21:1  But Job answered and said,
 21:2  Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your
consolations.
 21:3  Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have
spoken, mock on.
 21:4  As for me, [is] my complaint to man? and if [it were
so], why should not my spirit be troubled?
 21:5  Mark me, and be astonished, and lay [your] hand upon
[your] mouth.
 21:6  Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh
hold on my flesh.
 21:7  Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are
mighty in power?
 21:8  Their seed is established in their sight with them, and
their offspring before their eyes.
 21:9  Their houses [are] safe from fear, neither [is] the rod
of God upon them.
 21:10  Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow
calveth, and casteth not her calf.
 21:11  They send forth their little ones like a flock, and
their children dance.
 21:12  They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the
sound of the organ.
 21:13  They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go
down to the grave.
 21:14  Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we
desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
 21:15  What [is] the Almighty, that we should serve him? and
what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
 21:16  Lo, their good [is] not in their hand: the counsel of
the wicked is far from me.
 21:17  How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and [how
oft] cometh their destruction upon them! [God] distributeth
sorrows in his anger.
 21:18  They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that
the storm carrieth away.
 21:19  God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he
rewardeth him, and he shall know [it].
 21:20  His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink
of the wrath of the Almighty.
 21:21  For what pleasure [hath] he in his house after him,
when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?
 21:22  Shall [any] teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth
those that are high.
 21:23  One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease
and quiet.
 21:24  His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are
moistened with marrow.
 21:25  And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and
never eateth with pleasure.
 21:26  They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms
shall cover them.
 21:27  Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices [which]
ye wrongfully imagine against me.
 21:28  For ye say, Where [is] the house of the prince? and
where [are] the dwelling places of the wicked?
 21:29  Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye
not know their tokens,
 21:30  That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction?
they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.
 21:31  Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall
repay him [what] he hath done?
 21:32  Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain
in the tomb.
 21:33  The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and
every man shall draw after him, as [there are] innumerable
before him.
 21:34  How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers
there remaineth falsehood?
 22:1  Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
 22:2  Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may
be profitable unto himself?
 22:3  [Is it] any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art
righteous? or [is it] gain [to him], that thou makest thy ways
perfect?
 22:4  Will he reprove thee for fear of thee? will he enter
with thee into judgment?
 22:5  [Is] not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities
infinite?
 22:6  For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for
nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
 22:7  Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and
thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.
 22:8  But [as for] the mighty man, he had the earth; and the
honourable man dwelt in it.
 22:9  Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the
fatherless have been broken.
 22:10  Therefore snares [are] round about thee, and sudden
fear troubleth thee;
 22:11  Or darkness, [that] thou canst not see; and abundance
of waters cover thee.
 22:12  [Is] not God in the height of heaven? and behold the
height of the stars, how high they are!
 22:13  And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge
through the dark cloud?
 22:14  Thick clouds [are] a covering to him, that he seeth
not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven.
 22:15  Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have
trodden?
 22:16  Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was
overflown with a flood:
 22:17  Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the
Almighty do for them?
 22:18  Yet he filled their houses with good [things]: but the
counsel of the wicked is far from me.
 22:19  The righteous see [it], and are glad: and the innocent
laugh them to scorn.
 22:20  Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant
of them the fire consumeth.
 22:21  Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby
good shall come unto thee.
 22:22  Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay
up his words in thine heart.
 22:23  If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up,
thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.
 22:24  Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the [gold] of
Ophir as the stones of the brooks.
 22:25  Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou shalt
have plenty of silver.
 22:26  For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty,
and shalt lift up thy face unto God.
 22:27  Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear
thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.
 22:28  Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be
established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.
 22:29  When [men] are cast down, then thou shalt say, [There
is] lifting up; and he shall save the humble person.
 22:30  He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is
delivered by the pureness of thine hands.
 23:1  Then Job answered and said,
 23:2  Even to day [is] my complaint bitter: my stroke is
heavier than my groaning.
 23:3  Oh that I knew where I might find him! [that] I might
come [even] to his seat!
 23:4  I would order [my] cause before him, and fill my mouth
with arguments.
 23:5  I would know the words [which] he would answer me, and
understand what he would say unto me.
 23:6  Will he plead against me with [his] great power? No; but
he would put [strength] in me.
 23:7  There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I
be delivered for ever from my judge.
