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1:1 There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one who feared Elohim, and shunned evil.
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1:2 And there were born to him seven sons and three daughters.
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1:3 His substance also was seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.
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1:4 And his sons went and feasted in their houses, each his day; and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.
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1:5 And it was so, when the days of their feasting had ended, Job sent and sanctified them, rose early in the morning, and offered burnt-offerings according to the number of them all; for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed Elohim in their hearts. Thus Job did continually.
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1:6 Now there was a day when the sons of Elohim came to present themselves before YHWH, and Satan also came among them.
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1:7 And YHWH said to Satan, Where did you come from? Then Satan answered YHWH, and said, From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down upon it.
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1:8 And YHWH said to Satan, Have you considered my servant Job, that there is no one like him on the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one who fears Elohim, and shunneth evil?
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1:9 Then Satan answered YHWH, and said, Does Job fear Elohim for nothing?
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1:10 Have you not made a hedge about him, about his house, and about all that he has on every side? you have blessed the work of his hands, and his substance has increased in the land.
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1:11 But put forth your hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will curse you to your face.
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1:12 And YHWH said to Satan, Behold, all that he has is in your power; only do not put forth your hand upon him. So Satan went forth from the presence of YHWH.
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1:13 And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house:
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1:14 And a messenger to Job came, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the donkeys feeding beside them:
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1:15 And the Sabeans fell upon them, and took them away; yes, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and only I alone have escaped to tell you.
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1:16 While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of Elohim has fallen from heaven, and has burned up the sheep and the servants, and consumed them; and only I have escaped alone to tell you.
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1:17 While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have carried them away, yes, and have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and only I alone have escaped to tell you.
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1:18 While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house:
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1:19 And behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and only I alone have escaped to tell you.
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1:20 Then Job arose, rent his mantle, shaved his head, fell upon the ground, and worshiped,
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1:21 And said, Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I shall return there: YHWH gave, and YHWH has taken away; blessed is the name of YHWH.
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1:22 In all this Job did not sin, nor charged Elohim foolishly.
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2:1 Again there was a day when the sons of Elohim came to present themselves before YHWH, and Satan also came among them to present himself before YHWH.
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2:2 And YHWH said to Satan, Where did you come from? and Satan answered YHWH, and said, From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down upon it.
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2:3 And YHWH said to Satan, Have you considered my servant Job, that there is no one like him on the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one who fears Elohim, and shunneth evil? and still he holds fast his integrity, although you movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause.
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2:4 And Satan answered YHWH, and said, Skin for skin, even all that a man has he will give for his life.
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2:5 But put forth your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse you to your face.
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2:6 And YHWH said to Satan, Behold, he is in your hand; but save his life.
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2:7 So Satan went forth from the presence of YHWH, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot to his crown.
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2:8 And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself with it; and he sat down among the ashes.
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2:9 Then his wife said to him, Do you still retain your integrity? curse Elohim, and die.
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2:10 But he said to her, You speakest as one of the foolish women speaks. What? shall we receive good at the hand of Elohim, and shall we not receive evil? In all this Job did not sin with his lips.
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2:11 Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him, and to comfort him.
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2:12 And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and did not know him, they raised their voice, and wept; and they each rent his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads towards heaven.
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2:13 So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him: for they saw that his grief was very great.
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3:1 After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed his day.
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3:2 And Job spoke, and said,
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3:3 Let the day perish in which I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a male child conceived.
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3:4 Let that day be darkness; do not let Elohim regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
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3:5 Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
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3:6 As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; do not let it be joined to the days of the year, do not let it come into the number of the months.
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3:7 Behold, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.
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3:8 Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up Leviathan.
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3:9 Let the stars of its twilight be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:
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3:10 Because it did not prevent my birth, nor hid sorrow from my eyes.
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3:11 Why did I not die from the womb? why did I not expire at the time of my birth?
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3:12 Why did the knees receive me? or why the breasts so that I should be nursed?
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3:13 For now I should have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then I would have been at rest,
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3:14 With kings and counselors of the earth, who built desolate places for themselves;
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3:15 Or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
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3:16 Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
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3:17 There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary are at rest.
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3:18 There the prisoners rest together; they do not hear the voice of the oppressor.
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3:19 The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
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3:20 Why is light given to him who is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul;
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3:21 Who long for death, but it does not come; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
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3:22 Who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
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3:23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom Elohim has hedged in?
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3:24 For my sighing comes before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
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3:25 For the thing which I greatly feared has come upon me, and that which I dreaded has come to me.
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3:26 I was not in safety, neither did I have rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.
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4:1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
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4:2 If we essay to commune with you, will you be grieved? but who can refrain from speaking?
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4:3 Behold, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened the weak hands.
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4:4 Your words have upheld him who was falling, and you have strengthened the feeble knees.
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4:5 But now it has come upon you, and you faintest; it toucheth you, and you are troubled.
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4:6 Is this not your fear, your confidence, your hope, and the uprightness of your ways?
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4:7 Remember, I pray you, whoever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off;
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4:8 Even as I have seen, those who plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.
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4:9 By the blast of Elohim they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils they are consumed.
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4:10 The roaring of the lion, the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
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4:11 The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad.
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4:12 Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and my ear received a small sound of it.
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4:13 In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men.
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4:14 Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake.
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4:15 Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up:
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4:16 It stood still, but I could not discern its form: an image was before my eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying,
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4:17 Shall mortal man be more just than Elohim? shall a man be more pure than his maker?
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4:18 Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly:
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4:19 How much less in those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth?
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4:20 They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish forever without any regarding it.
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4:21 Does their excellence which is in them not depart? they die, even without wisdom.
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5:1 Call now, if there is any who will answer you; and to which of the saints will you turn?
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5:2 For wrath kills the foolish man, and envy slays the silly one.
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5:3 I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
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5:4 His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there anyone to deliver them.
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5:5 Whose harvest the hungry eats up, and takes it even out of the thorns, and the robber swallows up their substance.
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5:6 Although affliction does not come forth from the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground;
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5:7 Yet man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
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5:8 I would seek to Elohim, and to Elohim I would commit my cause:
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5:9 Who does great things and unsearchable; wonderful things without number:
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5:10 Who gives rain upon the earth, and sends waters upon the fields:
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5:11 To set on high those who are low: so that those who mourn may be exalted to safety.
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5:12 He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
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5:13 He takes the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
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5:14 They meet with darkness in the day-time, and grope in the noon-day as in the night.
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5:15 But he saves the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.
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5:16 So the poor has hope, and iniquity stops her mouth.
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5:17 Behold, happy is the man whom Elohim correcteth: therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty:
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5:18 For he makes sore, and binds up: he wounds, and his hands make whole.
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5:19 He will deliver you in six troubles: even in seven no evil shall touch you.
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5:20 In famine he will redeem you from death: and in war from the power of the sword.
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5:21 You shall be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shall you be afraid of destruction when it comes.
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5:22 At destruction and famine you shall laugh: neither shall you be afraid of the beasts of the earth.
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5:23 For you shall be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with you.
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5:24 And you shall know that your tabernacle will be in peace; and you shall visit your habitation, and shall not sin.
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5:25 You shall also know that your seed will be great, and your offspring as the grass of the earth.
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5:26 You shall come to your grave in a full age, as a shock of grain comes in in its season.
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5:27 Behold this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know it for your good.
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6:1 But Job answered and said,
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6:2 Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
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6:3 For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.
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6:4 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison of which drinks up my spirit: the terrors of Elohim set themselves in array against me.
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6:5 Does the wild donkey bray when he has grass? or does the ox low over his fodder?
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6:6 Can that which is unsavory be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
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6:7 The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful food.
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6:8 Oh that I might have my request; and that Elohim would grant me the thing that I long for!
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6:9 Even that it would please Elohim to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
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6:10 Then I should yet have comfort; yes, I would harden myself in sorrow: do not let him spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.
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6:11 What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is my end, that I should prolong my life?
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6:12 Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brass?
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6:13 Is my help not in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?
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6:14 To him who is afflicted pity should be shown from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.
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6:15 My brothers have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;
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6:16 Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and in which the snow is hid:
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6:17 In the time when they become warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
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6:18 The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.
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6:19 The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.
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6:20 They were confounded because they had hoped; they came there, and were ashamed.
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6:21 For now you* are nothing: you* see my casting down, and are afraid.
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6:22 Did I say, Bring to me? or Give a reward for me from your* substance?
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6:23 Or, Deliver me from the enemy's hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty?
