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Job 1:1-42:17 (KJV)  
    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. [2] And there were born unto him
seven sons and three daughters. [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. [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. [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. 
    [6] Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the
Lord, and Satan came also among them. [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. [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? [9] Then Satan answered the Lord, and said, Doth
Job fear God for nought? [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. [11] But put forth thine hand now, and touch all
that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face. [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. 
    [13] And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking
wine in their eldest brother's house: [14] And there came a messenger unto Job, and said,
The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them: [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. [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. [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. [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: [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. [20] Then Job
arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and
worshipped, [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.
[22] In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly. 
    [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] 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. [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. [4] And Satan answered the Lord, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a
man hath will he give for his life. [5] But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone
and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face. [6] And the Lord said unto Satan,
Behold, he is in thine hand; but save his life. 
    [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. [8] And he took him a potsherd to scrape
himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes. 
    [9] Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God,
and die. [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. 
    [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. [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. [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. 
    [3:1] After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. [2] And Job spake, and
said, [3] Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said,
There is a man child conceived. [4] Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from
above, neither let the light shine upon it. [5] Let darkness and the shadow of death
stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it. [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. [7] Lo, let that night be solitary, let no
joyful voice come therein. [8] Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to
raise up their mourning. [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: [10] Because it shut
not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes. [11] Why died I not
from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly? [12] Why did
the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck? [13] For now should I have
lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest, [14] With kings
and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves; [15] Or with
princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver: [16] Or as an hidden untimely
birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light. [17] There the wicked cease from
troubling; and there the weary be at rest. [18] There the prisoners rest together; they
hear not the voice of the oppressor. [19] The small and great are there; and the servant
is free from his master. [20] Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life
unto the bitter in soul; [21] Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it
more than for hid treasures; [22] Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can
find the grave? [23] Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath
hedged in? [24] For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like
the waters. [25] For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I
was afraid of is come unto me. [26] I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was
I quiet; yet trouble came. 
    [4:1] Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said, [2] If we assay to commune with
thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking? [3] Behold, thou
hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands. [4] Thy words have
upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees. [5] But now
it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled. [6] Is
not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways? [7]
Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut
off? [8] Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.
[9] By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.
[10] The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the
young lions, are broken. [11] The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout
lion's whelps are scattered abroad. [12] Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine
ear received a little thereof. [13] In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep
sleep falleth on men, [14] Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to
shake. [15] Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up: [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, [17] Shall mortal man be more just than
God? shall a man be more pure than his maker? [18] Behold, he put no trust in his
servants; and his angels he charged with folly: [19] How much less in them that dwell in
houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth? [20]
They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding
it. [21] Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without
wisdom. 
    [5:1] Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints
wilt thou turn? [2] For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
[3] I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation. [4] His
children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to
deliver them. [5] Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the
thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance. [6] Although affliction cometh not
forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground; [7] Yet man is born
unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward. [8] I would seek unto God, and unto God would I
commit my cause: [9] Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without
number: [10] Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields: [11] To
set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety. [12]
He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their
enterprise. [13] He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the
froward is carried headlong. [14] They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in
the noonday as in the night. [15] But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their
mouth, and from the hand of the mighty. [16] So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth
her mouth. [17] Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou
the chastening of the Almighty: [18] For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and
his hands make whole. [19] He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there
shall no evil touch thee. [20] In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from
the power of the sword. [21] Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither
shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh. [22] At destruction and famine thou
shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth. [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. [24] And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be in peace; and thou shalt
visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin. [25] Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be
great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth. [26] Thou shalt come to thy grave
in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season. [27] Lo this, we have
searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou it for thy good. 
    [6:1] But Job answered and said, [2] O that my grief were throughly weighed, and my
calamity laid in the balances together! [3] For now it would be heavier than the sand of
the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up. [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. [5] Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over
his fodder? [6] Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste
in the white of an egg? [7] The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful
meat. [8] Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I
long for! [9] Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his
hand, and cut me off! [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. [11] What
is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?
[12] Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brass? [13] Is not my help
in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me? [14] To him that is afflicted pity should be
shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty. [15] My brethren have
dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away; [16] Which are
blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid: [17] What time they wax warm,
they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place. [18] The paths of
their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish. [19] The troops of Tema
looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them. [20] They were confounded because they
had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed. [21] For now ye are no thing; ye see my
casting down, and are afraid. [22] Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of
your substance? [23] Or, Deliver me from the enemy's hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of
the mighty? [24] Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein
I have erred. [25] How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove? [26]
Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as
wind? [27] Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend. [28] Now
therefore be content, look upon me; for it is evident unto you if I lie. [29] Return, I
pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it. [30] Is
there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things? 
    [7:1] Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like
the days of an hireling? [2] As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an
hireling looketh for the reward of his work: [3] So am I made to possess months of
vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me. [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. [5] My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and
become loathsome. [6] My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without
hope. [7] O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good. [8] The eye
of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not. [9]
As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall
come up no more. [10] He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know
him any more. [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. [12] Am I a sea, or a whale,
that thou settest a watch over me? [13] When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch
shall ease my complaint; [14] Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through
visions: [15] So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life. [16] I
loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity. [17] What is
man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?
[18] And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment? [19] How
long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle? [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? [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. 
