high noon, shall rise life’s continuance, Darkness, like a morning, shall appear,
Job 11:18 And thou shalt he confident, that there is hope, and, when thou hast searched, securely shalt thou lie down;
Job 11:19 And shalt rest, with none to put thee in terror,––and many shall entreat thy favour.
Job 11:20 But, the eyes of the lawless, shall fail,––and, place of refuge, shall have vanished from them, and, their hope, be a breathing out of life.
Job 12:1 ¶ Then responded Job, and said:––
Job 12:2 Of a truth, ye, are the people, and, with you, wisdom, will die.
Job 12:3 I also, have a mind like you, I, fall not short, of you, But who hath not such things as these?
Job 12:4 A laughing–stock to one’s neighbour, do I become, one who hath called upon GOD and he hath answered him! A laughing–stock––a righteous man without blame!
Job 12:5 For ruin, there is contempt, in the thought of the man at ease,––ready, for such as are of faltering foot!
Job 12:6 ¶ At peace are the tents that belong to the spoilers, and there is security to them who provoke GOD, To him who bringeth a god in his hand.
Job 12:7 But, in very deed, ask, I pray thee, the beasts, and they will teach thee, and the bird of the heavens, and it will tell thee;
Job 12:8 Or address the earth, and it will teach thee, and the fishes of the sea, will recount it to thee:
Job 12:9 Who knoweth not, among all these, that, the hand of Yahweh, hath done this?
Job 12:10 In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the spirit of all the flesh of men.
Job 12:11 Doth not, the ear, try, words? even as, the palate, tasteth for itself, food?
Job 12:12 ¶ In the Ancient, is wisdom, and [in] Length of Days, understanding:
Job 12:13 With Him, are wisdom and strength, to Him, pertain counsel and understanding.
Job 12:14 Lo! He pulleth down, and it cannot be built, He closeth up over a man, and it cannot be opened:
Job 12:15 Lo! He holdeth back the waters, and they dry up, or sendeth them out, and they transform the earth:
Job 12:16 With Him, is strength and effective wisdom, to Him, belong he that erreth, and he that causeth to err.
Job 12:17 Who leadeth away counselors [as] a spoil, and, judges, He befooleth:
Job 12:18 The fetters of kings, He looseth, or hath bound a slave’s waistcloth about their loins:
Job 12:19 Who leadeth away priests [as] a spoil, and, men firmly seated, He overturneth:
Job 12:20 Setting aside the speech of the trusty, and, the discernment of elders, He taketh away:
Job 12:21 Pouring contempt upon nobles, and, the girdle of the mighty, hath He loosed:
Job 12:22 Laying open deep things, out of darkness, and bringing out to light, the death–shade:
Job 12:23 Who giveth greatness to nations, or destroyeth them, Who spreadeth out nations, or leadeth them into exile:
Job 12:24 Who taketh away the sense of the chiefs of the people of the earth, and hath caused them to wander in a pathless waste:
Job 12:25 They grope about in the dark, having no light, and He hath made them to reel, like a drunken man.
Job 13:1 ¶ Lo! all [this], hath mine own eye seen,––Mine ear hath heard and understood it:
Job 13:2 Just as ye know, I too, know, I, fall not short, of you.
Job 13:3 But indeed, I, unto the Almighty, would speak, and, to direct my argument unto GOD, would I be well pleased.
Job 13:4 For, in truth, ye, do besmear with falsehood, Worthless physicians, all of you!
Job 13:5 Oh that ye would, altogether hold your peace, and it should serve you for wisdom!
Job 13:6 Hear, I pray you, the argument of my mouth, and, to the pleadings of my lips, give heed:––
Job 13:7 Is it, for God, ye would speak perversely? And, for him, would ye speak deceit:
Job 13:8 Even, for him, would ye be partial? Or, for GOD, would ye [so] plead?
Job 13:9 Would it be well, when he searched you out? Or, as one might jest with a mortal, would ye jest, with him?
Job 13:10 He will, severely rebuke, you, if ye are secretly partial.
Job 13:11 Shall not, his majesty, overwhelm you? and, the dread of him, fall upon you?
Job 13:12 Are not your memorable sayings, proverbs of ashes? Breastworks of clay, your breastworks?
Job 13:13 ¶ Quietly let me alone, that, I, may speak out, then let come on me, what may.
Job 13:14 In any case, I will take up my flesh in my teeth, and, my life, will I put in my hand:
Job 13:15 Lo! he may slay me, [yet], for him, will I wait,––Nevertheless, my ways––unto his face, will I show to be right:
Job 13:16 Even he, will be on my side––unto salvation, For, not before his face, shall any impious person come.
Job 13:17 Hear ye patiently my speech, and be my declaration in your ears.
Job 13:18 Lo! I pray you, I have set forth in order a plea, I know that, I, shall be found right.
Job 13:19 Who is it that shall contend with me? For, now, if I should hold my peace, why! I should breathe my last!
Job 13:20 Only, two things, do thou not with me, then, from thy face, will I not hide me:––
Job 13:21 Thy hand––from off me, take thou far away, and, thy terror, let it not startle me!
Job 13:22 Then call thou, and, I, will answer, Or I will speak, and reply thou unto me.
Job 13:23 ¶ How many are mine iniquities and sins? My transgression and my sin, let me know!
Job 13:24 Wherefore, thy face, shouldst thou hide? Or count me, as an enemy to thee?
Job 13:25 A driven leaf, wilt thou cause to tremble? Or, dry stubble, wilt thou pursue?
Job 13:26 For thou writest, against me, bitter things, and dost make me inherit the iniquities of my youth;
Job 13:27 And thou dost put––in the stocks––my feet, and observest all my paths, Against the roots of my feet, thou dost cut out a bound;
Job 13:28 And, a man himself, as a rotten thing, weareth out, as a garment which the moth hath eaten.
Job 14:1 ¶ Man that is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble:
Job 14:2 As a flower, he cometh forth––and fadeth, He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
Job 14:3 And yet upon such a one as this, hast thou opened thine eye? And, him, wouldst thou bring into judgment with thee?
Job 14:4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one!
Job 14:5 If determined am his days, the number of his months, is with thee, Fixed times for him, thou hast appointed and he cannot go beyond.
Job 14:6 Look sway from him, that he may rest, Till he shall pay off, as a hireling, his day.
Job 14:7 ¶ Though there is––for a tree––hope,––if it should be cut down, that, again, it will grow, and, the tender branch thereof, will not cease;
Job 14:8 If its root, should become old in the earth, and, in the dust, its stock should die:
Job 14:9 Through the scent of water, it may break forth, and produce branches like a sapling,
Job 14:10 Yet, man, dieth, and is prostrate, Yea the son of earth doth cease to breathe, and where is he?
Job 14:11 Waters, have failed from, the sea, and, a river, may waste and dry up;
Job 14:12 So, a man, hath lain down, and shall not arise, until there are no heavens, they shall not awake, nor be roused up out of their sleep.
Job 14:13 Oh that, in hades, thou wouldst hide me! that thou wouldst keep me secret, until the turn of thine anger, that thou wouldst set for me a fixed time, and remember me:
Job 14:14 If a man die, can he live again? All the days of my warfare, would I wait, until my relief should come:––
Job 14:15 Thou shouldst call, and, I, would answer thee,––For the work of thine own hand, thou shouldst long.
Job 14:16 ¶ For, now, my steps, thou countest, Thou wilt not pass over my sin:
Job 14:17 Sealed up in a bag, is my transgression, and thou hast glued over mine iniquity.
Job 14:18 But, in very deed, a mountain falling, will lie prostrate, or, a rock moved out of its place:
Job 14:19 Stones, have been hollowed out by waters, the floods thereof wash away the dust of the earth, and, the hope of mortal man, thou hast destroyed:
Job 14:20 Thou dost overpower him utterly, and he departeth, Disfiguring his face, so, hast thou sent him away.
Job 14:21 His sons, come to honour, and he knoweth it not, Or they are brought low, and he perceiveth it not of them.
Job 14:22 But, his flesh, for himself, is in pain, and, his soul, for himself, doth mourn.
Job 15:1 ¶ Then responded Eliphaz the Temanite, and said:
Job 15:2 Should, a wise man, answer unreal knowledge? or fill, with the east wind, his inner man?
Job 15:3 Disputing with discourse that doth no good, or with speech, wherein is no profit?
Job 15:4 But, thou, wouldst take away reverence, and wouldst attain unto meditation before GOD.
Job 15:5 For thine own mouth would teach thine iniquity, and thou wouldst choose the tongue of the crafty.
Job 15:6 Thine own mouth shall condemn thee, and, not I, And, thine own lips, shall testify against thee.
Job 15:7 The first of mankind, wast thou born? Or, before the hills, wast thou brought forth?
Job 15:8 In the secret council of GOD, hast thou been wont to hearken? Or canst thou attain for thyself unto wisdom?
Job 15:9 What knowest thou, that we know not? [What] understandest thou, and the same, is not with us?
Job 15:10 Both hoary and venerable, are among us, one mightier than thy father in days!
Job 15:11 Too small for thee, are the consolations of GOD? or a word spoken gently with thee?
Job 15:12 How doth thine own heart carry thee away, and how thine eyes do roll!
Job 15:13 For thy spirit, replieth against GOD, and thou bringest forth––out of thy mouth––words!
Job 15:14 What is a mortal, that he should be pure? or that righteous should be one born of a woman?
Job 15:15 Lo! in his holy ones, he putteth not confidence, and, the heavens, are not pure in his eyes:
Job 15:16 How much less when one is detested and corrupt, a man who drinketh in––like water––perversity.
Job 15:17 ¶ I will tell thee––hear me, Since this I have seen, I must needs declare it.
Job 15:18 Which, wise men, tell, and deny not [that which is] from their fathers.
