Job 17-42

Job 17:1

My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for

me.

Job 17:2

Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in

their provocation?

Job 17:3

Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will

strike hands with me?

Job 17:4

For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt

thou not exalt them.

Job 17:5

He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his

children shall fail.

Job 17:6

He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a

tabret.

Job 17:7

Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a

shadow.

Job 17:8

Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up

himself against the hypocrite.

Job 17:9

The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean

hands shall be stronger and stronger.

Job 17:10

But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one

wise man among you.

Job 17:11

My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my

heart.

Job 17:12

They change the night into day: the light is short because of

darkness.

Job 17:13

If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the

darkness.

Job 17:14

I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou are

my mother, and my sister.

Job 17:15

And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?

Job 17:16

They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is

in the dust.

Job 18:1

Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

Job 18:2

How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards

we will speak.

Job 18:3

Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?

Job 18:4

He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for

thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?

Job 18:5

Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his

fire shall not shine.

Job 18:6

The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be

put out with him.

Job 18:7

The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel

shall cast him down.

Job 18:8

For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a

snare.

Job 18:9

The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail

against him.

Job 18:10

The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the

way.

Job 18:11

Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to

his feet.

Job 18:12

His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at

his side.

Job 18:13

It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death

shall devour his strength.

Job 18:14

His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall

bring him to the king of terrors.

Job 18:15

It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his:

brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.

Job 18:16

His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be

cut off.

Job 18:17

His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no

name in the street.

Job 18:18

He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the

world.

Job 18:19

He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any

remaining in his dwellings.

Job 18:20

They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that

went before were affrighted.

Job 18:21

Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of

him that knoweth not God.

Job 19:1

Then Job answered and said,

Job 19:2

How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?

Job 19:3

These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye

make yourselves strange to me.

Job 19:4

And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.

Job 19:5

If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me

my reproach:

Job 19:6

Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his

net.

Job 19:7

Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but

there is no judgment.

Job 19:8

He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness

in my paths.

Job 19:9

He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.

Job 19:10

He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath

he removed like a tree.

Job 19:11

He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto

him as one of his enemies.

Job 19:12

His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and

encamp round about my tabernacle.

Job 19:13

He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily

estranged from me.

Job 19:14

My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.

Job 19:15

They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger:

I am an alien in their sight.

Job 19:16

I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with

my mouth.

Job 19:17

My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the

children's sake of mine own body.

Job 19:18

Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.

Job 19:19

All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned

against me.

Job 19:20

My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with

the skin of my teeth.

Job 19:21

Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand

of God hath touched me.

Job 19:22

Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

Job 19:23

Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a

book!

Job 19:24

That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!

Job 19:25

For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the

latter day upon the earth:

Job 19:26

And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh

shall I see God:

Job 19:27

Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not

another; though my reins be consumed within me.

Job 19:28

But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the

matter is found in me?

Job 19:29

Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the

sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.

Job 20:1

Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,

Job 20:2

Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make

haste.

Job 20:3

I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my

understanding causeth me to answer.

Job 20:4

Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,

Job 20:5

That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the

hypocrite but for a moment?

Job 20:6

Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach

unto the clouds;

Job 20:7

Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen

him shall say, Where is he?

Job 20:8

He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall

be chased away as a vision of the night.

Job 20:9

The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his

place any more behold him.

Job 20:10

His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall

restore their goods.

Job 20:11

His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with

him in the dust.

Job 20:12

Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his

tongue;

Job 20:13

Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his

mouth:

Job 20:14

Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within

him.

Job 20:15

He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God

shall cast them out of his belly.

Job 20:16

He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.

Job 20:17

He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and

butter.

Job 20:18

That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it

down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he

shall not rejoice therein.

Job 20:19

Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath

violently taken away an house which he builded not;

Job 20:20

Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of

that which he desired.

Job 20:21

There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for

his goods.

Job 20:22

In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand

of the wicked shall come upon him.

Job 20:23

When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his

wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating.

Job 20:24

He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike

him through.

Job 20:25

It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword

cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him.