    [8:1] Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, [2] How long wilt thou speak these
things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind? [3] Doth God
pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice? [4] If thy children have sinned
against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression; [5] If thou wouldest
seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty; [6] If thou wert pure
and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy
righteousness prosperous. [7] Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should
greatly increase. [8] For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to
the search of their fathers: [9] (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because
our days upon earth are a shadow:) [10] Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and
utter words out of their heart? [11] Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow
without water? [12] Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth
before any other herb. [13] So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's
hope shall perish: [14] Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider's
web. [15] He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast,
but it shall not endure. [16] He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth
in his garden. [17] His roots are wrapped about the heap, and seeth the place of stones.
[18] If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen
thee. [19] Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow.
[20] Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evil doers:
[21] Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing. [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, [2] I know it is so of a truth: but how should man
be just with God? [3] If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a
thousand. [4] He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself
against him, and hath prospered? [5] Which removeth the mountains, and they know not:
which overturneth them in his anger. [6] Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and
the pillars thereof tremble. [7] Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth
up the stars. [8] Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of
the sea. [9] Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.
[10] Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders without number. [11] Lo,
he goeth by me, and I see him not: he passeth on also, but I perceive him not. [12]
Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What doest thou? [13]
If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him. [14] How much
less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him? [15] Whom, though I
were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge. [16]
If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened
unto my voice. [17] For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without
cause. [18] He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness. [19]
If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to
plead? [20] If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect,
it shall also prove me perverse. [21] Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my
soul: I would despise my life. [22] This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth
the perfect and the wicked. [23] If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial
of the innocent. [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? [25] Now my days are swifter
than a post: they flee away, they see no good. [26] They are passed away as the swift
ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey. [27] If I say, I will forget my complaint,
I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself: [28] I am afraid of all my sorrows, I
know that thou wilt not hold me innocent. [29] If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
[30] If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean; [31] Yet shalt
thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me. [32] For he is not a
man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment. [33]
Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both. [34] Let
him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me: [35] Then would I speak,
and not fear him; but it is not so with me. 
    [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. [2] I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me
wherefore thou contendest with me. [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? [4] Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth? [5] Are thy days as the
days of man? are thy years as man's days, [6] That thou enquirest after mine iniquity,
and searchest after my sin? [7] Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that
can deliver out of thine hand. [8] Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together
round about; yet thou dost destroy me. [9] Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made
me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again? [10] Hast thou not poured me out
as milk, and curdled me like cheese? [11] Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and
hast fenced me with bones and sinews. [12] Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy
visitation hath preserved my spirit. [13] And these things hast thou hid in thine heart:
I know that this is with thee. [14] If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not
acquit me from mine iniquity. [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; [16] For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou
shewest thyself marvellous upon me. [17] Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and
increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me. [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! [19] I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried
from the womb to the grave. [20] Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that
I may take comfort a little, [21] Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land
of darkness and the shadow of death; [22] A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of
the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness. 
    [11:1] Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said, [2] Should not the multitude
of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified? [3] Should thy lies
make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed? [4] For
thou hast said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes. [5] But oh that God
would speak, and open his lips against thee; [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. [7] Canst thou by searching find out God? canst
thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? [8] It is as high as heaven; what canst thou
do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know? [9] The measure thereof is longer than the
earth, and broader than the sea. [10] If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together,
then who can hinder him? [11] For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also; will he
not then consider it? [12] For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild
ass's colt. [13] If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him;
[14] If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy
tabernacles. [15] For then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; yea, thou shalt be
stedfast, and shalt not fear: [16] Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it
as waters that pass away: [17] And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday; thou
shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning. [18] And thou shalt be secure, because
there is hope; yea, thou shalt dig about thee, and thou shalt take thy rest in safety.
[19] Also thou shalt lie down, and none shall make thee afraid; yea, many shall make suit
unto thee. [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. 
    [12:1] And Job answered and said, [2] No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom
shall die with you. [3] But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to
you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these? [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. [5]
He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that
is at ease. [6] The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure;
into whose hand God bringeth abundantly. [7] But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach
thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee: [8] Or speak to the earth, and
it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee. [9] Who knoweth
not in all these that the hand of the Lord hath wrought this? [10] In whose hand is the
soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind. [11] Doth not the ear try
words? and the mouth taste his meat? [12] With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of
days understanding. [13] With him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and
understanding. [14] Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth
up a man, and there can be no opening. [15] Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they
dry up: also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth. [16] With him is strength
and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver are his. [17] He leadeth counsellors away
spoiled, and maketh the judges fools. [18] He looseth the bond of kings, and girdeth
their loins with a girdle. [19] He leadeth princes away spoiled, and overthroweth the
mighty. [20] He removeth away the speech of the trusty, and taketh away the understanding
of the aged. [21] He poureth contempt upon princes, and weakeneth the strength of the
mighty. [22] He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the
shadow of death. [23] He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he enlargeth the
nations, and straiteneth them again. [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.
[25] They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken
man. 
    [13:1] Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it. [2]
What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you. [3] Surely I would
speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God. [4] But ye are forgers of lies,
ye are all physicians of no value. [5] Oh that ye would altogether hold your peace! and
it should be your wisdom. [6] Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my
lips. [7] Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him? [8] Will ye
accept his person? will ye contend for God? [9] Is it good that he should search you out?
or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him? [10] He will surely reprove you, if ye
do secretly accept persons. [11] Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread
fall upon you? [12] Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
[13] Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will. [14]
Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand? [15] Though he
slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him. [16] He
also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him. [17] Hear
diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears. [18] Behold now, I have ordered
my cause; I know that I shall be justified. [19] Who is he that will plead with me? for
now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost. [20] Only do not two things unto me:
then will I not hide myself from thee. [21] Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not
thy dread make me afraid. [22] Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and
answer thou me. [23] How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my
transgression and my sin. [24] Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine
enemy? [25] Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry
stubble? [26] For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the
iniquities of my youth. [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. [28] And he,
as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten. 
