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ISA-11:9 ...for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD,

as the waters cover the sea.

Copyright (c) 1985-2007

king james study

==== <JOB1>

JOB-1:1 There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name [was] Job;

and that man

was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed

evil.

JOB-1:2 And there were born unto him seven sons and three

daughters.

JOB-1:3 His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three

thousand

camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she

asses, and a very

great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the

men of the east.

JOB-1:4 And his sons went and feasted [in their] houses, every

one his day;

and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink

with them.

JOB-1:5 And it was so, when the days of [their] feasting were

gone about,

that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the

morning, and

offered burnt offerings [according] to the number of them all:

for Job said,

It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their

hearts. Thus did

Job continually.

JOB-1:6 Now there was a day when the sons of God came to

present themselves

before the LORD, and Satan came also among them.

JOB-1:7 And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then

Satan answered

the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from

walking up

and down in it.

JOB-1:8 And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my

servant Job,

that [there is] none like him in the earth, a perfect and an

upright man, one

that feareth God, and escheweth evil?

JOB-1:9 Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear

God for nought?

JOB-1:10 Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his

house, and

about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work

of his hands,

and his substance is increased in the land.

JOB-1:11 But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he

hath, and he

will curse thee to thy face.

JOB-1:12 And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath

[is] in thy

power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand. So Satan went

forth from

the presence of the LORD.

JOB-1:13 And there was a day when his sons and his daughters

[were] eating

and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house:

JOB-1:14 And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The

oxen were

plowing, and the asses feeding beside them:

JOB-1:15 And the Sabeans fell [upon them], and took them away;

yea, they have

slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am

escaped alone to

tell thee.

JOB-1:16 While he [was] yet speaking, there came also another,

and said, The

fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep,

and the

servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell

thee.

JOB-1:17 While he [was] yet speaking, there came also another,

and said, The

Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels, and

have carried

them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the

sword; and I only

am escaped alone to tell thee.

JOB-1:18 While he [was] yet speaking, there came also another,

and said, Thy

sons and thy daughters [were] eating and drinking wine in their

eldest

brother's house:

JOB-1:19 And, behold, there came a great wind from the

wilderness, and smote

the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men,

and they are

dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.

JOB-1:20 Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his

head, and fell

down upon the ground, and worshipped,

JOB-1:21 And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and

naked shall I

return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away;

blessed be the

name of the LORD.

JOB-1:22 In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly.

==== <JOB2>

JOB-2:1 Again there was a day when the sons of God came to

present themselves

before the LORD, and Satan came also among them to present

himself before the

LORD.

JOB-2:2 And the LORD said unto Satan, From whence comest thou?

And Satan

answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth,

and from

walking up and down in it.

JOB-2:3 And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my

servant Job,

that [there is] none like him in the earth, a perfect and an

upright man, one

that feareth God, and escheweth evil? and still he holdeth fast

his integrity,

although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without

cause.

JOB-2:4 And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin,

yea, all that a

man hath will he give for his life.

JOB-2:5 But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and

his flesh, and

he will curse thee to thy face.

JOB-2:6 And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, he [is] in thine

hand; but save

his life.

JOB-2:7 So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and

smote Job with

sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.

JOB-2:8 And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal;

and he sat down

among the ashes.

JOB-2:9 Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain

thine integrity?

curse God, and die.

JOB-2:10 But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the

foolish women

speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and

shall we not

receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.

JOB-2:11 Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil

that was come

upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the

Temanite, and

Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made

appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort

him.

JOB-2:12 And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew

him not, they

lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his

mantle, and

sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.

JOB-2:13 So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days

and seven

nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that [his]

grief was very

great.

==== <JOB3>

JOB-3:1 After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.

JOB-3:2 And Job spake, and said,

JOB-3:3 Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night

[in which] it

was said, There is a man child conceived.

JOB-3:4 Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from

above, neither

let the light shine upon it.

JOB-3:5 Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a

cloud dwell upon

it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

JOB-3:6 As [for] that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it

not be joined

unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of

the months.

JOB-3:7 Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice

come therein.

JOB-3:8 Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to

raise up their

mourning.

JOB-3:9 Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it

look for light,

but [have] none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:

JOB-3:10 Because it shut not up the doors of my [mother's] womb,

nor hid

sorrow from mine eyes.

JOB-3:11 Why died I not from the womb? [why] did I [not] give

up the ghost

when I came out of the belly?

JOB-3:12 Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that

I should suck?

JOB-3:13 For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I

should have

slept: then had I been at rest,

JOB-3:14 With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built

desolate places

for themselves;

JOB-3:15 Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses

with silver:

JOB-3:16 Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as

infants [which]

never saw light.

JOB-3:17 There the wicked cease [from] troubling; and there the

weary be at

rest.

JOB-3:18 [There] the prisoners rest together; they hear not the

voice of the

oppressor.

JOB-3:19 The small and great are there; and the servant [is]

free from his

master.

JOB-3:20 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and

life unto the

bitter [in] soul;

JOB-3:21 Which long for death, but it [cometh] not; and dig for

it more than

for hid treasures;

JOB-3:22 Which rejoice exceedingly, [and] are glad, when they

can find the

grave?

JOB-3:23 [Why is light given] to a man whose way is hid, and

whom God hath

hedged in?

JOB-3:24 For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings

are poured out

like the waters.

JOB-3:25 For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me,

and that which

I was afraid of is come unto me.

JOB-3:26 I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I

quiet; yet

trouble came.

==== <JOB4>

JOB-4:1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,

JOB-4:2 [If] we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be

grieved? but who can

withhold himself from speaking?

JOB-4:3 Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast

strengthened the

weak hands.

JOB-4:4 Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou

hast

strengthened the feeble knees.

JOB-4:5 But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it

toucheth thee,

and thou art troubled.

JOB-4:6 [Is] not [this] thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and

the

uprightness of thy ways?

JOB-4:7 Remember, I pray thee, who [ever] perished, being

innocent? or where

were the righteous cut off?

JOB-4:8 Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow

wickedness,

reap the same.

JOB-4:9 By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of

his nostrils

are they consumed.

JOB-4:10 The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce

lion, and the

teeth of the young lions, are broken.

JOB-4:11 The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout

lion's whelps

are scattered abroad.

JOB-4:12 Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear

received a

little thereof.

JOB-4:13 In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep

sleep falleth

on men,

JOB-4:14 Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my

bones to shake.

JOB-4:15 Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my

flesh stood up:

JOB-4:16 It stood still, but I could not discern the form

thereof: an image

[was] before mine eyes, [there was] silence, and I heard a voice,

[saying],

JOB-4:17 Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be

more pure

than his maker?

JOB-4:18 Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his

angels he charged

with folly:

JOB-4:19 How much less [in] them that dwell in houses of clay,

whose

foundation [is] in the dust, [which] are crushed before the moth?

JOB-4:20 They are destroyed from morning to evening: they

perish for ever

without any regarding [it].

JOB-4:21 Doth not their excellency [which is] in them go away?

they die, even

without wisdom.

==== <JOB5>

JOB-5:1 Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to

which of the

saints wilt thou turn?

JOB-5:2 For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the

silly one.

JOB-5:3 I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I

cursed his

habitation.

JOB-5:4 His children are far from safety, and they are crushed

in the gate,

neither [is there] any to deliver [them].

JOB-5:5 Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even

out of the

thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.

JOB-5:6 Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust,

neither doth

trouble spring out of the ground;

JOB-5:7 Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

JOB-5:8 I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my

cause:

JOB-5:9 Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous

things without

number:

JOB-5:10 Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters

upon the fields:

JOB-5:11 To set up on high those that be low; that those which

mourn may be

exalted to safety.

JOB-5:12 He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that

their hands

cannot perform [their] enterprise.

JOB-5:13 He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the

counsel of the

froward is carried headlong.

JOB-5:14 They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in

the noonday as

in the night.

JOB-5:15 But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their

mouth, and from

the hand of the mighty.

JOB-5:16 So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.

JOB-5:17 Behold, happy [is] the man whom God correcteth:

therefore despise

not thou the chastening of the Almighty:

JOB-5:18 For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and

his hands make

whole.

JOB-5:19 He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven

there shall no

evil touch thee.

JOB-5:20 In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war

from the power

of the sword.

JOB-5:21 Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue:

neither shalt thou

be afraid of destruction when it cometh.

JOB-5:22 At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither

shalt thou be

afraid of the beasts of the earth.

JOB-5:23 For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the

field: and the

beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.

JOB-5:24 And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle [shall be] in

peace; and

thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin.

JOB-5:25 Thou shalt know also that thy seed [shall be] great,

and thine

offspring as the grass of the earth.

JOB-5:26 Thou shalt come to [thy] grave in a full age, like as

a shock of

corn cometh in in his season.

JOB-5:27 Lo this, we have searched it, so it [is]; hear it, and

know thou

[it] for thy good.

==== <JOB6>

JOB-6:1 But Job answered and said,

JOB-6:2 Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and my

calamity laid in the

balances together!

JOB-6:3 For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea:

therefore my

words are swallowed up.

JOB-6:4 For the arrows of the Almighty [are] within me, the

poison whereof

drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in

array against

me.

JOB-6:5 Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth

the ox over his

fodder?

JOB-6:6 Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or

is there [any]

taste in the white of an egg?

JOB-6:7 The things [that] my soul refused to touch [are] as my

sorrowful

meat.

JOB-6:8 Oh that I might have my request; and that God would

grant [me] the

thing that I long for!

JOB-6:9 Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he

would let loose

his hand, and cut me off!

JOB-6:10 Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden

myself in

sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of

the Holy One.

JOB-6:11 What [is] my strength, that I should hope? and what

[is] mine end,

that I should prolong my life?

JOB-6:12 [Is] my strength the strength of stones? or [is] my

flesh of brass?

JOB-6:13 [Is] not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite

from me?

JOB-6:14 To him that is afflicted pity [should be showed] from

his friend;

but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.

JOB-6:15 My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, [and]

as the stream

of brooks they pass away;

JOB-6:16 Which are blackish by reason of the ice, [and] wherein

the snow is

hid:

JOB-6:17 What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot,

they are

consumed out of their place.

JOB-6:18 The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to

nothing, and

perish.

JOB-6:19 The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba

waited for them.

JOB-6:20 They were confounded because they had hoped; they came

thither, and

were ashamed.

JOB-6:21 For now ye are nothing; ye see [my] casting down, and

are afraid.

JOB-6:22 Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of

your

substance?

JOB-6:23 Or, Deliver me from the enemy's hand? or, Redeem me

from the hand of

the mighty?

JOB-6:24 Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to

understand

wherein I have erred.

