Bible in 90 Days
8 ¶ Then Bildad, the Shuhite, answered and said,
2 How long wilt thou speak such things and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?
3 Shall God pervert that which is right or shall the Almighty pervert justice?
4 Because thy sons sinned against him, he cast them away in the place of their rebellion;
5 if thou would seek God early and make thy supplication to the Almighty,
6 if thou wert pure and upright, surely now he would awake upon thee and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
7 In such a way that thy beginning would have been small, in comparison to the great increase of thy latter.
8 ¶ Ask, I pray thee, of the former age, and be willing to enquire of thy fathers regarding them;
9 for we are but of yesterday and know nothing because our days upon earth are as a shadow.
10 Shall they not teach thee and tell thee and utter these words out of their heart?
11 Can the rush grow up without mire? Can the meadow grow without water?
12 Whilst it is yet in its greenness and not cut down, it withers before any other herb.
13 So are the paths of all that forget God, and the hypocrite’s hope shall perish.
14 For his hope shall be cut off, and his trust is a spider’s web.
15 He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand; he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.
16 Like a tree, he is green before the sun, and his branches go forth over his garden;
17 his roots weave themselves around a spring and secure themselves even in a stony place.
18 If he is uprooted from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee.
19 Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth from where he was transplanted, others shall grow.
20 ¶ Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man; neither will he help the evil doers.
21 He will yet fill thy mouth with laughing and thy lips with shouts of joy.
22 Those that hate thee shall be clothed with shame, and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.
9 ¶ Then Job answered and said,
2 I know it is so of a truth, but how shall a man be justified with God?
3 If he desires to contend with him, he will not be able to answer him one thing of a thousand.
4 He is wise in heart and mighty in strength; who has hardened himself against him and remained in peace?
5 Who uproots the mountains in his anger, and they know not who overturned them.
6 Who removes the earth out of her place and causes her pillars to tremble.
7 Who commands the sun, and it rises not; and seals up the stars.
8 He alone extends the heavens and walks upon the waves of the sea.
9 He who made Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the secret places of the south.
10 He who does great things past finding out, and wonders without number.
11 Behold, he shall pass before me, and I shall not see him; and he shall pass on, and I shall not understand him.
12 Behold, he shall take away, who can cause him to restore? Who shall say unto him, What doest thou?
13 God will not withdraw his anger, and under him those who help, unto pride are bent over.
14 ¶ How much less shall I answer him and choose out my words to reason with him?
15 Who even though I am righteous, yet I would not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge.
16 Who if I were to invoke him, and he answered me; yet I would not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.
17 For he has broken me with a tempest and has multiplied my wounds without cause.
18 He will not suffer me to take my breath but has filled me with bitterness.
19 If we were to speak of his strength, he is certainly strong; and if of his judgment, who shall cause us to meet?
20 If I justify myself, my own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, he shall prove me perverse.
21 If I say I am imperfect, I know not my soul; I would condemn my life.
22 ¶ One thing remains, that I say, He consumes the perfect and the wicked.
23 If it is the scourge, it slays suddenly, and it does not laugh at the trial of the innocent.
24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; he covers the faces of its judges; if it is not he who does this then, who is it and where is he?
25 ¶ Now my days are swifter than a post; they fled away, they never saw good.
26 They are passed away as the ships of Ebeh {Heb. reed} as the eagle that throws himself on the prey.
27 If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness and comfort myself;
28 I am afraid of all my troubles; I know that thou wilt not hold me guiltless.
29 If I am wicked, why then shall I toil in vain?
30 If I wash myself with snow water and make my hands never so clean;
31 yet thou shalt plunge me into the pit, and my own clothes shall abhor me.
32 For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together unto judgment.
33 Neither is there any arbiter between us, that might lay his hand upon us both.
34 Let him take his tormentor away from me, and his terror will not perturb me.
35 Then I would speak and not fear him, because in this state I am not myself.
10 ¶ My soul is cut off in my life; therefore, I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
2 I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; cause me to understand why thou dost contend with me.
3 Is it good unto thee that thou should oppress, that thou should reject the work of thine hands and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?
4 Hast thou eyes of flesh? Dost thou see as man sees?
5 Are thy days as the days of man? Are thy years as man’s days,
6 that thou dost enquire after my iniquity and search after my sin?
