Job
Chapter 1
1:1There was a man in the land of Uz called Job,and this man was an upright and just man, one that feared Elohim,and turned away from evil.
1:2And he had seven sons,and three daughters.
1:3His substance also was seven thousand sheep,and three thousand camels,and five hundred yoke of oxen,and five hundred she donkeys,and his family was very great, so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the East.
1:4And his sons went and appointed in their houses, every one his day,and sent,and called their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.
1:5And when the days of their feasting were gone about, Job sent,and sanctified them,and rose up early in the morning,and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job thought, It may be that my sons have sinned,and blasphemed Elohim in their hearts:thus did Job every day.
1:6Now on a day when the children of Elohim came and stood before YHWH, Satan came also among them.
1:7Then YHWH said to Satan, from where do you come? And Satan answered YHWH, saying, From compassing the earth to and fro,and from walking in it.
1:8And YHWH said to Satan, Have you not set your heart upon my servant Job, how none is like him in the earth? An upright and just man, one that fears Elohim, and turns away from evil?
1:9Then Satan answered YHWH,and said, Does Job fear Elohim for nothing?
1:10Have you not made a hedge about him and about his house,and about all that he has on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands,and his substance is increased in the land.
1:11But stretch out now your hand and touch all that he has, to see if he will not blaspheme you to your face.
1:12Then YHWH said to Satan, Lo, all that he has is in your hand:only upon himself shall you not stretch out your hand. So Satan departed from the presence of YHWH.
1:13And on a day, when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brothers house,
1:14There came a messenger to Job,and said, The oxen were plowing,and the donkeys feeding in their places,
1:15And the Sabeans came violently,and took them:yes, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword:but I only am escaped alone to tell you.
1:16And while he was yet speaking, another came,and said, The fire of Elohim is fallen from the heaven,and has burnt up the sheep and the servants,and devoured them:but I only am escaped alone to tell you.
1:17And while he was yet speaking, another came,and said, The Chaldeans set on three bands,and fell upon the camels,and have taken them,and have slain the servants with the edge of the sword:but I only am escaped alone to tell you.
1:18And while he was yet speaking, came another,and said, Your sons,and your daughters were eating,and drinking wine in their eldest brothers house,
1:19And behold, there came a great wind from beyond the wilderness,and smote the four corners of the house, which fell upon the children,and they are dead,and I only am escaped alone to tell you.
1:20Then Job arose,and rent his garment,and shaved his head,and fell down upon the ground,and worshiped,
1:21And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb,and naked shall I return there:YHWH has given,and YHWH has taken it:blessed be the Name of YHWH.
1:22In all this did not Job sin, nor charge Elohim foolishly.
Chapter 2
2:1And on a day the children of Elohim came and stood before YHWH,and Satan came also among them,and stood before YHWH.
2:2Then YHWH said to Satan, from where do you come? And Satan answered YHWH,and said, From compassing the earth to and fro,and from walking in it.
2:3And YHWH said to Satan, Have you not set your heart upon my servant Job, how none is like him in the earth? An upright and just man, one that fears Elohim, and turns away from evil? For yet he continues in his uprightness, although you moved me against him, to destroy him without cause.
2:4And Satan answered YHWH,and said, Skin for skin,and all that ever a man has, will he give for his nephesh.
2:5But stretch now out your hand,and touch his bones and his flesh, to see if he will not blaspheme you to your face.
2:6Then YHWH said to Satan, Lo, he is in your hand,but save his nephesh.
2:7So Satan departed from the presence of YHWH,and smote Job with sore boils, from the sole of his foot to his crown.
2:8And he took a potsherd to scrape him,and he sat down among the ashes.
2:9Then said his wife to him, Do you continue yet in your uprightness? Blaspheme Elohim,and die.
2:10But he said to her, You speak like a foolish woman:what? Shall we receive good at the hand of Elohim,and not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.
2:11Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place, namely, -eliphaz the Temanite,and Bildad the Shuhite,and Zophar the Naamathite:for they were agreed together to come to lament with him,and to comfort him.
2:12So when they lifted up their eyes a far off, they knew him not:therefore they lifted up their voices and wept,and every one of them rent his garment,and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward the heaven.
2:13So they sat by him upon the ground seven days,and seven nights,and none spoke a word to him:for they saw,that the grief was very great.
Chapter 3
3:1Afterward Job opened his mouth,and cursed his day.
3:2And Job cried out,and said,
3:3Let the day perish, in which I was born, and the night when it was said, There is a man child conceived.
3:4Let that day be darkness, let not God regard it from above,neither let the light shine upon it,
3:5But let darkness,and the shadow of death stain it:let the cloud remain upon it,and let them make it fearful as a bitter day.
3:6Let darkness possess that night, let it not be joined to the days of the year, nor let it come into the count of the months.
3:7Yes, desolate be that night,and let no joy be in it.
3:8Let them that curse the day, (being ready to renew their mourning) curse it.
3:9Let the stars of that twilight be dim through darkness of it:let it look for light,but have none:neither let it see the dawning of the day,
3:10Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb:nor hid sorrow from my eyes.
3:11Why died I not in the birth? Or why died I not, when I came out of the womb?
3:12Why did the knees receive me? And why did I suck the breasts?
3:13For so should I now have lain and been quiet, I should have slept then,and been at rest,
3:14With the Kings and counselors of the earth, which have built themselves desolate places:
3:15Or with the princes that had gold,and have filled their houses with silver.
3:16Or why was I not hid, as an untimely birth, either as infants, which have not seen the light?
3:17The wicked have there ceased from their tyranny,and there they that labored valiantly, are at rest.
3:18The prisoners rest together,and hear not the voice of the oppressor.
3:19There are small and great,and the servant is free from his master.
3:20Why is the light given to him that is in misery? And nephesh to them that have heavy hearts?
3:21Which long for death,and if it come not, they would even search it more than treasures:
3:22Which joy for gladness,and rejoice, when they can find the grave.
3:23Why is the light given to the man whose way is hid,and whom God has hedged in?
3:24For my sighing comes before my bread, and my groanings are poured out like the water.
3:25For the thing I feared, is come upon me,and the thing that I was afraid of, is come to me.
3:26I had no peace,neither had I quietness,neither had I rest, yet trouble is come.
Chapter 4
4:1Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,and said,
4:2If we attempt to speak with you, will you be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?
4:3Behold, you have taught many,and have strengthened the weary hands.
4:4Your words have confirmed him that was falling,and you have strengthened the weak knees.
4:5But now it is come upon you,and you are grieved:it touches you,and you are troubled.
4:6Is not this your fear, your confidence, your patience,and the uprightness of your ways?
4:7Remember, I please:who ever perished, being an innocent? Or where were the upright destroyed?
4:8As I have seen, they that plow iniquity,and sow wickedness, reap the same.
4:9With the blast of God they perish,and with the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.
4:10The roaring of the Lion,and the voice of the Lioness,and the teeth of the young lions are broken.
4:11The Lion perishes for lack of prey,and the young lions are scattered abroad.
4:12But a thing was brought to me secretly, and my ear has received a little of it.
4:13In the thoughts of the visions of the night, when sleep falls on men,
4:14Fear came upon me,and dread which made all my bones to tremble.
4:15And the wind passed before me,and made the hairs of my flesh to stand up.
4:16Then stood one,and I knew not his face:an image was before my eyes,and in silence heard I a voice, saying,
4:17Shall man be more just than God? Or shall a man be more pure then his maker?
4:18Behold, he found no steadfastness in his Servants,and laid folly upon his Angels.
4:19How much more in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which shall be destroyed before the moth?
4:20They be destroyed from the morning to the evening:they perish forever, without regard.
4:21Does not their dignity go away with them? Do they not die,and that without wisdom?
Chapter 5
5:1Call now, if any will answer you,and to which of the Saints will you turn?
5:2Doubtless anger kills the foolish,and envy slays the idiot.
5:3I have seen the foolish well rooted,and suddenly I cursed his habitation, saying,
5:4His children shall be far from salvation,and they shall be destroyed in the gate,and none shall deliver them.
5:5The hungry shall eat up his harvest:yes, they shall take it from among the thorns,and the thirsty shall drink up their substance.
5:6For misery comes not forth of the dust,neither does affliction spring out of the earth.
5:7But man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
5:8But I would inquire at Elohim,and turn my talk to El:
5:9Which does great things and unsearchable,and marvelous things without number.
5:10He gives rain upon the earth,and pours water upon the streets,
5:11And sets up on high them that be low,that the sorrowful may be exalted to salvation.
5:12He scatters the devices of the crafty:so that their hands cannot accomplish that which they do enterprise.
5:13He takes the wise in their craftiness,and the counsel of the wicked is made foolish.
5:14They meet with darkness in the day time,and grope at noon day, as in the night.
5:15But he saves the poor from the sword, from their mouth,and from the hand of the violent man,
5:16So that the poor has his hope,but iniquity shall stop her mouth.
5:17Behold, blessed is the man whom God corrects:therefore refuse not you the chastising of the Almighty.
5:18For he makes the wound,and binds it up:he smites,and his hands make whole.
5:19He shall deliver you in six troubles,and in the seventh the evil shall not touch you.
5:20In famine he shall deliver you from death:and in battle from the power of the sword.
5:21You shall be hid from the scourge of the tongue,and you shall not be afraid of destruction when it comes.
5:22But you shall laugh at destruction and earth,and shall not be afraid of the beast of the earth.
5:23For the stones of the field shall be in covenant with you, and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with you.
5:24And you shall know,that peace shall be in your tabernacle,and you shall visit your habitation,and shall not sin.
5:25You shall perceive also,that your seed shall be great,and your posterity as the grass of the earth.
5:26You shall go to your grave in a full age, as a ripens of corn comes in due season into the age.
5:27Lo, thus have we inquired of it,and so it is:hear this and know it for yourself.
Chapter 6
6:1But Job answered,and said,
6:2Oh that my grief were well weighed,and my miseries were laid together in the balance.
6:3For it would be now heavier than the sand of the sea:therefore my words are swallowed up.
6:4For the arrows of Shaddai are in me, whose venom drinks up my spirit, and the terrors of God fight against me.
6:5Does the wild donkey bray when he has grass? Or low the ox when he has fodder?
6:6That which is unsavory, shall it be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
6:7Such things as my nephesh refused to touch, as were sorrows, are my food.
6:8Oh that I might have my desire,and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!