JOB-6:25 How forcible are right words! but what doth your

arguing reprove?

JOB-6:26 Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of

one that is

desperate, [which are] as wind?

JOB-6:27 Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig [a pit]

for your

friend.

JOB-6:28 Now therefore be content, look upon me; for [it is]

evident unto you

if I lie.

JOB-6:29 Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea,

return again, my

righteousness [is] in it.

JOB-6:30 Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste

discern perverse

things?

==== <JOB7>

JOB-7:1 [Is there] not an appointed time to man upon earth?

[are not] his

days also like the days of an hireling?

JOB-7:2 As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an

hireling

looketh for [the reward of] his work:

JOB-7:3 So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome

nights are

appointed to me.

JOB-7:4 When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the

night be gone?

and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.

JOB-7:5 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my

skin is broken,

and become loathsome.

JOB-7:6 My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are

spent without

hope.

JOB-7:7 O remember that my life [is] wind: mine eye shall no

more see good.

JOB-7:8 The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no [more]:

thine eyes

[are] upon me, and I [am] not.

JOB-7:9 [As] the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he

that goeth down

to the grave shall come up no [more].

JOB-7:10 He shall return no more to his house, neither shall

his place know

him any more.

JOB-7:11 Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in

the anguish

of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

JOB-7:12 [Am] I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch

over me?

JOB-7:13 When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall

ease my

complaint;

JOB-7:14 Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me

through visions:

JOB-7:15 So that my soul chooseth strangling, [and] death

rather than my

life.

JOB-7:16 I loathe [it]; I would not live alway: let me alone;

for my days

[are] vanity.

JOB-7:17 What [is] man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and

that thou

shouldest set thine heart upon him?

JOB-7:18 And [that] thou shouldest visit him every morning,

[and] try him

every moment?

JOB-7:19 How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me

alone till I

swallow down my spittle?

JOB-7:20 I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou

preserver of men?

why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a

burden to myself?

JOB-7:21 And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and

take away mine

iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek

me in the

morning, but I [shall] not [be].

==== <JOB8>

JOB-8:1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

JOB-8:2 How long wilt thou speak these [things]? and [how long

shall] the

words of thy mouth [be like] a strong wind?

JOB-8:3 Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert

justice?

JOB-8:4 If thy children have sinned against him, and he have

cast them away

for their transgression;

JOB-8:5 If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy

supplication to

the Almighty;

JOB-8:6 If thou [wert] pure and upright; surely now he would

awake for thee,

and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.

JOB-8:7 Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end

should greatly

increase.

JOB-8:8 For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and

prepare thyself to

the search of their fathers:

JOB-8:9 (For we [are but of] yesterday, and know nothing,

because our days

upon earth [are] a shadow:)

JOB-8:10 Shall not they teach thee, [and] tell thee, and utter

words out of

their heart?

JOB-8:11 Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow

without water?

JOB-8:12 Whilst it [is] yet in his greenness, [and] not cut

down, it

withereth before any [other] herb.

JOB-8:13 So [are] the paths of all that forget God; and the

hypocrite's hope

shall perish:

JOB-8:14 Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust [shall

be] a spider's

web.

JOB-8:15 He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand:

he shall hold

it fast, but it shall not endure.

JOB-8:16 He [is] green before the sun, and his branch shooteth

forth in his

garden.

JOB-8:17 His roots are wrapped about the heap, [and] seeth the

place of

stones.

JOB-8:18 If he destroy him from his place, then [it] shall deny

him,

[saying], I have not seen thee.

JOB-8:19 Behold, this [is] the joy of his way, and out of the

earth shall

others grow.

JOB-8:20 Behold, God will not cast away a perfect [man],

neither will he help

the evil doers:

JOB-8:21 Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips

with rejoicing.

JOB-8:22 They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and

the dwelling

place of the wicked shall come to nought.

==== <JOB9>

JOB-9:1 Then Job answered and said,

JOB-9:2 I know [it is] so of a truth: but how should man be

just with God?

JOB-9:3 If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one

of a thousand.

JOB-9:4 [He is] wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath

hardened

[himself] against him, and hath prospered?

JOB-9:5 Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which

overturneth

them in his anger.

JOB-9:6 Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the

pillars thereof

tremble.

JOB-9:7 Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and

sealeth up the

stars.

JOB-9:8 Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth

upon the waves of

the sea.

JOB-9:9 Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the

chambers of the

south.

JOB-9:10 Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and

wonders without

number.

JOB-9:11 Lo, he goeth by me, and I see [him] not: he passeth on

also, but I

perceive him not.

JOB-9:12 Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will

say unto him,

What doest thou?

JOB-9:13 [If] God will not withdraw his anger, the proud

helpers do stoop

under him.

JOB-9:14 How much less shall I answer him, [and] choose out my

words [to

reason] with him?

JOB-9:15 Whom, though I were righteous, [yet] would I not

answer, [but] I

would make supplication to my judge.

JOB-9:16 If I had called, and he had answered me; [yet] would I

not believe

that he had hearkened unto my voice.

JOB-9:17 For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my

wounds without

cause.

JOB-9:18 He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth

me with

bitterness.

JOB-9:19 If [I speak] of strength, lo, [he is] strong: and if

of judgment,

who shall set me a time [to plead]?

JOB-9:20 If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me:

[if I say], I

[am] perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.

JOB-9:21 [Though] I [were] perfect, [yet] would I not know my

soul: I would

despise my life.

JOB-9:22 This [is] one [thing], therefore I said [it], He

destroyeth the

perfect and the wicked.

JOB-9:23 If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the

trial of the

innocent.

JOB-9:24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he

covereth the

faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, [and] who [is] he?

JOB-9:25 Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away,

they see no

good.

JOB-9:26 They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle

[that] hasteth

to the prey.

JOB-9:27 If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off

my heaviness,

and comfort [myself]:

JOB-9:28 I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt

not hold me

innocent.

JOB-9:29 [If] I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?

JOB-9:30 If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands

never so clean;

JOB-9:31 Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own

clothes shall

abhor me.

JOB-9:32 For [he is] not a man, as I [am, that] I should answer

him, [and] we

should come together in judgment.

JOB-9:33 Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, [that] might

lay his hand

upon us both.

JOB-9:34 Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his

fear terrify me:

JOB-9:35 [Then] would I speak, and not fear him; but [it is]

not so with me.

==== <JOB10>

JOB-10:1 My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint

upon myself;

I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

JOB-10:2 I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; show me

wherefore thou

contendest with me.

JOB-10:3 [Is it] good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress,

that thou

shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the

counsel of the

wicked?

JOB-10:4 Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth?

JOB-10:5 [Are] thy days as the days of man? [are] thy years as

man's days,

JOB-10:6 That thou inquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest

after my sin?

JOB-10:7 Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and [there is] none

that can

deliver out of thine hand.

JOB-10:8 Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together

round about; yet

thou dost destroy me.

JOB-10:9 Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as

the clay; and

wilt thou bring me into dust again?

JOB-10:10 Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me

like cheese?

JOB-10:11 Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast

fenced me with

bones and sinews.

JOB-10:12 Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy

visitation hath

preserved my spirit.

JOB-10:13 And these [things] hast thou hid in thine heart: I

know that this

[is] with thee.

JOB-10:14 If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not

acquit me from

mine iniquity.

JOB-10:15 If I be wicked, woe unto me; and [if] I be righteous,

[yet] will I

not lift up my head. [I am] full of confusion; therefore see

thou mine

affliction;

JOB-10:16 For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion:

and again thou

showest thyself marvellous upon me.

JOB-10:17 Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and

increasest thine

indignation upon me; changes and war [are] against me.

JOB-10:18 Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the

womb? Oh that

I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!

JOB-10:19 I should have been as though I had not been; I should

have been

carried from the womb to the grave.

JOB-10:20 [Are] not my days few? cease [then, and] let me alone,

that I may

take comfort a little,

JOB-10:21 Before I go [whence] I shall not return, [even] to

the land of

darkness and the shadow of death;

JOB-10:22 A land of darkness, as darkness [itself; and] of the

shadow of

death, without any order, and [where] the light [is] as darkness.

==== <JOB11>

JOB-11:1 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,

JOB-11:2 Should not the multitude of words be answered? and

should a man full

of talk be justified?

JOB-11:3 Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when

thou mockest,

shall no man make thee ashamed?

JOB-11:4 For thou hast said, My doctrine [is] pure, and I am

clean in thine

eyes.

JOB-11:5 But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against

thee;

JOB-11:6 And that he would show thee the secrets of wisdom,

that [they are]

double to that which is! Know therefore that God exacteth of

thee [less] than

thine iniquity [deserveth].

JOB-11:7 Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find

out the

Almighty unto perfection?

JOB-11:8 [It is] as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper

than hell;

what canst thou know?

JOB-11:9 The measure thereof [is] longer than the earth, and

broader than the

sea.

JOB-11:10 If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then

who can hinder

him?

JOB-11:11 For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also;

will he not then

consider [it]?

JOB-11:12 For vain man would be wise, though man be born [like]

a wild ass's

colt.

JOB-11:13 If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine

hands toward

him;

JOB-11:14 If iniquity [be] in thine hand, put it far away, and

let not

wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.

JOB-11:15 For then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot;

yea, thou shalt

be stedfast, and shalt not fear:

JOB-11:16 Because thou shalt forget [thy] misery, [and]

remember [it] as

waters [that] pass away:

JOB-11:17 And [thine] age shall be clearer than the noonday;

thou shalt shine

forth, thou shalt be as the morning.

JOB-11:18 And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope; yea,

thou shalt

dig [about thee, and] thou shalt take thy rest in safety.

JOB-11:19 Also thou shalt lie down, and none shall make [thee]

afraid; yea,

many shall make suit unto thee.

JOB-11:20 But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall

not escape,

and their hope [shall be as] the giving up of the ghost.

==== <JOB12>

JOB-12:1 And Job answered and said,

JOB-12:2 No doubt but ye [are] the people, and wisdom shall die

with you.

JOB-12:3 But I have understanding as well as you; I [am] not

inferior to you:

yea, who knoweth not such things as these?

JOB-12:4 I am [as] one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth

upon God, and he

answereth him: the just upright [man is] laughed to scorn.

JOB-12:5 He that is ready to slip with [his] feet [is as] a

lamp despised in

the thought of him that is at ease.

JOB-12:6 The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that

provoke God are

secure; into whose hand God bringeth [abundantly].

JOB-12:7 But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and

the fowls of

the air, and they shall tell thee:

JOB-12:8 Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and

the fishes of

the sea shall declare unto thee.

JOB-12:9 Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the LORD

hath wrought

this?

JOB-12:10 In whose hand [is] the soul of every living thing,

and the breath

of all mankind.

