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{\MTB The Book of
\par }{\MT Job

\par }\ChapOne{1}{\PP \VerseOne{1}There
was
a
man
in
the
land
of
Uz
whose
name
was
Job.
He
was without sin
and
upright, fearing
God
and keeping
himself far
from
evil.
\VS{2}And
he
had
seven
sons
and
three
daughters.
\VS{3}And
of
cattle
he
had
seven
thousand
sheep
and goats,
and
three
thousand
camels,
and
a
thousand
oxen,
and
five
hundred she-asses,
and
a
very
great number
of
servants.
And
the
man
was
greater
than
any
of
the
sons
of
the
east.
\VS{4}His
sons regularly
went
to
one another's
houses,
and
every
one
on
his
day
gave
a
feast:
and
at these
times
they
sent
for
their
three
sisters
to
take part
in
their feasts
with
them.
\VS{5}And
at
the end
of
their
days
of
feasting,
Job
sent
and
made
them clean, getting
up
early
in
the
morning
and
offering burned
offerings
for
them
all.
For,
Job
said,
It
may
be
that
my
sons
have
done
wrong
and
said evil
of
God
in
their
hearts.
And
Job
did
this
whenever
the feasts
came
round.
\VS{6}And
there
was
a
day
when
the
sons
of
the
gods
came
together
before
the
Lord,
and
the
Satan
came
with
them.
\VS{7}And
the
Lord
said
to
the
Satan,
Where
do
you
come
from?
And
the
Satan
said
in
answer,
From wandering
this
way
and
that
on
the
earth,
and
walking
about
on
it.
\VS{8}And
the
Lord
said
to
the
Satan,
Have
you
taken note
of
my
servant
Job,
for
there
is
no
one
like
him
on
the
earth,
a
man
without sin
and
upright, fearing
God
and keeping
himself
far
from
evil?
\VS{9}And
the
Satan
said
in
answer
to
the
Lord,
Is
it
for
nothing
that
Job
is
a
god-fearing
man?
\VS{10}Have
you
yourself
not
put
a wall
round
him
and
his
house
and
all
he
has
on
every
side,
blessing
the
work
of
his
hands,
and increasing
his
cattle
in
the
land?
\VS{11}But
now,
put
out
your
hand
against
all
he
has,
and
he
will
be cursing
you
to
your
face.
\VS{12}And
the
Lord
said
to
the
Satan,
See,
I give
all
he
has
into
your
hands,
only
do
not
put
a finger
on
the
man
himself.
And
the
Satan
went
out
from
before
the
Lord.
\VS{13}And
there
was
a
day
when
his
sons
and
daughters
were
feasting
in
the
house
of
their
oldest
brother,
\VS{14}And
a man
came
to
Job,
and
said,
The
oxen
were ploughing,
and
the asses
were
taking
their food
by
their
side:
\VS{15}And
the
men
of
Sheba
came
against
them
and
took
them
away, putting
the
young
men
to
the
sword,
and
I
was
the
only
one
who
got
away safe
to
give
you
the news.
\VS{16}And
this
one
was
still
talking
when
another
came,
and
said,
The
fire
of
God
came
down
from
heaven,
burning
up
the
sheep
and
the goats
and
the
young
men completely,
and
I
was
the
only
one
who got
away safe
to
give
you
the
news.
\VS{17}And
this
one
was
still
talking
when
another
came,
and
said,
The Chaldaeans
made
themselves
into
three
bands,
and
came
down
on
the
camels
and
took
them
away,
putting
the
young
men
to
the
sword,
and
I
was
the
only
one
who
got
away safe
to
give
you
the
news.
\VS{18}And
this
one
was
still
talking
when
another
came,
and
said,
Your
sons
and
your
daughters
were
feasting together
in
their
oldest brother's
house,
\VS{19}When
a
great
wind
came rushing
from
the
waste
land
against
the
four
sides
of
the
house,
and
it
came
down
on
the
young
men,
and
they
are
dead;
and
I
was
the
only
one
who got
away safe
to
give
you
the news.
\VS{20}Then
Job
got
up,
and
after parting
his clothing
and cutting
off
his
hair,
he
went
down
on
his face
to
the
earth,
and gave
worship,
and said,
\VS{21}With nothing
I
came
out
of
my mother's
body,
and
with nothing
I
will
go
back
there;
the
Lord
gave
and
the
Lord
has
taken
away;
let
the Lord's
name
be
praised.
\VS{22}In
all
this
Job
did
no
sin,
and
did
not say
that God's acts
were foolish.

\par }\Chap{2}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
there
was
a
day
when
the
sons
of
the
gods
came
together
before
the
Lord,
and
the
Satan
came
with
them.
\VS{2}And
the
Lord
said
to
the
Satan,
Where
do
you
come
from?
And
the
Satan
said
in
answer,
From wandering
this
way
and
that
on
the
earth,
and
walking
about
on
it.
\VS{3}And
the
Lord
said
to
the
Satan,
Have
you
taken note
of
my
servant
Job,
for
there
is
no
one
like
him
on
the
earth,
a
man
without sin
and
upright, fearing
God
and keeping
himself
far
from
evil?
and
he
still
keeps
his righteousness,
though
you
have
been moving
me
to send
destruction
on
him
without
cause.
\VS{4}And
the
Satan
said
in
answer
to
the
Lord,
Skin
for
skin,
all
a
man
has
he
will
give
for
his
life.
\VS{5}But
now,
if
you
only
put
your
hand
on
his
bone
and
his
flesh,
he
will
certainly
be cursing
you
to
your
face.
\VS{6}And
the
Lord
said
to
the
Satan,
See,
he
is
in
your
hands,
only
do
not
take
his
life.
\VS{7}And
the
Satan
went
out
from
before
the
Lord,
and
sent
on
Job
an
evil disease covering
his skin
from
his
feet
to
the top
of
his
head.
\VS{8}And
he
took
a broken bit
of
a pot,
and,
seated
in
the
dust,
was rubbing
himself
with
the sharp edge
of
it.
\VS{9}And
his
wife
said
to
him,
Are
you
still keeping
your righteousness?
Say
a
curse against
God,
and
put
an end
to yourself.
\VS{10}And
he
said
to
her,
You
are
talking
like
one
of
the
foolish
women.
If
we
take
the
good
God sends
us,
are
we
not
to
take
the
evil
when
it comes?
In
all
this
Job kept
his
lips
from
sin.
\VS{11}And Job's
three
friends
had word
of
all
this
evil which
had
come
on
him.
And
they
came
every
one
from
his
place,
Eliphaz
the
Temanite,
and
Bildad
the
Shuhite,
and
Zophar
the
Naamathite.
So
they
came
together
to
a meeting-place,
in order
that
they
might
go
and
make
clear
to
Job
their grief
for
him,
and
give
him
comfort.
\VS{12}And lifting
up
their
eyes
when
they
were still
far
off,
it
did
not
seem
that
the
man
they saw
was
Job
because
of
the change
in
him.
And
they gave
way
to bitter
weeping,
with signs
of grief,
and
put
dust
on
their
heads.
\VS{13}And
they took
their seats
on
the
earth
by
his
side
for
seven
days
and
seven
nights:
but
no
one
said
a
word
to
him,
for
they
saw
that
his
pain
was
very
great.

\par }\Chap{3}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Then,
opening
his
mouth,
and
cursing
the
day
of
his birth,
\VS{2}Job made
answer
and
said,
\VS{3}Let
destruction
take
the
day
of
my
birth,
and
the
night
on which
it
was
said,
A
man
child
has come
into
the world.
\VS{4}That
day —
let
it
be
dark;
let
not
God
take note
of
it
from
on
high,
and
let
not
the
light
be shining
on
it;
\VS{5}Let
the
dark
and
the
black night take
it
for
themselves;
let
it
be covered
with
a
cloud;
let
the
dark shades
of
day send fear
on
it.
\VS{6}That
night —
let
the thick dark
take
it;
let
it
not
have joy among
the
days
of
the
year;
let
it
not
come
into
the
number
of
the
months.
\VS{7}As
for
that
night,
let
it
have
no fruit;
let
no voice
of joy
be sounded
in
it;
\VS{8}Let it
be
cursed
by those who put
a
curse
on
the
day; who
are
ready
to make
Leviathan
awake.
\VS{9}Let
its
morning
stars
be
dark;
let
it
be
looking
for
light,
but
may
it
not
have
any;
let
it
not
see
the eyes
of
the
dawn.
\VS{10}Because
it
did
not keep
the
doors
of
my mother's
body
shut,
so
that
trouble might
be veiled
from
my
eyes.
\VS{11}Why
did
death
not
take
me
when
I
came
out
of
my mother's
body,
why
did
I
not,
when
I
came
out, give up
my
last breath?
\VS{12}Why
did
the
knees take
me,
or
why
the
breasts
that
they might give
me milk?
\VS{13}For
then
I might
have gone
to
my
rest
in
quiet,
and
in
sleep
have
been
in
peace,
\VS{14}With
kings
and
the wise ones
of
the
earth,
who put
up great houses
for
themselves;
\VS{15}Or
with
rulers
who
had
gold,
and whose
houses
were
full
of
silver;
\VS{16}Or
as
a
child dead
at
birth
I might
never
have
come
into existence;
like young
children
who
have
not
seen
the
light.
\VS{17}There
the passions
of
the
evil
are over,
and those
whose
strength
has come
to
an end
have
rest.
\VS{18}There
the
prisoners
are
at peace
together;
the
voice
of
the overseer comes
not again
to
their ears.
\VS{19}The
small
and
the
great
are
there,
and
the
servant
is
free
from
his
master.
\VS{20}Why
does
he
give
light
to
him
who
is
in trouble,
and
life
to
the
bitter
in
soul;
\VS{21}To those whose desire
is
for
death,
but
it comes
not;
who
are searching
for
it
more than
for secret
wealth;
\VS{22}Who
are
glad
with great
joy,
and full
of
delight
when
they
come
to
their last resting-place;
\VS{23}To
a
man
whose
way
is veiled,
and
who
is shut
in
by
God?
\VS{24}In
place
of
my
food
I
have grief,
and
cries
of sorrow
come
from
me
like
water.
\VS{25}For
I
have
a
fear
and
it
comes
on
me,
and
my heart
is greatly troubled.
\VS{26}I
have
no
peace,
no
quiet,
and
no
rest;
nothing
but pain
comes
on
me.

\par }\Chap{4}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
Eliphaz
the
Temanite made
answer
and
said,
\VS{2}If
one
says
a
word,
will it
be
a weariness
to
you?
but
who
is
able
to keep
from
saying
what
is
in
his mind?
\VS{3}Truly,
you
have
been
a helper
to
others,
and
you
have
made
feeble
hands
strong;
\VS{4}He who was near
to falling has been lifted
up
by
your
words,
and
you
have given
strength
to bent
knees.
\VS{5}But
now
it
has
come
on
you
and
it
is
a weariness
to
you;
you are
touched
by
it
and
your mind
is troubled.
\VS{6}Is
not
your
fear
of
God
your support,
and
your
upright
way
of life
your
hope?
\VS{7}Have
you
ever seen
destruction
come
to an
upright man?
or
when were
the god-fearing
ever
cut
off?
\VS{8}What
I
have
seen
is
that
those
by
whom
trouble
has
been ploughed,
and
evil
planted, get
the same
for
themselves.
\VS{9}By
the
breath
of
God
destruction takes
them,
and
by
the
wind
of
his
wrath
they
are cut off.
\VS{10}Though
the
noise
of
the
lion
and
the sounding
of his
voice, may
be loud,
the
teeth
of
the
young
lions
are
broken.
\VS{11}The
old
lion comes
to
his end
for need
of
food,
and
the
young
of
the she-lion
go
wandering
in all directions.
\VS{12}A
word
was given
to
me secretly,
and
the low sound
of
it
came
to
my
ears.
\VS{13}In troubled thoughts
from
visions
of
the
night,
when
deep
sleep comes
on
men,
\VS{14}Fear
came on me
and shaking,
and
my
bones
were full
of trouble;
\VS{15}And
a
breath
was moving
over
my
face;
the
hair
of
my
flesh became stiff:
\VS{16}Something
was
present
before
me,
but
I
was
not
able
to
see
it clearly;
there
was
a
form
before
my
eyes:
a quiet
voice came
to
my ears,
saying:
\VS{17}May
a
man
be upright
before
God?
or
a
man
be
clean
before
his Maker?
\VS{18}Truly,
he
puts
no
faith
in
his
servants,
and
he sees
error
in
his
angels;
\VS{19}How
much
more
those
living
in
houses
of
earth,
whose bases
are
in
the
dust!
They
are
crushed
more quickly than
an insect;
\VS{20}Between
morning
and
evening
they are completely
broken;
they come
to
an
end
for
ever,
and
no
one
takes note.
\VS{21}If
their tent-cord
is
pulled up, do
they
not come
to an end,
and
without
wisdom?

\par }\Chap{5}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Give
now
a
cry
for
help;
is
there anyone
who
will
give
you
an
answer?
and
to
which
of
the
holy
ones
will
you
make
your prayer?
\VS{2}For
wrath
is
the cause
of
death
to
the
foolish,
and
he
who
has no wisdom comes
to
his end
through
passion.
\VS{3}I
have
seen
the
foolish
taking
root,
but
suddenly
the curse came
on
his house.
\VS{4}Now
his
children
have
no safe place,
and
they
are
crushed before
the judges,
for
no
one takes
up
their cause.
\VS{5}Their produce
is
taken
by
him
who
has no
food,
and
their grain goes
to
the poor,
and
he
who
is
in need
of water
gets
it
from
their spring.
\VS{6}For
evil
does
not
come
out
of
the
dust,
or
trouble
out
of
the
earth;
\VS{7}But
trouble
is man's fate
from
birth,
as
the flames go
up
from
the fire.
\VS{8}But
as
for
me,
I would
make
my prayer
to
God,
and
I would
put
my
cause
before
him:
\VS{9}Who
does
great
things outside
our knowledge,
wonders
without
number:
\VS{10}Who
gives
rain
on
the
earth,
and
sends
water
on
the
fields:
\VS{11}Lifting
up those who
are
low,
and
putting
the sad
in
a
safe
place;
\VS{12}Who
makes
the
designs
of
the wise go wrong,
so
that
they
are unable
to give effect
to
their
purposes.
\VS{13}He
takes
the
wise
in their secret
designs,
and
the purposes
of
the twisted
are cut off suddenly.
\VS{14}In
the
daytime
it becomes
dark
for
them,
and
in
the sunlight
they go feeling
about as if
it
was
night.
\VS{15}But
he keeps
safe
from their
sword
those
who
have no father,
and
the
poor
from
the
power
of
the
strong.
\VS{16}So
the
poor man
has
hope,
and
the
mouth
of
the evil-doer
is stopped.
\VS{17}Truly,
that
man
is
happy
who
has training
from
the hand
of
God:
so
do
not
let
your heart
be shut
to
the teaching
of
the Ruler
of
all.
\VS{18}For
after
his
punishment
he
gives comfort,
and
after wounding,
his
hands
make
you well.
\VS{19}He
will keep
you safe
from
six troubles,
and
in
seven
no
evil
will
come
near
you.
\VS{20}When there
is need
of food
he
will keep
you
from
death,
and
in
war
from
the
power
of
the
sword.
\VS{21}He
will
keep
you safe
from
the evil
tongue;
and
you
will
have
no
fear
of wasting
when
it
comes.
\VS{22}You
will make
sport
of
destruction
and need,
and
will
have
no
fear
of
the
beasts
of
the
earth.
\VS{23}For
you
will
be
in
agreement
with
the
stones
of
the earth,
and
the
beasts
of
the
field
will
be
at peace
with
you.
\VS{24}And
you
will
be
certain
that
your
tent
is
at
peace,
and
after looking
over
your property
you
will
see
that
nothing
is
gone.
\VS{25}You
will
be
certain
that
your
seed
will
be
great,
and
your
offspring
like
the
plants
of
the
earth.
\VS{26}You
will
come
to
your last resting-place
in
full strength,
as
the grain
is
taken
up
to
the crushing-floor
in
its
time.
\VS{27}See,
we
have
made
search
with care,
and
it
is
so;
it
has come
to
our ears;
see
that
you
take
note
of
it
for
yourself.