6:9That is,that God would destroy me:that he would let his hand go,and cut me off.
6:10Then should I yet have comfort, (though I burn with sorrow, let him not spare) because I have not denied the words of the Holy one.
6:11What power have I that I should endure? Or what is my end, if I should prolong my nephesh?
6:12Is my strength the strength of stones? Or is my flesh of brass?
6:13Is it not so,that there is in me no help? And that strength is taken from me?
6:14To him that is in misery, chesed is due from his neighbor:but he forsakes the fear of Shaddai.
6:15My brethren have deceived me as a brook,and as the rising of the rivers they pass away.
6:16Which are blackish with you, and in which the snow is hid.
6:17But in time they are dried up with heat and are consumed:and when it is hot they fail out of their places,
6:18Or they depart from their way and course, yes, they vanish and perish.
6:19They that go to Tema, considered them,and they that go to Sheba, waited for them.
6:20But they were confounded:when they hoped, they came there and were ashamed.
6:21Surely now are you like to it:you have seen my fearful plague,and are afraid.
6:22Was it because I said, Bring to me? Or give a reward to me of your substance?
6:23And deliver me from the enemies hand, or ransom me out of the hand of tyrants?
6:24Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand, in which I have erred.
6:25How steadfast are the words of righteousness? And what can any of you justly reprove?
6:26Do you imagine to reprove words,that the talk of the afflicted should be as the wind?
6:27You make your wrath to fall upon the fatherless,and dig a pit for your friend.
6:28Now therefore be content to look upon me:for I will not lie before your face.
6:29Turn, please, let there be none iniquity:return, I say,and you shall see yet my righteousness in that behalf.
6:30Is there iniquity in my tongue? Does not my mouth let sorrows?
Chapter 7
7:1Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? And are not his days as the days of a when?
7:2As a servant longs for the shadow,and as a hireling looks for the end of his work,
7:3So have I had as an inheritance the months of vanity,and painful nights have been appointed to me.
7:4If I laid me down, I said, When shall I arise? And measuring the evening I am even full with tossing to and fro to the dawning of the day.
7:5My flesh is clothed with worms and filthiness of the dust:my skin is rent,and become horrible.
7:6My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle,and they are spent without hope.
7:7Remember that my life is but a wind,and that my eye shall not return to see pleasure.
7:8The eye that has seen me, shall see me no more:your eyes are upon me,and I shall be no longer.
7:9As the cloud vanishes and goes away, so he that goes down to Sheol, shall come up no more.
7:10He shall return no more to his house,neither shall his place know him any more.
7:11Therefore I will not spare my mouth,but will speak in the trouble of my spirit,and muse in the bitterness of my nephesh.
7:12Am I a sea or a whalefish,that you keep me in ward?
7:13When I say, My couch shall relieve me,and my bed shall bring comfort in my meditation,
7:14Then fear you me with dreams,and astonish me with visions.
7:15Therefore my nephesh chooses rather to be strangled and to die, than to be in my bones.
7:16I abhor it, I shall not live always:spare me then,for my days are but vanity.
7:17What is man,that you do magnify him,and that you set your heart upon him?
7:18And do visit him every morning,and try him every moment?
7:19How long will it be before you depart from me? You will not let me alone while I may swallow my spittle.
7:20I have sinned, what shall I do to you? O you preserver of me, why have you set me as a mark against you, so that I am a burden to myself?
7:21And why do you not pardon my trespass? And take away my iniquity? For now shall I sleep in the dust,and if you seek me in the morning, I shall not be found.
Chapter 8
8:1Then answered Bildad the Shuhite,and said,
8:2How long will you talk of these things? And how long shall the words of your mouth be as a mighty wind?
8:3Does God pervert judgment? Or does the Almighty subvert justice?
8:4If your sons have sinned against him, then he has sent them into the hand of their transgression,
8:5Yet if you will early seek to God,and pray to the Almighty,
8:6If you be pure and upright, then surely he will awake for you,and he will make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.
8:7And though your beginning be small, yet your latter end shall greatly increase.
8:8Inquire therefore, I please, of the former age,and prepare yourself to search of their fathers.
8:9(For we are but of yesterday,and are ignorant:for our days upon earth are but a shadow)
8:10Shall not they teach you and tell you,and utter the words of their heart?
8:11Can a rush grow without mire? Or can the grass grow without water?
8:12Though it were in green and not cut down, yet shall it wither before any other herb.
8:13So are the paths of all that forget El,and the hypocrites hope shall perish.
8:14His confidence also shall be cut off,and his trust shall be as the house of a spider's.
8:15He shall lean upon his house,but it shall not stand:he shall hold him fast by it, yet shall it not endure.
8:16The tree is green before the sun, and the branches spread over the garden of it.
8:17The roots of it are wrapped about the fountain, and are folden about the house of stones.
8:18If any pluck it from his place,and it deny, saying, I have not seen you,
8:19Behold, it will rejoice by this means,that it may grow in another behold.
8:20Behold, El will not cast away an upright man,neither will he take the wicked by the hand,
8:21Till he have filled your mouth with laughter,and your lips with joy.
8:22They that hate you, shall be clothed with shame,and the dwelling of the wicked shall not remain.
Chapter 9
9:1Then Job answered,and said,
9:2I know truly that it is so:for how should man compared to El, be justified?
9:3If I would dispute with him, he could not answer him one thing of a thousand.
9:4He is wise in heart,and mighty in strength:who has been fierce against him and has prospered?
9:5He removes the mountains,and they feel not when he overthrows them in his wrath.
9:6He tremble the earth out of her place, that the pillars of it do shake.
9:7He commands the sun,and it rises not:he closes up the stars, as under a signet.
9:8He himself alone spreads out the heavens,and walks upon the height of the sea.
9:9He makes the stars Arcturus, Orion,and Pleiades,and the climates of the South.
9:10He does great things,and unsearchable:yes, marvelous things without number.
9:11Lo, when he goes by me, I see him not:and when he passes by, I perceive him not.
9:12Behold, when he takes a pray, who can make him restore it? Who shall say to him, What are you doing?
9:13God will not withdraw his anger,and the most mighty helps do stoop under him.
9:14How much less shall I answer him? Or how should I find out my words with him?
9:15For though I were just, yet could I not answer,but I would make supplication to my Judge.
9:16If I cry,and he answer me, yet would I not believe,that he heard my voice.
9:17For he destroys me with a tempest,and wounds me without cause.
9:18He will not suffer me to take my breath,but fills me with bitterness.
9:19If we speak of strength, behold, he is strong:if we speak of judgment, who shall bring me in to plead?
9:20If I would justify myself, my own mouth shall condemn me:if I would be perfect, he shall judge me wicked.
9:21Though I were perfect, yet I know not my nephesh:therefore abhor I my life.
9:22This is one point:therefore I said, He destroys the perfect and the wicked.
9:23If the scourge should suddenly slay, should God laugh at the punishment of the innocent?
9:24The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covers the faces of the Judges of it: if not, where is he? Or who is he?
9:25My days have been more swift than a post:they have fled,and have seen no good thing.
9:26They are passed as with the most swift ships,and as the eagle that flies to the prey.
9:27If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will cease from my wrath,and comfort me,
9:28Then I am afraid of all my sorrows, knowing that you will not judge me innocent.
9:29If I be wicked, why labor I thus in vain?
9:30If I wash myself with snow water,and purge my hands most clean,
9:31Yet shall you plunge me in the pit,and my own clothes shall make me filthy.
9:32For he is not a man as I am,that I should answer him, if we come together to judgment.
9:33Neither is there any umpire that might lay his hand upon us both.
9:34Let him take his rod away from me,and let not his fear astonish me:
9:35Then will I speak,and fear him not:but because I am not so, I hold me still.
Chapter 10
10:1My nephesh is cut off though I live:I will leave my complaint upon myself,and will speak in the bitterness of my nephesh.
10:2I will say to God, Condemn me not:show me, therefore you contend with me.
10:3Think you it good to oppress me,and to cast off the labor of your hands,and to favor the counsel of the wicked?
10:4Have you eyes of flesh? Or do you see as man sees?
10:5Are your days as man's days? Or your years, as the time of man,
10:6That you inquire of my iniquity,and search out my sin?
10:7You know that I cannot do wickedly:for none can deliver me out of your hand.
10:8Your hands have made me,and fashioned me would round about,and will you destroy me?
10:9Remember, I please,that you have made me as the clay,and will you bring me into dust again?
10:10Have you not poured me out as milk? And turned me to curdle like cheese?
10:11You have clothed me with skin and flesh,and joined me together with bones and sinews.
10:12You have given me life,and chesed:and your visitation has preserved my spirit.
10:13Though you have hid these things in your heart, yet I know that it is so with you.
10:14If I have sinned, then you will strictly look to me,and will not hold me guiltless of my iniquity.
10:15If I have done wickedly, woe to me:if I have done righteously, I will not lift up my head, being full of confusion, because I see my affliction.
10:16But let it increase:hunt you me as a lion:return and show yourself marvelous upon me.
10:17You renew your plagues against me,and you increase your wrath against me:changes and armies of sorrows are against me.
10:18Why then have you brought me out of the womb? Oh that I had perished,and that none eye had seen me!
10:19And that I were as I had not been,but brought from the womb to the grave!
10:20Are not my days few? Let him cease,and leave off from me,that I may take a little comfort,
10:21Before I go and shall not return, even to the land of darkness and shadow of death:
10:22Into a land, I say, dark as darkness itself,and into the shadow of death, where is none order,but the light is there as darkness.
Chapter 11
11:1Then answered Zophar the Naamathite,and said,
11:2Should not the multitude of words be answered? Or should a great talker be justified?
11:3Should men hold their peace at your lies? And when you mock others, shall none make you ashamed?
11:4For you have said, My doctrine is pure,and I am clean in your eyes.
11:5But, oh that God would speak and open his lips against you!
11:6That he might show you the secrets of wisdom, how you have deserved double, according to right:know therefore that God has forgotten you for your iniquity.
11:7Can you by searching find out God? Can you find out Shaddai to his perfection?
11:8The heavens are high, what can you do? It is deeper than Sheol, how can you know it?
11:9The measure of it is longer than the earth, and it is broader than the sea.
11:10If he cut off and shut up, or gather together, who can turn him back?
11:11For he knows vain men,and sees iniquity,and him that understands nothing.