Job 15:19 To them alone, was the earth given, and no alien passed through their midst:
Job 15:20 All the days of the lawless man, he, doth writhe with pain, and, the number of years, is hidden from the tyrant;
Job 15:21 A noise of dreadful things, is in his ears, In prosperity, the destroyer cometh upon him;
Job 15:22 He hath no confidence to come back out of darkness, he, being destined to the power oft the sword;
Job 15:23 A wanderer, he, for bread, [saying] Where [is it]? He knoweth that, prepared by his own hand, is the day of darkness;
Job 15:24 Distress and anguish shall startle him, It shall overpower him, like a king ready for the onset:
Job 15:25 Because he had stretched out––against GOD––his hand, and, against the Almighty, had been wont to behave himself proudly;
Job 15:26 He used to run against him with uplifted neck, with the stout bosses of his bucklers;
Job 15:27 For he had covered his face with his fatness, and had gathered a superabundance on his loins;
Job 15:28 And had inhabited demolished cities, houses, wherein men would not dwell, that were destined to become heaps.
Job 15:29 He shall not be rich, nor shall his substance continue, neither shall their shadow stretch along on the earth;
Job 15:30 He shall not depart out of darkness, his young branch, shall the flame dry up, and he shall depart, by the breath of his own mouth!
Job 15:31 Let no one trust in him that––by vanity––is deceived, for, vanity, shall be his recompense;
Job 15:32 Before his day, shall it be accomplished, with, his palm–top, not covered with leaves;
Job 15:33 He shall wrong––like a vine––his sour grapes, and shall cast off––as an olive–tree––his blossom.
Job 15:34 For, the family of the impious, is unfruitful, and, a fire, hath devoured the tents of bribery;
Job 15:35 Conceiving mischief, and bringing forth iniquity, yea, their inmost soul, prepareth deceit.
Job 16:1 ¶ Then responded Job, and said:––
Job 16:2 I have heard many such things, Wearisome comforters, are ye all!
Job 16:3 Is there to be an end to windy words? Or what so strongly exciteth thee, that thou must respond?
Job 16:4 I also, like you, could speak,––If your soul were in the place of my soul, I could string together words against you, and could therewith shake over you my head.
Job 16:5 I could make you determined, by my mouth, and then my lip–solace should restrain you.
Job 16:6 ¶ Though I do speak, unassuaged is my stinging pain,––And, if I forbear, of what am I relieved?
Job 16:7 But, now, hath he wearied me, thou hast destroyed all my family;
Job 16:8 And, having captured me, it hath served, as a witness; and so my wasting away hath risen up against me, in my face, it answereth.
Job 16:9 His anger, hath torn and persecuted me, He hath gnashed upon me with his teeth, Mine adversary, hath sharpened his eyes for me.
Job 16:10 They have gaped upon me with their mouth, With reproach, have they smitten my cheek, Together, against me, have they closed their ranks.
Job 16:11 GOD doth abandon me to him that is perverse, and, into the hands of the lawless, he throweth me headlong.
Job 16:12 At ease, was I when he shattered me, Yea he seized me by my neck, and dashed me in pieces, then set me up for himself as a mark:
Job 16:13 His archers came round against me, He clave asunder my reins, and spared not, He poured out, on the earth, my gall:
Job 16:14 He made a breach in me, breach upon breach, He ran upon me, like a mighty man.
Job 16:15 Sackcloth, sewed I on my skin, and rolled––in the dust––my horn:
Job 16:16 My face, is reddened from weeping, and, upon mine eyelashes, is the death–shade:––
Job 16:17 ¶ Though no violence was in my hands, and, my prayer, was pure.
Job 16:18 O earth! do not cover my blood, and let there be no place for mine outcry.
Job 16:19 Even now, lo! in the heavens, is my witness,
Job 16:20 And, he that voucheth for me is on high. My friends are, they who scorn me, Unto GOD, hath mine eye shed tears:––
Job 16:21 That one might plead, for a man, with GOD,––Even a son of man, for his friend!
Job 16:22 When, a few years, come, then, by a path by which I shall not return, shall I depart.
Job 17:1 ¶ My spirit, is broken, My days, are extinguished, Graves, are left me.
Job 17:2 Verily there are mockers, with me! And, on their insults, mine eye doth rest.
Job 17:3 Appoint it, I pray thee––be thou surety for me with thyself, Who is there that, on my side, can pledge himself?
Job 17:4 For, their heart, hast thou kept back from understanding, On this account, thou wilt not exalt them.
Job 17:5 He that, for a share, denounceth friends, even, the eyes of his children, shall be dim.
Job 17:6 But he hath set me, as the byword of peoples, And, one to be spit on in the face, do I become.
Job 17:7 Therefore hath mine eye become dim from vexation, and, my members, are like a shadow, all of them.
Job 17:8 Upright men shall be astounded over this, and, the innocent, against the impious, shall rouse themselves.
Job 17:9 That the righteous may hold on his way, and, the clean of hands, increase in strength.
Job 17:10 ¶ But indeed, as for them all, will ye bethink yourselves and enter into it, I pray you? Or shall I not find, among you, one who is wise?
Job 17:11 My days, are past, my purposes, are broken off, the possessions of my heart!
Job 17:12 Night for day, they appoint, Light, is near, by reason of darkness!
Job 17:13 If I wait for hades as my house, in darkness, have spread out my couch;
Job 17:14 To corruption, have exclaimed, My father, thou! My mother! and My sister! to the worm.
Job 17:15 Where then would be my hope? And, as for my blessedness, who should see it!
Job 17:16 With me to hades, would they go down, If, wholly––into the dust, is the descent!
Job 18:1 ¶ Then responded Bildad the Shuhite, and said:––
Job 18:2 How long will ye make a perversion of words? Ye should understand, and, afterwards, we could speak.
Job 18:3 Wherefore are we accounted like beasts? or appear stupid, in thine eyes?
Job 18:4 One tearing in pieces his own soul in his anger,––For thy sake, shall the earth be forsaken? or the rock be moved out of its place?
Job 18:5 ¶ Even the light of the lawless, shall go out,––Neither shall shine the flame of his fire;
Job 18:6 The light, hath darkened in his tent, Yea, his lamp above him, goeth out;
Job 18:7 The steppings of his strength are hemmed in, and his own counsel casteth him down;
Job 18:8 For he is thrust into a net by his own feet, and, upon a trap, he marcheth;
Job 18:9 There catcheth him––by the heel––a gin, there holdeth him fast––a noose:
Job 18:10 Concealed in the ground is a cord for him,––and a snare for him, on the path.
Job 18:11 ¶ Round about, terrors have startled him, and have driven him to his feet.
Job 18:12 Let his strength be famished, and, calamity, be ready at his side;
Job 18:13 Let it devour the members of his body, Let the firstborn of death devour his members;
Job 18:14 Uprooted, out of his tent, be his confidence, and let it drive him down to the king of terrors;
Job 18:15 There shall dwell in his tent, what is naught–of–his, Let brimstone be strewed over his dwelling;
Job 18:16 Beneath, let his roots be dried up, and, above, be cut off his branch;
Job 18:17 His memorial, have perished out of the land, and let him have no name over the face of the open field;
Job 18:18 Let them thrust him out of light into darkness, Yea, out of the world, let them chase him;
Job 18:19 Let him have neither scion nor seed among his people, neither any survivor in his place of sojourn:
Job 18:20 Over his day, have they been astounded who come behind, and, them who are in advance, a shudder hath seized.
Job 18:21 Surely, these, are the dwellings of him that is perverse, and, this, is the place of him that knoweth not GOD.
Job 19:1 ¶ Then responded Job, and said:––
Job 19:2 How long will ye grieve my soul? or crush me with words?
Job 19:3 These ten times, have ye reviled me, Shameless ye wrong me.
Job 19:4 And even if indeed I have erred, with myself lodgeth mine error.
Job 19:5 If indeed, against me, ye must needs magnify yourselves, and plead, against me, my reproach.
Job 19:6 Know, then, that, God, hath overthrown me, and, within his net, enclosed me.
Job 19:7 Lo! I cry––out: Violence! but receive no answer, I cry aloud, but there is no vindication;
Job 19:8 ¶ My way, hath he walled up, that I cannot pass, and, upon my paths, hath he made darkness rest;
Job 19:9 My glory––from off me, hath he stripped, and hath removed the crown of my head;
Job 19:10 He hath ruined me on every side, and I am gone, and he hath taken away––like a tree––my hope;
Job 19:11 Yea he hath kindled against me his anger, and accounted me towards him like unto his adversaries;
Job 19:12 Together, enter his troops and have cast up, against me, their mound, and have encamped all around my tent;
Job 19:13 My Brethren––from beside me, hath he moved far away, and, mine acquaintance, are wholly estranged from me;
Job 19:14 Failed me, have my near of kin, and, mine intimate acquaintances, have forgotten me;
Job 19:15 Ye guests of my house and my maidens, A stranger, have ye accounted me, An alien, have I become in their eyes;
Job 19:16 To mine own servant, I called, and he would not answer, With mine own mouth, I kept entreating him;
Job 19:17 My breath, is strange to my wife, and I am loathsome to the sons of my own mother;
Job 19:18 Even young children, despise me, I rise up, and they speak against me;
Job 19:19 All the men of mine intimate circle abhor me, and, these whom I loved, have turned against me;
Job 19:20 Unto my skin and unto my flesh, have my bones cleaved, and I have escaped with the akin of my teeth.
Job 19:21 Pity me! pity me! ye, my friends, for, the hand of GOD, hath stricken me!
Job 19:22 Wherefore should ye persecute me as GOD? and, with my flesh, should not he satisfied?
Job 19:23 ¶ Oh, then, that my words, could be written, Oh that, in a record, they could be inscribed:
Job 19:24 That, with a stylus of iron and [with] lead, for all time––in the rock, they could be graven!