\par }\Chap{6}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
Job made
answer
and
said,
\VS{2}If
only
my passion
might
be measured,
and
put into
the
scales against
my trouble!
\VS{3}For
then
its weight
would
be
more
than
the
sand
of
the
seas:
because
of
this
my
words
have
been uncontrolled.
\VS{4}For
the
arrows
of
the Ruler
of all
are present
with
me,
and
their
poison goes deep into
my
spirit:
his army
of fears
is put
in order against
me.
\VS{5}Does
the ass
of
the fields give
out
his voice
when
he
has
grass?
or
does
the
ox make sounds
over
his food?
\VS{6}Will
a man take
food which
has
no
taste
without
salt?
or
is
there
any
taste
in
the soft substance
of purslain?
\VS{7}My
soul
has no
desire
for
such
things,
they
are
as disease
in
my
food.
\VS{8}If only
I
might
have
an answer
to
my prayer,
and
God
would
give
me
my desire!
\VS{9}If only
he
would
be
pleased
to
put an end
to
me;
and
would let loose
his
hand,
so
that
I
might
be
cut
off!
\VS{10}So
I would
still
have
comfort,
and
I would
have joy
in
the
pains
of death,
for
I
have
not
been false
to
the
words
of
the
Holy
One.
\VS{11}Have
I
strength
to go
on waiting,
or
have
I
any
end
to
be looking forward
to?
\VS{12}Is
my
strength
the
strength
of
stones,
or
is
my
flesh brass?
\VS{13}I
have
no
help
in myself,
and
wisdom
is completely
gone
from
me.
\VS{14}He
whose heart is shut
against
his
friend has given up
the
fear
of
the Ruler
of all.
\VS{15}My friends
have
been false
like
a
stream,
like
streams
in
the
valleys which come
to
an end:
\VS{16}Which
are
dark
because
of
the
ice,
and
the
snow falling
into
them;
\VS{17}Under
the burning sun
they are
cut
off,
and come
to nothing because
of
the
heat.
\VS{18}The camel-trains
go
out
of
their
way;
they
go
up
into
the
waste
and
come
to
destruction.
\VS{19}The camel-trains
of
Tema were searching with care,
the bands
of
Sheba were waiting
for them:
\VS{20}They were
put
to
shame
because
of
their hope;
they
came
and
their hope
was
gone.
\VS{21}So
have
you
now
become
to
me;
you
see
my sad condition
and
are
in
fear.
\VS{22}Did
I
say,
Give
me something?
or,
Make
a payment
for
me out
of
your wealth?
\VS{23}Or,
Get
me
out
of
the
power
of
my hater?
or, Give money
so
that
I may
be free
from
the
power
of
the cruel
ones?
\VS{24}Give
me
teaching
and
I
will be quiet;
and make
me
see
my
error.
\VS{25}How pleasing
are
upright
words!
but
what force
is there
in
your
arguments?
\VS{26}My
words may
seem wrong
to
you,
but
the
words
of
him
who
has no hope
are
for
the
wind.
\VS{27}Truly,
you
are such
as would
give
up
the child
of
a dead man
to
his creditors,
and would make
a profit
out
of
your
friend.
\VS{28}Now
then,
let
your eyes
be
turned
to
me,
for
truly
I
will
not say
what
is
false
to
your
face.
\VS{29}Let
your minds
be changed,
and
do
not
have
an
evil opinion
of
me; yes,
be changed,
for
my
righteousness
is
still
in
me.
\VS{30}Is
there
evil
in
my
tongue?
is
not
the cause
of
my trouble clear
to
me?

\par }\Chap{7}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Has
not
man
his ordered
time
of trouble
on
the
earth?
and
are
not
his
days
like
the
days
of
a
servant working
for payment?
\VS{2}As a
servant desiring
the shades
of evening,
and a workman
looking
for
his payment:
\VS{3}So
I
have
for
my heritage
months
of
pain
to no purpose,
and
nights
of weariness
are given
to me.
\VS{4}When
I
go
to
my
bed,
I
say,
When
will
it
be
time
to
get
up?
but
the
night
is
long,
and
I am turning
from side
to side
till morning light.
\VS{5}My
flesh
is covered
with
worms
and
dust;
my
skin gets hard
and then
is cracked again.
\VS{6}My
days go quicker
than
the cloth-worker's thread,
and
come
to
an
end
without
hope.
\VS{7}O,
keep
in
mind
that
my
life
is
wind:
my
eye
will
never
again
see
good.
\VS{8}The
eye
of him
who
sees
me
will
see
me
no
longer:
your
eyes
will
be looking
for
me,
but
I
will
be
gone.
\VS{9}A
cloud
comes
to
an
end
and
is
gone;
so
he
who
goes
down
into
the underworld
comes
not
up again.
\VS{10}He
will
not
come
back
to
his
house,
and
his
place
will
have
no
more knowledge
of
him.
\VS{11}So
I
will
not
keep
my
mouth shut;
I
will
let
the
words come
from
it
in
the pain
of
my
spirit,
my
soul
will make
a
bitter outcry.
\VS{12}Am
I
a
sea,
or
a sea-beast,
that
you
put
a
watch
over
me?
\VS{13}When
I
say,
In
my
bed
I
will
have
comfort, there
I
will get
rest
from
my disease;
\VS{14}Then
you send
dreams
to
me,
and
visions of fear;
\VS{15}So
that
a hard
death seems better
to
my
soul than
my
pains.
\VS{16}I
have
no desire
for
life,
I would
not
be living
for
ever! Keep
away
from
me,
for
my
days
are
as
a
breath.
\VS{17}What
is
man,
that
you
have
made
him
great,
and
that
your
attention
is
fixed
on
him,
\VS{18}And
that
your hand is on
him
every
morning,
and
that
you are
testing
him
every minute?
\VS{19}How
long
will
it
be
before
your
eyes
are turned
away
from
me,
so
that
I
may
have
a minute's breathing-space?
\VS{20}If
I
have
done
wrong,
what
have
I
done
to
you,
O
keeper
of
men?
why
have
you
made
me
a
mark
for
your blows,
so
that
I
am
a weariness
to myself?
\VS{21}And
why
do
you
not
take
away
my
sin,
and
let
my wrongdoing
be ended?
for
now
I
go
down
to
the
dust,
and
you
will
be searching
for
me
with care,
but
I
will
be
gone.

\par }\Chap{8}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Then
Bildad
the
Shuhite made
answer
and
said,
\VS{2}How
long
will
you
say
these
things,
and
how
long
will
the
words
of
your
mouth be
like
a strong
wind?
\VS{3}Does
God give wrong
decisions?
or
is
the Ruler
of all
not upright
in
his judging?
\VS{4}If
your
children
have
done evil
against
him,
then
their
punishment
is
from
his
hand.
\VS{5}If
you
will make search
for
God
with care,
and put
your request
before
the Ruler
of all;
\VS{6}If
you
are
clean
and
upright;
then
he
will
certainly
be moved
to take
up
your
cause,
and
will
make
clear
your
righteousness
by building
up
your house again.
\VS{7}And though
your start
was
small,
your
end
will
be
very
great.
\VS{8}Put
the
question
now
to
the
past
generations,
and
give attention
to
what
has been
searched
out
by
their
fathers:
\VS{9}(For
we
are
but
of
yesterday,
and
have
no
knowledge,
because
our
days
on
earth
are
gone
like
a
shade:)
\VS{10}Will
they
not give
you
teaching,
and
say
words
of
wisdom
to
you?
\VS{11}Will
the river-plant come
up
in
its pride
without wet earth?
will
the
grass get tall
without
water?
\VS{12}When
it
is
still
green,
without being
cut
down,
it becomes
dry
and dead
before
any
other
plant.
\VS{13}So
is
the end
of
all
who
do not keep
God
in mind;
and
the
hope
of
the evil-doer comes
to
nothing:
\VS{14}Whose support
is cut off,
and
whose hope
is no stronger than
a spider's thread.
\VS{15}He
is looking
to
his
family
for
support,
but
it
is
not
there;
he puts
his hope
in
it,
but
it comes
to
nothing.
\VS{16}He
is full
of strength
before
the
sun,
and
his branches
go
out
over
his
garden.
\VS{17}His
roots
are twisted round
the
stones, forcing
their
way
in
between
them.
\VS{18}If
he
is taken away
from
his
place,
then
it
will say,
I
have
not
seen
you.
\VS{19}Such
is
the
joy
of
his
way,
and out
of
the
dust
another comes
up
to take
his place.
\VS{20}Truly,
God
will
not give up
him
who
is
without sin,
and
will
not
take evil-doers
by
the
hand.
\VS{21}The
time
will
come
when
your
mouth
will
be
full
of laughing,
and
cries
of
joy
will
come
from
your
lips.
\VS{22}Your haters
will
be
clothed
with
shame,
and
the
tent
of
the sinner
will
not
be seen again.

\par }\Chap{9}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
Job made
answer
and
said,
\VS{2}Truly,
I
see
that
it
is
so:
and
how
is
it possible
for
a
man
to get
his
right
before
God?
\VS{3}If
a
man
was desiring
to go
to law
with
him,
he would
not
be able
to
give
him
an
answer
to
one
out
of
a
thousand questions.
\VS{4}He
is
wise
in
heart
and great
in
strength:
who
ever
made
his face
hard
against
him,
and any good
came
of
it?
\VS{5}It
is
he
who takes
away
the
mountains
without
their
knowledge, overturning
them
in
his
wrath:
\VS{6}Who
is moving
the
earth
out
of its
place,
so
that its
pillars
are shaking:
\VS{7}Who gives
orders
to
the sun,
and
it
does
not give
its light;
and
who keeps
the
stars
from shining.
\VS{8}By whose hand
the
heavens
were
stretched
out,
and
who
is walking
on
the
waves
of
the
sea:
\VS{9}Who
made
the
Bear
and
Orion,
and
the
Pleiades,
and
the store-houses
of
the
south:
\VS{10}Who
does
great
things
not
to
be
searched
out; yes,
wonders
without
number.
\VS{11}See,
he goes
past
me
and
I
see
him
not:
he goes
on
before,
but
I
have
no knowledge
of
him.
\VS{12}If
he puts
out
his hand
to
take,
by
whom
may
it
be
turned
back?
who
may
say
to
him,
What
are
you
doing?
\VS{13}God's
wrath
may
not
be
turned
back;
the
helpers
of
Rahab
were bent
down
under
him.
\VS{14}How
much
less
may
I
give
an
answer
to
him, using
the right
words
in argument
with
him?
\VS{15}Even
if
my cause
was good,
I
would
not
be able
to
give
an
answer;
I
would make request
for grace
from
him
who
was against
me.
\VS{16}If
I
had sent
for
him
to
be present,
and
he
had come,
I would
have
no
faith
that
he would
give
ear
to
my
voice.
\VS{17}For
I
would be crushed
by
his
storm,
my
wounds
would be
increased
without
cause.
\VS{18}He
would
not
let
me
take
my
breath,
but
I
would
be
full
of bitter grief.
\VS{19}If
it
is
a question
of
strength,
he says,
Here
I am!
and
if
it
is
a question
of
a
cause
at law,
he says,
Who
will give
me
a fixed day?
\VS{20}Though
I
was
in
the
right,
he would
say
that
I
was
in
the wrong;
I
have done
no
evil;
but
he
says
that
I
am
a sinner.
\VS{21}I
have done
no wrong;
I
give
no
thought
to
what
becomes
of
me;
I
have
no
desire
for
life.
\VS{22}It
is
all
the
same
to
me;
so
I
say,
He puts
an
end
to
the sinner
and
to
him
who
has done no wrong
together.
\VS{23}If
death comes
suddenly through disease,
he makes sport
of
the fate
of those who
have done
no wrong.
\VS{24}The
land
is
given
into
the
power
of
the evil-doer;
the
faces
of
its
judges
are
covered;
if
not
by
him,
then
who
has
done
it?
\VS{25}My
days go quicker
than
a post-runner:
they go
in
flight,
they
see
no
good.
\VS{26}They
go rushing
on
like reed-boats,
like
an
eagle dropping suddenly
on
its
food.
\VS{27}If
I
say,
I
will put
my grief
out
of
mind,
I
will let
my
face
be sad
no longer
and
I
will
be bright;
\VS{28}I
go
in fear
of
all
my
pains;
I am
certain
that
I
will
not
be
free
from sin
in
your eyes.
\VS{29}You
will
not let
me be clear
of sin!
why
then
do
I take
trouble
for
nothing?
\VS{30}If
I am
washed
with
snow water,
and make
my
hands clean
with soap;
\VS{31}Then
you
will have
me pushed into
the dust,
so
that
I
will seem disgusting
to
my very
clothing.
\VS{32}For
he
is
not
a
man
as
I am,
that
I might
give
him
an
answer,
that
we might
come
together
before
a
judge.
\VS{33}There
is no
one
to give
a
decision
between
us,
who
might
have
control
over
us.
\VS{34}Let
him
take
away
his
rod
from
me
and
not send
his
fear
on
me:
\VS{35}Then
I
would
say
what
is
in
my
mind
without
fear
of
him;
for there
is
no cause
of
fear
in
myself.

\par }\Chap{10}{\PP \VerseOne{1}My
soul
is tired
of
life;
I
will
let
my sad thoughts go free
in words;
my
soul
will make
a
bitter outcry.
\VS{2}I
will
say
to
God,
Do
not put
me
down
as
a sinner;
make clear
to
me
what
you
have
against
me.
\VS{3}What profit
is
it
to
you
to
be
cruel,
to give
up
the work
of
your
hands, looking
kindly
on
the design
of evil-doers?
\VS{4}Have
you
eyes
of
flesh,
or
do
you
see
as
man
sees?
\VS{5}Are
your
days
as
the
days
of
man,
or
your
years like
his,
\VS{6}That
you take note
of
my
sin,
searching
after
my wrongdoing,
\VS{7}Though
you see
that
I am
not
an evil-doer;
and
there
is
no
one
who
is
able
to
take
a
man
out
of
your
hands?
\VS{8}Your
hands
made me,
and
I
was formed
by
you,
but
then, changing
your purpose,
you
gave me
up
to destruction.
\VS{9}O
keep
in
mind
that
you
made
me
out
of
earth;
and
will
you send
me
back
again
to
dust?
\VS{10}Was
I
not drained out
like
milk, becoming hard
like
cheese?
\VS{11}By
you
I
was
clothed
with
skin
and
flesh,
and joined together
with
bones
and
muscles.
\VS{12}You
have been kind
to
me,
and
your grace
has been
with
me,
and
your
care
has
kept
my
spirit safe.
\VS{13}But
you
kept
these
things
in
the
secret
of
your
heart;
I am
certain
this
was
in
your
thoughts:
\VS{14}That,
if
I
did
wrong,
you would
take
note
of
it,
and would
not make
me
clear
from
sin:
\VS{15}That,
if
I
was
an evil-doer,
the curse would come
on
me;
and
if
I
was upright,
my
head would
not
be
lifted
up,
being
full
of
shame
and overcome
with trouble.
\VS{16}And
that
if
there was
cause
for pride,
you would
go after
me
like
a
lion;
and
again
put out
your
wonders against
me:
\VS{17}That
you
would send new
witnesses
against
me, increasing
your wrath
against
me,
and letting loose new
armies
on
me.
\VS{18}Why
then
did
you
make
me
come
out
of
my mother's body?
It
would
have
been better
for
me
to
have
taken
my
last breath,
and
for
no
eye
to
have
seen
me,
\VS{19}And
for
me
to
have
been
as
if
I
had
not
been;
to
have
been
taken
from
my mother's
body straight
to
my last resting-place.
\VS{20}Are
not
the
days
of
my
life
small
in number?
Let
your eyes
be turned
away
from
me,
so
that
I
may
have
a
little pleasure,
\VS{21}Before
I
go
to
the
place
from which
I
will
not
come
back,
to
the
land
where all
is
dark
and
black,
\VS{22}A
land
of
thick
dark,
without
order,
where
the very light
is
dark.

