11:1  Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
 11:2  Should not the multitude of words be answered? and
should a man full of talk be justified?
 11:3  Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou
mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?
 11:4  For thou hast said, My doctrine [is] pure, and I am
clean in thine eyes.
 11:5  But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against
thee;
 11:6  And that he would show thee the secrets of wisdom, that
[they are] double to that which is! Know therefore that God
exacteth of thee [less] than thine iniquity [deserveth].
 11:7  Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find
out the Almighty unto perfection?
 11:8  [It is] as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper
than hell; what canst thou know?
 11:9  The measure thereof [is] longer than the earth, and
broader than the sea.
 11:10  If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then
who can hinder him?
 11:11  For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also; will
he not then consider [it]?
 11:12  For vain man would be wise, though man be born [like] a
wild ass's colt.
 11:13  If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine
hands toward him;
 11:14  If iniquity [be] in thine hand, put it far away, and
let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.
 11:15  For then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; yea,
thou shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear:
 11:16  Because thou shalt forget [thy] misery, [and] remember
[it] as waters [that] pass away:
 11:17  And [thine] age shall be clearer than the noonday; thou
shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning.
 11:18  And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope; yea,
thou shalt dig [about thee, and] thou shalt take thy rest in
safety.
 11:19  Also thou shalt lie down, and none shall make [thee]
afraid; yea, many shall make suit unto thee.
 11:20  But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall
not escape, and their hope [shall be as] the giving up of the
ghost.
 12:1  And Job answered and said,
 12:2  No doubt but ye [are] the people, and wisdom shall die
with you.
 12:3  But I have understanding as well as you; I [am] not
inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these?
 12:4  I am [as] one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon
God, and he answereth him: the just upright [man is] laughed to
scorn.
 12:5  He that is ready to slip with [his] feet [is as] a lamp
despised in the thought of him that is at ease.
 12:6  The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that
provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth
[abundantly].
 12:7  But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and
the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee:
 12:8  Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the
fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.
 12:9  Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the LORD
hath wrought this?
 12:10  In whose hand [is] the soul of every living thing, and
the breath of all mankind.
 12:11  Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his
meat?
 12:12  With the ancient [is] wisdom; and in length of days
understanding.
 12:13  With him [is] wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and
understanding.
 12:14  Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again:
he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.
 12:15  Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up:
also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.
 12:16  With him [is] strength and wisdom: the deceived and the
deceiver [are] his.
 12:17  He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and maketh the
judges fools.
 12:18  He looseth the bond of kings, and girdeth their loins
with a girdle.
 12:19  He leadeth princes away spoiled, and overthroweth the
mighty.
 12:20  He removeth away the speech of the trusty, and taketh
away the understanding of the aged.
 12:21  He poureth contempt upon princes, and weakeneth the
strength of the mighty.
 12:22  He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and
bringeth out to light the shadow of death.
 12:23  He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he
enlargeth the nations, and straiteneth them [again].
 12:24  He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of
the earth, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness [where
there is] no way.
 12:25  They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh
them to stagger like [a] drunken [man].
 13:1  Lo, mine eye hath seen all [this], mine ear hath heard
and understood it.
 13:2  What ye know, [the same] do I know also: I [am] not
inferior unto you.
 13:3  Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to
reason with God.
 13:4  But ye [are] forgers of lies, ye [are] all physicians of
no value.
 13:5  O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it
should be your wisdom.
 13:6  Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of
my lips.
 13:7  Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for
him?
 13:8  Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?
 13:9  Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man
mocketh another, do ye [so] mock him?
 13:10  He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept
persons.
 13:11  Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread
fall upon you?
 13:12  Your remembrances [are] like unto ashes, your bodies to
bodies of clay.
 13:13  Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and
let come on me what [will].
 13:14  Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my
life in mine hand?
 13:15  Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will
maintain mine own ways before him.
 13:16  He also [shall be] my salvation: for an hypocrite shall
not come before him.