Job 20:26

All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not blown

shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his

tabernacle.

Job 20:27

The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up

against him.

Job 20:28

The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away

in the day of his wrath.

Job 20:29

This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage

appointed unto him by God.

Job 21:1

But Job answered and said,

Job 21:2

Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.

Job 21:3

Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.

Job 21:4

As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not

my spirit be troubled?

Job 21:5

Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.

Job 21:6

Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my

flesh.

Job 21:7

Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?

Job 21:8

Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their

offspring before their eyes.

Job 21:9

Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.

Job 21:10

Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth

not her calf.

Job 21:11

They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children

dance.

Job 21:12

They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.

Job 21:13

They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.

Job 21:14

Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the

knowledge of thy ways.

Job 21:15

What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit

should we have, if we pray unto him?

Job 21:16

Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far

from me.

Job 21:17

How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their

destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.

Job 21:18

They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm

carrieth away.

Job 21:19

God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he

shall know it.

Job 21:20

His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath

of the Almighty.

Job 21:21

For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of

his months is cut off in the midst?

Job 21:22

Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high.

Job 21:23

One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.

Job 21:24

His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow.

Job 21:25

And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth

with pleasure.

Job 21:26

They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.

Job 21:27

Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully

imagine against me.

Job 21:28

For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the

dwelling places of the wicked?

Job 21:29

Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their

tokens,

Job 21:30

That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be

brought forth to the day of wrath.

Job 21:31

Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what

he hath done?

Job 21:32

Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.

Job 21:33

The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall

draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.

Job 21:34

How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there

remaineth falsehood?

Job 22:1

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,

Job 22:2

Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be

profitable unto himself?

Job 22:3

Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or is it

gain to him that thou makest thy ways perfect?

Job 22:4

Will he reprove thee for fear of thee? will he enter with thee into

judgment?

Job 22:5

Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite?

Job 22:6

For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and

stripped the naked of their clothing.

Job 22:7

Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast

withholden bread from the hungry.

Job 22:8

But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honourable man

dwelt in it.

Job 22:9

Thou has sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have

been broken.

Job 22:10

Therefore snares are round about thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee;

Job 22:11

Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover

thee.

Job 22:12

Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the

stars, how high they are!

Job 22:13

And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark

cloud?

Job 22:14

Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh

in the circuit of heaven.

Job 22:15

Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?

Job 22:16

Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with

a flood:

Job 22:17

Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for

them?

Job 22:18

Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the

wicked is far from me.

Job 22:19

The righteous see it, and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to

scorn.

Job 22:20

Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the

fire consumeth.

Job 22:21

Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall

come unto thee.

Job 22:22

Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in

thine heart.

Job 22:23

If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt

put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.

Job 22:24

Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the

stones of the brooks.

Job 22:25

Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou shalt have plenty of

silver.

Job 22:26

For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift

up thy face unto God.

Job 22:27

Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou

shalt pay thy vows.

Job 22:28

Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto

thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.

Job 22:29

When men are cast down, then thou shalt say, There is lifting up; and

he shall save the humble person.

Job 22:30

He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by

the pureness of thine hands.

Job 23:1

Then Job answered and said,

Job 23:2

Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my

groaning.

Job 23:3

Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his

seat!

Job 23:4

I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.

Job 23:5

I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what

he would say unto me.

Job 23:6

Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put

strength in me.

Job 23:7

There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered

for ever from my judge.

Job 23:8

Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot

perceive him:

Job 23:9

On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he

hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him:

Job 23:10

But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall

come forth as gold.

Job 23:11

My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.

Job 23:12

Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have

esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

Job 23:13

But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul

desireth, even that he doeth.

Job 23:14

For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many such

things are with him.

Job 23:15

Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid

of him.

Job 23:16

For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:

Job 23:17

Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he

covered the darkness from my face.

Job 24:1

Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know

him not see his days?

Job 24:2

Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed

thereof.

Job 24:3

They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox

for a pledge.

Job 24:4

They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide

themselves together.

Job 24:5

Behold, as wild 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.