\par }\Chap{11}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Then
Zophar
the
Naamathite made
answer
and
said,
\VS{2}Are
all these
words
to go unanswered?
and
is
a
man seen
to
be
right
because
he
is full
of
talk?
\VS{3}Are
your words
of pride
to make
men keep quiet?
and
are you
to make sport,
with
no
one
to put you
to
shame?
\VS{4}You
may
say,
My way
is
clean,
and
I
am free
from sin
in
your
eyes.
\VS{5}But if only
God
would
take
up
the
word, opening
his
lips
in argument
with
you;
\VS{6}And
would
make clear
to
you
the
secrets
of
wisdom,
and
the wonders
of
his purpose!
\VS{7}Are
you able
to take God's measure,
to make
discovery
of
the
limits
of
the Ruler
of
all?
\VS{8}They
are higher than
heaven;
what
is
there
for
you
to
do?
deeper than
the underworld,
and outside
your
knowledge;
\VS{9}Longer
in
measure
than
the
earth,
and wider
than
the
sea.
\VS{10}If
he goes
on
his way, shutting
a man
up
and putting
him
to death,
who
may
make
him
go
back
from
his purpose?
\VS{11}For
in
his eyes
men
are
as
nothing;
he
sees
evil
and takes
note
of
it.
\VS{12}And so
a hollow-minded
man
will get wisdom,
when
a
young ass
of
the field gets teaching.
\VS{13}But
if
you
put
your
heart
right,
stretching
out
your
hands
to
him;
\VS{14}If
you
put
far
away
the
evil
of
your
hands,
and
let
no
wrongdoing
have
a
place
in
your
tent;
\VS{15}Then
truly
your
face
will
be
lifted
up,
with
no mark
of sin,
and
you
will
be fixed
in
your
place
without
fear:
\VS{16}For
your sorrow
will
go
from
your memory, like
waters
flowing
away:
\VS{17}And
your
life
will
be
brighter than
day; though
it
is dark,
it
will
become
like
the
morning.
\VS{18}And
you
will
be safe
because
there
is
hope;
after looking round,
you
will
take
your
rest
in quiet;
\VS{19}Sleeping
with
no
fear
of danger;
and men
will
be desiring
to
have grace
in
your eyes;
\VS{20}But
the
eyes
of
the evil-doers
will
be wasting
away;
their way
of
flight
is
gone,
and
their only
hope
is
the taking
of
their
last
breath.

\par }\Chap{12}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
Job made
answer
and
said,
\VS{2}No doubt
you
have knowledge,
and
wisdom
will come
to
an end
with
you.
\VS{3}But
I
have
a
mind
as
well
as
you;
I
am equal
to
you:
yes,
who
has
not knowledge
of
such
things
as
these?
\VS{4}It
seems
that
I
am
to
be
as
one
who
is
a
cause
of laughing
to
his neighbour,
one
who makes
his prayer
to
God
and
is
answered!
the upright
man
who
has
done no wrong
is
to
be
made
sport
of!
\VS{5}In
the thought
of him
who is
in comfort there is no respect
for one
who is
in trouble; such is
the fate
of
those whose
feet
are slipping.
\VS{6}There
is wealth
in
the
tents
of
those
who
make destruction,
and
those
by
whom
God
is
moved
to wrath
are safe; even
those
whose
god
is
their
strength.
\VS{7}But put
now
a
question
to
the
beasts,
and get
teaching
from
them;
or
to
the
birds
of
the
heaven,
and they
will
make
it clear
to
you;
\VS{8}Or
to
the things which go flat
on
the
earth,
and
they
will give
you wisdom;
and
the fishes
of
the
sea
will give
you news
of
it.
\VS{9}Who
does
not
see
by
all
these
that
the
hand
of
the
Lord
has
done
this?
\VS{10}In
whose
hand
is
the
soul
of
every
living
thing,
and
the
breath
of
all
flesh
of
man.
\VS{11}Are
not
words
tested
by
the
ear,
even
as
food
is
tasted
by
the
mouth?
\VS{12}Old
men
have
wisdom,
and
a
long
life gives knowledge.
\VS{13}With
him there
is
wisdom
and
strength;
power
and knowledge
are
his.
\VS{14}Truly, there
is
no
building
up
of
what
is pulled
down
by
him;
when
a
man
is
shut
up
by
him,
no
one
may
let
him
loose.
\VS{15}Truly,
he keeps
back
the
waters
and
they
are
dry;
he
sends
them
out
and
the
earth
is
overturned.
\VS{16}With
him
are
strength
and wise designs;
he who
is guided into
error,
together
with
his guide,
are
in
his hands;
\VS{17}He takes away
the wisdom
of
the wise
guides,
and makes
judges foolish;
\VS{18}He undoes
the chains
of
kings,
and puts
his band on them;
\VS{19}He makes
priests prisoners, overturning those
in safe positions;
\VS{20}He makes
the
words
of responsible persons without effect,
and
takes
away
the good sense
of
the
old;
\VS{21}He puts shame
on chiefs,
and takes away
the power
of
the
strong;
\VS{22}Uncovering
deep
things
out
of
the
dark,
and making
the
deep shade bright;
\VS{23}Increasing
nations,
and sending
destruction on
them; making wide
the lands
of peoples,
and then giving
them up.
\VS{24}He
takes
away
the
wisdom
of
the
rulers
of
the
earth,
and sends
them
wandering
in
a
waste
where there
is
no
way.
\VS{25}They
go feeling
about
in
the
dark
without
light,
wandering
without help
like those overcome
with wine.

\par }\Chap{13}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Truly,
my
eye
has
seen
all
this, word
of
it
has come
to
my
ear,
and
I
have
knowledge
of
it.
\VS{2}The
same
things
are
in
my
mind
as
in yours;
I
am equal
to
you.
\VS{3}But
I would
have
talk
with
the Ruler
of all,
and
my
desire
is
to
have an
argument
with
God.
\VS{4}But
you put
a
false face
on
things;
all
your attempts
to put
things right
are
of
no value.
\VS{5}If only
you
would keep quiet,
it
would
be
a sign
of
wisdom!
\VS{6}Give ear
to
the argument
of
my mouth,
and take note
of
the
words
of
my
lips.
\VS{7}Will
you
say
in God's name
what
is not right,
and put false words into
his mouth?
\VS{8}Will
you
have
respect
for God's person
in
this cause,
and
put
yourselves
forward
as
his supporters?
\VS{9}Will
it
be
good
for
you
to
be
searched
out
by
him,
or
have
you
the thought
that
he may
be guided into error like
a
man?
\VS{10}He
will
certainly
put
you right,
if
you
have
respect
for persons
in secret.
\VS{11}Will
not
his glory put
you
in
fear,
so
that
your hearts
will
be
overcome
before
him?
\VS{12}Your wise
sayings
are only
dust,
and your
strong places
are only earth.
\VS{13}Keep quiet,
and let
me
say
what
is
in
my mind,
whatever
may come
to
me.
\VS{14}I
will
take
my
flesh
in
my
teeth,
and
put
my
life
in
my
hand.
\VS{15}Truly,
he
will put
an end
to
me;
I
have
no
hope;
but
I
will
not give
way
in
argument
before
him;
\VS{16}And
that
will
be
my
salvation,
for
an evil-doer would
not
come
before
him,
\VS{17}Give
ear
with care
to
my
words,
and
keep
what
I
say
in
your minds.
\VS{18}See
now,
I
have put
my
cause
in
order,
and
I
am
certain
that
I
will
be seen
to
be
right.
\VS{19}Is
any
one able
to take up
the argument
against
me?
If
so,
I
would keep quiet
and give up
my breath.
\VS{20}Only
two
things
do
not
do
to
me,
then
I
will come
before
your
face:
\VS{21}Take
your
hand
far
away
from
me;
and
let
me
not
be overcome
by
fear
of
you.
\VS{22}Then
at
the sound
of
your voice
I
will
give
answer;
or let
me
put forward
my
cause
for
you
to
give
me
an
answer.
\VS{23}What
is
the number
of
my evil-doings
and
my
sins? give
me
knowledge
of
them.
\VS{24}Why
is
your
face veiled
from
me,
as if
I
was numbered among
your haters?
\VS{25}Will
you be hard on
a
leaf
in
flight before
the wind?
will
you
make
a
dry stem go more quickly on
its way?
\VS{26}For
you put
bitter
things
on
record
against
me,
and send
punishment
on
me
for
the
sins
of
my early years;
\VS{27}And
you
put chains
on
my
feet,
watching
all
my
ways,
and
making
a
limit
for
my
steps;
\VS{28}Though
a man comes
to nothing
like
a bit
of dead wood,
or
like
a robe
which
has
become
food
for
the worm.

\par }\Chap{14}{\PP \VerseOne{1}As
for
man,
the son
of
woman,
his
days
are
short
and
full
of trouble.
\VS{2}He
comes
out
like
a
flower,
and
is cut down:
he
goes
in
flight
like
a
shade,
and
is
never seen again.
\VS{3}Is
it
on
such
a
one
as
this
that
your
eyes
are fixed,
with
the
purpose
of judging
him?
\VS{4}If
only
a
clean
thing might come out
of
an
unclean!
But
it
is
not possible.
\VS{5}If
his
days
are ordered,
and
you
have knowledge
of
the
number
of
his
months,
having given
him
a
fixed
limit past which
he
may
not
go;
\VS{6}Let
your
eyes
be turned
away
from
him,
and
take
your hand
from
him,
so
that
he
may
have
pleasure
at
the end
of
his
day,
like
a
servant working
for payment.
\VS{7}For
there
is
hope
of
a
tree;
if
it
is
cut
down,
it
will come
to
life
again,
and
its branches
will
not come
to
an end.
\VS{8}Though
its
root
may
be
old
in
the
earth,
and
its cut-off end
may
be
dead
in
the
dust;
\VS{9}Still,
at
the smell
of
water,
it
will
make buds,
and put
out branches
like
a young
plant.
\VS{10}But
man comes
to
his
death
and
is gone:
he gives up
his spirit,
and
where
is
he?
\VS{11}The
waters
go
from
a
pool,
and
a
river becomes waste
and
dry;
\VS{12}So
man goes
down
to
his
last resting-place
and comes
not
again:
till
the
heavens
come
to
an end,
they
will
not
be
awake
or
come
out
of
their
sleep.
\VS{13}If
only
you
would
keep
me safe
in
the underworld,
putting
me
in
a
secret
place
till
your
wrath
is past,
giving
me
a
fixed
time
when
I might
come
to
your memory
again!
\VS{14}If
death
takes
a
man,
will
he
come
to
life again?
All
the
days
of
my trouble
I
would
be
waiting,
till
the
time
came
for
me
to
be free.
\VS{15}At
the sound
of
your voice
I
would
give
an
answer,
and
you
would
have
a desire
for
the
work
of
your
hands.
\VS{16}For
now
my
steps
are
numbered
by
you,
and
my
sin
is
not overlooked.
\VS{17}My wrongdoing
is corded
up
in
a
bag,
and
my
sin
is
shut
up safe.
\VS{18}But
truly
a
mountain
falling comes
to dust,
and
a
rock
is
moved
from its
place;
\VS{19}The
stones
are crushed small
by
the force
of
the
waters;
the
dust
of
the
earth
is
washed
away
by
their
overflowing:
and so
you put an end
to
the
hope
of
man.
\VS{20}You overcome
him
for
ever,
and
he
is
gone;
his
face
is changed
in death,
and
you
send
him
away.
\VS{21}His
sons come
to honour,
and
he
has
no
knowledge
of
it;
they
are
made low,
but
he
is
not conscious
of
it.
\VS{22}Only
his
flesh still
has
pain,
and
his
soul
is sad.

\par }\Chap{15}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
Eliphaz
the
Temanite made
answer
and
said,
\VS{2}Will
a
wise
man make
answer
with
knowledge
of no value,
or
will
he
give
birth
to
the
east
wind?
\VS{3}Will
he
make arguments
with
words
in
which
is
no
profit,
and
with
sayings
which
have
no
value?
\VS{4}Truly,
you make
the
fear
of
God without effect,
so that
the time
of quiet worship
before
God
is made
less
by
your outcry.
\VS{5}For
your
mouth
is guided
by
your
sin,
and
you
have taken
the
tongue
of
the false
for yourself.
\VS{6}It
is
by
your
mouth,
even yours,
that
you
are judged
to
be
in
the wrong,
and
not
by
me;
and
your
lips
give witness against
you.
\VS{7}Were
you
the
first
man
to come
into
the world?
or did
you come
into being
before
the
hills?
\VS{8}Were
you present
at
the
secret meeting
of
God?
and
have
you
taken all
wisdom
for
yourself?
\VS{9}What
knowledge
have
you
which we
have
not?
is
there
anything
in
your
mind
which
is
not
in ours?
\VS{10}With
us
are
men
who
are grey-haired
and
full
of
years,
much older
than
your
father.
\VS{11}Are
the comforts
of
God not
enough
for
you,
and
the gentle
word
which
was
said
to
you?
\VS{12}Why
is
your
heart uncontrolled,
and
why
are
your
eyes lifted up;
\VS{13}So
that
you
are
turning
your
spirit
against
God,
and letting such
words
go
out
of
your
mouth?
\VS{14}What
is
man,
that
he may
be
clean?
and
how may
the son
of
woman
be upright?
\VS{15}Truly,
he
puts
no
faith
in
his
holy
ones,
and
the
heavens
are
not clean
in
his
eyes;
\VS{16}How
much
less
one
who
is disgusting
and unclean,
a
man
who takes
in
evil
like
water!
\VS{17}Take note
and
give ear
to
my words;
and
I
will say
what
I
have
seen:
\VS{18}(The
things
which
wise
men
have got
from
their
fathers,
and
have
not kept secret
from
us;
\VS{19}For
only
to
them
was
the
land
given,
and
no
strange
people
were
among
them:)
\VS{20}The
evil
man
is
in pain
all
his
days,
and
the
number
of
the
years
stored
up
for
the
cruel
is small.
\VS{21}A
sound
of
fear
is
in
his
ears;
in time
of
peace destruction
will
come
on
him:
\VS{22}He
has
no hope
of coming safe
out
of
the
dark,
and
his fate
will
be
the
sword;
\VS{23}He
is wandering
about
in search
of
bread, saying, Where
is
it?
and
he
is
certain
that
the
day
of trouble
is
ready
for
him:
\VS{24}He
is greatly
in fear
of the dark day,
trouble
and pain overcome
him:
\VS{25}Because
his
hand
is
stretched
out
against
God,
and
his heart
is lifted
up
against
the Ruler
of all,
\VS{26}Running
against
him
like
a man
of war, covered
by
his
thick breastplate; even
like
a king ready
for
the fight,
\VS{27}Because
his
face
is
covered
with
fat,
and
his body
has become thick;
\VS{28}And
he
has
made
his resting-place
in
the
towns
which
have
been pulled
down,
in
houses
where
no man
had
a right
to
be,
whose fate
was
to become masses
of broken walls.
\VS{29}He
does
not
get
wealth
for
himself,
and
is unable
to keep what
he
has
got;
the heads
of
his
grain
are
not
bent
down
to
the
earth.
\VS{30}He
does
not come
out
of
the
dark;
his branches
are burned
by
the
flame,
and
the
wind
takes
away
his bud.
\VS{31}Let
him
not
put
his hope
in
what
is
false, falling
into error:
for
he
will get
deceit
as
his
reward.
\VS{32}His
branch
is cut off
before
its
time,
and
his leaf
is
no
longer
green.
\VS{33}He is like
a
vine whose grapes
do not come
to full growth,
or
an olive-tree dropping
its flowers.
\VS{34}For
the
band
of
the evil-doers gives no fruit,
and
the
tents
of
those
who
give wrong decisions
for
reward
are burned
with
fire.
\VS{35}Evil
has
made
them with
child,
and
they
give
birth
to
trouble;
and
the
fruit
of
their
body
is shame
for
themselves.