JOB-12:11 Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his

meat?

JOB-12:12 With the ancient [is] wisdom; and in length of days

understanding.

JOB-12:13 With him [is] wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and

understanding.

JOB-12:14 Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built

again: he shutteth

up a man, and there can be no opening.

JOB-12:15 Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up:

also he sendeth

them out, and they overturn the earth.

JOB-12:16 With him [is] strength and wisdom: the deceived and

the deceiver

[are] his.

JOB-12:17 He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and maketh the

judges fools.

JOB-12:18 He looseth the bond of kings, and girdeth their loins

with a

girdle.

JOB-12:19 He leadeth princes away spoiled, and overthroweth the

mighty.

JOB-12:20 He removeth away the speech of the trusty, and taketh

away the

understanding of the aged.

JOB-12:21 He poureth contempt upon princes, and weakeneth the

strength of the

mighty.

JOB-12:22 He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and

bringeth out to

light the shadow of death.

JOB-12:23 He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he

enlargeth the

nations, and straiteneth them [again].

JOB-12:24 He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people

of the earth,

and causeth them to wander in a wilderness [where there is] no

way.

JOB-12:25 They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh

them to stagger

like [a] drunken [man].

==== <JOB13>

JOB-13:1 Lo, mine eye hath seen all [this], mine ear hath heard

and

understood it.

JOB-13:2 What ye know, [the same] do I know also: I [am] not

inferior unto

you.

JOB-13:3 Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to

reason with

God.

JOB-13:4 But ye [are] forgers of lies, ye [are] all physicians

of no value.

JOB-13:5 O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it

should be your

wisdom.

JOB-13:6 Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of

my lips.

JOB-13:7 Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully

for him?

JOB-13:8 Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?

JOB-13:9 Is it good that he should search you out? or as one

man mocketh

another, do ye [so] mock him?

JOB-13:10 He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept

persons.

JOB-13:11 Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his

dread fall upon

you?

JOB-13:12 Your remembrances [are] like unto ashes, your bodies

to bodies of

clay.

JOB-13:13 Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and

let come on me

what [will].

JOB-13:14 Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my

life in mine

hand?

JOB-13:15 Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I

will maintain

mine own ways before him.

JOB-13:16 He also [shall be] my salvation: for an hypocrite

shall not come

before him.

JOB-13:17 Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with

your ears.

JOB-13:18 Behold now, I have ordered [my] cause; I know that I

shall be

justified.

JOB-13:19 Who [is] he [that] will plead with me? for now, if I

hold my

tongue, I shall give up the ghost.

JOB-13:20 Only do not two [things] unto me: then will I not

hide myself from

thee.

JOB-13:21 Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy

dread make me

afraid.

JOB-13:22 Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak,

and answer thou

me.

JOB-13:23 How many [are] mine iniquities and sins? make me to

know my

transgression and my sin.

JOB-13:24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for

thine enemy?

JOB-13:25 Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt

thou pursue the

dry stubble?

JOB-13:26 For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest

me to possess

the iniquities of my youth.

JOB-13:27 Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest

narrowly unto

all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.

JOB-13:28 And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment

that is moth

eaten.

==== <JOB14>

JOB-14:1 Man [that is] born of a woman [is] of few days, and

full of trouble.

JOB-14:2 He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he

fleeth also as a

shadow, and continueth not.

JOB-14:3 And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and

bringest me into

judgment with thee?

JOB-14:4 Who can bring a clean [thing] out of an unclean? not

one.

JOB-14:5 Seeing his days [are] determined, the number of his

months [are]

with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;

JOB-14:6 Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall

accomplish, as an

hireling, his day.

JOB-14:7 For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that

it will sprout

again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.

JOB-14:8 Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the

stock thereof

die in the ground;

JOB-14:9 [Yet] through the scent of water it will bud, and

bring forth boughs

like a plant.

JOB-14:10 But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up

the ghost, and

where [is] he?

JOB-14:11 [As] the waters fail from the sea, and the flood

decayeth and

drieth up:

JOB-14:12 So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens

[be] no more,

they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.

JOB-14:13 O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou

wouldest keep

me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint

me a set time,

and remember me!

JOB-14:14 If a man die, shall he live [again]? all the days of

my appointed

time will I wait, till my change come.

JOB-14:15 Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt

have a desire to

the work of thine hands.

JOB-14:16 For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch

over my sin?

JOB-14:17 My transgression [is] sealed up in a bag, and thou

sewest up mine

iniquity.

JOB-14:18 And surely the mountain falling cometh to nought, and

the rock is

removed out of his place.

JOB-14:19 The waters wear the stones: thou washest away the

things which grow

[out] of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of

man.

JOB-14:20 Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth:

thou changest

his countenance, and sendest him away.

JOB-14:21 His sons come to honour, and he knoweth [it] not; and

they are

brought low, but he perceiveth [it] not of them.

JOB-14:22 But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul

within him

shall mourn.

==== <JOB15>

JOB-15:1 Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,

JOB-15:2 Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his

belly with the

east wind?

JOB-15:3 Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with

speeches wherewith

he can do no good?

JOB-15:4 Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer

before God.

JOB-15:5 For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou

choosest the tongue

of the crafty.

JOB-15:6 Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine

own lips

testify against thee.

JOB-15:7 [Art] thou the first man [that] was born? or wast thou

made before

the hills?

JOB-15:8 Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou

restrain wisdom to

thyself?

JOB-15:9 What knowest thou, that we know not? [what]

understandest thou,

which [is] not in us?

JOB-15:10 With us [are] both the grayheaded and very aged men,

much elder

than thy father.

JOB-15:11 [Are] the consolations of God small with thee? is

there any secret

thing with thee?

JOB-15:12 Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy

eyes wink at,

JOB-15:13 That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest

[such] words

go out of thy mouth?

JOB-15:14 What [is] man, that he should be clean? and [he which

is] born of a

woman, that he should be righteous?

JOB-15:15 Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the

heavens are not

clean in his sight.

JOB-15:16 How much more abominable and filthy [is] man, which

drinketh

iniquity like water?

JOB-15:17 I will show thee, hear me; and that [which] I have

seen I will

declare;

JOB-15:18 Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have

not hid [it]:

JOB-15:19 Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger

passed among

them.

JOB-15:20 The wicked man travaileth with pain all [his] days,

and the number

of years is hidden to the oppressor.

JOB-15:21 A dreadful sound [is] in his ears: in prosperity the

destroyer

shall come upon him.

JOB-15:22 He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness,

and he is

waited for of the sword.

JOB-15:23 He wandereth abroad for bread, [saying], Where [is

it]? he knoweth

that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

JOB-15:24 Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall

prevail

against him, as a king ready to the battle.

JOB-15:25 For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and

strengtheneth

himself against the Almighty.

JOB-15:26 He runneth upon him, [even] on [his] neck, upon the

thick bosses of

his bucklers:

JOB-15:27 Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and

maketh collops

of fat on [his] flanks.

JOB-15:28 And he dwelleth in desolate cities, [and] in houses

which no man

inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.

JOB-15:29 He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance

continue, neither

shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.

JOB-15:30 He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall

dry up his

branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.

JOB-15:31 Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for

vanity shall be

his recompense.

JOB-15:32 It shall be accomplished before his time, and his

branch shall not

be green.

JOB-15:33 He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and

shall cast off

his flower as the olive.

JOB-15:34 For the congregation of hypocrites [shall be]

desolate, and fire

shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.

JOB-15:35 They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and

their belly

prepareth deceit.

==== <JOB16>

JOB-16:1 Then Job answered and said,

JOB-16:2 I have heard many such things: miserable comforters

[are] ye all.

JOB-16:3 Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee

that thou

answerest?

JOB-16:4 I also could speak as ye [do]: if your soul were in my

soul's stead,

I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.

JOB-16:5 [But] I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the

moving of my

lips should asswage [your grief].

JOB-16:6 Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and [though]

I forbear,

what am I eased?

JOB-16:7 But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate

all my

company.

JOB-16:8 And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, [which] is a

witness [against

me]: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.

JOB-16:9 He teareth [me] in his wrath, who hateth me: he

gnasheth upon me

with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.

JOB-16:10 They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have

smitten me upon

the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together

against me.

JOB-16:11 God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me

over into the

hands of the wicked.

JOB-16:12 I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath

also taken

[me] by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his

mark.

JOB-16:13 His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my

reins asunder,

and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.

JOB-16:14 He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth

upon me like a

giant.

JOB-16:15 I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my

horn in the

dust.

JOB-16:16 My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids [is]

the shadow of

death;

JOB-16:17 Not for [any] injustice in mine hands: also my prayer

[is] pure.

JOB-16:18 O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have

no place.

JOB-16:19 Also now, behold, my witness [is] in heaven, and my

record [is] on

high.

JOB-16:20 My friends scorn me: [but] mine eye poureth out

[tears] unto God.

JOB-16:21 O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man

[pleadeth] for

his neighbour!

JOB-16:22 When a few years are come, then I shall go the way

[whence] I shall

not return.

==== <JOB17>

JOB-17:1 My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves

[are ready]

for me.

JOB-17:2 [Are there] not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye

continue in

their provocation?

JOB-17:3 Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who [is]

he [that] will

strike hands with me?

JOB-17:4 For thou hast hid their heart from understanding:

therefore shalt

thou not exalt [them].

JOB-17:5 He that speaketh flattery to [his] friends, even the

eyes of his

children shall fail.

JOB-17:6 He hath made me also a byword of the people; and

aforetime I was as

a tabret.

JOB-17:7 Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my

members [are]

as a shadow.

JOB-17:8 Upright [men] shall be astonied at this, and the

innocent shall stir

up himself against the hypocrite.

JOB-17:9 The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that

hath clean

hands shall be stronger and stronger.

JOB-17:10 But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I

cannot find

[one] wise [man] among you.

JOB-17:11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, [even]

the thoughts

of my heart.

JOB-17:12 They change the night into day: the light [is] short

because of

darkness.

JOB-17:13 If I wait, the grave [is] mine house: I have made my

bed in the

darkness.

JOB-17:14 I have said to corruption, Thou [art] my father: to

the worm, [Thou

art] my mother, and my sister.

JOB-17:15 And where [is] now my hope? as for my hope, who shall

see it?

JOB-17:16 They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when [our]

rest together

[is] in the dust.

==== <JOB18>

JOB-18:1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

JOB-18:2 How long [will it be ere] ye make an end of words?

mark, and

afterwards we will speak.

JOB-18:3 Wherefore are we counted as beasts, [and] reputed vile

in your

sight?

JOB-18:4 He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be

forsaken for

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

JOB-18:5 Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the

spark of his

fire shall not shine.