    [14:1] Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. [2] He
cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth
not. [3] And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment
with thee? [4] Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one. [5] Seeing his
days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his
bounds that he cannot pass; [6] Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall
accomplish, as an hireling, his day. [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. [8] Though
the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground; [9] Yet
through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant. [10] But man
dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he? [11] As the
waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: [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. [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] If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I
wait, till my change come. [15] Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a
desire to the work of thine hands. [16] For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not
watch over my sin? [17] My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine
iniquity. [18] And surely the mountain falling cometh to nought, and the rock is removed
out of his place. [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. [20] Thou
prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou changest his countenance, and
sendest him away. [21] His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are
brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them. [22] But his flesh upon him shall have
pain, and his soul within him shall mourn. 
    [15:1] Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said, [2] Should a wise man utter
vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind? [3] Should he reason with
unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good? [4] Yea, thou castest
off fear, and restrainest prayer before God. [5] For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity,
and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty. [6] Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not
I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee. [7] Art thou the first man that was born? or
wast thou made before the hills? [8] Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou
restrain wisdom to thyself? [9] What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest
thou, which is not in us? [10] With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much
elder than thy father. [11] Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any
secret thing with thee? [12] Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes
wink at, [13] That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of
thy mouth? [14] What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman,
that he should be righteous? [15] Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the
heavens are not clean in his sight. [16] How much more abominable and filthy is man,
which drinketh iniquity like water? [17] I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have
seen I will declare; [18] Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid
it: [19] Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them. [20] The
wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the
oppressor. [21] A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come
upon him. [22] He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited
for of the sword. [23] He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth
that the day of darkness is ready at his hand. [24] Trouble and anguish shall make him
afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle. [25] For he
stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty. [26]
He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers: [27]
Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his flanks.
[28] And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are
ready to become heaps. [29] He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue,
neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth. [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. [31] Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be
his recompence. [32] It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not
be green. [33] He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his
flower as the olive. [34] For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire
shall consume the tabernacles of bribery. [35] They conceive mischief, and bring forth
vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit. 
    [16:1] Then Job answered and said, [2] I have heard many such things: miserable
comforters are ye all. [3] Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that
thou answerest? [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. [5] But I would strengthen
you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief. [6] Though I
speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased? [7] But now he
hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company. [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. [9] He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me
with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me. [10] They have gaped upon me with
their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered
themselves together against me. [11] God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me
over into the hands of the wicked. [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. [13]
His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he
poureth out my gall upon the ground. [14] He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he
runneth upon me like a giant. [15] I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my
horn in the dust. [16] My face is foul with weeping, and my eyelids is the shadow of
death; [17] Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure. [18] O earth,
cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place. [19] Also now, behold, my witness
is in heaven, and my record is on high. [20] My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth
out tears unto God. [21] Oh that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth
for his neighbour! [22] When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall
not return. 
    [17:1] My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me. [2]
Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation? [3]
Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me? [4]
For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.
[5] He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
[6] He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret. [7]
Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow. [8] Upright
men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the
hypocrite. [9] The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands
shall be stronger and stronger. [10] But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for
I cannot find one wise man among you. [11] My days are past, my purposes are broken off,
even the thoughts of my heart. [12] They change the night into day: the light is short
because of darkness. [13] If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the
darkness. [14] I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my
mother, and my sister. [15] And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
[16] They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust. 
    [18:1] Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, [2] How long will it be ere ye
make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak. [3] Wherefore are we counted as
beasts, and reputed vile in your sight? [4] He teareth himself in his anger: shall the
earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place? [5] Yea, the
light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine. [6] The
light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him. [7] The
steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down. [8]
For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare. [9] The gin shall
take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him. [10] The snare is laid
for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way. [11] Terrors shall make him afraid
on every side, and shall drive him to his feet. [12] His strength shall be hungerbitten,
and destruction shall be ready at his side. [13] It shall devour the strength of his
skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength. [14] His confidence shall be
rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors. [15] It
shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered
upon his habitation. [16] His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch
be cut off. [17] His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name
in the street. [18] He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the
world. [19] He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in
his dwellings. [20] They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that
went before were affrighted. [21] Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this
is the place of him that knoweth not God. 
    [19:1] Then Job answered and said, [2] How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in
pieces with words? [3] These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye
make yourselves strange to me. [4] And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error
remaineth with myself. [5] If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead
against me my reproach: [6] Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me
with his net. [7] Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there
is no judgment. [8] He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness
in my paths. [9] He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head. [10]
He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a
tree. [11] He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one
of his enemies. [12] His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and
encamp round about my tabernacle. [13] He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine
acquaintance are verily estranged from me. [14] My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar
friends have forgotten me. [15] They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for
a stranger: I am an alien in their sight. [16] I called my servant, and he gave me no
answer; I intreated him with my mouth. [17] My breath is strange to my wife, though I
intreated for the children's sake of mine own body. [18] Yea, young children despised me;
I arose, and they spake against me. [19] All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom
I loved are turned against me. [20] My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am
escaped with the skin of my teeth. [21] Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my
friends; for the hand of God hath touched me. [22] Why do ye persecute me as God, and are
not satisfied with my flesh? [23] Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were
printed in a book! [24] That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for
ever! [25] For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day
upon the earth: [26] And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh
shall I see God: [27] Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not
another; though my reins be consumed within me. [28] But ye should say, Why persecute we
him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me? [29] Be ye afraid of the sword: for
wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment. 