 23:8  Behold, I go forward, but he [is] not [there]; and
backward, but I cannot perceive him:
 23:9  On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot
behold [him]: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I
cannot see [him]:
 23:10  But he knoweth the way that I take: [when] he hath
tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
 23:11  My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and
not declined.
 23:12  Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his
lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my
necessary [food].
 23:13  But he [is] in one [mind], and who can turn him? and
[what] his soul desireth, even [that] he doeth.
 23:14  For he performeth [the thing that is] appointed for me:
and many such [things are] with him.
 23:15  Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I
consider, I am afraid of him.
 23:16  For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty
troubleth me:
 23:17  Because I was not cut off before the darkness,
[neither] hath he covered the darkness from my face.
 24:1  Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do
they that know him not see his days?
 24:2  [Some] remove the landmarks; they violently take away
flocks, and feed [thereof].
 24:3  They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the
widow's ox for a pledge.
 24:4  They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the
earth hide themselves together.
 24:5  Behold, [as] wild asses in the desert, go they forth to
their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness
[yieldeth] food for them [and] for [their] children.
 24:6  They reap [every one] his corn in the field: and they
gather the vintage of the wicked.
 24:7  They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that
[they have] no covering in the cold.
 24:8  They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and
embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
 24:9  They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a
pledge of the poor.
 24:10  They cause [him] to go naked without clothing, and they
take away the sheaf [from] the hungry;
 24:11  [Which] make oil within their walls, [and] tread
[their] winepresses, and suffer thirst.
 24:12  Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the
wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly [to them].
 24:13  They are of those that rebel against the light; they
know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
 24:14  The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and
needy, and in the night is as a thief.
 24:15  The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight,
saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth [his] face.
 24:16  In the dark they dig through houses, [which] they had
marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
 24:17  For the morning [is] to them even as the shadow of
death: if [one] know [them, they are in] the terrors of the
shadow of death.
 24:18  He [is] swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in
the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.
 24:19  Drought and heat consume the snow waters: [so doth] the
grave [those which] have sinned.
 24:20  The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly
on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be
broken as a tree.
 24:21  He evil entreateth the barren [that] beareth not: and
doeth not good to the widow.
 24:22  He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth
up, and no [man] is sure of life.
 24:23  [Though] it be given him [to be] in safety, whereon he
resteth; yet his eyes [are] upon their ways.
 24:24  They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and
brought low; they are taken out of the way as all [other], and
cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.
 24:25  And if [it be] not [so] now, who will make me a liar,
and make my speech nothing worth?
 25:1  Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
 25:2  Dominion and fear [are] with him, he maketh peace in his
high places.
 25:3  Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth
not his light arise?
 25:4  How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be
clean [that is] born of a woman?
 25:5  Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the
stars are not pure in his sight.
 25:6  How much less man, [that is] a worm? and the son of man,
[which is] a worm?
 26:1  But Job answered and said,
 26:2  How hast thou helped [him that is] without power? [how]
savest thou the arm [that hath] no strength?
 26:3  How hast thou counselled [him that hath] no wisdom? and
[how] hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is?
 26:4  To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came
from thee?
 26:5  Dead [things] are formed from under the waters, and the
inhabitants thereof.
 26:6  Hell [is] naked before him, and destruction hath no
covering.
 26:7  He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, [and]
hangeth the earth upon nothing.
 26:8  He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the
cloud is not rent under them.
 26:9  He holdeth back the face of his throne, [and] spreadeth
his cloud upon it.
 26:10  He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day
and night come to an end.
 26:11  The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his
reproof.
 26:12  He divideth the sea with his power, and by his
understanding he smiteth through the proud.
 26:13  By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand
hath formed the crooked serpent.
 26:14  Lo, these [are] parts of his ways: but how little a
portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can
understand?
 27:1  Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,
 27:2  [As] God liveth, [who] hath taken away my judgment; and
the Almighty, [who] hath vexed my soul;
 27:3  All the while my breath [is] in me, and the spirit of
God [is] in my nostrils;
 27:4  My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter
deceit.
 27:5  God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will
not remove mine integrity from me.
 27:6  My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my
heart shall not reproach [me] so long as I live.
 27:7  Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up
against me as the unrighteous.
 27:8  For what [is] the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath
gained, when God taketh away his soul?
 27:9  Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him?
 27:10  Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always
call upon God?