JOB-18:6 The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his

candle shall be

put out with him.

JOB-18:7 The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his

own counsel

shall cast him down.

JOB-18:8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he

walketh upon a

snare.

JOB-18:9 The gin shall take [him] by the heel, [and] the robber

shall prevail

against him.

JOB-18:10 The snare [is] laid for him in the ground, and a trap

for him in

the way.

JOB-18:11 Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and

shall drive him to

his feet.

JOB-18:12 His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction

[shall be]

ready at his side.

JOB-18:13 It shall devour the strength of his skin: [even] the

firstborn of

death shall devour his strength.

JOB-18:14 His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle,

and it shall

bring him to the king of terrors.

JOB-18:15 It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because [it is]

none of his:

brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.

JOB-18:16 His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall

his branch be

cut off.

JOB-18:17 His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he

shall have no

name in the street.

JOB-18:18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, and

chased out of the

world.

JOB-18:19 He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people,

nor any

remaining in his dwellings.

JOB-18:20 They that come after [him] shall be astonied at his

day, as they

that went before were affrighted.

JOB-18:21 Surely such [are] the dwellings of the wicked, and

this [is] the

place [of him that] knoweth not God.

==== <JOB19>

JOB-19:1 Then Job answered and said,

JOB-19:2 How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces

with words?

JOB-19:3 These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not

ashamed [that] ye

make yourselves strange to me.

JOB-19:4 And be it indeed [that] I have erred, mine error

remaineth with

myself.

JOB-19:5 If indeed ye will magnify [yourselves] against me, and

plead against

me my reproach:

JOB-19:6 Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath

compassed me with his

net.

JOB-19:7 Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry

aloud, but

[there is] no judgment.

JOB-19:8 He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he

hath set

darkness in my paths.

JOB-19:9 He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown

[from] my head.

JOB-19:10 He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone:

and mine hope

hath he removed like a tree.

JOB-19:11 He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he

counteth me unto

him as [one of] his enemies.

JOB-19:12 His troops come together, and raise up their way

against me, and

encamp round about my tabernacle.

JOB-19:13 He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine

acquaintance are

verily estranged from me.

JOB-19:14 My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have

forgotten me.

JOB-19:15 They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me

for a

stranger: I am an alien in their sight.

JOB-19:16 I called my servant, and he gave [me] no answer; I

entreated him

with my mouth.

JOB-19:17 My breath is strange to my wife, though I entreated

for the

children's [sake] of mine own body.

JOB-19:18 Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they

spake against

me.

JOB-19:19 All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I

loved are turned

against me.

JOB-19:20 My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am

escaped with

the skin of my teeth.

JOB-19:21 Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends;

for the hand

of God hath touched me.

JOB-19:22 Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied

with my flesh?

JOB-19:23 Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were

printed in a

book!

JOB-19:24 That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in

the rock for

ever!

JOB-19:25 For I know [that] my redeemer liveth, and [that] he

shall stand at

the latter [day] upon the earth:

JOB-19:26 And [though] after my skin [worms] destroy this

[body], yet in my

flesh shall I see God:

JOB-19:27 Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall

behold, and not

another; [though] my reins be consumed within me.

JOB-19:28 But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the

root of the

matter is found in me?

JOB-19:29 Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath [bringeth] the

punishments of

the sword, that ye may know [there is] a judgment.

==== <JOB20>

JOB-20:1 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,

JOB-20:2 Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for

[this] I make

haste.

JOB-20:3 I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit

of my

understanding causeth me to answer.

JOB-20:4 Knowest thou [not] this of old, since man was placed

upon earth,

JOB-20:5 That the triumphing of the wicked [is] short, and the

joy of the

hypocrite [but] for a moment?

JOB-20:6 Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his

head reach

unto the clouds;

JOB-20:7 [Yet] he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they

which have

seen him shall say, Where [is] he?

JOB-20:8 He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found:

yea, he shall

be chased away as a vision of the night.

JOB-20:9 The eye also [which] saw him shall [see him] no more;

neither shall

his place any more behold him.

JOB-20:10 His children shall seek to please the poor, and his

hands shall

restore their goods.

JOB-20:11 His bones are full [of the sin] of his youth, which

shall lie down

with him in the dust.

JOB-20:12 Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, [though] he

hide it under

his tongue;

JOB-20:13 [Though] he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it

still within

his mouth:

JOB-20:14 [Yet] his meat in his bowels is turned, [it is] the

gall of asps

within him.

JOB-20:15 He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit

them up again:

God shall cast them out of his belly.

JOB-20:16 He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue

shall slay

him.

JOB-20:17 He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks

of honey and

butter.

JOB-20:18 That which he laboured for shall he restore, and

shall not swallow

[it] down: according to [his] substance [shall] the restitution

[be], and he

shall not rejoice [therein].

JOB-20:19 Because he hath oppressed [and] hath forsaken the

poor; [because]

he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;

JOB-20:20 Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he

shall not save

of that which he desired.

JOB-20:21 There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall

no man look

for his goods.

JOB-20:22 In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in

straits: every

hand of the wicked shall come upon him.

JOB-20:23 [When] he is about to fill his belly, [God] shall

cast the fury of

his wrath upon him, and shall rain [it] upon him while he is

eating.

JOB-20:24 He shall flee from the iron weapon, [and] the bow of

steel shall

strike him through.

JOB-20:25 It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the

glittering sword

cometh out of his gall: terrors [are] upon him.

JOB-20:26 All darkness [shall be] hid in his secret places: a

fire not blown

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

tabernacle.

JOB-20:27 The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth

shall rise up

against him.

JOB-20:28 The increase of his house shall depart, [and his

goods] shall flow

away in the day of his wrath.

JOB-20:29 This [is] the portion of a wicked man from God, and

the heritage

appointed unto him by God.

==== <JOB21>

JOB-21:1 But Job answered and said,

JOB-21:2 Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your

consolations.

JOB-21:3 Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have

spoken, mock on.

JOB-21:4 As for me, [is] my complaint to man? and if [it were

so], why should

not my spirit be troubled?

JOB-21:5 Mark me, and be astonished, and lay [your] hand upon

[your] mouth.

JOB-21:6 Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh

hold on my

flesh.

JOB-21:7 Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are

mighty in power?

JOB-21:8 Their seed is established in their sight with them,

and their

offspring before their eyes.

JOB-21:9 Their houses [are] safe from fear, neither [is] the

rod of God upon

them.

JOB-21:10 Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow

calveth, and

casteth not her calf.

JOB-21:11 They send forth their little ones like a flock, and

their children

dance.

JOB-21:12 They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the

sound of the

organ.

JOB-21:13 They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go

down to the

grave.

JOB-21:14 Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we

desire not the

knowledge of thy ways.

JOB-21:15 What [is] the Almighty, that we should serve him? and

what profit

should we have, if we pray unto him?

JOB-21:16 Lo, their good [is] not in their hand: the counsel of

the wicked is

far from me.

JOB-21:17 How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and [how

oft] cometh

their destruction upon them! [God] distributeth sorrows in his

anger.

JOB-21:18 They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff

that the storm

carrieth away.

JOB-21:19 God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he

rewardeth him, and

he shall know [it].

JOB-21:20 His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall

drink of the wrath

of the Almighty.

JOB-21:21 For what pleasure [hath] he in his house after him,

when the number

of his months is cut off in the midst?

JOB-21:22 Shall [any] teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth

those that are

high.

JOB-21:23 One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease

and quiet.

JOB-21:24 His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are

moistened with

marrow.

JOB-21:25 And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and

never eateth

with pleasure.

JOB-21:26 They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms

shall cover

them.

JOB-21:27 Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices [which]

ye wrongfully

imagine against me.

JOB-21:28 For ye say, Where [is] the house of the prince? and

where [are] the

dwelling places of the wicked?

JOB-21:29 Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye

not know their

tokens,

JOB-21:30 That the wicked is reserved to the day of

destruction? they shall

be brought forth to the day of wrath.

JOB-21:31 Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall

repay him

[what] he hath done?

JOB-21:32 Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall

remain in the tomb.

JOB-21:33 The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and

every man

shall draw after him, as [there are] innumerable before him.

JOB-21:34 How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your

answers there

remaineth falsehood?

==== <JOB22>

JOB-22:1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,

JOB-22:2 Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise

may be

profitable unto himself?

JOB-22:3 [Is it] any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art

righteous? or

[is it] gain [to him], that thou makest thy ways perfect?

JOB-22:4 Will he reprove thee for fear of thee? will he enter

with thee into

judgment?

JOB-22:5 [Is] not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities

infinite?

JOB-22:6 For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for

nought, and

stripped the naked of their clothing.

JOB-22:7 Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and

thou hast

withholden bread from the hungry.

JOB-22:8 But [as for] the mighty man, he had the earth; and the

honourable

man dwelt in it.

JOB-22:9 Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the

fatherless

have been broken.

JOB-22:10 Therefore snares [are] round about thee, and sudden

fear troubleth

thee;

JOB-22:11 Or darkness, [that] thou canst not see; and abundance

of waters

cover thee.

JOB-22:12 [Is] not God in the height of heaven? and behold the

height of the

stars, how high they are!

JOB-22:13 And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge

through the dark

cloud?

JOB-22:14 Thick clouds [are] a covering to him, that he seeth

not; and he

walketh in the circuit of heaven.

JOB-22:15 Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have

trodden?

JOB-22:16 Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was

overflown

with a flood:

JOB-22:17 Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the

Almighty do

for them?

JOB-22:18 Yet he filled their houses with good [things]: but

the counsel of

the wicked is far from me.

JOB-22:19 The righteous see [it], and are glad: and the

innocent laugh them

to scorn.

JOB-22:20 Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the

remnant of them the

fire consumeth.

JOB-22:21 Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace:

thereby good shall

come unto thee.

JOB-22:22 Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay

up his words

in thine heart.

JOB-22:23 If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built

up, thou shalt

put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.

JOB-22:24 Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the [gold]

of Ophir as the

stones of the brooks.

JOB-22:25 Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou

shalt have plenty

of silver.

JOB-22:26 For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty,

and shalt

lift up thy face unto God.

JOB-22:27 Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall

hear thee, and

thou shalt pay thy vows.

JOB-22:28 Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be

established unto

thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.

JOB-22:29 When [men] are cast down, then thou shalt say, [There

is] lifting

up; and he shall save the humble person.

JOB-22:30 He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it

is delivered by

the pureness of thine hands.

==== <JOB23>

JOB-23:1 Then Job answered and said,

JOB-23:2 Even to day [is] my complaint bitter: my stroke is

heavier than my

groaning.

JOB-23:3 Oh that I knew where I might find him! [that] I might

come [even] to

his seat!