7 Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is no one that can deliver out of thy hand.
8 ¶ Thine hands have formed me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.
9 Remember now that thou hast formed me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?
10 Hast thou not poured me out as milk and curdled me like cheese?
11 Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh and hast hedged me with bones and sinews.
12 Thou hast granted me life and mercy, and thy visitation has kept my spirit.
13 And these things thou hast hid in thine heart; I know that this is with thee.
14 ¶ If I sinned, wilt thou mark me and not cleanse me from my iniquity?
15 If I am wicked, woe unto me; and if I am righteous, I will not lift up my head, being full of dishonour and of seeing my affliction.
16 And thou dost increase. Thou dost hunt me as a fierce lion; turning and doing marvels in me.
17 Thou dost renew thy plagues against me and increase thine indignation upon me, bringing up armies against me.
18 Why then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the spirit and no eye had seen me!
19 I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
20 Are not my days few? Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
21 before I go, to not return, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;
22 land of darkness, as darkness itself, and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
11 ¶ Then Zophar, the Naamathite, answered and said,
2 Should not the multitude of words be answered? And should a man full of talk be justified?
3 Should thy lies make men be silent? Shalt thou mock, and shall no man make thee ashamed?
4 For thou hast said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean before thine eyes.
5 But oh, that God would speak and open his lips against thee
6 and that he would show thee the secrets of wisdom! For thou dost deserve double according to sound wisdom; and thou dost know that God has forgotten thee because of thine iniquity.
7 ¶ Canst thou by searching find out God? Canst thou come unto the perfection of the Almighty?
8 It is higher than the heavens; what canst thou do? It is deeper than Sheol; how canst thou know it?
9 The measure of it is longer than the earth and broader than the sea.
10 If he cuts off, or shuts up, or gathers together, then who can hinder him?
11 For he knows the vain men; and he sees the iniquity; will he not then understand it?
12 The vain man shall make himself understood, though man is born like a wild ass’s colt.
13 ¶ If thou would prepare thine heart and stretch out thine hands toward him;
14 if there is any iniquity in thy hand and thou dost put it far away and dost not consent that wickedness dwell in thy habitations,
15 then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; thou shalt be strongly established and shalt not fear;
16 and thou shalt forget thy misery and remember it as waters that passed away;
17 and thine age shall be clearer than the noonday; thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning.
18 And thou shalt trust because there is hope; yea, thou shalt dig and sleep in safety;
19 thou shalt lie down, and no one shall make thee afraid; and many shall make requests unto thee.
20 But the eyes of the wicked shall consume themselves, and they shall have no refuge, and their hope shall be agony of the soul.
12 ¶ And Job answered and said,
2 No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.
3 But I have a heart as well as you; I am not inferior to you; and who shall not be able to say as much again?
4 He who invokes God and he answers him is mocked by his friend; the just and perfect man is laughed to scorn.
5 The torch is held in low esteem in the thought of him that is prosperous, which was prepared to guard against a slip of the feet.
6 ¶ The tents of robbers are at ease, and those that provoke God and those who carry gods in their hands live secure.
7 But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the heavens, and they shall show thee;
8 or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee; the fishes of the sea shall declare it unto thee also.
9 What thing of all these does not know that the hand of the LORD made them?
10 In his hand is the soul of every living thing and the spirit of all flesh of man.
11 Certainly the ear proves words and the mouth tastes foods.
12 ¶ With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days intelligence.
13 With him is wisdom and strength; he has counsel and intelligence.
14 Behold, he shall break down, and it shall not be built again; he shall shut up a man, and no one shall be able to open unto him.
15 Behold, he shall withhold the waters, and they shall dry up; also he shall send them forth, and they shall destroy the earth.
16 With him is strength and existence; he who errs and he who leads astray are his.
17 He causes the counsellors to walk away stripped of counsel and makes the judges to be fools.
18 He looses the bond of kings and girds their loins with a girdle.
19 He leads priests away spoiled and overthrows the mighty.
20 He impedes the lips of those that speak the truth and takes away the counsel of the aged.
21 He pours contempt upon princes and weakens the strength of the mighty.
22 He uncovers the depths of the darkness and brings out to light the shadow of death.
23 He multiplies the Gentiles and destroys them; he scatters the Gentiles and gathers them again.
24 He takes away the heart of the heads of the people of the earth and causes them to become lost, wandering without a way.
