16:1And Job answered and said, 16:2I have heard many such things: grievous comforters are ye all. 16:3Shall words of wind have an end? or what provoketh thee that thou answerest? 16:4I also could speak as ye: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could join together words against you, and shake my head at you; 16:5[But] I would encourage you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips should assuage [your pain]. 16:6If I speak, my pain is not assuaged; and if I forbear, what am I eased? 16:7But now he hath made me weary; thou hast made desolate all my family; 16:8Thou hast shrivelled me up! it is become a witness; and my leanness riseth up against me, it beareth witness to my face. 16:9His anger teareth and pursueth me; he gnasheth with his teeth against me; [as] mine adversary he sharpeneth his eyes at me. 16:10They gape upon me with their mouth; they smite my cheeks reproachfully; they range themselves together against me. 16:11God hath delivered me over to the iniquitous man, and hurled me into the hands of the wicked. 16:12I was at rest, but he hath shattered me; he hath taken me by the neck and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark. 16:13His arrows encompass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground. 16:14He breaketh me with breach upon breach; he runneth upon me like a mighty man. 16:15I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and rolled my horn in the dust. 16:16My face is red with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death; 16:17Although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure. 16:18O earth, cover not my blood, and let there be no place for my cry! 16:19Even now, behold, my Witness is in the heavens, and he that voucheth for me is in the heights. 16:20My friends are my mockers; mine eye poureth out tears unto God. 16:21Oh that there were arbitration for a man with God, as a son of man for his friend! 16:22For years [few] in number shall pass, and I shall go the way [whence] I shall not return.
17:1My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are mine. 17:2Are there not mockers around me? and doth [not] mine eye abide in their provocation? 17:3Lay down now [a pledge], be thou surety for me with thyself: who is he that striketh hands with me? 17:4For thou hast hidden their heart from understanding; therefore thou wilt not exalt [them]. 17:5He that betrayeth friends for a prey even the eyes of his children shall fail. 17:6And he hath made me a proverb of the peoples; and I am become one to be spit on in the face. 17:7And mine eye is dim by reason of grief, and all my members are as a shadow. 17:8Upright men [shall be] astonished at this, and the innocent shall be stirred up against the ungodly; 17:9But the righteous shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall increase in strength. 17:10But as for you all, pray come on again; and I shall not find one wise man among you. 17:11My days are past, my purposes are broken off, the cherished thoughts of my heart. 17:12They change the night into day; the light [they imagine] near in presence of the darkness. 17:13If I wait, Sheol is my house; I spread my bed in the darkness: 17:14I cry to the grave, Thou art my father! to the worm, My mother, and my sister! 17:15And where is then my hope? yea, my hope, who shall see it? 17:16It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, when [our] rest shall be together in the dust.
18:1And Bildad the Shuhite answered and said, 18:2How long will ye hunt for words? Be intelligent, and then we will speak. 18:3Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed stupid in your sight? 18:4Thou that tearest thyself in thine anger, shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of its place? 18:5Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the flame of his fire shall not shine. 18:6The light shall become dark in his tent, and his lamp over him shall be put out. 18:7The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down. 18:8For he is sent into the net by his own feet, and he walketh on the meshes; 18:9The gin taketh [him] by the heel, the snare layeth hold on him; 18:10A cord is hidden for him in the ground, and his trap in the way. 18:11Terrors make him afraid on every side, and chase him at his footsteps. 18:12His strength is hunger-bitten, and calamity is ready at his side. 18:13The firstborn of death devoureth the members of his body; it will devour his members. 18:14His confidence shall be rooted out of his tent, and it shall lead him away to the king of terrors: 18:15They who are none of his shall dwell in his tent; brimstone shall be showered upon his habitation: 18:16His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off; 18:17His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name on the pasture-grounds. 18:18He is driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world. 18:19He hath neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any remaining in the places of his sojourn. 18:20They that come after shall be astonished at his day, as they that went before [them] were affrighted. 18:21Surely, such are the dwellings of the unrighteous man, and such the place of him that knoweth not God.