JOB-23:4 I would order [my] cause before him, and fill my mouth

with

arguments.

JOB-23:5 I would know the words [which] he would answer me, and

understand

what he would say unto me.

JOB-23:6 Will he plead against me with [his] great power? No;

but he would

put [strength] in me.

JOB-23:7 There the righteous might dispute with him; so should

I be delivered

for ever from my judge.

JOB-23:8 Behold, I go forward, but he [is] not [there]; and

backward, but I

cannot perceive him:

JOB-23:9 On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot

behold [him]: he

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

JOB-23:10 But he knoweth the way that I take: [when] he hath

tried me, I

shall come forth as gold.

JOB-23:11 My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and

not declined.

JOB-23:12 Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his

lips; I have

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

JOB-23:13 But he [is] in one [mind], and who can turn him? and

[what] his

soul desireth, even [that] he doeth.

JOB-23:14 For he performeth [the thing that is] appointed for

me: and many

such [things are] with him.

JOB-23:15 Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I

consider, I am

afraid of him.

JOB-23:16 For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty

troubleth me:

JOB-23:17 Because I was not cut off before the darkness,

[neither] hath he

covered the darkness from my face.

==== <JOB24>

JOB-24:1 Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do

they that

know him not see his days?

JOB-24:2 [Some] remove the landmarks; they violently take away

flocks, and

feed [thereof].

JOB-24:3 They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take

the widow's ox

for a pledge.

JOB-24:4 They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the

earth hide

themselves together.

JOB-24:5 Behold, [as] wild asses in the desert, go they forth

to their work;

rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness [yieldeth] food for

them [and] for

[their] children.

JOB-24:6 They reap [every one] his corn in the field: and they

gather the

vintage of the wicked.

JOB-24:7 They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that

[they have] no

covering in the cold.

JOB-24:8 They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and

embrace the rock

for want of a shelter.

JOB-24:9 They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a

pledge of the

poor.

JOB-24:10 They cause [him] to go naked without clothing, and

they take away

the sheaf [from] the hungry;

JOB-24:11 [Which] make oil within their walls, [and] tread

[their]

winepresses, and suffer thirst.

JOB-24:12 Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the

wounded crieth

out: yet God layeth not folly [to them].

JOB-24:13 They are of those that rebel against the light; they

know not the

ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.

JOB-24:14 The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor

and needy, and

in the night is as a thief.

JOB-24:15 The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the

twilight, saying, No

eye shall see me: and disguiseth [his] face.

JOB-24:16 In the dark they dig through houses, [which] they had

marked for

themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.

JOB-24:17 For the morning [is] to them even as the shadow of

death: if [one]

know [them, they are in] the terrors of the shadow of death.

JOB-24:18 He [is] swift as the waters; their portion is cursed

in the earth:

he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.

JOB-24:19 Drought and heat consume the snow waters: [so doth]

the grave

[those which] have sinned.

JOB-24:20 The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed

sweetly on him; he

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

tree.

JOB-24:21 He evil entreateth the barren [that] beareth not: and

doeth not

good to the widow.

JOB-24:22 He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth

up, and no

[man] is sure of life.

JOB-24:23 [Though] it be given him [to be] in safety, whereon

he resteth; yet

his eyes [are] upon their ways.

JOB-24:24 They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and

brought low;

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

tops of the

ears of corn.

JOB-24:25 And if [it be] not [so] now, who will make me a liar,

and make my

speech nothing worth?

==== <JOB25>

JOB-25:1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

JOB-25:2 Dominion and fear [are] with him, he maketh peace in

his high

places.

JOB-25:3 Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth

not his light

arise?

JOB-25:4 How then can man be justified with God? or how can he

be clean [that

is] born of a woman?

JOB-25:5 Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the

stars are not

pure in his sight.

JOB-25:6 How much less man, [that is] a worm? and the son of

man, [which is]

a worm?

==== <JOB26>

JOB-26:1 But Job answered and said,

JOB-26:2 How hast thou helped [him that is] without power?

[how] savest thou

the arm [that hath] no strength?

JOB-26:3 How hast thou counselled [him that hath] no wisdom?

and [how] hast

thou plentifully declared the thing as it is?

JOB-26:4 To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came

from thee?

JOB-26:5 Dead [things] are formed from under the waters, and

the inhabitants

thereof.

JOB-26:6 Hell [is] naked before him, and destruction hath no

covering.

JOB-26:7 He stretcheth out the north over the empty place,

[and] hangeth the

earth upon nothing.

JOB-26:8 He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the

cloud is not

rent under them.

JOB-26:9 He holdeth back the face of his throne, [and]

spreadeth his cloud

upon it.

JOB-26:10 He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the

day and night

come to an end.

JOB-26:11 The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at

his reproof.

JOB-26:12 He divideth the sea with his power, and by his

understanding he

smiteth through the proud.

JOB-26:13 By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand

hath formed

the crooked serpent.

JOB-26:14 Lo, these [are] parts of his ways: but how little a

portion is

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

==== <JOB27>

JOB-27:1 Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,

JOB-27:2 [As] God liveth, [who] hath taken away my judgment;

and the

Almighty, [who] hath vexed my soul;

JOB-27:3 All the while my breath [is] in me, and the spirit of

God [is] in my

nostrils;

JOB-27:4 My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue

utter deceit.

JOB-27:5 God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I

will not remove

mine integrity from me.

JOB-27:6 My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go:

my heart shall

not reproach [me] so long as I live.

JOB-27:7 Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up

against me as

the unrighteous.

JOB-27:8 For what [is] the hope of the hypocrite, though he

hath gained, when

God taketh away his soul?

JOB-27:9 Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him?

JOB-27:10 Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he

always call upon

God?

JOB-27:11 I will teach you by the hand of God: [that] which

[is] with the

Almighty will I not conceal.

JOB-27:12 Behold, all ye yourselves have seen [it]; why then

are ye thus

altogether vain?

JOB-27:13 This [is] the portion of a wicked man with God, and

the heritage of

oppressors, [which] they shall receive of the Almighty.

JOB-27:14 If his children be multiplied, [it is] for the sword:

and his

offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

JOB-27:15 Those that remain of him shall be buried in death:

and his widows

shall not weep.

JOB-27:16 Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare

raiment as the

clay;

JOB-27:17 He may prepare [it], but the just shall put [it] on,

and the

innocent shall divide the silver.

JOB-27:18 He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth

[that] the keeper

maketh.

JOB-27:19 The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be

gathered: he

openeth his eyes, and he [is] not.

JOB-27:20 Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest

stealeth him away in

the night.

JOB-27:21 The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth:

and as a storm

hurleth him out of his place.

JOB-27:22 For [God] shall cast upon him, and not spare: he

would fain flee

out of his hand.

JOB-27:23 [Men] shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss

him out of his

place.

==== <JOB28>

JOB-28:1 Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for

gold [where]

they fine [it].

JOB-28:2 Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass [is] molten

[out of] the

stone.

JOB-28:3 He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all

perfection: the

stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.

JOB-28:4 The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; [even the

waters]

forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away

from men.

JOB-28:5 [As for] the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under

it is turned

up as it were fire.

JOB-28:6 The stones of it [are] the place of sapphires: and it

hath dust of

gold.

JOB-28:7 [There is] a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the

vulture's eye

hath not seen:

JOB-28:8 The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce

lion passed by

it.

JOB-28:9 He putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he

overturneth the

mountains by the roots.

JOB-28:10 He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye

seeth every

precious thing.

JOB-28:11 He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and [the

thing that is] hid

bringeth he forth to light.

JOB-28:12 But where shall wisdom be found? and where [is] the

place of

understanding?

JOB-28:13 Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it

found in the land

of the living.

JOB-28:14 The depth saith, It [is] not in me: and the sea saith,

[It is] not

with me.

JOB-28:15 It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be

weighed [for]

the price thereof.

JOB-28:16 It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the

precious onyx,

or the sapphire.

JOB-28:17 The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the

exchange of it

[shall not be for] jewels of fine gold.

JOB-28:18 No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for

the price of

wisdom [is] above rubies.

JOB-28:19 The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither

shall it be

valued with pure gold.

JOB-28:20 Whence then cometh wisdom? and where [is] the place of

understanding?

JOB-28:21 Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and

kept close from

the fowls of the air.

JOB-28:22 Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame

thereof with our

ears.

JOB-28:23 God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the

place

thereof.

JOB-28:24 For he looketh to the ends of the earth, [and] seeth

under the

whole heaven;

JOB-28:25 To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the

waters by

measure.

JOB-28:26 When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the

lightning of

the thunder:

JOB-28:27 Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it,

yea, and

searched it out.

JOB-28:28 And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord,

that [is]

wisdom; and to depart from evil [is] understanding.

==== <JOB29>

JOB-29:1 Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,

JOB-29:2 Oh that I were as [in] months past, as [in] the days

[when] God

preserved me;

JOB-29:3 When his candle shined upon my head, [and when] by his

light I

walked [through] darkness;

JOB-29:4 As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of

God [was] upon

my tabernacle;

JOB-29:5 When the Almighty [was] yet with me, [when] my

children [were] about

me;

JOB-29:6 When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock

poured me out

rivers of oil;

JOB-29:7 When I went out to the gate through the city, [when] I

prepared my

seat in the street!

JOB-29:8 The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged

arose, [and]

stood up.

JOB-29:9 The princes refrained talking, and laid [their] hand

on their mouth.

JOB-29:10 The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved

to the roof

of their mouth.

JOB-29:11 When the ear heard [me], then it blessed me; and when

the eye saw

[me], it gave witness to me:

JOB-29:12 Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the

fatherless, and

[him that had] none to help him.

JOB-29:13 The blessing of him that was ready to perish came

upon me: and I

caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

JOB-29:14 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my

judgment [was] as a

robe and a diadem.

JOB-29:15 I was eyes to the blind, and feet [was] I to the lame.

JOB-29:16 I [was] a father to the poor: and the cause [which] I

knew not I

searched out.

JOB-29:17 And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the

spoil out of

his teeth.

JOB-29:18 Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall

multiply [my] days

as the sand.

JOB-29:19 My root [was] spread out by the waters, and the dew

lay all night

upon my branch.

JOB-29:20 My glory [was] fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in

my hand.

JOB-29:21 Unto me [men] gave ear, and waited, and kept silence

at my counsel.

JOB-29:22 After my words they spake not again; and my speech

dropped upon

them.

JOB-29:23 And they waited for me as for the rain; and they

opened their mouth

wide [as] for the latter rain.

JOB-29:24 [If] I laughed on them, they believed [it] not; and

the light of my

countenance they cast not down.