Job 24:6

They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the

vintage of the wicked.

Job 24:7

They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no

covering in the cold.

Job 24:8

They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock

for want of a shelter.

Job 24:9

They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the

poor.

Job 24:10

They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the

sheaf from the hungry;

Job 24:11

Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and

suffer thirst.

Job 24:12

Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth

out: yet God layeth not folly to them.

Job 24:13

They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the

ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.

Job 24:14

The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in

the night is as a thief.

Job 24:15

The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No

eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.

Job 24:16

In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for

themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.

Job 24:17

For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know

them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.

Job 24:18

He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he

beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.

Job 24:19

Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those

which have sinned.

Job 24:20

The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he

shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.

Job 24:21

He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to

the widow.

Job 24:22

He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no man

is sure of life.

Job 24:23

Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his

eyes are upon their ways.

Job 24:24

They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low;

they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops

of the ears of corn.

Job 24:25

And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech

nothing worth?

Job 25:1

Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

Job 25:2

Dominion and fear are with him, he maketh peace in his high places.

Job 25:3

Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth not his light

arise?

Job 25:4

How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that

is born of a woman?

Job 25:5

Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not

pure in his sight.

Job 25:6

How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a

worm?

Job 26:1

But Job answered and said,

Job 26:2

How hast thou helped him that is without power? how savest thou the

arm that hath no strength?

Job 26:3

How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom? and how hast thou

plentifully declared the thing as it is?

Job 26:4

To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee?

Job 26:5

Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants

thereof.

Job 26:6

Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.

Job 26:7

He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the

earth upon nothing.

Job 26:8

He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not

rent under them.

Job 26:9

He holdeth back the face of his throne, and spreadeth his cloud upon

it.

Job 26:10

He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night

come to an end.

Job 26:11

The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof.

Job 26:12

He divideth the sea with his power, and by his understanding he

smiteth through the proud.

Job 26:13

By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the

crooked serpent.

Job 26:14

Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of

him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?

Job 27:1

Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,

Job 27:2

As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who

hath vexed my soul;

Job 27:3

All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my

nostrils;

Job 27:4

My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.

Job 27:5

God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove

mine integrity from me.

Job 27:6

My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall

not reproach me so long as I live.

Job 27:7

Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as

the unrighteous.

Job 27:8

For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when

God taketh away his soul?

Job 27:9

Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him?

Job 27:10

Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God?

Job 27:11

I will teach you by the hand of God: that which is with the Almighty

will I not conceal.

Job 27:12

Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye thus

altogether vain?

Job 27:13

This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of

oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty.

Job 27:14

If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring

shall not be satisfied with bread.

Job 27:15

Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows

shall not weep.

Job 27:16

Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;

Job 27:17

He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent

shall divide the silver.

Job 27:18

He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth that the keeper

maketh.

Job 27:19

The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he openeth

his eyes, and he is not.

Job 27:20

Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in

the night.

Job 27:21

The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm

hurleth him out of his place.

Job 27:22

For God shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of

his hand.

Job 27:23

Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his

place.

Job 28:1

Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where

they fine it.

Job 28:2

Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone.

Job 28:3

He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the

stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.

Job 28:4

The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; even the waters forgotten

of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.

Job 28:5

As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up

as it were fire.

Job 28:6

The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold.

Job 28:7

There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye

hath not seen:

Job 28:8

The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by

it.

Job 28:9

He putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he overturneth the mountains

by the roots.

Job 28:10

He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every

precious thing.

Job 28:11

He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and the thing that is hid

bringeth he forth to light.

Job 28:12

But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of

understanding?

Job 28:13

Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of

the living.

Job 28:14

The depth saith, It is not in me: and the sea saith, It is not with

me.

Job 28:15

It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the

price thereof.

Job 28:16

It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx,

or the sapphire.

Job 28:17

The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it

shall not be for jewels of fine gold.

Job 28:18

No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of

wisdom is above rubies.

Job 28:19

The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued

with pure gold.

Job 28:20

Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding?

Job 28:21

Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the

fowls of the air.

