008:001 | Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, |
008:002 | How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind? |
008:003 | Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice? |
008:004 | If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression; |
008:005 | If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty; |
008:006 | If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous. |
008:007 | Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase. |
008:008 | For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers: |
008:009 | (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:) |
008:010 | Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart? |
008:011 | Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water? |
008:012 | Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb. |
008:013 | So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish: |
008:014 | Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider's web. |
008:015 | He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure. |
008:016 | He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden. |
008:017 | His roots are wrapped about the heap, and seeth the place of stones. |
008:018 | If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee. |
008:019 | Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow. |
008:020 | Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evil doers: |
008:021 | Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing. |
008:022 | They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought. |
009:001 | Then Job answered and said, |
009:002 | I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God? |
009:003 | If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand. |
009:004 | He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered? |
009:005 | Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger. |
009:006 | Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble. |
009:007 | Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars. |
009:008 | Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea. |
009:009 | Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south. |
009:010 | Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders without number. |
009:011 | Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not: he passeth on also, but I perceive him not. |
009:012 | Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What doest thou? |
009:013 | If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him. |
009:014 | How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him? |
009:015 | Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge. |
009:016 | If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice. |
009:017 | For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause. |
009:018 | He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness. |
009:019 | If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead? |
009:020 | If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse. |
009:021 | Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life. |
009:022 | This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked. |
009:023 | If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent. |
009:024 | 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? |
009:025 | Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good. |
009:026 | They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey. |
009:027 | If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself: |
009:028 | I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent. |
009:029 | If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain? |
009:030 | If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean; |
009:031 | Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me. |
009:032 | For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment. |
009:033 | Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both. |
009:034 | Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me: |
009:035 | Then would I speak, and not fear him; but it is not so with me. |
010:001 | My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. |
010:002 | I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me. |
010:003 | 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? |
010:004 | Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth? |
010:005 | Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man's days, |
010:006 | That thou enquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin? |
010:007 | Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand. |
010:008 | Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me. |
010:009 | Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again? |
010:010 | Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese? |
010:011 | Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews. |
010:012 | Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit. |
010:013 | And these things hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that this is with thee. |
010:014 | If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity. |
010:015 | 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; |
010:016 | For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me. |
010:017 | Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me. |
010:018 | 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! |
010:019 | I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave. |
010:020 | Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little, |
010:021 | Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; |
010:022 | A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness. |
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