\par }\Chap{16}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
Job made
answer
and
said,
\VS{2}Such
things
have frequently come
to
my ears:
you
are
comforters
who
only
give
trouble.
\VS{3}May
words
which
are
like
the
wind
be stopped?
or
what
is troubling
you
to
make
answer
to
them?
\VS{4}It
would
not
be hard
for
me
to
say
such
things
if
your
souls
were
in
my soul's
place; joining
words
together
against
you,
and shaking
my
head
at
you:
\VS{5}I might give
you
strength
with
my
mouth,
and not
keep
back
the
comfort
of
my
lips.
\VS{6}If
I
say
what
is
in
my
mind,
my
pain becomes
no less:
and
if
I
keep quiet,
how
much
of
it
goes
from
me?
\VS{7}But
now
he
has overcome
me
with weariness
and fear,
and
I am
in
the grip
of
all
my trouble.
\VS{8}It
has
come
up
as
a
witness
against
me,
and
the wasting
of
my flesh
makes
answer
to
my
face.
\VS{9}I am broken
by
his
wrath,
and
his hate
has gone
after
me;
he
has made
his
teeth
sharp
against
me:
my haters
are looking
on
me
with cruel
eyes;
\VS{10}Their
mouths
are open
wide
against
me;
the
blows
of
his bitter
words
are falling
on
my
face;
all
of
them
come
together
in
a mass
against
me.
\VS{11}God gives
me
over
to
the
power
of sinners, sending
me
violently
into
the
hands
of evil-doers.
\VS{12}I
was
in comfort,
but
I
have
been
broken
up
by
his hands; he
has
taken
me
by
the
neck, shaking
me
to bits; he
has put
me
up
as
a mark
for
his arrows.
\VS{13}His bowmen
come
round
about
me;
their
arrows
go
through
my body
without
mercy;
my life
is drained
out
on
the
earth.
\VS{14}I am
broken
with wound
after wound;
he
comes rushing
on
me
like
a
man
of war.
\VS{15}I
have made haircloth
the clothing
of
my
skin,
and
my
horn
is rolled
in
the
dust.
\VS{16}My
face
is red
with
weeping,
and
my eyes
are becoming
dark;
\VS{17}Though
my
hands
have done
no
violent acts,
and
my
prayer
is
clean.
\VS{18}O
earth,
let
not
my
blood
be
covered,
and
let
my
cry
have
no resting-place!
\VS{19}Even
now
my
witness
is
in
heaven,
and
the supporter
of
my cause
is
on
high.
\VS{20}My
friends make sport
of
me;
to
God
my
eyes
are weeping,
\VS{21}So
that
he
may give
decision
for
a
man
in
his cause
with
God,
and
between
a
son
of
man
and
his neighbour.
\VS{22}For
in
a short
time
I
will
take
the journey
from which
I
will
not
come
back.

\par }\Chap{17}{\PP \VerseOne{1}My
spirit
is broken,
my
days
are ended,
the last resting-place
is ready
for
me.
\VS{2}Truly, those
who make sport
of
me
are round about
me,
and
my
eyes become dark because
of
their
bitter laughing.
\VS{3}Be pleased,
now,
to
be responsible
for
me
to
yourself;
for there
is
no other
who
will
put
his
hand
in
mine.
\VS{4}You
have
kept
their
hearts
from
wisdom:
for
this cause
you
will
not give
them honour.
\VS{5}As
for
him
who
is false
to
his
friend
for
a
reward, light
will
be cut
off
from
the
eyes
of
his
children.
\VS{6}He
has
made
me
a word
of shame
to
the
peoples;
I
have
become
a mark
for
their sport.
\VS{7}My
eyes
have become dark
because
of
my pain,
and
all
my body
is wasted
to
a
shade.
\VS{8}The
upright
are surprised
at
this,
and
he
who has done no wrong
is troubled
because
of
the evil-doers.
\VS{9}Still
the upright keeps
on
his
way,
and
he
who
has
clean
hands gets new
strength.
\VS{10}But
come
back,
now,
all
of
you,
come;
and
I
will
not
see
a
wise
man
among
you.
\VS{11}My
days
are past,
my purposes
are
broken
off,
even
the desires
of
my
heart.
\VS{12}They
are changing
night
into
day;
they say,
The
light
is
near
the
dark.
\VS{13}If
I am waiting
for
the underworld
as
my
house,
if
I
have made
my
bed
in
the
dark;
\VS{14}If
I say
to
the earth,
You
are
my
father;
and
to
the
worm,
My
mother
and
my
sister;
\VS{15}Where
then
is
my
hope? and
who
will
see
my desire?
\VS{16}Will
they
go
down
with
me
into
the underworld?
Will
we
go
down
together
into
the
dust?

\par }\Chap{18}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Then
Bildad
the
Shuhite made
answer
and
said,
\VS{2}How
long
will
it be
before
you
have done
talking?
Get wisdom,
and
then
we
will
say
what
is
in
our
minds.
\VS{3}Why do we
seem
as
beasts
in
your
eyes,
and
as completely without
knowledge?
\VS{4}But come back, now, come:
you
who
are wounding
yourself
in
your passion,
will
the
earth
be given up
because
of
you,
or
a
rock
be
moved
out
of its
place?
\VS{5}For
the
light
of
the sinner
is
put
out,
and
the
flame
of
his
fire
is
not
shining.
\VS{6}The
light
is
dark
in
his
tent,
and
the
light
shining
over
him
is
put
out.
\VS{7}The
steps
of
his
strength become short,
and by
his design destruction overtakes
him.
\VS{8}His
feet
take
him
into
the
net,
and
he
goes
walking
into
the cords.
\VS{9}His foot
is
taken
in
the net;
he comes
into
its grip.
\VS{10}The twisted
cord
is put
secretly
in
the
earth
to take
him,
and
the
cord
is placed
in
his
way.
\VS{11}He is overcome by fears
on
every
side,
they go
after
him at
every
step.
\VS{12}His
strength
is
made feeble
for need
of food,
and
destruction
is waiting
for
his falling footstep.
\VS{13}His
skin
is wasted
by
disease,
and
his
body
is
food
for
the worst
of diseases.
\VS{14}He
is pulled out
of
his
tent where
he
was safe,
and
he
is taken
away
to
the
king
of fears.
\VS{15}In
his
tent will be seen
that which
is
not
his, burning stone
is dropped
on
his house.
\VS{16}Under
the earth
his
roots
are
dry,
and
over
it
his branch
is cut off.
\VS{17}His
memory
is
gone
from
the
earth,
and
in
the
open
country there
is
no knowledge
of
his
name.
\VS{18}He
is sent
away
from
the
light
into
the
dark;
he
is forced
out
of
the
world.
\VS{19}He
has
no
offspring
or family
among
his
people,
and
in
his living-place
there
is
no
one
of
his name.
\VS{20}At
his
fate
those
of
the
west
are
shocked,
and
those
of
the
east
are overcome
with fear.
\VS{21}Truly,
these
are
the houses
of
the sinner,
and
this
is
the
place
of
him
who
has
no
knowledge
of
God.

\par }\Chap{19}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
Job made
answer
and
said,
\VS{2}How
long
will
you make
my
life bitter,
crushing
me
with
words?
\VS{3}Ten
times
now
you
have made sport
of
me;
it gives
you
no sense
of
shame
to
do
me
wrong.
\VS{4}And,
truly, if
I
have been
in
error,
the effect of
my
error is only
on myself.
\VS{5}If
you
make
yourselves
great
against
me, using
my punishment as
an
argument
against
me,
\VS{6}Be
certain
that
it
is
God
who
has done
me wrong,
and
has taken
me
in
his
net.
\VS{7}Truly,
I
make
an outcry
against
the
violent
man,
but
there
is
no
answer:
I
give
a
cry
for
help,
but
no
one takes
up
my
cause.
\VS{8}My
way
is
walled
up
by
him
so
that
I
may
not
go
by:
he has
made
my roads
dark.
\VS{9}He
has
put
off
my
glory
from
me,
and
taken
the
crown
from
my
head.
\VS{10}I am
broken
down
by
him
on
every
side,
and I am gone;
my
hope is
uprooted
like
a
tree.
\VS{11}His
wrath
is burning
against
me,
and
I am
to
him
as one
of
his haters.
\VS{12}His armies
come
on
together,
they make
their
road high
against
me,
and
put
up
their
tents
round mine.
\VS{13}He
has taken
my
brothers
far
away
from
me;
they
have seen
my fate
and
have become
strange
to
me.
\VS{14}My
relations
and
my
near
friends
have given
me up,
and those living
in
my house
have put
me
out
of
their minds.
\VS{15}I
am
strange
to
my women-servants,
and
seem
to
them
as
one
from
another country.
\VS{16}At
my
cry
my
servant
gives
me
no
answer,
and
I
have
to
make
a prayer
to
him.
\VS{17}My
breath
is
strange
to my
wife,
and
I am disgusting
to
the
offspring
of my mother's
body.
\VS{18}Even
young
children
have no respect
for
me;
when
I
get
up
their backs
are turned
on
me.
\VS{19}All
the
men
of
my
circle keep
away
from
me;
and
those dear
to
me
are
turned
against
me.
\VS{20}My
bones
are
joined
to
my
skin,
and
I have got
away
with
my
flesh
in
my
teeth.
\VS{21}Have
pity
on
me,
have
pity
on
me,
O
my
friends!
for
the
hand
of
God
is
on
me.
\VS{22}Why
are
you cruel
to
me,
like
God,
for
ever saying evil against
me?
\VS{23}If only
my
words might
be
recorded! if they might
be
put
in
writing
in
a
book!
\VS{24}And with an
iron
pen
and
lead be
cut into the
rock
for
ever!
\VS{25}But
I
am
certain
that
he
who
will
take
up
my cause
is
living,
and
that
in
time
to
come
he
will
take
his place
on
the
dust;
\VS{26}And ... without
my
flesh
I
will
see
God;
\VS{27}Whom
I
will
see
on
my side,
and
not
as
one
strange
to
me.
My
heart
is broken
with desire.
\VS{28}If
you
say,
How cruel
we
will
be
to
him!
because
the
root
of sin
is clearly
in
him:
\VS{29}Be
in
fear
of
the
sword,
for
the
sword
is
the
punishment
for such things,
so
that
you
may
be
certain
that
there
is
a judge.

\par }\Chap{20}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Then
Zophar
the
Naamathite made
answer
and
said,
\VS{2}For
this
cause
my thoughts are troubling
me
and driving
me
on.
\VS{3}I
have
to
give ear
to arguments
which put
me
to
shame,
and
your
answers
to
me are
wind without wisdom.
\VS{4}Have
you
knowledge
of
this
from early times,
when
man
was
placed
on
the
earth,
\VS{5}That
the pride
of
the sinner
is
short,
and
the
joy
of
the evil-doer
but
for
a minute?
\VS{6}Though
he
is
lifted
up
to
the
heavens,
and
his
head
goes
up
to
the
clouds;
\VS{7}Like
the waste
from
his body
he comes
to
an
end
for
ever: those
who
have
seen
him
say,
Where
is
he?
\VS{8}He
is
gone
like
a
dream,
and
is
not seen again;
he goes
in flight
like
a
vision
of
the
night.
\VS{9}The
eye
which
saw him
sees him
no
longer;
and
his
place
has
no
more
knowledge
of him.
\VS{10}His
children
are hoping
that
the
poor
will
be kind
to
them,
and
his
hands
give
back
his
wealth.
\VS{11}His
bones
are
full
of young
strength,
but
it
will go
down
with
him
into
the
dust.
\VS{12}Though evil-doing
is
sweet
in
his
mouth,
and
he keeps
it secretly
under
his
tongue;
\VS{13}Though
he takes
care
of
it,
and
does
not
let
it go,
but keeps
it still
in
his
mouth;
\VS{14}His
food becomes
bitter
in
his
stomach;
the poison
of snakes
is
inside him.
\VS{15}He
takes down
wealth
as food,
and sends
it
up again;
it
is forced
out
of
his
stomach
by
God.
\VS{16}He takes
the
poison
of snakes into
his mouth,
the
tongue
of
the
snake
is
the cause
of
his death.
\VS{17}Let
him
not
see
the
rivers
of oil,
the
streams
of
honey
and milk.
\VS{18}He
is forced
to
give
back
the fruit
of
his work,
and
may
not
take
it
for food;
he has
no joy
in
the profit
of
his
trading.
\VS{19}Because
he
has
been cruel
to
the
poor, turning
away
from
them
in
their trouble;
because
he
has
taken
a
house
by
force
which
he
did
not put
up;
\VS{20}There
is
no peace
for
him
in
his
wealth,
and
no salvation
for
him
in
those
things
in which
he
took
delight.
\VS{21}He
had
never
enough
for
his desire;
for
this cause
his well-being
will quickly come
to
an end.
\VS{22}Even
when
his wealth
is great,
he
is
full
of
care,
for
the
hand
of
everyone
who
is
in trouble
is turned
against
him.
\VS{23}God gives
him
his desire,
and
sends
the heat
of
his
wrath
on
him, making
it
come
down
on
him
like
rain.
\VS{24}He may
go in
flight
from
the
iron spear, but
the arrow
from
the
bow
of brass
will
go
through
him;
\VS{25}He is pulling
it
out,
and
it
comes
out
of
his
back;
and
its shining
point
comes
out
of
his side;
he is overcome
by fears.
\VS{26}All
his
wealth
is
stored
up
for
the
dark:
a
fire
not
made
by
man sends destruction
on
him,
and
on
everything
in
his
tent.
\VS{27}The
heavens
make clear
his
sin,
and
the
earth gives witness against
him.
\VS{28}The
produce
of
his
house
is
taken
away
into another country,
like
things given
into
the hands
of
others
in
the
day
of
wrath.
\VS{29}This
is
the
reward
of
the
evil
man,
and
the
heritage given
to
him
by
God.

\par }\Chap{21}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Then
Job made
answer
and
said,
\VS{2}Give
attention
with care
to
my
words;
and
let
this
be
your comfort.
\VS{3}Let
me
say
what
is
in
my mind,
and
after
that, go
on making sport
of
me.
\VS{4}As
for
me,
is
my outcry against
man?
is
it
then
to
be wondered
at
if
my
spirit
is troubled?
\VS{5}Take note
of
me
and
be full
of wonder,
put
your
hand
on
your
mouth.
\VS{6}At
the very
thought
of
it
my
flesh
is shaking
with fear.
\VS{7}Why
is
life given
to
the evil-doers?
why do
they
become
old
and
strong
in
power?
\VS{8}Their
children
are ever
with
them,
and
their
offspring
before
their
eyes.
\VS{9}Their
houses
are free
from
fear,
and
the
rod
of
God
does
not come
on
them.
\VS{10}Their
ox
is ready
at all times
to give seed;
their
cow gives
birth,
without dropping
her young.
\VS{11}They
send
out
their
young
ones
like
a
flock,
and
their
children
have pleasure
in
the
dance,
\VS{12}They
make songs
to
the instruments
of music,
and are
glad
at
the
sound
of
the
pipe.
\VS{13}Their
days
come
to an end without trouble,
and
suddenly
they
go
down
to
the underworld.
\VS{14}Though
they
said
to
God,
Go
away
from
us,
for we
have
no
desire
for
the
knowledge
of
your
ways.
\VS{15}What
is
the Ruler
of all,
that
we may give
him
worship?
and
what
profit
is
it
to
us
to
make prayer
to
him?
\VS{16}Truly,
is
not
their well-being
in
their
power? (The
purpose
of
the evil-doers
is
far
from
me.)
\VS{17}How frequently
is
the light
of
the evil-doers
put
out, or
does trouble
come
on
them?
how frequently
does
his
wrath
take
them
with
cords?
\VS{18}How frequently
are
they
as dry stems
before
the
wind,
or
as grass
taken
away
by
the storm-wind?
\VS{19}You say,
God keeps punishment
stored
up
for
his
children. Let
him send
it
on
the
man
himself, so
that
he
may
have
the punishment
of
it!
\VS{20}Let
his
eyes
see
his trouble,
and let
him
be full
of
the
wrath
of
the Ruler
of all!
\VS{21}For
what interest
has
he
in
his
house
after
him,
when
the
number
of
his
months
is ended?
\VS{22}Is
anyone able
to give
teaching
to
God?
for
he
is
the
judge
of
those
who
are on
high.
\VS{23}One comes
to
his end
in
complete well-being,
full
of peace
and
quiet:
\VS{24}His buckets
are
full
of
milk,
and there
is no loss
of
strength
in
his
bones.
\VS{25}And
another comes
to
his end
with
a
bitter
soul,
without
ever
tasting
good.
\VS{26}Together
they go
down
to
the
dust,
and
are
covered
by
the
worm.
\VS{27}See,
I
am conscious
of
your
thoughts,
and
of
your violent
purposes
against
me;
\VS{28}For
you
say,
Where
is
the
house
of
the ruler,
and
where
is
the
tent
of
the evil-doer?
\VS{29}Have
you
not put
the
question
to
the travellers,
and
do
you
not
take
note
of
their experience?
\VS{30}How
the
evil man goes free
in
the
day
of
trouble,
and
has salvation
in
the
day
of
wrath?
\VS{31}Who
will
make
his
way clear
to
his
face?
and
if
he
has
done
a
thing,
who gives
him punishment
for
it?
\VS{32}He
is taken
to
his last resting-place,
and
keeps
watch
over
it.
\VS{33}The earth
of
the
valley covering
his bones
is
sweet
to
him,
and
all
men come
after
him,
as
there
were unnumbered
before
him.
\VS{34}Why
then do
you
give
me
comfort with words
in which
there is no profit, when
you see
that
there is
nothing
in
your
answers
but deceit?

