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The Book of Job
The Book of Job
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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?
22
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
2
Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself?
3
Is it
any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or
is it
gain
to him
that thou makest thy ways perfect?
4
Will he reprove thee for fear of thee? will he enter with thee into judgment?
5
Is
not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite?
6
For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
7
Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.
8
But
as for
the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honourable man dwelt in it.
9
Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
10
Therefore snares
are
round about thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee;
11
Or darkness,
that
thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.
12
Is
not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are!
13
And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?
14
Thick clouds
are
a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven.
15
Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?
16
Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:
17
Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?
18
Yet he filled their houses with good
things:
but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
19
The righteous see
it,
and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn.
20
Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth.
21
Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee.
22
Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.
23
If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.
24
Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the
gold
of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.
25
Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou shalt have plenty of silver.
26
For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God.
27
Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.
28
Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.
29
When
men
are cast down, then thou shalt say,
There is
lifting up; and he shall save the humble person.
30
He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands.
23
Then Job answered and said,
2
Even to day
is
my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.
3
Oh that I knew where I might find him!
that
I might come
even
to his seat!
4
I would order
my
cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
5
I would know the words
which
he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.
6
Will he plead against me with
his
great power? No; but he would put
strength
in me.
7
There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.
8
Behold, I go forward, but he
is
not
there;
and backward, but I cannot perceive him:
9
On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold
him:
he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see
him:
10
But he knoweth the way that I take:
when
he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
11
My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.
12
Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary
food.
13
But he
is
in one
mind,
and who can turn him? and
what
his soul desireth, even
that
he doeth.
14
For he performeth
the thing that is
appointed for me: and many such
things are
with him.
15
Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.
16
For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:
17
Because I was not cut off before the darkness,
neither
hath he covered the darkness from my face.
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Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?
2
Some
remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed
thereof.
3
They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
4
They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
5
Behold,
as
wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness
yieldeth
food for them
and
for
their
children.
6
They reap
every one
his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.
7
They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that
they have
no covering in the cold.
8
They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
9
They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
10
They cause
him
to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf
from
the hungry;
11
Which
make oil within their walls,
and
tread
their
winepresses, and suffer thirst.
12
Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly
to them.
13
They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
14
The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
15
The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth
his
face.
16
In the dark they dig through houses,
which
they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
17
For the morning
is
to them even as the shadow of death: if
one
know
them, they are in
the terrors of the shadow of death.
18
He
is
swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.
19
Drought and heat consume the snow waters:
so doth
the grave
those which
have sinned.
20
The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.
21
He evil entreateth the barren that
beareth
not: and doeth not good to the widow.
22
He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no
man
is sure of life.
23
Though
it be given him
to be
in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes
are
upon their ways.
24
They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all
other,
and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.
25
And if
it be
not
so
now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?
25
Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
2
Dominion and fear
are
with him, he maketh peace in his high places.
3
Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth not his light arise?
4
How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean
that is
born of a woman?
5
Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight.
6
How much less man,
that is
a worm? and the son of man,
which is
a worm?
26
But Job answered and said,
2
How hast thou helped
him that is
without power?
how
savest thou the arm
that hath
no strength?
3
How hast thou counseled
him that hath
no wisdom? and
how
hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is?
4
To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee?
5
Dead
things
are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.
6
Hell
is
naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.
7
He stretcheth out the north over the empty place,
and
hangeth the earth upon nothing.
8
He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.
9
He holdeth back the face of his throne,
and
spreadeth his cloud upon it.
10
He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.
11
The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof.
12
He divideth the sea with his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through the proud.
13
By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent.
14
Lo, these
are
parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?
27
Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,
2
As
God liveth,
who
hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty,
who
hath vexed my soul;
3
All the while my breath
is
in me, and the spirit of God
is
in my nostrils;
4
My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.
5
God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me.
6
My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach
me
so long as I live.
7
Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous.
8
For what
is
the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?
9
Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him?
10
Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God?
11
I will teach you by the hand of God:
that
which
is
with the Almighty will I not conceal.
12
Behold, all ye yourselves have seen
it;
why then are ye thus altogether vain?
13
This
is
the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors,
which
they shall receive of the Almighty.
14
If his children be multiplied,
it is
for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
15
Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep.
16
Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;
17
He may prepare
it,
but the just shall put
it
on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.
18
He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth
that
the keeper maketh.
19
The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he openeth his eyes, and he
is
not.
20
Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.
21
The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.
22
For
God
shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.
23
Men
shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.
28
Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold
where
they fine
it.
2
Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass
is
molten
out of
the stone.
3
He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.
4
The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant;
even the waters
forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.
5
As for
the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.
6
The stones of it
are
the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold.
7
There is
a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture’s eye hath not seen:
8
The lion’s whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.
9
He putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he overturneth the mountains by the roots.
10
He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing.
11
He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and
the thing that is
hid bringeth he forth to light.
12
But where shall wisdom be found? and where
is
the place of understanding?
13
Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living.
14
The depth saith, It
is
not in me: and the sea saith,
It is
not with me.
15
It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed
for
the price thereof.
16
It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
17
The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it
shall not be for
jewels of fine gold.
18
No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom
is
above rubies.
19
The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold.
20
Whence then cometh wisdom? and where
is
the place of understanding?
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Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air.
22
Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.
23
God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.
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For he looketh to the ends of the earth,
and
seeth under the whole heaven;
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To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.
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When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:
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Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out.
28
And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that
is
wisdom; and to depart from evil
is
understanding.
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Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,
2
Oh that I were as
in
months past, as
in
the days
when
God preserved me;
3
When his candle shined upon my head,
and when
by his light I walked
through
darkness;
4
As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God
was
upon my tabernacle;
5
When the Almighty
was
yet with me,
when
my children
were
about me;
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When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;
7
When I went out to the gate through the city,
when
I prepared my seat in the street!
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The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose,
and
stood up.
9
The princes refrained talking, and laid
their
hand on their mouth.
10
The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.
11
When the ear heard
me,
then it blessed me; and when the eye saw
me,
it gave witness to me:
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Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and
him that had
none to help him.
13
The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.
14
I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment
was
as a robe and a diadem.
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I was eyes to the blind, and feet
was
I to the lame.
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I
was
a father to the poor: and the cause
which
I knew not I searched out.
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And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
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Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply
my
days as the sand.
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My root
was
spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.
20
My glory
was
fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.
21
Unto me
men
gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel.
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After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them.
23
And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide
as
for the latter rain.
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If
I laughed on them, they believed
it
not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.
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I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one
that
comforteth the mourners.
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