 13:17  Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your
ears.
 13:18  Behold now, I have ordered [my] cause; I know that I
shall be justified.
 13:19  Who [is] he [that] will plead with me? for now, if I
hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.
 13:20  Only do not two [things] unto me: then will I not hide
myself from thee.
 13:21  Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread
make me afraid.
 13:22  Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and
answer thou me.
 13:23  How many [are] mine iniquities and sins? make me to
know my transgression and my sin.
 13:24  Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for
thine enemy?
 13:25  Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou
pursue the dry stubble?
 13:26  For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest
me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
 13:27  Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest
narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels
of my feet.
 13:28  And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that
is moth eaten.
 14:1  Man [that is] born of a woman [is] of few days, and full
of trouble.
 14:2  He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he
fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
 14:3  And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and
bringest me into judgment with thee?
 14:4  Who can bring a clean [thing] out of an unclean? not
one.
 14:5  Seeing his days [are] determined, the number of his
months [are] with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he
cannot pass;
 14:6  Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall
accomplish, as an hireling, his day.
 14:7  For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it
will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not
cease.
 14:8  Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the
stock thereof die in the ground;
 14:9  [Yet] through the scent of water it will bud, and bring
forth boughs like a plant.
 14:10  But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the
ghost, and where [is] he?
 14:11  [As] the waters fail from the sea, and the flood
decayeth and drieth up:
 14:12  So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens
[be] no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their
sleep.
 14:13  O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou
wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou
wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!
 14:14  If a man die, shall he live [again]? all the days of my
appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
 14:15  Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have
a desire to the work of thine hands.
 14:16  For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch
over my sin?
 14:17  My transgression [is] sealed up in a bag, and thou
sewest up mine iniquity.
 14:18  And surely the mountain falling cometh to nought, and
the rock is removed out of his place.
 14:19  The waters wear the stones: thou washest away the
things which grow [out] of the dust of the earth; and thou
destroyest the hope of man.
 14:20  Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth:
thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.
 14:21  His sons come to honour, and he knoweth [it] not; and
they are brought low, but he perceiveth [it] not of them.
 14:22  But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul
within him shall mourn.
 15:1  Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,
 15:2  Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his
belly with the east wind?
 15:3  Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with
speeches wherewith he can do no good?
 15:4  Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer
before God.
 15:5  For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest
the tongue of the crafty.
 15:6  Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine
own lips testify against thee.
 15:7  [Art] thou the first man [that] was born? or wast thou
made before the hills?
 15:8  Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou
restrain wisdom to thyself?
 15:9  What knowest thou, that we know not? [what]
understandest thou, which [is] not in us?
 15:10  With us [are] both the grayheaded and very aged men,
much elder than thy father.
 15:11  [Are] the consolations of God small with thee? is there
any secret thing with thee?
 15:12  Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy
eyes wink at,
 15:13  That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest
[such] words go out of thy mouth?
 15:14  What [is] man, that he should be clean? and [he which
is] born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
 15:15  Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the
heavens are not clean in his sight.
 15:16  How much more abominable and filthy [is] man, which
drinketh iniquity like water?
 15:17  I will show thee, hear me; and that [which] I have seen
I will declare;
 15:18  Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have
not hid [it]:
 15:19  Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger
passed among them.
 15:20  The wicked man travaileth with pain all [his] days, and
the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.
 15:21  A dreadful sound [is] in his ears: in prosperity the
destroyer shall come upon him.
 15:22  He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness,
and he is waited for of the sword.
 15:23  He wandereth abroad for bread, [saying], Where [is it]?
he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
 15:24  Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall
prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
 15:25  For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and
strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.
 15:26  He runneth upon him, [even] on [his] neck, upon the
thick bosses of his bucklers:
 15:27  Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and
maketh collops of fat on [his] flanks.
 15:28  And he dwelleth in desolate cities, [and] in houses
which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.
 15:29  He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance
continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon
the earth.
 15:30  He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall
dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go
away.