11:12Yet vain man would be wise, though man new born is like a wild donkey colt.
11:13If you prepare your heart,and stretch out your hands toward him:
11:14If iniquity be in your hand, put it far away,and let no wickedness dwell in your Tabernacle.
11:15The truly shall you lift up your face without spot,and shall be stable,and shall not fear.
11:16But you shall forget your misery,and remember it as waters that are past.
11:17Your age also shall appear more clear than the noon day:you shall shine and be as the morning.
11:18And you shall be bold, because there is hope:and you shall dig pits,and shall lie down safely.
11:19For when you take your rest, none shall make you afraid:yes, many shall make suit to you.
11:20But the eyes of the wicked shall fail,and their refuge shall perish,and their hope shall be sorrow of nephesh.
Chapter 12
12:1Then Job answered,and said,
12:2indeed because that you are the people only, wisdom must die with you.
12:3But I have understanding well as you,and am not inferior to you:yes, who knows not such things?
12:4I am as one mocked of his neighbor, who calls upon God,and he hears him:the just and the upright is laughed to scorn.
12:5He that is ready to fall, is as a lamp despised in the opinion of the rich.
12:6The tabernacles of robbers do prosper,and they are in safety,that provoke God, whom God has enriched with his hand.
12:7Ask now the beasts,and they shall teach you,and the fowls of the heaven,and they shall tell you:
12:8Or speak to the earth,and it shall show you:or the fish of the sea,and they shall declare to you.
12:9Who is ignorant of all these,but that the hand of YHWH has made these?
12:10In whose hand is the nephesh of every living thing,and the breath of all mankind.
12:11Does not the ears discern the words? And the mouth taste meat for itself?
12:12Among the ancient is wisdom,and in the length of days is understanding.
12:13With him is wisdom and strength:he has counsel and understanding.
12:14Behold, he will break down,and it cannot be built:he shuts a man up,and he cannot be loosed.
12:15Behold, he withholds the waters,and they dry up:but when he sends them out, they destroy the earth.
12:16With him is strength and wisdom:he that is deceived,and that deceives, are his.
12:17He causes the counselors to go as spoiled,and makes the Judges fools.
12:18He loosens the collar of Kings,and binds their loins with a belt.
12:19He leads away the princes as a prey,and overthrows the mighty.
12:20He takes away the speech from the faithful counselors,and takes away the judgment of the ancient.
12:21He pours contempt upon princes,and makes the strength of the mighty weak.
12:22He discovers the deep places from their darkness,and brings forth the shadow of death to light.
12:23He increases the people,and destroys them:he enlarges the nations,and brings them in again.
12:24He takes away the hearts of them that are the chief over the people of the earth,and makes them to wander in the wilderness out of the way.
12:25They grope in the dark without light:and he makes them to stagger like a drunken man.
Chapter 13
13:1Lo, my eye has seen all this:my ear has heard,and understand it.
13:2I know also as much as you know:I am not inferior to you.
13:3But I will speak to Shaddai,and I desire to dispute with God.
13:4For indeed you forgers lies,and all you are physicians of no value.
13:5Oh,that you would hold your tongue,that it might be imputed to you for wisdom!
13:6Now hear my disputation,and give ear to the arguments of my lips.
13:7Will you speak wickedly for God's defense, and talk deceitfully for his cause?
13:8Will you accept his person? Or will you contend for El?
13:9Is it well that he should seek of you? Will you make a lie for him, as one lies for a man?
13:10He will surely reprove you, if you do secretly accept any person.
13:11Shall not his excellency make you afraid? And his fear fall upon you?
13:12Your memories may be compared to ashes,and your bodies to bodies of clay.
13:13Hold your tongues in my presence,that I may speak,and let come upon what will.
13:14Why do I take my flesh in my teeth,and put my nephesh in my hand?
13:15Lo, though he slay me, yet will I trust in him,and I will reprove my ways in his sight.
13:16He shall be my salvation also:for the hypocrite shall not come before him.
13:17Hear diligently my words,and mark my talk.
13:18Behold now:if I prepare me to judgment, I know that I shall be justified.
13:19Who is he,that will plead with me? For if I now hold my tongue, I die.
13:20But do not these two things to me:then will I not hide myself from you.
13:21Withdraw your hand from me,and let not your fear make me afraid.
13:22Then call,and I will answer:or let me speak,and answer you me.
13:23How many are my iniquities and sins? Show me my rebellion,and my sin.
13:24Why hide you your face,and count me for your enemy?
13:25Will you break a leaf driven to and fro? And will you pursue the dry stubble?
13:26For you write bitter things against me,and make me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
13:27You put my feet also in the stocks, and look narrowly to all my paths, and make the print of it in the heels of my feet.
13:28Such one consumes like a rotten thing,and as a garment that is moth-eaten.
Chapter 14
14:1Man that is born of woman, is of short continuance,and full of trouble.
14:2He shoots forth as a flower,and is cut down:he vanishes also as a shadow,and continues not.
14:3And yet you open your eyes upon such one,and cause me to enter into judgment with you.
14:4Who can bring a clean thing out of uncleanness? There is not one.
14:5Are not his days determined? The number of his months are with you:you have appointed his bounds, which he cannot pass.
14:6Turn from him that he may cease until his desired day, as a hireling.
14:7For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will yet sprout, and the branches of it will not cease.
14:8Though the root of it grows old in the earth, and the stock of it be dead in the ground,
14:9Yet by the sent of water it will bud,and bring forth boughs like a plant.
14:10But man is sick,and dies,and man perishes,and where is he?
14:11As the waters pass from the sea,and as the flood dries and dries up,
14:12So man sleeps and rises not:for he shall not wake again, nor be raised from his sleep till the heaven be no more.
14:13Oh that you would hide me in Sheol,and keep me secret, until your wrath were past,and would give me term,and remember me.
14:14If a man die, shall he live again? All the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my changing shall come.
14:15You shall call me,and I shall answer you:you love the work of your own hands.
14:16But now you number my steps,and do not delay my sins.
14:17My transgression is sealed up, as in a bag, and you sew up my iniquity.
14:18And surely as the mountain that falls, crumbles away,and the rock that is removed from his place:
14:19As the water breaks the stones, when you overflow the things which grow in the dust of the earth:so you destroy the hope of man.
14:20You prevail always against him, so that he passes away:he changes his face when you cast him away.
14:21And he knows not if his sons shall be honorable,neither shall he understand concerning them, whether they shall be of low degree,
14:22But while his flesh is upon him, he shall be sorrowful,and while his nephesh is in him, it shall mourn.
Chapter 15
15:1Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite,and said,
15:2Shall a wise man speak words of the wind,and fill his belly with the east wind?
15:3Shall he dispute with words not comely? Or with talk that is not profitable?
15:4Surely you have cast off fear,and restrain prayer before El.
15:5For your mouth declares your iniquity, seeing you have chosen the tongue of the crafty.
15:6Your own mouth condemns you,and not I,and your lips testify against you.
15:7Are you the first man,that was born? And were you made before the hills?
15:8Have you heard the secret counsel of God,and do you restrain wisdom to you?
15:9What know you that we know not? And understand that is not in us?
15:10With us are both ancient and very aged men, far older than your father.
15:11Seem the consolations of El small to you? Is this thing strange to you?
15:12Why does your heart take you away,and what do your eyes mean,
15:13That you turn your spirit against El, and bring such words out of your mouth?
15:14What is man,that he should be clean? And he that is born of woman,that he should be just?
15:15Behold, he found no steadfastness in his Saints:yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
15:16How much more is man abominable,and filthy, which drinks iniquity like water?
15:17I will tell you:hear me,and I will declare that which I have seen:
15:18Which wise men have told, as they have heard of their fathers,and have not kept it secret:
15:19To whom alone the land was given and no stranger passed through them.
15:20The wicked man writhes continually,and the number of years is hid from the tyrant.
15:21A sound of fear is in his ears,and in his prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
15:22He believes not to return out of darkness:for he sees the sword before him.
15:23He wanders to and fro for bread where he may:he knows that the day of darkness is prepared at hand.
15:24Affliction and anguish shall make him afraid:they shall prevail against him as a King ready to the battle.
15:25For he has stretched out his hand against El,and made himself strong against Shaddai.
15:26Therefore God shall run upon him, even upon his neck,and against the most thick part of his shield.
15:27Because he has covered his face with his fatness,and has folds of fat on his loins.
15:28Though he dwell in desolate cities,and in houses which no man inhabits,but are become heaps,
15:29He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection of it in the earth.
15:30He shall never depart out of darkness:the flame shall dry up his branches,and he shall go away with the breath of his mouth.
15:31He believes not that he errs in vanity:therefore vanity shall be his change.
15:32His branch shall not be green,but shall be cut off before his day.
15:33God shall destroy him as the vine her sour grape,and shall cast him off, as the olive does her flower.
15:34For the congregation of the hypocrite shall be desolate, and fire shall devour the tents of bribes.
15:35For they conceive mischief and bring forth vanity,and their belly has prepared deceit.
Chapter 16
16:1But Job answered,and said,
16:2I have oftentimes heard such things:miserable comforters are you all.
16:3Shall there be no end of words of wind? Or what makes you bold so to answer?
16:4I could also speak as you do:(but oh that your nephesh were in my nephesh's stead) I could keep you company in speaking,and could shake my head at you,
16:5But I would strengthen you with my mouth,and the comfort of my lips should assuage your sorrow.
16:6Though I speak, my sorrow cannot be eased:though I cease, what release have I?
16:7But now he makes me weary:O God, you have made all my congregation desolate,
16:8And have made me full of wrinkles which is a witness of it, and my leanness rises up in me, testifying the same in my face.
16:9His wrath has torn me,and he hates me,and gnashes upon me with his teeth:my enemy has sharpened his eyes against me.
16:10They have opened their mouths upon me,and smitten me on the cheek in reproach;they gather themselves together against me.
16:11El has delivered me to the unjust,and has made me to turn out of the way by the hands of the wicked.
16:12I was at ease,but he has shattered me:he has taken me by the neck,and beaten me,and set me as a mark for himself.
16:13His archers compass me round about:he cuts open my reins,and does not spare,and pours my gall upon the ground.
16:14He has broken me with one breaking upon another,and runs upon me like a at.
16:15I have sowed a sackcloth upon my skin,and have abased my horn to the dust.