25 They grope in the darkness and not the light, and he causes them to err like drunken men.
13 ¶ Behold, my eyes have seen all this; my ears have heard and understood it.
2 As you know it, I know it; I am not inferior unto you.
3 But I would speak with the Almighty, and I desired to dispute with God.
4 That ye are certainly forgers of lies; ye are all physicians of no value.
5 O that ye would altogether be silent! And it would be unto you instead of wisdom.
6 Hear now my dispute, and hearken to the arguments of my lips.
7 Are ye to speak iniquity for God? Are ye to speak deceitfully for him?
8 Are ye to bring honour unto him? Are ye to contend for God?
9 Would it be good for him to search you out? As one man mocks another, do ye so mock him?
10 He will reprove you severely, if in secret you give him such honour.
11 Certainly his excellency should make you afraid, and his dread should fall upon you.
12 Your memories shall be compared unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
13 ¶ Listen to me, and I will speak, and afterward let come on me what will.
14 Why shall I take my flesh in my teeth and put my life in the palm of my hand?
15 Though he slay me, yet I will trust in him; but I will defend my ways before him.
16 He also shall be my saving health; for the hypocrite shall not enter into his presence.
17 Hear diligently my reason and my declaration with your ears.
18 Behold now, if I draw near unto the judgment; I know that I shall be justified.
19 Who is he that will contend with me? For now, if I remain silent, I shall die.
20 At the least, grant me these two things; then I will not hide myself from thee:
21 withdraw thy hand from me; and let not thy dread make me afraid.
22 Then call, and I will answer; or let me speak, and answer thou me.
23 ¶ How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me to know my transgression and my sin.
24 Why dost thou hide thy face, and hold me for thine enemy?
25 Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? Wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
26 Why dost thou write bitter things against me and make me carry the iniquities of my youth.
27 Thou dost put my feet also in the stocks and look narrowly unto all my paths; thou dost set a print upon the heels of my feet.
28 And man, is as a rotten thing that is being consumed, as a garment that is moth eaten.
14 ¶ Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble.
2 He comes forth like an open flower and is cut down; he flees as a shadow and does not remain.
3 And dost thou open thine eyes upon such a one and bring me into judgment with thee?
4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? No one.
5 Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass.
6 If thou should leave him, he will cease to exist; until then, he shall desire, as a hireling, his day.
7 ¶ For there is yet hope for a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again and that its tender branch will not cease.
8 Though its root waxes old in the earth and its trunk is dead in the ground,
9 at the scent of water it will bud and bring forth boughs like a new plant.
10 But when man shall die and be cut off, and the man shall perish, where shall he be?
11 The waters from the sea went, and the river ran out, it dried up.
12 So man lies down and does not rise; until there is no heaven, they shall not awake nor be raised out of their sleep.
13 O that thou would hide me in Sheol, that thou would keep me covered until thy wrath is past, that thou would appoint me a set time and remember me!
14 If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my appointed time I will wait until my transformation comes.
15 Then thou shalt call, and I will answer thee; thou wilt have a desire towards the work of thine hands.
16 ¶ For now thou dost number my steps; thou dost not open up my sin.
17 My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou dost sew up my iniquity.
18 And certainly the mountain that falls is undone, and the rocks are removed out of their place.
19 The impetuous waters break the stones and wash away the dust of the earth; in like manner thou dost cause man to lose hope.
20 Thou shalt be stronger than him for ever, and he passes; thou dost change his countenance and send him away.
21 His sons shall be honoured and he shall not know of it; or they shall be afflicted, but he shall not perceive of them.
22 But while his flesh is upon him, he shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.
15 ¶ Then Eliphaz, the Temanite, answered, and said,
2 Should a wise man utter vain knowledge and fill his belly with the east wind?
3 Should he dispute with useless words and with reasons that are not profitable?
4 Thou dost also cast off fear and undermine prayer before God.
5 For thy mouth has declared thine iniquity, and thou hast chosen the tongue of the crafty.
6 Thine own mouth shall condemn thee, and not I; thine own lips shall testify against thee.
7 Wast thou born before Adam? Or wast thou formed before the hills?
8 Hast thou heard the secret of God, that thou dost detain wisdom in thee alone?
9 What dost thou know that we do not? What dost thou understand, which is not in us?
10 Among us are also gray hairs; there are also aged men, much elder than thy father.
11 Are the consolations of God in such small esteem with thee? Is there by chance any secret thing concerning thee?
12 Why does thine heart carry thee away, and why do thine eyes blink,
13 that thou dost reply unto God with thy spirit and bring forth such words out of thy mouth?