 15:31  Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for
vanity shall be his recompense.
 15:32  It shall be accomplished before his time, and his
branch shall not be green.
 15:33  He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and
shall cast off his flower as the olive.
 15:34  For the congregation of hypocrites [shall be] desolate,
and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.
 15:35  They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and
their belly prepareth deceit.
 16:1  Then Job answered and said,
 16:2  I have heard many such things: miserable comforters
[are] ye all.
 16:3  Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee
that thou answerest?
 16:4  I also could speak as ye [do]: if your soul were in my
soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine
head at you.
 16:5  [But] I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the
moving of my lips should asswage [your grief].
 16:6  Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and [though] I
forbear, what am I eased?
 16:7  But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate
all my company.
 16:8  And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, [which] is a
witness [against me]: and my leanness rising up in me beareth
witness to my face.
 16:9  He teareth [me] in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth
upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.
 16:10  They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have
smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered
themselves together against me.
 16:11  God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me
over into the hands of the wicked.
 16:12  I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath
also taken [me] by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me
up for his mark.
 16:13  His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my
reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon
the ground.
 16:14  He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon
me like a giant.
 16:15  I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my
horn in the dust.
 16:16  My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids [is]
the shadow of death;
 16:17  Not for [any] injustice in mine hands: also my prayer
[is] pure.
 16:18  O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have
no place.
 16:19  Also now, behold, my witness [is] in heaven, and my
record [is] on high.
 16:20  My friends scorn me: [but] mine eye poureth out [tears]
unto God.
 16:21  O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man
[pleadeth] for his neighbour!
 16:22  When a few years are come, then I shall go the way
[whence] I shall not return.
 17:1  My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves
[are ready] for me.
 17:2  [Are there] not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye
continue in their provocation?
 17:3  Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who [is] he
[that] will strike hands with me?
 17:4  For thou hast hid their heart from understanding:
therefore shalt thou not exalt [them].
 17:5  He that speaketh flattery to [his] friends, even the
eyes of his children shall fail.
 17:6  He hath made me also a byword of the people; and
aforetime I was as a tabret.
 17:7  Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my
members [are] as a shadow.
 17:8  Upright [men] shall be astonied at this, and the
innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
 17:9  The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that
hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
 17:10  But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I
cannot find [one] wise [man] among you.
 17:11  My days are past, my purposes are broken off, [even]
the thoughts of my heart.
 17:12  They change the night into day: the light [is] short
because of darkness.
 17:13  If I wait, the grave [is] mine house: I have made my
bed in the darkness.
 17:14  I have said to corruption, Thou [art] my father: to the
worm, [Thou art] my mother, and my sister.
 17:15  And where [is] now my hope? as for my hope, who shall
see it?
 17:16  They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when [our]
rest together [is] in the dust.
 18:1  Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
 18:2  How long [will it be ere] ye make an end of words? mark,
and afterwards we will speak.
 18:3  Wherefore are we counted as beasts, [and] reputed vile
in your sight?
 18:4  He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be
forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his
place?
 18:5  Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the
spark of his fire shall not shine.
 18:6  The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his
candle shall be put out with him.
 18:7  The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his
own counsel shall cast him down.
 18:8  For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he
walketh upon a snare.
 18:9  The gin shall take [him] by the heel, [and] the robber
shall prevail against him.
 18:10  The snare [is] laid for him in the ground, and a trap
for him in the way.
 18:11  Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall
drive him to his feet.
 18:12  His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction
[shall be] ready at his side.
 18:13  It shall devour the strength of his skin: [even] the
firstborn of death shall devour his strength.
 18:14  His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle,
and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.
 18:15  It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because [it is] none
of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
 18:16  His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall
his branch be cut off.
 18:17  His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he
shall have no name in the street.
 18:18  He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased
out of the world.
 18:19  He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people,
nor any remaining in his dwellings.
 18:20  They that come after [him] shall be astonied at his
day, as they that went before were affrighted.
