004:001 | Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said, |
004:002 | If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking? |
004:003 | Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands. |
004:004 | Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees. |
004:005 | But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled. |
004:006 | Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways? |
004:007 | Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off? |
004:008 | Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same. |
004:009 | By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed. |
004:010 | The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken. |
004:011 | The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad. |
004:012 | Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof. |
004:013 | In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, |
004:014 | Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. |
004:015 | Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up: |
004:016 | 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, |
004:017 | Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker? |
004:018 | Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly: |
004:019 | How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth? |
004:020 | They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it. |
004:021 | Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom. |
005:001 | Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn? |
005:002 | For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one. |
005:003 | I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation. |
005:004 | His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them. |
005:005 | Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance. |
005:006 | Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground; |
005:007 | Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward. |
005:008 | I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause: |
005:009 | Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number: |
005:010 | Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields: |
005:011 | To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety. |
005:012 | He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise. |
005:013 | He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong. |
005:014 | They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope in the noonday as in the night. |
005:015 | But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty. |
005:016 | So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth. |
005:017 | Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty: |
005:018 | For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole. |
005:019 | He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee. |
005:020 | In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword. |
005:021 | Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh. |
005:022 | At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth. |
005:023 | For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee. |
005:024 | And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin. |
005:025 | Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth. |
005:026 | Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season. |
005:027 | Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou it for thy good. |
006:001 | But Job answered and said, |
006:002 | Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! |
006:003 | For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up. |
006:004 | 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. |
006:005 | Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder? |
006:006 | Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg? |
006:007 | The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat. |
006:008 | Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for! |
006:009 | Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off! |
006:010 | 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. |
006:011 | What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life? |
006:012 | Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brass? |
006:013 | Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me? |
006:014 | To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty. |
006:015 | My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away; |
006:016 | Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid: |
006:017 | What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place. |
006:018 | The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish. |
006:019 | The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them. |
006:020 | They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed. |
006:021 | For now ye are nothing; ye see my casting down, and are afraid. |
006:022 | Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of your substance? |
006:023 | Or, Deliver me from the enemy's hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty? |
006:024 | Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred. |
006:025 | How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove? |
006:026 | Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind? |
006:027 | Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend. |
006:028 | Now therefore be content, look upon me; for it is evident unto you if I lie. |
006:029 | Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it. |
006:030 | Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things? |
007:001 | Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling? |
007:002 | As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work: |
007:003 | So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me. |
007:004 | 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. |
007:005 | My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome. |
007:006 | My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope. |
007:007 | O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good. |
007:008 | The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not. |
007:009 | As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more. |
007:010 | He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more. |
007:011 | 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. |
007:012 | Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me? |
007:013 | When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaints; |
007:014 | Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions: |
007:015 | So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life. |
007:016 | I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity. |
007:017 | What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him? |
007:018 | And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment? |
007:019 | How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle? |
007:020 | 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? |
007:021 | And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be. |
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