    [20:1] Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said, [2] Therefore do my thoughts
cause me to answer, and for this I make haste. [3] I have heard the check of my reproach,
and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer. [4] Knowest thou not this of
old, since man was placed upon earth, [5] That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and
the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment? [6] Though his excellency mount up to the
heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds; [7] Yet he shall perish for ever like his
own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he? [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. [9]
The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold
him. [10] His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their
goods. [11] His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in
the dust. [12] Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his
tongue; [13] Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:
[14] Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him. [15] He
hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of
his belly. [16] He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him. [17]
He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter. [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. [19] Because he
hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house
which he builded not; [20] Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not
save of that which he desired. [21] There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall
no man look for his goods. [22] In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits:
every hand of the wicked shall come upon him. [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. [24] He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him
through. [25] It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh
out of his gall: terrors are upon him. [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. [27] The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up
against him. [28] The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away
in the day of his wrath. [29] This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the
heritage appointed unto him by God. 
    [21:1] But Job answered and said, [2] Hear diligently my speech, and let this be
your consolations. [3] Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.
[4] As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be
troubled? [5] Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth. [6] Even
when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh. [7] Wherefore do the
wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power? [8] Their seed is established in their
sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes. [9] Their houses are safe from
fear, neither is the rod of God upon them. [10] Their bull gendereth, and faileth not;
their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf. [11] They send forth their little ones like
a flock, and their children dance. [12] They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at
the sound of the organ. [13] They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to
the grave. [14] Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the
knowledge of thy ways. [15] What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what
profit should we have, if we pray unto him? [16] Lo, their good is not in their hand: the
counsel of the wicked is far from me. [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.
[18] They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away. [19]
God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it. [20]
His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty. [21]
For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut
off in the midst? [22] Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are
high. [23] One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet. [24] His
breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow. [25] And another dieth
in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure. [26] They shall lie down
alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them. [27] Behold, I know your thoughts, and
the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me. [28] For ye say, Where is the house
of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked? [29] Have ye not asked
them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens, [30] That the wicked is
reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath. [31]
Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done? [32]
Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb. [33] The clods of the
valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are
innumerable before him. [34] How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there
remaineth falsehood? 
    [22:1] Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said, [2] Can a man be profitable unto
God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself? [3] Is it any pleasure to the
Almighty, that thou art righteous? or is it gain to him that thou makest thy ways
perfect? [4] Will he reprove thee for fear of thee? will he enter with thee into
judgment? [5] Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite? [6] For thou
hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their
clothing. [7] Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden
bread from the hungry. [8] But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the
honourable man dwelt in it. [9] Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the
fatherless have been broken. [10] Therefore snares are round about thee, and sudden fear
troubleth thee; [11] Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover
thee. [12] Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how
high they are! [13] And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark
cloud? [14] Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the
circuit of heaven. [15] Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden? [16]
Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood: [17] Which
said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them? [18] Yet he filled
their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me. [19] The
righteous see it, and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn. [20] Whereas our
substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth. [21] Acquaint now
thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee. [22] Receive, I
pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart. [23] If thou
return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy
tabernacles. [24] Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the
stones of the brooks. [25] Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou shalt have
plenty of silver. [26] For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt
lift up thy face unto God. [27] Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear
thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows. [28] Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be
established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways. [29] When men are cast
down, then thou shalt say, There is lifting up; and he shall save the humble person. [30]
He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thine
hands. 
    [23:1] Then Job answered and said, [2] Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke
is heavier than my groaning. [3] Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come
even to his seat! [4] I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with
arguments. [5] I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he
would say unto me. [6] Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would
put strength in me. [7] There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be
delivered for ever from my judge. [8] Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and
backward, but I cannot perceive him: [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: [10] But
he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold. [11]
My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined. [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. [13] But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his
soul desireth, even that he doeth. [14] For he performeth the thing that is appointed for
me: and many such things are with him. [15] Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when
I consider, I am afraid of him. [16] For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty
troubleth me: [17] Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered
the darkness from my face. 
    [24:1] Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not
see his days? [2] Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed
thereof. [3] They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a
pledge. [4] They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves
together. [5] Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising
betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children. [6]
They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked. [7]
They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.
[8] They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a
shelter. [9] They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
[10] They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the
hungry; [11] Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer
thirst. [12] Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet
God layeth not folly to them. [13] They are of those that rebel against the light; they
know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof. [14] The murderer rising with
the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief. [15] The eye also
of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth
his face. [16] In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves
in the daytime: they know not the light. [17] For the morning is to them even as the
shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death. [18]
He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way
of the vineyards. [19] Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those
which have sinned. [20] The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he
shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree. [21] He evil
entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow. [22] He draweth
also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no man is sure of life. [23] Though it
be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways. [24]
They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of
the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn. [25] And if it be not
so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth? 
    [25:1] Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, [2] Dominion and fear are with
him, he maketh peace in his high places. [3] Is there any number of his armies? and upon
whom doth not his light arise? [4] How then can man be justified with God? or how can he
be clean that is born of a woman? [5] Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea,
the stars are not pure in his sight. [6] How much less man, that is a worm? and the son
of man, which is a worm? 
    [26:1] But Job answered and said, [2] How hast thou helped him that is without
power? how savest thou the arm that hath no strength? [3] How hast thou counseled him
that hath no wisdom? and how hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is? [4] To
whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee? [5] Dead things are formed
from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof. [6] Hell is naked before him, and
destruction hath no covering. [7] He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and
hangeth the earth upon nothing. [8] He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the
cloud is not rent under them. [9] He holdeth back the face of his throne, and spreadeth
his cloud upon it. [10] He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night
come to an end. [11] The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof.