19:1And Job answered and said, 19:2How long will ye vex my soul, and crush me with words? 19:3These ten times have ye reproached me; ye are not ashamed to stupefy me. 19:4And be it [that] I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself. 19:5If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and prove against me my reproach, 19:6Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath surrounded me with his net. 19:7Behold, I cry out of wrong, and I am not heard; I cry aloud, but there is no judgment. 19:8He hath hedged up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths. 19:9He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head. 19:10He breaketh me down on every side, and I am gone; and my hope hath he torn up as a tree. 19:11And he hath kindled his anger against me, and hath counted me unto him as one of his enemies. 19:12His troops have come together and cast up their way against me, and have encamped round about my tent. 19:13He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are quite estranged from me. 19:14My kinsfolk have failed, and my known friends have forgotten me. 19:15The sojourners in my house and my maids count me as a stranger; I am an alien in their sight. 19:16I called my servant, and he answered not; I entreated him with my mouth. 19:17My breath is strange to my wife, and my entreaties to the children of my [mother's] womb. 19:18Even young children despise me; I rise up, and they speak against me. 19:19All my intimate friends abhor me, and they whom I loved are turned against me. 19:20My bones cleave to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth. 19:21Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me. 19:22Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh? 19:23Oh would that my words were written! oh that they were inscribed in a book! 19:24That with an iron style and lead they were graven in the rock for ever! 19:25And [as for] me, I know that my Redeemer liveth, and the Last, he shall stand upon the earth; 19:26And [if] after my skin this shall be destroyed, yet from out of my flesh shall I see God; 19:27Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another: my reins are consumed within me. 19:28If ye say, How shall we persecute him? when the root of the matter is found in me, 19:29Be ye yourselves afraid of the sword! for the sword is fury against misdeeds, that ye may know there is a judgment.
20:1And Zophar the Naamathite answered and said, 20:2Therefore do my thoughts give me an answer, and for this is my haste within me. 20:3I hear a reproof putting me to shame; and [my] spirit answereth me by mine understanding. 20:4Knowest thou [not] this, that of old, since man was placed upon earth, 20:5The exultation of the wicked is short, and the joy of the ungodly man but for a moment? 20:6Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds, 20:7Like his own dung doth he perish for ever; they which have seen him shall say, Where is he? 20:8He flieth away as a dream, and is not found; and is chased away as a vision of the night. 20:9The eye which saw him shall [see him] not again; and his place beholdeth him no more. 20:10His children shall seek the favour of the poor, and his hands restore his wealth. 20:11His bones were full of his youthful strength; but it shall lie down with him in the dust. 20:12Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth [and] he hide it under his tongue, 20:13[Though] he spare it, and forsake it not, but keep it within his mouth, 20:14His food is turned in his bowels; it is the gall of asps within him. 20:15He hath swallowed down riches, but he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly. 20:16He shall suck the poison of asps; the viper's tongue shall kill him. 20:17He shall not see streams, rivers, brooks of honey and butter. 20:18That which he laboured for shall he restore, and not swallow down; its restitution shall be according to the value, and he shall not rejoice [therein]. 20:19For he hath oppressed, hath forsaken the poor; he hath violently taken away a house that he did not build. 20:20Because he knew no rest in his craving, he shall save nought of what he most desired. 20:21Nothing escaped his greediness; therefore his prosperity shall not endure. 20:22In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits; every hand of the wretched shall come upon him. 20:23It shall be that, to fill his belly, he will cast his fierce anger upon him, and will rain it upon him into his flesh. 20:24If he have fled from the iron weapon, the bow of brass shall strike him through. 20:25He draweth it forth; it cometh out of his body, and the glittering point out of his gall: terrors are upon him. 20:26All darkness is laid up for his treasures: a fire not blown shall devour him; it shall feed upon what is left in his tent. 20:27The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and the earth shall rise up against him. 20:28The increase of his house shall depart, flowing away in the day of his anger. 20:29This is the portion of the wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed to him by God.