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6:24 Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand in what I have erred.
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6:25 How forcible right words are! but what does your* arguing reprove?
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6:26 Do you* imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one who is desperate, which are as wind?
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6:27 Yes, you* overwhelm the fatherless, and you* dig a pit for your* friend.
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6:28 Now therefore be content, look upon me; for it is evident to you* if I lie.
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6:29 Return, I pray you*, do not let it be iniquity; yes, return again, my righteousness is in it.
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6:30 Is there iniquity in my tongue? can my taste not discern perverse things?
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7:1 Is there not an appointed time for man upon earth? are his days not also like the days of a hireling?
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7:2 As a servant earnestly desires the shadow, and as a hireling looks for the reward of his work;
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7:3 So I am made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
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7:4 When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro to the dawning of the day.
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7:5 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin has broken and become loathsome.
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7:6 My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
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7:7 O remember that my life is wind: my eye will no more see good.
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7:8 The eye of him who has seen me shall see me no more: your eyes are upon me, and I shall not be.
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7:9 As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he who goes down to the grave shall come up no more.
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7:10 He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
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7:11 Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
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7:12 Am I a sea, or a whale, that you set a watch over me?
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7:13 When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;
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7:14 Then you scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:
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7:15 So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.
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7:16 I loathe it; I would not live always: leave me alone; for my days are vanity.
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7:17 What is man, that you should magnify him? and that you should set your heart upon him?
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7:18 And that you should visit him every morning, and try him every moment?
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7:19 How long will you not depart from me, nor leave me alone till I swallow my spittle?
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7:20 I have sinned; what shall I do to you, O you preserver of men? why have you set me as a mark against you, so that I am a burden to myself?
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7:21 And why do you not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? for now I shall sleep in the dust; and you shall seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.
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8:1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered, and said,
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8:2 How long will you speak these things? and how long shall the words of your mouth be like a strong wind?
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8:3 Does Elohim pervert judgment; or does the Almighty pervert justice?
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8:4 If your children have sinned against him, and he has cast them away for their transgression;
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8:5 If you would seek Elohim diligently, and make your supplication to the Almighty;
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8:6 If you wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.
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8:7 Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase.
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8:8 For inquire, I pray you, of the former age, and prepare yourself to the search of their fathers:
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8:9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)
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8:10 Will they not teach you, and tell you, and utter words out of their heart?
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8:11 Can the rush grow without mire? can the flag grow without water?
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8:12 While it is yet in its greenness, and not cut down, it withers before any other herb.
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8:13 So are the paths of all who forget Elohim; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:
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8:14 Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider's web.
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8:15 He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.
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8:16 He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.
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8:17 His roots are wrapped about the heap, and sees the place of stones.
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8:18 If he shall destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen you.
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8:19 Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth others shall grow.
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8:20 Behold, Elohim will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evil doers:
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8:21 Till he shall fill your mouth with laughing, and your lips with rejoicing.
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8:22 Those who hate you shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nothing.
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9:1 Then Job answered and said,
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9:2 I know it to be so of a truth: but how should man be just with Elohim?
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9:3 If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.
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9:4 He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself against him, and has prospered?
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9:5 Who removeth the mountains, and they do not know: who overturneth them in his anger.
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9:6 Who shaketh the earth out of her place, and its pillars tremble.
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9:7 Who commands the sun, and it does not rise; and seals up the stars.
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9:8 Who alone spreads out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea.
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9:9 Who makes Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.
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9:10 Who does great things past finding out; yes, and wonders without number.
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9:11 Behold, he goes by me, and I do not see him: he passes on also, but I do not perceive him.
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9:12 Behold, he takes away, who can hinder him? who will say to him, What are you doing?
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9:13 If Elohim will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers stoop under him.
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9:14 How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him?
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9:15 Whom, though I were righteous, yet I would not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge.
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9:16 If I had called, and he had answered me; yet I would not believe that he had listened to my voice.
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9:17 For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplies my wounds without cause.
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9:18 He will not allow me to take my breath, but fills me with bitterness.
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9:19 If I speak of strength, behold, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead?
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9:20 If I justify myself, my own mouth will condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, that also will prove me perverse.
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9:21 Though I were perfect, yet I would not know my soul: I would despise my life.
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9:22 This is one thing, therefore I said it, he destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
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9:23 If the scourge shall slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.
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9:24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covers the faces of its judges; if not, where, and who is he?
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9:25 Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
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9:26 They have passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.
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9:27 If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:
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9:28 I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that you will not hold me innocent.
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9:29 If I am wicked, why then do I labor in vain?
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9:30 If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands clean with lye;
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9:31 Yet you will plunge me in the ditch, and my own clothes shall abhor me.
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9:32 For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment.
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9:33 Neither is there any judge between us, that might lay his hand upon us both.
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9:34 Let him take away his rod from me, and do not let his fear terrify me:
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9:35 Then I would speak, and not fear him; but it is not so with me.
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10:1 My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
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10:2 I will say to Elohim, Do not condemn me; show me why you contendest with me.
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10:3 Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?
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10:4 Do you have eyes of flesh? or do you see as man sees?
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10:5 Are your days as the days of man? are your years as man's days,
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10:6 That you inquirest after my iniquity, and searchest after my sin?
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10:7 You know that I am not wicked; and there is no one who can deliver out of your hand.
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10:8 Your hands have made me and fashioned me in all my parts; yet you destroyest me.
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10:9 Remember, I beseech you, that you have made me as the clay; and will you bring me into dust again?
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10:10 Have you not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?
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10:11 You have clothed me with skin and flesh, and have fenced me with bones and sinews.
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10:12 You have granted me life and favor, and your visitation has preserved my spirit.
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10:13 And these things you have hid in your heart: I know that this is with you.
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10:14 If I sin, then you markest me, and you will not acquit me from my iniquity.
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10:15 If I am wicked, woe to me; and if I am righteous, yet I will not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see my affliction;
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10:16 For it increaseth. You huntest me as a fierce lion: and again you showe yourself wonderful upon me.
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10:17 You renewest your witnesses against me, and increasest your indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.
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10:18 Why then have you brought me forth from the womb? O that I had expired, and no eye had seen me!
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10:19 I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
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10:20 Are my days not few? cease then, and leave me alone, so that I may take comfort a little,
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10:21 Before I go where I shall not return from, even to the land of darkness, and the shadow of death;
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10:22 A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
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11:1 Then Zophar the Naamathite answered, and said,
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11:2 Should the multitude of words not be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified?
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11:3 Should your falsehoods make men hold their peace? and when you mockest, shall no man make you ashamed?
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11:4 For you have said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in your eyes.
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11:5 But Oh that Elohim would speak, and open his lips against you;
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11:6 And that he would show you the secrets of wisdom, that they are double to that which is! Know therefore that Elohim exacteth of you less than your iniquity deserveth.
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11:7 Can you by searching find out Elohim? can you find out the Almighty to perfection?
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11:8 It is as high as heaven; what can you do? deeper than hell; what can you know?
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11:9 Its measure is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
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11:10 If he shall cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him?
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11:11 For he knows vain men: he sees wickedness also; will he not then consider it?
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11:12 For vain man would be wise, though man is born like a wild donkey's colt.
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11:13 If you prepare your heart, and stretchest out your hands towards him;
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11:14 If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away, and do not let wickedness dwell in your tabernacles.
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11:15 For then you shall lift up your face without spot; yes, you shall be steadfast, and shall not fear:
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11:16 Because you shall forget your misery, and remember it as waters that pass away:
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11:17 And your age shall be clearer than the noon-day: you shall shine forth, you shall be as the morning.
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11:18 And you shall be secure, because there is hope; yes, you shall dig about you, and you shall take your rest in safety.
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11:19 Also you shall lie down, and no one shall make you afraid; yes, many shall make suit to you.
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11:20 But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the expiration of the breath.
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12:1 And Job answered and said,
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12:2 No doubt but you* are the people, and wisdom shall die with you*.
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12:3 But I have understanding as well as you*; I am not inferior to you*: yes, who does not know such things as these?
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12:4 I am as one mocked by his neighbor, who calls upon Elohim, and he answereth him: the just upright man is derided.
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12:5 He who is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him who is at ease.
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12:6 The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and those who provoke Elohim are secure; into whose hand Elohim brings abundantly.
Job
12:7 But now ask the beasts, and they shall teach you; and the birds of the air, and they shall tell you:
Job
12:8 Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach you: and the fish of the sea shall declare to you.
Job
12:9 Who does not know in all these that the hand of YHWH has worked this?
