1 {1:1} There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name
[was] Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one
that feared God, and eschewed evil. {1:2} And there were
born unto him seven sons and three daughters. {1:3} His
substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three
thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five
hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this
man was the greatest of all the men of the east. {1:4} And
his sons went and feasted [in their] houses, every one his
day; and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to
drink with them. {1:5} And it was so, when the days of
[their] feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified
them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt
offerings [according] to the number of them all: for Job
said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in
their hearts. Thus did Job continually.
{1:6} Now there was a day when the sons of God came to
present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also
among them. {1:7} And the LORD said unto Satan,
Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and
said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking
up and down in it. {1:8} And the LORD said unto Satan,
Hast thou considered my servant Job, that [there is] none
like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that
feareth God, and escheweth evil? {1:9} Then Satan
answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for
nought? {1:10} Hast not thou made an hedge about him,
and about his house, and about all that he hath on every
side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his
substance is increased in the land. {1:11} But put forth thine
hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee
to thy face. {1:12} And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold,
all that he hath [is] in thy power; only upon himself put not
forth thine hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of
the LORD.
{1:13} And there was a day when his sons and his
daughters [were] eating and drinking wine in their eldest
brother’s house: {1:14} And there came a messenger unto
Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding
beside them: {1:15} And the Sabeans fell [upon them,] and
took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the
edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
{1:16} While he [was] yet speaking, there came also
another, and said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and
hath burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed
them; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. {1:17}
While he [was] yet speaking, there came also another, and
said, The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the
camels, and have carried them away, yea, and slain the
servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped
alone to tell thee. {1:18} While he [was] yet speaking, there
came also another, and said, Thy sons and thy daughters
[were] eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother’s
house: {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 I only am
escaped alone to tell thee. {1:20} Then Job arose, and rent
his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the
ground, and worshipped, {1:21} And said, Naked came I
out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return thither:
the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be
the name of the LORD. {1:22} In all this Job sinned not,
nor charged God foolishly.

2 {2:1} Again there was a day when the sons of God came
to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came
also among them to present himself before the LORD.
{2:2} And the LORD said unto Satan, From whence comest
thou? And Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going
to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
{2:3} And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered
my servant Job, that [there is] none like him in the earth, a
perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and
escheweth evil? and still he holdeth fast his integrity,
although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him
without cause. {2:4} And Satan answered the LORD, and
said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for
his life. {2:5} But put forth thine hand now, and touch his
bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face. {2:6}
And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, he [is] in thine
hand; but save his life.
{2:7} So went Satan forth from the presence of the
LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his
foot unto his crown. {2:8} And he took him a potsherd to
scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.
{2:9} Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain
thine integrity? curse God, and die. {2:10} But he said unto
her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh.
What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall
we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.
{2:11} Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil
that was come upon him, they came every one from his own
place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and
Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment
together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.
{2:12} And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and
knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they
rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their
heads toward heaven. {2:13} So they sat down with him
upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none
spake a word unto him: for they saw that [his] grief was
very great.

3 {3:1} After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his
day. {3:2} And Job spake, and said, {3:3} Let the day perish
wherein I was born, and the night [in which] it was said,
There is a man child conceived. {3:4} Let that day be
reclaimed by primeval darkness; let not God regard it from
above, neither let the light shine upon it. {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. {3:6} As [for] that night,
let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days
of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.
{3:7} Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come
therein. {3:8} Let them curse it that curse the day, who are
ready to raise up their mourning. {3:9} Let the stars of the
twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but [have] none;
neither let it see the dawning of the day: {3:10} Because it
shut not up the doors of my [mother’s] womb, nor hid sor-
row from mine eyes. {3:11} Why died I not from the womb?
[why] did I [not] give up the ghost when I came out of the
belly? {3:12} Why did the knees prevent me? or why the
breasts that I should suck? {3:13} For now should I have
lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I
been at rest, {3:14} With kings and counsellors of the earth,
which built desolate places for themselves; {3:15} Or with
princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
{3:16} Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as
infants [which] never saw light. {3:17} There the wicked
cease [from] troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
{3:18} [There] the prisoners rest together; they hear not
the voice of the oppressor. {3:19} The small and great are
there; and the servant [is] free from his master. {3:20}
Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life
unto the bitter [in] soul; {3:21} Which long for death, but it
[cometh] not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
{3:22} Which rejoice exceedingly, [and] are glad, when they
can find the grave? {3:23} [Why is light given] to a man
whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in? {3:24}
For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are
poured out like the waters. {3:25} For the thing which I
greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was a-
fraid of is come unto me. {3:26} I was not in safety, neither
had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.

5 {4:1} Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
{4:2} [If] we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be
grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking?
{4:3} Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast
strengthened the weak hands. {4:4} Thy words have
upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened
the feeble knees. {4:5} But now it is come upon thee, and
thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled. {4:6}
[Is] not [this] thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the
uprightness of thy ways? {4:7} Remember, I pray thee, who
[ever] perished, being innocent? or where were the
righteous cut off? {4:8} Even as I have seen, they that plow
iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same. {4:9} By the
blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are
they consumed. {4:10} The roaring of the lion, and the
voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are
broken. {4:11} The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and
the stout lion’s whelps are scattered abroad. {4:12} Now a
thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received
a little thereof. {4:13} In thought-filled visions of the
night, when deep sleep falleth on men, {4:14} Fear came
upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake.
{4:15} Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my
flesh stood up: {4:16} It stood still, but I could not discern
the form thereof: an image [was] before mine eyes, [there
was] silence, and I heard a voice, [saying,] {4:17} Shall
mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more
pure than his maker? {4:18} Behold, he put no trust in his
servants; and his angels he charged with folly: {4:19} How
much less [in] them that dwell in houses of clay, whose
foundation [is] in the dust, [which] are crushed before the
moth? {4:20} They are destroyed from morning to evening:
they perish for ever without any regarding [it.] {4:21} Doth
not their excellency [which is] in them go away? they die,
even without wisdom.

5 {5:1} Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and
to which of the saints wilt thou turn? {5:2} For wrath killeth
the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one. {5:3} I have
seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his
habitation. {5:4} His children are far from safety, and they
are crushed in the gate, neither [is there] any to deliver
[them.] {5:5} Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and
taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth
up their substance. {5:6} Although affliction cometh not
forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the
ground; {5:7} Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks
fly upward. {5:8} I would seek unto God, and unto God
would I commit my cause: {5:9} Which doeth great things
and unsearchable; marvellous things without number:
{5:10} Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters
upon the fields: {5:11} To set up on high those that be low;
that those which mourn may be exalted to safety. {5:12} He
disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands
cannot perform [their] enterprise. {5:13} He taketh the wise
in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is
carried headlong. {5:14} They meet with darkness in the
daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night. {5:15}
But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth,
and from the hand of the mighty. {5:16} So the poor hath
hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth. {5:17} Behold,
happy [is] the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise
not thou the chastening of the Almighty: {5:18} For he
maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands
make whole. {5:19} He shall deliver thee in six troubles:
yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee. {5:20} In
famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from
the power of the sword. {5:21} Thou shalt be hid from the
scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of
destruction when it cometh. {5:22} At destruction and
famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the
beasts of the earth. {5:23} For thou shalt be in league with
the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at
peace with thee. {5:24} And thou shalt know that thy
tabernacle [shall be] in peace; and thou shalt visit thy
habitation, and shalt not sin. {5:25} Thou shalt know also
that thy seed [shall be] great, and thine offspring as the
grass of the earth. {5:26} Thou shalt come to [thy] grave in
a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
{5:27} Lo this, we have searched it, so it [is;] hear it, and
know thou [it] for thy good.

6 {6:1} But Job answered and said, {6:2} O that my grief
were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the
balances together! {6:3} For now it would be heavier than
the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.
{6:4} For the arrows of the Almighty [are] within me, the
poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do
set themselves in array against me. {6:5} Doth the wild ass
bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?
{6:6} Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or
is there [any] taste in the white of an egg? {6:7} The things
[that] my soul refused to touch [are] as my sorrowful meat.
{6:8} Oh that I might have my request; and that God would
grant [me] the thing that I long for! {6:9} Even that it would
please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand,
and cut me off! {6:10} Then should I yet have comfort; yea,
I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I
have not concealed the words of the Holy One. {6:11} What
[is] my strength, that I should hope? and what [is] mine end,
that I should prolong my life? {6:12} [Is] my strength the
strength of stones? or [is] my flesh of brass? {6:13} [Is] not
my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?
{6:14} To him that is afflicted pity [should be shewed] from
his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty. {6:15}
My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, [and] as the
stream of brooks they pass away; {6:16} Which are
blackish by reason of the ice, [and] wherein the snow is hid:
{6:17} What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is
hot, they are consumed out of their place. {6:18} The paths
of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.
{6:19} The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba
waited for them. {6:20} They were confounded because
they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.
{6:21} For now ye are no thing; ye see [my] casting down,
and are afraid. {6:22} Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a
reward for me of your substance? {6:23} Or, Deliver me
from the enemy’s hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of
the mighty? {6:24} Teach me, and I will hold my tongue:
and cause me to understand wherein I have erred. {6:25}
How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing
reprove? {6:26} Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the
speeches of one that is desperate, [which are] as wind?
{6:27} Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig [a pit]
for your friend. {6:28} Now therefore be content, look upon
me; for [it is] evident unto you if I lie. {6:29} Return, I pray
you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my
righteousness [is] in it. {6:30} Is there iniquity in my
tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?