16:16My face is withered with weeping,and the shadow of death is upon my eyes,
16:17Though there be no wickedness in my hands,and my prayer be pure.
16:18O earth, cover not you my blood,and let my crying find no place.
16:19For lo, now my witness is in the heaven,and my record is on high.
16:20My friends speak eloquently against me:but my eye pours out tears to God.
16:21Oh that a man might plead with God, as man with his neighbor!
16:22For the years accounted come,and I shall go the way, from where I shall not return.
Chapter 17
17:1My breath is corrupt:my days are cut off,and the grave is ready for me.
17:2There are none but mockers with me,and my eye continues in their bitterness.
17:3Lay down now and put me in surety for you:who is he,that will touch my hand?
17:4For you have hid their heart from understanding:therefore shall you not set them up on high.
17:5For the eyes of his children shall fail,that speaks flattery to his friends.
17:6He has also made me a byword of the people,and I am as a Tabret before them.
17:7My eye therefore is dim for grief,and all my strength is like a shadow.
17:8The righteous shall be astonished at this,and the innocent shall be moved against the hypocrite.
17:9But the righteous will hold his way,and he whose hands are pure, shall increase his strength.
17:10All you therefore turn you,and come now,and I shall not find one wise among you.
17:11My days are past, my enterprises are broken,and the thoughts of my heart
17:12Have changed the night for the day,and the light that approached,for darkness.
17:13Though I hope, yet Sheol shall be my house,and I shall make my bed in the dark.
17:14I shall say to corruption, You are my father,and to the worm, You are my mother and my sister.
17:15Where is then now my hope? Or who shall consider the thing,that I hoped for?
17:16They shall go down into the bottom of Sheol:surely it shall lie together in the dust.
Chapter 18
18:1Then answered Bildad the Shuhite,and said,
18:2When will you make an end of your words? Cause us to understand,and then we will speak.
18:3Why are we counted as beasts,and are vile in your sight?
18:4You are as one that tears his nephesh in his anger. Shall the earth be forsaken for your sake? Or the rock removed out of his place?
18:5Yes, the light of the wicked shall be quenched,and the spark of his fire shall not shine.
18:6The light shall be dark in his dwelling,and his candle shall be put out with him.
18:7The steps of his strength shall be restrained,and his own counsel shall cast him down.
18:8For he is taken in the net by his feet,and he walks upon the snares.
18:9The green shall take him by the heel,and the thief shall come upon him.
18:10A snare is laid for him in the ground,and a trap for him in the way.
18:11Fearfulness shall make him afraid on every side,and shall drive him to his feet.
18:12His strength shall be famine:and destruction shall be ready at his side.
18:13It shall devour the inner parts of his skin,and the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.
18:14His hope shall be rooted out of his dwelling,and shall cause him to go to the King of fear.
18:15Fear shall dwell in his house (because it is not his) and brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
18:16His roots shall be dried up beneath,and above shall his branch be cut down.
18:17His remembrance shall perish from the earth,and he shall have no name in the street.
18:18They shall drive him out of the light to darkness,and chase him out of the world.
18:19He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any posterity in his dwellings.
18:20The posterity shall be astonished at his day,and fear shall come upon the ancient.
18:21Surely such are the habitations of the wicked,and this is the place of him that knows not El.
Chapter 19
19:1Then Job answered,and said,
19:2How long will you vex my nephesh,and torment me with words?
19:3You have now ten times reproached me,and are not ashamed:you are impudent toward me.
19:4And though I had indeed erred, my error remains with me.
19:5But indeed if you will advance yourselves against me,and rebuke me for my reproach,
19:6Know now,that God has overthrown me,and has compassed me with his net.
19:7Behold, I cry out of violence,but I have none answer:I cry,but there is no judgment.
19:8He has hedged up my way that I cannot pass,and he has set darkness in my paths.
19:9He has spoiled me of my honor,and taken the crown away from my head.
19:10He has destroyed me on every side and I am gone:and he has removed my hope like a tree.
19:11And he has kindled his wrath against me,and counts me as one of his enemies.
19:12His armies came together,and made their way upon me,and camped about my tabernacle.
19:13He has removed my brethren far from me,and also my acquaintance were strangers to me.
19:14My neighbors have forsaken me,and my familiars have forgotten me.
19:15They that dwell in my house,and my maids counted me for a stranger:for I was a stranger in their sight.
19:16I called my servant,but he would not answer, though I prayed him with my mouth.
19:17My breath was strange to my wife, though I prayed her for the children's sake of my own body.
19:18The wicked also despised me,and when I rose, they spoke against me.
19:19All my secret friends abhorred me,and they whom I loved, are turned against me.
19:20My bones cleave to my skin and to my flesh,and I have escaped with the skin of my teeth.
19:21Have pity upon me:have pity upon me, (O you my friends) for the hand of God has touched me.
19:22Why do you persecute me, as El? And are not satisfied with my flesh?
19:23Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were written even in a book,
19:24And graven with an iron pen in lead, or in stone forever!
19:25For I am sure,that my Redeemer lives,and he shall stand the last on the earth.
19:26And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet shall I see God in my flesh.
19:27Whom I myself shall see,and my eyes shall behold,and none other for me, though my reins are consumed within me.
19:28But you said, Why do we persecute him? Seeing the root of the matter is found in me.
19:29Be afraid of the sword:for the sword will be avenged of wickedness,that you may know that there is a judgment.
Chapter 20
20:1Then answered Zophar the Naamathite and said,
20:2Doubtless my thoughts cause me to answer,and therefore I make haste.
20:3I have heard the correction of my reproach:therefore the spirit of my understanding causes me to answer.
20:4Know you not this of old? And since God placed man upon the earth,
20:5That the rejoicing of the wicked is short,and that the joy of hypocrites is but a moment?
20:6Though his excellency mount up to the heaven,and his head reach to the clouds,
20:7Yet shall he perish forever, like his dung,and they who have seen him, shall say, Where is he?
20:8He shall flee away as a dream,and they shall not find him,and shall pass away as a vision of the night,
20:9So that the eye which had seen him, shall do so no more,and his place shall see him no more.
20:10His children shall flatter the poor,and his hands shall restore his substance.
20:11His bones are full of the sin of his youth,and it shall lie down with him in the dust.
20:12When wickedness was sweet in his mouth,and he hid it under his tongue,
20:13And favored it,and would not forsake it,but kept it close in his mouth,
20:14Then his food in his bowels was turned:the gall of Aspes was in the midst of him.
20:15He has devoured substance,and he shall vomit it:for El shall draw it out of his belly.
20:16He shall suck the gall of vipers,and the viper's tongue shall slay him.
20:17He shall not see the rivers, nor the floods and streams of honey and butter.
20:18He shall restore the labor,and shall devour no more:even according to the substance shall be his exchange,and he shall enjoy it no more.
20:19For he has undone many:he has forsaken the poor,and has spoiled houses which he built not.
20:20Surely he shall feel no quietness in his body,neither shall he reserve of that which he desired.
20:21There shall none of his food be left:therefore none shall hope for his goods.
20:22When he shall be filled with his abundance, he shall be in pain,and the hand of all the wicked shall assail him.
20:23He shall be about to fill his belly,but God shall send upon him his fierce wrath,and shall cause to rain upon him, even upon his meat.
20:24He shall flee from the iron weapons,and the bow of steel shall strike him through.
20:25The arrow is drawn out,and comes forth of the body,and shines of his gall, so fear comes upon him.
20:26All darkness shall be hid in his secret places:the fire that is not blown, shall devour him,and that which remains in his tabernacle, shall be destroyed.
20:27The heaven shall declare his wickedness,and the earth shall rise up against him.
20:28The increase of his house shall go away:it shall flow away in the day of his wrath.
20:29This is the portion of the wicked man from Elohim,and the heritage that he shall have of El for his words.
Chapter 21
21:1But Job answered,and said,
21:2Hear diligently my words,and let this be your consolations.
21:3Suffer me,that I may speak,and when I have spoken, mock on.
21:4Do I direct my talk to man? If it were so, how should not my spirit be troubled?
21:5Mark me,and be abashed,and lay your hand upon your mouth.
21:6Even when I remember, I am afraid,and fear takes hold on my flesh.
21:7Why do the wicked live,and grow old,and increase in wealth?
21:8Their seed is established in their sight with them,and their generation before their eyes.
21:9Their houses are peaceable without fear,and the rod of God is not upon them.
21:10Their bullock genders,and fails not:their cow calves,and casts not her calf.
21:11They send forth their children like sheep,and their sons dance.
21:12They take the tabret and harp,and rejoice in the sound of the organs.
21:13They spend their days in wealth,and suddenly they go down to Sheol.
21:14They say also to El, Depart from us:for we desire not the knowledge of your ways.
21:15Who is Shaddai,that we should serve him? And what profit should we have, if we should pray to him?
21:16Lo, their wealth is not in their hand:therefore let the counsel of the wicked be far from me.
21:17How oft shall the candle of the wicked be put out? And their destruction come upon them? He will divide their lives in his wrath.
21:18They shall be as stubble before the wind,and as chaff that the storm carries away.
21:19God will lay up the sorrow of the father for his children:when he rewards him, he shall know it.
21:20His eyes shall see his destruction,and he shall drink of the wrath of Shaddai.
21:21For what pleasure has he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off?
21:22Shall any teach El knowledge, who judges the highest things?
21:23One dies in his full strength, being in all ease and prosperity.
21:24His breasts are full of milk,and his bones run full of marrow.
21:25And another dies in the bitterness of his nephesh,and never eats with pleasure.
21:26They shall sleep both in the dust,and the worms shall cover them.
21:27Behold, I know your thoughts, and the enterprises, with which you do me wrong.
21:28For you say, Where is the princes house? And where is the tabernacle of the wicked dwelling?
21:29May you not ask them that go by the way? And you cannot deny their signs.
21:30But the wicked is kept to the day of destruction,and they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.
21:31Who shall declare his way to his face? And who shall reward him for that he has done?
21:32Yet shall he be brought to the grave,and remain in the heap.
21:33The slimy valley shall be sweet to him,and every man shall draw after him, as before him there were innumerable.
21:34How then comfort you me in vain, seeing in your answers there remain but lies?
Chapter 22
22:1Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,and said,
22:2May a man be profitable to El, as he that is wise, may be profitable to himself?
22:3Is it anything to Shaddai,that you are righteous? Or is it profitable to him,that you make your ways upright?