Job
12:10 In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.
Job
12:11 Does the ear not try words? and the mouth taste its food?
Job
12:12 With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.
Job
12:13 With him is wisdom and strength, he has counsel and understanding.
Job
12:14 Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shuts up a man, and there can be no opening.
Job
12:15 Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up: also he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.
Job
12:16 With him is strength and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver are his.
Job
12:17 He leads counselors away spoiled, and makes the judges fools.
Job
12:18 He looseth the bond of kings, and girdeth their loins with a girdle.
Job
12:19 He leads princes away spoiled, and overthroweth the mighty.
Job
12:20 He removeth away the speech of the trusty, and takes away the understanding of the aged.
Job
12:21 He poureth contempt upon princes, and weakeneth the strength of the mighty.
Job
12:22 He revealeth deep things out of darkness, and brings to light the shadow of death.
Job
12:23 He increaseth nations, and destroyeth them: he enlargeth nations, and straiteneth them again.
Job
12:24 He takes away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
Job
12:25 They grope in the dark without light, and he makes them to stagger like a drunken man.
Job
13:1 Behold, my eye has seen all this, my ear has heard and understood it.
Job
13:2 What you* know, the same I also know: I am not inferior to you*.
Job
13:3 Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with Elohim.
Job
13:4 But you* are forgers of lies, you* are all physicians of no value.
Job
13:5 O that you* would altogether hold your* peace and it would be your* wisdom.
Job
13:6 Hear now my reasoning, and listen to the pleadings of my lips.
Job
13:7 Will you* speak wickedly for Elohim? and talk deceitfully for him?
Job
13:8 Will you* accept his person? will you* contend for Elohim?
Job
13:9 Is it good that he should search you* out? or as one man mocks another, do you* so mock him?
Job
13:10 He will surely reprove you*, if you* secretly accept persons.
Job
13:11 Shall his excellence not make you* afraid? and his dread fall upon you*?
Job
13:12 Your* remembrances are like ashes, your* bodies like bodies of clay.
Job
13:13 Hold your* peace, leave me alone, so that I may speak, and let come on me what will.
Job
13:14 Why do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand?
Job
13:15 Though he shall slay me, yet I will trust in him: but I will maintain my own ways before him.
Job
13:16 He also shall be my salvation: for a hypocrite shall not come before him.
Job
13:17 Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your* ears.
Job
13:18 Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.
Job
13:19 Who is he who will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall expire.
Job
13:20 Only do not do two things to me: then I will not hide myself from you.
Job
13:21 Withdraw your hand far from me: and do not let your dread make me afraid.
Job
13:22 Then call, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer me.
Job
13:23 How many are my iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.
Job
13:24 Why do you hide your face, and hold me for your enemy?
Job
13:25 Will you break a leaf driven to and fro? and will you pursue the dry stubble?
Job
13:26 For you writest bitter things against me, and make me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
Job
13:27 You put my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly to all my paths; you set a print upon the heels of my feet.
Job
13:28 And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth-eaten.
Job
14:1 Man who is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
Job
14:2 He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down: he flees also as a shadow, and does not continue.
Job
14:3 And do you open your eyes upon such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?
Job
14:4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? no one.
Job
14:5 Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you, you have appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
Job
14:6 Turn from him, so that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.
Job
14:7 For there is hope of a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its tender branch will not cease.
Job
14:8 Though its root shall become old in the earth, and its stock die in the ground;
Job
14:9 Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
Job
14:10 But man dies, and wasteth away: yes, man yieldeth his breath, and where is he?
Job
14:11 As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:
Job
14:12 So man lies down, and does not rise: till the heavens shall be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
Job
14:13 O that you would hide me in the grave, that you would keep me secret, until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!
Job
14:14 If a man dies, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time I will wait, till my change shall come.
Job
14:15 You shall call, and I will answer you: you will have a desire to the work of your hands.
Job
14:16 For now you numberest my steps: do you not watch over my sin?
Job
14:17 My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and you sewest up my iniquity.
Job
14:18 And surely the mountain falling comes to nothing, and the rock is removed out of its place.
Job
14:19 The waters wear the stones: you washest away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and you destroyest the hope of man.
Job
14:20 You prevailest forever against him, and he passes: you changest his countenance, and sendest him away.
Job
14:21 His sons come to honor, and he does not know it; and they are brought low, but he does not perceive it of them.
Job
14:22 But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.
Job
15:1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, and said,
Job
15:2 Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
Job
15:3 Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches with which he can do no good?
Job
15:4 Yes, you cast off fear, and restrain prayer before Elohim.
Job
15:5 For your mouth utters your iniquity, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.
Job
15:6 Your own mouth condemns you, and not I: yes, your own lips testify against you.
Job
15:7 Are you the first man who was born? or was you made before the hills?
Job
15:8 Have you heard the secret of Elohim? and do you restrain wisdom to yourself?
Job
15:9 What do you know that we do not know? what do you understand, which is not in us?
Job
15:10 With us are both the gray headed and very aged men, much older than your father.
Job
15:11 Are the consolations of Elohim small with you? is there any secret thing with you?
Job
15:12 Why does your heart carry you away? and what do your eyes wink at,
Job
15:13 That you turn your spirit against Elohim, and let such words go out of your mouth?
Job
15:14 What is man, that he should be clean? and he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
Job
15:15 Behold, he puts no trust in his saints; yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
Job
15:16 How much more abominable and filthy is man, who drinks iniquity like water?
Job
15:17 I will show you, hear me; and that which I have seen, I will declare;
Job
15:18 Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:
Job
15:19 To whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.
Job
15:20 The wicked man travails with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.
Job
15:21 A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
Job
15:22 He does not believe that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for by the sword.
Job
15:23 He wanders abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
Job
15:24 Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
Job
15:25 For he stretches out his hand against Elohim, and strengthens himself against the Almighty.
Job
15:26 He runs upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:
Job
15:27 Because he covers his face with his fatness, and makes collops of fat on his loins.
Job
15:28 And he dwells in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabits, which are ready to become heaps.
Job
15:29 He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong its perfection upon the earth.
Job
15:30 He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.
Job
15:31 Do not let him who is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompense.
Job
15:32 It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.
Job
15:33 He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.
Job
15:34 For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.
Job
15:35 They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepares deceit.
Job
16:1 Then Job answered and said,
Job
16:2 I have heard many such things: you* are all miserable comforters.
Job
16:3 Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth you that you answerest?
Job
16:4 I also could speak as you* do: if your* soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you*, and shake my head at you*.
Job
16:5 But I would strengthen you* with my mouth and the moving of my lips should assuage your* grief.
Job
16:6 Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?
Job
16:7 But now he has made me weary: you have made all my company desolate.
Job
16:8 And you have filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me bears witness to my face.
Job
16:9 He tears me in his wrath, who hates me: he gnashes upon me with his teeth; my enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.
Job
16:10 They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves against me.
Job
16:11 Elohim has delivered me to the unElohimly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.
Job
16:12 I was at ease, but he has broken me asunder: he has also taken me by my neck, shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.
Job
16:13 His archers encompass me; he cleaves my kidneys asunder, and does not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.
Job
16:14 He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runs upon me like a giant.
Job
16:15 I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.
Job
16:16 My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids are the shadow of death;
Job
16:17 Not for any injustice in my hands: also my prayer is pure.
Job
16:18 O earth, do not cover my blood, and let my cry have no place.
Job
16:19 Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.
Job
16:20 My friends scorn me: but my eye poureth out tears to Elohim.
Job
16:21 O that one might plead for a man with Elohim, as a man pleads for his neighbor!
Job
16:22 When a few years have come, then I shall go the way where I shall not return from.
Job
17:1 My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
Job
17:2 Are there not mockers with me? and does my eye not continue in their provocation?
Job
17:3 Lay down now, put me in a surety with you; who is he who will strike hands with me?
Job
17:4 For you have hid their heart from understanding: therefore you shall not exalt them.
Job
17:5 He who speaks flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
Job
17:6 He has made me also a by-word of the people; and they spit in my face.
Job
17:7 My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shade.
Job
17:8 Upright men shall be astonished at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
Job
17:9 The righteous shall also hold on his way, and he who has clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
Job
17:10 But as for you* all, return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you*.
Job
17:11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
Job
17:12 They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.
Job
17:13 If I wait, the grave is my house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
Job
17:14 I have said to corruption, You are my father: to the worm, You are my mother, and my sister.
Job
17:15 And now where is my hope? as for my hope, who will see it?