[12] He divideth the sea with his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through the
proud. [13] By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked
serpent. [14] Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him?
but the thunder of his power who can understand? 
    [27:1] Moreover Job continued his parable, and said, [2] As God liveth, who hath
taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul; [3] All the while my
breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils; [4] My lips shall not speak
wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit. [5] God forbid that I should justify you: till I
die I will not remove mine integrity from me. [6] My righteousness I hold fast, and will
not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live. [7] Let mine enemy be as
the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous. [8] For what is the hope
of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul? [9] Will God hear
his cry when trouble cometh upon him? [10] Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will
he always call upon God? [11] I will teach you by the hand of God: that which is with the
Almighty will I not conceal. [12] Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye
thus altogether vain? [13] This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage
of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty. [14] If his children be
multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
[15] Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep.
[16] Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay; [17] He may
prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver. [18]
He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth that the keeper maketh. [19] The rich man
shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he openeth his eyes, and he is not. [20]
Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night. [21] The
east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his
place. [22] For God shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his
hand. [23] Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place. 
    [28:1] Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine
it. [2] Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone. [3] He
setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and
the shadow of death. [4] The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; even the waters
forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men. [5] As for the
earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire. [6] The stones
of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold. [7] There is a path which no
fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen: [8] The lion's whelps have not
trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it. [9] He putteth forth his hand upon the
rock; he overturneth the mountains by the roots. [10] He cutteth out rivers among the
rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing. [11] He bindeth the floods from
overflowing; and the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light. [12] But where shall
wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding? [13] Man knoweth not the price
thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living. [14] The depth saith, It is not
in me: and the sea saith, It is not with me. [15] It cannot be gotten for gold, neither
shall silver be weighed for the price thereof. [16] It cannot be valued with the gold of
Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire. [17] The gold and the crystal cannot
equal it: and the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold. [18] No mention
shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies. [19] The
topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold. [20]
Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding? [21] Seeing it is hid
from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air. [22] Destruction
and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears. [23] God understandeth the
way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof. [24] For he looketh to the ends of the
earth, and seeth under the whole heaven; [25] To make the weight for the winds; and he
weigheth the waters by measure. [26] When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for
the lightning of the thunder: [27] Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it,
yea, and searched it out. [28] And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that
is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding. 
    [29:1] Moreover Job continued his parable, and said, [2] Oh that I were as in months
past, as in the days when God preserved me; [3] When his candle shined upon my head, and
when by his light I walked through darkness; [4] As I was in the days of my youth, when
the secret of God was upon my tabernacle; [5] When the Almighty was yet with me, when my
children were about me; [6] When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me
out rivers of oil; [7] When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my
seat in the street! [8] The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and
stood up. [9] The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth. [10] The
nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth. [11] When
the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me:
[12] Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none
to help him. [13] The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused
the widow's heart to sing for joy. [14] I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my
judgment was as a robe and a diadem. [15] I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the
lame. [16] I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
[17] And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth. [18]
Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand. [19] My
root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch. [20] My
glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand. [21] Unto me men gave ear, and
waited, and kept silence at my counsel. [22] After my words they spake not again; and my
speech dropped upon them. [23] And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened
their mouth wide as for the latter rain. [24] If I laughed on them, they believed it not;
and the light of my countenance they cast not down. [25] I chose out their way, and sat
chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners. 
    [30:1] 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. [2] Yea, whereto might the
strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished? [3] For want and famine
they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste. [4]
Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat. [5] They were driven
forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;) [6] To dwell in the
cliffs of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks. [7] Among the bushes they
brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together. [8] They were children of fools,
yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth. [9] And now am I their song,
yea, I am their byword. [10] They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit
in my face. [11] Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let
loose the bridle before me. [12] Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my
feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction. [13] They mar my path,
they set forward my calamity, they have no helper. [14] They came upon me as a wide
breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me. [15] Terrors are
turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.
[16] And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon
me. [17] My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest. [18]
By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar
of my coat. [19] He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes. [20]
I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not. [21]
Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me. [22]
Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my
substance. [23] For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed
for all living. [24] Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they
cry in his destruction. [25] Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul
grieved for the poor? [26] When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I
waited for light, there came darkness. [27] My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of
affliction prevented me. [28] I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in
the congregation. [29] I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls. [30] My skin
is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat. [31] My harp also is turned to
mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep. 
    [31:1] I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid? [2]
For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on
high? [3] Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of
iniquity? [4] Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps? [5] If I have walked with
vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit; [6] Let me be weighed in an even balance,
that God may know mine integrity. [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; [8] Then let me
sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out. [9] If mine heart have
been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour's door; [10] Then let my
wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her. [11] For this is an heinous
crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges. [12] For it is a fire that
consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase. [13] If I did despise the
cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me; [14] What then
shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him? [15] Did
not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb? [16] If
I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
[17] Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;
[18] (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided
her from my mother's womb;) [19] If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any
poor without covering; [20] If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed
with the fleece of my sheep; [21] If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless,
when I saw my help in the gate: [22] Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and
mine arm be broken from the bone. [23] For destruction from God was a terror to me, and
by reason of his highness I could not endure. [24] If I have made gold my hope, or have
said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence; [25] If I rejoiced because my wealth was
great, and because mine hand had gotten much; [26] If I beheld the sun when it shined, or
the moon walking in brightness; [27] And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth
hath kissed my hand: [28] This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I
should have denied the God that is above. [29] If I rejoiced at the destruction of him
that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him: [30] Neither have I suffered my
mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul. [31] If the men of my tabernacle said not,
Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied. [32] The stranger did not lodge in
the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller. [33] If I covered my transgressions
as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom: [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?