JOB-29:25 I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a

king in the

army, as one [that] comforteth the mourners.

==== <JOB30>

JOB-30:1 But now [they that are] younger than I have me in

derision, whose

fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my

flock.

JOB-30:2 Yea, whereto [might] the strength of their hands

[profit] me, in

whom old age was perished?

JOB-30:3 For want and famine [they were] solitary; fleeing into

the

wilderness in former time desolate and waste.

JOB-30:4 Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots

[for] their

meat.

JOB-30:5 They were driven forth from among [men], (they cried

after them as

[after] a thief;)

JOB-30:6 To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, [in] caves of

the earth, and

[in] the rocks.

JOB-30:7 Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they

were gathered

together.

JOB-30:8 [They were] children of fools, yea, children of base

men: they were

viler than the earth.

JOB-30:9 And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.

JOB-30:10 They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not

to spit in my

face.

JOB-30:11 Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me,

they have also

let loose the bridle before me.

JOB-30:12 Upon [my] right [hand] rise the youth; they push away

my feet, and

they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.

JOB-30:13 They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they

have no

helper.

JOB-30:14 They came [upon me] as a wide breaking in [of waters]:

in the

desolation they rolled themselves [upon me].

JOB-30:15 Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as

the wind: and my

welfare passeth away as a cloud.

JOB-30:16 And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of

affliction have

taken hold upon me.

JOB-30:17 My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and

my sinews take

no rest.

JOB-30:18 By the great force [of my disease] is my garment

changed: it

bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.

JOB-30:19 He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like

dust and ashes.

JOB-30:20 I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand

up, and thou

regardest me [not].

JOB-30:21 Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand

thou opposest

thyself against me.

JOB-30:22 Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to

ride [upon it],

and dissolvest my substance.

JOB-30:23 For I know [that] thou wilt bring me [to] death, and

[to] the house

appointed for all living.

JOB-30:24 Howbeit he will not stretch out [his] hand to the

grave, though

they cry in his destruction.

JOB-30:25 Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was [not]

my soul

grieved for the poor?

JOB-30:26 When I looked for good, then evil came [unto me]: and

when I waited

for light, there came darkness.

JOB-30:27 My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of

affliction prevented

me.

JOB-30:28 I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, [and] I

cried in the

congregation.

JOB-30:29 I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.

JOB-30:30 My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned

with heat.

JOB-30:31 My harp also is [turned] to mourning, and my organ

into the voice

of them that weep.

==== <JOB31>

JOB-31:1 I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I

think upon a

maid?

JOB-31:2 For what portion of God [is there] from above? and

[what]

inheritance of the Almighty from on high?

JOB-31:3 [Is] not destruction to the wicked? and a strange

[punishment] to

the workers of iniquity?

JOB-31:4 Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?

JOB-31:5 If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath

hasted to deceit;

JOB-31:6 Let me be weighed in an even balance that God may know

mine

integrity.

JOB-31:7 If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart

walked after

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

JOB-31:8 [Then] let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my

offspring be

rooted out.

JOB-31:9 If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or [if] I

have laid

wait at my neighbour's door;

JOB-31:10 [Then] let my wife grind unto another, and let others

bow down upon

her.

JOB-31:11 For this [is] an heinous crime; yea, it [is] an

iniquity [to be

punished by] the judges.

JOB-31:12 For it [is] a fire [that] consumeth to destruction,

and would root

out all mine increase.

JOB-31:13 If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my

maidservant,

when they contended with me;

JOB-31:14 What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he

visiteth, what

shall I answer him?

JOB-31:15 Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did

not one

fashion us in the womb?

JOB-31:16 If I have withheld the poor from [their] desire, or

have caused the

eyes of the widow to fail;

JOB-31:17 Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the

fatherless hath not

eaten thereof;

JOB-31:18 (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as

[with] a father,

and I have guided her from my mother's womb;)

JOB-31:19 If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or

any poor without

covering;

JOB-31:20 If his loins have not blessed me, and [if] he were

[not] warmed

with the fleece of my sheep;

JOB-31:21 If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless,

when I saw my

help in the gate:

JOB-31:22 [Then] let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and

mine arm be

broken from the bone.

JOB-31:23 For destruction [from] God [was] a terror to me, and

by reason of

his highness I could not endure.

JOB-31:24 If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine

gold, [Thou

art] my confidence;

JOB-31:25 If I rejoiced because my wealth [was] great, and

because mine hand

had gotten much;

JOB-31:26 If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon

walking [in]

brightness;

JOB-31:27 And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth

hath kissed my

hand:

JOB-31:28 This also [were] an iniquity [to be punished by] the

judge: for I

should have denied the God [that is] above.

JOB-31:29 If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me,

or lifted up

myself when evil found him:

JOB-31:30 Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a

curse to his

soul.

JOB-31:31 If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had

of his flesh!

we cannot be satisfied.

JOB-31:32 The stranger did not lodge in the street: [but] I

opened my doors

to the traveller.

JOB-31:33 If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding

mine iniquity in

my bosom:

JOB-31:34 Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of

families

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

JOB-31:35 Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire [is,

that] the

Almighty would answer me, and [that] mine adversary had written

a book.

JOB-31:36 Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, [and] bind

it [as] a crown

to me.

JOB-31:37 I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a

prince would

I go near unto him.

JOB-31:38 If my land cry against me, or that the furrows

likewise thereof

complain;

JOB-31:39 If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or

have caused

the owners thereof to lose their life:

JOB-31:40 Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle

instead of barley.

The words of Job are ended.

==== <JOB32>

JOB-32:1 So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he

[was] righteous

in his own eyes.

JOB-32:2 Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of

Barachel the Buzite,

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

because he justified

himself rather than God.

JOB-32:3 Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled,

because they

had found no answer, and [yet] had condemned Job.

JOB-32:4 Now Elihu had waited till Job had spoken, because they

[were] elder

than he.

JOB-32:5 When Elihu saw that [there was] no answer in the mouth

of [these]

three men, then his wrath was kindled.

JOB-32:6 And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and

said, I [am]

young, and ye [are] very old; wherefore I was afraid, and durst

not show you

mine opinion.

JOB-32:7 I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years

should teach

wisdom.

JOB-32:8 But [there is] a spirit in man: and the inspiration of

the Almighty

giveth them understanding.

JOB-32:9 Great men are not [always] wise: neither do the aged

understand

judgment.

JOB-32:10 Therefore I said, Hearken to me; I also will show

mine opinion.

JOB-32:11 Behold, I waited for your words; I gave ear to your

reasons, whilst

ye searched out what to say.

JOB-32:12 Yea, I attended unto you, and, behold, [there was]

none of you that

convinced Job, [or] that answered his words:

JOB-32:13 Lest ye should say, We have found out wisdom: God

thrusteth him

down, not man.

JOB-32:14 Now he hath not directed [his] words against me:

neither will I

answer him with your speeches.

JOB-32:15 They were amazed, they answered no more: they left

off speaking.

JOB-32:16 When I had waited, (for they spake not, but stood

still, [and]

answered no more;)

JOB-32:17 [I said], I will answer also my part, I also will

show mine

opinion.

JOB-32:18 For I am full of matter, the spirit within me

constraineth me.

JOB-32:19 Behold, my belly [is] as wine [which] hath no vent;

it is ready to

burst like new bottles.

JOB-32:20 I will speak, that I may be refreshed: I will open my

lips and

answer.

JOB-32:21 Let me not, I pray you, accept any man's person,

neither let me

give flattering titles unto man.

JOB-32:22 For I know not to give flattering titles; [in so

doing] my maker

would soon take me away.

==== <JOB33>

JOB-33:1 Wherefore, Job, I pray thee, hear my speeches, and

hearken to all my

words.

JOB-33:2 Behold, now I have opened my mouth, my tongue hath

spoken in my

mouth.

JOB-33:3 My words [shall be of] the uprightness of my heart:

and my lips

shall utter knowledge clearly.

JOB-33:4 The spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the

Almighty hath

given me life.

JOB-33:5 If thou canst answer me, set [thy words] in order

before me, stand

up.

JOB-33:6 Behold, I [am] according to thy wish in God's stead: I

also am

formed out of the clay.

JOB-33:7 Behold, my terror shall not make thee afraid, neither

shall my hand

be heavy upon thee.

JOB-33:8 Surely thou hast spoken in mine hearing, and I have

heard the voice

of [thy] words, [saying],

JOB-33:9 I am clean without transgression, I [am] innocent;

neither [is

there] iniquity in me.

JOB-33:10 Behold, he findeth occasions against me, he counteth

me for his

enemy,

JOB-33:11 He putteth my feet in the stocks, he marketh all my

paths.

JOB-33:12 Behold, [in] this thou art not just: I will answer

thee, that God

is greater than man.

JOB-33:13 Why dost thou strive against him? for he giveth not

account of any

of his matters.

JOB-33:14 For God speaketh once, yea twice, [yet man]

perceiveth it not.

JOB-33:15 In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep

falleth upon

men, in slumberings upon the bed;

JOB-33:16 Then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their

instruction,

JOB-33:17 That he may withdraw man [from his] purpose, and hide

pride from

man.

JOB-33:18 He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life

from perishing

by the sword.

JOB-33:19 He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the

multitude of

his bones with strong [pain]:

JOB-33:20 So that his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty

meat.

JOB-33:21 His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen;

and his bones

[that] were not seen stick out.

JOB-33:22 Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his

life to the

destroyers.

JOB-33:23 If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one

among a

thousand, to show unto man his uprightness:

JOB-33:24 Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him

from going

down to the pit: I have found a ransom.

JOB-33:25 His flesh shall be fresher than a child's: he shall

return to the

days of his youth:

JOB-33:26 He shall pray unto God, and he will be favourable

unto him: and he

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

righteousness.

JOB-33:27 He looketh upon men, and [if any] say, I have sinned,

and perverted

[that which was] right, and it profited me not;

JOB-33:28 He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and

his life

shall see the light.

JOB-33:29 Lo, all these [things] worketh God oftentimes with

man,

JOB-33:30 To bring back his soul from the pit, to be

enlightened with the

light of the living.

JOB-33:31 Mark well, O Job, hearken unto me: hold thy peace,

and I will

speak.

JOB-33:32 If thou hast any thing to say, answer me: speak, for

I desire to

justify thee.

JOB-33:33 If not, hearken unto me: hold thy peace, and I shall

teach thee

wisdom.

==== <JOB34>

JOB-34:1 Furthermore Elihu answered and said,

JOB-34:2 Hear my words, O ye wise [men]; and give ear unto me,

ye that have

knowledge.

JOB-34:3 For the ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat.

JOB-34:4 Let us choose to us judgment: let us know among

ourselves what [is]

good.