21:1And Job answered and said, 21:2Hear attentively my speech, and let this replace your consolations. 21:3Suffer me and I will speak; and after I have spoken, mock on! 21:4As for me, is my complaint to a man? or wherefore should not my spirit be impatient? 21:5Mark me, and be astonished, and lay the hand upon the mouth. 21:6Even when I think [thereon], I am affrighted, and trembling taketh hold of my flesh. 21:7Wherefore do the wicked live, grow old, yea, become mighty in power? 21:8Their seed is established with them in their sight, and their offspring before their eyes. 21:9Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them. 21:10Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf. 21:11They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance. 21:12They shout to the tambour and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe. 21:13They spend their days in prosperity, and in a moment go down to Sheol. 21:14And they say unto God, Depart from us, for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways! 21:15What is the Almighty that we should serve him? and what are we profited if we pray unto him? 21:16Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked be far from me! 21:17How often is the lamp of the wicked put out, and cometh their calamity upon them? Doth he distribute sorrows [to them] in his anger? 21:18Do they become as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away? 21:19God layeth up [the punishment of] his iniquity for his children; he rewardeth him, and he shall know [it]: 21:20His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the fury of the Almighty. 21:21For what pleasure should he have in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off? 21:22Can any teach God knowledge? And he it is that judgeth those that are high. 21:23One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet; 21:24His sides are full of fat, and the marrow of his bones is moistened; 21:25And another dieth in bitterness of soul, and hath not tasted good: 21:26Together they lie down in the dust, and the worms cover them. 21:27Lo, I know your thoughts, and the devices ye wrongfully imagine against me. 21:28For ye say, Where is the house of the noble? and where the tent of the dwellings of the wicked? 21:29Have ye not asked the wayfarers? and do ye not regard their tokens: 21:30That the wicked is reserved for the day of calamity? They are led forth to the day of wrath. 21:31Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done? 21:32Yet is he carried to the graves, and watch is kept over the tomb. 21:33The clods of the valley are sweet unto him; and every man followeth suit after him, as there were innumerable before him. 21:34How then comfort ye me in vain? Your answers remain perfidious.
22:1And Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said, 22:2Can a man be profitable to God? surely it is unto himself that the wise man is profitable. 22:3Is it any pleasure to the Almighty if thou art righteous? And is it gain [to him] that thou makest thy ways perfect? 22:4Will he reason with thee for fear of thee? Will he enter with thee into judgment? 22:5Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities without end? 22:6For thou hast taken a pledge of thy brother for nought, and stripped off the clothing of the naked. 22:7Thou hast not given water to the fainting to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry. 22:8But the powerful man, he had the land; and the man of high rank dwelt in it. 22:9Widows hast thou sent empty away, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken. 22:10Therefore snares are round about thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee; 22:11Or darkness, that thou canst not see, and floods of waters cover thee. 22:12Is not God in the height of the heavens? And behold the summit of the stars: how exalted are they! 22:13And thou sayest, What doth God know? will he judge through the dark cloud? 22:14Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh on the vault of the heavens. 22:15Dost thou mark the ancient path which wicked men have trodden? 22:16Who were carried off before the time, whose foundation was overflowed with a flood; 22:17Who said unto God, Depart from us! and what could the Almighty do to them? 22:18Yet he filled their houses with good. But the counsel of the wicked is far from me. 22:19The righteous see it, and are glad; and the innocent laugh them to scorn: 22:20Is not he who rose against us destroyed, and doth not the fire consume his residue? 22:21Reconcile thyself now with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee. 22:22Receive, I pray thee, instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in thy heart. 22:23If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up. If thou remove unrighteousness far from thy tents, 22:24And put the precious ore with the dust, and [the gold of] Ophir among the stones of the torrents, 22:25Then the Almighty will be thy precious ore, and silver heaped up unto thee; 22:26Yea, then shalt thou delight thyself in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God: 22:27Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he will hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows; 22:28And thou shalt decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee; and light shall shine upon thy ways. 22:29When they are made low, then thou shalt say, Rise up! and he shall save him that is of downcast eyes. 22:30[Even] him that is not innocent shall he deliver; yea, he shall be delivered by the pureness of thy hands.
