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The Book of Job
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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?
21
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.
24
For he looketh to the ends of the earth,
and
seeth under the whole heaven;
25
To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.
26
When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:
27
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.
29
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;
6
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!
8
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:
12
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.
15
I was eyes to the blind, and feet
was
I to the lame.
16
I
was
a father to the poor: and the cause
which
I knew not I searched out.
17
And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
18
Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply
my
days as the sand.
19
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.
22
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.
24
If
I laughed on them, they believed
it
not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.
25
I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one
that
comforteth the mourners.
30
But now
they that are
younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.
2
Yea, whereto
might
the strength of their hands
profit
me, in whom old age was perished?
3
For want and famine
they were
solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
4
Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots
for
their meat.
5
They were driven forth from among
men,
(they cried after them as
after
a thief;)
6
To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys,
in
caves of the earth, and
in
the rocks.
7
Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.
8
They were
children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
9
And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
10
They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.
11
Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.
12
Upon
my
right
hand
rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.
13
They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.
14
They came
upon me
as a wide breaking in
of waters:
in the desolation they rolled themselves
upon me.
15
Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.
16
And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
17
My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
18
By the great force
of my disease
is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.
19
He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
20
I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me
not.
21
Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.
22
Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride
upon it,
and dissolvest my substance.
23
For I know
that
thou wilt bring me
to
death, and
to
the house appointed for all living.
24
Howbeit he will not stretch out
his
hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.
25
Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was
not
my soul grieved for the poor?
26
When I looked for good, then evil came
unto me:
and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
27
My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.
28
I went mourning without the sun: I stood up,
and
I cried in the congregation.
29
I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
30
My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
31
My harp also is
turned
to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.
31
I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?
2
For what portion of God
is there
from above? and
what
inheritance of the Almighty from on high?
3
Is
not destruction to the wicked? and a strange
punishment
to the workers of iniquity?
4
Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?
5
If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;
6
Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity.
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If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands;
8
Then
let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.
9
If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or
if
I have laid wait at my neighbour’s door;
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Then
let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.
11
For this
is
an heinous crime; yea, it
is
an iniquity
to be punished by
the judges.
12
For it
is
a fire
that
consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.
13
If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;
14
What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?
15
Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?
16
If I have withheld the poor from
their
desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
17
Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;
18
(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as
with
a father, and I have guided her from my mother’s womb;)
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If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;
20
If his loins have not blessed me, and
if
he were
not
warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
21
If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:
22
Then
let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.
23
For destruction
from
God
was
a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.
24
If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold,
Thou art
my confidence;
25
If I rejoiced because my wealth
was
great, and because mine hand had gotten much;
26
If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking
in
brightness;
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And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand:
28
This also
were
an iniquity
to be punished by
the judge: for I should have denied the God
that is
above.
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If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:
30
Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.
31
If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.
32
The stranger did not lodge in the street:
but
I opened my doors to the traveller.
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If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:
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Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence,
and
went not out of the door?
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Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire
is, that
the Almighty would answer me, and
that
mine adversary had written a book.
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Surely I would take it upon my shoulder,
and
bind it
as
a crown to me.
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I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.
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If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;
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If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:
40
Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.
32
So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he
was
righteous in his own eyes.
2
Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram: against Job was his wrath kindled, because he justified himself rather than God.
3
Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.
4
Now Elihu had waited till Job had spoken, because they were elder than he.
5
When Elihu saw that
there was
no answer in the mouth of
these
three men, then his wrath was kindled.
6
And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I
am
young, and ye
are
very old; wherefore I was afraid, and durst not shew you mine opinion.
7
I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.
8
But
there is
a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding.
9
Great men are not
always
wise: neither do the aged understand judgment.
10
Therefore I said, Hearken to me; I also will shew mine opinion.
11
Behold, I waited for your words; I gave ear to your reasons, whilst ye searched out what to say.
12
Yea, I attended unto you, and, behold,
there was
none of you that convinced Job, or that answered his words:
13
Lest ye should say, We have found out wisdom: God thrusteth him down, not man.
14
Now he hath not directed
his
words against me: neither will I answer him with your speeches.
15
They were amazed, they answered no more: they left off speaking.
16
When I had waited, (for they spake not, but stood still,
and
answered no more;)
17
I said,
I will answer also my part, I also will shew mine opinion.
18
For I am full of matter, the spirit within me constraineth me.
19
Behold, my belly
is
as wine
which
hath no vent; it is ready to burst like new bottles.
20
I will speak, that I may be refreshed: I will open my lips and answer.
21
Let me not, I pray you, accept any man’s person, neither let me give flattering titles unto man.
22
For I know not to give flattering titles;
in so doing
my maker would soon take me away.
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