Job
17:16 They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.
Job
18:1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered, and said,
Job
18:2 How long will it be before you* make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.
Job
18:3 Why are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your* sight?
Job
18:4 He tears himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for you? and shall the rock be removed out of its place?
Job
18:5 Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.
Job
18:6 The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.
Job
18:7 The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.
Job
18:8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks upon a snare.
Job
18:9 The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him.
Job
18:10 The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.
Job
18:11 Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.
Job
18:12 His strength shall be hunger-bitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.
Job
18:13 It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the first-born of death shall devour his strength.
Job
18:14 His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.
Job
18:15 It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
Job
18:16 His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above his branch shall be cut off.
Job
18:17 His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.
Job
18:18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
Job
18:19 He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor anyone remaining in his dwellings.
Job
18:20 Those who come after him shall be astonished at his day, as those who went before were terrified.
Job
18:21 Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him who does not know Elohim.
Job
19:1 Then Job answered and said,
Job
19:2 How long will you* vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
Job
19:3 These ten times you* have reproached me: you* are not ashamed that you* make yourselves* strange to me.
Job
19:4 And if it is indeed that I have erred, my error remains with myself.
Job
19:5 If indeed you* will magnify yourselves* against me, and plead against me my reproach:
Job
19:6 Know now that Elohim has overthrown me, and has encompassed me with his net.
Job
19:7 Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
Job
19:8 He has fenced up my way so that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness in my paths.
Job
19:9 He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
Job
19:10 He has destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and my hope he has removed like a tree.
Job
19:11 He has also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me to him as one of his enemies.
Job
19:12 His troops come together, raise up their way against me, and encamp around my tabernacle.
Job
19:13 He has put my brothers far from me, and my acquaintances are truly estranged from me.
Job
19:14 My kinsmen have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
Job
19:15 Those who dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
Job
19:16 I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I entreated him with my mouth.
Job
19:17 My breath is strange to my wife, though I entreated for the children's sake of my own body.
Job
19:18 Yes, young children despised me; I arose, and they spoke against me.
Job
19:19 All my intimate friends abhorred me: and those whom I loved have turned against me.
Job
19:20 My bone cleaves to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped with the skin of my teeth.
Job
19:21 Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O my friends; for the hand of Elohim has touched me.
Job
19:22 Why do you* persecute me as Elohim, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
Job
19:23 Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!
Job
19:24 That they were engraved with an iron pen in lead, in the rock forever!
Job
19:25 For I know that my redeemer lives, and that he will stand at the latter day upon the earth:
Job
19:26 And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh I shall see Elohim:
Job
19:27 Whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another; though my heart is consumed within me.
Job
19:28 But you* would say, Why do we persecute him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?
Job
19:29 Be afraid of the sword: for wrath brings the punishments of the sword, so that you* may know there is a judgment.
Job
20:1 Then Zophar the Naamathite answered, and said,
Job
20:2 Therefore my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make hurry.
Job
20:3 I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causes me to answer.
Job
20:4 Do you not know this of old, since man was placed upon earth,
Job
20:5 That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
Job
20:6 Though his excellence shall mount up to the heavens, and his head reach to the clouds;
Job
20:7 Yet he shall perish forever like his own dung: those who have seen him shall say, Where is he?
Job
20:8 He shall fly away as a dream, and will not be found: yes, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
Job
20:9 Also the eye which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place behold him any more.
Job
20:10 His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.
Job
20:11 His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.
Job
20:12 Though wickedness may be sweet in his mouth, though he may hide it under his tongue;
Job
20:13 Though he may spare it, and not forsake it; but keep it still within his mouth:
Job
20:14 Yet his food in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.
Job
20:15 He has swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: Elohim shall cast them out of his belly.
Job
20:16 He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.
Job
20:17 He shall not see the river, the floods, the brooks of honey and buttermilk.
Job
20:18 That for which he labored he shall restore, and shall not swallow it: according to his substance the restitution shall be, and he shall not rejoice in it.
Job
20:19 Because he has oppressed and has forsaken the poor; because he has violently taken away a house which he did not build.
Job
20:20 Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired.
Job
20:21 None of his food shall be left; therefore no man shall look for his goods.
Job
20:22 In the fullness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.
Job
20:23 When he is about to fill his belly, Elohim shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating.
Job
20:24 He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through.
Job
20:25 It is drawn, and comes out of the body; yes, the glittering sword comes out of his gall: terrors are upon him.
Job
20:26 All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him who is left in his tabernacle.
Job
20:27 The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.
Job
20:28 The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.
Job
20:29 This is the portion of a wicked man from Elohim, and the heritage appointed to him by Elohim.
Job
21:1 But Job answered and said,
Job
21:2 Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your* consolations.
Job
21:3 Allow me that I may speak; and after I have spoken, mock on.
Job
21:4 As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should my spirit not be troubled?
Job
21:5 Mark me, be astonished, and lay your* hand upon your* mouth.
Job
21:6 Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling takes hold of my flesh.
Job
21:7 Why do the wicked live, become old, and, are mighty in power?
Job
21:8 Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.
Job
21:9 Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of Elohim upon them.
Job
21:10 Their bull engendereth, and does not fail; their cow calveth, and does not cast her calf.
Job
21:11 They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.
Job
21:12 They take the tambourine and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.
Job
21:13 They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.
Job
21:14 Therefore they say to Elohim, Depart from us; for we do not desire the knowledge of your ways.
Job
21:15 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray to him?
Job
21:16 Behold, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
Job
21:17 How often is the candle of the wicked put out? and how often does their destruction come upon them? Elohim distributeth sorrows in his anger.
Job
21:18 They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.
Job
21:19 Elohim lays up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.
Job
21:20 His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
Job
21:21 For what pleasure does he have in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?
Job
21:22 Shall any teach Elohim knowledge? seeing he judges those who are high.
Job
21:23 One dies in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.
Job
21:24 His pails are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow.
Job
21:25 And another dies in the bitterness of his soul, and never eats with pleasure.
Job
21:26 They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.
Job
21:27 Behold, I know your* thoughts, and the devices which you* wrongfully imagine against me.
Job
21:28 For you* say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?
Job
21:29 Have you* not asked those who go by the way? and do you* not know their tokens,
Job
21:30 That the wicked is reserved for the day of destruction? they will be brought forth to the day of wrath.
Job
21:31 Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he has done?
Job
21:32 Yet he shall be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.
Job
21:33 The clods of the valley will be sweet to him, and every man will draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.
Job
21:34 How then do you* comfort me in vain, seeing in your* answers there remains falsehood?
Job
22:1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
Job
22:2 Can a man be profitable to Elohim, as he who is wise may be profitable to himself?
Job
22:3 Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that you are righteous? or is it gain to him, that you make your ways perfect?
Job
22:4 Will he reprove you for fear of you? will he enter with you into judgment?
Job
22:5 Is your wickedness not great? and your iniquities infinite?
Job
22:6 For you have taken a pledge from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
Job
22:7 You have not given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.
Job
22:8 But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honorable man dwelt in it.
Job
22:9 You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
Job
22:10 Therefore snares are around you, and sudden fear troubleth you;
Job
22:11 Or darkness, that you cannot see; and abundance of waters cover you.
Job
22:12 Is Elohim not in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are!
Job
22:13 And you say, How does Elohim know? can he judge through the dark cloud?
Job
22:14 Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he does not see; and he walks in the circuit of heaven.
Job
22:15 Have you marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?
Job
22:16 Who were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflowed with a flood!
Job
22:17 Who said to Elohim, depart from us; and what can the Almighty do for them?
Job
22:18 Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
Job
22:19 The righteous see it, and are glad: and the innocent deride them.
Job
22:20 As where our substance is not cut down, but the fire consumeth their remnant.
Job
22:21 Now acquaint yourself with him, and be at peace: by this good shall come to you.
Job
22:22 Receive, I pray you, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.
Job
22:23 If you shall return to the Almighty, you shall be built up, you shall put away iniquity far from your tabernacles.
Job
22:24 Then you shall lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.
Job
22:25 Yes, the Almighty shall be your defense and you shall have plenty of silver.
Job
22:26 For then you shall have your delight in the Almighty, and shall lift up your face to Elohim.
Job
22:27 You shall make your prayer to him, and he shall hear you, and you shall pay your vows.
Job
22:28 You shall also decree a thing, and it shall be established to you: and the light shall shine upon your ways.
Job
22:29 When men are cast down, you shall say, There is exaltation; and he shall save the humble person.
Job
22:30 He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of your hands.