14 What is man that he should be clean and that he that is born of a woman should be justified?
15 Behold, he puts no trust in his saints, and not even the heavens are clean in his sight.
16 How much less the man who is abominable and filthy, who drinks iniquity like water?
17 ¶ Listen to me and I will show thee and declare unto thee that which I have seen,
18 that which the wise men have told us of their fathers and have not hid it,
19 unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.
20 The wicked man travails with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden from the violent.
21 Fearful sounds are in his ears; in peace the destroyer shall come upon him.
22 He will not believe that he shall return out of darkness, and he is always watching the sword.
23 He wanders abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? He knows that the day of darkness is prepared for him.
24 Tribulation and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
25 Because he extended his hand against God and strengthens himself against the Almighty,
26 he shall run him through in the neck, upon the thick shoulder pieces of his shields;
27 for he covered his face with his fatness and made collops of fat on his flanks;
28 and he dwelt in desolate cities and in houses which no one inhabited, which were in heaps.
29 He shall not become rich, nor shall his strength be established, neither shall he extend his beauty upon the earth.
30 He shall not escape from the darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth he shall perish.
31 He shall not be established; in vanity he shall err; therefore, he shall be changed into vanity.
32 He shall be cut off before his time, and his branch shall not be green.
33 He shall shake off his sour grapes as the vine and shall cast off his flower as the olive.
34 For the congregation of the hypocrites shall be made desolate, and fire shall consume the tents of bribery.
35 They conceive pain and bring forth iniquity, and their belly meditates deceit.
16 ¶ Then Job answered and said,
2 Many times I have heard such things; miserable comforters are ye all.
3 Shall vain words have an end? Or what is it that emboldens thee to answer?
4 I also could speak as ye do. I wish your soul were in my soul’s stead, that I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you.
5 But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the consolation of my lips would assuage the pain.
6 ¶ Though if I speak, my pain does not cease; and if I forbear to speak, it does not depart from me.
7 But now he has made me weary; thou hast made desolate all my company.
8 And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me bears witness to my face.
9 His wrath has torn me and has been against me; he gnashed upon me with his teeth; my enemy sharpened his eyes upon me.
10 They have opened their mouth against me; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.
11 God has delivered me unto the liar, and in the hands of the wicked he has caused me to tremble.
12 I was prosperous, but he has broken me asunder; he has taken me by my neck and shaken me to pieces and set me up for his mark.
13 His archers compassed me round about; he cleaved my kidneys asunder and did not spare; he poured out my gall upon the ground.
14 He broke me with breach upon breach; he ran upon me like a giant.
15 I have sewn sackcloth upon my skin and put dust over my head.
16 My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death,
17 ¶ even though there is no injustice in my hands, and my prayer has been pure.
18 O earth, do not cover my blood; and let there be no place where my cry is hidden.
19 Certainly my witness is even now in the heavens, and my record is on high.
20 Those who dispute with me are my friends, but my eyes shall pour out tears unto God.
21 O that a man might dispute with God, as he can with his neighbour!
22 When the counted years are come, then I shall go the way from which I shall not return.
17 ¶ My breath is corrupt, my days are cut off, and the grave is ready for me.
2 Now there are only mockers with me, upon whose bitterness my eye continues to gaze.
3 Put up now, give me surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?
4 For with these, thou hast hid their heart from understanding; therefore, thou shalt not exalt them.
5 He that speaks flattery to his neighbour, even the eyes of his sons shall fail.
6 He has made me a byword of the peoples; and before them I have been as a tambourine.
7 My eyes are dim by reason of sorrow, and all my thoughts are as a shadow.
8 Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
9 The righteous shall hold on to his way, and he that has clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
10 ¶ But return all of you, and come now; for I shall not find one that is wise among you.
