1:1 There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was complete and upright, and one that feared Elohim, and avoided badness.^1:2 And there were gendered to him 7 sons and 3 daughters.^1:3 His livestock also was 7000 sheep, and 3000 camels, and 500 yoke of oxen, and 500 she-donkeys, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the East.^1:4 And his sons have gone and made a banquet - the house of each in his day - and have sent and called to their three sisters to eat and to drink with them;^1:5 And it came to pass when the days of the banqueting had completed its course, that Job did send and consecrate them, and rising up early in the morning, and caused to ascend Burnt-Offerings - the number of them all - for Job thought, perhaps my sons have sinned, yet blessed Elohim in their heart. So did Job do all the days [as was his custom].^1:6 Now there was a day when the sons of Elohim came to present themselves before YHWH, and Satan came also among them.^1:7 And YHWH said to Satan, Where have you been? Then Satan answered YHWH, and said, from going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.^1:8 And YHWH said to Satan, Have you considered my slave Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a complete and an upright man, one that fears Elohim, and avoids badness? ^1:9 Then Satan answered YHWH and said, does Job fear Elohim for nothing?^1:10 Have you not made a hedge around him and around his house, and around all that he has on every side? you have blessed the work of his hands, and his livestock is increased in the land.^1:11 But put out your hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will curse you to your face.^1:12 And YHWH said to Satan, See, all that he has is in your power; only upon himself put not forth your hand. So Satan departed from the presence of YHWH.^1:13 And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house^:1:14 And there came a messenger to Job and said, the oxen were plowing, and the donkeys feeding beside them^:1:15 And the Sabeans fell upon them, and took them away; yes, they have killed the slaves with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell you.^1:16 While he was still speaking, there came also another and said, The fire of Elohim has fallen from the skies, and has burned up the sheep, and the slaves, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell you.^1:17 While he was still speaking, there came also another and said, the Chaldeans made themselves into three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have carried them away, yes, and killed the slaves with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell you.^1:18 While he was still speaking, there came also another and said, your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house^:1:19 And lo, there came a great wind from the uninhabited land, and struck the 4 corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell you.^1:20 Then Job arose, and tore his mantle and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground and worshipped,^1:21 And said, naked I came out of my mother's womb, and naked I will return there^: YHWH gave, and YHWH has taken away; blessed is the Name of YHWH.^1:22 In all this Job did not sin, or charged Elohim foolishly.

2:1 Again there was a day when the sons of Elohim came to present themselves before YHWH, and Satan came also among them to present himself before YHWH.^2:2 And YHWH said to Satan, Where have you been? And Satan answered YHWH and said, from going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.^2:3 Then YHWH said to Satan, Have you considered my slave Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a complete and an upright man, one that fears Elohim, and avoids badness? and still he holds fast his integrity, although you moved me against him, to destroy him without cause.^2:4 And Satan answered YHWH and said, skin for skin, yes, all that a man has will he give for his life.^2:5 But put out your hand now and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse you to your face.^2:6 And YHWH replied to Satan, See, he is in your hand; but keep him alive.^2:7 So Satan departed from the presence of YHWH, and struck Job with a distressfully inflamed boil from the sole of his foot to his head.^2:8 And he took himself a potsherd to scratch himself with it; and he sat down among the ashes.^2:9 Then his woman said to him, do you still retain your integrity? curse Elohim, and die.^2:10 But he replied to her, you speak as one of the foolish women speaks. What? will we receive good at the hand of Elohim, and will we not receive bad? In all this Job did not sin with his lips.^2:11 Now when Job's three friends heard of all this badness that was come upon him, they came everyone from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite^: because they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.^2:12 And they lifted up their eyes from afar and have not discerned him, and they lift up their voice and weep, and tore each his robe, and sprinkled dust on their heads - skyward.^2:13 So they sat down with him upon the ground 7 days and 7 nights, and none spoke a word to him^: because they saw that his grief was very great.