Job
23:1 Then Job answered and said,
Job
23:2 Even today my complaint is bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.
Job
23:3 Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!
Job
23:4 I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
Job
23:5 I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say to me.
Job
23:6 Would he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me.
Job
23:7 There the righteous might dispute with him; so I should be delivered forever from my judge.
Job
23:8 Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:
Job
23:9 On the left hand, where he works, but I cannot behold him: he hides himself on the right hand, so that I cannot see him:
Job
23:10 But he knows the way that I take: when he has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Job
23:11 My foot has held his steps, his way I have kept, and not declined.
Job
23:12 Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
Job
23:13 But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desires, even that he does.
Job
23:14 For he performs the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him.
Job
23:15 Therefore I am troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.
Job
23:16 For Elohim makes my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:
Job
23:17 Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither has he covered the darkness from my face.
Job
24:1 Why, seeing times are not hid from the Almighty, do those who know him not see his days?
Job
24:2 Some remove the landmarks: they violently take away flocks, and their feed.
Job
24:3 They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
Job
24:4 They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
Job
24:5 Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go forth to their work; seeking for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.
Job
24:6 They each reap his grain in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.
Job
24:7 They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.
Job
24:8 They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
Job
24:9 They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
Job
24:10 They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;
Job
24:11 Who make oil within their walls, tread their wine-presses, and suffer thirst.
Job
24:12 Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded cries out: yet Elohim does not lay folly to them.
Job
24:13 They are of those who rebel against the light; they do not know its ways, nor abide in its paths.
Job
24:14 The murderer rising with the light kills the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
Job
24:15 Also the eye of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.
Job
24:16 In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the day-time: they do not know the light.
Job
24:17 For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one knows them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.
Job
24:18 He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he does not behold the way of the vineyards.
Job
24:19 Drought and heat consume the snow-waters: so does the grave to those who have sinned.
Job
24:20 The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.
Job
24:21 He oppresseth the barren who does not bear: and does not do good to the widow.
Job
24:22 He also draws the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no man is sure of life.
Job
24:23 Though it is given him to be in safety, on which he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways.
Job
24:24 They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all others, and cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.
Job
24:25 And if it is not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech of no worth?
Job
25:1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered, and said,
Job
25:2 Dominion and fear are with him, he makes peace in his high places.
Job
25:3 Is there any number to his armies? and upon whom does his light not arise?
Job
25:4 How then can man be justified with Elohim? or how can he be clean who is born of a woman?
Job
25:5 Behold even to the moon, and it does not shine; and the stars are not pure in his sight.
Job
25:6 How much less is man, who is a worm; and the son of man, who is a worm?
Job
26:1 But Job answered and said,
Job
26:2 How have you helped him who is without power? how do you save the arm that has no strength?
Job
26:3 How have you counseled him who has no wisdom? and how have you abundantly declared the thing as it is?
Job
26:4 To whom have you uttered words? and whose spirit came from you?
Job
26:5 Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.
Job
26:6 Hell is naked before him, and destruction has no covering.
Job
26:7 He stretches out the north over the empty place, and hangs the earth upon nothing.
Job
26:8 He binds up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.
Job
26:9 He holds back the face of his throne, and spreads his cloud upon it.
Job
26:10 He has encompassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.
Job
26:11 The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof.
Job
26:12 He divideth the sea by his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through the proud.
Job
26:13 By his spirit he has garnished the heavens; his hand has formed the crooked serpent.
Job
26:14 Behold, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power, who can understand?
Job
27:1 Moreover, Job continued his parable, and said,
Job
27:2 As Elohim lives, who has taken away my judgment; and the Almighty who has afflicted my soul;
Job
27:3 All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of Elohim is in my nostrils;
Job
27:4 My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.
Job
27:5 Far be it from me that I should justify you*: till I die I will not remove my integrity from me.
Job
27:6 My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.
Job
27:7 Let my enemy be as the wicked, and he who riseth up against me as the unrighteous.
Job
27:8 For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he has gained, when Elohim takes away his soul?
Job
27:9 Will Elohim hear his cry when trouble comes upon him?
Job
27:10 Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon Elohim?
Job
27:11 I will teach you* by the hand of Elohim: that which is with the Almighty I will not conceal.
Job
27:12 Behold, all you* have seen it yourselves*; why then are you* thus altogether vain?
Job
27:13 This is the portion of a wicked man with Elohim, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty.
Job
27:14 If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
Job
27:15 Those who remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep.
Job
27:16 Though he should heap up silver as the dust, and prepare clothing as the clay.
Job
27:17 He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.
Job
27:18 He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth that the keeper makes.
Job
27:19 The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he opens his eyes, and he is no more.
Job
27:20 Terrors take hold of him as waters, a tempest steals him away in the night.
Job
27:21 The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.
Job
27:22 For Elohim shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would willingly flee out of his hand.
Job
27:23 Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.
Job
28:1 Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they refine it.
Job
28:2 Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is melted out of the stone.
Job
28:3 He sets an end to darkness, and searches out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.
Job
28:4 The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant: even the waters forgotten by the foot: they are dried up, they have gone away from men.
Job
28:5 As for the earth, out of it comes bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.
Job
28:6 Its stones are the place of sapphires: and it has dust of gold.
Job
28:7 There is a path which no bird knows, and which the falcon's eye has not seen:
Job
28:8 The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.
Job
28:9 He puts forth his hand upon the rock; he overturneth the mountains by the roots.
Job
28:10 He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye sees every precious thing.
Job
28:11 He binds the floods from overflowing; and the thing that is hid he brings forth to light.
Job
28:12 But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding?
Job
28:13 Man does not know its price; neither is it found in the land of the living.
Job
28:14 The depth says, It is not in me: and the sea says, It is not with me.
Job
28:15 It cannot be obtained for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for its price.
Job
28:16 It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
Job
28:17 The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and its exchange shall not be for jewels of fine gold.
Job
28:18 No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies.
Job
28:19 The topaz of Cush shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold.
Job
28:20 Where then does wisdom come from? and where is the place of understanding?
Job
28:21 Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the birds of the air.
Job
28:22 Destruction and death say, We have heard its fame with our ears.
Job
28:23 Elohim understands its way, and he knows its place.
Job
28:24 For he looks to the ends of the earth, and sees under the whole heaven;
Job
28:25 To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.
Job
28:26 When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:
Job
28:27 He saw it, and declared it; he prepared it, yes, and searched it out.
Job
28:28 And to man he said, Behold, the fear of the Master, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.
Job
29:1 Moreover, Job continued his parable, and said,
Job
29:2 Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when Elohim preserved me;
Job
29:3 When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;
Job
29:4 As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of Elohim was upon my tabernacle;
Job
29:5 When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me;
Job
29:6 When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;
Job
29:7 When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!
Job
29:8 The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up.
Job
29:9 The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.
Job
29:10 The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.
Job
29:11 When the ear heard me, it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me:
Job
29:12 Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless, and him who had no one to help him.
Job
29:13 The blessing of him who was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Job
29:14 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.
Job
29:15 I was eyes to the blind, and I was feet to the lame.
Job
29:16 I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I did not know, I searched out.
Job
29:17 And I broke the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
Job
29:18 Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.
Job
29:19 My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.
Job
29:20 My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.
Job
29:21 To me men gave ear, waited, and kept silence at my counsel.
Job
29:22 After my words they did not speak again; and my speech dropped upon them.
Job
29:23 And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.
Job
29:24 If I laughed at them, they did not believe it; and the light of my countenance they did not cast down.
Job
29:25 I chose out their way, sat as chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one who comforteth the mourners.
Job
30:1 But now those who are younger than I, have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to put with the dogs of my flock.
Job
30:2 Yes, to what might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age had perished?
Job
30:3 For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
Job
30:4 Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their food.
Job
30:5 They were driven forth from among men (they cried after them, as after a thief),
Job
30:6 To dwell in the clefts of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.
Job
30:7 Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were collected.
Job
30:8 They were children of fools, yes, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
Job
30:9 And now I am their song, yes, I am their by-word.
Job
30:10 They abhor me, they flee far from me, and do not spare to spit in my face.
Job
30:11 Because he has loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.
Job
30:12 Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.
Job
30:13 They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.
Job
30:14 They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.
Job
30:15 Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passes away as a cloud.
Job
30:16 And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
Job
30:17 My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
Job
30:18 By the great force of my disease my garment is changed: it binds me about as the collar of my coat.
Job
30:19 He has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.
Job
30:20 I cry to you, and you do not hear me: I stand up, and you do not regard me.