23:1And Job answered and said, 23:2Even to-day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning. 23:3Oh that I knew where I might find him, that I might come to his seat! 23:4I would order the cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments; 23:5I would know the words he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me. 23:6Would he plead against me with [his] great power? Nay; but he would give heed unto me. 23:7There would an upright man reason with him; and I should be delivered for ever from my judge. 23:8Lo, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I do not perceive him; 23:9On the left hand, where he doth work, but I behold [him] not; he hideth himself on the right hand, and I see [him] not. 23:10But he knoweth the way that I take; he trieth me, I shall come forth as gold. 23:11My foot hath held to his steps; his way have I kept, and not turned aside. 23:12Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have laid up the words of his mouth more than the purpose of my own heart. 23:13But he is in one [mind], and who can turn him? And what his soul desireth, that will he do. 23:14For he will perform [what] is appointed for me; and many such things are with him. 23:15Therefore am I troubled at his presence; I consider, and I am afraid of him. 23:16For God hath made my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me; 23:17Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he hidden the gloom from me.
24:1Why are not times treasured up with the Almighty? why do not they that know him see his days? 24:2They remove the landmarks; they violently take away the flocks and pasture them; 24:3They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge; 24:4They turn the needy out of the way: the afflicted of the land all hide themselves. 24:5Lo, [as] wild asses in the desert, they go forth to their work, seeking early for the prey: the wilderness [yieldeth] them food for [their] children. 24:6They reap in the field the fodder thereof, and they gather the vintage of the wicked; 24:7They pass the night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold; 24:8They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and for want of a shelter embrace the rock 24:9They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor: 24:10These go naked without clothing, and, hungry, they bear the sheaf; 24:11They press out oil within their walls, they tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst. 24:12Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out; and God imputeth not the impiety. 24:13There are those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof. 24:14The murderer riseth with the light, killeth the afflicted and needy, and in the night is as a thief. 24:15And the eye of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me; and he putteth a covering on [his] face. 24:16In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves in; they know not the light: 24:17For the morning is to them all [as] the shadow of death; for they are familiar with the terrors of the shadow of death. 24:18He is swift on the face of the waters; their portion is cursed on the earth: he turneth not unto the way of the vineyards. 24:19Drought and heat consume snow waters; so doth Sheol those that have sinned. 24:20The womb forgetteth him; the worm feedeth sweetly on him: he shall be no more remembered; and unrighteousness is broken as a tree, 24:21He that despoileth the barren that beareth not, and doeth not good to the widow: 24:22He draweth also the mighty with his power; he riseth up, and no [man] is sure of life. 24:23[God] setteth him in safety, and he resteth thereon; but his eyes are upon their ways. 24:24They are exalted for a little, and are no more; they are laid low; like all [other] are they gathered, and are cut off as the tops of the ears of corn. 24:25If it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?
25:1And Bildad the Shuhite answered and said, 25:2Dominion and fear are with him; he maketh peace in his high places. 25:3Is there any number of his troops? and upon whom doth not his light arise? 25:4And how should man be just with God? Or how should he be clean that is born of a woman? 25:5Lo, even the moon is not bright; and the stars are not pure in his sight: 25:6How much less man, a worm, and the son of man, a worm!
26:1And Job answered and said, 26:2How hast thou helped the powerless; how saved the arm that is without strength! 26:3How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom, and abundantly declared the thing as it is! 26:4For whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee? 26:5The shades tremble beneath the waters and the inhabitants thereof; 26:6Sheol is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering. 26:7He stretcheth out the north over empty space, he hangeth the earth upon nothing; 26:8He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not rent under them. 26:9He covereth the face of his throne, he spreadeth his cloud upon it. 26:10He hath traced a fixed circle over the waters, unto the confines of light and darkness. 26:11The pillars of the heavens tremble and are astonished at his rebuke. 26:12He stirreth up the sea by his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through Rahab. 26:13By his Spirit the heavens are adorned; his hand hath formed the fleeing serpent. 26:14Lo, these are the borders of his ways; but what a whisper of a word do we hear of him! And the thunder of his power, who can understand?