[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. [36] Surely I would take it upon my shoulder,
and bind it as a crown to me. [37] I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a
prince would I go near unto him. [38] If my land cry against me, or that the furrows
likewise thereof complain; [39] If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have
caused the owners thereof to lose their life: [40] Let thistles grow instead of wheat,
and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended. 
    [32:1] So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own
eyes. [2] Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the
kindred of Ram: against Job was his wrath kindled, because he justified himself rather
than God. [3] Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had
found no answer, and yet had condemned Job. [4] Now Elihu had waited till Job had spoken,
because they were elder than he. [5] When Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth
of these three men, then his wrath was kindled. [6] And Elihu the son of Barachel the
Buzite answered and said, I am young, and ye are very old; wherefore I was afraid, and
durst not shew you mine opinion. [7] I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years
should teach wisdom. [8] But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the
Almighty giveth them understanding. [9] Great men are not always wise: neither do the
aged understand judgment. [10] Therefore I said, Hearken to me; I also will shew mine
opinion. [11] Behold, I waited for your words; I gave ear to your reasons, whilst ye
searched out what to say. [12] Yea, I attended unto you, and, behold, there was none of
you that convinced Job, or that answered his words: [13] Lest ye should say, We have
found out wisdom: God thrusteth him down, not man. [14] Now he hath not directed his
words against me: neither will I answer him with your speeches. [15] They were amazed,
they answered no more: they left off speaking. [16] When I had waited, (for they spake
not, but stood still, and answered no more;) [17] I said, I will answer also my part, I
also will shew mine opinion. [18] For I am full of matter, the spirit within me
constraineth me. [19] Behold, my belly is as wine which hath no vent; it is ready to
burst like new bottles. [20] I will speak, that I may be refreshed: I will open my lips
and answer. [21] Let me not, I pray you, accept any man's person, neither let me give
flattering titles unto man. [22] For I know not to give flattering titles; in so doing my
maker would soon take me away. 
    [33:1] Wherefore, Job, I pray thee, hear my speeches, and hearken to all my words.
[2] Behold, now I have opened my mouth, my tongue hath spoken in my mouth. [3] My words
shall be of the uprightness of my heart: and my lips shall utter knowledge clearly. [4]
The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life. [5] If
thou canst answer me, set thy words in order before me, stand up. [6] Behold, I am
according to thy wish in God's stead: I also am formed out of the clay. [7] Behold, my
terror shall not make thee afraid, neither shall my hand be heavy upon thee. [8] Surely
thou hast spoken in mine hearing, and I have heard the voice of thy words, saying, [9] I
am clean without transgression, I am innocent; neither is there iniquity in me. [10]
Behold, he findeth occasions against me, he counteth me for his enemy, [11] He putteth my
feet in the stocks, he marketh all my paths. [12] Behold, in this thou art not just: I
will answer thee, that God is greater than man. [13] Why dost thou strive against him?
for he giveth not account of any of his matters. [14] For God speaketh once, yea twice,
yet man perceiveth it not. [15] In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep
falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed; [16] Then he openeth the ears of men, and
sealeth their instruction, [17] That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride
from man. [18] He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the
sword. [19] He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones
with strong pain: [20] So that his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty meat. [21]
His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen
stick out. [22] Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the
destroyers. [23] If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand,
to shew unto man his uprightness: [24] Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver
him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom. [25] His flesh shall be fresher
than a child's: he shall return to the days of his youth: [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. [27] He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have
sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not; [28] He will deliver
his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light. [29] Lo, all these
things worketh God oftentimes with man, [30] To bring back his soul from the pit, to be
enlightened with the light of the living. [31] Mark well, O Job, hearken unto me: hold
thy peace, and I will speak. [32] If thou hast any thing to say, answer me: speak, for I
desire to justify thee. [33] If not, hearken unto me: hold thy peace, and I shall teach
thee wisdom. 
    [34:1] Furthermore Elihu answered and said, [2] Hear my words, O ye wise men; and
give ear unto me, ye that have knowledge. [3] For the ear trieth words, as the mouth
tasteth meat. [4] Let us choose to us judgment: let us know among ourselves what is good.
[5] For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment. [6] Should I
lie against my right? my wound is incurable without transgression. [7] What man is like
Job, who drinketh up scorning like water? [8] Which goeth in company with the workers of
iniquity, and walketh with wicked men. [9] For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing
that he should delight himself with God. [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. [11] For the work of a man shall he render unto him, and
cause every man to find according to his ways. [12] Yea, surely God will not do wickedly,
neither will the Almighty pervert judgment. [13] Who hath given him a charge over the
earth? or who hath disposed the whole world? [14] If he set his heart upon man, if he
gather unto himself his spirit and his breath; [15] All flesh shall perish together, and
man shall turn again unto dust. [16] If now thou hast understanding, hear this: hearken
to the voice of my words. [17] Shall even he that hateth right govern? and wilt thou
condemn him that is most just? [18] Is it fit to say to a king, Thou art wicked? and to
princes, Ye are ungodly? [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. [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. [21] For his eyes are upon
the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings. [22] There is no darkness, nor shadow of
death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves. [23] For he will not lay upon
man more than right; that he should enter into judgment with God. [24] He shall break in
pieces mighty men without number, and set others in their stead. [25] Therefore he
knoweth their works, and he overturneth them in the night, so that they are destroyed.