JOB-34:5 For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken

away my

judgment.

JOB-34:6 Should I lie against my right? my wound [is] incurable

without

transgression.

JOB-34:7 What man [is] like Job, [who] drinketh up scorning

like water?

JOB-34:8 Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity,

and walketh

with wicked men.

JOB-34:9 For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he

should delight

himself with God.

JOB-34:10 Therefore hearken unto me, ye men of understanding:

far be it from

God, [that he should do] wickedness; and [from] the Almighty,

[that he should

commit] iniquity.

JOB-34:11 For the work of a man shall he render unto him, and

cause every man

to find according to [his] ways.

JOB-34:12 Yea, surely God will not do wickedly, neither will

the Almighty

pervert judgment.

JOB-34:13 Who hath given him a charge over the earth? or who

hath disposed

the whole world?

JOB-34:14 If he set his heart upon man, [if] he gather unto

himself his

spirit and his breath;

JOB-34:15 All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn

again unto

dust.

JOB-34:16 If now [thou hast] understanding, hear this: hearken

to the voice

of my words.

JOB-34:17 Shall even he that hateth right govern? and wilt thou

condemn him

that is most just?

JOB-34:18 [Is it fit] to say to a king, [Thou art] wicked?

[and] to princes,

[Ye are] ungodly?

JOB-34:19 [How much less to him] that accepteth not the persons

of princes,

nor regardeth the rich more than the poor? for they all [are]

the work of his

hands.

JOB-34:20 In a moment shall they die, and the people shall be

troubled at

midnight, and pass away: and the mighty shall be taken away

without hand.

JOB-34:21 For his eyes [are] upon the ways of man, and he seeth

all his

goings.

JOB-34:22 [There is] no darkness, nor shadow of death, where

the workers of

iniquity may hide themselves.

JOB-34:23 For he will not lay upon man more [than right]; that

he should

enter into judgment with God.

JOB-34:24 He shall break in pieces mighty men without number,

and set others

in their stead.

JOB-34:25 Therefore he knoweth their works, and he overturneth

[them] in the

night, so that they are destroyed.

JOB-34:26 He striketh them as wicked men in the open sight of

others;

JOB-34:27 Because they turned back from him, and would not

consider any of

his ways:

JOB-34:28 So that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto

him, and he

heareth the cry of the afflicted.

JOB-34:29 When he giveth quietness, who then can make trouble?

and when he

hideth [his] face, who then can behold him? whether [it be done]

against a

nation, or against a man only:

JOB-34:30 That the hypocrite reign not, lest the people be

ensnared.

JOB-34:31 Surely it is meet to be said unto God, I have borne

[chastisement],

I will not offend [any more]:

JOB-34:32 [That which] I see not teach thou me: if I have done

iniquity, I

will do no more.

JOB-34:33 [Should it be] according to thy mind? he will

recompense it,

whether thou refuse, or whether thou choose; and not I:

therefore speak what

thou knowest.

JOB-34:34 Let men of understanding tell me, and let a wise man

hearken unto

me.

JOB-34:35 Job hath spoken without knowledge, and his words

[were] without

wisdom.

JOB-34:36 My desire [is that] Job may be tried unto the end

because of [his]

answers for wicked men.

JOB-34:37 For he addeth rebellion unto his sin, he clappeth

[his hands] among

us, and multiplieth his words against God.

==== <JOB35>

JOB-35:1 Elihu spake moreover, and said,

JOB-35:2 Thinkest thou this to be right, [that] thou saidst, My

righteousness

[is] more than God's?

JOB-35:3 For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee?

[and], What

profit shall I have, [if I be cleansed] from my sin?

JOB-35:4 I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.

JOB-35:5 Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds

[which] are

higher than thou.

JOB-35:6 If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or [if]

thy

transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?

JOB-35:7 If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what

receiveth he of

thine hand?

JOB-35:8 Thy wickedness [may hurt] a man as thou [art]; and thy

righteousness

[may profit] the son of man.

JOB-35:9 By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make

[the oppressed]

to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.

JOB-35:10 But none saith, Where [is] God my maker, who giveth

songs in the

night;

JOB-35:11 Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth,

and maketh us

wiser than the fowls of heaven?

JOB-35:12 There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of

the pride of

evil men.

JOB-35:13 Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the

Almighty regard

it.

JOB-35:14 Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, [yet]

judgment [is]

before him; therefore trust thou in him.

JOB-35:15 But now, because [it is] not [so], he hath visited in

his anger;

yet he knoweth [it] not in great extremity:

JOB-35:16 Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he

multiplieth words

without knowledge.

==== <JOB36>

JOB-36:1 Elihu also proceeded, and said,

JOB-36:2 Suffer me a little, and I will show thee that [I have]

yet to speak

on God's behalf.

JOB-36:3 I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe

righteousness

to my Maker.

JOB-36:4 For truly my words [shall] not [be] false: he that is

perfect in

knowledge [is] with thee.

JOB-36:5 Behold, God [is] mighty, and despiseth not [any: he

is] mighty in

strength [and] wisdom.

JOB-36:6 He preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth

right to the

poor.

JOB-36:7 He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous: but

with kings [are

they] on the throne; yea, he doth establish them for ever, and

they are

exalted.

JOB-36:8 And if [they be] bound in fetters, [and] be holden in

cords of

affliction;

JOB-36:9 Then he showeth them their work, and their

transgressions that they

have exceeded.

JOB-36:10 He openeth also their ear to discipline, and

commandeth that they

return from iniquity.

JOB-36:11 If they obey and serve [him], they shall spend their

days in

prosperity, and their years in pleasures.

JOB-36:12 But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword,

and they

shall die without knowledge.

JOB-36:13 But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry

not when he

bindeth them.

JOB-36:14 They die in youth, and their life [is] among the

unclean.

JOB-36:15 He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth

their ears in

oppression.

JOB-36:16 Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait

[into] a broad

place, where [there is] no straitness; and that which should be

set on thy

table [should be] full of fatness.

JOB-36:17 But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked:

judgment and

justice take hold [on thee].

JOB-36:18 Because [there is] wrath, [beware] lest he take thee

away with

[his] stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.

JOB-36:19 Will he esteem thy riches? [no], not gold, nor all

the forces of

strength.

JOB-36:20 Desire not the night, when people are cut off in

their place.

JOB-36:21 Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou

chosen rather

than affliction.

JOB-36:22 Behold, God exalteth by his power: who teacheth like

him?

JOB-36:23 Who hath enjoined him his way? or who can say, Thou

hast wrought

iniquity?

JOB-36:24 Remember that thou magnify his work, which men behold.

JOB-36:25 Every man may see it; man may behold [it] afar off.

JOB-36:26 Behold, God [is] great, and we know [him] not,

neither can the

number of his years be searched out.

JOB-36:27 For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour

down rain

according to the vapour thereof:

JOB-36:28 Which the clouds do drop [and] distil upon man

abundantly.

JOB-36:29 Also can [any] understand the spreadings of the

clouds, [or] the

noise of his tabernacle?

JOB-36:30 Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth

the bottom of

the sea.

JOB-36:31 For by them judgeth he the people; he giveth meat in

abundance.

JOB-36:32 With clouds he covereth the light; and commandeth it

[not to shine]

by [the cloud] that cometh betwixt.

JOB-36:33 The noise thereof showeth concerning it, the cattle

also concerning

the vapour.

==== <JOB37>

JOB-37:1 At this also my heart trembleth, and is moved out of

his place.

JOB-37:2 Hear attentively the noise of his voice, and the sound

[that] goeth

out of his mouth.

JOB-37:3 He directeth it under the whole heaven, and his

lightning unto the

ends of the earth.

JOB-37:4 After it a voice roareth: he thundereth with the voice

of his

excellency; and he will not stay them when his voice is heard.

JOB-37:5 God thundereth marvellously with his voice; great

things doeth he,

which we cannot comprehend.

JOB-37:6 For he saith to the snow, Be thou [on] the earth;

likewise to the

small rain, and to the great rain of his strength.

JOB-37:7 He sealeth up the hand of every man; that all men may

know his work.

JOB-37:8 Then the beasts go into dens, and remain in their

places.

JOB-37:9 Out of the south cometh the whirlwind: and cold out of

the north.

JOB-37:10 By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth

of the waters

is straitened.

JOB-37:11 Also by watering he wearieth the thick cloud: he

scattereth his

bright cloud:

JOB-37:12 And it is turned round about by his counsels: that

they may do

whatsoever he commandeth them upon the face of the world in the

earth.

JOB-37:13 He causeth it to come, whether for correction, or for

his land, or

for mercy.

JOB-37:14 Hearken unto this, O Job: stand still, and consider

the wondrous

works of God.

JOB-37:15 Dost thou know when God disposed them, and caused the

light of his

cloud to shine?

JOB-37:16 Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds, the

wondrous works of

him which is perfect in knowledge?

JOB-37:17 How thy garments [are] warm, when he quieteth the

earth by the

south [wind]?

JOB-37:18 Hast thou with him spread out the sky, [which is]

strong, [and] as

a molten looking glass?

JOB-37:19 Teach us what we shall say unto him; [for] we cannot

order [our

speech] by reason of darkness.

JOB-37:20 Shall it be told him that I speak? if a man speak,

surely he shall

be swallowed up.

JOB-37:21 And now [men] see not the bright light which [is] in

the clouds:

but the wind passeth, and cleanseth them.

JOB-37:22 Fair weather cometh out of the north: with God [is]

terrible

majesty.

JOB-37:23 [Touching] the Almighty, we cannot find him out: [he

is] excellent

in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice: he will not

afflict.

JOB-37:24 Men do therefore fear him: he respecteth not any

[that are] wise of

heart.

==== <JOB38>

JOB-38:1 Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and

said,

JOB-38:2 Who [is] this that darkeneth counsel by words without

knowledge?

JOB-38:3 Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of

thee, and

answer thou me.

JOB-38:4 Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the

earth? declare,

if thou hast understanding.

JOB-38:5 Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest?

or who hath

stretched the line upon it?

JOB-38:6 Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who

laid the

corner stone thereof;

JOB-38:7 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons

of God

shouted for joy?

JOB-38:8 Or [who] shut up the sea with doors, when it brake

forth, [as if] it

had issued out of the womb?

JOB-38:9 When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick

darkness a

swaddlingband for it,

JOB-38:10 And brake up for it my decreed [place], and set bars

and doors,

JOB-38:11 And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further:

and here shall

thy proud waves be stayed?

JOB-38:12 Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; [and]

caused the

dayspring to know his place;

JOB-38:13 That it might take hold of the ends of the earth,

that the wicked

might be shaken out of it?