7 {7:1} [Is there] not an appointed time to man upon earth?
[are not] his days also like the days of an hireling? {7:2} As
a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling
looketh for [the reward of] his work: {7:3} So am I made to
possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are
appointed to me. {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 unto the dawning of the day. {7:5} My flesh is clothed
with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and
become loathsome. {7:6} My days are swifter than a
weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope. {7:7} O
remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see
good. {7:8} The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me
no [more:] thine eyes [are] upon me, and I [am] not. {7:9}
[As] the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that
goeth down to the grave shall come up no [more. ]{7:10}
He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place
know him any more. {7:11} Therefore I will not refrain my
mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will
complain in the bitterness of my soul. {7:12} [Am] I a sea,
or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me? {7:13} When
I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my
complaint; {7:14} Then thou scarest me with dreams, and
terrifiest me through visions: {7:15} So that my soul
chooseth strangling, [and] death rather than my life. {7:16}
I loathe [it;] I would not live alway: let me alone; for my
days [are] vanity. {7:17} What [is] man, that thou shouldest
magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon
him? {7:18} And [that] thou shouldest visit him every
morning, [and] try him every moment? {7:19} How long
wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow
down my spittle? {7:20} I have sinned; what shall I do unto
thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a
mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself? {7:21}
And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take
away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and
thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I [shall] not [be.]

8 {8:1} Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, {8:2}
How long wilt thou speak these [things?] and [how long
shall] the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind? {8:3}
Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert
justice? {8:4} If thy children have sinned against him, and
he have cast them away for their transgression; {8:5} If
thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy
supplication to the Almighty; {8:6} If thou [wert] pure and
upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the
habitation of thy righteousness prosperous. {8:7} Though
thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly
increase. {8:8} For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age,
and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers: {8:9} (For
we [are but of] yesterday, and know nothing, because our
days upon earth [are] a shadow:) {8:10} Shall not they
teach thee, [and] tell thee, and utter words out of their
heart? {8:11} Can the rush grow up without mire? can the
flag grow without water? {8:12} Whilst it [is] yet in his
greenness, [and] not cut down, it withereth before any
[other] herb. {8:13} So [are] the paths of all that forget
God; and the hypocrite’s hope shall perish: {8:14} Whose
hope shall be cut off, and whose trust [shall be] a spider’s
web. {8:15} He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not
stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure. {8:16} He
[is] green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in
his garden. {8:17} His roots are wrapped about the heap,
[and] seeth the place of stones. {8:18} If he destroy him
from his place, then [it] shall deny him, [saying,] I have not
seen thee. {8:19} Behold, this [is] the joy of his way, and
out of the earth shall others grow. {8:20} Behold, God will
not cast away a perfect [man,] neither will he help the evil
doers: {8:21} Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy
lips with rejoicing. {8:22} They that hate thee shall be
clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked
shall come to nought.

{9:1} Then Job answered and said, {9:2} I know [it is] so
of a truth: but how should man be just with God? {9:3} If
he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a
thousand. {9:4} [He is] wise in heart, and mighty in
strength: who hath hardened [himself] against him, and hath
prospered? {9:5} Which removeth the mountains, and they
know not: which overturneth them in his anger. {9:6}
Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars
thereof tremble. {9:7} Which commandeth the sun, and it
riseth not; and sealeth up the stars. {9:8} Which alone
spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of
the sea. {9:9} Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades,
and the chambers of the south. {9:10} Which doeth great
things past finding out; yea, and wonders without number.
{9:11} Lo, he goeth by me, and I see [him] not: he passeth
on also, but I perceive him not. {9:12} Behold, he taketh
away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What
doest thou? {9:13} [If] God will not withdraw his anger, the
proud helpers do stoop under him. {9:14} How much less
shall I answer him, [and] choose out my words [to reason]
with him? {9:15} Whom, though I were righteous, [yet]
would I not answer, [but] I would make supplication to my
judge. {9:16} If I had called, and he had answered me; [yet]
would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.
{9:17} For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth
my wounds without cause. {9:18} He will not suffer me to
take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness. {9:19} If [I
speak] of strength, lo, [he is] strong: and if of judgment,
who shall set me a time [to plead?] {9:20} If I justify
myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: [if I say, I am]
perfect, it shall also prove me perverse. {9:21} [Though] I
[were] perfect, [yet] would I not know my soul: I would
despise my life. {9:22} This [is] one [thing,] therefore I said
[it,] He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked. {9:23} If the
scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the
innocent. {9:24} The earth is given into the hand of the
wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not,
where, [and] who [is] he? {9:25} Now my days are swifter
than a post: they flee away, they see no good. {9:26} They
are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle [that]
hasteth to the prey. {9:27} If I say, I will forget my
complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort
[myself:] {9:28} I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that
thou wilt not hold me innocent. {9:29} [If] I be wicked,
why then labour I in vain? {9:30} If I wash myself with
snow water, and make my hands never so clean; {9:31} Yet
shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes
shall abhor me. {9:32} For [he is] not a man, as I [am, that]
I should answer him, [and] we should come together in
judgment. {9:33} Neither is there any daysman betwixt us,
[that] might lay his hand upon us both. {9:34} Let him take
his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me: {9:35}
[Then] would I speak, and not fear him; but [it is] not so
with me.

10 {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. {10:2} I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew
me wherefore thou contendest with me. {10:3} [Is it] good
unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest
despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel
of the wicked? {10:4} Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou
as man seeth? {10:5} [Are] thy days as the days of man?
[are] thy years as man’s days, {10:6} That thou enquirest
after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin? {10:7} Thou
knowest that I am not wicked; and [there is] none that can
deliver out of thine hand. {10:8} Thine hands have made
me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost
destroy me. {10:9} Remember, I beseech thee, that thou
hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust
again? {10:10} Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and
curdled me like cheese? {10:11} Thou hast clothed me with
skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews.
{10:12} Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy
visitation hath preserved my spirit. {10:13} And these
[things] hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that this [is]
with thee. {10:14} If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou
wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity. {10:15} If I be
wicked, woe unto me; and [if] I be righteous, [yet] will I not
lift up my head. [I am] full of confusion; therefore see thou
mine affliction; {10:16} For it increaseth. Thou huntest me
as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous
upon me. {10:17} Thou renewest thy witnesses against me,
and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war
[are] against me. {10:18} Wherefore then hast thou brought
me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost,
and no eye had seen me! {10:19} I should have been as
though I had not been; I should have been carried from the
womb to the grave. {10:20} [Are] not my days few? cease
[then, and] let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
{10:21} Before I go [whence] I shall not return, [even] to
the land of darkness and the shadow of death; {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.

11 {11:1} Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
{11:2} Should not the multitude of words be answered? and
should a man full of talk be justified? {11:3} Should thy lies
make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall
no man make thee ashamed? {11:4} For thou hast said, My
doctrine [is] pure, and I am clean in thine eyes. {11:5} But
oh that God would speak, and open his lips against thee;
{11:6} And that he would shew thee the secrets of wisdom,
that [they are] double to that which is! Know therefore that
God exacteth of thee [less] than thine iniquity [deserveth.]
{11:7} Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou
find out the Almighty unto perfection? {11:8} [It is] as high
as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst
thou know? {11:9} The measure thereof [is] longer than the
earth, and broader than the sea. {11:10} If he cut off, and
shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him?
{11:11} For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness
also; will he not then consider [it?] {11:12} For vain man
would be wise, though man be born [like] a wild ass’s colt.
{11:13} If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine
hands toward him; {11:14} If iniquity [be] in thine hand,
put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy
tabernacles. {11:15} For then shalt thou lift up thy face
without spot; yea, thou shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear:
{11:16} Because thou shalt forget [thy] misery, [and]
remember [it] as waters [that] pass away: {11:17} And
[thine] age shall be clearer than the noonday; thou shalt
shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning. {11:18} And thou
shalt be secure, because there is hope; yea, thou shalt dig
[about thee, and] thou shalt take thy rest in safety. {11:19}
Also thou shalt lie down, and none shall make [thee] afraid;
yea, many shall make suit unto thee. {11:20} But the eyes
of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their
hope [shall be as] the giving up of the ghost.

12 {12:1} And Job answered and said, {12:2} No doubt but
ye [are] the people, and wisdom shall die with you. {12:3}
But I have understanding as well as you; I [am] not inferior
to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these? {12:4} I
am [as] one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon
God, and he answereth him: the just upright [man is]
laughed to scorn. {12:5} He that is ready to slip with [his]
feet [is as] a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at
ease. {12:6} The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they
that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth
[abundantly.] {12:7} But ask now the beasts, and they shall
teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee:
{12:8} Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the
fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee. {12:9} Who
knoweth not in all these that the hand of the LORD hath
wrought this? {12:10} In whose hand [is] the soul of every
living thing, and the breath of all mankind. {12:11} Doth
not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat?
{12:12} With the ancient [is] wisdom; and in length of days
understanding. {12:13} With him [is] wisdom and strength,
he hath counsel and understanding. {12:14} Behold, he
breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a
man, and there can be no opening. {12:15} Behold, he
withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he sendeth
them out, and they overturn the earth. {12:16} With him [is]
strength and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver [are]
his. {12:17} He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and
maketh the judges fools. {12:18} He looseth the bond of
kings, and girdeth their loins with a girdle. {12:19} He
leadeth princes away spoiled, and overthroweth the mighty.
{12:20} He removeth away the speech of the trusty, and
taketh away the understanding of the aged. {12:21} He
poureth contempt upon princes, and weakeneth the strength
of the mighty. {12:22} He discovereth deep things out of
darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death.
{12:23} He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he
enlargeth the nations, and straiteneth them [again.] {12:24}
He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the
earth, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness [where
there is] no way. {12:25} They grope in the dark without
light, and he maketh them to stagger like [a] drunken [man.]