 18:21  Surely such [are] the dwellings of the wicked, and this
[is] the place [of him that] knoweth not God.
 19:1  Then Job answered and said,
 19:2  How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces
with words?
 19:3  These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not
ashamed [that] ye make yourselves strange to me.
 19:4  And be it indeed [that] I have erred, mine error
remaineth with myself.
 19:5  If indeed ye will magnify [yourselves] against me, and
plead against me my reproach:
 19:6  Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed
me with his net.
 19:7  Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry
aloud, but [there is] no judgment.
 19:8  He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath
set darkness in my paths.
 19:9  He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown
[from] my head.
 19:10  He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and
mine hope hath he removed like a tree.
 19:11  He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he
counteth me unto him as [one of] his enemies.
 19:12  His troops come together, and raise up their way
against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.
 19:13  He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine
acquaintance are verily estranged from me.
 19:14  My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have
forgotten me.
 19:15  They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me
for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
 19:16  I called my servant, and he gave [me] no answer; I
entreated him with my mouth.
 19:17  My breath is strange to my wife, though I entreated for
the children's [sake] of mine own body.
 19:18  Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they
spake against me.
 19:19  All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I
loved are turned against me.
 19:20  My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am
escaped with the skin of my teeth.
 19:21  Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends;
for the hand of God hath touched me.
 19:22  Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied
with my flesh?
 19:23  Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were
printed in a book!
 19:24  That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the
rock for ever!
 19:25  For I know [that] my redeemer liveth, and [that] he
shall stand at the latter [day] upon the earth:
 19:26  And [though] after my skin [worms] destroy this [body],
yet in my flesh shall I see God:
 19:27  Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall
behold, and not another; [though] my reins be consumed within
me.
 19:28  But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the
root of the matter is found in me?
 19:29  Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath [bringeth] the
punishments of the sword, that ye may know [there is] a
judgment.
 20:1  Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
 20:2  Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for
[this] I make haste.
 20:3  I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of
my understanding causeth me to answer.
 20:4  Knowest thou [not] this of old, since man was placed
upon earth,
 20:5  That the triumphing of the wicked [is] short, and the
joy of the hypocrite [but] for a moment?
 20:6  Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his
head reach unto the clouds;
 20:7  [Yet] he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they
which have seen him shall say, Where [is] he?
 20:8  He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found:
yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
 20:9  The eye also [which] saw him shall [see him] no more;
neither shall his place any more behold him.
 20:10  His children shall seek to please the poor, and his
hands shall restore their goods.
 20:11  His bones are full [of the sin] of his youth, which
shall lie down with him in the dust.
 20:12  Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, [though] he
hide it under his tongue;
 20:13  [Though] he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it
still within his mouth:
 20:14  [Yet] his meat in his bowels is turned, [it is] the
gall of asps within him.
 20:15  He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them
up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.
 20:16  He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue
shall slay him.
 20:17  He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of
honey and butter.
 20:18  That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall
not swallow [it] down: according to [his] substance [shall] the
restitution [be], and he shall not rejoice [therein].
 20:19  Because he hath oppressed [and] hath forsaken the poor;
[because] he hath violently taken away an house which he
builded not;
 20:20  Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he
shall not save of that which he desired.
 20:21  There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall
no man look for his goods.
 20:22  In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in
straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.
 20:23  [When] he is about to fill his belly, [God] shall cast
the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain [it] upon him
while he is eating.
 20:24  He shall flee from the iron weapon, [and] the bow of
steel shall strike him through.
 20:25  It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the
glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors [are] upon
him.
 20:26  All darkness [shall be] hid in his secret places: a
fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that
is left in his tabernacle.
 20:27  The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth
shall rise up against him.
 20:28  The increase of his house shall depart, [and his goods]
shall flow away in the day of his wrath.
 20:29  This [is] the portion of a wicked man from God, and the
heritage appointed unto him by God.