[26] He striketh them as wicked men in the open sight of others; [27] Because they turned
back from him, and would not consider any of his ways: [28] So that they cause the cry of
the poor to come unto him, and he heareth the cry of the afflicted. [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: [30] That the hypocrite
reign not, lest the people be ensnared. [31] Surely it is meet to be said unto God, I
have borne chastisement, I will not offend any more: [32] That which I see not teach thou
me: if I have done iniquity, I will do no more. [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] Let men of understanding tell me, and let a wise man
hearken unto me. [35] Job hath spoken without knowledge, and his words were without
wisdom. [36] My desire is that Job may be tried unto the end because of his answers for
wicked men. [37] For he addeth rebellion unto his sin, he clappeth his hands among us,
and multiplieth his words against God. 
    [35:1] Elihu spake moreover, and said, [2] Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou
saidst, My righteousness is more than God's? [3] For thou saidst, What advantage will it
be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin? [4] I will
answer thee, and thy companions with thee. [5] Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold
the clouds which are higher than thou. [6] If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him?
or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him? [7] If thou be
righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand? [8] Thy wickedness
may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man. [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. [10] But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth
songs in the night; [11] Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us
wiser than the fowls of heaven? [12] There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of
the pride of evil men. [13] Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty
regard it. [14] Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is before him;
therefore trust thou in him. [15] But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his
anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity: [16] Therefore doth Job open his mouth
in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge. 
    [36:1] Elihu also proceeded, and said, [2] Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee
that I have yet to speak on God's behalf. [3] I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and
will ascribe righteousness to my Maker. [4] For truly my words shall not be false: he
that is perfect in knowledge is with thee. [5] Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not
any: he is mighty in strength and wisdom. [6] He preserveth not the life of the wicked:
but giveth right to the poor. [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. [8] And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction; [9]
Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded. [10]
He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity.
[11] If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their
years in pleasures. [12] But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they
shall die without knowledge. [13] But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not
when he bindeth them. [14] They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean. [15]
He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression. [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. [17] But
thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on thee.
[18] Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his stroke: then a great
ransom cannot deliver thee. [19] Will he esteem thy riches? no, not gold, nor all the
forces of strength. [20] Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.
[21] Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.
[22] Behold, God exalteth by his power: who teacheth like him? [23] Who hath enjoined him
his way? or who can say, Thou hast wrought iniquity? [24] Remember that thou magnify his
work, which men behold. [25] Every man may see it; man may behold it afar off. [26]
Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be
searched out. [27] For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according
to the vapour thereof: [28] Which the clouds do drop and distil upon man abundantly. [29]
Also can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle?
[30] Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the bottom of the sea. [31] For
by them judgeth he the people; he giveth meat in abundance. [32] With clouds he covereth
the light; and commandeth it not to shine by the cloud that cometh betwixt. [33] The
noise thereof sheweth concerning it, the cattle also concerning the vapour. 
    [37:1] At this also my heart trembleth, and is moved out of his place. [2] Hear
attentively the noise of his voice, and the sound that goeth out of his mouth. [3] He
directeth it under the whole heaven, and his lightning unto the ends of the earth. [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. [5] God thundereth marvellously with his voice; great
things doeth he, which we cannot comprehend. [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. [7] He sealeth
up the hand of every man; that all men may know his work. [8] Then the beasts go into
dens, and remain in their places. [9] Out of the south cometh the whirlwind: and cold out
of the north. [10] By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the waters is
straitened. [11] Also by watering he wearieth the thick cloud: he scattereth his bright
cloud: [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. [13] He causeth it to come,
whether for correction, or for his land, or for mercy. [14] Hearken unto this, O Job:
stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God. [15] Dost thou know when God
disposed them, and caused the light of his cloud to shine? [16] Dost thou know the
balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him which is perfect in knowledge? [17]
How thy garments are warm, when he quieteth the earth by the south wind? [18] Hast thou
with him spread out the sky, which is strong, and as a molten looking glass? [19] Teach
us what we shall say unto him; for we cannot order our speech by reason of darkness. [20]
Shall it be told him that I speak? if a man speak, surely he shall be swallowed up. [21]
And now men see not the bright light which is in the clouds: but the wind passeth, and
cleanseth them. [22] Fair weather cometh out of the north: with God is terrible majesty.
[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. [24] Men do therefore fear him:
he respecteth not any that are wise of heart. 
    [38:1] Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said, [2] Who is this
that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? [3] Gird up now thy loins like a man;
for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me. [4] Where wast thou when I laid the
foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. [5] Who hath laid the
measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? [6] Whereupon
are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; [7] When the
morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy? [8] Or who shut up
the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb? [9] When I
made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it, [10] And
brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors, [11] And said, Hitherto shalt
thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed? [12] Hast thou
commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place; [13]
That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of
it? [14] It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment. [15] And from the
wicked their light is withholden, and the high arm shall be broken. [16] Hast thou
entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the depth? [17]
Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow
of death? [18] Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if thou knowest it
all. [19] Where is the way where light dwelleth? and as for darkness, where is the place
thereof, [20] That thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof, and that thou shouldest
know the paths to the house thereof? [21] Knowest thou it, because thou wast then born?
or because the number of thy days is great? [22] Hast thou entered into the treasures of
the snow? or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail, [23] Which I have reserved against
the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war? [24] By what way is the light
parted, which scattereth the east wind upon the earth? [25] Who hath divided a
watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder; [26] To
cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; on the wilderness, wherein there is no
man; [27] To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender
herb to spring forth? [28] Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew?