22:4Is it for fear of you that he will accuse you? Or go with you into judgment?
22:5Is not your wickedness great,and your iniquities innumerable?
22:6For you have taken the pledge from your brother without cause,and spoiled the clothes of the naked.
22:7To such as were weary, you have not given water to drink,and have withdrawn bread from the hungry.
22:8But the mighty man had the earth,and he that was in authority, dwelt in it.
22:9You have cast out widows empty,and the arms of the fatherless were broken.
22:10Therefore snares are round about you,and fear shall suddenly trouble you:
22:11Or darkness that you should not see,and abundance of waters shall cover you.
22:12Is not God on high in the heaven? And behold the height of the stars how high they are.
22:13But you say, How should El know? Can he judge through the dark cloud?
22:14The clouds hide him that he cannot see,and he walks in the circle of heaven.
22:15Have you marked the way of the world, in which wicked men have walked?
22:16Which were cut down before the time, whose foundation was as a river that overflowed:
22:17Which said to God, Depart from us,and asked what Shaddai could do for them.
22:18Yet he filled their houses with good things:but let the counsel of the wicked be far from me.
22:19The righteous shall see them,and shall rejoice,and the innocent shall laugh them to scorn.
22:20Surely our substance is hid:but the fire has devoured the remnant of them.
22:21Therefore acquaint yourself, I please, with him, and make peace: by it you shall have prosperity.
22:22Receive, I please, the law of his mouth,and lay up his words in your heart.
22:23If you return to the Almighty, you shall be built up,and you shall put iniquity far from your tabernacle.
22:24You shall lay up gold for dust,and the gold of Ophir, as the flints of the rivers.
22:25Yes, Shaddai shall be your defense,and you shall have plenty of silver.
22:26And you shall then delight in Shaddai,and lift up your face to God.
22:27You shall entreat him,and he shall hear you,and you shall render your vows.
22:28You shall also decree a thing,and he shall establish it to you,and the light shall shine upon your ways.
22:29When others are cast down, then shall you say, I am lifted up:and God shall save the humble person.
22:30The innocent shall deliver the hands,and it shall be preserved by the pureness of your hands.
Chapter 23
23:1But Job answered and said,
23:2Though my talk be this day in bitterness,and my plague greater than my groaning,
23:3Oh that I knew how to find him, I would enter to his place.
23:4I would plead the cause before him,and fill my mouth with arguments.
23:5I would know the words,that he would answer me,and would understand what he would say to me.
23:6Would he plead against me with his great power? No,but he would put strength in me.
23:7There the righteous might reason with him, so I should be delivered forever from my Judge.
23:8Behold, if I go to the East, he is not there:if to the West, yet I cannot perceive him:
23:9If to the North where he works, yet I cannot see him:he will hide himself in the South,and I cannot behold him.
23:10But he knows my way,and tries me,and I shall come forth like the gold.
23:11My foot has followed his steps:his way have I kept,and have not declined.
23:12Neither have I departed from the commandment of his lips,and I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my appointed food.
23:13Yet he is in one mind,and who can turn him? Yes, he does what his nephesh desires.
23:14For he will perform that, which is decreed of me,and many such things are with him.
23:15Therefore I am troubled at his presence,and in considering it, I am afraid of him.
23:16For God has softened my heart,and Shaddai has troubled me.
23:17For I am not cut off in darkness,but he has hid the darkness from my face.
Chapter 24
24:1How should not the times be hid from the Almighty, seeing that they who know him, see not his days?
24:2Some remove the land marks, that rob the flocks and feed of it.
24:3They lead away the donkey of the fatherless:and take the widows ox to pledge.
24:4They make the poor to turn out of the way, so that the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
24:5Behold, others as wild donkeys in the wilderness, go forth to their business,and rise early for a pray:the wilderness gives him and his children food.
24:6They reap his provision in the field,but they gather the late vintage of the wicked.
24:7They cause the naked to lodge without garment,and without covering in the cold.
24:8They are wet with the showers of the mountains,and they embrace the rock for want of a covering.
24:9They pluck the fatherless from the breast,and take the pledge of the poor.
24:10They cause him to go naked without clothing,and take the clothing from the hungry.
24:11They that make oil between their walls, and tread their winepresses, suffer thirst.
24:12Men cry out of the city,and the nepheshes of the slain cry out:yet God does not charge them with folly.
24:13These are they,that abhor the light:they know not the ways there, nor continue in the paths there.
24:14The murderer rises early and kills the poor and the needy:and in the night he is as a thief.
24:15The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight,and says, None eye shall see me,and disguise his face.
24:16They dig through houses in the dark, which they marked for themselves in the day:they know not the light.
24:17But the morning is even to them as the shadow of death:if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.
24:18He is swift upon the waters:their portion shall be cursed in the earth:he will not behold the way of the vineyards.
24:19As the dry ground and heat consume the snow waters, so shall Sheol the sinners.
24:20The pitiful man shall forget him:the worm shall feed his sweetness:he shall be no more remembered,and the wicked shall be broken like a tree.
24:21He does evil intreat you barren,that does not bear,neither does he good to the widow.
24:22He draws also the mighty by his power,and when he rises up, none is sure of life.
24:23Though men give him assurance to be in safety, yet his eyes are upon their ways.
24:24They are exalted for a little,but they are gone,and are brought low as all others:they are destroyed,and cut off as the top of an ear of corn.
24:25But if it be not so, where is he? Or who will prove me a liar,and make my words of no value?
Chapter 25
25:1Then answered Bildad the Shuhite,and said,
25:2Power and fear is with him,that makes peace in his high places.
25:3Is there any number in his armies? And upon whom shall not his light arise?
25:4And how may a man be justified with El? Or how can he be clean,that is born of woman?
25:5Behold, he will give no light to the moon,and the stars are unclean in his sight.
25:6How much more man, a worm, even the son of man, who is but a worm?
Chapter 26
26:1But Job answered,and said,
26:2Whom help you? Him that has no power? Save you the arm that has no strength?
26:3Whom counsel you? Him that has no wisdom? You show right well as the thing is.
26:4To whom do you declare these words? Or whose spirit comes out of you?
26:5The dead things are formed under the waters,and near to them.
26:6Sheol is naked before him,and there is no covering for destruction.
26:7He stretches out the North over the empty place,and hangs the earth upon nothing.
26:8He binds the waters in his clouds,and the cloud is not broken under them.
26:9He holds back the face of his throne:and spreads his cloud upon it.
26:10He has set bounds about the waters, until the day and night come to an end.
26:11The pillars of heaven tremble and quake at his reproof.
26:12The sea is calm by his power, and by his understanding he smites the pride of it.
26:13His Spirit has garnished the heavens,and his hand has formed the crooked serpent.
26:14Lo, these are part of his ways:but how little a portion hear we of him? And who can understand his fearful power?
Chapter 27
27:1Moreover Job proceeded and continued his parable, saying,
27:2The living God has taken away my judgment:for Shaddai has put my nephesh in bitterness.
27:3Yet so long as my breath is in me,and the Spirit of God in my nostrils,
27:4My lips surely shall speak no wickedness,and my tongue shall utter no deceit.
27:5God forbid,that I should justify you:until I die, I will never take away my innocency from myself.
27:6I will keep my righteousness,and will not forsake it:my heart shall not reprove me of my days.
27:7My enemy shall be as the wicked,and he that rises against me, as the unrighteous.
27:8For what hope has the hypocrite when he has heaped up riches, if God take away his nephesh?
27:9Will El hear his cry, when trouble comes upon him?
27:10Will he set his delight on Shaddai? Will he call upon God at all times?
27:11I will teach you what is in the hand of God,and I will not conceal that which is with the Almighty.
27:12Behold, all you yourselves have seen it:why then do you thus vanish in vanity?
27:13This is the portion of a wicked man with God,and the heritage of tyrants, which they shall receive of the Almighty.
27:14If his children be in great number, the sword shall destroy them,and his posterity shall not be satisfied with bread.
27:15His remnant shall be buried in death,and his widows shall not weep.
27:16Though he should 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 builds his house as the moth,and as a lodge that the watchman makes.
27:19When the rich man sleeps, he shall not be gathered to his fathers:they opened their eyes,and he was gone.
27:20Terrors shall take him as waters,and a tempest shall carry him away by night.
27:21The east wind shall take him away,and he shall depart:and it shall he him out of his place.
27:22And God shall cast upon him and not spare, though he would and flee out of his hand.
27:23Every man shall clap their hands at him,and hiss at him out of their place.
Chapter 28
28:1The silver surely has his vein,and the gold his place, where they take it.
28:2Iron is taken out of the dust,and brass is molten out of the stone.
28:3God puts an end to darkness,and he tries the perfection of all things:he sets a bond of darkness,and of the shadow of death.
28:4The flood breaks out against the inhabitant,and the waters forgotten of the foot, being higher than man, are gone away.
28:5Out of the same earth comes bread,and under it, as it were fire is turned up.
28:6The stones of it are a place of sapphires, and the dust of it is gold.
28:7There is a path which no fowl has known,neither has the kites eye seen it.
28:8The young lions have not walked it, nor the lion passed by it.
28:9He puts his hand upon the rocks,and overthrows the mountains by the roots.
28:10He breaks rivers in the rocks,and his eye sees every precious thing.
28:11He binds the floods,that they do not overflow,and the thing that is hid, brings he to light.
28:12But where is wisdom found? And where is the place of understanding?
28:13Man knows not the price of it: for it is not found in the land of the living.
28:14The depth says, It is not in me:the sea also says, It is not with me.
28:15Gold shall not be given for it, neither shall silver be weighed for the price of it.
28:16It shall not be valued with the wedge of gold of Ophir, nor with the precious onyx, nor the sapphire.
28:17The gold nor the crystal shall be equal to it, nor the exchange shall be for plate of fine gold.
28:18No mention shall be made of coral, nor of the rubies:for wisdom is more precious than pearls.
28:19The Topaz of Ethiopia shall not be equal to it,neither shall it be valued with the wedge of pure gold.
28:20from where then comes wisdom? And where is the place of understanding,
28:21Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all the living,and is hid from the fowls of the heaven?
28:22Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame of it with our ears.
28:23But Elohim understands the way of it, and he knows the place of it.
28:24For he beholds the ends of the world,and sees all that is under heaven,
28:25To make the weight of the winds,and to weigh the waters by measure.