Job 19:25 But, I, know that, my redeemer, liveth, and, as the Last over [my] dust, will he arise;
Job 19:26 And, though, after my skin is struck off, this [followeth], yet, apart from my flesh, shall I see GOD:
Job 19:27 Whom, I myself, shall see, on my side, and, mine own eyes, [shall] have looked upon, and not those of a stranger. Exhausted are my deepest desires in my bosom!
Job 19:28 Surely ye should say––Why should we persecute him? seeing, the root of the matter, is found in me.
Job 19:29 Be ye afraid––on your part––of the face of the sword, because, wrath, [bringeth] the punishments of the sword, to the end ye may know the Almighty.
Job 20:1 ¶ Then responded Zophar the Naamathite, and said:––
Job 20:2 Not so, do my thoughts answer me, and to this end, is my haste within me:
Job 20:3 The correction meant to confound me, I must hear, but, the spirit––out of my understanding, will give me a reply.
Job 20:4 Knowest thou, this––from antiquity, from the placing of man upon earth:––
Job 20:5 That, the joy–shout of the lawless, is short, and, the rejoicing of the impious, for a moment?
Job 20:6 Though his elevation mount up to the heavens, and, his head, to the clouds, doth reach,
Job 20:7 Like his own stubble, shall he utterly perish, They who had seen him, shall say, Where is he?
Job 20:8 Like a dream, shall he fly away, and they shall not find him, yea he shall be chased away, as a vision of the night.
Job 20:9 The eye that hath scanned him, shall not do it again, neither, any more, shall his place behold him:
Job 20:10 ¶ His children, shall seek the favour of the poor, and, his own hand, shall give back his wealth.
Job 20:11 His bones, are full of youthful vigour, yet, with him––in the dust, shall it lie down.
Job 20:12 Though, a sweet taste in his mouth, be given by vice, though he hide it under his tongue;
Job 20:13 Though he spare it, and will not let it go, but retain it in the midst of his mouth,
Job 20:14 His food, in his stomach, is changed, the gall of adders, within him!
Job 20:15 Wealth, hath he swallowed, and hath vomited the same, Out of his belly, shall, GOD, drive it forth:
Job 20:16 The poison of adders, shall he suck, The tongue of the viper shall slay him;
Job 20:17 Let him not see in the channels the flowings of torrents of honey and milk.
Job 20:18 In vain, he toiled, he shall not swallow, like wealth to be restored, in which he cannot exult!
Job 20:19 For he hath oppressed––hath forsaken the poor, A house, hath he seized, which he cannot rebuild.
Job 20:20 Surely he hath known no peace in his inmost mind,––With his dearest thing, shall he not get away:
Job 20:21 Nothing escaped his devouring greed,––For this cause, shall his prosperity not continue:
Job 20:22 When his abundance is gone, he shall be in straits, All the power of distress, shall come upon him.
Job 20:23 ¶ It shall be that, to fill his belly, he will thrust at him the glow of his anger, and rain [it] upon him for his punishment.
Job 20:24 He shall flee from the armour of iron,––There shall pierce him, a bow of bronze!
Job 20:25 He hath drawn it out, and it hath come forth out of his back,––yea the flashing arrow–head, out of his gall, There shall march on him––terrors:
Job 20:26 Every misfortune, is laid up for his treasures,––There shall consume, a fire, not blown up,––it shall destroy what remaineth in his tent:
Job 20:27 The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and, the earth, be rising up against him:
Job 20:28 The increase of his house shall vanish, melting away in the day of his anger.
Job 20:29 This, is the portion of the lawless man, from God, and the inheritance decreed him from the Mighty One.
Job 21:1 ¶ Then responded Job, and said:––
Job 21:2 Hear ye patiently my words, and let this be your consolation:
Job 21:3 Suffer me, that, I, may speak, and, after I have spoken, thou canst mock!
Job 21:4 Did, I, unto man, make my complaint? Wherefore, then, should my spirit not be impatient?
Job 21:5 Turn round to me, and be astonished, and lay hand on mouth!
Job 21:6 When I call to mind, then am I dismayed, and there seizeth my flesh a shuddering:––
Job 21:7 ¶ Wherefore do, lawless men, live, advance in years, even wax mighty in power?
Job 21:8 Their seed, is established in their sight, along with them, yea their offspring, before their eyes;
Job 21:9 Their houses, are at peace, without dread, neither is, the rod of GOD, upon them;
Job 21:10 His bull, covereth, and causeth not aversion, His cow safely calveth, and casteth not her young;
Job 21:11 They send forth––like a flock––their young ones, and, their children, skip about for joy;
Job 21:12 They rejoice aloud as [with] timbrel and lyre, and make merry to the sound of the pipe;
Job 21:13 They complete, in prosperity, their days, and, in a moment to hades, they sink down.
Job 21:14 Yet they said unto GOD, Depart from us, and, In the knowledge of thy ways, find we no pleasure.
Job 21:15 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? Or what shall we profit, that we should urge him?
Job 21:16 Lo! not in their own hand, is their welfare, The counsel of lawless men, is far from me!
Job 21:17 ¶ How oft, the lamp of the lawless, goeth out, and their calamity, cometh upon them, Sorrows, apportioneth he in his anger;
Job 21:18 They become as straw before the wind, and as chaff, which the storm stealeth away.
Job 21:19 Shall, GOD, reserve, for his children, his sorrow? Let him recompense him so that he may know it;
Job 21:20 His own eyes, shall see his misfortune, and, the wrath of the Almighty, shall he drink.
Job 21:21 For what shall be his pleasure in his house after him, when, the number of his months, is cut in twain?
Job 21:22 Is it, to GOD, one can teach knowledge, seeing that, he, shall judge, them who are on high?
Job 21:23 This, man dieth, in the very perfection of his prosperity, wholly tranquil and secure;
Job 21:24 His veins, are filled with nourishment, and, the marrow of his bones, is fresh;
Job 21:25 Whereas, this other man, dieth, in bitterness of soul, and hath never tasted good fortune:
Job 21:26 Together, in the dust, they lie down, and, the worm, spreadeth a covering over them.
Job 21:27 ¶ Lo! I know your plans, and the devices, wherewith ye would do me violence!
Job 21:28 For ye say, Where is the house of the noble–minded? And where the dwelling–tent of the lawless?
Job 21:29 Have ye not asked the passers–by in the way? And, their signs, can ye not recognise?
Job 21:30 That, to the day of calamity, is the wicked reserved, to the day of indignant visitation, are they led.
Job 21:31 Who can declare––to his face––his way? And, what, he, hath done, who shall recompense to him?
Job 21:32 Yet, he, to the graves, is borne, and, over the tomb, one keepeth watch;
Job 21:33 Pleasant to him are the mounds of the torrent–bed,––and, after him, doth every man march, as, before him, there were without number.
Job 21:34 How then should ye comfort me with vanity, since, as for your replies, there lurketh, [in them] treachery?
Job 22:1 ¶ Then responded Eliphaz the Temanite, and said:––
Job 22:2 Unto GOD, can a man act as friend? Surely a discreet man befriendeth himself!
Job 22:3 Is it a pleasure to the Almighty, that thou shouldst be righteous? or any profit, that thou shouldst be blameless in thy ways?
Job 22:4 Is it, for thy reverence, that he will accuse thee? will enter with thee into judgment?
Job 22:5 ¶ Is not, thy wickedness, great? and, without end, [are not] thine iniquities?
Job 22:6 Surely then hast been wont to put thy brother in pledge, for nothing, and, the garments of the ill–clad, hast thou stripped off:
Job 22:7 No water––to the weary, hast thou given to drink, and, from the hungry, thou hast withheld bread:
Job 22:8 A man of might, to him, pertaineth the land, and, the favorite, dwelleth therein:
Job 22:9 Widows, thou hast sent away empty, and, the arms of the fatherless, thou dost crush.
Job 22:10 For this cause, round about thee, are snares, and a dread startleth thee suddenly;
Job 22:11 Or darkness––thou canst not see, and, a flood of waters, covereth thee.
Job 22:12 Is not, GOD, [in] the height of the heavens? Behold, then, the head of the stars, that they are high.
Job 22:13 Wilt thou say then, What doth GOD know? Out through a thick cloud, can he judge?
Job 22:14 Dark clouds, are a veil to him, and he cannot see, or, the vault of the heavens, doth he walk?
Job 22:15 ¶ The path of the ancient time, wilt thou mark, which the men of iniquity trod?
Job 22:16 Who were snatched away before the time, and, a stream, washed away their foundation?
Job 22:17 Who had been saying unto GOD, Depart from us! and––What can the Almighty do for himself?
Job 22:18 Yet, he, had filled their houses with good! The counsel of the lawless, then, is far from me:
Job 22:19 The righteous shall see and rejoice, and, the innocent, shall laugh them to scorn:
Job 22:20 If our assailants do not vanish, then, their abundance, a fire consumeth!
Job 22:21 ¶ Shew thyself to be one with him––I pray thee––and prosper, thereby, shall there come on thee blessing.
Job 22:22 Accept, I beseech thee, from his mouth––instruction,––and lay up his sayings in thy heart.
Job 22:23 If thou return unto the Almighty and submit thyself, if thou far remove perversity from thy tent,
Job 22:24 Then lay up, in the dust, precious ore, and, among the stones of the torrent–beds, fine gold:
Job 22:25 So shall, the Almighty, become, thy precious ores, yea glittering silver unto thee!
Job 22:26 For, then, in the Almighty, shalt thou take exquisite delight, and shalt lift up––unto GOD––thy face;
Job 22:27 Thou shalt make entreaty unto him, and he will hear thee, and, thy vows, shalt thou pay;
Job 22:28 And thou shalt decree a purpose, and it shall be fulfilled unto thee, and, upon thy ways, shall have shone a light;
Job 22:29 When men cast themselves down, then thou shalt say: Up! And, him that is of downcast eyes, shall he save;
Job 22:30 He shall deliver the innocent, and thou shalt escape by the pureness of thy hands.