27:1And Job continued his parable and said, 27:2[As] God liveth, who hath taken away my right, and the Almighty, who hath embittered my soul, 27:3All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils, 27:4My lips shall not speak unrighteousness, nor my tongue utter deceit! 27:5Be it far from me that I should justify you; till I die I will not remove my blamelessness from me. 27:6My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart reproacheth [me] not one of my days. 27:7Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous. 27:8For what is the hope of the ungodly, when [God] cutteth him off, when God taketh away his soul? 27:9Will God hear his cry when distress cometh upon him? 27:10Doth he delight himself in the Almighty? will he at all times call upon God? 27:11I will teach you concerning the hand of God; what is with the Almighty will I not conceal. 27:12Behold, ye yourselves have all seen [it]; and why are ye thus altogether vain? 27:13This is the portion of the wicked man with God, and the heritage of the violent, which they receive from the Almighty: 27:14If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword, and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread; 27:15Those that remain of him shall be buried by death, and his widows shall not weep. 27:16Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare clothing as the clay; 27:17He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on; and the innocent shall divide the silver. 27:18He buildeth his house as the moth, and as a booth that a keeper maketh. 27:19He lieth down rich, but will do so no more; he openeth his eyes, and he is not. 27:20Terrors overtake him like waters; a whirlwind stealeth him away in the night. 27:21The east wind carrieth him away and he is gone; and as a storm it hurleth him out of his place. 27:22And [God] shall cast upon him and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand. 27:23[Men] shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.
28:1Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold which they refine; 28:2Iron is taken out of the dust, and copper is molten out of the stone. 28:3[Man] putteth an end to the darkness, and exploreth to the utmost limit, the stones of darkness and of the shadow of death. 28:4He openeth a shaft far from the inhabitants [of the earth]: forgotten of the foot, they hang suspended; away below men they hover. 28:5As for the earth, out of it cometh bread, and underneath it is turned up as by fire; 28:6The stones of it are the place of sapphires, and it hath dust of gold. 28:7It is a path no bird of prey knoweth, and the vulture's eye hath not seen it; 28:8The proud beasts have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed over it. 28:9[Man] putteth forth his hand upon the flinty rock, he overturneth the mountains by the root. 28:10He cutteth out channels in the rocks, and his eye seeth every precious thing. 28:11He bindeth the streams that they drip not, and what is hidden he bringeth forth to light. 28:12But wisdom, where shall it be found? and where is the place of understanding? 28:13Man knoweth not the value thereof; and it is not found in the land of the living. 28:14The deep saith, It is not in me; and the sea saith, It is not with me. 28:15Choice gold cannot be given for it, nor silver be weighed for its price. 28:16It is not set in the balance with gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, and the sapphire. 28:17Gold and glass cannot be compared to it, nor vessels of fine gold be its exchange. 28:18Corals and crystal are no more remembered; yea, the acquisition of wisdom is above rubies. 28:19The topaz of Ethiopia shall not be compared to it, neither shall it be set in the balance with pure gold. 28:20Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding? 28:21For it is hidden from the eyes of all living, and concealed from the fowl of the heavens. 28:22Destruction and death say, We have heard its report with our ears. 28:23God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth its place: 28:24For he looketh to the ends of the earth, he seeth under the whole heaven. 28:25In making a weight for the wind, and meting out the waters by measure, 28:26In appointing a statute for the rain, and a way for the thunder's flash: 28:27Then did he see it, and declare it; he established it, yea, and searched it out; 28:28And unto man he said, Lo, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.
29:1And Job continued his parable and said, 29:2Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; 29:3When his lamp shone over my head, [and] by his light I walked through darkness; 29:4As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret counsel of God was over my tent, 29:5When the Almighty was yet with me, my young men round about me; 29:6When my steps were bathed in milk, and the rock poured out beside me rivers of oil! 29:7When I went out to the gate by the city, when I prepared my seat on the broadway, 29:8The young men saw me, and hid themselves; and the aged arose [and] stood up; 29:9Princes refrained from talking, and laid the hand on their mouth; 29:10The voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue cleaved to their palate. 29:11When the ear heard [me], then it blessed me, and when the eye saw [me], it gave witness to me; 29:12For I delivered the afflicted that cried, and the fatherless who had no helper. 29:13The blessing of him that was perishing came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. 29:14I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice was as a mantle and a turban. 29:15I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame; 29:16I was a father to the needy, and the cause which I knew not I searched out; 29:17And I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth. 29:18And I said, I shall die in my nest, and multiply my days as the sand; 29:19My root shall be spread out to the waters, and the dew will lie all night on my branch; 29:20My glory shall be fresh in me, and my bow be renewed in my hand. 29:21Unto me they listened, and waited, and kept silence for my counsel: 29:22After my words they spoke not again, and my speech dropped upon them; 29:23And they waited for me as for the rain, and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain. 29:24[If] I laughed on them, they believed [it] not; and they troubled not the serenity of my countenance. 29:25I chose their way, and sat as chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth mourners.