Job 28:22

Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our

ears.

Job 28:23

God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.

Job 28:24

For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole

heaven;

Job 28:25

To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by

measure.

Job 28:26

When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of

the thunder:

Job 28:27

Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched

it out.

Job 28:28

And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom;

and to depart from evil is understanding.

Job 29:1

Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,

Job 29:2

Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved

me;

Job 29:3

When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked

through darkness;

Job 29:4

As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my

tabernacle;

Job 29:5

When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me;

Job 29:6

When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers

of oil;

Job 29:7

When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat

in the street!

Job 29:8

The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and

stood up.

Job 29:9

The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.

Job 29:10

The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of

their mouth.

Job 29:11

When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me,

it gave witness to me:

Job 29:12

Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him

that had none to help him.

Job 29:13

The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I

caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

Job 29:14

I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe

and a diadem.

Job 29:15

I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.

Job 29:16

I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched

out.

Job 29:17

And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his

teeth.

Job 29:18

Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as

the sand.

Job 29:19

My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon

my branch.

Job 29:20

My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.

Job 29:21

Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel.

Job 29:22

After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them.

Job 29:23

And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth

wide as for the latter rain.

Job 29:24

If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my

countenance they cast not down.

Job 29:25

I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the

army, as one that comforteth the mourners.

Job 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.

Job 30:2

Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old

age was perished?

Job 30:3

For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness

in former time desolate and waste.

Job 30:4

Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.

Job 30:5

They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as

after a thief;)

Job 30:6

To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in

the rocks.

Job 30:7

Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered

together.

Job 30:8

They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were

viler than the earth.

Job 30:9

And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.

Job 30:10

They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my

face.

Job 30:11

Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let

loose the bridle before me.

Job 30:12

Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they

raise up against me the ways of their destruction.

Job 30:13

They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.

Job 30:14

They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation

they rolled themselves upon me.

Job 30:15

Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my

welfare passeth away as a cloud.

Job 30:16

And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have

taken hold upon me.

Job 30:17

My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no

rest.

Job 30:18

By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me

about as the collar of my coat.

Job 30:19

He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.

Job 30:20

I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou

regardest me not.

Job 30:21

Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest

thyself against me.

Job 30:22

Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and

dissolvest my substance.

Job 30:23

For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house

appointed for all living.

Job 30:24

Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they

cry in his destruction.

Job 30:25

Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved

for the poor?

Job 30:26

When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for

light, there came darkness.

Job 30:27

My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.

Job 30:28

I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the

congregation.

Job 30:29

I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.

Job 30:30

My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.

Job 30:31

My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of

them that weep.

Job 31:1

I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?

Job 31:2

For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of

the Almighty from on high?

Job 31:3

Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the

workers of iniquity?

Job 31:4

Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?

Job 31:5

If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;

Job 31:6

Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine

integrity.

Job 31:7

If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after

mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands;

Job 31:8

Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted

out.

Job 31:9

If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait

at my neighbour's door;

Job 31:10

Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.

Job 31:11

For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished

by the judges.

Job 31:12

For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out

all mine increase.

Job 31:13

If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant,

when they contended with me;

Job 31:14

What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what

shall I answer him?

Job 31:15

Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion

us in the womb?

Job 31:16

If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the

eyes of the widow to fail;

Job 31:17

Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not

eaten thereof;

Job 31:18

(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I

have guided her from my mother's womb;)

Job 31:19

If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without

covering;

Job 31:20

If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the

fleece of my sheep;

Job 31:21

If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my

help in the gate:

Job 31:22

Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken

from the bone.

Job 31:23

For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his

highness I could not endure.

Job 31:24

If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art

my confidence;

Job 31:25

If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had

gotten much;

Job 31:26

If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;

Job 31:27

And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my

hand:

Job 31:28

This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should

have denied the God that is above.

Job 31:29

If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up

myself when evil found him:

Job 31:30

Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his

soul.

Job 31:31

If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we

cannot be satisfied.

Job 31:32

The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to

the traveller.