Job 23:1 ¶ Then responded Job, and said:––
Job 23:2 Even today, is my complaint rebellion? His hand, is heavier than my groaning.
Job 23:3 Oh that I knew where I might find him! I would come even unto his dwelling–place;
Job 23:4 I would set out, before him, a plea, and, my mouth, would I fill with arguments;
Job 23:5 I would note the words wherewith he would respond to me, and would mark what he would say to me.
Job 23:6 Would he, with fulness of might, contend with me? Nay, surely, he, would give heed to me!
Job 23:7 There an upright man, might reason with him, so should I deliver myself completely from my judge.
Job 23:8 ¶ Behold! eastward, I go, but he is not there, and, westward, but I perceive him not;
Job 23:9 On the north, where he worketh, but I get no vision, He hideth himself on the south that I cannot see him.
Job 23:10 But, he, knoweth the way that I choose, Having tried me, as gold, I shall come forth.
Job 23:11 Of his steps, my foot taketh hold, His way, have I kept, and not swerved;
Job 23:12 The command of his lips, and would not go back, and, in my bosom, have I treasured the words of his lips.
Job 23:13 ¶ But, he, is one, and who can turn him? What his soul desired, he hath done.
Job 23:14 Surely he will accomplish what is decreed for me, and, many such things, hath he in store.
Job 23:15 For this cause, from his presence, am I driven in fear, I diligently consider and am kept back from him in dread:
Job 23:16 Yea, GOD, hath made timid my heart, and, the Almighty, hath put me in terror.
Job 23:17 Because I was not cut off before the darkness, nor, before my face, did the gloom form a shroud.
Job 24:1 ¶ Wherefore, since from the Almighty times are not hid, have, his knowing ones, no vision of his days?
Job 24:2 Boundaries, men move back, flocks, they seize and consume;
Job 24:3 The ass of the fatherless, they drive off, they take in pledge the ox of the widow;
Job 24:4 They turn aside the needy out of the way, at once, are the humbled of the land made to hide themselves.
Job 24:5 Lo! [as] wild asses in the wilderness, they go forth with their work, eager seekers for prey, the waste plain, yieldeth them food for their young;
Job 24:6 In the field––a man’s fodder, they cut down, and, the vineyard of the lawless, they strip of its late berries;
Job 24:7 Ill–clad, they are left to lodge without clothing, and have no covering in the cold;
Job 24:8 With the sweeping rain of the mountains, are they wet, and, through having no shelter, they embrace a rock.
Job 24:9 Men tear, from the breast, the fatherless, and, over the poor, they take a pledge;
Job 24:10 Naked, they go about without clothing, and, famished, they carry the sheaves;
Job 24:11 Between their walls, are they exposed to the sun, Wine–presses, they tread, and yet are thirsty;
Job 24:12 Out of the city––out of the houses, they make outcry. and, the soul of the wounded, calleth for help, and, GOD, doth not regard it as foolish.
Job 24:13 ¶ They, have become rebels against the light,––they are not acquainted with the ways thereof, neither abide they in the paths thereof.
Job 24:14 With the light, riseth the murderer, He slayeth the poor and needy, And, in the night, he becometh like a thief.
Job 24:15 And, the eye of the adulterer, watcheth for the evening twilight, saying, Not an eye will see me! A covering for the face, he putteth on;
Job 24:16 He breaketh, in the dark, into houses,––By day, they lock themselves in, They know not the light;
Job 24:17 For, in the case of all such, morning to them is the death–shade, For, to be recognised, is a death–shade terror.
Job 24:18 ¶ Swift is he on the face of the waters, Speedily vanished their share in the land, He turneth not to the way of the vineyards.
Job 24:19 Drought and heat, steal away snow water, Hades, them who have sinned.
Job 24:20 Maternal love shall forget him, the worm shall find him sweet, No more shall he be remembered, but perversity shall be shivered like a tree.
Job 24:21 He oppresseth the barren who beareth not, and, to the widow, he doeth not good;
Job 24:22 Yea he draggeth along the mighty by his strength, He riseth up, and none hath assurance of life;
Job 24:23 It is given him to be secure, and confident, yet, his eyes, are upon their ways.
Job 24:24 They are exalted a little, and are not, Yea having been laid low, like all men, are they gathered, Even as the top of an ear of corn, do they hang down.
Job 24:25 But, if not, who then can convict me of falsehood? or make of no account my words?
Job 25:1 ¶ Then responded Bildad the Shuhite, and said:––
Job 25:2 Dominion and dread, are with him, who causeth prosperity among his lofty ones;
Job 25:3 Is there any number to his troops? And upon whom ariseth not his light?
Job 25:4 How then shall, a mortal, be just with GOD? Or how shall he be pure who is born of a woman?
Job 25:5 Look as far as the moon, and it is not clear, and, the stars, are not bright in his eyes!
Job 25:6 How much less a mortal who is a creeping thing? Or a son of the earth–born who is a worm?
Job 26:1 ¶ Then responded Job, and said:––
Job 26:2 How hast thou given help to one of no–strength? given victory to an arm of no–power?
Job 26:3 How hast thou given counsel to one of no–wisdom? or, effective wisdom, abundantly made known?
Job 26:4 Whom hast thou taught speech? Whose inspiration hath come from thee?
Job 26:5 ¶ The shades, tremble, beneath the waters and their inhabitants;
Job 26:6 Naked is hades before him, and there is no covering to destruction;
Job 26:7 Who stretcheth out the north over emptiness, hangeth the earth upon nothingness;
Job 26:8 Who bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not rent beneath them;
Job 26:9 Who shutteth–in the face of the throne, he spreadeth over it his cloud;
Job 26:10 A, boundary, hath he encircled on the face of the waters, as far as where light ends in darkness;
Job 26:11 The pillars of the heavens, are shaken, and are terrified at his rebuke:
Job 26:12 By his strength, hath he excited the sea, and, by his skill, hath he shattered the Crocodile:
Job 26:13 By his spirit, hath he arched the heavens, His hand hath pierced the fleeing serpent.
Job 26:14 Lo! these, are the fringes of his way, and what a whisper of a word hath been heard of him! But, the thunder of his might, who could understand?
Job 27:1 ¶ And Job again took up his measure, and said:––
Job 27:2 As GOD liveth who hath taken away my right, even the Almighty, who hath embittered my soul;
Job 27:3 All the while my inspiration is in me, and the spirit of GOD is in my nostrils,
Job 27:4 Verily my lips shall not speak perversity, nor shall, my tongue, utter deceit.
Job 27:5 Far be it from me! that I should justify, you,––Even until I breathe my last, will I not let go mine integrity from me:
Job 27:6 On my righteousness, have I taken fast hold, and will not give it up, My heart shall not reproach any of my days.
Job 27:7 ¶ Let mine enemy be a veritably lawless one! And, he that lifteth himself up against me, one veritably perverse!
Job 27:8 For what shall be the hope of the impious, though he graspeth with greed, when GOD shall draw forth his soul?
Job 27:9 His outcry, will GOD hear, when there cometh upon him distress?
Job 27:10 Verily, in the Almighty, he will not find delight, nor call on GOD continually!
Job 27:11 ¶ I would teach you, by the hand of GOD, That which is with the Almighty, will I not conceal.
Job 27:12 Lo! ye, have, all of you, seen, Wherefore, then, is it, that ye are utterly without purpose?
Job 27:13 This, is the portion of a lawless man with GOD, That, the heritage of tyrants––from the Almighty, he shall receive.
Job 27:14 If his children be multiplied, for them, [there is] the sword, and, his offspring, shall not be filled with bread;
Job 27:15 His survivors, by pestilence, shall come to the grave, and, his widows, shall not weep;
Job 27:16 Though he heap up silver like, dust, and, like a pile, he prepare clothing,
Job 27:17 He may prepare, but, the righteous, shall put on, and, the silver, shall the innocent apportion.
Job 27:18 He hath built, like a moth, his house,––like a hut, which a watcher hath made.
Job 27:19 The rich man, shall lie down, and not do it again, his eyes, hath he opened, and then is not.
Job 27:20 There shall reach him––like waters––terrors, By night, a storm–wind hath stolen him away;
Job 27:21 An east wind shall lift him up, and he shall depart, and it shall sweep him away out of his place;
Job 27:22 And He will cast upon him and not spare, Out of his hand, shall he, swiftly flee;
Job 27:23 He shall clap over him his hands, and shall hiss him forth out of his place.
Job 28:1 ¶ Though there is, for silver, a vein, and a place for the gold they refine;
Job 28:2 Iron, out of the ore, is taken, and, stone, poureth out copper;
Job 28:3 An end, hath one set to the darkness, and, into every extremity, is, he, making search, for the stone of darkness and death–shade;
Job 28:4 He hath sunken a shaft, away from the inhabitants; Places forsaken by the foot, they hang down, away from men, sway to and fro;
Job 28:5 As for the earth, out of it, cometh forth bread, and, under it, is upturned, as it were fire;
Job 28:6 The place of sapphires, are the stones thereof, and it hath, nuggets of gold:––
Job 28:7 A path, the vulture hath not discerned, nor hath the eye of the hawk scanned it;
Job 28:8 Ravenous beasts have not made a track thereof, neither hath the lion marched thereon:
Job 28:9 Upon the flint, hath he thrust forth his hand, He hath turned up mountains by the roots;
Job 28:10 Among the rocks, hath he cut open streams, and, every precious thing, hath his eye seen:
Job 28:11 From trickling, he restraineth, rivers, and, some hidden thing, is he bringing out to light.
Job 28:12 Yet where can, Wisdom, be found? And where is the place of understanding?
