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The Book of Job
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14
Man
that is
born of a woman
is
of few days, and full of trouble.
2
He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
3
And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee?
4
Who can bring a clean
thing
out of an unclean? not one.
5
Seeing his days
are
determined, the number of his months
are
with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
6
Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.
7
For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.
8
Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;
9
Yet
through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
10
But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where
is
he?
11
As
the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:
12
So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens
be
no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
13
Oh that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!
14
If a man die, shall he live
again?
all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
15
Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands.
16
For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?
17
My transgression
is
sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.
18
And surely the mountain falling cometh to nought, and the rock is removed out of his place.
19
The waters wear the stones: thou washest away the things which grow
out
of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man.
20
Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.
21
His sons come to honour, and he knoweth
it
not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth
it
not of them.
22
But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.
15
Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,
2
Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
3
Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?
4
Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.
5
For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
6
Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.
7
Art
thou the first man
that
was born? or wast thou made before the hills?
8
Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?
9
What knowest thou, that we know not?
what
understandest thou, which
is
not in us?
10
With us
are
both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.
11
Are
the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee?
12
Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,
13
That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest
such
words go out of thy mouth?
14
What
is
man, that he should be clean? and
he which is
born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
15
Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
16
How much more abominable and filthy
is
man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
17
I will shew thee, hear me; and that
which
I have seen I will declare;
18
Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid
it:
19
Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.
20
The wicked man travaileth with pain all
his
days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.
21
A dreadful sound
is
in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
22
He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.
23
He wandereth abroad for bread,
saying,
Where
is it?
he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
24
Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
25
For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.
26
He runneth upon him,
even
on
his
neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:
27
Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on
his
flanks.
28
And he dwelleth in desolate cities,
and
in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.
29
He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.
30
He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.
31
Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.
32
It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.
33
He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.
34
For the congregation of hypocrites
shall be
desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.
35
They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.
16
Then Job answered and said,
2
I have heard many such things: miserable comforters
are
ye all.
3
Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
4
I also could speak as ye
do:
if your soul were in my soul’s stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.
5
But
I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage
your grief.
6
Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and
though
I forbear, what am I eased?
7
But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.
8
And thou hast filled me with wrinkles,
which
is a witness
against me:
and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.
9
He teareth
me
in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.
10
They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.
11
God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.
12
I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken
me
by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.
13
His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.
14
He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.
15
I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.
16
My face is foul with weeping, and my eyelids is the shadow of death;
17
Not for
any
injustice in mine hands: also my prayer
is
pure.
18
O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.
19
Also now, behold, my witness
is
in heaven, and my record
is
on high.
20
My friends scorn me:
but
mine eye poureth out
tears
unto God.
21
Oh that one might plead for a man with God, as a man
pleadeth
for his neighbour!
22
When a few years are come, then I shall go the way
whence
I shall not return.
17
My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves
are ready
for me.
2
Are there
not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?
3
Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who
is
he
that
will strike hands with me?
4
For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt
them.
5
He that speaketh flattery to
his
friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
6
He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
7
Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members
are
as a shadow.
8
Upright
men
shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
9
The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
10
But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find
one
wise
man
among you.
11
My days are past, my purposes are broken off,
even
the thoughts of my heart.
12
They change the night into day: the light
is
short because of darkness.
13
If I wait, the grave
is
mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
14
I have said to corruption, Thou
art
my father: to the worm,
Thou art
my mother, and my sister.
15
And where
is
now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
16
They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when
our
rest together
is
in the dust.
18
Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
2
How long
will it be ere
ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.
3
Wherefore are we counted as beasts,
and
reputed vile in your sight?
4
He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?
5
Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.
6
The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.
7
The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.
8
For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.
9
The gin shall take
him
by the heel,
and
the robber shall prevail against him.
10
The snare
is
laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.
11
Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.
12
His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction
shall be
ready at his side.
13
It shall devour the strength of his skin:
even
the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.
14
His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.
15
It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because
it is
none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
16
His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.
17
His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.
18
He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
19
He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.
20
They that come after
him
shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted.
21
Surely such
are
the dwellings of the wicked, and this
is
the place
of him that
knoweth not God.
19
Then Job answered and said,
2
How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
3
These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed
that
ye make yourselves strange to me.
4
And be it indeed
that
I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.
5
If indeed ye will magnify
yourselves
against me, and plead against me my reproach:
6
Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.
7
Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but
there is
no judgment.
8
He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
9
He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown
from
my head.
10
He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.
11
He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as
one of
his enemies.
12
His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.
13
He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.
14
My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
15
They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
16
I called my servant, and he gave
me
no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.
17
My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children’s
sake
of mine own body.
18
Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.
19
All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.
20
My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
21
Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
22
Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
23
Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!
24
That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
25
For I know
that
my redeemer liveth, and
that
he shall stand at the latter
day
upon the earth:
26
And
though
after my skin
worms
destroy this
body,
yet in my flesh shall I see God:
27
Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another;
though
my reins be consumed within me.
28
But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?
29
Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath
bringeth
the punishments of the sword, that ye may know
there is
a judgment.
20
Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
2
Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for
this
I make haste.
3
I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.
4
Knowest thou
not
this of old, since man was placed upon earth,
5
That the triumphing of the wicked
is
short, and the joy of the hypocrite
but
for a moment?
6
Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;
7
Yet
he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where
is
he?
8
He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
9
The eye also
which
saw him shall
see him
no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.
10
His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.
11
His bones are full
of the sin
of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.
12
Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth,
though
he hide it under his tongue;
13
Though
he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:
14
Yet
his meat in his bowels is turned,
it is
the gall of asps within him.
15
He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.
16
He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper’s tongue shall slay him.
17
He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.
18
That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow
it
down: according to
his
substance
shall
the restitution
be,
and he shall not rejoice
therein.
19
Because he hath oppressed
and
hath forsaken the poor;
because
he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;
20
Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired.
21
There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.
22
In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.
23
When
he is about to fill his belly,
God
shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain
it
upon him while he is eating.
24
He shall flee from the iron weapon,
and
the bow of steel shall strike him through.
25
It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors
are
upon him.
26
All darkness
shall be
hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.
27
The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.
28
The increase of his house shall depart,
and his goods
shall flow away in the day of his wrath.
29
This
is
the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.
21
But Job answered and said,
2
Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.
3
Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.
4
As for me,
is
my complaint to man? and if
it were so,
why should not my spirit be troubled?
5
Mark me, and be astonished, and lay
your
hand upon
your
mouth.
6
Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.
7
Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
8
Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.
9
Their houses
are
safe from fear, neither
is
the rod of God upon them.
10
Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.
11
They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.
12
They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.
13
They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.
14
Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
15
What
is
the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
16
Lo, their good
is
not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
17
How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and
how oft
cometh their destruction upon them!
God
distributeth sorrows in his anger.
18
They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.
19
God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know
it.
20
His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
21
For what pleasure
hath
he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?
22
Shall
any
teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high.
23
One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.
24
His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow.
25
And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.
26
They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.
27
Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices
which
ye wrongfully imagine against me.
28
For ye say, Where
is
the house of the prince? and where
are
the dwelling places of the wicked?
29
Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens,
30
That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.
31
Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him
what
he hath done?
32
Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.
33
The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as
there are
innumerable before him.
34
How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?
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