28:26When he made a decree for the rain,and a way for the lightning of the thunders,
28:27Then did he see it,and counted it:he prepared it and also considered it.
28:28And to man he said, Behold, the fear of Adonai is wisdom,and to depart from evil is understanding.
Chapter 29
29:1So Job proceeded and continued his parable, saying,
29:2Oh that I were as in times past, when God preserved me!
29:3When his light shined upon my head:and when by his light I walked through the darkness,
29:4As I was in the days of my youth: when God's providence was upon my tabernacle:
29:5When the almighty was yet with me,and my children round about me.
29:6When I washed my paths with butter,and when the rock poured me out rivers of oil:
29:7When I went out to the gate, even to the judgment seat,and when I caused them to prepare my seat in the street.
29:8The young men saw me,and hid themselves,and the aged arose,and stood up.
29:9The princes stayed talk,and laid their hand on their mouth.
29:10The voice of princes was hid,and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.
29:11And when the ear heard me, it blessed me:and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me.
29:12For I delivered the poor that cried,and the fatherless,and him that had none to help him.
29:13The blessing of him that was ready to perish, came upon me,and I caused the widows heart to rejoice.
29:14I put on justice,and it covered me:my judgment was as a robe,and a crown.
29:15I was the eyes to the blind,and I was the feet to the lame.
29:16I was a father to the poor,and when I knew not the cause, I sought it out diligently.
29:17I broke also the jaws of the unrighteous man,and plucked the prey out of his teeth.
29:18Then I said, I shall die in my nest,and I shall multiply my days as the sand.
29:19For my root is spread out by the water,and the dew shall lie upon my branch.
29:20My glory shall renew toward me,and my bow shall be restored in my hand.
29:21To me men gave ear,and waited,and held their tongue at my counsel.
29:22After my words they replied not,and my talk dropped upon them.
29:23And they waited for me, as for the rain,and they opened their mouth as for the latter rain.
29:24If I laughed on them, they believed it not:neither did they cause the light of my countenance to fall.
29:25I appointed out their way,and did sit as chief,and dwelt as a King in the army,and like him that comforts the mourners.
Chapter 30
30:1But now they that are younger than I, mock me:yes, they whose fathers I have refused to set with the dogs of my flocks.
30:2For to what should the strength of their hands have served me, seeing age perished in them?
30:3For poverty and famine they were solitary, fleeing into the wilderness, which is dark, desolate and waste.
30:4They cut up nettles by the bushes,and the juniper roots was their meat.
30:5They were chased forth from among men:they shouted at them, as at a thief.
30:6Therefore they dwelt in the clefts of rivers, in the holes of the earth and rocks.
30:7They roared among the bushes,and under the thistles they gathered themselves.
30:8They were the children of fools and the children of villains, which were more vile than the earth.
30:9And now am I their song,and I am their talk.
30:10They abhor me,and flee far from me,and spare not to spit in my face.
30:11Because that God has loosed my cord and humbled me, they have loosed the bridle before me.
30:12The youth rise up at my right hand:they have push my feet,and have trampled on me as on the paths of their destruction.
30:13They have destroyed my paths:they took pleasure at my calamity, they had none help.
30:14They came as a great breach of waters,and under this calamity they come on heaps.
30:15Fear is turned upon me:and they pursue my soul as the wind,and my health passes away as a cloud.
30:16Therefore my nephesh is now poured out upon me,and the days of affliction have taken hold on me.
30:17It pearcs my bones in the night,and my sinews take no rest.
30:18For the great vehemency is my garment changed, which compasses me about as the collar of my coat.
30:19He has cast me into the mire,and I am become like ashes and dust.
30:20When I cry to you, you do not hear me,neither regard me, when I stand up.
30:21You turn yourself cruelly against me,and are enemy to me with the strength of your hand.
30:22You take me up and cause me to ride upon the wind,and make my strength to fail.
30:23Surely I know that you will bring me to death,and to the house appointed for all the living.
30:24Doubtless none can stretch his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.
30:25Did not I weep with him that was in trouble? Was not my nephesh in heaviness for the poor?
30:26Yet when I looked for good, evil came to me:and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
30:27My bowels did boil without rest:for the days of affliction are come upon me.
30:28I went mourning without sun:I stood up in the congregation and cried.
30:29I am a brother to the dragons,and a companion to the ostriches.
30:30My skin is black upon me,and my bones are burnt with heat.
30:31Therefore my harp is turned to mourning,and my pipe into the voice of those who weep.
Chapter 31
31:1I made a covenant with my eyes:why then should I think on a maid?
31:2For what portion should I have of God from above? And what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?
31:3Is not destruction to the wicked and strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?
31:4Does not he behold my ways and tell all my steps?
31:5If I have walked in vanity, or if my foot has made haste to deceit,
31:6Let God weigh me in the just balance,and he shall know my uprightness.
31:7If my step has turned out of the way, or my heart has walked after my eye, or if any blot has cleaved to my hands,
31:8Let me sow,and let another eat:yes, let my plants be rooted out.
31:9If my heart has been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at the door of my neighbor,
31:10Let my wife grind to another man,and let other men bow down upon her:
31:11For this is a wickedness,and iniquity to be condemned:
31:12Yes, this is a fire that shall devour to destruction,and which shall root out all my increase,
31:13If I did contemn the judgment of my servant,and of my maid, when they did contend with me,
31:14What then shall I do when El stands up? And when he shall visit me, what shall I answer?
31:15He that has made me in the womb, has he not made him? Has not he alone fashioned us in the womb?
31:16If I restrained the poor of their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
31:17Or have eaten my morsels alone,and the fatherless has not eaten of it,
31:18(For from my youth he has grown up with me as with a father,and from my mother's womb I have been a guide to her)
31:19If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering,
31:20If his loins have not blessed me, because he was warmed with the fleece of my sheep,
31:21If I have lift up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw that I might help him in the gate,
31:22Let my arm fall from my shoulder,and my arm be broken from the bone.
31:23For God's punishment was fearful to me, and I could not be delivered from his highness.
31:24If I made gold my hope, or have said to the wedge of gold, You are my confidence,
31:25If I rejoiced because my substance was great, or because my hand had gotten much,
31:26If I did behold the sun, when it shined, or the moon, walking in her brightness,
31:27If my heart did flatter me in secret, or if my mouth did kiss my hand,
31:28(This also had been an iniquity to be condemned:for I had denied the El above)
31:29If I rejoiced at his destruction that hated me, or was moved to joy when evil came upon him,
31:30Neither have I allowed my mouth to sin, by wishing a curse to his nephesh.
31:31Did not the men of my Tabernacle say, Who shall give us of his flesh? We cannot be satisfied.
31:32The stranger did not lodge in the street,but I opened my doors to him,that went by the way.
31:33If I have hid my sin, as Adam, concealing my iniquity in my bosom,
31:34Though I could have made afraid a great multitude, yet the most contemptible of the families did fear me:so I kept silence,and went not out of the door.
31:35Oh that I had some to hear me! Behold my sign that Shaddai will witness for me:though my adversary should write a book against me,
31:36Would not I take it upon my shoulder,and bind it as a crown to me?
31:37I will tell him the number of my goings,and go to him as to a prince.
31:38If my land cry against me, or the furrows of it complain together,
31:39If I have eaten the fruits of it without silver: or if I have grieved the nepheshes of the masters of it,
31:40Let thistles grow instead of wheat,and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.
Chapter 32
32:1So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he esteemed himself just.
32:2Then the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was kindled:his wrath, I say, was kindled against Job, because he justified his nephesh more than Elohim.
32:3Also his anger was kindled against his three friends, because they could not find an answer,and yet condemned Job.
32:4(Now Elihu had waited till Job had spoken:for they were more ancient in years than he)
32:5So when Elihu saw,that there was none answer in the mouth of the three men, his wrath was kindled.
32:6Therefore Elihu the son of Barachel, the Buzite answered,and said, I am young in years,and you are ancient:therefore I doubted,and was afraid to show you my opinion.
32:7For I said, The days shall speak,and the multitude of years shall teach wisdom.
32:8Surely there is a spirit in man,but the inspiration of Shaddai gives understanding.
32:9Great men are not always wise,neither do the aged always understand judgment.
32:10Therefore I say, Hear me,and I will show also my opinion.
32:11Behold, I did wait upon your words,and listened to your knowledge, while you sought out reasons.
32:12Yes, when I had considered you, lo, there was none of you that reproved Job, nor answered his words:
32:13Lest you should say, We have found wisdom:for El has cast him down,and no man.
32:14Yet has he not directed his words to me,neither will I answer him by your words.
32:15Then they fearing, answered no more,but left off their talk.
32:16When I had waited (for they spoke not,but stood still and answered no more)
32:17Then answered I in my turn,and I showed my opinion.
32:18For I am full of matter,and the spirit within me compels me.
32:19Behold, my belly is as the wine, which has no vent,and like the new bottles that burst.
32:20Therefore will I speak,that I may take breath:I will open my lips,and will answer.
32:21I will not now accept the person of man,neither will I give titles to man.
32:22For I may not give titles,lest my Maker should take me away suddenly.
Chapter 33
33:1Therefore, Job, I please, hear my talk and listen to all my words.
33:2Behold now, I have opened my mouth:my tongue has spoken in my palate.
33:3My words are in the uprightness of my heart,and my lips shall speak pure knowledge.
33:4The Spirit of God has made me,and the breath of Shaddai has given me life.
33:5If you can give me answer, prepare yourself and stand before me.
33:6Behold, I am according to your wish in God's stead: I am also formed of the clay.
33:7Behold, my terror shall not fear you,neither shall my hand be heavy upon you.
33:8Doubtless you have spoken in my ears,and I have heard the voice of your words.
33:9I am clean, without sin:I am innocent,and there is none iniquity in me.
33:10Lo, he has found occasions against me,and counted me for his enemy.
33:11He has put my feet in the stocks,and looks narrowly to all my paths.
33:12Behold, in this have you not done right:I will answer you,that God is greater than man.
33:13Why do you strive against him? For he does not give account of all his matters.
33:14For El speaks once or twice,and one sees it not.
33:15In dreams and visions of the night, when sleep falls upon men,and they sleep upon their beds,
33:16Then he opens the ears of men, even by their corrections, which he had sealed,
33:17That he might cause man to turn away from his enterprise,and that he might hide the pride of man,
33:18And keep back his nephesh from the pit,and that his life should not pass by the sword.