Job
30:21 You have become cruel to me: with your strong hand you opposest yourself against me.
Job
30:22 You liftest me up to the wind; you cause me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.
Job
30:23 For I know that you will bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
Job
30:24 Yet he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.
Job
30:25 Did I not weep for him who was in trouble? was my soul not grieved for the poor?
Job
30:26 When I looked for good, evil came: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
Job
30:27 My bowels boiled, and did not rest: the days of affliction came upon me.
Job
30:28 I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.
Job
30:29 I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
Job
30:30 My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
Job
30:31 My harp is also turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of those who weep.
Job
31:1 I made a covenant with my eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?
Job
31:2 For what portion of Elohim is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?
Job
31:3 Is destruction not to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?
Job
31:4 Does he not see my ways, and count all my steps?
Job
31:5 If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot has hurried to deceit;
Job
31:6 Let me be weighed in an even balance, so that Elohim may know my integrity.
Job
31:7 If my step has turned out of the way, and my heart walked after my eyes, and if any blot has cleaved to my hands;
Job
31:8 Then let me sow, and let another eat; yes, let my offspring be rooted out.
Job
31:9 If my heart has been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbor's door;
Job
31:10 Then let my wife grind to another, and let others bow down upon her.
Job
31:11 For this is a heinous crime; yes, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.
Job
31:12 For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all my increase.
Job
31:13 If I despised the cause of my man-servant or of my maid-servant, when they contended with me;
Job
31:14 What then shall I do when Elohim riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?
Job
31:15 Did he who made me in the womb not make him? and did one not fashion us in the womb?
Job
31:16 If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
Job
31:17 Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it;
Job
31:18 (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb);
Job
31:19 If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;
Job
31:20 If his loins have not blessed me, and if he has not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
Job
31:21 If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:
Job
31:22 Then let my arm fall from my shoulder-blade, and my arm be broken from the bone.
Job
31:23 For destruction from Elohim was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.
Job
31:24 If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, You are my confidence;
Job
31:25 If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gained much;
Job
31:26 If I have beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;
Job
31:27 And my heart has been secretly enticed, or my mouth has kissed my hand:
Job
31:28 This also would have been an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the Elohim who is above.
Job
31:29 If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or have lifted up myself when evil found him:
Job
31:30 Neither have I allowed my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.
Job
31:31 If the men of my tabernacle have not said, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.
Job
31:32 The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveler.
Job
31:33 If I have covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom:
Job
31:34 Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and did not go out of the door?
Job
31:35 Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that my adversary had written a book.
Job
31:36 Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.
Job
31:37 I would declare to him the number of my steps; as a prince I would go near to him.
Job
31:38 If my land cries against me, or its furrows likewise complain;
Job
31:39 If I have eaten its fruits without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life:
Job
31:40 Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and weeds instead of barley. [The words of Job are finished.]
Job
32:1 So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
Job
32:2 Then the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram, was kindled against Job, because he justified himself rather than Elohim.
Job
32:3 Also against his three friends his wrath was kindled, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.
Job
32:4 Now Elihu had waited till Job had spoken because they were older than he.
Job
32:5 When Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, his wrath was kindled.
Job
32:6 And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am young, and you* are very old; therefore I was afraid, and dared not show you* my opinion.
Job
32:7 I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.
Job
32:8 But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty gives them understanding.
Job
32:9 Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment.
Job
32:10 Therefore I said, Listen to me; I also will show my opinion.
Job
32:11 Behold, I waited for your* words; I gave ear to your* reasons, while you* searched out what to say.
Job
32:12 Yes, I attended to you*, and behold, there was none of you* who convinced Job, or who answered his words:
Job
32:13 Lest you* should say, We have found out wisdom: Elohim thrusteth him down, not man.
Job
32:14 Now he has not directed his words against me: neither will I answer him with your* speeches.
Job
32:15 They were amazed, they answered no more: they left off speaking.
Job
32:16 When I had waited (for they did not speak, but stood still, and answered no more),
Job
32:17 I said, I will also answer my part, I will also show my opinion.
Job
32:18 For I am full of matter, the spirit within me constraineth me.
Job
32:19 Behold, my belly is as wine which has no vent; it is ready to burst like new bottles.
Job
32:20 I will speak, so that I may be refreshed: I will open my lips and answer.
Job
32:21 Do not let me, I pray you*, accept any man's person, neither let me give flattering titles to man.
Job
32:22 For I do not know to give flattering titles; in so doing, my Maker would soon take me away.
Job
33:1 Therefore, Job, I pray you, hear my speeches, and listen to all my words.
Job
33:2 Behold, now I have opened my mouth, my tongue has spoken in my mouth.
Job
33:3 My words shall be of the uprightness of my heart: and my lips shall utter knowledge clearly.
Job
33:4 The Spirit of Elohim has made me, and the breath of the Almighty has given me life.
Job
33:5 If you can answer me, set your words in order before me, stand up.
Job
33:6 Behold, I am according to your wish in Elohim's stead: I also am formed out of the clay.
Job
33:7 Behold, my terror shall not make you afraid, neither shall my hand be heavy upon you.
Job
33:8 Surely you have spoken in my hearing, and I have heard the voice of your words, saying,
Job
33:9 I am clean without transgression, I am innocent; neither is there iniquity in me.
Job
33:10 Behold, he finds occasions against me, he counteth me for his enemy,
Job
33:11 He puts my feet in the stocks, he marketh all my paths.
Job
33:12 Behold, in this you are not just: I will answer you, that Elohim is greater than man.
Job
33:13 Why do you strive against him? for he does not give account of any of his matters.
Job
33:14 For Elohim speaks once, even twice, yet man does not perceive it.
Job
33:15 In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;
Job
33:16 Then he opens the ears of men, and seals their instruction,
Job
33:17 So that he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.
Job
33:18 He keeps back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.
Job
33:19 He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain:
Job
33:20 So that his life abhors bread, and his soul dainty food.
Job
33:21 His flesh is consumed away, so that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen stick out.
Job
33:22 Yes, his soul draws near to the grave, and his life to the destroyers.
Job
33:23 If there is a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show to man his uprightness:
Job
33:24 Then he is gracious to him, and says, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.
Job
33:25 His flesh shall be fresher than a child's: he will return to the days of his youth:
Job
33:26 He shall pray to Elohim, and he will be favorable to him: and he shall see his face with joy: for he will render to man his righteousness.
Job
33:27 He looks upon men, and if any shall say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it did not profit me;
Job
33:28 He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.
Job
33:29 Behold, all these things Elohim often works with man,
Job
33:30 To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living.
Job
33:31 Mark well, O Job, listen to me: hold your peace, and I will speak.
Job
33:32 If you have anything to say, answer me: speak, for I desire to justify you.
Job
33:33 If not, listen to me: hold your peace, and I shall teach you wisdom.
Job
34:1 Furthermore Elihu answered and said,
Job
34:2 Hear my words, O you* wise men; and give ear to me, you* who have knowledge.
Job
34:3 For the ear tries words, as the mouth tasteth food.
Job
34:4 Let us choose for ourselves judgment: let us know among ourselves what is good.
Job
34:5 For Job has said, I am righteous: and Elohim has taken away my judgment.
Job
34:6 Should I lie against my right? my wound is incurable without transgression.
Job
34:7 What man is like Job, who drinks up scorning like water?
Job
34:8 Who goes in company with the workers of iniquity, and walks with wicked men.
Job
34:9 For he has said, It profits a man nothing that he should delight himself with Elohim.
Job
34:10 Therefore listen to me, you* men of understanding: far be it from Elohim, that he should do wickedness; and from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.
Job
34:11 For the work of a man he shall render to him, and cause every man to find according to his ways.
Job
34:12 Yes, surely Elohim will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert judgment.
Job
34:13 Who has given him a charge over the earth? or who has disposed the whole world?
Job
34:14 If he should set his heart upon man, if he should gather to himself his spirit and his breath;
Job
34:15 All flesh would perish together, and man would turn again to dust.
Job
34:16 If now you have understanding, hear this: listen to the voice of my words.
Job
34:17 Shall even he who hates right govern? and will you condemn him who is most just?
Job
34:18 Is it fit to say to a king, You are wicked? and to princes, You* are unElohimly?
Job
34:19 How much less to him who does not accept the persons of princes, nor regards the rich more than the poor? for they all are the work of his hands.
Job
34:20 In a moment they shall die, and the people shall be troubled at midnight, and pass away: and the mighty shall be taken away without hand.