13 {13:1} Lo, mine eye hath seen all [this,] mine ear hath
heard and understood it. {13:2} What ye know, [the same]
do I know also: I [am] not inferior unto you. {13:3} Surely I
would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with
God. {13:4} But ye [are] forgers of lies, ye [are] all
physicians of no value. {13:5} Oh that ye would altogether
hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom. {13:6}
Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my
lips. {13:7} Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk
deceitfully for him? {13:8} Will ye accept his person? will
ye contend for God? {13:9} Is it good that he should search
you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye [so] mock
him? {13:10} He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly
accept persons. {13:11} Shall not his excellency make you
afraid? and his dread fall upon you? {13:12} Your
remembrances [are] like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies
of clay. {13:13} Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may
speak, and let come on me what [will.] {13:14} Wherefore
do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine
hand? {13:15} Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him:
but I will maintain mine own ways before him. {13:16} He
also [shall be] my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come
before him. {13:17} Hear diligently my speech, and my
declaration with your ears. {13:18} Behold now, I have
ordered [my] cause; I know that I shall be justified. {13:19}
Who [is] he [that] will plead with me? for now, if I hold my
tongue, I shall give up the ghost. {13:20} Only do not two
[things] unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee.
{13:21} Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy
dread make me afraid. {13:22} Then call thou, and I will
answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me. {13:23} How
many [are] mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my
transgression and my sin. {13:24} Wherefore hidest thou
thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy? {13:25} Wilt
thou break a driven leaf? and wilt thou pursue the
dry stubble? {13:26} For thou writest bitter things against
me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
{13:27} Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest
narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the
heels of my feet. {13:28} And he, as a rotten thing,
consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.

14 {14:1} Man [that is] born of a woman [is] of few days,
and full of trouble. {14:2} He cometh forth like a flower,
and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth
not. {14:3} And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an
one, and bringest me into judgment with thee? {14:4} Who
can bring a clean [thing] out of an unclean? not one. {14:5}
Seeing his days [are] determined, the number of his months
[are] with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he
cannot pass; {14:6} Turn from him, that he may rest, till he
shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day. {14:7} For there is
hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again,
and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. {14:8}
Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock
thereof die in the ground; {14:9} [Yet] through the scent of
water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
{14:10} But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth
up the ghost, and where [is] he? {14:11} [As] the waters fail
from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: {14:12}
So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens [be] no
more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
{14:13} Oh that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that
thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that
thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!
{14:14} If a man die, shall he live [again?] all the days of
my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
{14:15} Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt
have a desire to the work of thine hands. {14:16} For now
thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?
{14:17} My transgression [is] sealed up in a bag, and thou
sewest up mine iniquity. {14:18} And surely the mountain
falling cometh to nought, and the rock is removed out of his
place. {14:19} The waters wear the stones: thou washest
away the things which grow [out] of the dust of the earth;
and thou destroyest the hope of man. {14:20} Thou
prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou
changest his countenance, and sendest him away. {14:21}
His sons come to honour, and he knoweth [it] not; and they
are brought low, but he perceiveth [it] not of them. {14:22}
But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within
him shall mourn.

15 {15:1} Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,
{15:2} Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his
belly with the east wind? {15:3} Should he reason with
unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no
good? {15:4} Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest
prayer before God. {15:5} For thy mouth uttereth thine
iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty. {15:6}
Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine
own lips testify against thee. {15:7} [Art] thou the first man
[that] was born? or wast thou made before the mountains?
{15:8} Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou re-
strain wisdom to thyself? {15:9} What knowest thou, that we
know not? [what] understandest thou, which [is] not in us?
{15:10} With us [are] both the grayheaded and very aged
men, much elder than thy father. {15:11} [Are] the
consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret
thing with thee? {15:12} Why doth thine heart carry thee
away? and what do thy eyes wink at, {15:13} That thou
turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest [such] words go
out of thy mouth? {15:14} What [is] man, that he should be
clean? and [he which is] born of a woman, that he should be
righteous? {15:15} Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints;
yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight. {15:16} How
much more abominable and filthy [is] man, which drinketh
iniquity like water? {15:17} I will shew thee, hear me; and
that [which] I have seen I will declare; {15:18} Which wise
men have told from their fathers, and have not hid [it:]
{15:19} Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no
stranger passed among them. {15:20} The wicked man
travaileth with pain all [his] days, and the number of years
is hidden to the oppressor. {15:21} A dreadful sound [is] in
his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
{15:22} He believeth not that he shall return out of
darkness, and he is waited for of the sword. {15:23} He
wandereth abroad for bread, [saying,] Where [is it?] he
knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
{15:24} Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they
shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
{15:25} For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and
strengtheneth himself against the Almighty. {15:26} He
runneth upon him, [even] on [his] neck, upon the thick
bosses of his bucklers: {15:27} Because he covereth his
face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on [his]
flanks. {15:28} And he dwelleth in desolate cities, [and] in
houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become
heaps. {15:29} He shall not be rich, neither shall his
substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection
thereof upon the earth. {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. {15:31} Let not him
that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his
recompence. {15:32} It shall be accomplished before his
time, and his branch shall not be green. {15:33} He shall
shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his
flower as the olive. {15:34} For the congregation of
hypocrites [shall be] desolate, and fire shall consume the
tabernacles of bribery. {15:35} They conceive mischief, and
bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.

16 {16:1} Then Job answered and said, {16:2} I have heard
many such things: miserable comforters [are] ye all. {16:3}
Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee
that thou answerest? {16:4} I also could speak as ye [do:] if
your soul were in my soul’s stead, I could heap up words
against you, and shake mine head at you. {16:5} [But] I
would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of
my lips should asswage [your grief.] {16:6} Though I
speak, my grief is not asswaged: and [though] I forbear,
what am I eased? {16:7} But now he hath made me weary:
thou hast made desolate all my company. {16:8} And thou
hast filled me with wrinkles, [which] is a witness [against
me:] and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my
face. {16:9} He teareth [me] in his wrath, who hateth me:
he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth
his eyes upon me. {16:10} They have gaped upon me with
their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek
reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together
against me. {16:11} God hath delivered me to the ungodly,
and turned me over into the hands of the wicked. {16:12} I
was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also
taken [me] by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me
up for his mark. {16:13} His archers compass me round
about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he
poureth out my gall upon the ground. {16:14} He breaketh
me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a
giant. {16:15} I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and
defiled my horn in the dust. {16:16} My face is foul with
weeping, and my eyelids is the shadow of death; {16:17}
Not for [any] injustice in mine hands: also my prayer [is]
pure. {16:18} O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my
cry have no place. {16:19} Also now, behold, my witness
[is] in heaven, and my record [is] on high. {16:20} My
friends scorn me: [but] mine eye poureth out [tears] unto
God. {16:21} Oh that one might plead for a man with God,
as a man [pleadeth] for his neighbour! {16:22} When a few
years are come, then I shall go the way [whence] I shall not
return.

17 {17:1} My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the
graves [are ready] for me. {17:2} [Are there] not mockers
with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their
provocation? {17:3} Lay down now, put me in a surety with
thee; who [is] he [that] will strike hands with me? {17:4}
For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore
shalt thou not exalt [them.] {17:5} He that speaketh flattery
to [his] friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
{17:6} He hath made me also a byword of the people; and
aforetime I was as a tabret. {17:7} Mine eye also is dim by
reason of sorrow, and all my members [are] as a shadow.
{17:8} Upright [men] shall be astonied at this, and the
innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite. {17:9}
The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath
clean hands shall be stronger and stronger. {17:10} But as
for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find
[one] wise [man] among you. {17:11} My days are past, my
purposes are broken off, [even] the thoughts of my heart.
{17:12} They change the night into day: the light [is] short
because of darkness. {17:13} If I wait, the grave [is] mine
house: I have made my bed in the darkness. {17:14} I have
said to corruption, Thou [art] my father: to the worm, [Thou
art] my mother, and my sister. {17:15} And where [is] now
my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it? {17:16} They
shall go down to the bars of the pit, when [our] rest together
[is] in the dust.

18 {18:1} Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
{18:2} How long [will it be ere] ye make an end of words?
mark, and afterwards we will speak. {18:3} Wherefore are
we counted as beasts, [and] reputed vile in your sight?
{18:4} He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be
forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his
place? {18:5} Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out,
and the spark of his fire shall not shine. {18:6} The light
shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put
out with him. {18:7} The steps of his strength shall be
straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down. {18:8}
For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh
upon a snare. {18:9} The gin shall take [him] by the heel,
[and] the robber shall prevail against him. {18:10} The
snare [is] laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in
the way. {18:11} Terrors shall make him afraid on every
side, and shall drive him to his feet. {18:12} His strength
shall be hungerbitten, and destruction [shall be] ready at his
side. {18:13} It shall devour the strength of his skin: [even]
the firstborn of death shall devour his strength. {18:14} His
confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall
bring him to the king of terrors. {18:15} It shall dwell in his
tabernacle, because [it is] none of his: brimstone shall be
scattered upon his habitation. {18:16} His roots shall be
dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.
{18:17} His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and
he shall have no name in the street. {18:18} He shall be
driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
{18:19} He shall neither have son nor nephew among his
people, nor any remaining in his dwellings. {18:20} They
that come after [him] shall be astonied at his day, as they
that went before were affrighted. {18:21} Surely such [are]
the dwellings of the wicked, and this [is] the place [of him
that] knoweth not God.