33:19He is also stricken with sorrow upon his bed,and the grief of his bones is sore,
33:20So that his life causes him to abhor bread,and his nephesh dainty meat.
33:21His flesh fails that it cannot be seen,and his bones which were not seen, clatter.
33:22So his nephesh draws to the grave,and his life to the buriers.
33:23If there be a messenger with him, or an interpreter, one of a thousand to declare to man his righteousness,
33:24Then will he be gracious to him,and will say, Deliver him,that he do not go down into the pit:for I have received a reconciliation.
33:25Then shall his flesh be as fresh as a child's,and shall return as in the days of his youth.
33:26He shall entreat God,and he will be favorable to him,and he shall see his face with joy:for he will render to man his righteousness.
33:27He looks upon men,and if one say, I have sinned,and perverted righteousness,and it did not profit me,
33:28He will deliver his nephesh from going into the pit,and his life shall see the light.
33:29Lo, all these things will El work twice or thrice with a man,
33:30That he may turn back his nephesh from the pit, to be illuminated with the light of the living.
33:31Mark well, O Job,and hear me:keep silence,and I will speak.
33:32If there be matter, answer me,and speak:for I desire to justify you.
33:33If you have not, hear me:hold your tongue,and I will teach you wisdom.
Chapter 34
34:1Moreover Elihu answered,and said,
34:2Hear my words, the wise men,and listen to me, you that have knowledge.
34:3For the ear tries the words, as the mouth tastes meat.
34:4Let us seek judgment among us,and let us know among ourselves what is good.
34:5For Job has said, I am righteous,and El has taken away my judgment.
34:6Should I lie in my right? My wound of the arrow is grievous without my transgression.
34:7What man is like Job,that drinks scornfulness like water?
34:8Which goes in the company of them that work iniquity,and walks with wicked men?
34:9For he has said, It profits a man nothing that he should walk with Elohim.
34:10Therefore listen to me, you men of wisdom, God forbid that wickedness should be in God,and iniquity in Shaddai.
34:11For he will render to man according to his work,and cause every one to find according to his way.
34:12And certainly God will not do wickedly,neither will Shaddai pervert judgment.
34:13Whom has he appointed over the earth beside himself? Or who has placed the whole world?
34:14If he set his heart upon man,and gather to himself his spirit and his breath,
34:15All flesh shall perish together,and man shall return to dust.
34:16And if you have understanding, hear this and listen to the voice of my words.
34:17Shall he that hates judgment, govern? And will you judge him wicked that is most just?
34:18Will you say to a King, You are wicked? Or to princes, You are ungodly?
34:19How much less to him that accepts not the persons of princes,and regards not the rich, more than the poor? For they be all the work of his hands.
34:20They shall die suddenly,and the people shall be troubled at midnight,and they shall pass forth and take away the mighty without hand.
34:21For his eyes are upon the ways of man,and he sees all his goings.
34:22There is no darkness nor shadow of death, that the workers of iniquity might be hid in it.
34:23For he will not lay on man so much,that he should enter into judgment with El.
34:24He shall break the mighty without seeking,and shall set up other in their stead.
34:25Therefore shall he declare their works:he shall turn the night,and they shall be destroyed.
34:26He strikes them as wicked men in the places of the seers,
34:27Because they have turned back from him,and would not consider all his ways:
34:28So that they have caused the voice of the poor to come to him,and he has heard the cry of the afflicted.
34:29And when he gives quietness, who can make trouble? And when he hides his face, who can behold him, whether it be upon nations, or upon a man only?
34:30Because the hypocrite does reign,and because the people are snared.
34:31Surely it appertains to El to say, I have pardoned, I will not destroy.
34:32But if I see not, teach you me:if I have done wickedly, I will do no more.
34:33Will he perform the thing through you? For you have reproved it, because that you have chosen,and not I. Now speak what you know.
34:34Let men of understanding tell me,and let a wise man listen to me.
34:35Job has not spoken of knowledge,neither were his words according to wisdom.
34:36I desire that Job may be tried, to the end touching the answers for wicked men.
34:37For he adds rebellion to his sin:he claps his hands among us,and multiplies his words against El.
Chapter 35
35:1Elihu spoke moreover,and said,
35:2Think you this right,that you have said, I am more righteous than El?
35:3For you have said, What profits it you and what avails it me, to purge me from my sin?
35:4Therefore will I answer you,and your companions with you.
35:5Look to the heaven,and see and behold the clouds which are higher than you.
35:6If you sin, what do you against him, yes, when your transgressions be many, what do you to him?
35:7If you be righteous, what give you to him? Or what receives he at your hand?
35:8Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are:and your righteousness may profit the son of man.
35:9They cause many that are oppressed, to cry, which cry out for the violence of the mighty.
35:10But none says, Where is God that made me, which gives songs in the night?
35:11Which teaches us more than the beasts of the earth,and gives us more wisdom than the fowls of the heaven.
35:12Then they cry because of the violence of the wicked,but he answers not.
35:13Surely God will not hear vanity,neither will Shaddai regard it.
35:14Although you say to God, You will not regard it, yet judgment is before him:trust you in him.
35:15But now because his anger has not visited, nor called to count the evil with great extremity,
35:16Therefore Job opens his mouth in vain,and multiplies words without knowledge.
Chapter 36
36:1Elihu also proceeded and said,
36:2Suffer me a little, and I will instruct you: for I have yet to speak on God's behalf.
36:3I will fetch my knowledge afar off,and will attribute righteousness to my Maker.
36:4For truly my words shall not be false,and he that is perfect in knowledge, speaks with you.
36:5Behold, the mighty El casts away none that is mighty and valiant of courage.
36:6He maintains not the wicked,but he gives judgment to the afflicted.
36:7He withdraw not his eyes from the righteous,but they are with Kings in the throne, where he places them forever:thus they are exalted.
36:8And if they be bound in fetters and tied with the cords of affliction,
36:9Then will he show them their work and their transgressions, because they have been proud.
36:10He opens also their ear to discipline,and commands them that they return from iniquity.
36:11If they obey and serve him, they shall end their days in prosperity,and their years in pleasures.
36:12But if they will not obey, they shall pass by the sword,and perish without knowledge.
36:13But the hypocrites of heart increase the wrath:for they call not when he binds them.
36:14Their nephesh dies in youth,and their life among the whoremongers.
36:15He delivers the poor in his affliction,and opens their ear in trouble.
36:16Even so would he have taken you out of the straight place into a broad place and not shut up beneath:and that which rests upon your table, had been full of fat.
36:17But you are full of the judgment of the wicked, though judgment and equity maintain all things.
36:18For God's wrath is, lest he should take that away in your abundance: for no multitude of gifts can deliver you.
36:19Will he regard your riches? He regards not gold, nor all them that excel in strength.
36:20Be not careful in the night, how he destroys the people out of their place.
36:21Take you heed:look not to iniquity:for you have chosen it rather than affliction.
36:22Behold, El exalts by his power:what teacher is like him?
36:23Who has appointed to him his way? Or who can say, You have done wickedly?
36:24Remember that you magnify his work, which men behold.
36:25All men see it,and men behold it afar off.
36:26Behold, El is excellent,and we know him not,neither can the number of his years be searched out.
36:27When he restrains the drops of water, the rain pours down by the vapor of it,
36:28Which rain the clouds do drop and let fall abundantly upon man.
36:29Who can know the divisions of the clouds and the thunders of his tabernacle?
36:30Behold, he spreads his light upon it, and covers the roots of the sea.
36:31For by it he judges the people, and gives meat abundantly.
36:32He covers the light with the clouds,and commands them to go against it.
36:33His companion shows him of it, and there is anger in rising up.
37:1At this also my heart is astonished,and is moved out of his place.
37:2Hear the sound of his voice,and the noise that goes out of his mouth.
37:3He directs it under the whole heaven,and his light to the ends of the world.
37:4After it a noise sounds:he thunders with the voice of his majesty,and he will not stay them when his voice is heard.
37:5El thunders marvelously with his voice:he works great things, which we know not.
37:6For he says to the snow, Be you upon the earth:likewise to the small rain and to the great rain of his power.
37:7With the force of it he shuts up every man, that all men may know his work.
37:8Then the beasts go into the den,and remain in their places.
37:9The whirlwind comes out of the South,and the cold from the North wind.
37:10At the breath of El the frost is given,and the breadth of the waters is made narrow.
37:11He makes also the clouds to labor, to water the earth,and scatters the cloud of his light.
37:12And it is turned about by his government,that they may do whatever he commands them upon the whole world:
37:13Whether it be for punishment, or for his land, or of chesed, he causes it to come.
37:14Listen to this, O Job:stand and consider the wondrous works of El.
37:15Did you know when God disposed them? And caused the light of his cloud to shine?
37:16Have you known the variety of the cloud,and the wondrous works of him,that is perfect in knowledge?
37:17Or how your clothes are warm, when he makes the earth quiet through the South wind?
37:18Have you stretched out the heavens, which are strong,and as a molten glass?
37:19Tell us what we shall say to him:for we cannot dispose our matter because of darkness.
37:20Shall it be told him when I speak? Or shall man speak when he shall be destroyed?
37:21And now men see not the light, which shines in the clouds,but the wind passes and cleanses them.
37:22The brightness comes out of the North: the praise of it is to God, which is terrible.
37:23It is Shaddai:we cannot find him out:he is excellent in power and judgment,and abundant in justice:he afflicts not.
37:24Let men therefore fear him:for he will not regard any that are wise in their own conceit.
Chapter 38
38:1Then answered YHWH to Job out of the whirlwind,and said,
38:2Who is this that darkens the counsel by words without knowledge?
38:3Gird up now your loins like a man:I will demand of you and declare you to me.
38:4Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if you have understanding,
38:5Who has laid the measures of it, if you know, or who has stretched the line over it:
38:6On what were its foundations set: or who laid its cornerstone:
38:7When the stars of the morning praised me together,and all the children of Elohim rejoiced:
38:8Or who has shut up the Sea with doors, when it issued and came forth as out of the womb:
38:9When I made the clouds as a covering of it, and darkness as the wrapping bands of it:
38:10When I established my commandment upon it,and set bars and doors,
38:11And said, Thus far shall you come,but no farther,and here shall it stay your proud waves.
38:12Have you commanded the morning since your days? Have you caused the morning to know his place,
38:13That it might take hold of the corners of the earth,and that the wicked might be shaken out of it?