3:1 After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.^3:2 And Job spoke and said,^3:3 Let the day perish in which I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a male child conceived.^3:4 Let that day be darkness; let not Elohim regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.^3:5 Let darkness and death-shade redeem it, let a cloud settle down upon it, let them terrify it as the most bitter of days.^3:6 As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined to the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.^3:7 Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.^3:8 Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.^3:9 Let the stars of the twilight be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day^:3:10 Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from my eyes.^3:11 Why did I not die from the womb? why did I not expire when I came out of the womb?^3:12 Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suckle? ^3:13 Because now I should have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept^: then I would have been at rest,^3:14 With kings and counselors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;^3:15 Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver^:3:16 Or as a hidden abortion I am not, as infants - they have not seen light.^3:17 There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary are at rest.^3:18 There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.^3:19 The small and great are there; and the slave is free from his master.^3:20 Why gives he to the miserable light, and life to the bitter of heart?^3:21 Which long for death, but it comes not; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures;^3:22 That rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?^3:23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, and whom Elohim has hedged in?^3:24 For my sighing comes before I eat, and my distressful cries are poured out like the waters.^3:25 Because the thing that I greatly feared has come upon me, and what I was afraid of has come to me.^3:26 I was not safe - nor was I quiet - nor was I at rest - and trouble comes!

4:1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,^4:2 has one tried a word with you? - you are weary! And to keep in words who is able?^4:3 Look, you have instructed many and you have strengthened the weak hands.^4:4 Your words have upheld him that was falling, and you have strengthened the feeble knees.^4:5 But now it had come upon you, and you faint; it touches you, and you are troubled.^4:6 Is not this your fear, your confidence, your hope, and the uprightness of your ways?^4:7 Remember, I ask you, who perished being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off? ^4:8 Even as I have seen, they that plow trouble and sow wickedness, reap the same.^4:9 By the breath of Elohim they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.^4:10 The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.^4:11 The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the stout lion's cubs are scattered abroad.^4:12 And to me a thing is secretly brought, and receive does my ear a little of it.^4:13 In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men,^4:14 fear and trembling came upon me that made all my bones to shake.^4:15 Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up^:4:16 It stood still, but I could not discern the form of it^: an image was before my eyes, there was silence and I heard a voice saying,^4:17 will mortal man be more just than Elohim? will a man be more pure than his Maker?^4:18 Look, he put no trust in his slaves; and his angels he appointed to error.^4:19 How much less in them that live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, that are crushed in the grass?^4:20 They are destroyed from sunrise to sunset^: they perish unto the end without any regarding it.^4:21 Does not their excellency that is in them go away? they die, even without Wisdom.

5:1 Call now, if there are any that will answer you; and to which of the saints will you turn?^5:2 For vexation destroys the foolish man, and jealousy kills the gullible one.^5:3 I have seen the foolish taking root^: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.^5:4 His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.^5:5 Whose harvest the hungry eats up, and takes it even out of the thorns, and the robber swallows up their substance.^5:6 Although affliction comes not out of the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground;^5:7 But man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.^5:8 Yet I - I inquire for El, and for Elohim I give my word,^5:9 doing great things, and there is no searching. Wonderful, till there is no numbering.^5:10 Who gives rain upon the land, and sends waters upon the fields^:5:11 To set up on high those that are low; that those that mourn may be exalted to salvation.^5:12 He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.^5:13 Capturing the wise in their craftiness, and the counsel of wrestling ones was hastened,^5:14 They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.^5:15 But he saves the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.^5:16 So the poor has hope, and injustice stops her mouth.^5:17 Look, happy is the man whom Elohim corrects^: therefore despise not the discipline of Shaddai^:5:18 Because he makes pain and he binds up, he strikes, and his hands heal.^5:19 He will deliver you in 6 troubles^: yes, in 7 there will no bad touch you.^5:20 In famine he will ransom you from death^: and in war from the power of the sword.^5:21 You will be hidden from the scourge of the tongue^: neither will you be afraid of destruction when it comes.^5:22 At destruction and famine you will laugh^: neither will you be afraid of the animals of the land.^5:23 Because you will be in league with the stones of the field^: and the animals of the field will be at peace with you.^5:24 And you will know that your tent will be in peace; and you will visit your habitation, and will not go wrong.^5:25 You will also know that your posterity will be great, and your offspring as the grass of the land.^5:26 You will come to your grave in a full age, as the ascending up of a stalk in its season.^5:27 Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know it for your good.