\par }\Chap{22}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Then
Eliphaz
the
Temanite made
answer
and
said,
\VS{2}Is
it possible
for
a
man
to
be
of
profit
to
God? No,
for
a man's wisdom
is only
of
profit
to himself.
\VS{3}Is
it
of
any interest
to
the Ruler
of
all
that
you
are upright?
or
is
it
of use
to
him
that
your
ways
are without sin?
\VS{4}Is
it
because
you
give
him honour
that
he
is sending punishment
on
you
and
is judging
you?
\VS{5}Is
not
your evil-doing
great?
and
there
is
no
end
to
your
sins.
\VS{6}For
you
have
taken
your brother's goods
when
he was
not
in
your debt,
and
have
taken away
the
clothing
of
those
who
have need
of
it.
\VS{7}You do
not
give
water
to
the
tired traveller,
and
from
him
who has
no
food
you
keep
back
bread.
\VS{8}For
it
was
the
man
with
power
who
had
the
land,
and
the
man
with
an honoured name
who
was
living
in
it.
\VS{9}You
have
sent
widows
away
without hearing
their
cause,
and
you
have taken
away
the support
of
the child who has no father.
\VS{10}For
this cause nets are
round
your feet,
and
you are overcome
with
sudden
fear.
\VS{11}Your light
is
made
dark
so
that
you
are unable
to
see,
and
you
are
covered
by
a mass
of
waters.
\VS{12}Is
not
God
as
high
as
heaven?
and
see
the
stars,
how
high
they
are!
\VS{13}And
you
say,
What
knowledge
has
God?
is
he able
to give decisions
through
the
deep
dark?
\VS{14}Thick
clouds
are covering
him,
so
that
he
is unable
to
see;
and
he
is
walking
on
the arch
of
heaven.
\VS{15}Will
you
keep
the
old
way
by
which
evil
men went?
\VS{16}Who
were violently taken
away
before
their
time,
who
were overcome
by
the rush
of waters:
\VS{17}Who
said
to
God,
Go
away
from
us;
and,
What
is
the Ruler
of
all able
to
do
to
us?
\VS{18}Though
he made
their
houses
full
of
good things:
but
the
purpose
of
the evil-doers
is
far
from
me!
\VS{19}The upright
saw
it
and were
glad:
and those
who had done no wrong
made sport
of
them,
\VS{20}Saying,
Truly,
their substance
is
cut
off,
and
their
wealth
is
food
for
the
fire.
\VS{21}Put
yourself
now
in
a
right relation
with
him
and
be
at peace:
so
will
you
do
well
in
your undertakings.
\VS{22}Be pleased
to
take
teaching
from
his
mouth,
and
let
his
words
be stored
up
in
your
heart.
\VS{23}If
you
come
back
to
the Ruler
of
all, making
yourself low
before
him;
if
you
put
evil
far
away
from
your
tents;
\VS{24}And
put
your
gold
in
the
dust,
even
your
gold
of
Ophir
among
the
rocks
of
the
valleys;
\VS{25}Then
the Ruler
of all
will
be
your
gold,
and
his teaching
will
be
your
silver;
\VS{26}For
then
you
will
have
delight
in
the Ruler
of all,
and
your
face
will
be
lifted
up
to
God.
\VS{27}You
will
make
your
prayer
to
him,
and be
answered;
and
you
will
give effect
to
your oaths.
\VS{28}Your purposes
will
come
about,
and
light
will
be
shining
on
your
ways.
\VS{29}For
God
makes
low
those whose hearts
are lifted up,
but
he
is
a saviour
to
the poor
in spirit.
\VS{30}He makes safe
the man who
is
free
from sin,
and if
your
hands
are clean, salvation
will be yours.

\par }\Chap{23}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
Job made
answer
and
said,
\VS{2}Even
today
my outcry
is bitter;
his
hand
is hard
on
my
sorrow.
\VS{3}If
only
I
had
knowledge
of where
he might
be seen,
so
that
I might
come
even
to
his
seat!
\VS{4}I would
put
my
cause
in
order
before
him,
and
my
mouth would be
full
of arguments.
\VS{5}I
would
see
what
his
answers
would be,
and
have
knowledge
of
what
he
would
say
to
me.
\VS{6}Would
he
make
use
of
his
great
power
to overcome
me?
No,
but
he
would
give
attention
to
me.
\VS{7}There
an
upright man might put
his cause
before
him;
and
I
would
be
free
for
ever
from
my
judge.
\VS{8}See,
I
go
forward,
but
he
is
not
there;
and
back,
but
I
do
not
see
him;
\VS{9}I am
looking
for
him
on
the
left
hand,
but there
is
no sign
of
him;
and turning
to
the
right,
I am
not able
to
see
him.
\VS{10}For
he
has
knowledge
of
the
way
I
take;
after
I
have been
tested
I
will
come
out
like
gold.
\VS{11}My
feet
have
gone
in
his
steps;
I
have
kept
in
his
way,
without
turning
to
one side
or
to
the other.
\VS{12}I
have
never
gone
against
the
orders
of
his
lips;
the
words
of
his
mouth
have
been
stored
up
in
my
heart.
\VS{13}But
his purpose
is fixed
and
there
is
no changing
it;
and
he
gives effect
to
the
desire
of
his
soul.
\VS{14}For
what
has been ordered
for
me
by
him
will
be gone
through
to
the end:
and
his mind
is
full
of
such designs.
\VS{15}For
this cause
I am
in
fear
before
him,
my thoughts
of
him overcome
me.
\VS{16}For
God
has made my
heart feeble,
and my
mind
is troubled before
the Ruler
of all.
\VS{17}For
I am overcome
by
the
dark,
and
by
the black night which
is
covering
my
face.

\par }\Chap{24}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Why
are
times
not
stored
up
by
the Ruler
of
all,
and
why do those
who
have
knowledge
of
him
not
see
his
days?
\VS{2}The
landmarks
are changed
by evil
men, they violently
take
away
flocks, together with
their keepers.
\VS{3}They send
away the ass of him who has no father, they
take the widow's
ox
for debt.
\VS{4}The crushed
are
turned
out
of
the
way;
all
the
poor
of
the
earth go
into
a secret
place
together.
\VS{5}Like asses
in
the waste land
they
go
out
to
their
work, looking
for
food
with care;
from
the waste land
they
get
bread
for
their
children.
\VS{6}They get mixed grain
from
the
field,
and they take away
the late fruit
from
the
vines
of those
who
have wealth.
\VS{7}They take
their rest
at night
without
clothing,
and
have
no
cover
in
the
cold.
\VS{8}They
are
wet
with
the rain
of
the
mountains,
and get into
the cracks
of
the
rock
for cover.
\VS{9}The
child without
a father
is forced from its mother's
breast,
and
they
take
the young
children
of
the
poor for debt.
\VS{10}Others
go
about
without
clothing,
and though
they
have
no food,
they
get
in
the grain
from
the fields.
\VS{11}Between
the lines
of olive-trees
they make
oil; though
they have no drink,
they are crushing
out
the grapes.
\VS{12}From
the
town come sounds
of pain
from
those
who
are
near
death,
and
the
soul
of
the
wounded
is crying
out
for
help;
but
God
does
not
take note
of
their prayer.
\VS{13}Then
there
are
those
who
are haters
of
the
light,
who
have
no knowledge
of
its
ways,
and
do
not
go
in
them.
\VS{14}He
who
is purposing
death
gets
up before day,
so
that he
may
put
to
death
the
poor
and
those
in need.
\VS{15}And
the man whose desire
is
for
the wife
of
another
is
waiting
for
the
evening,
saying,
No
eye
will
see
me;
and
he
puts
a cover
on
his
face.
And
in
the night
the thief
goes about;
\VS{16}In
the
dark
he makes holes
in
the walls
of
houses:
in
the
daytime
they
are shutting themselves
up,
they
have
no
knowledge
of
the
light.
\VS{17}For
the middle
of
the night
is
as
morning
to
them,
they
are
not troubled
by
the fear
of
the
dark.
\VS{18}They go quickly
on
the
face
of
the
waters;
their heritage
is
cursed
in
the
earth;
the steps
of
the crusher
of grapes
are
not
turned
to
their vine-garden.
\VS{19}Snow
waters become
dry
with
the
heat:
so do sinners go down
into
the underworld.
\VS{20}The public place
of
his town
has
no
more knowledge
of
him,
and
his name
has
gone
from
the memory
of men:
he
is rooted up
like
a dead
tree.
\VS{21}He
is
not kind
to
the
widow,
and
he
has
no pity
for
her
child.
\VS{22}But
God
by
his
power gives
long
life
to
the
strong;
he
gets
up
again, though
he
has
no hope
of
life.
\VS{23}He
takes away
his fear
of danger
and
gives
him support;
and
his
eyes
are
on
his
ways.
\VS{24}For
a short
time
they
are lifted
up;
then
they
are
gone;
they
are
made
low,
they
are pulled
off like
fruit,
and like
the
heads
of
grain
they
are cut
off.
\VS{25}And
if
it
is
not
so,
now,
who
will
make
it clear
that
my
words
are
false,
and
that
what
I
say
is
of
no value?

\par }\Chap{25}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Then
Bildad
the
Shuhite made
answer
and
said,
\VS{2}Rule
and power
are
his;
he
makes
peace
in
his
high
places.
\VS{3}Is
it possible
for
his
armies
to
be
numbered?
and
on
whom
is
not
his
light
shining?
\VS{4}How
then
is
it possible
for
man
to
be upright
before
God?
or
how may
he
be
clean
who
is
a son
of
woman?
\VS{5}See,
even
the
moon
is
not
bright,
and
the
stars
are
not clean
in
his
eyes:
\VS{6}How
much
less
man
who
is
an insect,
and
the
son
of
man
who
is
a
worm!

\par }\Chap{26}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Then
Job made
answer
and
said,
\VS{2}How
have
you given
help
to
him
who
has
no
power!
how
have
you
been
the
salvation
of
the
arm
which
has
no
strength!
\VS{3}How
have
you
given teaching
to
him
who
has
no
wisdom,
and fully
made clear true
knowledge!
\VS{4}To
whom
have
your
words
been
said?
and
whose
spirit
came
out
from
you?
\VS{5}The shades
in
the underworld
are shaking;
the
waters
and those
living
in
them.
\VS{6}The underworld
is uncovered
before
him,
and
Destruction
has
no veil.
\VS{7}By
his hand
the
north
is
stretched
out
in
space,
and
the
earth
is
hanging
on
nothing.
\VS{8}By
him
the
waters
are shut
up
in
his
thick
clouds,
and
the
cloud
does
not give way
under
them.
\VS{9}By
him
the
face
of
his high
seat
is veiled,
and
his
cloud stretched
out
over
it.
\VS{10}By
him
a
circle
is marked
out
on
the
face
of
the
waters,
to
the
limits
of
the
light
and
the
dark.
\VS{11}The
pillars
of
heaven
are shaking,
and
are overcome
by his sharp words.
\VS{12}By his
power
the
sea
was made quiet;
and by his
wisdom
Rahab
was
wounded.
\VS{13}By
his
wind
the
heavens become bright:
by
his
hand
the quickly moving
snake
was cut
through.
\VS{14}See,
these
are only
the outskirts
of
his
ways;
and
how small
is
that
which comes
to
our ears
about
him!
But
the
thunder
of
his
acts
of
power
is outside
all knowledge.

\par }\Chap{27}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
Job
again
took
up
the
word
and
said,
\VS{2}By
the
life
of
God,
who
has
taken
away
my
right;
and
of
the Ruler
of all,
who
has
made
my
soul
bitter;
\VS{3}(For
all
my
breath
is
still
in
me,
and
the
spirit
of
God
is
my
life;)
\VS{4}Truly, there
is
no
deceit
in
my
lips,
and
my
tongue
does
not
say
what
is false.
\VS{5}Let
it
be
far
from
me!
I
will
certainly
not say
that
you
are
right!
I
will come
to death
before
I
give
up
my
righteousness.
\VS{6}I
will keep
it safe,
and
will
not
let
it
go:
my
heart
has
nothing
to say
against
any part
of
my
life.
\VS{7}Let
my hater
be
like
the
evil
man,
and
let
him
who
comes against
me
be
as
the sinner.
\VS{8}For
what
is
the
hope
of
the sinner
when
he
is
cut
off,
when
God
takes back
his
soul?
\VS{9}Will
his
cry
come
to
the ears
of
God
when
he
is
in
trouble?
\VS{10}Will
he
take
delight
in
the Ruler
of
all,
and
make
his prayer
to
God
at
all
times?
\VS{11}I
will give
you
teaching about
the
hand
of
God;
I
will
not keep secret
from
you
what
is
in
the
mind
of
the Ruler
of all.
\VS{12}Truly,
you
have
all
seen
it
yourselves;
why
then
have
you become
completely foolish?
\VS{13}This
is
the punishment
of
the evil-doer
from
God,
and
the
heritage given
to
the
cruel
by
the Ruler
of all.
\VS{14}If
his
children
are
increased,
it
is
for
the
sword;
and
his
offspring
have
not
enough
bread.
\VS{15}When those
of
his house
who
are still living come
to
their end
by disease,
they
are
not put into
the earth,
and
their
widows
are
not
weeping
for
them.
\VS{16}Though
he may
get
silver together
like
dust,
and
make
ready great stores
of clothing;
\VS{17}He may
get
them
ready,
but
the upright
will
put
them
on,
and he
who
is
free
from sin
will take
the
silver
for
a heritage.
\VS{18}His
house
has no more strength than
a spider's thread,
or
a watchman's tent.
\VS{19}He goes
to
rest full
of
wealth,
but
does
so
for
the last time:
on opening
his
eyes,
he sees
it
there
no
longer.
\VS{20}Fears
overtake
him like rushing
waters;
in
the
night
the storm-wind takes
him
away.
\VS{21}The
east
wind
takes
him
up
and
he
is gone;
he
is forced violently
out
of
his
place.
\VS{22}God sends
his arrows
against
him
without
mercy;
he goes
in
flight
before
his
hand.
\VS{23}Men make signs
of
joy
because
of
him, driving
him
from
his
place
with sounds
of hissing.

\par }\Chap{28}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Truly
there
is
a
mine
for
silver,
and
a
place
where
gold
is washed
out.
\VS{2}Iron
is
taken out
of
the
earth,
and
stone
is changed
into brass
by
the fire.
\VS{3}Man
puts
an
end
to
the
dark, searching
out
to
the
farthest
limit
the
stones
of
the
deep
places
of
the
dark.
\VS{4}He makes
a deep
mine far
away
from
those
living
in
the light
of day;
when
they go
about
on
the earth,
they
have
no knowledge
of
those
who
are
under
them,
who
are hanging far
from
men, twisting
from
side
to
side
on
a cord.
\VS{5}As
for
the
earth,
bread
comes
out
of
it; but
under
its face
it
is
turned
up
as
if
by
fire.
\VS{6}Its
stones
are
the
place
of
sapphires,
and
it
has
dust
of
gold.
\VS{7}No
bird
has
knowledge
of
it,
and
the hawk's
eye
has
never
seen
it.
\VS{8}The great
beasts
have
not
gone
over
it,
and
the cruel
lion
has
not taken
that
way.
\VS{9}Man
puts
out
his
hand
on
the hard rock, overturning
mountains
by
the
roots.
\VS{10}He
makes deep ways, cut
through
the
rock,
and
his
eye
sees
everything
of
value.
\VS{11}He keeps
back
the
streams
from
flowing,
and makes
the secret things
come
out
into
the
light.
\VS{12}But
where may
wisdom
be seen?
and
where
is
the resting-place
of knowledge?
\VS{13}Man
has
not seen
the way
to
it,
and
it
is
not
in
the
land
of
the
living.
\VS{14}The
deep waters
say,
It
is
not
in
me:
and
the
sea
says,
It
is
not
with
me.
\VS{15}Gold
may
not
be
given
for
it,
or
a weight
of
silver
in
payment
for
it.
\VS{16}It
may
not
be valued with
the
gold
of
Ophir, with
the
onyx
of great price,
or
the
sapphire.
\VS{17}Gold
and
glass
are
not equal
to
it
in price,
and
it
may
not
be
exchanged
for
jewels
of
the best
gold.
\VS{18}There
is
no need
to say
anything about
coral
or
crystal;
and
the value
of
wisdom
is greater
than
that
of
pearls.
\VS{19}The
topaz
of
Ethiopia
is
not equal
to
it,
and
it
may
not
be valued with
the best
gold.
\VS{20}From
where
then
does
wisdom
come,
and
where
is
the resting-place
of knowledge?
\VS{21}For
it
is kept
secret
from
the
eyes
of
all
living, unseen
by
the
birds
of
the air.
\VS{22}Destruction
and
Death
say,
We
have only had
word
of it
with
our
ears.
\VS{23}God
has
knowledge
of
the
way
to
it,
and
of
its resting-place;
\VS{24}For
his eyes go
to
the
ends
of
the
earth,
and
he
sees
everything
under
heaven.
\VS{25}When
he
made
a
weight
for
the
wind,
measuring
out
the
waters;
\VS{26}When
he
made
a law
for
the
rain,
and
a
way
for
the thunder-flames;
\VS{27}Then
he
saw
it,
and
put
it
on record;
he gave
it
its
fixed form, searching
it
out completely.
\VS{28}And
he
said
to
man, Truly
the
fear
of
the
Lord
is
wisdom,
and
to
keep
from
evil
is
the way
to knowledge.