30:1But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock. 30:2Yea, whereto [should] the strength of their hands [profit] me, [men] in whom vigour hath perished? 30:3Withered up through want and hunger, they flee into waste places long since desolate and desert: 30:4They gather the salt-wort among the bushes, and the roots of the broom for their food. 30:5They are driven forth from among [men] they cry after them as after a thief 30:6To dwell in gloomy gorges, in caves of the earth and the rocks: 30:7They bray among the bushes; under the brambles they are gathered together: 30:8Sons of fools, and sons of nameless sires, they are driven out of the land. 30:9And now I am their song, yea, I am their byword. 30:10They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, yea, they spare not to spit in my face. 30:11For he hath loosed my cord and afflicted me; so they cast off the bridle before me. 30:12At [my] right hand rise the young brood; they push away my feet, and raise up against me their pernicious ways; 30:13They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, without any to help them; 30:14They come in as through a wide breach: amid the confusion they roll themselves onward. 30:15Terrors are turned against me; they pursue mine honour as the wind; and my welfare is passed away like a cloud. 30:16And now my soul is poured out in me; days of affliction have taken hold upon me. 30:17The night pierceth through my bones [and detacheth them] from me, and my gnawing pains take no rest: 30:18By their great force they have become my raiment; they bind me about as the collar of my coat. 30:19He hath cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes. 30:20I cry unto thee, and thou answerest me not; I stand up, and thou lookest at me. 30:21Thou art changed to a cruel one to me; with the strength of thy hand thou pursuest me. 30:22Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to be borne away, and dissolvest my substance. 30:23For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and into the house of assemblage for all living. 30:24Indeed, no prayer [availeth] when he stretcheth out [his] hand: though they cry when he destroyeth. 30:25Did not I weep for him whose days were hard? was not my soul grieved for the needy? 30:26For I expected good, and there came evil; and I waited for light, but there came darkness. 30:27My bowels well up, and rest not; days of affliction have confronted me. 30:28I go about blackened, but not by the sun; I stand up, I cry in the congregation. 30:29I am become a brother to jackals, and a companion of ostriches. 30:30My skin is become black [and falleth] off me, and my bones are parched with heat. 30:31My harp also is [turned] to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of weepers.
31:1I made a covenant with mine eyes; and how should I fix my regard upon a maid? 31:2For what would have been [my] portion of God from above, and what the heritage of the Almighty from on high? 31:3Is not calamity for the unrighteous? and misfortune for the workers of iniquity? 31:4Doth not he see my ways, and number all my steps? 31:5If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot hath hasted to deceit, 31:6(Let me be weighed in an even balance, and God will take knowledge of my blamelessness;) 31:7If my step have turned out of the way, and my heart followed mine eyes, and if any blot cleaveth to my hands; 31:8Let me sow, and another eat; and let mine offspring be rooted out. 31:9If my heart have been enticed unto a woman, so that I laid wait at my neighbour's door, 31:10Let my wife grind for another, and let others bow down upon her. 31:11For this is an infamy; yea, it is an iniquity [to be judged by] the judges: 31:12For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase. 31:13If I have despised the cause of my bondman or of my bondmaid, when they contended with me, 31:14What then should I do when God riseth up? and if he visited, what should I answer him? 31:15Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not One fashion us in the womb? 31:16If I have withheld the poor from [their] desire, or caused the eyes of the widow to fail; 31:17Or have eaten my morsel alone, so that the fatherless ate not thereof, 31:18(For from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, and I have guided the [widow] from my mother's womb;) 31:19If I have seen any perishing for want of clothing, or any needy without covering; 31:20If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my lambs; 31:21If I have lifted up my hand against an orphan, because I saw my help in the gate: 31:22[Then] let my shoulder fall from the shoulder-blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone! 31:23For calamity from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his excellency I was powerless. 31:24If I have made gold my hope, or said to the fine gold, My confidence! 31:25If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much; 31:26If I beheld the sun when it shone, or the moon walking in brightness, 31:27And my heart have been secretly enticed, so that my mouth kissed my hand: 31:28This also would be an iniquity for the judge, for I should have denied the God who is above. 31:29If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, and exulted when evil befell him; 31:30(Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse;) 31:31If the men of my tent said not, Who shall find one that hath not been satisfied with his meat? 31:32The stranger did not lodge without; I opened my doors to the pathway. 31:33If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom, 31:34Because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and went not out of the door, 31:35Oh that I had one to hear me! Behold my signature: let the Almighty answer me! And let mine opponent write an accusation! 31:36Would I not take it upon my shoulder? I would bind it on to me [as] a crown; 31:37I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I come near to him. 31:38If my land cry out against me, and its furrows weep together; 31:39If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, and have tormented to death the souls of its owners: 31:40Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and tares instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.