19 {19:1} Then Job answered and said, {19:2} How long
will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
{19:3} These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not
ashamed [that] ye make yourselves strange to me. {19:4}
And be it indeed [that] I have erred, mine error remaineth
with myself. {19:5} If indeed ye will magnify [yourselves]
against me, and plead against me my reproach: {19:6}
Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath
compassed me with his net. {19:7} Behold, I cry out of
wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but [there is] no
judgment. {19:8} He hath fenced up my way that I cannot
pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths. {19:9} He hath
stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown [from] my
head. {19:10} He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am
gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree. {19:11}
He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth
me unto him as [one of] his enemies. {19:12} His troops
come together, and raise up their way against me, and
encamp round about my tabernacle. {19:13} He hath put
my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily
estranged from me. {19:14} My kinsfolk have failed, and
my familiar friends have forgotten me. {19:15} They that
dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a
stranger: I am an alien in their sight. {19:16} I called my
servant, and he gave [me] no answer; I intreated him with
my mouth. {19:17} My breath is strange to my wife, though
I intreated for the children’s [sake] of mine own body.
{19:18} Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they
spake against me. {19:19} All my inward friends abhorred
me: and they whom I loved are turned against me. {19:20}
My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am
escaped with the skin of my teeth. {19:21} Have pity upon
me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of
God hath touched me. {19:22} Why do ye persecute me as
God, and are not satisfied with my flesh? {19:23} Oh that
my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a
book! {19:24} That they were graven with an iron pen and
lead in the rock for ever! {19:25} For I know [that] my
redeemer liveth, and [that] he shall stand at the latter [day]
upon the earth: {19:26} And [though] after my skin
[worms] destroy this [body,] yet in my flesh shall I see God:
{19:27} Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall
behold, and not another; [though] my reins be consumed
within me. {19:28} But ye should say, Why persecute we
him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me? {19:29}
Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath [bringeth] the
punishments of the sword, that ye may know [there is] a
judgment.

20 {20:1} Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
{20:2} Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and
for [this] I make haste. {20:3} I have heard the check of my
reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to
answer. {20:4} Knowest thou [not] this of old, since man
was placed upon earth, {20:5} That the triumphing of the
wicked [is] short, and the joy of the hypocrite [but] for a
moment? {20:6} Though his excellency mount up to the
heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds; {20:7} [Yet]
he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have
seen him shall say, Where [is] he? {20:8} He shall fly away
as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased
away as a vision of the night. {20:9} The eye also [which]
saw him shall [see him] no more; neither shall his place any
more behold him. {20:10} His children shall seek to please
the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods. {20:11}
His bones are full [of the sin] of his youth, which shall lie
down with him in the dust. {20:12} Though wickedness be
sweet in his mouth, [though] he hide it under his tongue;
{20:13} [Though] he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it
still within his mouth: {20:14} [Yet] his meat in his bowels
is turned, [it is] the gall of asps within him. {20:15} He hath
swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again:
God shall cast them out of his belly. {20:16} He shall suck
the poison of asps: the viper’s tongue shall slay him.
{20:17} He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of
honey and butter. {20:18} That which he laboured for shall
he restore, and shall not swallow [it] down: according to
[his] substance [shall] the restitution [be,] and he shall not
rejoice [therein.] {20:19} Because he hath oppressed [and]
hath forsaken the poor; [because] he hath violently taken
away an house which he builded not; {20:20} Surely he
shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that
which he desired. {20:21} There shall none of his meat be
left; therefore shall no man look for his goods. {20:22} In
the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every
hand of the wicked shall come upon him. {20:23} [When]
he is about to fill his belly, [God] shall cast the fury of his
wrath upon him, and shall rain [it] upon him while he is
eating. {20:24} He shall flee from the iron weapon, [and]
the bow of steel shall strike him through. {20:25} It is
drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword
cometh out of his gall: terrors [are] upon him. {20:26} All
darkness [shall be] hid in his secret places: a fire not blown
shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his
tabernacle. {20:27} The heaven shall reveal his iniquity;
and the earth shall rise up against him. {20:28} The increase
of his house shall depart, [and his goods] shall flow away in
the day of his wrath. {20:29} This [is] the portion of a
wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him
by God.

21 {21:1} But Job answered and said, {21:2} Hear diligently
my speech, and let this be your consolations. {21:3} Suffer
me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.
{21:4} As for me, [is] my complaint to man? and if [it were
so,] why should not my spirit be troubled? {21:5} Mark me,
and be astonished, and lay [your] hand upon [your] mouth.
{21:6} Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling
taketh hold on my flesh. {21:7} Wherefore do the wicked
live, become old, yea, are mighty in power? {21:8} Their
seed is established in their sight with them, and their
offspring before their eyes. {21:9} Their houses [are] safe
from fear, neither [is] the rod of God upon them. {21:10}
Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and
casteth not her calf. {21:11} They send forth their little ones
like a flock, and their children dance. {21:12} They take the
timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.
{21:13} They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment
go down to the grave. {21:14} Therefore they say unto God,
Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy
ways. {21:15} What [is] the Almighty, that we should serve
him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
{21:16} Lo, their good [is] not in their hand: the counsel of
the wicked is far from me. {21:17} How oft is the candle of
the wicked put out! and [how oft] cometh their destruction
upon them! [God] distributeth sorrows in his anger. {21:18}
They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the
storm carrieth away. {21:19} God layeth up his iniquity for
his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know [it.]
{21:20} His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall
drink of the wrath of the Almighty. {21:21} For what
pleasure [hath] he in his house after him, when the number
of his months is cut off in the midst? {21:22} Shall [any]
teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are
high. {21:23} One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at
ease and quiet. {21:24} His breasts are full of milk, and his
bones are moistened with marrow. {21:25} And another
dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with
pleasure. {21:26} They shall lie down alike in the dust, and
the worms shall cover them. {21:27} Behold, I know your
thoughts, and the devices [which] ye wrongfully imagine
against me. {21:28} For ye say, Where [is] the house of the
prince? and where [are] the dwelling places of the wicked?
{21:29} Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do
ye not know their tokens, {21:30} That the wicked is
reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought
forth to the day of wrath. {21:31} Who shall declare his
way to his face? and who shall repay him [what] he hath
done? {21:32} Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and
shall remain in the tomb. {21:33} The clods of the valley
shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after
him, as [there are] innumerable before him. {21:34} How
then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there
remaineth falsehood?

22 {22:1} Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
{22:2} Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise
may be profitable unto himself? {22:3} [Is it] any pleasure
to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or [is it] gain [to
him] that thou makest thy ways perfect? {22:4} Will he
reprove thee for fear of thee? will he enter with thee into
judgment? {22:5} [Is] not thy wickedness great? and thine
iniquities infinite? {22:6} For thou hast taken a pledge from
thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their
clothing. {22:7} Thou hast not given water to the weary to
drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.
{22:8} But [as for] the mighty man, he had the earth; and
the honourable man dwelt in it. {22:9} Thou hast sent
widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have
been broken. {22:10} Therefore snares [are] round about
thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee; {22:11} Or darkness,
[that] thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover
thee. {22:12} [Is] not God in the height of heaven? and
behold the height of the stars, how high they are! {22:13}
And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge
through the dark cloud? {22:14} Thick clouds [are] a
covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the
circuit of heaven. {22:15} Hast thou marked the old way
which wicked men have trodden? {22:16} Which were cut
down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a
flood: {22:17} Which said unto God, Depart from us: and
what can the Almighty do for them? {22:18} Yet he filled
their houses with good [things:] but the counsel of the
wicked is far from me. {22:19} The righteous see [it,] and
are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn. {22:20}
Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of
them the fire consumeth. {22:21} Acquaint now thyself
with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto
thee. {22:22} Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth,
and lay up his words in thine heart. {22:23} If thou return to
the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away
iniquity far from thy tabernacles. {22:24} Then shalt thou
lay up gold as dust, and the [gold] of Ophir as the stones of
the brooks. {22:25} Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defence,
and thou shalt have plenty of silver. {22:26} For then shalt
thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy
face unto God. {22:27} Thou shalt make thy prayer unto
him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.
{22:28} Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be
established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy
ways. {22:29} When [men] are cast down, then thou shalt
say, [There is] lifting up; and he shall save the humble
person. {22:30} He shall deliver the island of the innocent:
and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands.

23 {23:1} Then Job answered and said, {23:2} Even to
day [is] my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my
groaning. {23:3} Oh that I knew where I might find him!
[that] I might come [even] to his seat! {23:4} I would order
[my] cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
{23:5} I would know the words [which] he would answer
me, and understand what he would say unto me. {23:6}
Will he plead against me with [his] great power? No; but he
would put [strength] in me. {23:7} There the righteous
might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever
from my judge. {23:8} Behold, I go forward, but he [is] not
[there;] and backward, but I cannot perceive him: {23:9}
On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold
[him:] he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see
[him:] {23:10} But he knoweth the way that I take: [when]
he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold. {23:11} My
foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not
declined. {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.] {23:13} But he [is]
in one [mind,] and who can turn him? and [what] his soul
desireth, even [that] he doeth. {23:14} For he performeth
[the thing that is] appointed for me: and many such [things
are] with him. {23:15} Therefore am I troubled at his
presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him. {23:16} For
God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:
{23:17} Because I was not cut off before the darkness,
[neither] hath he covered the darkness from my face.