Job
34:21 For his eyes are upon the ways of man, and he sees all his goings.
Job
34:22 There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
Job
34:23 For he will not lay upon man more than right; that he should enter into judgment with Elohim.
Job
34:24 He shall break mighty men in pieces without number, and set others in their stead.
Job
34:25 Therefore he knows their works, and he overturns them in the night, so that they are destroyed.
Job
34:26 He strikes them as wicked men in the open sight of others;
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34:27 Because they turned back from him, and would not consider any of his ways:
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34:28 So that they cause the cry of the poor to come to him, and he hears the cry of the afflicted.
Job
34:29 When he gives quietness, who then can make trouble? and when he hides his face, who then can behold him? whether it be done against a nation, or against a man only:
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34:30 So that the hypocrite may not reign, lest the people should be ensnared.
Job
34:31 Surely it is proper to be said to Elohim, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend any more:
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34:32 That which I do not see teach me: if I have done iniquity, I will do no more.
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34:33 Should it be according to your mind? he will recompense it, whether you shall refuse, or whether you shall choose; and not I: therefore speak what you know.
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34:34 Let men of understanding tell me, and let a wise man listen to me.
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34:35 Job has spoken without knowledge, and his words were without wisdom.
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34:36 My desire is that Job may be tried to the end, because of his answers for wicked men.
Job
34:37 For he adds rebellion to his sin, he claps his hands among us, and multiplies his words against Elohim.
Job
35:1 Elihu spoke moreover, and said,
Job
35:2 Do you think this to be right, that you said, My righteousness is more than Elohim's?
Job
35:3 For you said, What advantage will it be to you? and, What profit shall I have, if I am cleansed from my sin?
Job
35:4 I will answer you, and your companions with you.
Job
35:5 Look to the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than you.
Job
35:6 If you sinnest, what do you do against him? or if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?
Job
35:7 If you are righteous, what do you give to him? or what does he receive from your hand?
Job
35:8 Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are: and your righteousness may profit the son of man.
Job
35:9 By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.
Job
35:10 But no one says, Where is Elohim my maker, who gives songs in the night;
Job
35:11 Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of heaven?
Job
35:12 There they cry, but no one gives answer, because of the pride of evil men.
Job
35:13 Surely Elohim will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.
Job
35:14 Although you say you shall not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust in him.
Job
35:15 But now, because it is not so, he has visited in his anger; yet he does not know it in great extremity:
Job
35:16 Therefore Job opens his mouth in vain; he multiplies words without knowledge.
Job
36:1 Elihu also proceeded, and said,
Job
36:2 Allow me a little, and I will show you that I have yet to speak on Elohim's behalf.
Job
36:3 I will bring my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
Job
36:4 For truly my words shall not be false: he who is perfect in knowledge is with you.
Job
36:5 Behold, Elohim is mighty, and does not despise anyone: he is mighty in strength and wisdom.
Job
36:6 He does not preserve the life of the wicked: but gives right to the poor.
Job
36:7 He does not withdraw his eyes from the righteous: but with kings they are on the throne; yes, he does establish them forever, and they are exalted.
Job
36:8 And if they are bound in fetters, and are held in cords of affliction;
Job
36:9 Then he shows them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded.
Job
36:10 He also opens their ear to discipline, and commands that they return from iniquity.
Job
36:11 If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
Job
36:12 But if they do not obey, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.
Job
36:13 But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they do not cry when he binds them.
Job
36:14 They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean.
Job
36:15 He delivers the poor in his affliction, and opens their ears in oppression.
Job
36:16 Even so he would have removed you out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which should be set on your table would be full of fatness.
Job
36:17 But you have fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold of you.
Job
36:18 Because there is wrath, beware lest he take you away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver you.
Job
36:19 Will he esteem your riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of strength.
Job
36:20 Do not desire the night, when people are cut off in their place.
Job
36:21 Take heed, do not regard iniquity: for this you have chosen rather than affliction.
Job
36:22 Behold, Elohim exalts by his power: who teaches like him?
Job
36:23 Who has enjoined him his way? or who can say, You have worked iniquity?
Job
36:24 Remember that you magnify his work, which men behold.
Job
36:25 Every man may see it; man may behold it afar off.
Job
36:26 Behold, Elohim is great, and we do not know him, neither can the number of his years be searched out.
Job
36:27 For he makes the drops of water small: they pour down rain according to its vapor.
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36:28 Which the clouds drop and distill upon man abundantly.
Job
36:29 Also can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle?
Job
36:30 Behold, he spreads his light upon it, and covers the bottom of the sea.
Job
36:31 For by them he judges the people; he gives food in abundance.
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36:32 With clouds he covers the light; and commands it not to shine by the intervening cloud.
Job
36:33 Its noise shows concerning it, the cattle also concerning the vapor.
Job
37:1 At this also my heart trembles, and is moved out of its place.
Job
37:2 Hear attentively the noise of his voice, and the sound that goes out of his mouth.
Job
37:3 He directs it under the whole heaven, and his lightning to the ends of the earth.
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37:4 After it a voice roars: he thunders with the voice of his excellence; and he will not stay them when his voice is heard.
Job
37:5 Elohim thunders marvelously with his voice; great things he does, which we cannot comprehend.
Job
37:6 For he says to the snow, Be on the earth; likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength.
Job
37:7 He seals up the hand of every man; so that all men may know his work.
Job
37:8 Then the beasts go into dens, and remain in their places.
Job
37:9 From the south comes the whirlwind: and cold from the north.
Job
37:10 By the breath of Elohim frost is given: and the breadth of the waters is straitened.
Job
37:11 Also by watering he wearieth the thick cloud: he scatters his bright cloud:
Job
37:12 And it is turned around by his counsels: so that they may do whatever he commands them upon the face of the world on the earth.
Job
37:13 He causes it to come, whether for correction, for his land, or for mercy.
Job
37:14 Listen to this, O Job: stand still, and consider the wondrous works of Elohim.
Job
37:15 Do you know when Elohim disposed them, and caused the light of his cloud to shine?
Job
37:16 Do you know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge?
Job
37:17 How your garments are warm, when he quiets the earth by the south wind?
Job
37:18 Have you with him spread out the sky which is strong, and as a molten looking-glass?
Job
37:19 Teach us what we shall say to him; for we cannot order our speech by reason of darkness.
Job
37:20 Shall it be told to him that I speak? If a man shall speak, surely he will be swallowed up.
Job
37:21 And now men do not see the bright light which is in the clouds: but the wind passes, and cleans them.
Job
37:22 Fair weather comes from the north: with Elohim is awesome majesty.
Job
37:23 Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out: he is excellent in power, in judgment, and in abundance of justice: he will not afflict.
Job
37:24 Men therefore fear him: he does not respect any who are wise of heart.
Job
38:1 Then YHWH answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
Job
38:2 Who is this who darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
Job
38:3 Now gird up your loins like a man; for I will demand of you, and answer me.
Job
38:4 Where was you when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if you have understanding.
Job
38:5 Who has laid its measures, if you know? or who has stretched the line upon it?
Job
38:6 Upon what are its foundations fastened? or who laid its corner stone;
Job
38:7 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of Elohim shouted for joy?
Job
38:8 Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?
Job
38:9 When I made a cloud its garment, and thick darkness a swaddling band for it,
Job
38:10 And broke up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,
Job
38:11 And said, You shall come here, but no further: and your proud waves shall be stayed here.
Job
38:12 Have you commanded the morning since your days; and caused the day-spring to know its place;
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38:13 So that it might take hold of the ends of earth, and that the wicked might be shaken out of it?
Job
38:14 It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment.
Job
38:15 And from the wicked their light is withheld, and the high arm shall be broken.
Job
38:16 Have you entered into the springs of the sea? or have you walked in the search of the depth?
Job
38:17 Have the gates of death been opened to you? or have you seen the doors of the shadow of death?
Job
38:18 Have you perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if you know it all.
Job
38:19 Where is the way where light dwells? and as for darkness, where is its place,
Job
38:20 That you should take it to its bound, and that you should know the paths to its house?
Job
38:21 Do you know it, because you was born then? or because the number of your days is great?
Job
38:22 Have you entered into the treasures of the snow? or have you seen the treasures of the hail,
Job
38:23 Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?
Job
38:24 By what way is the light parted, which scatters the east wind upon the earth?
Job
38:25 Who has divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder;
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38:26 To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; on the wilderness in which there is no man;
Job
38:27 To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?
Job
38:28 Has the rain a father? or who has begotten the drops of the dew?