 27:11  I will teach you by the hand of God: [that] which [is]
with the Almighty will I not conceal.
 27:12  Behold, all ye yourselves have seen [it]; why then are
ye thus altogether vain?
 27:13  This [is] the portion of a wicked man with God, and the
heritage of oppressors, [which] they shall receive of the
Almighty.
 27:14  If his children be multiplied, [it is] for the sword:
and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
 27:15  Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and
his widows shall not weep.
 27:16  Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare
raiment as the clay;
 27:17  He may prepare [it], but the just shall put [it] on,
and the innocent shall divide the silver.
 27:18  He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth [that]
the keeper maketh.
 27:19  The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be
gathered: he openeth his eyes, and he [is] not.
 27:20  Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth
him away in the night.
 27:21  The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and
as a storm hurleth him out of his place.
 27:22  For [God] shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would
fain flee out of his hand.
 27:23  [Men] shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him
out of his place.
 28:1  Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for
gold [where] they fine [it].
 28:2  Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass [is] molten
[out of] the stone.
 28:3  He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all
perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.
 28:4  The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; [even the
waters] forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone
away from men.
 28:5  [As for] the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it
is turned up as it were fire.
 28:6  The stones of it [are] the place of sapphires: and it
hath dust of gold.
 28:7  [There is] a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the
vulture's eye hath not seen:
 28:8  The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce
lion passed by it.
 28:9  He putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he overturneth
the mountains by the roots.
 28:10  He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye
seeth every precious thing.
 28:11  He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and [the thing
that is] hid bringeth he forth to light.
 28:12  But where shall wisdom be found? and where [is] the
place of understanding?
 28:13  Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found
in the land of the living.
 28:14  The depth saith, It [is] not in me: and the sea saith,
[It is] not with me.
 28:15  It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be
weighed [for] the price thereof.
 28:16  It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the
precious onyx, or the sapphire.
 28:17  The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the
exchange of it [shall not be for] jewels of fine gold.
 28:18  No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for
the price of wisdom [is] above rubies.
 28:19  The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall
it be valued with pure gold.
 28:20  Whence then cometh wisdom? and where [is] the place of
understanding?
 28:21  Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept
close from the fowls of the air.
 28:22  Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame
thereof with our ears.
 28:23  God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the
place thereof.
 28:24  For he looketh to the ends of the earth, [and] seeth
under the whole heaven;
 28:25  To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the
waters by measure.
 28:26  When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the
lightning of the thunder:
 28:27  Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it,
yea, and searched it out.
 28:28  And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord,
that [is] wisdom; and to depart from evil [is] understanding.
 29:1  Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,
 29:2  Oh that I were as [in] months past, as [in] the days
[when] God preserved me;
 29:3  When his candle shined upon my head, [and when] by his
light I walked [through] darkness;
 29:4  As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God
[was] upon my tabernacle;
 29:5  When the Almighty [was] yet with me, [when] my children
[were] about me;
 29:6  When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured
me out rivers of oil;
 29:7  When I went out to the gate through the city, [when] I
prepared my seat in the street!
 29:8  The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged
arose, [and] stood up.
 29:9  The princes refrained talking, and laid [their] hand on
their mouth.
 29:10  The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved
to the roof of their mouth.
 29:11  When the ear heard [me], then it blessed me; and when
the eye saw [me], it gave witness to me:
 29:12  Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the
fatherless, and [him that had] none to help him.
 29:13  The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon
me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
 29:14  I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment
[was] as a robe and a diadem.
 29:15  I was eyes to the blind, and feet [was] I to the lame.
 29:16  I [was] a father to the poor: and the cause [which] I
knew not I searched out.
 29:17  And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the
spoil out of his teeth.
 29:18  Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall
multiply [my] days as the sand.
 29:19  My root [was] spread out by the waters, and the dew lay
all night upon my branch.
 29:20  My glory [was] fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in
my hand.
 29:21  Unto me [men] gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at
my counsel.
 29:22  After my words they spake not again; and my speech
dropped upon them.
 29:23  And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened
their mouth wide [as] for the latter rain.
 29:24  [If] I laughed on them, they believed [it] not; and the
light of my countenance they cast not down.
 29:25  I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a
king in the army, as one [that] comforteth the mourners.
 30:1  But now [they that are] younger than I have me in
derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with
the dogs of my flock.