11 My days are past, my thoughts were broken off, even the purposes of my heart.
12 They changed the night into day; the light is short because of the darkness.
13 If I wait, Sheol is my house; I have made my bed in the darkness.
14 I have said to the pit, Thou art my father; to the worms, my mother, and my sister.
15 And where shall my hope be now? As for my hope, who shall see it?
16 They shall go down to the bars of Sheol, and together they shall rest in the dust.
18 ¶ Then Bildad, the Shuhite, answered and said,
2 How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? Understand, and afterwards we will speak.
3 Why are we counted as beasts? Are we vile in your sight?
4 O thou that dost tear thy soul in thine anger; shall the earth be forsaken because of thee and shall the rocks be removed out of their place?
5 ¶ The light of the wicked shall certainly be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.
6 The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his lamp shall be put out with him.
7 The steps of his strength shall be cut down, and his own counsel shall cast him down.
8 For a net shall be cast at his feet, and he shall walk upon a network.
9 The snare shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him.
10 The cord is hidden in the ground and a trap for him in the way.
11 ¶ Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and his own feet shall drive him away.
12 His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.
13 They shall devour the protection of his skin; the firstborn of death shall devour his members.
14 His confidence shall be rooted out of his tent, and he shall be brought to the king of terrors.
15 He shall dwell in his tent, as if it were not his; brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
16 His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above his branch shall be cut off.
17 His memory shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the streets.
18 He shall be driven from the light into the darkness and chased out of the world.
19 He shall have neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any to succeed him in his dwellings.
20 Those that come after him shall be dismayed at his day, as those that went before were overcome with fear.
21 Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that does not know God.
19 ¶ And Job replied and said,
2 How long will ye anguish my soul and break me in pieces with words?
3 These ten times ye have reproached me; are ye not ashamed to make yourselves strange to me?
4 And if indeed I have erred, my error shall remain with me.
5 If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me and reprove me of my reproach,
6 know now that God has overthrown me and has compassed me with his net.
7 Behold, I shall cry out that I have been wronged, and I shall not be heard; I shall cry aloud, and there shall be no judgment.
8 ¶ He has walled off my way and I shall not pass, and he has set darkness in my paths.
9 He has stripped me of my glory and taken the crown from my head.
10 He has pulled me up on every side, and I am dried up; he has caused my hope to pass like an uprooted tree.
11 He has kindled his wrath against me, and he counted me unto him as one of his enemies.
12 His troops came together and raised up their way over me and encamp round about my tent.
13 He has put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintances are verily estranged from me.
14 My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
15 Those that dwell in my house and my maids have counted me for a stranger; I was an alien in their sight.
16 I called my slave, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.
17 My spirit came to be strange to my wife, although I intreated her for the sons of my own body.
18 Even the young children despised me; as I arose, they spoke against me.
19 All my intimate friends abhorred me; and those whom I loved are turned against me.
20 My bones cleave to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
21 Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God has touched me.
22 Why do ye persecute me as God and are not satisfied with my flesh?
23 ¶ Oh, that my words were now written! Oh, that they were printed in a book!
24 That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
25 For I know that my redeemer lives and that he shall rise at the latter day over the dust;
26 and afterward from this, my stricken skin and from my own flesh, I must see God:
27 whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another, though my kidneys be consumed within me.
28 But ye should say, Why should we persecute him, seeing that the root of the matter is found in me?
29 Be ye afraid of the sword; for the wrath of the sword comes because of the iniquities, that ye may know there is a judgment.
20 ¶ Then Zophar, the Naamathite, answered and said,
2 My thoughts certainly cause me to answer, and therefore, I make haste.
3 I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my intelligence causes me to answer.
4 Dost thou not know this that always was, since man was placed upon earth,
5 that the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
6 Though his excellency mounts up to the heavens, and his head reaches unto the clouds,
7 yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung; those who have seen him shall say, What is become of him?
8 He shall fly away as a dream and shall not be found: yea, he shall flee away as a vision of the night.
9 The eye which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place behold him any more.
10 ¶ His poor sons shall go forth begging, and their hands shall restore that which he stole.
11 His bones are full of the sins of his youth, which shall be buried with him in the dust.
12 If wickedness was sweet in his mouth, if he hid it under his tongue,
13 if it seemed good unto him, and he did not forsake it, but savored it within his mouth,
14 his food shall be changed in his bowels, it shall be the gall of asps within him.