6:1 But Job answered and said,^6:2 Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!^6:3 Because now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea^: therefore my words are swallowed up.^6:4 Because the arrows of Shaddai are within me, its rage drinks up my mind^: the terrors of Elohim do set themselves in array against me.^6:5 Does the wild donkey bray when he has grass? or bellows the ox over his fodder?^6:6 Eaten is an insipid thing without salt? Is there sense in the drivel of dreams?^6:7 My life is refusing to touch! They are as my sickening food.^6:8 Oh that I might have my request; and that Elohim would grant me the thing that I long for!^6:9 Even that it would please Elohim to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!^6:10 Then I should still have comfort; yes, I would harden myself in sorrow^: let him not spare; because I have not concealed the Words of the Holy One.^6:11 What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is my end, that I should prolong my life?^6:12 Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of bronze?^6:13 Is not my help with me, and substance driven from me?^6:14 To a despiser of his friends is shame, and the fear of Shaddai he forsakes.^6:15 My kinsmen have acted treacherously as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;^6:16 That are black because of ice, by them does snow hide itself.^6:17 What time they wax warm, they vanish^: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.^6:18 The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to the wasteland, and perish.^6:19 The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.^6:20 They were confounded because they had trusted; they came here and were ashamed.^6:21 Because now you are nothing; you see my casting down and are afraid.^6:22 Is it because I said, give to me? and, by your power bribe for me?^6:23 Or, deliver me from the enemy's hand? or, ransom me from the hand of the ruthless? ^6:24 Teach me, and I will hold my tongue^: and cause me to understand where I have erred.^6:25 How forcible are right words! but what does your arguing prove? ^6:26 For reproof - do you reckon words? And for wind - sayings of the desperate.^6:27 Yes, you overwhelm the fatherless, and you dig a pit for your friend.^6:28 Now therefore be content, look upon me; because it is evident to you if I lie.^6:29 Turn back, I ask you, let it not be perverseness, yes, turn back again - my righteousness is in it.^6:30 Is there injustice in my tongue? Or can my sense not discern an engulfing ruin?

7:1 Is there not a warfare to man on earth? And are not his days like the time of a hired man?^7:2 As a slave earnestly desires the shadow, and as the laborer looks for the reward of his work^:7:3 So am I made to possess months of emptiness, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.^7:4 If I lay down then I said, when do I rise! And evening has been measured, and I have been full of tossings until dawn.^7:5 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and became loathsome.^7:6 My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.^7:7 O remember that my life is wind^: my eye will no more see good.^7:8 The eye of him that has seen me will see me no more^: your eyes are upon me, and I am not.^7:9 As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away^: So he who is going down to Sheol comes not up.^7:10 He will return no more to his house, neither will his place know him anymore.^7:11 Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my mind; I will complain in the bitterness of my life.^7:12 Am I a sea, or a whale, that you set a watch over me?^7:13 When I say, my bed will comfort me, my couch will ease my complaint;^7:14 Then you scare me with dreams, and terrify me through visions^:7:15 So that my mind chooses strangling, and death rather than my life.^7:16 I loathe it; I would not live for the ages^: let me alone; because my days are a vapor.^7:17 What is man, that you should magnify him? and that you should set your heart upon him?^7:18 And that you should visit him every morning, and examine him every moment?^7:19 How long will you not depart from me, nor let me alone until I swallow down my spittle?^7:20 I have sinned; what will I do to you, O you preserver of men? why have you set me as a mark against you, so that I am a burden to myself?^7:21 And why do you not pardon my transgression and take away my depravity? Because now I will sleep in the dust; and you will seek me in the morning, but I will not exist.

8:1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite and said,^8:2 how long will you speak these things? and how long will the words of your mouth be like a strong wind? ^8:3 Does Elohim pervert judgment? or does Shaddai pervert justice?^8:4 If your children have sinned against him, and he has cast them away for their rebellion;^8:5 If you will seek early unto Elohim and to Shaddai implore favor,^8:6 If you were pure and upright; certainly now he would awake for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.^8:7 Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end should greatly increase.^8:8 For inquire, I ask you, of the former age, and prepare yourself to the search of their ancestors^:8:9 (Because we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow) ^8:10 Will not they teach you, and tell you, and utter words out of their heart?^8:11 Can the rush grow up without a marsh? can the reeds grow without water? ^8:12 While it is still in its greenness, and not cut down, it withers before any other herb.^8:13 So are the paths of all that forget Elohim; and the hypocrite's hope will vanish^:8:14 Whose hope will be cut off, and whose trust will be a spider's web.^8:15 He will lean upon his house, but it will not stand^: he will hold it fast, but it will not endure.^8:16 He is green before the sun and its branch shoots out in its garden.^8:17 By a heap its roots are wrapped, a house of stones he looks for.^8:18 If one does destroy him from his place, then it has feigned concerning him, I have not seen you!^8:19 Look, this is the joy of his way, and out of the land will others grow.^8:20 See, Elohim will not cast away a complete person, neither will he help the workers of bad^:8:21 Until he fills your mouth with laughing, and your lips with rejoicing.^8:22 They that hate you will be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked will come to nothing.