\par }\Chap{29}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
Job
again
took
up
the
word
and
said,
\VS{2}If only
I
might again
be
as
I
was
in
the
months
which
are past,
in
the
days
when
God
was
watching
over
me!
\VS{3}When
his
light
was
shining
over
my
head,
and
when
I went
through
the
dark
by
his
light.
\VS{4}As
I
was
in
my flowering
years,
when
my
tent
was covered
by
the hand
of
God;
\VS{5}While
the Ruler
of
all
was
still
with
me,
and
my
children
were
round
me;
\VS{6}When
my
steps
were
washed
with milk,
and rivers
of
oil
were flowing out
of
the
rock
for
me.
\VS{7}When
I
went
out
of
my door
to
go
up
to
the
town,
and
took
my
seat
in
the public
place,
\VS{8}The
young
men
saw
me,
and
went away,
and
the
old
men
got
up
from
their seats;
\VS{9}The
rulers
kept quiet,
and
put
their
hands
on
their
mouths;
\VS{10}The chiefs kept back
their words,
and
their
tongues were
joined
to
the roofs
of
their mouths.
\VS{11}For
when
it came
to
their
ears, men
said
that
I was
truly
happy;
and
when
their
eyes
saw,
they
gave
witness
to
me;
\VS{12}For
I
was
a saviour
to
the
poor
when
he
was crying
for
help,
to
the child
with
no father,
and
to
him
who
had
no supporter.
\VS{13}The
blessing
of
him who
was
near
to
destruction
came
on
me,
and
I
put
a song
of
joy
into
the widow's
heart.
\VS{14}I
put
on
righteousness
as
my
clothing,
and
was full
of
it;
right
decisions
were
to
me
a
robe
and
a head-dress.
\VS{15}I
was
eyes
to
the
blind,
and
feet
to
him
who
had no power
of walking.
\VS{16}I
was
a
father
to
the
poor, searching
out
the
cause
of
him
who
was strange
to
me.
\VS{17}By
me
the great
teeth
of
the evil-doer were
broken,
and
I made
him give up what he had violently taken
away.
\VS{18}Then
I
said,
I
will come
to
my end
with
my children round
me,
my
days
will
be
as
the
sand
in
number;
\VS{19}My
root
will
be
open
to
the
waters,
and
the night mist
will
be
on
my branches,
\VS{20}My
glory
will
be ever
new,
and
my
bow
will
be readily bent
in
my
hand.
\VS{21}Men
gave ear
to me, waiting
and keeping quiet
for
my suggestions.
\VS{22}After
I
had
said
what
was
in
my
mind,
they
were quiet
and
let
my
words go deep
into
their hearts;
\VS{23}They were waiting
for me as
for
the
rain,
opening
their
mouths
wide as
for
the
spring rains.
\VS{24}I
was laughing
at
them
when
they
had
no hope,
and
the
light
of
my
face
was
never clouded
by
their fear.
\VS{25}I took
my place
as
a
chief, guiding
them
on
their
way,
and
I
was
as
a
king
among
his
army. ...

\par }\Chap{30}{\PP \VerseOne{1}But
now
those
who
are
younger
than
I
make
sport
of
me;
those
whose
fathers
I
would not
have
put
with
the
dogs
of
my
flocks.
\VS{2}Of
what use
is
the
strength
of
their
hands
to
me?
all
force
is gone
from
them.
\VS{3}They are wasted for need of food, biting
the
dry earth; their only hope of life is
in
the waste
land.
\VS{4}They
are pulling
off
the salt leaves
from
the brushwood,
and making
a
meal
of
roots.
\VS{5}They are sent
out
from
among
their townsmen, men are
crying
after
them as
thieves
\VS{6}They have
to get a resting-place
in
the hollows
of
the
valleys,
in
holes
of
the
earth
and
rocks.
\VS{7}They make noises
like asses
among
the brushwood;
they get
together
under
the thorns.
\VS{8}They
are
sons
of shame,
and
of
men
without
a
name,
who
have
been forced
out
of
the
land.
\VS{9}And
now
I
have
become
their
song,
and
I
am
a
word
of shame
to
them.
\VS{10}I am disgusting
to
them;
they
keep
away
from
me,
and
put marks
of shame
on
me.
\VS{11}For
he
has made
loose
the cord
of
my bow,
and
put
me
to shame;
he
has
sent
down
my flag
to
the earth
before
me.
\VS{12}The lines
of
his men
of war
put
themselves
in order,
and
make high
their
ways
of
destruction
against
me:
\VS{13}They
have made waste
my roads, with
a view
to
my
destruction;
his bowmen come round about
me;
\VS{14}As through
a
wide broken
place
in
the wall
they
come
on,
I am overturned by
the shock
of
their attack.
\VS{15}Fears
have
come
on
me;
my hope
is gone
like
the
wind,
and
my well-being
like
a
cloud.
\VS{16}But
now
my
soul
is turned
to water
in
me,
days
of trouble
overtake
me:
\VS{17}The flesh
is
gone
from
my
bones,
and
they give
me
no
rest; there
is
no end
to
my
pains.
\VS{18}With
great force
he takes
a grip
of
my
clothing, pulling me by
the neck
of
my
coat.
\VS{19}Truly God has made me low, even
to
the
earth,
and I have become
like
dust.
\VS{20}You
give
no
answer
to
my
cry,
and
take
no note
of
my prayer.
\VS{21}You
have
become
cruel
to
me;
the
strength
of
your
hand
is hard
on
me.
\VS{22}Lifting
me
up,
you
make
me go
on
the wings
of
the
wind; I am broken
up
by
the storm.
\VS{23}For
I am
certain
that
you
will send
me
back
to
death,
and
to
the meeting-place ordered
for
all
living.
\VS{24}Has
not
my
hand
been
stretched
out
in
help
to
the poor?
have
I
not
been
a saviour
to
him
in
his trouble?
\VS{25}Have
I
not
been
weeping
for
the crushed?
and
was
not
my
soul sad
for
him
who
was
in need?
\VS{26}For
I
was
looking
for
good,
and
evil
came;
I
was waiting
for
light,
and
it became dark.
\VS{27}My
feelings
are strongly moved,
and give
me
no rest;
days
of trouble
have overtaken
me.
\VS{28}I
go
about
in
dark clothing, uncomforted;
I
get
up
in
the public place, crying
out
for
help.
\VS{29}I
have
become
a
brother
to
the
jackals,
and
go
about
in
the company
of
ostriches.
\VS{30}My
skin
is
black
and dropping
off
me;
and
my
bones
are burning
with
the heat
of
my disease.
\VS{31}And
my music
has
been
turned
to sorrow,
and
the
sound
of
my
pipe
into
the
noise
of
weeping.

\par }\Chap{31}{\PP \VerseOne{1}I
made
an
agreement
with
my
eyes;
how
then might
my
eyes
be looking
on
a
virgin?
\VS{2}For
what
is God's
reward
from
on
high,
or
the
heritage given
by
the Ruler
of all
from
heaven?
\VS{3}Is
it
not
trouble
for
the sinner,
and
destruction
for
the evil-doers?
\VS{4}Does
he
not
see
my
ways,
and
are
not
my
steps
all
numbered?
\VS{5}If
I
have
gone
in
false ways,
or
my
foot
has been quick
in working
deceit;
\VS{6}(Let
me be measured
in upright
scales,
and let
God
see
my
righteousness:)
\VS{7}If
my
steps
have been
turned
out
of
the
way,
or
if
my
heart
went
after
my
eyes,
or
if
the property
of another
is
in
my
hands;
\VS{8}Let
me put
seed
in
the earth
for
another
to
have
the fruit
of
it,
and let
my produce
be
uprooted.
\VS{9}If
my
heart went
after
another man's
wife,
or
if
I
was waiting secretly
at
my neighbour's
door;
\VS{10}Then let
my
wife give pleasure
to
another man
and let
others make use
of
her body.
\VS{11}For
that would
be
a
crime;
it would
be
an act
for
which
punishment would
be measured
out
by
the
judges:
\VS{12}It
would
be
a
fire
burning
even
to
destruction,
and
taking
away
all
my
produce.
\VS{13}If
I did wrong
in
the
cause
of
my man-servant,
or
my woman-servant,
when
they went
to law
with
me;
\VS{14}What
then
will
I
do
when
God comes
as
my
judge?
and
what
answer
may
I
give
to
his questions?
\VS{15}Did
not
God
make
him
as well
as
me?
did
he
not give
us life
in our mothers' bodies?
\VS{16}If
I
kept
back
the
desire
of
the
poor;
if
the widow's
eye
was looking
for help
to
no
purpose;
\VS{17}If
I
kept
my
food
for
myself,
and
did
not
give
some
of
it
to
the child
with
no father;
\VS{18}(For
I
was cared
for
by God
as
by
a
father
from
my earliest days;
he
was
my
guide
from
the
body
of
my
mother;)
\VS{19}If
I
saw
one near
to death
for need
of
clothing,
and
that
the
poor
had
nothing
covering
him;
\VS{20}If
his back
did
not give
me
a
blessing,
and
the wool
of
my
sheep
did
not make
him
warm;
\VS{21}If
my
hand
had been
lifted
up
against
him
who
had
done
no wrong,
when
I
saw
that
I
was supported
by
the judges;
\VS{22}May
my
arm
be pulled
from
my body,
and
be
broken
from
its base.
\VS{23}For
the
fear
of
God kept
me
back,
and
because
of
his
power
I might
not
do
such
things.
\VS{24}If
I
made
gold
my hope,
or
if
I ever
said
to
the best
gold,
I
have
put
my faith
in
you;
\VS{25}If
I
was
glad
because
my
wealth
was
great,
and
because
my
hand
had got together
a
great store;
\VS{26}If,
when
I
saw
the
sun
shining,
and
the
moon
moving
on
its bright
way,
\VS{27}A secret feeling
of worship came
into
my
heart,
and
my
hand gave kisses
from
my
mouth;
\VS{28}That would
have been
another
sin
to
be rewarded
with
punishment
by
the judges;
for
I would
have been false
to
God
on
high.
\VS{29}If
I was
glad
at
the
trouble
of
my hater,
and
gave cries
of
joy
when
evil
overtook
him;
\VS{30}(For
I
did
not
let
my
mouth
give way
to
sin,
in
putting
a
curse
on
his
life;)
\VS{31}If
the
men
of
my
tent
did
not
say,
Who
has
not
had
full measure
of
his
meat?
\VS{32}The traveller
did
not take
his night's rest
in
the
street,
and
my
doors were
open
to anyone
on
a journey;
\VS{33}If
I kept
my
evil doings
covered,
and
my
sin
in
the secret
of
my breast,
\VS{34}For fear
of
the
great body
of
people,
or
for fear
that
families might
make sport
of
me,
so
that
I kept quiet,
and
did
not
go
out
of
my
door;
\VS{35}If only
God
would
give ear
to
me,
and
the Ruler
of
all
would
give
me
an
answer!
or
if
what
he
has
against
me
had been
put
in
writing!
\VS{36}Truly
I would
take
up
the book
in
my hands;
it would
be
to
me as
a
crown;
\VS{37}I would
make clear
the
number
of
my
steps,
I would put
it before
him
like
a
prince!
The words
of Job are ended.
\VS{38}If
my
land
has made
an outcry
against
me,
or
the ploughed
earth
has been
in
sorrow;
\VS{39}If
I
have taken
its produce
without payment, causing
the
death
of
its
owners;
\VS{40}Then
in
place
of
grain let
thorns
come up,
and
in
place
of
barley evil-smelling plants.

\par }\Chap{32}{\PP \VerseOne{1}So
these
three
men gave no
more
answers
to
Job,
because
he
seemed
to
himself
to
be
right.
\VS{2}And
Elihu,
the
son
of
Barachel
the
Buzite,
of
the
family
of
Ram,
was
angry, burning
with
wrath
against
Job,
because
he seemed
to
himself
more
right
than
God;
\VS{3}And
he
was
angry
with
his
three
friends,
because
they
had
been unable
to give
him
an
answer,
and
had
not
made Job's sin clear.
\VS{4}Now
Elihu
had kept quiet
while
Job
was talking,
because
they
were
older
than
he;
\VS{5}And
when
Elihu
saw
that
there
was
no
answer
in
the
mouth
of
the
three
men,
he
was
very
angry.
\VS{6}And
Elihu,
the
son
of
Barachel
the
Buzite, made
answer
and
said,
I
am
young,
and
you
are
very
old,
so
I
was
in
fear,
and kept
myself
from putting
my
knowledge
before
you.
\VS{7}I
said
to
myself,
It
is right
for
the
old
to
say
what
is
in
their minds,
and
for those
who
are far
on
in
years
to
give
out
wisdom.
\VS{8}But
truly
it
is
the
spirit
in
man, even
the
breath
of
the Ruler
of
all,
which
gives
them knowledge.
\VS{9}It
is
not
the
old
who
are
wise,
and those
who
are
full
of years
have
not
the knowledge
of
what
is
right.
\VS{10}So
I
say,
Give ear
to
me,
and
I
will put forward
my
knowledge.
\VS{11}I
was
waiting
for
your
words,
I
was giving
ear
to
your wise
sayings;
while
you
were searching
out
what
to
say,
\VS{12}I
was taking
note;
and truly
not
one
of
you
was able
to
make clear Job's error,
or
to
give
an
answer
to
his
words.
\VS{13}Take care
that
you do
not
say,
Wisdom
is
here;
God
may overcome
him,
but
not
man.
\VS{14}I
will
not
put forward
words
like these,
or
make use
of
your
sayings
in
answer
to
him.
\VS{15}Fear has overcome
them,
they
have
no
more
answers
to
give;
they
have come
to an end
of
words.
\VS{16}And am
I
to go
on waiting
while
they
have
nothing
to
say?
while
they keep quiet
and
give
no
more
answers?
\VS{17}I
will
give
my
answer;
I
will put forward
my
knowledge:
\VS{18}For
I am
full
of
words,
I am unable
to keep
in
my
breath
any longer:
\VS{19}My
stomach
is
like
wine
which
is unable
to get
out;
like skins full
of
new
wine,
it
is almost
burst.
\VS{20}Let
me
say
what
is
in
my mind,
so
that I
may
get comfort; let
me
give
answer
with
open mouth.
\VS{21}Let
me
not
give
respect
to
any
man,
or
give names
of honour
to
any
living.
\VS{22}For
I am
not able
to
give names
of honour
to
any man;
and
if
I
did,
my Maker
would
quickly
take
me
away.