[29] Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?
[30] The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen. [31] Canst
thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion? [32] Canst thou
bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons? [33]
Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?
[34] Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee?
[35] Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, and say unto thee, Here we are? [36]
Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? or who hath given understanding to the heart?
[37] Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the bottles of heaven, [38]
When the dust groweth into hardness, and the clods cleave fast together? [39] Wilt thou
hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the appetite of the young lions, [40] When they couch
in their dens, and abide in the covert to lie in wait? [41] Who provideth for the raven
his food? when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of meat. 
    [39:1] Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? or canst
thou mark when the hinds do calve? [2] Canst thou number the months that they fulfil? or
knowest thou the time when they bring forth? [3] They bow themselves, they bring forth
their young ones, they cast out their sorrows. [4] Their young ones are in good liking,
they grow up with corn; they go forth, and return not unto them. [5] Who hath sent out
the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass? [6] Whose house I have
made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings. [7] He scorneth the multitude of
the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver. [8] The range of the mountains
is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing. [9] Will the unicorn be willing
to serve thee, or abide by thy crib? [10] Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in
the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee? [11] Wilt thou trust him, because
his strength is great? or wilt thou leave thy labour to him? [12] Wilt thou believe him,
that he will bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy barn? [13] Gavest thou the
goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich? [14] Which
leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust, [15] And forgetteth that the
foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them. [16] She is hardened against
her young ones, as though they were not hers: her labour is in vain without fear; [17]
Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he imparted to her understanding.
[18] What time she lifteth up herself on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider. [19]
Hath thou given the horse strength? hast thou clothed his neck with thunder? [20] Canst
thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? the glory of his nostrils is terrible. [21] He
paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: he goeth on to meet the armed men.
[22] He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted; neither turneth he back from the sword.
[23] The quiver rattleth against him, the glittering spear and the shield. [24] He
swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage: neither believeth he that it is the sound
of the trumpet. [25] He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha; and he smelleth the battle afar
off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting. [26] Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom,
and stretch her wings toward the south? [27] Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and
make her nest on high? [28] She dwelleth and abideth on the rock, upon the crag of the
rock, and the strong place. [29] From thence she seeketh the prey, and her eyes behold
afar off. [30] Her young ones also suck up blood: and where the slain are, there is she. 
    [40:1] Moreover the Lord answered Job, and said, [2] Shall he that contendeth with
the Almighty instruct him? he that reproveth God, let him answer it. 
    [3] Then Job answered the Lord, and said, [4] Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer
thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth. [5] Once have I spoken; but I will not answer:
yea, twice; but I will proceed no further. 
    [6] Then answered the Lord unto Job out of the whirlwind, and said, [7] Gird up thy
loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me. [8] Wilt thou also
disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous? [9] Hast thou
an arm like God? or canst thou thunder with a voice like him? [10] Deck thyself now with
majesty and excellency; and array thyself with glory and beauty. [11] Cast abroad the
rage of thy wrath: and behold every one that is proud, and abase him. [12] Look on every
one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place. [13] Hide
them in the dust together; and bind their faces in secret. [14] Then will I also confess
unto thee that thine own right hand can save thee. 
    [15] Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox. [16] Lo
now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly. [17] He
moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together. [18] His
bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron. [19] He is the
chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him. [20]
Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play. [21]
He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens. [22] The shady trees
cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about. [23] Behold, he
drinketh up a river, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his
mouth. [24] He taketh it with his eyes: his nose pierceth through snares. 
    [41:1] Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which
thou lettest down? [2] Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with
a thorn? [3] Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto
thee? [4] Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?
[5] Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens? [6]
Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants? [7]
Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears? [8] Lay thine
hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more. [9] Behold, the hope of him is in vain:
shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him? [10] None is so fierce that dare
stir him up: who then is able to stand before me? [11] Who hath prevented me, that I
should repay him? whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine. [12] I will not conceal
his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion. [13] Who can discover the face of
his garment? or who can come to him with his double bridle? [14] Who can open the doors
of his face? his teeth are terrible round about. [15] His scales are his pride, shut up
together as with a close seal. [16] One is so near to another, that no air can come
between them. [17] They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot
be sundered. [18] By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids
of the morning. [19] Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out. [20]
Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron. [21] His breath
kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth. [22] In his neck remaineth strength,
and sorrow is turned into joy before him. [23] The flakes of his flesh are joined
together: they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved. [24] His heart is as firm as
a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone. [25] When he raiseth up
himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breakings they purify themselves. [26] The
sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold: the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon. [27]
He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood. [28] The arrow cannot make him
flee: slingstones are turned with him into stubble. [29] Darts are counted as stubble: he
laugheth at the shaking of a spear. [30] Sharp stones are under him: he spreadeth sharp
pointed things upon the mire. [31] He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the
sea like a pot of ointment. [32] He maketh a path to shine after him; one would think the
deep to be hoary. [33] Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear. [34]
He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride. 
    [42:1] Then Job answered the Lord, and said, [2] I know that thou canst do every
thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee. [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. [4] Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of
thee, and declare thou unto me. [5] I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but
now mine eye seeth thee. [6] Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes. 
    [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.
[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. [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. [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. [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. [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. [13] He had also
seven sons and three daughters. [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. [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. [16] After this lived Job an hundred and forty years,
and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations. [17] So Job died, being old
and full of days.