9:1 Then Job answered and said,^9:2 truly I have known that it is so, And what - is man righteous with Elohim?^9:3 If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.^9:4 He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength^: who has hardened himself against him, and has prospered?^9:5 That removes the mountains, and they know not^: that overturns them in his anger.^9:6 That shakes the land out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.^9:7 Which commands the sun, and it rises not; and affixes the stars.^9:8 Who alone spreads out the cosmos and treads upon the waves of the sea.^9:9 Who fashioned Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the South.^9:10 Who does great things past finding out; yes, and wonders without number.^9:11 Lo, he goes by me, and I see him not^: he passes on also, but I perceive him not.^9:12 Observe, he takes away, who can hinder him? who will say to him, what are you doing?^9:13 Elohim does not turn back his anger, under him bowed have proud helpers.^9:14 How much less will I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him?^9:15 Even if I were righteous, I answer not, for my judgment I implore favor.^9:16 Though I had called and he answered me, I do not believe that he gives ear to my voice.^9:17 Because he breaks me with a storm, and multiplies my wounds without cause.^9:18 He will not suffer me to take my breath but fills me with bitterness.^9:19 If of power, lo, the Strong One; And if of judgment - who will convene me? ^9:20 If I justify myself, my own mouth will condemn me^: if I say, I am perfect, it will also prove me perverse.^9:21 Though I were perfect, still I would not know myself^: I would despise my life.^9:22 This is one thing, therefore I said it, he destroys the complete and the wicked.^9:23 If the scourge kills suddenly, he will mock at the despair of the innocent.^9:24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked^: he covers the faces of its judges; if not, where, and who is he?^9:25 Now my days are swifter than a post^: they flee away, they see no good.^9:26 They are passed away as the swift ships^: as the eagle that speeds to its prey.^9:27 Though I say, I forget my talking, I forsake my corner, and I brighten up!^9:28 I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that you will not hold me innocent.^9:29 If I am wicked, why then do I labor in vain?^9:30 If I have washed myself with snow-water, and purified with soap my hands,^9:31 Still you will plunge me in the ditch, and my own clothes will abhor me.^9:32 Because he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment.^9:33 If there were between us an umpire, he would place his hand on us both.^9:34 Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me^:9:35 Then I would speak, and not fear him; but it is not so with me.

10:1 I am weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my life.^10:2 I will say to Elohim, do not condemn me; show me why you contend with me.^10:3 Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked? ^10:4 Have you eyes of flesh? or do you see as man sees?^10:5 Are your days as the days of man? are your years as man's days,^10:6 That you seek after my depravity, and search after my sin?^10:7 You know that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of your hand.^10:8 Your hands have made me and fashioned me together; yet you do destroy me.^10:9 Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as the clay; and will you bring me to dust again?^10:10 Have you not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?^10:11 You have clothed me with skin and flesh, and have fenced me with bones and sinews.^10:12 You have granted me life and favor, and your custody has guarded my breath.^10:13 And these things have you hidden in your heart^: I know that this is with you.^10:14 If I sin, then you mark me, and you will not acquit me from my depravity.^10:15 If I am wicked, woe to me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of ignominy; therefore you see my affliction;^10:16 Because it increases. You hunt me as a fierce lion^: and again you show yourself marvelous upon me.^10:17 You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.^10:18 Why then have you brought me out of the womb? Oh that I had expired and no eye had seen me! ^10:19 I should have been as though I had not existed; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.^10:20 Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,^10:21 Before I go to where I will not return, even to the land of darkness and the death-shadow;^10:22 A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the death-shadow, without any order, and where the light is as darkness [black hole].