Job
38:29 Out of whose womb did the ice come? and the hoary frost of heaven, who has engendered it?
Job
38:30 The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.
Job
38:31 Can you bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?
Job
38:32 Can you bring forth Mazzaroth in its season? or can you guide Arcturus with its sons?
Job
38:33 Do you know the ordinances of heaven? can you set its dominion on the earth?
Job
38:34 Can you lift your voice to the clouds, so that abundance of waters may cover you?
Job
38:35 Can you send lightnings, so that they may go, and say to you, Here we are?
Job
38:36 Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? or who has given understanding to the heart?
Job
38:37 Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the bottles of heaven,
Job
38:38 When the dust grows into hardness, and the clods cleave fast together?
Job
38:39 Will you hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the appetite of the young lions,
Job
38:40 When they couch in their dens, and abide in the covert to lie in wait?
Job
38:41 Who provides for the raven his food? when his young ones cry to Elohim, they wander for want of food.
Job
39:1 Do you know the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? or can you mark when the hinds calve?
Job
39:2 Can you number the months that they fulfill? or do you know the time when they bring forth?
Job
39:3 They bow themselves, they bring forth their young ones, they cast out their sorrows.
Job
39:4 Their young ones become strong, they grow up with grain; they go forth, and do not return to them.
Job
39:5 Who has sent out the wild donkey free? or who has loosed the bands of the wild donkey?
Job
39:6 Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.
Job
39:7 He scorns the multitude of the city, neither does he regard the crying of the driver.
Job
39:8 The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searches after every green thing.
Job
39:9 Will the wild ox be willing to serve you, or abide by your crib?
Job
39:10 Can you bind the wild ox with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after you?
Job
39:11 Will you trust him, because his strength is great? or will you leave your labor to him?
Job
39:12 Will you believe him, that he will bring home your seed, and gather it into your barn?
Job
39:13 Did you give the goodly wings to the peacocks? or wings and feathers to the ostrich?
Job
39:14 Which leaves her eggs in the earth, and warms them in the dust,
Job
39:15 And forgets that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them.
Job
39:16 She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers: her labor is in vain without fear;
Job
39:17 Because Elohim has withheld wisdom from her, neither has he imparted to her understanding.
Job
39:18 When she lifteth herself on high, she scorns the horse and his rider.
Job
39:19 Have you given the horse strength? have you clothed his neck with thunder?
Job
39:20 Can you make him afraid as a grasshopper? the glory of his nostrils is terrible.
Job
39:21 He paweth in the valley, and rejoices in his strength: he goes on to meet the armed men.
Job
39:22 He mocks at fear, and is not terrified; neither does he turn back from the sword.
Job
39:23 The quiver rattles against him, the glittering spear and the shield.
Job
39:24 He swallows the ground with fierceness and rage: neither does he believe that it is the sound of the trumpet.
Job
39:25 He says among the trumpets, Ha, ha; and he smels the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
Job
39:26 Does the hawk fly by your wisdom, and stretch her wings towards the south?
Job
39:27 Does the eagle mount up at your command, and make her nest on high?
Job
39:28 She dwells and abides on the rock, upon the crag of the rock, and the strong place.
Job
39:29 From there she seeks the prey, and her eyes behold afar off.
Job
39:30 Her young ones also suck up blood: and where the slain are, there she is.
Job
40:1 Moreover, YHWH answered Job, and said,
Job
40:2 Shall he who contends with the Almighty instruct him? he who reproves Elohim, let him answer it.
Job
40:3 Then Job answered YHWH, and said,
Job
40:4 Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer you? I will lay my hand upon my mouth.
Job
40:5 Once I have spoken; but I will not answer: even twice; but I will proceed no further.
Job
40:6 Then YHWH answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
Job
40:7 Now gird up your loins like a man: I will demand of you, and declare to me.
Job
40:8 Will you also disannul my judgment? will you condemn me, so that you may be righteous?
Job
40:9 Have you an arm like Elohim? or can you thunder with a voice like his?
Job
40:10 Deck yourself now with majesty and excellence; and array yourself with glory and beauty.
Job
40:11 Cast abroad the rage of your wrath: and behold everyone who is proud, and abase him.
Job
40:12 Look at everyone who is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place.
Job
40:13 Hide them in the dust together; bind their faces in secret.
Job
40:14 Then I will also confess to you that your own right hand can save you.
Job
40:15 Behold now behemoth, which I made with you; he eats grass as an ox.
Job
40:16 Behold now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly.
Job
40:17 He moves his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his male organs are wrapped together.
Job
40:18 His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron.
Job
40:19 He is the chief of the ways of Elohim: he who made him can make his sword to approach him.
Job
40:20 Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play.
Job
40:21 He lies under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and mire.
Job
40:22 The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook encompass him.
Job
40:23 Behold, he drinks up a river, and does not hurry: he trusts that he can draw up the Jordan into his mouth.
Job
40:24 He takes it with his eyes: his nose pierces through snares.
Job
41:1 Can you draw out leviathan with a hook? or his tongue with a cord which you let down?
Job
41:2 Can you put a hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?
Job
41:3 Will he make many supplications to you? will he speak soft words to you?
Job
41:4 Will he make a covenant with you? will you take him for a servant forever?
Job
41:5 Will you play with him as with a bird? or will you bind him for your maidens?
Job
41:6 Shall the traders make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants?
Job
41:7 Can you fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?
Job
41:8 Lay your hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more.
Job
41:9 Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall one not be cast down even at the sight of him?
Job
41:10 No one is so fierce that he dare rouse him: who then is able to stand before me?
Job
41:11 Who has first benefited me, that I should repay him? whatever is under the whole heaven is mine.
Job
41:12 I will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion.
Job
41:13 Who can discover the face of his garment? or who can come to him with his double bridle?
Job
41:14 Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible around.
Job
41:15 His scales are his pride, shut together as with a close seal.
Job
41:16 One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.
Job
41:17 They are joined one to another, they stick together, so that they cannot be sundered.
Job
41:18 His sneezings flash light, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
Job
41:19 Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire dart forth.
Job
41:20 Out of his nostrils issues smoke, as out of a seething pot or cauldron.
Job
41:21 His breath kindles coals, and a flame issues from his mouth.
Job
41:22 In his neck remains strength, and sorrow is turned into joy before him.
Job
41:23 The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved.
Job
41:24 His heart is as firm as a stone; even as hard as a piece of the nether millstone.
Job
41:25 When he raises himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breakings they purify themselves.
Job
41:26 The sword of him who attacks him cannot hold: the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon.
Job
41:27 He esteems iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.
Job
41:28 The arrow cannot make him flee: sling-stones are turned with him into stubble.
Job
41:29 Darts are counted as stubble: he laughs at the shaking of a spear.
Job
41:30 Sharp stones are under him: he spreads sharp pointed things upon the mire.
Job
41:31 He makes the deep to boil like a pot: he makes the sea like a pot of ointment.
Job
41:32 He makes a path to shine after him; one would think the deep to be hoary.
Job
41:33 Upon earth there is nothing like him, who is made without fear.
Job
41:34 He beholds all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride.
Job
42:1 Then Job answered YHWH, and said,
Job
42:2 I know that you can do everything, and that no thought can be withheld from you.
Job
42:3 Who is he who hides counsel without knowledge? therefore I have uttered that which I did not understand; things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.
Job
42:4 Hear, I beseech you, and I will speak: I will ask of you, and declare to me.
Job
42:5 I have heard of you by the hearing of the ear: but now my eye sees you.
Job
42:6 Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
Job
42:7 And it was so, that after YHWH had spoken these words to Job, YHWH 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, as my servant Job has.
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42:8 Now therefore take for yourselves* seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer for yourselves* a burnt-offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you*: for I will accept him: lest I deal with you* after your* folly, in that you* have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job.
Job
42:9 So Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as YHWH commanded them: YHWH also accepted Job.
Job
42:10 And YHWH turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also YHWH gave Job twice as much as he had before.
Job
42:11 Then all his brothers came there to him, and all his sisters, and all those who had been of his acquaintance before, and ate bread with him in his house: and they condoled with him, and comforted him over all the evil that YHWH had brought upon him: everyone also gave him a piece of money, and everyone an earring of gold.
Job
42:12 So YHWH blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and one thousand female donkeys.
Job
42:13 He had also seven sons, and three daughters.
Job
42:14 And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Keren-happuch.
Job
42:15 And in all the land no women were found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brothers.
Job
42:16 After this Job lived one hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.
Job
42:17 So Job died, being old and full of days.
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