38:14It is turned as clay to fashion,and all stand up as a garment.
38:15And from the wicked their light shall be taken away,and the high arm shall be broken.
38:16Have you entered into the bottoms of the sea? Or have you walked to seek out the depth?
38:17Have the gates of death been opened to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
38:18Have you perceived the breadth of the earth? Tell if you know all this.
38:19Where is the way where light dwells? And where is the place of darkness,
38:20That you should receive it in the bounds of it, and that you should know the paths to the house of it?
38:21Knew you it, because you were then born,and because the number of your days is great?
38:22Have you entered into the treasures of the snow? Or have you seen the treasures of the hail,
38:23Which I have hid against the time of trouble, against the day of war and battle?
38:24By what way is the light parted, which scatters the east wind upon the earth?
38:25Who has divided the water for the rain? Or the way for the lightning of the thunders,
38:26To cause it to rain on the earth where no man is,and in the wilderness where there is no man?
38:27To fulfill the wild and waste place,and to cause the bud of the herb to spring forth?
38:28Who is the father of the rain? Or who has begotten the drops of the dew?
38:29Out of whose womb came the ice? Who has engendered the frost of the heaven?
38:30The waters are hid as with a stone:and the face of the depth is frozen.
38:31Can you restrain the sweet influences of the Pleiades? Or loose the bands of Orion?
38:32Can you bring forth Mazzaroth in their time? Can you also guide Arcturus with his sons?
38:33Know you the statutes of heaven, or can you set the rule of it in the earth?
38:34Can you lift up your voice to the clouds that the abundance of water may cover you?
38:35Can you send the lightnings that they may walk,and say to you, Lo, here we are?
38:36Who has put wisdom in the reins? Or who has given the heart understanding?
38:37Who can number clouds by wisdom? Or who can cause to cease the bottles of heaven,
38:38When the earth grows into hardness,and the clots are fast together?
38:39Will you hunt the prey for the lion? Or fill the appetite of the young lions,
38:40When they couch in their places,and remain in the covert to lie in wait?
38:41Who prepares for the raven his food, when his birds cry to El, wandering for lack of meat?
Chapter 39
39:1Know you the time when the wild goats bring forth young? Or do you mark when the does give birth?
39:2Can you number the months that they fulfill? Or know you the time when they bring forth?
39:3They bow themselves:they bruise their young and cast out their sorrows.
39:4Yet their young grow strong,and grow up in the open field:they go forth and return not to them.
39:5Who has set the wild donkey at liberty? Or who has loosed the bonds of the wild donkey?
39:6It is I which have made the wilderness his house,and the salt places his dwellings.
39:7He scorns the multitude of the city: he hears not the cry of the driver.
39:8He seeks out the mountain for his pasture,and searches after every green thing.
39:9Will the wild ox serve you? Or will he stay by your crib?
39:10Can you bind the wild ox with his band to labor in the furrow? Or will he plow the valleys after you?
39:11Will you trust in him, because his strength is great,and cast off your labor to him?
39:12Will you believe him,that he will bring home your seed,and gather it to your break?
39:13Have you given the pleasant wings to the peacocks? Or wings and feathers to the ostrich?
39:14Which leaves his eggs in the earth,and makes them hot in the dust,
39:15And forgets that the foot might scatter them, or that the wild beast might break them.
39:16He shows himself cruel to his young ones, as they were not his,and is without fear, as if he labored in vain.
39:17For God had deprived him of wisdom,and has given him no part of understanding.
39:18When time is, he mounts on high:he mocks the horse and his rider.
39:19Have you given the horse strength? Or covered his neck with neying?
39:20Have you made him afraid as the spear? His strong glittering is fearful.
39:21He digs in the valley,and rejoices in his strength:he goes forth to meet the harness man.
39:22He mocks at fear,and is not afraid,and turns not back from the sword,
39:23Though the quiver rattle against him, the glittering spear and the shield.
39:24He swallows the ground for fierceness and rage,and he believes not that it is the noise of the trumpet.
39:25He says among the trumpets, Ha, ha:he dwells the battle afar off,and the noise of the captains,and the shouting.
39:26Shall the hawk fly by your wisdom, stretching out his wings toward the South?
39:27Does the eagle mount up at your commandment, or make his nest on high?
39:28She abides and remains in the rock, even upon the top of the rock, and the tower.
39:29From there she is for food, and her eyes behold afar off.
39:30His young ones also suck up blood: and where the slain are, there is she.
Chapter 40
40:1Moreover YHWH spoke to Job, and said,
40:2Is this to learn to strive with Shaddai? He that reproves God, let him answer to it.
40:3Then Job answered YHWH, saying,
40:4Behold, I am vile: what shall I answer you? I will lay my hand upon my mouth.
40:5Once have I spoken, but I will answer no more, yes twice, but I will proceed no further.
40:6Again YHWH answered Job out of the whirlwind,and said,
40:7Gird up now your loins like a man:I will demand of you,and declare you to me.
40:8Will you disannul my judgment? Or will you condemn me,that you may be justified?
40:9Or have you an arm like El? Or do you thunder with a voice like him?
40:10Deck yourself now with majesty and excellency,and array yourself with beauty and glory.
40:11Cast abroad the indignation of your wrath,and behold every one that is proud,and abase him.
40:12Look on every one that is arrogant,and bring him low:and destroy the wicked in their place.
40:13Hide them in the dust together,and bind their faces in a secret place.
40:14Then will I confess to you also,that your right hand can save you.
40:15Behold now Behemoth (whom I made with you) which eats grass as an ox.
40:16Behold now, his strength is in his loins,and his force is in the navel of his belly.
40:17When he takes pleasure, his tail is like a cedar:the sinews of his stones are wrapped together.
40:18His bones are like staves of brass,and his small bones like staves of iron.
40:19He is the chief of the ways of El:he that made him, will make his sword to approach to him.
40:20Surely the mountains bring him forth grass, where all the beasts of the field play.
40:21Lies he under the trees in the covert of the reed and fens?
40:22Can the trees cover him with their shadow? Or can the willows of the river compass him about?
40:23Behold, he spoils the river,and hasts not:he trusts that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth.
40:24He takes it with his eyes,and thrusts his nose through whatever meets him.
40:25Can you draw out Leviathan with a hook,and with a line which you shall cast down to his tongue?
40:26Can you cast a hook into his nose? Can you pierce his jaws with an angle?
40:27Will he make many supplications to you, or speak fair to you?
40:28Will he make a covenant with you? And will you take him as a servant forever?
40:29Will you play with him as with a bird? Or will you bind him for your maids?
40:30Shall the companions make a banquet of him? Shall they divide him among the merchants?
40:31Can you fill his skin with barbed irons? Or his head with fish-spears?
40:32Lay your hand upon him: remember the battle, and do no more so.
Chapter 41
41:1Behold, his hope is in vain: for shall not one perish even at the sight of him?
41:2None is so fierce that dare stir him up. Who is he then that can stand before me?
41:3Who has prevented me that I should make an end? All under heaven is mine.
41:4I will not keep silence concerning his parts, nor his power nor his comely proportion.
41:5Who can discover the face of his garment? Or who shall come to him with a double bridle?
41:6Who shall open the doors of his face? His teeth are fearful round about.
41:7The majesty of his scales is like strong shields,and are sure sealed.
41:8One is set to another,that no wind can come between them.
41:9One is joined to another:they stick together,that they cannot be sundered.
41:10His sneezings make the light to shine,and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
41:11Out of his mouth go lamps,and dare of fire leap out.
41:12Out of his nostrils comes out smoke, as out of a boiling pot or cauldron.
41:13His breath makes the coals burn:for a flame goes out of his mouth.
41:14In his neck remains strength,and labor is rejected before his face.
41:15The members of his body are joined:they are strong in themselves,and cannot be moved.
41:16His heart is as strong as a stone,and as hard as the nether millstone.
41:17The mighty are afraid of his majesty,and for fear they faint in themselves.
41:18When the sword does touch him, he will not rise up, nor for the spear, dart nor javelin.
41:19He esteems iron as straw,and brass as rotten wood.
41:20The archer out make him flee:the stones of the sling are turned into stubble to him:
41:21The darts are counted as straw:and he laughs at the shaking of the spear.
41:22Sharp stones are under him,and he spreads sharp things upon the mire.
41:23He makes the depth to boil like a pot,and makes the sea like a pot of ointment.
41:24He makes a path to shine after him:one would think the depth as a gray head.
41:25In the earth there is none like him:he is made without fear.
41:26He beholds all high things:he is a King over all the children of pride.
Chapter 42
42:1Then Job answered YHWH,and said,
42:2I know that you can do all things,and that there is no thought hid from you.
42:3Who is he that hides counsel without knowledge? Therefore have I spoken that I understood not, even things too wonderful for me,and which I knew not.
42:4Hear, I ask you,and I will speak:I will demand of you,and declare you to me.
42:5I have heard of you by the hearing of the ear,but now my eye sees you.
42:6Therefore I abhor myself,and repent in dust and ashes.
42:7Now after that YHWH had spoken these words to Job, YHWH also said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against you,and against your two friends:for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, like my servant Job.
42:8Therefore take to you now seven bullocks,and seven rams,and go to my servant Job,and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering,and my servant Job shall pray for you:for I will accept him,lest I should put you to shame, because you have not spoken of me the thing, which is right, like my servant Job.
42:9So Eliphaz the Temanite,and Bildad the Shuhite,and Zophar the Naamathite went,and did according as YHWH had said to them,and YHWH accepted Job.
42:10Then YHWH turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends:also YHWH gave Job twice so much as he had before.
42:11Then came to him all his brethren,and all his sisters,and all they that had been of his acquaintance before,and did eat bread with him in his house,and had compassion of him,and comforted him for all the evil,that YHWH had brought upon him,and every man gave him a piece of money,and every one a gold ring.
42:12So YHWH blessed the last days of Job more than the first:for he had fourteen thousand sheep,and six thousand camels,and a thousand yoke of oxen,and a thousand she donkeys.
42:13He had also seven sons,and three daughters.
42:14And he called the name of one Jemimah,and the name of the second Keziah,and the name of the third Keren-happuch.
42:15In all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job,and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.
42:16And after this lived Job a hundred and forty years,and saw his sons,and his sons sons, even four generations.
42:17So Job died, being old,and full of days.