Job 28:13 Mortal knoweth not the way thereof, neither can it be found in the land of the living;
Job 28:14 ¶ The resounding deep, hath said, It is not in me! And, the sea, hath said, It is not with me!
Job 28:15 Pure gold cannot be given in its stead, neither can silver he weighed as the value thereof;
Job 28:16 It cannot be put into the scales against the gold of Ophir, with costly onyx, or sapphire;
Job 28:17 Neither gold nor crystal can compare with it, nor can, the exchange thereof, be a vessel of pure gold,
Job 28:18 Coral or crystal, cannot be mentioned, Yea, a possession, is wisdom, above red coral;
Job 28:19 The topaz of Ethiopia cannot compare with it, Against purest gold, can it not be weighed.
Job 28:20 ¶ Whence then cometh, wisdom? And where is the place of understanding?
Job 28:21 Seeing it hath been hid from the eyes of every living thing, and, from the bird of the heavens, hath it been concealed?
Job 28:22 Destruction and death, have said, With our ears, have we heard the report thereof!
Job 28:23 GOD, understandeth the way thereof, and, he, discerneth the place thereof;
Job 28:24 For, he, unto the ends of the earth, directeth his look, under all the heavens, he seeth;
Job 28:25 Making, for the wind, a weight, and, the waters, he proved by measure,
Job 28:26 When he made, for the rain, a decree, and a way for the lightning of thunders,
Job 28:27 Then, saw he it, and declared it, He settled it, yea also he searched it out;
Job 28:28 And said to the son of earth, Lo! the reverence of the Lord, that, is wisdom, and, to avoid evil, is understanding.
Job 29:1 ¶ And Job again took up his measure, and said,
Job 29:2 Oh that it were with me as in the months of old, as in the days, when, GOD, used to watch over me;
Job 29:3 When his lamp shone over my head, by whose light, I could go through darkness;
Job 29:4 As I was, in the days of my prime, when, the intimacy of GOD, was over my tent;
Job 29:5 While yet the Almighty was with me, round about me, were my young men;
Job 29:6 When my steps were bathed in milk, and, the rock, poured out beside me, rivulets of oil:
Job 29:7 ¶ When I went out to the gate unto the city, in the open place, made ready my seat,
Job 29:8 Young men saw me, and hid themselves, and, the aged, arose––they stood;
Job 29:9 Rulers, restrained speech, and, a hand, laid they on their mouth;
Job 29:10 The voice of nobles, was hushed, and their tongue to their palate, did cleave;
Job 29:11 When, the ear, heard, then it pronounced me happy, When, the eye, saw, then it bare me witness;
Job 29:12 Because I used to deliver the oppressed who was crying out for aid, the fatherless also, and him that had no helper;
Job 29:13 The blessing of him that was ready to perish, upon me was wont to descend, and, the heart of the widow, caused I to sing for joy;
Job 29:14 Righteousness, I put on, and it clothed me, Like a robe and turban, was my, justice;
Job 29:15 Eyes, became I to the, blind, and, feet to the lame, was, I!
Job 29:16 A father, was, I, to the needy, and, as for the cause which I knew not, I used to search it out;
Job 29:17 And I shivered the fangs of the perverse,––and, out of his teeth, I tare the prey.
Job 29:18 ¶ Then said I, Like a stem, shall I grow old, yea, as the sand, shall I multiply days:
Job 29:19 My root, is laid open to the waters, and, the dew, shall lodge for the night in my boughs;
Job 29:20 Mine honour, shall be young again with me, and, my bow, in my hand, be renewed.
Job 29:21 To me, men hearkened, and waited, and kept silence for my counsel;
Job 29:22 After I had spoken, they spake not again, and, upon them, used my speech to drop;
Job 29:23 And they waited, as for rain, for me, and, their mouths, they opened wide for the spring–rain;
Job 29:24 I laughed at them––they lost confidence, and, the light of my countenance, they suffered not to fail;
Job 29:25 I chose out their way, and sat chief,––and abode, as king, in an army, as one who, to mourners, giveth comfort.
Job 30:1 ¶ But, now, they who are of fewer days than I, have poured derision upon me; whose fathers I refused––to set with the dogs of my flock.
Job 30:2 Even the strength of their hands, wherefore was it mine? Upon them, vigour was lost;
Job 30:3 In want and hunger, they were lean,––who used to gnaw the dry ground, a dark night of desolation!
Job 30:4 Who used to pluck off the mallow by the bushes, with the root of the broom for their food;
Job 30:5 Out of the midst, were they driven, men shouted after them, as after a thief;
Job 30:6 In the fissures, of the ravines had they to dwell, in holes of dust and crags;
Job 30:7 Among the bushes, used they to shriek, Under the bramble, were they huddled together:
Job 30:8 Sons of the base, yea sons of the nameless, they were scourged out of the land.
Job 30:9 But, now, their song, have I become, Yea I serve them for a byword;
Job 30:10 They abhor me––have put themselves far from me, and, from my face, have not withheld––spittle!
Job 30:11 Because, my girdle, he had loosened and had humbled me, therefore, the bridle––in my presence, cast they off;
Job 30:12 On my right hand, the young brood rose up,––My feet, they thrust aside, and cast up against me their earthworks of destruction;
Job 30:13 They brake up my path,––My engulfing ruin, they helped forward, unaided;
Job 30:14 As through a wide breach, came they on, with a crashing noise, they rolled themselves along.
Job 30:15 ¶ There are turned upon me terrors,––Chased away as with a wind, is mine abundance, and, as a cloud, hath passed away my prosperity.
Job 30:16 Now, therefore, over myself, my soul poureth itself out, There seize me days of affliction:
Job 30:17 Night, boreth, my bones, all over me,––and, my sinews, find no rest;
Job 30:18 Most effectually, is my skin disfigured,––Like the collar of my tunic, it girdeth me about:
Job 30:19 He hath cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.
Job 30:20 I cry out for help unto thee, and thou dost not answer, I stand still, and thou dost gaze at me;
Job 30:21 Thou art turned to become a cruel one unto me, With the might of thy hand, thou assailest me;
Job 30:22 Thou liftest up me to the wind, thou carriest me away, and the storm maketh me faint;
Job 30:23 For I know that, unto death, thou wilt bring me back, even unto the house of meeting for every one living.
Job 30:24 Only, against a heap of ruins, will one not thrust a hand! Surely, when one is in calamity––for that very reason, is there an outcry for help.
Job 30:25 Verily I wept, for him whose lot was hard, Grieved was my soul, for the needy.
Job 30:26 Surely, for good, I looked, but there came in evil, And I waited for light, but there came in darkness;
Job 30:27 I boiled within me, and rested not, There confronted me––days of affliction;
Job 30:28 In gloom, I walked along, without sun, I arose––in the convocation, I cried out for help;
Job 30:29 A brother, became I to the brutes that howl, and a companion to the birds that screech:
Job 30:30 My skin, turned black, and peeled off me, and, my bones, burned with heat:
Job 30:31 Thus is attuned to mourning––my lyre, and my flute, to the noise of them who weep.
Job 31:1 ¶ A covenant, I solemnised for mine eyes,––How then could I gaze upon a virgin?
Job 31:2 Or what would have been my portion of GOD from above? Or what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?
Job 31:3 Is there not calamity, for the perverse? and misfortune, for the workers of iniquity?
Job 31:4 Would, he, not see my ways? and of all my steps, take account?
Job 31:5 Verily I walked not in falsity, nor did my foot haste unto deceit:––
Job 31:6 Let him weigh me in balances of righteousness,––and let GOD take note of mine integrity!
Job 31:7 If my goings have swerved from the way,––and, after mine eyes, hath gone my heart, and, to my hands, hath adhered any stain,
Job 31:8 Let me sow but, another, eat. And let, what I have springing up, be uprooted!
Job 31:9 ¶ If my heart hath been enticed unto a woman, or, by the door of my neighbour, I have lien in wait,
Job 31:10 Let my wife, grind to another, and, over her, let others bend!
Job 31:11 Surely that had been a shameful thing! and that an iniquity for the judges!
Job 31:12 Surely, a fire, had that been, which, unto destruction, would have consumed, and, of all mine increase, had it torn up the root.
Job 31:13 If I refused the right of my servant, or my handmaid, when they contended with me,
Job 31:14 What then could I have done when GOD rose up? And, when he visited, what could I have answered him?
Job 31:15 Did not he who, in the womb, made me, make him? And is not he who formed us in the body one?
Job 31:16 ¶ If I withheld––from pleasure––the poor, or, the eyes of the widow, I dimmed;
Job 31:17 Or, used to eat my morsel alone, so that the fatherless did not eat thereof;
Job 31:18 Surely, from my youth, he grew up to me, as to a father, and, from my birth, I acted as guide to her:
Job 31:19 If I saw one perishing for lack of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;
Job 31:20 If his loins did not bless me, or if, with the fleece of my lambs, he did not warm himself;
Job 31:21 If I shook––against the fatherless––my hand, when I saw, in the gate, his need of my help,
Job 31:22 Let, my shoulder, from the shoulder–blade, fall, and, my arm, from the upper bone, be broken;
Job 31:23 For, a dread unto me, was calamity from GOD, and, from his majesty, I could not escape.
Job 31:24 ¶ If I made gold my stay, and, to precious metal, said, My confidence!
Job 31:25 If I rejoiced because great was my substance, and, an abundance, my hand had discovered;
Job 31:26 If I looked at the sun, when it flashed forth light, or at the moon, majestically marching along;
Job 31:27 And befooled secretly was my heart, so that my hand kissed my mouth,
Job 31:28 That too, had been a judicial iniquity, For I should have been false to GOD, above.
Job 31:29 If rejoiced in the misfortune of him that hated me, or exulted when calamity found him; ––
Job 31:30 Neither did I suffer my palate to sin, by asking, with a curse, for his life:
Job 31:31 If the men of my household have not said, Oh for some of his flesh––we cannot get filled,
Job 31:32 Outside, the sojourner lodged not for the night, My doors––to the wayfarer, I threw open.