11:1 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite and said,^11:2 should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be vindicated? ^11:3 Should your lies make men hold their peace? and when you mock, will no man make you ashamed?^11:4 Because you have said, my doctrine is pure, and I am clean in your eyes.^11:5 But oh that Elohim would speak, and open his lips against you;^11:6 And that he would show you the secrets of Wisdom that they are double to what is! Know therefore that Elohim exacts of you less than your depravity deserves.^11:7 Can you by searching find out Elohim? can you attain to Shaddai unto the end?^11:8 It is as high as the cosmos; what can you do? deeper than Sheol; what can you know?^11:9 The measure of it is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.^11:10 If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him? ^11:11 For he knows worthless men^: he inspects wickedness also; will he not then consider? ^11:12 For vain man would be wise, though man is born like a wild donkey's colt.^11:13 If you prepare your heart, and stretch out your hands toward him;^11:14 If trouble is in your hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in your tents.^11:15 Because then will you lift up your face without defect; yes, you will be steadfast and will not be afraid^:11:16 Because you will forget your misery, and remember it as waters that pass away^:11:17 And your age will be clearer than the noonday; you will shine forth, you will be as the sunrise.^11:18 And you will be secure, because there is hope; yes, you will dig around you, and you will take your rest in safety.^11:19 Also you will lie down, and none will make you afraid; yes, many will entreat your presence.^11:20 But the eyes of the wicked will fail, and they will not escape, and their hope will be as taking their last breath.

12:1 Then Job answered and said,^12:2 truly - you are the people, and with you does wisdom die.^12:3 But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you^: yes, who knows not such things as these?^12:4 A laughter to his friend I am^: he calls to Elohim, and he answers him, a laughter is the perfect righteous one.^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.^12:6 The tents of robbers prosper, and they that provoke Elohim are secure; he into whose hand Elohim has brought.^12:7 But ask now the animals, and they will teach you; and the flying creatures of the sky, and they will tell you^:12:8 Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you^: and the fish of the sea will declare to you.^12:9 Who knows not in all these that the hand of YHWH has fashioned this?^12:10 In whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.^12:11 Does not the ear scrutinize words? and the mouth tastes its food?^12:12 With the aged ones is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.^12:13 With him is wisdom and strength, he has counsel and understanding.^12:14 Observe, he breaks down, and it cannot be rebuilt again^: he shuts up a man, and there can be no opening.^12:15 Look, he withholds the waters, and they dry up^: also he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.^12:16 With him is strength and Wisdom^: the deceived and the deceiver are his.^12:17 He leads counselors away barefoot, and makes the judges fools.^12:18 He looses the bond of kings, and binds their hips with a girdle.^12:19 He leads princes away barefoot, and overthrows the mighty.^12:20 He removes away the speech of the trusty, and takes away the understanding of the aged.^12:21 He pours contempt upon princes, and weakens the strength of the mighty.^12:22 He discovers deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the death- shadow.^12:23 He increases the nations, and destroys them^: he enlarges the nations, and guides them.^12:24 He takes away the heart of the chief of the people of the land, and causes them to wander in empty space where there is no path.^12:25 They grope in the dark without light, and he makes them to stagger like a drunken person.

13:1 Lo, my eye has seen all this, my ear has heard and understood it.^13:2 What you know, the same do I know also^: I am not inferior to you.^13:3 Surely I would speak to Shaddai, and I desire to reason with Elohim.^13:4 But you are forgers of lies, you are all physicians of no value.^13:5 O that you would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.^13:6 Hear now my reasoning, and listen to the pleadings of my lips.^13:7 Will you speak wickedly for Elohim? and talk deceitfully for him?^13:8 Will you accept his person? will you contend for Elohim?^13:9 Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocks another, do you so mock him?^13:10 He will certainly judge you, if you do secretly accept persons.^13:11 Will not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread falls upon you?^13:12 Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.^13:13 Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.^13:14 Why do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand?^13:15 Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him^: but I will maintain my own ways before him.^13:16 He also will be my salvation^: because a hypocrite will not come before him.^13:17 Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.^13:18 Observe now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I will be vindicated.^13:19 Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I will expire.^13:20 Only two things, O Elohim, do with me^: then from your presence I am not hidden.^13:21 Withdraw your hand far from me^: and let not your dread make me afraid.^13:22 Then call and I will answer^: or let me speak, and you will answer me.^13:23 How many are my depravities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.^13:24 Why have you hidden your face and hold me for your enemy?^13:25 Will you break a leaf driven to and fro? and will you pursue the dry stubble?^13:26 Because you write against me bitter things, and cause me to possess the depravities of my youth^:13:27 You put my feet also in the stocks, and look narrowly to all my paths; on the roots of my feet you set a print,^13:28 And he, as a rotten thing, wears away, as a garment has a moth consumed him.