24 {24:1} Why, seeing times are not hidden from the
Almighty, do they that know him not see his days? {24:2}
[Some] remove the landmarks; they violently take away
flocks, and feed [thereof. ]{24:3} They drive away the ass
of the fatherless, they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
{24:4} They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the
earth hide themselves together. {24:5} Behold, [as] wild
asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising
betimes for a prey: the wilderness [yieldeth] food for them
[and] for [their] children. {24:6} They reap [every one] his
corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.
{24:7} They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that
[they have] no covering in the cold. {24:8} They are wet
with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock
for want of a shelter. {24:9} They pluck the fatherless from
the breast, and take a pledge of the poor. {24:10} They
cause [him] to go naked without clothing, and they take
away the sheaf [from] the hungry; {24:11} [Which] make
oil within their walls, [and] tread [their] winepresses, and
suffer thirst. {24:12} Men groan from out of the city, and
the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly
[to them.] {24:13} They are of those that rebel against the
light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths
thereof. {24:14} The murderer rising with the light killeth
the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief. {24:15}
The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying,
No eye shall see me: and disguiseth [his] face. {24:16} In
the dark they dig through houses, [which] they had marked
for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
{24:17} For the morning [is] to them even as the shadow of
death: if [one] know [them, they are in] the terrors of the
shadow of death. {24:18} He [is] swift as the waters; their
portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of
the vineyards. {24:19} Drought and heat consume the snow
waters: [so doth] the grave [those which] have sinned.
{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. {24:21} He evil
entreateth the barren that [beareth] not: and doeth not good
to the widow. {24:22} He draweth also the mighty with his
power: he riseth up, and no [man] is sure of life. {24:23}
[Though] it be given him [to be] in safety, whereon he
resteth; yet his eyes [are] upon their ways. {24:24} They are
exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they
are taken out of the way as all [other,] and cut off as the
tops of the ears of corn. {24:25} And if [it be] not [so] now,
who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing
worth?

25 {25:1} Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
{25:2} Dominion and fear [are] with him, he maketh peace
in his high places. {25:3} Is there any number of his
armies? and upon whom doth not his light arise? {25:4}
How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be
clean [that is] born of a woman? {25:5} Behold even to the
moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his
sight. {25:6} How much less man, [that is] a worm? and the
son of man, [which is] a worm?

26 {26:1} But Job answered and said, {26:2} How hast thou
helped [him that is] without power? [how] savest thou the
arm [that hath] no strength? {26:3} How hast thou
counseled [him that hath] no wisdom? and [how] hast thou
plentifully declared the thing as it is? {26:4} To whom hast
thou uttered words? and whose breath issued from thee?
{26:5} Dead [things] are formed from under the waters, and
the inhabitants thereof. {26:6} Hell [is] naked before him,
and destruction hath no covering. {26:7} He stretcheth out
the north over the empty place, [and] hangeth the earth upon
nothing. {26:8} He bindeth up the waters in his thick
clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them. {26:9} He
holdeth back the face of his throne, [and] spreadeth his
cloud upon it. {26:10} He hath compassed the waters with
bounds, until the day and night come to an end. {26:11}
The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his
reproof. {26:12} He divideth the sea with his power, and by
his understanding he smiteth through the proud. {26:13} By
his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath
formed the crooked serpent. {26:14} Lo, these [are] parts of
his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the
thunder of his power who can understand?

27 {27:1} Moreover Job continued his parable, and
said, {27:2} [As] God liveth, [who] hath taken away my
judgment; and the Almighty, [who] hath vexed my soul;
{27:3} All the while my breath [is] in me, and the spirit of
God [is] in my nostrils; {27:4} My lips shall not speak
wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit. {27:5} God forbid
that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine
integrity from me. {27:6} My righteousness I hold fast, and
will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach [me] so long
as I live. {27:7} Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he
that riseth up against me as the unrighteous. {27:8} For
what [is] the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained,
when God taketh away his soul? {27:9} Will God hear his
cry when trouble cometh upon him? {27:10} Will he delight
himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God?
{27:11} I will teach you by the hand of God: [that] which
[is] with the Almighty will I not conceal. {27:12} Behold,
all ye yourselves have seen [it;] why then are ye thus
altogether vain? {27:13} This [is] the portion of a wicked
man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, [which] they
shall receive of the Almighty. {27:14} If his children be
multiplied, [it is] for the sword: and his offspring shall not
be satisfied with bread. {27:15} Those that remain of him
shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep.
{27:16} Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare
raiment as the clay; {27:17} He may prepare [it,] but the
just shall put [it] on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.
{27:18} He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth
[that] the keeper maketh. {27:19} The rich man shall lie
down, but he shall not be gathered: he openeth his eyes, and
he [is] not. {27:20} Terrors take hold on him as waters, a
tempest stealeth him away in the night. {27:21} The east
wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm
hurleth him out of his place. {27:22} For [God] shall cast
upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.
{27:23} [Men] shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss
him out of his place.

28 {28:1} Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place
for gold [where] they fine [it.] {28:2} Iron is taken out of the
earth, and brass [is] molten [out of] the stone. {28:3} He
setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection:
the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death. {28:4} The
flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; [even the waters]
forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away
from men. {28:5} [As for] the earth, out of it cometh bread:
and under it is turned up as it were fire. {28:6} The stones
of it [are] the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold.
{28:7} [There is] a path which no fowl knoweth, and which
the vulture’s eye hath not seen: {28:8} The lion’s whelps
have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it. {28:9}
He putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he overturneth the
mountains by the roots. {28:10} He cutteth out rivers
among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing.
{28:11} He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and [the
thing that is] hid bringeth he forth to light. {28:12} But
where shall wisdom be found? and where [is] the place of
understanding? {28:13} Man knoweth not the price thereof;
neither is it found in the land of the living. {28:14} The
depth saith, It [is] not in me: and the sea saith, [It is] not
with me. {28:15} It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall
silver be weighed [for] the price thereof. {28:16} It cannot
be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or
the sapphire. {28:17} The gold and the crystal cannot equal
it: and the exchange of it [shall not be for] jewels of fine
gold. {28:18} No mention shall be made of coral, or of
pearls: for the price of wisdom [is] above rubies. {28:19}
The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be
valued with pure gold. {28:20} Whence then cometh
wisdom? and where [is] the place of understanding?
{28:21} Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept
close from the fowls of the air. {28:22} Destruction and
death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.
{28:23} God understandeth the way thereof, and he
knoweth the place thereof. {28:24} For he looketh to the
ends of the earth, [and] seeth under the whole heaven;
{28:25} To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth
the waters by measure. {28:26} When he made a decree for
the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder: {28:27}
Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and
searched it out. {28:28} And unto man he said, Behold, the
fear of the Lord, that [is] wisdom; and to depart from evil
[is] understanding.

29 {29:1} Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,
{29:2} Oh that I were as [in] months past, as [in] the days
[when] God preserved me; {29:3} When his candle shined
upon my head, [and when] by his light I walked [through]
darkness; {29:4} As I was in the days of my youth, when
the secret of God [was] upon my tabernacle; {29:5} When
the Almighty [was] yet with me, [when] my children [were]
about me; {29:6} When I washed my steps with butter, and
the rock poured me out rivers of oil; {29:7} When I went
out to the gate through the city, [when] I prepared my seat
in the street! {29:8} The young men saw me, and hid
themselves: and the aged arose, [and] stood up. {29:9} The
princes refrained talking, and laid [their] hand on their
mouth. {29:10} The nobles held their peace, and their
tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth. {29:11} When
the ear heard [me,] then it blessed me; and when the eye
saw [me,] it gave witness to me: {29:12} Because I
delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and [him
that had] none to help him. {29:13} The blessing of him
that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the
widow’s heart to sing for joy. {29:14} I put on
righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment [was] as a
robe and a diadem. {29:15} I was eyes to the blind, and feet
[was] I to the lame. {29:16} I [was] a father to the poor: and
the cause [which] I knew not I searched out. {29:17} And I
brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of
his teeth. {29:18} Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I
shall multiply [my] days as the sand. {29:19} My root [was]
spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my
branch. {29:20} My glory [was] fresh in me, and my bow
was renewed in my hand. {29:21} Unto me [men] gave ear,
and waited, and kept silence at my counsel. {29:22} After
my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped
upon them. {29:23} And they waited for me as for the rain;
and they opened their mouth wide [as] for the latter rain.
{29:24} [If] I laughed on them, they believed [it] not; and
the light of my countenance they cast not down. {29:25} I
chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the
army, as one [that] comforteth the mourners.