15 He has swallowed down riches, but he shall vomit them up again; God shall cast them out of his belly.
16 He shall suck the poison of asps; the viper’s tongue shall slay him.
17 He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.
18 He shall restore the work that was not his; according to the substance that he took; neither shall he devour, nor rejoice.
19 Because he oppressed and forsook the poor; because he has violently taken away houses which he did not build,
20 therefore, he shall not feel quietness in his belly; he shall not escape with that which he desired.
21 Nothing is left that he did not eat; therefore, his goods shall not last.
22 In the fullness of his sufficiency, he shall come into anguish; the hands of all the wicked shall come upon him.
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 and upon his food.
24 He shall flee from the weapons of iron, and the bow of bronze shall strike him through.
25 He shall draw forth an arrow from his quiver, and like lightning it shall strike through his gall; terrors shall come upon him.
26 All darkness is kept for his secrets; a fire not blown shall consume him; his successor shall be broken in his tent.
27 The heavens shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.
28 The increase of his house shall be taken captive; they shall be scattered in the day of his wrath.
29 This is the portion of a wicked man from God and the heritage that God appoints unto him by his word.
21 ¶ But Job answered and said,
2 Hear diligently my speech, and let this be instead of your consolations.
3 Suffer me that I may speak; and after I have spoken, mock on.
4 As for me, is my complaint to man? And if so, why should not my spirit be troubled?
5 Look upon me and be astonished and lay your hand upon your mouth.
6 Even I myself, when I remember, I am afraid, and trembling takes hold on my flesh.
7 ¶ Why do the wicked live and become old and even increase in riches?
8 Their seed is with them, established in their sight, and their offspring before their eyes.
9 Their houses are safe from fear; neither is the rod of God upon them.
10 Their cows conceive, and do not abort; their cows calve and do not cast forth their young.
11 They send forth their little ones like a flock of sheep, and their children dance.
12 They jump at the sound of the timbrel and harp and rejoice at the sound of the organ.
13 They spend their days in pleasure and in a moment go down to Sheol.
14 Therefore, they say unto God, Depart from us; for we do not desire the knowledge of thy ways.
15 Who is the Almighty that we should serve him? And what profit should we have if we pray unto him?
16 Behold that their good is not in their hands; the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
17 ¶ How often is the lamp of the wicked put out and their destruction comes upon them, and God distributes sorrows upon them in his anger.
18 They shall be as stubble before the wind and as chaff taken up by the whirlwind.
19 God shall lay up his violence for their sons; and he will reward him so that he shall know it.
20 His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
21 For what delight shall he have in his house after him, being cut off in the number of his months?
22 Shall he teach God knowledge, seeing he judges those that are high?
23 This one shall die in the full strength of his beauty, being completely at ease and quiet.
24 His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow.
25 And another dies in the bitterness of his soul, never having eaten with pleasure.
26 They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.
27 ¶ Behold, I know your thoughts and the imaginations which ye devise against me.
28 For ye say, What is of the house of the prince, and what of the tent of the habitation of the wicked?
29 Have ye not asked those that go by the way, and do ye not know their tokens?
30 That the wicked is reserved for the day of destruction, they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.
31 Who shall declare his way to his face? And who shall repay him what he has done?
32 He shall yet be brought to the grave and shall remain in the tomb.
33 The clods of the river valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall be drawn after him, as there were innumerable before him.
34 How then do ye comfort me in vain, given that your answers remain as falsehood?
22 ¶ Then Eliphaz, the Temanite, answered and said,
2 Can a man be profitable unto God? For he that is wise is profitable unto himself.
3 Is it any pleasure to the Almighty that thou art justified? Or is it gain to him that thou makest thy ways perfect?
4 Will he reprove thee or will he enter with thee into judgment because he fears thee?
5 ¶ Certainly thy wickedness is great and thine iniquities have no end.
6 For thou didst take a pledge from thy brother without cause and stripped the naked of their clothing.
7 Thou didst not give water to drink to the weary, and thou hast withheld bread from the hungry.
8 But the man of means had the earth; and the honourable man dwelt in it.
9 Thou hast sent the widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
10 Therefore, snares are round about thee, and sudden fear troubles thee
11 or darkness, that thou canst not see, and abundance of waters cover thee.