Job 31:33 ¶ If I covered, like Adam, my transgressions, by hiding in my bosom mine iniquity,
Job 31:34 Then let me be made to tremble at a great throng, yea let, the contempt of families, terrify me, so that, keeping silence, I shall not go out of the door!
Job 31:35 Oh that I had one to hear me, Lo! my crossmark, May, the Almighty, answer me! And would that, a book, mine opponent had written!
Job 31:36 Oh! would I not, upon my shoulder, lift it, or bind it as a crown upon me;
Job 31:37 The number of my footsteps, I would declare to him, Like a noble, would I draw near to him.
Job 31:38 If, against me, my ground used to cry out, and, together, my ridges did weep;
Job 31:39 If, the strength thereof, I used to eat, without payment, and, the soul of the holders thereof, I made groan;
Job 31:40 Instead of wheat, let there come forth bramble, and, instead of barley, a bad–smelling weed! Ended are the words of Job.
Job 32:1 ¶ So these three men ceased to respond to Job, because, he, was righteous in their eyes.
Job 32:2 Then was kindled the anger of Elihu, son of Barachel the Buzite of the family of Ram,––against Job, was kindled his anger, because he justified his own soul rather than God;
Job 32:3 and, against his three friends, was kindled his anger,––because that they found not a response, and condemned God.
Job 32:4 But, Elihu, had waited for Job with words, because the others were older than he.
Job 32:5 Howbeit, when Elihu saw that there was no response in the mouth of the three men, then was kindled his anger.
Job 32:6 ¶ So then Elihu, son of Barachel, the Buzite, responded and said:––Young, am I, whereas, ye, are aged, For this cause, I faltered, and feared––to shew my knowledge unto you:
Job 32:7 I said, Days, should speak,––and, the multitude of years, should make known wisdom.
Job 32:8 Yet surely, there is a spirit in men, and, the inspiration of the Almighty, giveth them understanding;
Job 32:9 Great men, may not be wise, nor, elders, understand justice.
Job 32:10 Therefore, I said, Hearken unto me, I will show my knowledge––even I.
Job 32:11 Lo! I waited for your words, I kept giving ear for your reasons, until ye should search out what to say;
Job 32:12 Yea, unto you, gave I diligent heed,––But lo! there was, for Job, nothing to convince, nor could you of you answer his speeches.
Job 32:13 Lest ye should say, We have found out wisdom. GOD, must put him to flight, not man.
Job 32:14 Since he directed not to me discourse, therefore, with your speeches, will I not reply to him.
Job 32:15 ¶ They were dismayed, they responded no more, they suffered speech to forsake them;
Job 32:16 Though I waited, yet could they not speak, Surely they came to a stand, they responded no more.
Job 32:17 I will respond, even I––on my part, I will shew my knowledge, even I!
Job 32:18 For I am full of discourse, The spirit in my bosom, presseth me on.
Job 32:19 Lo! my bosom, is like wine not opened, Like new wineskins, it will burst.
Job 32:20 I will speak, that I may freely breathe, I will open my lips and respond.
Job 32:21 Let me be partial to no man, and, unto no son of earth, give flattering titles,
Job 32:22 Surely I know not how to give flattering titles, How soon might my Maker take me away!
Job 33:1 ¶ But, in very deed, hear, I pray thee, Job, my discourse, and, to all my words, give thou ear.
Job 33:2 Lo! I pray thee, I have opened my mouth, My tongue, with my palate, hath spoken,
Job 33:3 Mine utterances come straight from mine own heart, and, what I know, my lips have truly spoken;
Job 33:4 The spirit of GOD, hath made me, and, the inspiration of the Almighty, giveth me life.
Job 33:5 If thou art able to answer me, Set in order before me––take thy stand!
Job 33:6 Lo! I am like thyself toward GOD, From clay, have I been nipped off, even I!
Job 33:7 Lo! my terror, will not startle thee, nor, my hand, upon thee, be heavy.
Job 33:8 ¶ But thou hast spoken in mine ears, and, the sound of words, I heard:––
Job 33:9 Pure am, I, without transgression,––Clean am, I, and have no iniquity;
Job 33:10 Lo! occasions of hostility, would he find against me, He counteth me an enemy to him;
Job 33:11 He putteth––in the stocks––my feet, He watcheth all my paths.
Job 33:12 Lo! in this, thou hast not been right––let me answer thee, For, GOD, is greater than, man.
Job 33:13 Wherefore, against him, hast thou contended? For, with none of his reasons, will he respond.
Job 33:14 ¶ For, in one way, GOD may speak,––and, in a second way, one may not heed it:––
Job 33:15 In a dream, a vision of the night, when a deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed,
Job 33:16 Then, uncovereth he the ear of men, and, on their correction, affixeth a seal;
Job 33:17 To turn a son of earth from his deed, while yet, pride, from man he concealeth:
Job 33:18 He keepeth back his said from the pit, and his life from passing away by a weapon.
Job 33:19 ¶ Or he is chastised with pain, upon his bed, and, the strife of his bones, is unceasing!
Job 33:20 So that his life maketh loathsome [his] food, and his soul, dainty meat;
Job 33:21 His flesh wasteth away out of sight, and bared are the bones once unseen;
Job 33:22 So doth his soul draw near to the pit, and his life to the inflicters of death:
Job 33:23 If there hath been near him a messenger who could interpret––one of a thousand, to declare to the son of earth His uprightness,
Job 33:24 Then hath he shewed him favour, and said, Set him free from going down to the pit, I have found a price of redemption!
Job 33:25 His flesh hath been made fresher than a child’s, he hath returned to the days of his youth;
Job 33:26 He made supplication unto GOD, who hath accepted him, and he hath beheld his face with a shout of triumph, Thus hath he given back to man his righteousness.
Job 33:27 He sang before men, and said, I sinned, and, uprightness, I perverted, yet he requited me not;
Job 33:28 He hath ransomed my soul from passing away into the pit,––and, my life, in the light, shall have vision.
Job 33:29 ¶ Lo! a these things, doth GOD work, two ways, three, with a man;
Job 33:30 To bring back his soul from the pit, to enlighten with the light of the living.
Job 33:31 Mark well, O Job, and hearken to me, Be silent, and, I, will speak:
Job 33:32 If there is anything to say, reply to me, Speak, for I desire to justify thee;
Job 33:33 If not, do, thou, hearken unto me, Be silent, that I may teach thee wisdom.
Job 34:1 ¶ Furthermore Elihu responded, and said:––
Job 34:2 Hear, ye wise men, my words, and, ye who know, give ear unto me;
Job 34:3 For, the ear, trieth words, as, the palate, tasteth in eating.
Job 34:4 What is right, let us choose for ourselves, Let us know, among ourselves, what is good;
Job 34:5 For Job hath said––I am righteous, But, GOD, hath turned away my right;
Job 34:6 Concerning mine own right, shall I tell a falsehood? Incurable is my disease––not for any transgression.
Job 34:7 What man is like Job? He drinketh in scoffing like water;
Job 34:8 And is on the way to keep company, with the workers of iniquity, and to walk with lawless men.
Job 34:9 For he hath said, It profiteth not a man, when, his good pleasure, is with God.
Job 34:10 ¶ Wherefore, ye men of mind, hearken unto me,––Far be it, that, GOD, should be lawless, or, the Almighty, be perverse!
Job 34:11 For, what any son of earth doeth, he repayeth him, and, according to every man’s course, he causeth him to find.
Job 34:12 Nay, verily, GOD, will not condemn unjustly,––nor, the Almighty, pervert justice.
Job 34:13 Who set him in charge of the earth? Or who appointed [him] the whole world?
Job 34:14 If he should set against him his heart, His spirit and his inspiration, unto himself he should withdraw.
Job 34:15 All flesh together, would cease to breathe, and, the earth–born, unto dust, would return.
Job 34:16 ¶ If then [thou hast] understanding, hear this, Give thou ear to the teaching of my words:––
Job 34:17 Shall, the very hater of right, control? Or, the just––the mighty one, wilt thou condemn?
Job 34:18 Doth one say to a king, Abandoned one! Or, Lawless one! unto nobles?
Job 34:19 For he hath shewn no respect of persons unto princes, neither hath he recognised the rich rather than the poor? For, the work of his hands, are they all.
Job 34:20 In a moment, they die, even in the middle of the night,––A people are convulsed when they pass away, A mighty one is removed, without hand;
Job 34:21 For, his eyes, are on the ways of a man, and, all his footsteps, he beholdeth,––
Job 34:22 No darkness, and no death–shade, where the workers of iniquity may hide.
Job 34:23 For, unto no man, doth he appoint a repetition,––in going unto GOD in judgment;
Job 34:24 He shattereth mighty ones unsearchably, and setteth up others in their stead:
Job 34:25 Therefore, he observeth their works,––and overturneth [them] in a night, and they are crushed;
Job 34:26 In the place of lawless men, hath he chastised them, in presence of beholders.
Job 34:27 Forasmuch, as they turned from following him, and, none of his ways, did they teach;
Job 34:28 Causing to reach him the outcry of the poor, Yea, the outcry of the oppressed, he heareth.
Job 34:29 When, he, giveth quiet, who then shall condemn? And, when he hideth [his] face, who then shall sing of him? whether unto a nation or unto mankind altogether,
Job 34:30 That impious men may not reign, nor be ensnarers of the people.
Job 34:31 ¶ For, unto GOD, hath one [ever] said––I have borne punishment, I will not be perverse;
Job 34:32 What I see not, do, thou, shew me, If, perverseness, I have wrought, I will do it no more?
Job 34:33 According to thy mind, must he requite it, that thou hast refused? For, thou, must choose, and not, I, What then thou knowest, speak!