\par }\Chap{33}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
now,
O
Job,
give
ear
to
my
words,
and take note
of
all
I
say.
\VS{2}See,
now
my
mouth
is
open,
my
tongue gives out
words.
\VS{3}My
heart
is overflowing
with
knowledge,
my
lips say
what
is true.
\VS{4}The
spirit
of
God
has
made
me,
and
the
breath
of
the Ruler
of all gives
me
life.
\VS{5}If
you
are
able,
give
me
an
answer;
put
your
cause
in order,
and
come
forward.
\VS{6}See,
I
am
the same
as
you
are
in
the eyes
of
God;
I
was cut off
from
the same bit
of wet earth.
\VS{7}Fear
of
me
will
not overcome
you,
and
my hand
will
not
be hard
on
you.
\VS{8}But
you
said
in
my
hearing,
and
your
voice
came
to
my
ears:
\VS{9}I
am
clean,
without
sin;
I
am washed,
and
there
is
no
evil
in
me:
\VS{10}See,
he
is
looking
for something
against
me;
in
his eyes
I
am
as one
of
his haters;
\VS{11}He
puts chains
on
my
feet;
he
is
watching
all
my
ways.
\VS{12}Truly,
in saying
this
you
are wrong;
for
God
is
greater
than
man.
\VS{13}Why
do
you put forward
your
cause
against
him,
saying,
He gives
no
answer
to
any
of
my
words?
\VS{14}For
God gives
his
word
in
one way,
even
in
two,
and
man
is
not conscious
of
it:
\VS{15}In
a
dream,
in
a
vision
of
the
night,
when
deep
sleep comes
on
men,
while
they take
their
rest
on
their
beds;
\VS{16}Then
he makes
his secrets clear
to
men,
so
that
they
are full
of fear
at what
they see;
\VS{17}In order that
man
may
be
turned
from
his evil
works,
and that
pride
may
be
taken
away
from him;
\VS{18}To
keep
back
his
soul
from
the underworld,
and
his
life
from
destruction.
\VS{19}Pain
is sent
on
him as
a punishment,
while
he
is
on
his
bed; there
is no end
to
the trouble
in
his
bones;
\VS{20}He
has no
desire
for
food,
and his
soul
is turned away
from delicate meat;
\VS{21}His
flesh
is
so wasted
away,
that
it
may
not
be
seen,
and
his
bones. ...
\VS{22}And
his
soul
comes
near
to
the underworld,
and
his
life
to
the angels
of
death.
\VS{23}If
now
there
may
be
an
angel sent
to
him,
one
of
the
thousands which
there
are
to
be
between
him
and God,
and
to
make clear
to
man
what
is
right
for
him;
\VS{24}And
if
he
has
mercy
on
him,
and
says,
Let
him not
go
down
to
the underworld,
I
have given
the
price
for
his life:
\VS{25}Then
his
flesh becomes
young
again,
and
he
comes
back
to
the
days
of
his early strength;
\VS{26}He
makes
his
prayer
to
God,
and
he
has mercy
on
him;
he
sees God's
face
with
cries
of
joy;
he
gives news
of
his
righteousness
to
men;
\VS{27}He
makes
a song,
saying,
I
did
wrong, turning
from
the
straight
way,
but
he
did
not give
me
the reward
of
my
sin.
\VS{28}He kept
my
soul
from
the underworld,
and
my
life
sees
the
light
in full measure.
\VS{29}Truly,
God
does
all
these
things
to
man,
twice
and
three
times,
\VS{30}Keeping
back
his
soul
from
the underworld,
so
that
he
may see
the
light
of
life.
\VS{31}Take note
O
Job,
give ear
to
me;
keep quiet,
while
I
say
what
is
in
my mind.
\VS{32}If
you
have
anything
to
say,
give
me
an
answer;
for
it
is
my
desire
that
you
may
be judged free
from sin.
\VS{33}If
not,
give
attention
to
me,
and
keep quiet,
and
I
will
give
you
wisdom.

\par }\Chap{34}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
Elihu made
answer
and
said,
\VS{2}Give
ear,
you
wise,
to
my
words;
and
you
who
have
knowledge,
give
attention
to
me;
\VS{3}For
words
are
tested
by
the
ear,
as
food
is
tasted
by
the
mouth.
\VS{4}Let
us
make
the
decision
for
ourselves
as
to
what
is
right; let
us
have
the
knowledge
among
ourselves
of
what
is
good.
\VS{5}For
Job
has
said,
I am upright,
and
it
is
God
who
has
taken
away
my
right;
\VS{6}Though
I am
right, still
I am
in pain;
my
wound may not be made well, though
I
have done
no wrong.
\VS{7}What
man
is
like
Job, a
man
who freely makes sport
of God,
\VS{8}And
goes
in
the
company
of evil-doers, walking
in
the way
of sinners?
\VS{9}For
he
has
said,
It
is
no
profit
to
a
man
to
take
delight
in
God.
\VS{10}Now
then,
you wise, take note;
you
men
of knowledge,
give ear
to
me.
Let
it
be
far
from
God
to
do
evil,
and
from
the Ruler
of
all
to
do
wrong.
\VS{11}For
he gives
to
every
man
the
reward
of
his
work,
and sees
that
he gets
the fruit
of
his
ways.
\VS{12}Truly,
God
does
not
do
evil,
and
the Ruler
of
all
is
not
a false
judge.
\VS{13}Who
put
the
earth
into
his
care,
or
made
him responsible
for
the
world?
\VS{14}If
he
made
his
spirit come
back
to
him,
taking
his
breath
into
himself
again,
\VS{15}All
flesh
would
come
to
an end
together,
and
man
would
go
back
to
the
dust.
\VS{16}If
you are
wise, take note
of
this;
give
ear
to
the
voice
of
my
words.
\VS{17}How may
a hater
of
right
be
a ruler?
and
will
you say
that
the upright Ruler
of
all
is
evil?
\VS{18}He
who
says
to
a
king,
You
are
an evil-doer;
and
to rulers,
You
are sinners;
\VS{19}Who
has
no
respect
for
rulers,
and
who gives
no
more
attention
to
those
who
have
wealth
than
to
the
poor,
for
they
are
all
the
work
of
his
hands.
\VS{20}Suddenly
they come
to an end,
even
in
the middle
of
the
night:
the blow comes
on
the
men
of
wealth,
and
they
are
gone,
and
the
strong
are
taken
away
without
the
hand
of
man.
\VS{21}For
his
eyes
are
on
the
ways
of
a
man,
and
he
sees
all
his
steps.
\VS{22}There
is
no
dark
place,
and
no
thick cloud,
in
which
the
workers
of
evil
may take
cover.
\VS{23}For
he
does
not
give
man
a fixed
time
to
come
before
him
to
be
judged.
\VS{24}He sends
the strong
to destruction
without
searching
out
their cause,
and puts
others
in
their
place.
\VS{25}For
he has knowledge
of
their
works, overturning
them
in
the
night,
so
that
they are
crushed.
\VS{26}The evil-doers
are broken
by
his wrath,
he puts
his hand
on
them
with force
before
the eyes
of all onlookers.
\VS{27}Because
they
did
not
go
after
him,
and
took
no note
of
his
ways,
\VS{28}So
that
the
cry
of
the
poor might
come
up
to
him,
and
the prayer
of
those
in need
come
to
his ears.
\VS{29}...
\VS{30}...
\VS{31}...
\VS{32}...
\VS{33}...
\VS{34}Men
of knowledge,
and
all
wise
men,
hearing
me,
will
say,
\VS{35}Job's
words do
not come
from
knowledge;
they
are
not
the fruit
of wisdom.
\VS{36}May
Job
be
tested
to
the
end,
because
his
answers
have been
like
those
of
evil
men.
\VS{37}For
in
addition
to
his
sin,
he
is uncontrolled
in heart;
before
our eyes
he makes sport
of
God,
increasing
his
words
against
him.

\par }\Chap{35}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
Elihu made
answer
and
said,
\VS{2}Does
it
seem
to
you
to be
right,
and
righteousness before
God,
to
say,
\VS{3}What
profit
is
it
to
me,
and
how am
I better off
than
if
I
had done wrong?
\VS{4}I
will
make
answer
to
you
and
to
your
friends:
\VS{5}Let
your eyes
be turned
to
the
heavens,
and lifted
up
to
see
the
skies;
they
are
higher
than
you.
\VS{6}If
you
have
done
wrong,
is
he any
the worse
for
it?
and
if
your
sins
are
great
in
number,
what
is
it
to
him?
\VS{7}If
you
are upright,
what
do
you
give
to
him?
or
what
does
he
take
from
your
hand?
\VS{8}Your evil-doing
may
have
an effect
on
a
man
like yourself,
or
your
righteousness
on
a
son
of
man.
\VS{9}Because
the hand
of
the cruel
is hard on them, men are making sounds
of grief;
they are
crying
out
for
help
because
of
the
arm
of
the strong.
\VS{10}But
no
one
has
said,
Where
is
God
my Maker,
who
gives
songs
in
the
night;
\VS{11}Who gives
us more knowledge than
the
beasts
of
the
earth,
and
makes
us
wiser than
the
birds
of
the
heaven?
\VS{12}There
they
are
crying
out
because
of
the
pride
of
the evil-doers,
but
he gives
them
no
answer.
\VS{13}But
God
will
not
give ear
to what
is
false,
or
the Ruler
of all take note
of
it;
\VS{14}How
much
less
when
you
say
that
you
do
not
see
him;
that
the
cause
is
before
him,
and
you
are waiting
for
him.
\VS{15}And
now ... ;
\VS{16}And Job's
mouth
is
open
wide
to give out
what
is
of
no profit, increasing
words
without
knowledge.

\par }\Chap{36}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
Elihu
went on
to
say,
\VS{2}Give
me
a
little
more
time,
and
I
will
make
it clear
to
you;
for
I
have
still something
to
say
for
God.
\VS{3}I
will get
my
knowledge
from
far,
and
I
will
give
righteousness
to
my
Maker.
\VS{4}For
truly
my
words
are
not
false;
one
who
has all
knowledge
is
talking
with
you.
\VS{5}Truly,
God gives up
the hard-hearted,
and
will
not give
life
to
the sinner.
\VS{6}His eyes
are ever
on
the upright,
and
he
gives
to
the crushed
their
right;
\VS{7}Lifting
them
up
to
the
seat
of
kings,
and making
them safe
for
ever.
\VS{8}And
if
they
have been prisoned
in chains,
and
taken
in
cords of trouble,
\VS{9}Then
he makes clear
to
them
what
they
have
done,
even
their evil works
in which
they
have taken pride.
\VS{10}Their
ear
is
open
to
his teaching,
and
he
gives
them
orders
so
that
their hearts
may
be
turned
from
evil.
\VS{11}If
they
give ear
to
his voice,
and
do
his word,
then
he gives
them
long
life,
and
years
full
of pleasure.
\VS{12}But
if
not,
they come
to
their end,
and
give
up
their breath
without
knowledge.
\VS{13}Those
who
have
no fear
of
God keep
wrath stored
up
in
their
hearts;
they
give
no
cry
for
help
when
they
are
made
prisoners.
\VS{14}They come
to
their end
while
they
are still young,
their
life
is short
like
that
of
those
who
are used
for sex purposes
in
the worship
of
their gods.
\VS{15}He makes
the wrong done
to
the
poor
the way
of
their salvation, opening
their
ears
by
their trouble.
\VS{16}...
\VS{17}...
\VS{18}...
\VS{19}...
\VS{20}...
\VS{21}Take
care
not
to
be
turned
to
sin,
for
you
have taken
evil
for
your
part
in
place
of
sorrow.
\VS{22}Truly
God
is
lifted up
in
strength;
who
is
a ruler
like
him?
\VS{23}Who
ever
gave
orders
to
him,
or
said
to
him,
You
have
done
wrong?
\VS{24}See
that
you give
praise
to
his
work, about
which
men
make songs.
\VS{25}All
people
are looking
on
it;
man
sees
it
from
far.
\VS{26}Truly,
God
is great, greater
than
all
our
knowledge;
the
number
of
his
years
may
not
be
searched
out.
\VS{27}For
he takes up
the drops
from
the sea;
he sends
them
through
his
mist
as
rain,
\VS{28}Flowing
down
from
the
sky,
and dropping
on
the
peoples.
\VS{29}And
who
has knowledge
of
how
the
clouds
are stretched out,
or
of
the thunders
of
his tent?
\VS{30}See,
he
is
stretching
out
his mist,
covering
the tops
of
the mountains
with
it.
\VS{31}For
by
these
he
gives
food
to
the
peoples, and bread
in full measure.
\VS{32}He takes
the
light
in
his
hands, sending
it
against
the
mark.
\VS{33}The thunder makes clear
his passion,
and
the storm gives news
of
his wrath.

\par }\Chap{37}{\PP \VerseOne{1}At
this
my
heart
is shaking;
it
is
moved
out
of its
place.
\VS{2}Give ear
to
the rolling
noise
of
his
voice;
to
the hollow
sound which
goes
out
of
his
mouth.
\VS{3}He sends
it
out
through
all
the
heaven,
and
his thunder-flame
to
the
ends
of
the
earth.
\VS{4}After
it
a
voice
is sounding, thundering
out
the word
of
his power;
he
does
not
keep
back
his thunder-flames;
from
his mouth
his
voice
is sounding.
\VS{5}He
does
wonders,
more
than
may
be searched
out;
great
things
of which
we
have
no
knowledge;
\VS{6}For
he
says
to
the
snow,
Make
the
earth wet;
and
to
the rain-storm, Come
down.
\VS{7}He puts
an end
to
the
work
of
every
man,
so
that
all
may
see
his
work.
\VS{8}Then
the
beasts
go
into
their holes,
and
take
their
rest.
\VS{9}Out
of
its
place
comes
the storm-wind,
and
the
cold
out
of
its store-houses.
\VS{10}By
the
breath
of
God
ice
is
made,
and
the
wide
waters are shut
in.
\VS{11}The
thick
cloud
is weighted
with thunder-flame,
and
the
cloud sends out
its
light;
\VS{12}And
it
goes
this
way
and
that,
round
about,
turning
itself
by
his guiding,
to
do
whatever
he gives
orders
to
be
done,
on
the
face
of
his
world
of
men,
\VS{13}For
a
rod,
or
for
a curse,
or
for mercy, causing
it
to
come
on
the mark.
\VS{14}Give
ear
to
this, O
Job,
and keep quiet
in
your
place;
and
take note
of
the
wonders worked
by
God.
\VS{15}Have
you
knowledge
of God's ordering
of
his
works,
how
he
makes
the
light
of
his
cloud
to be seen?
\VS{16}Have
you
knowledge
of
the balancings
of
the
clouds,
the
wonders
of
him
who
has
all wisdom?
\VS{17}You,
whose
clothing
is
warm,
when
the
earth
is
quiet
because
of
the
south wind,
\VS{18}Will
you,
with
him, make
the
skies smooth,
and
strong as a polished looking-glass?
\VS{19}Make clear
to
me
what we
are
to
say
to
him; we
are unable
to put
our cause
before
him,
because
of
the
dark.
\VS{20}How
may
he
have knowledge
of
my desire
for
talk
with
him?
or
did
any
man ever
say,
May destruction come
on
me?
\VS{21}And
now
the
light
is
not
seen,
for
it
is dark because
of
the
clouds;
but
a
wind
comes, clearing
them
away.
\VS{22}A bright light
comes
out
of
the
north; God's
glory
is greatly
to
be
feared.
\VS{23}There
is
no searching
out
of
the Ruler
of
all:
his
strength
and
his judging
are
great;
he
is full
of
righteousness, doing
no wrong.
\VS{24}For
this cause
men go
in
fear
of
him;
he
has
no respect
for
any
who
are
wise
in
heart.