32:1And these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes. 32:2Then was kindled the anger of Elihu the son of Barachel, the Buzite, of the family of Ram: against Job was his anger kindled, because he justified himself rather than God; 32:3and against his three friends was his anger kindled, because they found no answer, and [yet] condemned Job. 32:4But Elihu had waited till Job had finished speaking, because they were older than he. 32:5And Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of the three men, and his anger was kindled. 32:6And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am young, and ye are aged; wherefore I was timid, and feared to shew you what I know. 32:7I said, Let days speak, and multitude of years teach wisdom. 32:8But there is a spirit which is in man; and the breath of the Almighty giveth them understanding. 32:9It is not the great that are wise; neither do the aged understand judgment. 32:10Therefore I say, Hearken to me; I also will shew what I know. 32:11Lo, I waited for your words; I gave ear to your reasonings, until ye searched out what to say. 32:12Yea, I gave you mine attention, and behold, there was none of you that confuted Job, that answered his words; 32:13That ye may not say, We have found out wisdom; God will make him yield, not man. 32:14Now he hath not directed [his] words against me; and I will not answer him with your speeches. 32:15They were amazed, they answered no more; words failed them. 32:16And I waited, for they spoke not, but stood still, and answered no more; 32:17I will answer, I also in my turn, I also will shew what I know: 32:18For I am full of matter, the spirit within me constraineth me. 32:19Behold, my belly is as wine which hath no vent; like new flasks, it is ready to burst. 32:20I will speak, that I may find relief; I will open my lips and answer. 32:21Let me not, I pray you, accept any man's person; neither will I give flattery to man. 32:22For I know not how to flatter; my Maker would soon take me away.
33:1Howbeit, Job, I pray thee, hear mine utterances, and hearken to all my words. 33:2Behold now, I have opened my mouth, my tongue speaketh in my palate, 33:3My words shall be of the uprightness of my heart, and my lips shall utter knowledge purely. 33:4The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life. 33:5If thou canst, answer me; array [thy words] before me: take thy stand. 33:6Behold, before God I am as thou; I also am formed out of the clay. 33:7Behold, my terror shall not make thee afraid, nor my burden be heavy upon thee. 33:8Surely thou hast spoken in my hearing, and I have heard the voice of [thy] words: 33:9I am clean without transgression; I am pure, and there is no iniquity in me; 33:10Lo, he findeth occasions of hostility against me, he counteth me for his enemy; 33:11He putteth my feet in the stocks, he marketh all my paths. 33:12Behold, I will answer thee in this, thou art not right; for God is greater than man. 33:13Why dost thou strive against him? for he giveth not account of any of his matters. 33:14For God speaketh once, and twice, [and man] perceiveth it not 33:15In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed; 33:16Then he openeth men's ears, and sealeth their instruction, 33:17That he may withdraw man [from his] work, and hide pride from man. 33:18He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from passing away by the sword. 33:19He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and with constant strife in his bones; 33:20And his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty food; 33:21His flesh is consumed away from view, and his bones that were not seen stick out; 33:22And his soul draweth near to the pit, and his life to the destroyers. 33:23If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to shew unto man his duty; 33:24Then he will be gracious unto him, and say, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom. 33:25His flesh shall be fresher than in childhood; he shall return to the days of his youth. 33:26He shall pray unto God, and he will receive him with favour; and he shall see his face with shoutings, and he will render unto man his righteousness. 33:27He will sing before men, and say, I have sinned, and perverted what was right, and it hath not been requited to me; 33:28He hath delivered my soul from going into the pit, and my life shall see the light. 33:29Lo, all these [things] worketh God twice, thrice, with man, 33:30To bring back his soul from the pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of the living. 33:31Mark well, Job, hearken unto me; be silent, and I will speak. 33:32If thou hast anything to say, answer me; speak, for I desire to justify thee. 33:33If not, hearken thou unto me; be silent, and I will teach thee wisdom.