Job 34:34 The men of mind, will say to me, yea any wise man hearkening unto me:––
Job 34:35 Job, without knowledge, doth speak, and, his words, are not with discretion.
Job 34:36 Would that Job might be tested to the uttermost, for replying with the men of iniquity:
Job 34:37 For he addeth––unto his sin––rebellion, In our midst, he clappeth his hands, and multiplieth his sayings against GOD.
Job 35:1 ¶ Moreover Elihu, responded and said:––
Job 35:2 This, dost thou think to be right? Thou hast said––My righteousness is more than GOD’S.
Job 35:3 For thou dost say, How can one profit by thee? How can I benefit, more than by my sin?
Job 35:4 I, will answer thee plainly, and thy friends with thee.
Job 35:5 Look at the heavens and see,––and survey the skies––they are higher than thou.
Job 35:6 If thou sinnest, what canst thou work against him? Or, if thy transgressions be multiplied, what canst thou do unto him?
Job 35:7 If thou art righteous, what canst thou give unto him? Or what, at thy hand, can he accept?
Job 35:8 Unto a man like thyself, might thy lawlessness [reach], and, unto a son of the earth–born, thy righteousness.
Job 35:9 ¶ By reason of the multitude of oppressions, [men] make outcry, They cry for help, by reason of the arm of the mighty;
Job 35:10 But none saith––Where is GOD my maker, Who giveth songs in the night;
Job 35:11 Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and, beyond the bird of the heavens, giveth us wisdom?
Job 35:12 There, [men] make outcry, and he answereth not, because of the arrogance of evil–doers.
Job 35:13 Howbeit, vanity, will GOD not hear, Yea, the Almighty, will not regard it.
Job 35:14 ¶ How much less when thou sayest thou wilt not regard him! The cause, is before him, and thou must wait for him.
Job 35:15 But, now, because it is not so, [thou sayest]––His anger hath punished, and yet hath he not at all known of transgression;
Job 35:16 Thus, Job, vainly openeth his mouth, Without knowledge, he multiplieth words.
Job 36:1 ¶ And Elihu added and said:––
Job 36:2 Restrain thyself for me a little, and I will shew thee, that, yet––for GOD, there is justification,
Job 36:3 I will bring my knowledge from afar, and, to my Maker, will I attribute righteousness.
Job 36:4 For, of a truth––not false, are my words, One of competent knowledge, is with thee.
Job 36:5 ¶ Lo! GOD, is mighty, yet will he not despise, Mighty in vigour of mind;
Job 36:6 He will not keep alive one who is lawless, but, the right of oppressed ones, will he grant;
Job 36:7 He will not withdraw––from a righteous one––his eyes,––but, with kings on the throne, He hath seated men triumphantly, and they have been exalted.
Job 36:8 But, if, bound in fetters, they have been captured with cords of affliction,
Job 36:9 Then hath he declared to them their deed, and their transgressions––that they were wont to behave themselves proudly;
Job 36:10 Thus hath he uncovered their ear to a warning, and said––that they should turn from iniquity.
Job 36:11 If they would hearken, and serve, they should complete their days, in prosperity, and their years, in pleasantness;
Job 36:12 But, if they would not hearken, by a weapon, should they pass away, and breathe their last, no one knowing.
Job 36:13 Yea, the impious in heart, should store up anger, They should not cry for help, when he bound them.
Job 36:14 Their soul should die in youth, and their life, among the unclean.
Job 36:15 ¶ He would deliver the humbled in his humiliation, and would uncover––in oppression––their ear.
Job 36:16 Yea he might even have allured thee––out of the mouth of straitness, [into] a wide space––no narrowness there,––and, the food set down on thy table, should have been full of fatness.
Job 36:17 But, with the plea of a lawless one, thou art full, Plea and sentence, will take fast hold.
Job 36:18 Because there is wrath, [beware] lest he take thee away with a stroke, Then let not, a great ransom, mislead thee.
Job 36:19 Will he value thy riches? Nay not precious ore, nor all the forces of strength.
Job 36:20 Do not pant for the night, when peoples disappear from their place.
Job 36:21 Beware, do not turn unto iniquity, For, this, thou hast chosen rather than affliction.
Job 36:22 Lo, GOD, exalteth himself by his strength, Who like him doth teach?
Job 36:23 Who enjoined on him his way? and who ever said, Thou hast wrought perversity?
Job 36:24 ¶ Remember, that thou extol his work, of which men have sung;
Job 36:25 Every son of earth, hath viewed it, Mortal man, looketh at it from afar.
Job 36:26 Lo, GOD, is greater than we can know, The number of his years, even past finding out!
Job 36:27 For he draweth up drops of water, They trickle as rain through his mist;
Job 36:28 With which the clouds flow down, They drop on man in abundance.
Job 36:29 But surely none can understand the burstings of the cloud, the crashing of his pavilion!
Job 36:30 Lo! he hath spread out over it, his lightning, The bed of the sea, hath he covered.
Job 36:31 For, by those things, he executeth judgment on peoples, He giveth food in abundance:
Job 36:32 Upon both hands, he putteth a covering of lightning, and layeth command upon it against an assailant:
Job 36:33 His rolling thunder telleth concerning him,––The cattle, even, concerning him that is coming up.
Job 37:1 ¶ Yea, at this, my heart quaketh, and starteth up out of its place.
Job 37:2 Hear! oh hear! the raging of his voice, A growling sound also, out of his mouth, goeth forth;
Job 37:3 Under the whole heavens, he letteth it loose, His lightning also, unto the wings of the earth;
Job 37:4 After it, roareth a voice, He thundereth with his voice of majesty, Nor will he hold them back, when his voice is heard.
Job 37:5 GOD thundereth with his voice, wonderfully, Doing great things, which we cannot know;
Job 37:6 ¶ For, to the snow, he saith, Fall earthwards,––Also to the downpour of rain, yea the downpour of his mighty rains.
Job 37:7 On the hand of every man, he setteth a seal, that all men may take note of his doing.
Job 37:8 So then the wild–beast hath gone into covert, and, in its lairs, doth it remain.
Job 37:9 Out of a chamber cometh a storm–wind, and, out of the north, cold.
Job 37:10 By the breath of GOD, is given––frost, and, the breadth of waters, is congealed;
Job 37:11 Also, with moisture, burdeneth he the thick cloud, He disperseth his lightning–cloud;
Job 37:12 Yea, the same, in circles, turneth itself to and fro, by his steering them to their work, whithersoever he commandeth them, over the face of the world, towards the earth.
Job 37:13 Whether, as a rod, or for his earth, or in lovingkindness, he causeth it to come.
Job 37:14 ¶ Give thou ear unto this, O Job, Stay, and consider well the wonders of GOD:––
Job 37:15 Canst thou got to know of GOD’S giving charge over them, or of the causing of the lightning of his cloud to shine forth?
Job 37:16 Canst thou get to know concerning the poisings of the thick cloud, the wonders of one who is perfect in knowledge?
Job 37:17 That thy garments should be hot when he quieteth the earth from the south?
Job 37:18 Didst thou spread out, with him, the skies, strong as a molten mirror?
Job 37:19 Let us know what we shall say to him, We cannot set in order, by reason of darkness.
Job 37:20 Shall it be declared to him––that I would speak? Were any man to say aught, he might he destroyed?
Job 37:21 ¶ Yet, now, men see not the light, bright though it is in the skies, when, a wind, hath passed over, and cleansed them.
Job 37:22 Out of the north, a golden light cometh, Upon GOD, is fearful splendour:
Job 37:23 The Almighty, whom we have not fully found out, is great in vigour,––Neither, justice nor abounding righteousness, will he weaken.
Job 37:24 Therefore, do men revere him, He will not regard any who are wise in heart.
Job 38:1 ¶ Then Yahweh responded to Job, out of a storm, and said:––
Job 38:2 Who is it that darkeneth counsel, by words, without knowledge?
Job 38:3 Gird, I pray thee––like a strong man––thy loins, that I may ask thee, and inform thou me:
Job 38:4 ¶ Where wast thou, when I founded the earth? Tell, if thou knowest understanding!
Job 38:5 Who set the measurements thereof, if thou knowest? Or who stretched out over it a line?
Job 38:6 Whereon were the pedestals thereof sunk? Or who laid the corner stone thereof; ––
Job 38:7 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Job 38:8 Or [who] shut in, with double doors, the sea, when, bursting out of the womb, it came forth;
Job 38:9 When I put a cloud as the garment thereof, and a thick cloud as the swaddling–band thereof;
Job 38:10 And brake off for it my boundary, and fixed a bar and double doors;
Job 38:11 And said––Hitherto, shalt thou come, and no further,––and, here, shalt thou set a limit to the majesty of thy waves?
Job 38:12 ¶ Since thy days [began] hast thou commanded the morning? or caused the dawn to know its place;
Job 38:13 That it might lay hold of the wings of the earth, and the lawless be shaken out of it?
Job 38:14 It transformeth itself like the clay of a seal, so that things stand forth like one arrayed;
Job 38:15 That their light may be withdrawn from the lawless, and, the lofty arm, be shivered.
Job 38:16 Hast thou entered as far as the springs of the sea? Or, through the secret recesses of the resounding deep, hast thou wandered?
Job 38:17 Have the gates of death been disclosed to thee? And, the gates of the death–shade, couldst thou descry?
Job 38:18 Hast thou well considered, even the breadths of the earth? Tell––if thou knowest it all!
Job 38:19 Where then is the way, the light shall abide? And, the darkness, where then is its place?
Job 38:20 That thou mayest conduct it unto the bound thereof, and that thou mayest perceive the paths to its house.
Job 38:21 Thou knowest, for, then, hadst thou been born! And, in number, thy days are many!
Job 38:22 Hast thou entered into the treasuries of the snow? And, the treasuries of the hail, couldst thou see?