14:1 Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.^14:2 He comes out like a flower, and is cut down^: he flees also as a shadow and does not continue.^14:3 And do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?^14:4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.^14:5 Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you, you have appointed his limits that he cannot pass;^14:6 Turn from him so that he may rest, until he will accomplish as a hired laborer, his day.^14:7 For there is hope of a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch of it will not cease.^14:8 Though the root of it becomes old in the ground, and its stock dies in the ground;^14:9 Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.^14:10 But man dies, and wastes away^: yes, man expires, and where is he? ^14:11 Waters have gone away from a sea, and a river becomes waste and dry.^14:12 So man lies down, and rises not^: until the cosmos is no more, they will not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.^14:13 O that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would keep me secret, until your anger is past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!^14:14 If a man dies, will he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, until my change (of garments) come.^14:15 You will call and I will answer you^: you will have a desire to the work of your hands.^14:16 Because now you numbered my steps^: do you not watch over my sin?^14:17 My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and you plaster over my depravity.^14:18 And surely the mountain falling comes to nothing, and the rock is removed out of its place.^14:19 The waters wear the stones^: you wash away the things that grow out of the dust of the land; and you destroy the hope of mankind.^14:20 You prevail unto the end against him, and he passes^: you change his countenance and send him away.^14:21 His sons come to honor, and he knows it not; and they are brought low, but he perceives it not of them.^14:22 But his flesh upon him will have pain, and his mind within him will mourn.

15:1 Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite and said,^15:2 does a wise man answer with vain knowledge? And fill with an East wind his belly?^15:3 Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches with which he can do no good?^15:4 Yes, you cast off fear, and restrain prayer before Elohim.^15:5 Because your mouth utters your depravity, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.^15:6 Your own mouth condemns you, and not I^: yes, your own lips testify against you.^15:7 Are you the first man that was born? And before the heights were you formed?^15:8 Have you heard the secret of Elohim? and do you withdraw Wisdom to yourself?^15:9 What do you know that we do not? What do you understand that is not in us?^15:10 With us are both the gray-headed and very aged men, much elder than your father.^15:11 Are the consolations of Elohim small with you? is there any secret thing with you?^15:12 Why does your heart carry you away? and what do your eyes wink at,^15:13 that you turn your mind against Elohim, and let such words go out of your mouth?^15:14 What is man, that he should be clean? and he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?^15:15 Observe, he puts no trust in his saints; yes, the cosmos is not pure in his sight.^15:16 How much more abominable and tainted is man that drinks injustice like water?^15:17 I will show you so hear me, and what I have seen I will declare.^15:18 Which the wise declare - and have not concealed - from their forefathers.^15:19 To whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.^15:20 The wicked man writhes with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.^15:21 A dreadful sound is in his ears^: in prosperity the destroyer will come upon him.^15:22 He believes not that he will return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.^15:23 He wanders abroad for food saying, where is it? he knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.^15:24 Trouble and anguish will make him afraid; they will prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.^15:25 Because he stretches out his hand against Elohim, and strengthens himself against Shaddai.^15:26 He runs upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers^:15:27 Because he covers his face with his fatness, and makes excesses of fat on his flanks.^15:28 And he lives in desolate cities, and in houses that no man inhabits, that are ready to become heaps.^15:29 He will not be rich, neither will his substance continue, neither will he prolong the wealth of it upon the land.^15:30 He will not depart out of darkness; the flame will dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth will he go away.^15:31 Let not him that is deceived trust in falsehood, because emptiness will be his recompense.^15:32 It will be accomplished before his time, and his branch will not be green.^15:33 He will shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and will cast off his flower as the olive.^15:34 Because the congregation of hypocrites will be desolate, and fire will consume the tents of bribery.^15:35 They conceive trouble, and bring forth sorrow, and their belly prepares deceit.