\par }\Chap{38}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
the
Lord made
answer
to
Job
out
of
the storm-wind,
and
said,
\VS{2}Who
is
this
who makes
the
purpose
of God
dark by
words
without
knowledge?
\VS{3}Get
your strength together like
a
man
of war;
I
will put questions
to
you,
and
you
will
give
me
the answers.
\VS{4}Where
were
you
when
I put
the
earth
on
its base? Say,
if
you
have
knowledge.
\VS{5}By
whom
were
its measures fixed?
Say,
if
you
have wisdom;
or
by
whom was
the line
stretched
out
over
it?
\VS{6}On
what
were
its pillars based,
or
who put
down
its angle-stone,
\VS{7}When
the
morning
stars
made songs
together,
and
all
the
sons
of
the
gods
gave
cries
of
joy?
\VS{8}Or where were you
when
the
sea
came
to
birth, pushing
out
from
its secret
place;
\VS{9}When
I
made
the
cloud
its
robe,
and
put
thick
clouds
as bands round
it,
\VS{10}Ordering
a
fixed
limit
for
it,
with locks
and
doors;
\VS{11}And
said,
So
far
you
may
come,
and
no
farther;
and
here
the
pride
of
your
waves
will
be
stopped?
\VS{12}Have
you,
from
your earliest
days,
given
orders
to
the
morning,
or
made
the
dawn conscious
of
its
place;
\VS{13}So
that it might
take
a grip
of
the
skirts
of
the
earth, shaking
all
the evil-doers
out
of it?
\VS{14}It
is
changed
like wet earth under
a stamp,
and
is coloured
like
a
robe;
\VS{15}And
from
the evil-doers
their
light
is
kept
back,
and
the
arm
of pride
is
broken.
\VS{16}Have
you
come
into
the
springs
of
the
sea,
walking
in
the secret places
of
the
deep?
\VS{17}Have
the doors
of
death
been
open
to
you,
or
have
the door-keepers
of
the
dark ever
seen
you?
\VS{18}Have
you taken
note
of
the wide limits
of
the
earth? Say,
if
you
have
knowledge
of
it
all.
\VS{19}Which
is
the
way
to
the resting-place
of
the
light,
and
where
is
the store-house
of
the
dark;
\VS{20}So
that
you might
take
it
to
its limit, guiding
it
to
its
house?
\VS{21}No doubt
you
have
knowledge
of
it,
for
then
you
had come
to
birth,
and
the
number
of
your
days
is
great.
\VS{22}Have
you
come
into
the secret
place
of
snow,
or
have
you
seen
the store-houses
of
the ice-drops,
\VS{23}Which
I
have
kept
for
the
time
of
trouble,
for
the
day
of
war
and fighting?
\VS{24}Which
is
the
way
to
the
place
where
the
wind
is measured
out,
and
the
east
wind sent
out
over
the
earth?
\VS{25}By
whom
has
the
way been cut
for
the flowing
of
the rain,
and
the flaming
of
the
thunder;
\VS{26}Causing
rain
to come
on
a
land
where
no
man
is
living,
on
the waste
land which
has
no
people;
\VS{27}To give water
to
the
land where there
is waste
and
destruction,
and
to make
the dry
land
green
with young
grass?
\VS{28}Has
the
rain
a
father?
or
who
gave
birth
to
the
drops
of night mist?
\VS{29}Out
of
whose
body
came
the
ice?
and
who
gave
birth
to
the cold mist
of
heaven?
\VS{30}The
waters
are joined together,
hard
as
a
stone,
and
the
face
of
the
deep
is covered.
\VS{31}Are
the bands
of
the
Pleiades fixed
by you,
or are
the
cords
of
Orion
made loose?
\VS{32}Do
you make Mazzaroth
come
out
in
its right
time,
or
are
the
Bear
and
its
children
guided
by
you?
\VS{33}Have
you
knowledge
of
the laws
of
the
heavens? did
you
give
them
rule
over
the
earth?
\VS{34}Is
your
voice sent
up
to
the
cloud,
so
that
you
may
be
covered
by
the weight
of
waters?
\VS{35}Do
you
send
out
the thunder-flames,
so
that
they may
go,
and
say
to
you,
Here
we are?
\VS{36}Who
has
put
wisdom
in
the high clouds,
or
given knowledge
to
the lights
of
the north?
\VS{37}By
whose
wisdom
are
the
clouds
numbered,
or
the water-skins
of
the
heavens turned
to
the
earth,
\VS{38}When
the
earth becomes
hard as metal,
and
is
joined
together in masses?
\VS{39}Do you go after
food
for
the she-lion, or get meat so that
the
young
lions may
have enough,
\VS{40}When
they
are stretched
out
in
their holes,
and
are waiting
in
the brushwood?
\VS{41}Who gives
in
the evening
the meat
he
is searching
for,
when
his
young ones
are crying
to
God;
when
the
young lions
with loud noise
go
wandering
after
their
food?

\par }\Chap{39}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Have
you
knowledge
of
the rock-goats?
or
do
you
see
the roes
giving
birth
to
their young?
\VS{2}Is
the
number
of
their
months fixed
by
you?
or is
the
time
when
they
give
birth ordered
by
you?
\VS{3}They
are bent
down, they give birth
to
their
young, they
let
loose
the fruit
of
their body.
\VS{4}Their
young
ones
are strong, living
in
the open country;
they
go
out
and
do
not
come
back
again.
\VS{5}Who
has
let
the ass
of
the fields
go
free?
or made
loose
the
bands
of
the loud-voiced beast?
\VS{6}To
whom
I
have given
the
waste
land
for
a heritage,
and
the
salt
land
as
a living-place.
\VS{7}He makes
sport
of
the
noise
of
the
town;
the voice
of
the
driver
does
not come
to
his ears;
\VS{8}He goes looking
for
his grass-lands
in
the
mountains,
searching
out
every
green
thing.
\VS{9}Will
the
ox
of
the mountains
be
your
servant?
or
is
his night's resting-place
by
your food-store?
\VS{10}Will
he be pulling
your plough
with
cords, turning up
the
valleys
after
you?
\VS{11}Will
you
put
your faith
in
him,
because
his
strength
is
great? will
you give
the
fruit
of
your work
into
his care?
\VS{12}Will
you
be looking
for
him
to
come
back,
and
get
in
your
seed
to
the crushing-floor?
\VS{13}Is
the
wing
of
the ostrich feeble,
or
is
it because
she
has
no
feathers,
\VS{14}That
she puts
her
eggs
on
the
earth, warming
them
in
the
dust,
\VS{15}Without
a thought
that
they
may
be
crushed
by
the
foot,
and broken
by
the
beasts
of
the
field?
\VS{16}She
is cruel
to
her
young
ones,
as
if
they
were
not hers;
her work
is
to
no purpose;
she
has
no
fear.
\VS{17}For
God
has taken
wisdom
from
her
mind,
and given
her
no measure
of knowledge.
\VS{18}When
she
is shaking her wings
on
high,
she makes
sport
of
the
horse
and
of
him who
is seated
on
him.
\VS{19}Do
you
give
strength
to
the
horse?
is
it
by
your
hand
that
his
neck
is
clothed
with
power?
\VS{20}Is it through you that he
is shaking
like a
locust, in
the pride
of his loud-sounding breath?
\VS{21}He
is stamping
with joy
in
the
valley;
he
makes sport
of fear.
\VS{22}In
his strength
he
goes
out
against
the arms
of
war,
turning
not
away
from
the
sword.
\VS{23}The bow
is sounding
against
him;
he sees
the shining point
of
spear
and arrow.
\VS{24}Shaking
with passion,
he
is biting
the
earth;
he
is
not able
to keep quiet
at
the
sound
of
the
horn;
\VS{25}When it comes
to
his ears
he
says,
Aha!
He
is smelling
the
fight
from
far
off,
and hearing
the
thunder
of
the
captains,
and
the war-cries.
\VS{26}Is
it through your knowledge that
the
hawk takes
his flight,
stretching
out
his
wings
to
the
south?
\VS{27}Or
is
it
by
your orders
that
the
eagle goes
up,
and
makes
his resting-place
on
high?
\VS{28}On
the
rock is
his house,
and
on
the mountain-top
his strong place.
\VS{29}From
there
he
is
watching
for
food;
his
eye sees
it
far
off.
\VS{30}His
young
have
blood
for
their drink,
and
where
the
dead bodies
are,
there
is
he
to
be seen.

\par }\Chap{40}{\PP \VerseOne{1}...
\VS{2}Will he
who
is protesting
give teaching
to
the Ruler
of all? Let
him
who
has arguments
to put forward
against
God
give an
answer.
\VS{3}And
Job
said
in
answer
to
the
Lord,
\VS{4}Truly,
I
am
of no value;
what
answer
may
I
give
to
you?
I
will
put
my
hand
on
my
mouth.
\VS{5}I
have
said
once,
and
even
twice,
what
was
in
my
mind,
but
I
will
not
do
so
again.
\VS{6}Then
the
Lord made
answer
to
Job
out
of
the storm-wind,
and
said,
\VS{7}Get
your strength together like
a
man
of war:
I
will put questions
to
you,
and
you
will
give
me
the answers.
\VS{8}Will
you
even
make
my
right
of
no value?
will
you say
that I am wrong
in
order
to
make clear
that
you
are
right?
\VS{9}Have
you
an
arm
like
God?
have
you
a
voice
of
thunder
like
his?
\VS{10}Put
on
the ornaments
of
your
pride;
be
clothed
with
glory
and power:
\VS{11}Let
your
wrath
be overflowing; let
your eyes
see
all
the sons
of
pride,
and
make
them
low.
\VS{12}Send destruction
on
all
who
are lifted
up, pulling
down
the sinners
from
their
places.
\VS{13}Let
them
be covered
together
in
the
dust; let
their
faces
be dark
in
the secret place
of
the underworld.
\VS{14}Then
I
will
give
praise
to
you, saying
that
your
right
hand
is able
to
give
you
salvation.
\VS{15}See
now
the Great Beast,
whom
I
made,
even
as
I
made
you;
he takes
grass
for
food,
like
the
ox.
\VS{16}His
strength
is
in
his
body,
and
his force
in
the
muscles
of
his
stomach.
\VS{17}His
tail is curving
like
a
cedar;
the
muscles
of his legs
are joined
together.
\VS{18}His
bones
are pipes
of brass, his legs
are like rods
of
iron.
\VS{19}He
is
the chief
of
the
ways
of
God,
made
by
him
for
his pleasure.
\VS{20}He
takes
the produce
of
the
mountains,
where
all
the
beasts
of
the
field
are
at
play.
\VS{21}He takes
his
rest
under
the trees
of
the river,
and
in
the pool,
under
the shade
of
the water-plants.
\VS{22}He is covered
by
the branches
of
the trees;
the grasses
of
the
stream are
round him.
\VS{23}Truly,
if
the
river
is overflowing,
it gives
him
no
cause
for fear;
he
has
no sense
of danger,
even
if
Jordan
is rushing
against
his
mouth.
\VS{24}Will anyone
take
him when
he
is
on
the
watch, or
put metal teeth through
his
nose?

\par }\Chap{41}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Is it possible
for Leviathan
to
be pulled
out
with
a fish-hook,
or
for
a hook
to
be put through
the bone
of
his mouth?
\VS{2}Will
you put
a cord into
his nose,
or
take
him away
with
a cord round
his tongue?
\VS{3}Will
he make prayers
to
you,
or say soft words
to
you?
\VS{4}Will
he make an
agreement
with
you,
so
that
you
may take him
as
a servant
for ever?
\VS{5}Will
you
make sport
with
him,
as
with
a bird?
or
put
him
in chains
for
your young women?
\VS{6}Will
the fishermen make profit
out
of
him?
will
they have
him cut up
for
the traders?
\VS{7}Will you put sharp-pointed irons into
his skin, or fish-spears into
his head?
\VS{8}Only
put
your hand
on
him,
and
see what
a fight
you
will
have;
you
will
not
do
it again!
\VS{9}Truly,
the hope
of
his attacker
is false;
he
is overcome
even
on seeing
him!
\VS{10}He
is so cruel
that no one
is ready
to go
against him. Who then
is able
to keep
his place
before
me?
\VS{11}Who ever
went against
me,
and
got
the better
of
me? There
is no
one under heaven!
\VS{12}I
will not keep quiet
about
the parts
of
his body, or
about
his power,
and
the strength
of
his frame.
\VS{13}Who
has ever
taken
off
his outer skin?
who
may
come inside
his inner coat
of iron?
\VS{14}Who has made
open
the doors
of
his
face? Fear
is round about
his teeth.
\VS{15}His back
is made
of lines
of plates,
joined tight
together,
one
against
the other,
like
a stamp.
\VS{16}One
is
so near
to
the other
that no air
may come between them.
\VS{17}They take
a grip
of
one another; they are joined together, so that they may not be parted.
\VS{18}His sneezings give
out flames,
and
his eyes are like
the eyes
of
the dawn.
\VS{19}Out
of
his mouth go burning lights,
and flames
of fire
are jumping up.
\VS{20}Smoke comes out
of
his nose,
like
a pot boiling
on
the fire.
\VS{21}His breath puts fire
to coals,
and
a flame goes out
of
his mouth.
\VS{22}Strength is
in
his neck,
and fear goes dancing
before
him.
\VS{23}The plates
of
his flesh are joined
together, fixed,
and not
to
be moved.
\VS{24}His heart
is
as strong
as
a stone, hard
as
the lower crushing-stone.
\VS{25}When
he gets ready
for
the fight,
the strong
are
overcome
with
fear.
\VS{26}The sword
may come
near
him
but
is
not able
to go
through
him;
the spear,
or
the
arrow,
or
the sharp-pointed iron.
\VS{27}Iron is to him as dry grass, and brass as soft wood.
\VS{28}The arrow is not able to put him to flight: stones are no more to him than dry stems.
\VS{29}A thick stick is no better than a leaf of grass, and he makes sport of the onrush of the spear.
\VS{30}Under him are sharp edges of broken pots: as if he was pulling a grain-crushing instrument over the wet earth.
\VS{31}The deep is boiling like a pot of spices, and the sea like a perfume-vessel.
\VS{32}After him his way is shining, so that the deep seems white.
\VS{33}On earth there is not another like him, who is made without fear.
\VS{34}Everything which is high goes in fear of him; he is king over all the sons of pride.

\par }\Chap{42}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
Job
said
in
answer
to
the
Lord,
\VS{2}I
see
that
you
are
able
to
do
every
thing,
and
to give effect
to
all
your designs.
\VS{3}Who
is
this
who
makes dark
the
purpose
of
God
by words
without
knowledge?
For
I
have
been talking
without
knowledge
about
wonders
not
to
be searched
out.
\VS{4}Give ear
to
me,
and
I
will
say
what
is
in
my
mind;
I
will put questions
to
you,
and
you
will
give
me
the answers.
\VS{5}Word
of
you
had come
to
my
ears,
but
now
my
eye
has
seen
you.
\VS{6}For
this cause
I
give witness
that
what
I
said
is false,
and
in
sorrow
I take
my seat
in
the
dust.
\VS{7}And
it
came
about,
after
he
had
said
these
words
to
Job,
that
the
Lord
said
to
Eliphaz
the
Temanite,
I
am
very
angry
with
you
and
your
two
friends,
because
you
have
not
said
what
is
right
about
me,
as
my
servant
Job
has.
\VS{8}And
now,
take
seven
oxen
and
seven
sheep,
and
go
to
my
servant
Job,
and
give
a burned
offering
for
yourselves,
and
my
servant
Job
will
make prayer
for
you,
that
I
may
not
send punishment
on
you;
because
you
have
not
said
what
is
right
about
me,
as
my
servant
Job
has.
\VS{9}And
Eliphaz
the
Temanite,
and
Bildad
the
Shuhite,
and
Zophar
the
Naamathite,
went
and
did
as
the
Lord
had
said.
And
the
Lord
gave ear
to
Job.
\VS{10}And
the
Lord
made
up
to
Job
for
all
his losses,
after
he
had
made prayer
for
his
friends:
and
all
Job
had before
was
increased
by
the
Lord
twice
as
much.
\VS{11}And
all
his
brothers
and
sisters,
and
his
friends
of earlier days,
came
and
took
food
with
him
in
his
house;
and
made
clear
their grief
for
him,
and
gave
him
comfort
for
all
the
evil
which
the
Lord
had
sent
on
him;
and
they
all
gave
him
a bit
of
money
and
a
gold
ring.
\VS{12}And
the Lord's
blessing
was greater
on
the
end
of Job's life than
on
its start:
and
so
he
came
to
have
fourteen
thousand
sheep
and goats,
and
six
thousand
camels,
and
two
thousand
oxen,
and
a
thousand she-asses.
\VS{13}And
he
had
seven
sons
and
three
daughters.
\VS{14}And
he
gave
the
first
the
name
of
Jemimah,
the
second
Keziah,
and
the
third
Keren-happuch;
\VS{15}And
there
were
no
women
so
beautiful
as
the
daughters
of
Job
in
all
the
earth:
and
their
father
gave
them
a
heritage
among
their
brothers.
\VS{16}And
after
this
Job
had
a
hundred
and
forty
years
of
life,
and
saw
his
sons,
and
his sons'
sons,
even
four
generations.
\VS{17}And
Job came
to
his end,
old
and
full
of
days.
\par }