JOB-38:14 It is turned as clay [to] the seal; and they stand as

a garment.

JOB-38:15 And from the wicked their light is withholden, and

the high arm

shall be broken.

JOB-38:16 Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or

hast thou walked

in the search of the depth?

JOB-38:17 Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? or

hast thou seen

the doors of the shadow of death?

JOB-38:18 Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? declare

if thou

knowest it all.

JOB-38:19 Where [is] the way [where] light dwelleth? and [as

for] darkness,

where [is] the place thereof,

JOB-38:20 That thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof, and

that thou

shouldest know the paths [to] the house thereof?

JOB-38:21 Knowest thou [it], because thou wast then born? or

[because] the

number of thy days [is] great?

JOB-38:22 Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? or

hast thou seen

the treasures of the hail,

JOB-38:23 Which I have reserved against the time of trouble,

against the day

of battle and war?

JOB-38:24 By what way is the light parted, [which] scattereth

the east wind

upon the earth?

JOB-38:25 Who hath divided a watercourse for the overflowing of

waters, or a

way for the lightning of thunder;

JOB-38:26 To cause it to rain on the earth, [where] no man [is;

on] the

wilderness, wherein [there is] no man;

JOB-38:27 To satisfy the desolate and waste [ground]; and to

cause the bud of

the tender herb to spring forth?

JOB-38:28 Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the

drops of dew?

JOB-38:29 Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost

of heaven, who

hath gendered it?

JOB-38:30 The waters are hid as [with] a stone, and the face of

the deep is

frozen.

JOB-38:31 Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or

loose the

bands of Orion?

JOB-38:32 Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or

canst thou guide

Arcturus with his sons?

JOB-38:33 Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set

the dominion

thereof in the earth?

JOB-38:34 Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that

abundance of

waters may cover thee?

JOB-38:35 Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, and say

unto thee,

Here we [are]?

JOB-38:36 Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? or who hath

given

understanding to the heart?

JOB-38:37 Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay

the bottles of

heaven,

JOB-38:38 When the dust groweth into hardness, and the clods

cleave fast

together?

JOB-38:39 Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the

appetite of the

young lions,

JOB-38:40 When they couch in [their] dens, [and] abide in the

covert to lie

in wait?

JOB-38:41 Who provideth for the raven his food? when his young

ones cry unto

God, they wander for lack of meat.

==== <JOB39>

JOB-39:1 Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock

bring forth?

[or] canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?

JOB-39:2 Canst thou number the months [that] they fulfil? or

knowest thou the

time when they bring forth?

JOB-39:3 They bow themselves, they bring forth their young ones,

they cast

out their sorrows.

JOB-39:4 Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with

corn; they go

forth, and return not unto them.

JOB-39:5 Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath

loosed the bands of

the wild ass?

JOB-39:6 Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren

land his

dwellings.

JOB-39:7 He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither

regardeth he the

crying of the driver.

JOB-39:8 The range of the mountains [is] his pasture, and he

searcheth after

every green thing.

JOB-39:9 Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by

thy crib?

JOB-39:10 Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the

furrow? or will he

harrow the valleys after thee?

JOB-39:11 Wilt thou trust him, because his strength [is] great?

or wilt thou

leave thy labour to him?

JOB-39:12 Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring home thy

seed, and gather

[it into] thy barn?

JOB-39:13 [Gavest thou] the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or

wings and

feathers unto the ostrich?

JOB-39:14 Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them

in dust,

JOB-39:15 And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that

the wild beast

may break them.

JOB-39:16 She is hardened against her young ones, as though

[they were] not

hers: her labour is in vain without fear;

JOB-39:17 Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath

he imparted

to her understanding.

JOB-39:18 What time she lifteth up herself on high, she

scorneth the horse

and his rider.

JOB-39:19 Hast thou given the horse strength? hast thou clothed

his neck with

thunder?

JOB-39:20 Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? the

glory of his

nostrils [is] terrible.

JOB-39:21 He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in [his]

strength: he goeth

on to meet the armed men.

JOB-39:22 He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted; neither

turneth he back

from the sword.

JOB-39:23 The quiver rattleth against him, the glittering spear

and the

shield.

JOB-39:24 He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage:

neither

believeth he that [it is] the sound of the trumpet.

JOB-39:25 He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha; and he smelleth

the battle

afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.

JOB-39:26 Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom, [and] stretch her

wings toward the

south?

JOB-39:27 Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her

nest on high?

JOB-39:28 She dwelleth and abideth on the rock, upon the crag

of the rock,

and the strong place.

JOB-39:29 From thence she seeketh the prey, [and] her eyes

behold afar off.

JOB-39:30 Her young ones also suck up blood: and where the

slain [are], there

[is] she.

==== <JOB40>

JOB-40:1 Moreover the LORD answered Job, and said,

JOB-40:2 Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct

[him]? he that

reproveth God, let him answer it.

JOB-40:3 Then Job answered the LORD, and said,

JOB-40:4 Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will

lay mine hand

upon my mouth.

JOB-40:5 Once have I spoken; but I will not answer: yea, twice;

but I will

proceed no further.

JOB-40:6 Then answered the LORD unto Job out of the whirlwind,

and said,

JOB-40:7 Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of

thee, and declare

thou unto me.

JOB-40:8 Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn

me, that thou

mayest be righteous?

JOB-40:9 Hast thou an arm like God? or canst thou thunder with

a voice like

him?

JOB-40:10 Deck thyself now [with] majesty and excellency; and

array thyself

with glory and beauty.

JOB-40:11 Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath: and behold every

one [that is]

proud, and abase him.

JOB-40:12 Look on every one [that is] proud, [and] bring him

low; and tread

down the wicked in their place.

JOB-40:13 Hide them in the dust together; [and] bind their

faces in secret.

JOB-40:14 Then will I also confess unto thee that thine own

right hand can

save thee.

JOB-40:15 Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he

eateth grass as an

ox.

JOB-40:16 Lo now, his strength [is] in his loins, and his force

[is] in the

navel of his belly.

JOB-40:17 He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his

stones are

wrapped together.

JOB-40:18 His bones [are as] strong pieces of brass; his bones

[are] like

bars of iron.

JOB-40:19 He [is] the chief of the ways of God: he that made

him can make his

sword to approach [unto him].

JOB-40:20 Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all

the beasts of

the field play.

JOB-40:21 He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the

reed, and

fens.

JOB-40:22 The shady trees cover him [with] their shadow; the

willows of the

brook compass him about.

JOB-40:23 Behold, he drinketh up a river, [and] hasteth not: he

trusteth that

he can draw up Jordan into his mouth.

JOB-40:24 He taketh it with his eyes: [his] nose pierceth

through snares.

==== <JOB41>

JOB-41:1 Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his

tongue with a

cord [which] thou lettest down?

JOB-41:2 Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw

through with a

thorn?

JOB-41:3 Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he

speak soft

[words] unto thee?

JOB-41:4 Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him

for a servant

for ever?

JOB-41:5 Wilt thou play with him as [with] a bird? or wilt thou

bind him for

thy maidens?

JOB-41:6 Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they

part him

among the merchants?

JOB-41:7 Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his

head with fish

spears?

JOB-41:8 Lay thine hand upon him, remember the battle, do no

more.

JOB-41:9 Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not [one] be

cast down

even at the sight of him?

JOB-41:10 None [is so] fierce that dare stir him up: who then

is able to

stand before me?

JOB-41:11 Who hath prevented me, that I should repay [him?

whatsoever is]

under the whole heaven is mine.

JOB-41:12 I will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his

comely

proportion.

JOB-41:13 Who can discover the face of his garment? [or] who

can come [to

him] with his double bridle?

JOB-41:14 Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth [are]

terrible round

about.

JOB-41:15 [His] scales [are his] pride, shut up together [as

with] a close

seal.

JOB-41:16 One is so near to another, that no air can come

between them.

JOB-41:17 They are joined one to another, they stick together,

that they

cannot be sundered.

JOB-41:18 By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes

[are] like the

eyelids of the morning.

JOB-41:19 Out of his mouth go burning lamps, [and] sparks of

fire leap out.

JOB-41:20 Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as [out] of a

seething pot or

caldron.

JOB-41:21 His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of

his mouth.

JOB-41:22 In his neck remaineth strength, and sorrow is turned

into joy

before him.

JOB-41:23 The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are

firm in

themselves; they cannot be moved.

JOB-41:24 His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a

piece of the

nether [millstone].

JOB-41:25 When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid: by

reason of

breakings they purify themselves.

JOB-41:26 The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold: the

spear, the

dart, nor the habergeon.

JOB-41:27 He esteemeth iron as straw, [and] brass as rotten

wood.

JOB-41:28 The arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones are

turned with him

into stubble.

JOB-41:29 Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the

shaking of a

spear.

JOB-41:30 Sharp stones [are] under him: he spreadeth sharp

pointed things

upon the mire.

JOB-41:31 He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the

sea like a pot

of ointment.

JOB-41:32 He maketh a path to shine after him; [one] would

think the deep [to

be] hoary.

JOB-41:33 Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without

fear.

JOB-41:34 He beholdeth all high [things]: he [is] a king over

all the

children of pride.

==== <JOB42>

JOB-42:1 Then Job answered the LORD, and said,

JOB-42:2 I know that thou canst do every [thing], and [that] no

thought can

be withholden from thee.

JOB-42:3 Who [is] he that hideth counsel without knowledge?

therefore have I

uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me,

which I knew not.

JOB-42:4 Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand

of thee, and

declare thou unto me.

JOB-42:5 I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but

now mine eye

seeth thee.

JOB-42:6 Wherefore I abhor [myself], and repent in dust and

ashes.

JOB-42:7 And it was [so], that after the LORD had spoken these

words unto

Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled

against thee,

and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me [the

thing that is]

right, as my servant Job [hath].

JOB-42:8 Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven

rams, and go to

my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering;

and my servant

Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with

you [after

your] folly, in that ye have not spoken of me [the thing which

is] right, like

my servant Job.

JOB-42:9 So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite [and]

Zophar the

Naamathite went, and did according as the LORD commanded them:

the LORD also

accepted Job.

JOB-42:10 And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he

prayed for his

friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.

JOB-42:11 Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all

his sisters, and

all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat

bread with him

in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all

the evil that

the LORD had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece

of money, and

every one an earring of gold.

JOB-42:12 So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than

his beginning:

for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and

a thousand

yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.

JOB-42:13 He had also seven sons and three daughters.

JOB-42:14 And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the

name of the

second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Kerenhappuch.

JOB-42:15 And in all the land were no women found [so] fair as

the daughters

of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their

brethren.

JOB-42:16 After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and

saw his sons,

and his sons' sons, [even] four generations.

JOB-42:17 So Job died, [being] old and full of days.