30 {30:1} But now [they that are] younger than I have me
in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set
with the dogs of my flock. {30:2} Yea, whereto [might] the
strength of their hands [profit] me, in whom old age was
perished? {30:3} For want and famine [they were] solitary;
fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and
waste. {30:4} Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and
juniper roots [for] their meat. {30:5} They were driven forth
from among [men,] (they cried after them as [after] a thief;)
{30:6} To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, [in] caves of the
earth, and [in] the rocks. {30:7} Among the bushes they
brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.
{30:8} [They were] children of fools, yea, children of base
men: they were viler than the earth. {30:9} And now am I
their song, yea, I am their byword. {30:10} They abhor me,
they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.
{30:11} Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me,
they have also let loose the bridle before me. {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.
{30:13} They mar my path, they set forward my calamity,
they have no helper. {30:14} They came [upon me] as a
wide breaking in [of waters:] in the desolation they rolled
themselves [upon me.] {30:15} Terrors are turned upon me:
they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth
away as a cloud. {30:16} And now my soul is poured out
upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
{30:17} My bones are pierced in me in the night season:
and my sinews take no rest. {30:18} By the great force [of
my disease] is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as
the collar of my coat. {30:19} He hath cast me into the
mire, and I am become like dust and ashes. {30:20} I cry
unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou
regardest me [not.] {30:21} Thou art become cruel to me:
with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.
{30:22} Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to
ride [upon it,] and dissolvest my substance. {30:23} For I
know [that] thou wilt bring me [to] death, and [to] the house
appointed for all living. {30:24} Howbeit he will not stretch
out [his] hand to the grave, though they cry in his
destruction. {30:25} Did not I weep for him that was in
trouble? was [not] my soul grieved for the poor? {30:26}
When I looked for good, then evil came [unto me:] and
when I waited for light, there came darkness. {30:27} My
bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction
prevented me. {30:28} I went mourning without the sun: I
stood up, [and] I cried in the congregation. {30:29} I am a
brother to dragons, and a companion to owls. {30:30} My
skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
{30:31} My harp also is [turned] to mourning, and my
organ into the voice of them that weep.

31 {31:1} I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then
should I think upon a maid? {31:2} For what portion of God
[is there] from above? and [what] inheritance of the
Almighty from on high? {31:3} [Is] not destruction to the
wicked? and a strange [punishment] to the workers of
iniquity? {31:4} Doth not he see my ways, and count all my
steps? {31:5} If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot
hath hasted to deceit; {31:6} Let me be weighed in an even
balance, that God may know mine integrity. {31:7} If my
step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after
mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands;
{31:8} [Then] let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my
offspring be rooted out. {31:9} If mine heart have been
deceived by a woman, or [if] I have laid wait at my
neighbour’s door; {31:10} [Then] let my wife grind unto
another, and let others bow down upon her. {31:11} For this
[is] an heinous crime; yea, it [is] an iniquity [to be punished
by] the judges. {31:12} For it [is] a fire [that] consumeth to
destruction, and would root out all mine increase. {31:13} If
I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my
maidservant, when they contended with me; {31:14} What
then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth,
what shall I answer him? {31:15} Did not he that made me
in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the
womb? {31:16} If I have withheld the poor from [their]
desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
{31:17} Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the
fatherless hath not eaten thereof; {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;) {31:19} If I
have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor
without covering; {31:20} If his loins have not blessed me,
and [if] he were [not] warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
{31:21} If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless,
when I saw my help in the gate: {31:22} [Then] let mine
arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken
from the bone. {31:23} For destruction [from] God [was] a
terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not
endure. {31:24} If I have made gold my hope, or have said
to the fine gold, [Thou art] my confidence; {31:25} If I
rejoiced because my wealth [was] great, and because mine
hand had gotten much; {31:26} If I beheld the sun when it
shined, or the moon walking [in] brightness; {31:27} And
my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath
kissed my hand: {31:28} This also [were] an iniquity [to be
punished by] the judge: for I should have denied the God
[that is] above. {31:29} If I rejoiced at the destruction of
him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:
{31:30} Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing
a curse to his soul. {31:31} If the men of my tabernacle said
not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.
{31:32} The stranger did not lodge in the street: [but] I
opened my doors to the traveller. {31:33} If I covered my
transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my
bosom: {31:34} Did I fear a great multitude, or did the
contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, [and]
went not out of the door? {31:35} Oh that one would hear
me! behold, my desire [is, that] the Almighty would answer
me, and [that] mine adversary had written a book. {31:36}
Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, [and] bind it [as] a
crown to me. {31:37} I would declare unto him the number
of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him. {31:38}
If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise
thereof complain; {31:39} If I have eaten the fruits thereof
without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose
their life: {31:40} Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and
cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.

32 {32:1} So these three men ceased to answer Job, be-
cause he [was] righteous in his own eyes. {32:2} Then was
kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of
the kindred of Ram: against Job was his wrath kindled,
because he justified himself rather than God. {32:3} Also
against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they
had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job. {32:4}
Now Elihu had waited till Job had spoken, because they
were elder than he. {32:5} When Elihu saw that [there was]
no answer in the mouth of [these] three men, then his wrath
was kindled. {32:6} And Elihu the son of Barachel the
Buzite answered and said, I [am] young, and ye [are] very
old; wherefore I was afraid, and durst not shew you mine
opinion. {32:7} I said, Days should speak, and multitude of
years should teach wisdom. {32:8} But [there is] a spirit in
man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them
understanding. {32:9} Great men are not [always] wise:
neither do the aged understand judgment. {32:10}
Therefore I said, Hearken to me; I also will shew mine
opinion. {32:11} Behold, I waited for your words; I gave
ear to your reasons, whilst ye searched out what to say.
{32:12} Yea, I attended unto you, and, behold, [there was]
none of you that convinced Job, or that answered his words:
{32:13} Lest ye should say, We have found out wisdom:
God thrusteth him down, not man. {32:14} Now he hath not
directed [his] words against me: neither will I answer him
with your speeches. {32:15} They were amazed, they
answered no more: they left off speaking. {32:16} When I
had waited, (for they spake not, but stood still, [and]
answered no more;) {32:17} [I said,] I will answer also my
part, I also will shew mine opinion. {32:18} For I am full of
matter, the spirit within me constraineth me. {32:19}
Behold, my belly [is] as wine [which] hath no vent; it is
ready to burst like new bottles. {32:20} I will speak, that I
may be refreshed: I will open my lips and answer. {32:21}
Let me not, I pray you, accept any man’s person, neither let
me give flattering titles unto man. {32:22} For I know not
to give flattering titles; [in so doing] my maker would soon
take me away.

33 {33:1} Wherefore, Job, I pray thee, hear my speeches,
and hearken to all my words. {33:2} Behold, now I have opened
my mouth, my tongue hath spoken in my mouth. {33:3} My
words [shall be of] the uprightness of my heart: and my lips
shall utter knowledge clearly. {33:4} The Spirit of God hath
made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.
{33:5} If thou canst answer me, set [thy words] in order
before me, stand up. {33:6} Behold, I [am] according to thy
wish in God’s stead: I also am formed out of the clay.
{33:7} Behold, my terror shall not make thee afraid, neither
shall my hand be heavy upon thee. {33:8} Surely thou hast
spoken in mine hearing, and I have heard the voice of [thy]
words, [saying,] {33:9} I am clean without transgression, I
[am] innocent; neither [is there] iniquity in me. {33:10}
Behold, he findeth occasions against me, he counteth me for
his enemy, {33:11} He putteth my feet in the stocks, he
marketh all my paths. {33:12} Behold, [in] this thou art not
just: I will answer thee, that God is greater than man.
{33:13} Why dost thou strive against him? for he giveth not
account of any of his matters. {33:14} For God speaketh
once, yea twice, [yet man] perceiveth it not. {33:15} In a
dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon
men, in slumberings upon the bed; {33:16} Then he
openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction,
{33:17} That he may withdraw man [from his] purpose, and
hide pride from man. {33:18} He keepeth back his soul
from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.
{33:19} He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and
the multitude of his bones with strong [pain:] {33:20} So
that his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty meat.
{33:21} His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen;
and his bones [that] were not seen stick out. {33:22} Yea,
his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the
destroyers. {33:23} If there be a messenger with him, an
interpreter, one among a thousand, to shew unto man his
uprightness: {33:24} Then he is gracious unto him, and
saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found
a ransom. {33:25} His flesh shall be fresher than a child’s:
he shall return to the days of his youth: {33:26} He shall
pray unto God, and he will be favourable unto him: and he
shall see his face with joy: for he will render unto man his
righteousness. {33:27} He looketh upon men, and [if any]
say, I have sinned, and perverted [that which was] right, and
it profited me not; {33:28} He will deliver his soul from
going into the pit, and his life shall see the light. {33:29}
Lo, all these [things] worketh God oftentimes with man,
{33:30} To bring back his soul from the pit, to be
enlightened with the light of the living. {33:31} Mark well,
O Job, hearken unto me: hold thy peace, and I will speak.
{33:32} If thou hast any thing to say, answer me: speak, for
I desire to justify thee. {33:33} If not, hearken unto me:
hold thy peace, and I shall teach thee wisdom.