12 Is not God in the height of the heavens? Behold the height of the stars, how high they are!
13 And thou shalt say, What does God know? How can he judge through the darkness?
14 Thick clouds are his hiding place, and he does not see; and he walks in the circuit of heaven.
15 ¶ Dost thou desire to keep the old way which wicked men have trodden?
16 Who were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood.
17 Who said unto God, Depart from us; and what can the Almighty do unto us?
18 He had filled their houses with good things. Therefore, the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
19 The righteous shall see it and be glad; and the innocent laughs them to scorn.
20 Whereas our substance was not cut down, when the fire had consumed the rest of them.
21 ¶ Make up thy friendship now with him, and thou shalt have peace; thereby good shall come unto thee.
22 Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.
23 If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tent;
24 then thou shalt lay up gold as dust and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.
25 And the Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou shalt have plenty of silver.
26 For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty and shalt lift up thy face unto God.
27 Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.
28 Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee; and the light shall shine upon thy ways.
29 When others are cast down, then thou shalt say, There is lifting up; and he shall save the humble person.
30 He shall deliver the island of the innocent; and in the pureness of thine hands thou shalt be kept.
23 ¶ Then Job answered and said,
2 Today I will also speak with bitterness; my stroke is heavier than my groaning.
3 Oh, that I knew where I might find him! That I might come even to his seat!
4 I would order judgment before him and fill my mouth with arguments.
5 I would know the words which he would answer me and understand what he would say unto me.
6 Will he plead against me with his great power? No, but rather he would put it in me.
7 There the righteous might dispute with him; and should I escape for ever from the one who condemns me.
8 ¶ Behold, I shall go to the east and not find him; and to the west, but I cannot perceive him;
9 if he is working to the north, I shall not see him; to the south, he hides himself, that I shall not see him.
10 But he has known the way that I take; he has tried me, and I have come forth as gold.
11 My feet have held to his steps, I have kept his way, and have not departed.
12 Neither have I separated myself from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
13 ¶ But if he determines something, who can turn him? His soul desired it, and he did it.
14 Therefore, he will finish that which is necessary for me; and there are many such things in him.
15 Therefore, I shall fear before his face; I shall consider, and I shall fear him.
16 For God has made my heart tender, and the Almighty has frightened me.
17 Why was I not cut off before the darkness, neither has he covered my face with the darkness.
24 ¶ Why, seeing that times are not hidden from the Almighty, do those that know him not see his days?
2 Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks and feed thereof.
3 They drive away the ass of the fatherless; they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
4 They turn the needy out of the way; and all the poor of the earth hide themselves from them.
5 Behold, as wild asses in the desert, they go forth to their work, rising early for a prey; the wilderness yields food for them and for their children.
6 In the field they reap their fodder, and the wicked gather the vintage that is not theirs.
7 They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.
8 They are wet with the floods of the mountains and embrace the rock for want of a covering.
9 They pluck the fatherless from the breast and take a pledge of the poor.
10 They cause the naked to go without clothing, and they take away the sheaves from the hungry.
11 They press oil within their walls and tread their winepresses and suffer thirst.
12 Men groan from out of the city, and the souls of the dead cry out; yet God did not hinder them.
13 ¶ They are among those that rebel against the light; they have never known its ways nor abided in its paths.
14 The murderer rises with the light, kills the poor and the needy, and in the night is as a thief.
15 The eye of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me; and disguises his face.
16 In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime; they do not know the light.
17 For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death; if they are known, the terrors of the shadow of death come over them.
18 ¶ They are swift upon the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth; they never come by the way of the vineyards.
19 Drought and heat consume the snow waters; so does Sheol consume those who have sinned.
20 The Merciful One shall forget them; the worm shall feed sweetly on them; they shall never be remembered again; and iniquity shall be broken as a tree.
21 He afflicted the barren woman that did not conceive and never did good unto the widow.
22 He furthered the violent with his power; he did not lend to anyone in his life.
23 If he gave credit to some to take them over, his eyes were upon their ways.
24 They were exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all others and cut off as the tops of the heads of grain.
25 And if it is not so now, who will make me a liar or reduce my speech to nothing?
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