34:1Moreover Elihu answered and said, 34:2Hear my words, ye wise [men]; and give ear unto me, ye that have knowledge. 34:3For the ear trieth words, as the palate tasteth food. 34:4Let us choose for ourselves what is right; let us know among ourselves what is good! 34:5For Job hath said, I am righteous, and God hath taken away my judgment: 34:6Should I lie against my right? My wound is incurable without transgression. 34:7What man is like Job? he drinketh up scorning like water, 34:8And goeth in company with workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men. 34:9For he hath said, It profiteth not a man if he delight himself in God. 34:10Therefore hearken unto me, ye men of understanding: Far be wickedness from God, and wrong from the Almighty! 34:11For a man's work will he render to him, and cause every one to find according to [his] way. 34:12Yea, surely, God acteth not wickedly, and the Almighty perverteth not judgment. 34:13Who hath entrusted to him the earth? and who hath disposed the whole world? 34:14If he only thought of himself, [and] gathered unto him his spirit and his breath, 34:15All flesh would expire together, and man would return to the dust. 34:16If now [thou hast] understanding, hear this: give ear to the voice of my words! 34:17Should he that hateth right indeed govern? and wilt thou condemn the All-just? 34:18Shall one say to a king, Belial? to nobles, Wicked? 34:19[How then to him] that accepteth not the persons of princes, nor regardeth the rich man more than the poor? for they are all the work of his hands. 34:20In a moment they die, even at midnight the people are convulsed and pass away; and the strong are taken away without hand. 34:21For his eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his steps. 34:22There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves. 34:23For he doth not long consider a man, to bring him before God in judgment. 34:24He breaketh in pieces mighty men without inquiry, and setteth others in their stead; 34:25Since he knoweth their actions; and he overthroweth [them] in the night, and they are crushed. 34:26He striketh them as wicked men in the open sight of others, 34:27Because they have turned back from him, and would consider none of his ways; 34:28So that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto him, and he heareth the cry of the afflicted. 34:29When he giveth quietness, who then will disturb? and when he hideth [his] face, who shall behold him? and this towards a nation, or towards a man alike; 34:30That the ungodly man reign not, that the people be not ensnared. 34:31For hath he said unto God, I bear [chastisement], I will not offend; 34:32What I see not, teach thou me; if I have done wrong, I will do so no more? 34:33Shall he recompense according to thy mind? for thou hast refused [his judgment]; for thou so choosest, and not I; speak then what thou knowest. 34:34Men of understanding will say to me, and a wise man who heareth me: 34:35Job hath spoken without knowledge, and his words were not with intelligence. 34:36Would that Job may be tried unto the end, because of [his] answers after the manner of evil men! 34:37For he addeth rebellion unto his sin, he clappeth [his hands] among us, and multiplieth his words against God.
35:1Moreover Elihu answered and said, 35:2Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's? 35:3For thou hast asked of what profit it is unto thee: what do I gain more than if I had sinned? 35:4I will reply to thee in words, and to thy companions with thee. 35:5Look unto the heavens and see; and survey the skies: they are higher than thou. 35:6If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? If thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him? 35:7If thou be righteous, what givest thou to him? or what doth he receive of thy hand? 35:8Thy wickedness [may affect] a man as thou [art], and thy righteousness a son of man. 35:9By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry; they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty: 35:10But none saith, Where is God my Maker, who giveth songs in the night, 35:11Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowl of the heavens? 35:12There they cry, and he answereth not, because of the pride of evil men. 35:13Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it. 35:14Although thou sayest thou dost not see him, judgment is before him, therefore wait for him. 35:15But now, because he hath not visited in his anger, doth not [Job] know [his] great arrogancy? 35:16For Job hath opened his mouth in vanity, and made words abundant without knowledge.