34 {34:1} Furthermore Elihu answered and said, {34:2} Hear
my words, O ye wise [men;] and give ear unto me, ye that
have knowledge. {34:3} For the ear trieth words, as the
mouth tasteth meat. {34:4} Let us choose to us judgment:
let us know among ourselves what [is] good. {34:5} For Job
hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my
judgment. {34:6} Should I lie against my right? my wound
[is] incurable without transgression. {34:7} What man [is]
like Job, [who] drinketh up scorning like water? {34:8}
Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, and
walketh with wicked men. {34:9} For he hath said, It
profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with
God. {34:10} Therefore hearken unto me, ye men of
understanding: far be it from God, [that he should do]
wickedness; and [from] the Almighty, [that he should
commit] iniquity. {34:11} For the work of a man shall he
render unto him, and cause every man to find according to
[his] ways. {34:12} Yea, surely God will not do wickedly,
neither will the Almighty pervert judgment. {34:13} Who
hath given him a charge over the earth? or who hath
disposed the whole world? {34:14} If he set his heart upon
man, [if] he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath;
{34:15} All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn
again unto dust. {34:16} If now [thou hast] understanding,
hear this: hearken to the voice of my words. {34:17} Shall
even he that hateth right govern? and wilt thou condemn
him that is most just? {34:18} [Is it fit] to say to a king,
[Thou art] wicked? [and] to princes, [Ye are] ungodly?
{34:19} [How much less to him] that accepteth not the
persons of princes, nor regardeth the rich more than the
poor? for they all [are] the work of his hands. {34:20} In a
moment shall they die, and the people shall be troubled at
midnight, and pass away: and the mighty shall be taken
away without hand. {34:21} For his eyes [are] upon the
ways of man, and he seeth all his goings. {34:22} [There is]
no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of
iniquity may hide themselves. {34:23} For he will not lay
upon man more [than right;] that he should enter into
judgment with God. {34:24} He shall break in pieces
mighty men without number, and set others in their stead.
{34:25} Therefore he knoweth their works, and he
overturneth [them] in the night, so that they are destroyed.
{34:26} He striketh them as wicked men in the open sight
of others; {34:27} Because they turned back from him, and
would not consider any of his ways: {34:28} So that they
cause the cry of the poor to come unto him, and he heareth
the cry of the afflicted. {34:29} When he giveth quietness,
who then can make trouble? and when he hideth [his] face,
who then can behold him? whether [it be done] against a
nation, or against a man only: {34:30} That the hypocrite
reign not, lest the people be ensnared. {34:31} Surely it is
meet to be said unto God, I have borne [chastisement,] I
will not offend [any more:] {34:32} [That which] I see not
teach thou me: if I have done iniquity, I will do no more.
{34:33} [Should it be] according to thy mind? he will
recompense it, whether thou refuse, or whether thou choose;
and not I: therefore speak what thou knowest. {34:34} Let
men of understanding tell me, and let a wise man hearken
unto me. {34:35} Job hath spoken without knowledge, and
his words [were] without wisdom. {34:36} My desire [is
that] Job may be tried unto the end because of [his] answers
for wicked men. {34:37} For he addeth rebellion unto his
sin, he clappeth [his hands] among us, and multiplieth his
words against God.

35 {35:1} Elihu spake moreover, and said, {35:2} Thinkest
thou this to be right, [that] thou saidst, My righteousness [is]
more than God’s? {35:3} For thou saidst, What advantage
will it be unto thee? [and,] What profit shall I have, [if I be
cleansed] from my sin? {35:4} I will answer thee, and thy
companions with thee. {35:5} Look unto the heavens, and
see; and behold the clouds [which] are higher than thou.
{35:6} If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or [if]
thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?
{35:7} If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what
receiveth he of thine hand? {35:8} Thy wickedness [may
hurt] a man as thou [art;] and thy righteousness [may profit]
the son of man. {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. {35:10} But none saith,
Where [is] God my maker, who giveth songs in the night;
{35:11} Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth,
and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven? {35:12}
There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride
of evil men. {35:13} Surely God will not hear vanity,
neither will the Almighty regard it. {35:14} Although thou
sayest thou shalt not see him, [yet] judgment [is] before
him; therefore trust thou in him. {35:15} But now, because
[it is] not [so,] he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth
[it] not in great extremity: {35:16} Therefore doth Job open
his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.

36 {36:1} Elihu also proceeded, and said, {36:2} Suffer me
a little, and I will shew thee that [I have] yet to speak on
God’s behalf. {36:3} I will fetch my knowledge from afar,
and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker. {36:4} For
truly my words [shall] not [be] false: he that is perfect in
knowledge [is] with thee. {36:5} Behold, God [is] mighty,
and despiseth not [any: he is] mighty in strength [and]
wisdom. {36:6} He preserveth not the life of the wicked:
but giveth right to the poor. {36:7} He withdraweth not his
eyes from the righteous: but with kings [are they] on the
throne; yea, he doth establish them for ever, and they are
exalted. {36:8} And if [they be] bound in fetters, [and] be
holden in cords of affliction; {36:9} Then he sheweth them
their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded.
{36:10} He openeth also their ear to discipline, and
commandeth that they return from iniquity. {36:11} If they
obey and serve [him,] they shall spend their days in
prosperity, and their years in pleasures. {36:12} But if they
obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die
without knowledge. {36:13} But the hypocrites in heart
heap up wrath: they cry not when he bindeth them. {36:14}
They die in youth, and their life [is] among the unclean.
{36:15} He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth
their ears in oppression. {36:16} Even so would he have
removed thee out of the strait [into] a broad place, where
[there is] no straitness; and that which [should be] set on thy
table should be full of fatness. {36:17} But thou hast
fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice
take hold [on thee. ]{36:18} Because [there is] wrath,
[beware] lest he take thee away with [his] stroke: then a
great ransom cannot deliver thee. {36:19} Will he esteem
thy riches? [no,] not gold, nor all the forces of strength.
{36:20} Desire not the night, when people are cut off in
their place. {36:21} Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this
hast thou chosen rather than affliction. {36:22} Behold,
God exalteth by his power: who teacheth like him? {36:23}
Who hath enjoined him his way? or who can say, Thou hast
wrought iniquity? {36:24} Remember that thou magnify his
work, which men behold. {36:25} Every man may see it;
man may behold [it] afar off. {36:26} Behold, God [is]
great, and we know [him] not, neither can the number of his
years be searched out. {36:27} For he maketh small the
drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour
thereof: {36:28} Which the clouds do drop [and] distil upon
man abundantly. {36:29} Also can [any] understand the
spreadings of the clouds, [or] the noise of his tabernacle?
{36:30} Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth
the bottom of the sea. {36:31} For by them judgeth he the
people; he giveth meat in abundance. {36:32} With clouds
he covereth the light; and commandeth it [not to shine] by
[the cloud] that cometh betwixt. {36:33} The noise thereof
sheweth concerning it, the cattle also concerning the vapour.

37 {37:1} At this also my heart trembleth, and is moved out
of his place. {37:2} Hear attentively the noise of his voice,
and the sound [that] goeth out of his mouth. {37:3} He
directeth it under the whole heaven, and his lightning unto
the ends of the earth. {37:4} After it a voice roareth: he
thundereth with the voice of his excellency; and he will not
stay them when his voice is heard. {37:5} God thundereth
marvellously with his voice; great things doeth he, which
we cannot comprehend. {37:6} For he saith to the snow, Be
thou [on] the earth; likewise to the small rain, and to the
great rain of his strength. {37:7} He sealeth up the hand of
every man; that all men may know his work. {37:8} Then
the beasts go into dens, and remain in their places. {37:9}
Out of the south cometh the whirlwind: and cold out of the
north. {37:10} By the breath of God frost is given: and the
breadth of the waters is straitened. {37:11} Also by
watering he wearieth the thick cloud: he scattereth his bright
cloud: {37:12} And it is turned round about by his counsels:
that they may do whatsoever he commandeth them upon the
face of the world in the earth. {37:13} He causeth it to
come, whether for correction, or for his land, or for mercy.
{37:14} Hearken unto this, O Job: stand still, and consider
the wondrous works of God. {37:15} Dost thou know when
God disposed them, and caused the light of his cloud to
shine? {37:16} Dost thou know the balancings of the
clouds, the wondrous works of him which is perfect in
knowledge? {37:17} How thy garments [are] warm, when
he quieteth the earth by the south [wind?] {37:18} Hast
thou with him spread out the sky, [which is] strong, [and] as
a molten looking glass? {37:19} Teach us what we shall say
unto him; [for] we cannot order [our speech] by reason of
darkness. {37:20} Shall it be told him that I speak? if a man
speak, surely he shall be swallowed up. {37:21} And now
[men] see not the bright light which is in the clouds: but the
wind passeth, and cleanseth them. {37:22} Fair weather
cometh out of the north: with God is terrible majesty.
{37:23} [Touching] the Almighty, we cannot find him out:
[he is] excellent in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of
justice: he will not afflict. {37:24} Men do therefore fear
him: he respecteth not any [that are] wise of heart.