Job 38:23 Which I have reserved for a time of distress, for the day of conflict and of war?
Job 38:24 Where then is the way the lightning is parted? The east wind spreadeth itself abroad over the earth.
Job 38:25 ¶ Who hath cloven––for the torrent––a channel? Or a way for the lightning of thunders;
Job 38:26 To give rain over the no–man’s land, the desert, where no son of earth is;
Job 38:27 To satisfy the wild and the wilderness, to cause to spring forth the meadow of young grass?
Job 38:28 Hath the rain a father? Or who hath begotten the drops of dew?
Job 38:29 Out of whose womb, came forth the ice? And, the hoar–frost of the heavens, who hath given it birth?
Job 38:30 Like a stone, are the waters congealed, and, the face of the roaring deep, becometh firm!
Job 38:31 Canst thou bind the fetters of the Pleiades? Or, the bands of Orion, canst thou unloose?
Job 38:32 Canst thou bring forth the signs of the Zodiac each in its season? Or, the Bear and her Young, canst thou lead?
Job 38:33 Knowest thou, the statutes of the heavens? Or didst thou appoint his dominion over the earth?
Job 38:34 Canst thou lift up, to the thick cloud, thy voice, and the overflow of waters cover thee?
Job 38:35 Canst thou send forth the lightnings, so that they go, and say to thee, Behold us?
Job 38:36 Who hath put––into cloud–forms––wisdom? Or who hath given––to the meteor––understanding?
Job 38:37 Who can count the thin clouds, in wisdom? And, the bottles of the heavens, who can empty out;
Job 38:38 When the dust is cast into a clod, and the lumps are bound together?
Job 38:39 Wilt thou hunt––for the Lioness––prey? Or, the craving of the Strong Lion, wilt thou satisfy;
Job 38:40 When they settle down in dens, abide in covert, for lying in wait?
Job 38:41 Who prepareth for the Raven his nourishment,––when his young ones––unto GOD––cry out, [when] they wander for lack of food?
Job 39:1 ¶ Knowest thou the season when the Wild Goats of the crags beget? The bringing forth of the hinds, canst thou observe?
Job 39:2 Canst thou count the months they fulfill? Or knowest thou the time when they give birth?
Job 39:3 They kneel down, their young, they bring forth; their pains, they throw off;
Job 39:4 Their young become strong, they grow up in the open field, they go out, and return not unto them.
Job 39:5 Who hath sent forth the Wild Ass free? And, the bands of the swift–runner, who hath loosed?
Job 39:6 Whose house I have made the waste plain, and his dwellings, the land of salt:
Job 39:7 He laugheth at the throng of the city, The shoutings of the driver, he heareth not;
Job 39:8 He espieth the mountains, his pasture–ground, and, after every green thing, maketh search.
Job 39:9 Will the Wild–Ox be pleased to be thy servant? or lodge for the night by thy crib?
Job 39:10 Canst thou bind the wild–ox, so that––with the ridge––shall run his cord? Or will he harrow the furrows after thee?
Job 39:11 Wilt thou trust in him, because of the greatness of his strength? Wilt thou leave unto him thy toil?
Job 39:12 Wilt thou put faith in him, that he will bring back thy seed? and that, corn for thy threshing–floor, he will gather?
Job 39:13 ¶ The wing of the Ostrich that waveth itself joyfully, Is it the pinion of lovingkindness or the plumage?
Job 39:14 For she leaveth––to the earth––her eggs, and, on the dust, she letteth them be warmed;
Job 39:15 And hath forgotten, that, a foot, may crush them,––or, the wild beast, tread on them!
Job 39:16 Dealing hardly with her young, as none–of hers, In vain, her labour, without dread.
Job 39:17 For GOD hath suffered her to forget wisdom, and given her no share in understanding.
Job 39:18 What time, on high, she vibrateth her wings, she laugheth at the horse and his rider.
Job 39:19 ¶ Couldst thou give––to the Horse––strength? Couldst thou clothe his neck with the quivering mane?
Job 39:20 Couldst thou cause him to leap like a locust? The majesty of his snort, is a terror!
Job 39:21 He diggeth into the plain, and rejoiceth in vigour, he goeth forth to meet armour;
Job 39:22 He laugheth at dread, and is not dismayed, neither turneth he back, from the face of the sword;
Job 39:23 Against him, whiz [the arrows of] the quiver, the flashing head of spear and javelin;
Job 39:24 With stamping and rage, he drinketh up the ground,––he will not stand still when the horn soundeth;
Job 39:25 As oft as the horn soundeth, he saith, Aha! And, from afar, he scenteth the battle,––the thunder of commanders and the war–cry.
Job 39:26 ¶ Is it, by thine understanding, that the Bird of Passage betaketh him to his pinions? spreadeth out his wings to the south?
Job 39:27 Or, at thy bidding, that the Eagle mounteth, and that he setteth on high his nest?
Job 39:28 The crag, he inhabiteth, and so lodgeth himself, on the tooth of the crag, and high fort;
Job 39:29 From thence, he searcheth out food, far away, his eyes do pierce;
Job 39:30 And, his young brood, suck up blood, and, where the slain are, there, is he.
Job 40:1 ¶ And Yahweh responded to Job, and said:––
Job 40:2 Shall a reprover contend, with the Almighty? He that disputeth with GOD, let him answer it!
Job 40:3 Then Job responded to Yahweh, and said:––
Job 40:4 Lo! I am of no account, what shall I reply to thee? My hand, have I laid on my mouth:
Job 40:5 Once, have I spoken, but I will not proceed, yea twice, but I will not add.
Job 40:6 ¶ So then Yahweh responded to Job, out of a storm, and said:––
Job 40:7 Gird, I pray thee––as a strong man––thy loins, I will ask thee, and inform thou me.
Job 40:8 Wilt thou even frustrate my justice? Wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest appear right?
Job 40:9 But if, an arm like GOD, thou hast, and, with a voice like his, thou canst thunder,
Job 40:10 Deck thyself, I pray thee, with majesty and grandeur, Yea, with dignity and splendour, thou shalt clothe thyself;
Job 40:11 Pour out thy transports of anger, and look on every one who is high, and lay him low;
Job 40:12 Look on every one who is high, and humble him, yea tread down the lawless, on the spot:
Job 40:13 Hide them in the dust all together, Their faces, bind thou in darkness;
Job 40:14 And, even I myself, will praise thee, in that thine own right hand can bring thee salvation.
Job 40:15 ¶ Behold, I pray thee, the Hippopotamus, which I made with thee, Grass––like the ox, he eateth;
Job 40:16 Behold, I pray thee, his strength in his loins, and his force, in the muscles of his belly;
Job 40:17 He bendeth down his tail like a cedar, the sinews of his thighs, are twisted together;
Job 40:18 His bones, are barrels of bronze, his frame, is like hammered bars of iron:
Job 40:19 He, is the beginning of the ways of GOD, Let his maker, present him his sword:
Job 40:20 Surely the mountains bring, produce, to him, where, all the wild beasts of the field, do play;
Job 40:21 Under the lotus–trees, he lieth down, in a covert of reed and swamp;
Job 40:22 The lotus–trees cover him with their shade, the willows of the torrent–bed compass him about;
Job 40:23 Lo! the river becometh insolent––he is not alarmed! He is confident, though a Jordan burst forth to his mouth:
Job 40:24 Before his eyes, shall he be caught? With a hook, can one pierce his nose?
Job 41:1 ¶ Canst thou draw out the Crocodile with a fish–hook? Or, with a cord, canst thou fasten down his tongue?
Job 41:2 Wilt thou put a rush–cord on his nose? or, with a thorn, wilt thou pierce his jaw?
Job 41:3 Will he multiply unto thee supplications, or will he speak unto thee softly?
Job 41:4 Will he solemnise a covenant with thee? Wilt thou take him for a life–long servant?
Job 41:5 Wilt thou sport with him, as with a little bird? Or wilt thou bind him, for thy maidens?
Job 41:6 Shall the companions bargain over him? or will they part him among the traders?
Job 41:7 Wilt thou fill, with darts, his skin? or, with fish–spears, his head?
Job 41:8 Lay thou upon him thy hand, remember the battle––no more!
Job 41:9 Lo! any hope of him, hath been found deceptive, Even at the sight of him, shall not one be overwhelmed?
Job 41:10 None so bold, that he will rouse him! Who then is he that, before me, can stand?
Job 41:11 ¶ Who hath forestalled me, that I may repay him? Under all the heavens, mine it is!
Job 41:12 I will not pass by in silence his parts, or the matter of strength, or the grace of his armour.
Job 41:13 Who hath removed his outer garment, through his double row of teeth, who would enter?
Job 41:14 The doors of his face, who hath opened? The circles of his teeth, are a terror!
Job 41:15 A pride, are his arched sides, closed up, with a firm seal;
Job 41:16 One to another, they join, and, air, cannot enter between them;
Job 41:17 Each to its fellow, they cleave, they grasp each other, and cannot be parted;
Job 41:18 His sneezings, flash forth light, and, his eyes, are like the eyelashes of the dawn;
Job 41:19 Out of his mouth, torches dart forth, sparks of fire, escape;
Job 41:20 Out of his nostrils, proceedeth smoke, like a blown pot and rushes;
Job 41:21 His breath, setteth coals ablaze, and, a flame, out of his mouth, proceedeth;
Job 41:22 In his neck, lodgeth strength, and, before him, danceth dismay;
Job 41:23 The dewlaps of his flesh, cleave together, hardened upon him, they cannot be moved;
Job 41:24 His heart, is hardened like a stone, yea hardened, like the nether millstone;
Job 41:25 At his rising up, mighty men are afraid, by reason of terror, they are beside themselves:
Job 41:26 As for him that assaileth him, the sword availeth not, spear, dart, or coat of mail:
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