 30:2  Yea, whereto [might] the strength of their hands
[profit] me, in whom old age was perished?
 30:3  For want and famine [they were] solitary; fleeing into
the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
 30:4  Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots
[for] their meat.
 30:5  They were driven forth from among [men], (they cried
after them as [after] a thief;)
 30:6  To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, [in] caves of the
earth, and [in] the rocks.
 30:7  Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they
were gathered together.
 30:8  [They were] children of fools, yea, children of base
men: they were viler than the earth.
 30:9  And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
 30:10  They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to
spit in my face.
 30:11  Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they
have also let loose the bridle before me.
 30:12  Upon [my] right [hand] rise the youth; they push away
my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their
destruction.
 30:13  They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they
have no helper.
 30:14  They came [upon me] as a wide breaking in [of waters]:
in the desolation they rolled themselves [upon me].
 30:15  Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the
wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.
 30:16  And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of
affliction have taken hold upon me.
 30:17  My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my
sinews take no rest.
 30:18  By the great force [of my disease] is my garment
changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.
 30:19  He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like
dust and ashes.
 30:20  I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up,
and thou regardest me [not].
 30:21  Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou
opposest thyself against me.
 30:22  Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride
[upon it], and dissolvest my substance.
 30:23  For I know [that] thou wilt bring me [to] death, and
[to] the house appointed for all living.
 30:24  Howbeit he will not stretch out [his] hand to the
grave, though they cry in his destruction.
 30:25  Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was [not]
my soul grieved for the poor?
 30:26  When I looked for good, then evil came [unto me]: and
when I waited for light, there came darkness.
 30:27  My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of
affliction prevented me.
 30:28  I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, [and] I
cried in the congregation.
 30:29  I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
 30:30  My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with
heat.
 30:31  My harp also is [turned] to mourning, and my organ into
the voice of them that weep.
 31:1  I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I
think upon a maid?
 31:2  For what portion of God [is there] from above? and
[what] inheritance of the Almighty from on high?
 31:3  [Is] not destruction to the wicked? and a strange
[punishment] to the workers of iniquity?
 31:4  Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?
 31:5  If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted
to deceit;
 31:6  Let me be weighed in an even balance that God may know
mine integrity.
 31:7  If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart
walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine
hands;
 31:8  [Then] let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my
offspring be rooted out.
 31:9  If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or [if] I
have laid wait at my neighbour's door;
 31:10  [Then] let my wife grind unto another, and let others
bow down upon her.
 31:11  For this [is] an heinous crime; yea, it [is] an
iniquity [to be punished by] the judges.
 31:12  For it [is] a fire [that] consumeth to destruction, and
would root out all mine increase.
 31:13  If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my
maidservant, when they contended with me;
 31:14  What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he
visiteth, what shall I answer him?
 31:15  Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did
not one fashion us in the womb?
 31:16  If I have withheld the poor from [their] desire, or
have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
 31:17  Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the
fatherless hath not eaten thereof;
 31:18  (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as [with]
a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;)
 31:19  If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any
poor without covering;
 31:20  If his loins have not blessed me, and [if] he were
[not] warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
 31:21  If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless,
when I saw my help in the gate:
 31:22  [Then] let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and
mine arm be broken from the bone.
 31:23  For destruction [from] God [was] a terror to me, and by
reason of his highness I could not endure.
 31:24  If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine
gold, [Thou art] my confidence;
 31:25  If I rejoiced because my wealth [was] great, and
because mine hand had gotten much;
 31:26  If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking
[in] brightness;
 31:27  And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth
hath kissed my hand:
 31:28  This also [were] an iniquity [to be punished by] the
judge: for I should have denied the God [that is] above.
 31:29  If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me,
or lifted up myself when evil found him:
 31:30  Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a
curse to his soul.
 31:31  If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of
his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.
 31:32  The stranger did not lodge in the street: [but] I
opened my doors to the traveller.
 31:33  If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine
iniquity in my bosom:
 31:34  Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of
families terrify me, that I kept silence, [and] went not out of
the door?
 31:35  Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire [is, that]
the Almighty would answer me, and [that] mine adversary had
written a book.
 31:36  Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, [and] bind it
[as] a crown to me.
 31:37  I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a
prince would I go near unto him.
 31:38  If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise
thereof complain;
 31:39  If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or
have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:
 31:40  Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead
of barley. The words of Job are ended.