38 {38:1} Then the LORD answered Job out of the
whirlwind, and said, {38:2} Who [is] this that darkeneth
counsel by words without knowledge? {38:3} Gird up now
thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer
thou me. {38:4} Where wast thou when I laid the
foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast
understanding. {38:5} Who hath laid the measures thereof,
if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?
{38:6} Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or
who laid the corner stone thereof; {38:7} When the morning
stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
{38:8} Or [who] shut up the sea with doors, when it brake
forth, [as if] it had issued out of the womb? {38:9} When I
made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a
swaddlingband for it, {38:10} And brake up for it my
decreed [place,] and set bars and doors, {38:11} And said,
Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy
proud waves be stayed? {38:12} Hast thou commanded the
morning since thy days; [and] caused the dayspring to know
his place; {38:13} That it might take hold of the ends of the
earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it? {38:14} It
is turned as clay [to] the seal; and they stand as a garment.
{38:15} And from the wicked their light is withholden, and
the high arm shall be broken. {38:16} Hast thou entered
into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search
of the depth? {38:17} Have the gates of death been opened
unto thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of
death? {38:18} Hast thou perceived the breadth of the
earth? declare if thou knowest it all. {38:19} Where [is] the
way [where] light dwelleth? and [as for] darkness, where
[is] the place thereof, {38:20} That thou shouldest take it to
the bound thereof, and that thou shouldest know the paths
[to] the house thereof? {38:21} Knowest thou [it,] because
thou wast then born? or [because] the number of thy days
[is] great? {38:22} Hast thou entered into the treasures of
the snow? or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail,
{38:23} Which I have reserved against the time of trouble,
against the day of battle and war? {38:24} By what way is
the light parted, [which] scattereth the east wind upon the
earth? {38:25} Who hath divided a watercourse for the
overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder;
{38:26} To cause it to rain on the earth, [where] no man [is;
on] the wilderness, wherein [there is] no man; {38:27} To
satisfy the desolate and waste [ground;] and to cause the
bud of the tender herb to spring forth? {38:28} Hath the rain
a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew? {38:29}
Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of
heaven, who hath gendered it? {38:30} The waters are hid
as [with] a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen. {38:31}
Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose
the bands of Orion? {38:32} Canst thou bring forth
Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with
his sons? {38:33} Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven?
canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth? {38:34}
Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of
waters may cover thee? {38:35} Canst thou send lightnings,
that they may go, and say unto thee, Here we [are?] {38:36}
Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? or who hath
given understanding to the heart? {38:37} Who can number
the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the bottles of
heaven, {38:38} When the dust groweth into hardness, and
the clods cleave fast together? {38:39} Wilt thou hunt the
prey for the lion? or fill the appetite of the young lions,
{38:40} When they couch in [their] dens, [and] abide in the
covert to lie in wait? {38:41} Who provideth for the raven
his food? when his young ones cry unto God, they wander
for lack of meat.

36 {39:1} Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of
the rock bring forth? [or] canst thou mark when the hinds
do calve? {39:2} Canst thou number the months [that] they
fulfil? or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?
{39:3} They bow themselves, they bring forth their young
ones, they cast out their sorrows. {39:4} Their young ones
are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they go forth,
and return not unto them. {39:5} Who hath sent out the wild
ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?
{39:6} Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the
barren land his dwellings. {39:7} He scorneth the multitude
of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver.
{39:8} The range of the mountains [is] his pasture, and he
searcheth after every green thing. {39:9} Will the unicorn
be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib? {39:10} Canst
thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he
harrow the valleys after thee? {39:11} Wilt thou trust him,
because his strength [is] great? or wilt thou leave thy labour
to him? {39:12} Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring
home thy seed, and gather [it into] thy barn? {39:13}
[Gavest thou] the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings
and feathers unto the ostrich? {39:14} Which leaveth her
eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust, {39:15} And
forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild
beast may break them. {39:16} She is hardened against her
young ones, as though [they were] not hers: her labour is in
vain without fear; {39:17} Because God hath deprived her
of wisdom, neither hath he imparted to her understanding.
{39:18} What time she lifteth up herself on high, she
scorneth the horse and his rider. {39:19} Hath thou given
the horse strength? hast thou clothed his neck with thunder?
{39:20} Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? the
glory of his nostrils [is] terrible. {39:21} He paweth in the
valley, and rejoiceth in [his] strength: he goeth on to meet
the armed men. {39:22} He mocketh at fear, and is not
affrighted; neither turneth he back from the sword. {39:23}
The quiver rattleth against him, the glittering spear and the
shield. {39:24} He swalloweth the ground with fierceness
and rage: neither believeth he that [it is] the sound of the
trumpet. {39:25} He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha; and
he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains,
and the shouting. {39:26} Doth the hawk fly by thy
wisdom, [and] stretch her wings toward the south? {39:27}
Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her
nest on high? {39:28} She dwelleth and abideth on the rock,
upon the crag of the rock, and the strong place. {39:29}
From thence she seeketh the prey, [and] her eyes behold
afar off. {39:30} Her young ones also suck up blood: and
where the slain [are,] there [is] she.

40 {40:1} Moreover the LORD answered Job, and said,
{40:2} Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct
[him?] he that reproveth God, let him answer it.
{40:3} Then Job answered the LORD, and said, {40:4}
Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine
hand upon my mouth. {40:5} Once have I spoken; but I will
not answer: yea, twice; but I will proceed no further.
{40:6} Then answered the LORD unto Job out of the
whirlwind, and said, {40:7} Gird up thy loins now like a
man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
{40:8} Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou
condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous? {40:9} Hast
thou an arm like God? or canst thou thunder with a voice
like him? {40:10} Deck thyself now [with] majesty and
excellency; and array thyself with glory and beauty.
{40:11} Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath: and behold
every one [that is] proud, and abase him. {40:12} Look on
every one [that is] proud, [and] bring him low; and tread
down the wicked in their place. {40:13} Hide them in the
dust together; [and] bind their faces in secret. {40:14} Then
will I also confess unto thee that thine own right hand can
save thee.
{40:15} Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee;
he eateth grass as an ox. {40:16} Lo now, his strength [is]
in his loins, and his force [is] in the navel of his belly.
{40:17} He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his
stones are wrapped together. {40:18} His bones [are as]
strong pieces of brass; his bones [are] like bars of iron.
{40:19} He [is] the chief of the ways of God: he that made
him can make his sword to approach [unto him.] {40:20}
Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the
beasts of the field play. {40:21} He lieth under the shady
trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens. {40:22} The shady
trees cover him [with] their shadow; the willows of the
brook compass him about. {40:23} Behold, he drinketh up a
river, [and] hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up
Jordan into his mouth. {40:24} He taketh it with his eyes:
[his] nose pierceth through snares.

41 {41:1} Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his
tongue with a cord [which] thou lettest down? {41:2} Canst
thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with
a thorn? {41:3} Will he make many supplications unto
thee? will he speak soft [words] unto thee? {41:4} Will he
make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant
for ever? {41:5} Wilt thou play with him as [with] a bird?
or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens? {41:6} Shall the
companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him
among the merchants? {41:7} Canst thou fill his skin with
barbed irons? or his head with fish spears? {41:8} Lay thine
hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more. {41:9}
Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not [one] be cast
down even at the sight of him? {41:10} None [is so] fierce
that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me?
{41:11} Who hath prevented me, that I should repay [him?
whatsoever is] under the whole heaven is mine. {41:12} I
will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely
proportion. {41:13} Who can discover the face of his
garment? [or] who can come [to him] with his double
bridle? {41:14} Who can open the doors of his face? his
teeth [are] terrible round about. {41:15} [His] scales [are
his] pride, shut up together [as with] a close seal. {41:16}
One is so near to another, that no air can come between
them. {41:17} They are joined one to another, they stick
together, that they cannot be sundered. {41:18} By his
neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes [are] like the
eyelids of the morning. {41:19} Out of his mouth go
burning lamps, [and] sparks of fire leap out. {41:20} Out of
his nostrils goeth smoke, as [out] of a seething pot or
caldron. {41:21} His breath kindleth coals, and a flame
goeth out of his mouth. {41:22} In his neck remaineth
strength, and sorrow is turned into joy before him. {41:23}
The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in
themselves; they cannot be moved. {41:24} His heart is as
firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether
[millstone.] {41:25} When he raiseth up himself, the mighty
are afraid: by reason of breakings they purify themselves.
{41:26} The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold:
the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon. {41:27} He
esteemeth iron as straw, [and] brass as rotten wood. {41:28}
The arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones are turned
with him into stubble. {41:29} Darts are counted as stubble:
he laugheth at the shaking of a spear. {41:30} Sharp stones
[are] under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the
mire. {41:31} He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he
maketh the sea like a pot of ointment. {41:32} He maketh a
path to shine after him; [one] would think the deep [to be]
hoary. {41:33} Upon earth there is not his like, who is made
without fear. {41:34} He beholdeth all high [things:] he [is]
a king over all the children of pride.

42 {42:1} Then Job answered the LORD, and said, {42:2} I
know that thou canst do every [thing,] and [that] no thought
can be withholden from thee. {42:3} Who [is] he that hideth
counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I
understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew
not. {42:4} Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will
demand of thee, and declare thou unto me. {42:5} I have
heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye
seeth thee. {42:6} Wherefore I abhor [myself,] and repent in
dust and ashes.
{42:7} And it was [so,] that after the LORD had spoken
these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the
Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy
two friends: for ye have not spoken of me [the thing that is]
right, as my servant Job [hath. ]{42:8} Therefore take unto
you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my
servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering;
and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept:
lest I deal with you [after your] folly, in that ye have not
spoken of me [the thing which is] right, like my servant Job.
{42:9} So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite
[and] Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as the
LORD commanded them: the LORD also accepted Job.
{42:10} And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when
he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as
much as he had before. {42:11} Then came there unto him
all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been
of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his
house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all
the evil that the LORD had brought upon him: every man
also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of
gold. {42:12} So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job
more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand
sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of
oxen, and a thousand she asses. {42:13} He had also seven
sons and three daughters. {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. {42:15} And in all
the land were no women found [so] fair as the daughters of
Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their
brethren. {42:16} After this lived Job an hundred and forty
years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, [even] four
generations. {42:17} So Job died, [being] old and full of
days.

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