Job 31:33

If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my

bosom:

Job 31:34

Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify

me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door?

Job 31:35

Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty

would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.

Job 31:36

Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.

Job 31:37

I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I

go near unto him.

Job 31:38

If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof

complain;

Job 31:39

If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the

owners thereof to lose their life:

Job 31:40

Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The

words of Job are ended.

Job 32:1

So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in

his own eyes.

Job 32:2

Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite,

of the kindred of Ram: against Job was his wrath kindled, because he

justified himself rather than God.

Job 32:3

Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they

had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.

Job 32:4

Now Elihu had waited till Job had spoken, because they were elder

than he.

Job 32:5

When Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three

men, then his wrath was kindled.

Job 32:6

And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am

young, and ye are very old; wherefore I was afraid, and durst not

shew you mine opinion.

Job 32:7

I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.

Job 32:8

But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty

giveth them understanding.

Job 32:9

Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand

judgment.

Job 32:10

Therefore I said, Hearken to me; I also will shew mine opinion.

Job 32:11

Behold, I waited for your words; I gave ear to your reasons, whilst

ye searched out what to say.

Job 32:12

Yea, I attended unto you, and, behold, there was none of you that

convinced Job, or that answered his words:

Job 32:13

Lest ye should say, We have found out wisdom: God thrusteth him down,

not man.

Job 32:14

Now he hath not directed his words against me: neither will I answer

him with your speeches.

Job 32:15

They were amazed, they answered no more: they left off speaking.

Job 32:16

When I had waited, (for they spake not, but stood still, and answered

no more;)

Job 32:17

I said, I will answer also my part, I also will shew mine opinion.

Job 32:18

For I am full of matter, the spirit within me constraineth me.

Job 32:19

Behold, my belly is as wine which hath no vent; it is ready to burst

like new bottles.

Job 32:20

I will speak, that I may be refreshed: I will open my lips and answer.

Job 32:21

Let me not, I pray you, accept any man's person, neither let me give

flattering titles unto man.

Job 32:22

For I know not to give flattering titles; in so doing my maker would

soon take me away.

Job 33:1

Wherefore, Job, I pray thee, hear my speeches, and hearken to all my

words.

Job 33:2

Behold, now I have opened my mouth, my tongue hath spoken in my mouth.

Job 33:3

My words shall be of the uprightness of my heart: and my lips shall

utter knowledge clearly.

Job 33:4

The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath

given me life.

Job 33:5

If thou canst answer me, set thy words in order before me, stand up.

Job 33:6

Behold, I am according to thy wish in God's stead: I also am formed

out of the clay.

Job 33:7

Behold, my terror shall not make thee afraid, neither shall my hand

be heavy upon thee.

Job 33:8

Surely thou hast spoken in mine hearing, and I have heard the voice

of thy words, saying,

Job 33:9

I am clean without transgression, I am innocent; neither is there

iniquity in me.

Job 33:10

Behold, he findeth occasions against me, he counteth me for his enemy,

Job 33:11

He putteth my feet in the stocks, he marketh all my paths.

Job 33:12

Behold, in this thou art not just: I will answer thee, that God is

greater than man.

Job 33:13

Why dost thou strive against him? for he giveth not account of any of

his matters.

Job 33:14

For God speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not.

Job 33:15

In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon

men, in slumberings upon the bed;

Job 33:16

Then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction,

Job 33:17

That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.

Job 33:18

He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by

the sword.

Job 33:19

He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his

bones with strong pain:

Job 33:20

So that his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty meat.

Job 33:21

His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones

that were not seen stick out.

Job 33:22

Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the

destroyers.

Job 33:23

If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a

thousand, to shew unto man his uprightness:

Job 33:24

Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down

to the pit: I have found a ransom.

Job 33:25

His flesh shall be fresher than a child's: he shall return to the

days of his youth:

Job 33:26

He shall pray unto God, and he will be favourable unto him: and he

shall see his face with joy: for he will render unto man his

righteousness.

Job 33:27