16:1 Then Job answered and said,^16:2 I have heard many such things^: miserable comforters you all are.^16:3 Will empty words have an end? or what grieves you that you respond?^16:4 I also could speak as you do^: if I were in your place, I could heap up words against you, and shake my head at you.^16:5 But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should restrain your grief.^16:6 Though I speak, my grief is not restrained^: and though I cease, what am I eased?^16:7 But now he has made me weary^: you have made desolate all my company.^16:8 And you have filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me^: and my leanness rising up in me bears witness to my face.^16:9 He tears me in his anger, who hates me^: he gnashes upon me with his teeth; my enemy sharpens his eyes upon me.^16:10 They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have struck me upon the cheek in scorn; they have gathered themselves together against me.^16:11 Elohim has delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.^16:12 I was at ease, but he has broken me to bits^: he has also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.^16:13 His archers encircle me all around, he slices my emotions to bits, and does not spare; he pours out my gall upon the ground.^16:14 He breaks me with breach upon breach, he runs upon me like a strong man.^16:15 I have sewn sackcloth upon my skin, and thrown my horn in the dust.^16:16 My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids are the death-shadow;^16:17 Not for any injustice in my hands^: also my prayer is pure.^16:18 O earth, cover not my blood, and let my cry have no place.^16:19 Also now, see, my testimony is in the cosmos, and my witness is on high.^16:20 My friends scorn me^: but my eye pours out tears to Elohim.^16:21 O that one might plead for a man with Elohim, as a man pleads for his neighbor!^16:22 When a few years are come, then I will go the way where I will not return.

17:1 My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.^17:2 Are there not mockers with me? and does not my eye continue in their contention? ^17:3 Place, I ask you, my pledge with you; who is he that strikes hand with me?^17:4 Because you have hidden their heart from understanding^: therefore you will not exalt them.^17:5 He that speaks flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children will fail.^17:6 And he set me up for a proverb of the peoples, and a wonder before them I am.^17:7 My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.^17:8 Upright people will be astonished at this, and the innocent will stir up themselves against the hypocrite.^17:9 The righteous also will hold on his way, and he that has clean hands will be stronger and stronger.^17:10 But as for you all, do you return and come now^: because I cannot find one wise person among you.^17:11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.^17:12 They change the night into day^: the light is short because of darkness.^17:13 If I wait, Sheol is my house^: I have made my bed in the darkness.^17:14 I have said to corruption, you are my father^: to the worm, you are my mother and my sister.^17:15 And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who will see it?^17:16 They will go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.

18:1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite and said,^18:2 When do you set an end to words? Consider, and afterwards do we speak.^18:3 Why are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?^18:4 He tears himself in his anger^: will the earth be forsaken for you? and will the rock be removed out of its place? ^18:5 Yes, the light of the wicked will be put out, and the spark of his fire will not shine.^18:6 The light will be dark in his tent and his candle will be put out with him.^18:7 The steps of his vigor will be diminished, and his own counsel will cast him down.^18:8 Because he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks upon a snare.^18:9 The snare will take him by the heel and the robber will prevail against him.^18:10 The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the path.^18:11 Terrors will make him afraid on every side, and will drive him to his feet.^18:12 His vigor will be of failing strength and calamity will be ready at his side.^18:13 It will devour the parts (layers) of his skin^: consume his parts does death's first-born.^18:14 His confidence will be rooted out of his tent, and it will bring him to the king of terror.^18:15 It will abide in his tent, because it is none of his^: brimstone will be scattered upon his habitation.^18:16 His roots will be dried up beneath and above will his branch be cut off.^18:17 His memory will perish from the earth, and he will have no name in the street.^18:18 He will be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.^18:19 He will neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his sojourning- place.^18:20 They that come after him will be appalled at his day, as they that went before were seized.^18:21 Certainly such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knows not Elohim.

19:1 Then Job answered and said,^19:2 how long will you vex my mind, and break me in pieces with words? ^19:3 These 10 times you have humiliated me^: you are not ashamed that you make yourselves as dealing wrongly with me.^19:4 And be it indeed that I have erred, my error remains with myself.^19:5 If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach^:19:6 Know now that Elohim has overthrown me, and has compassed me with his net.^19:7 Observe, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard^: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.^19:8 He has fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness in my paths.^19:9 He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.^19:10 He has destroyed me on every side, and I am gone^: and my hope has he removed like a tree.^19:11 He has also kindled his anger against me, and he counted me to him as one of his enemies.^19:12 His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp all around my tent.^19:13 He has put my kinsmen far from me and my acquaintances surely have been estranged from me.^19:14 My kinsmen have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.^19:15 They that live in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger^: I am an alien in their sight.^19:16 I called my slave, and he gave me no answer; I entreated him with my mouth.^19:17 My breath is strange to my woman, though I entreated for the children's sake of my own body.^19:18 Yes, young children despised me; I arose, and they spoke against me.^19:19 All my inward friends abhorred me^: and they whom I loved are turned against me.^19:20 My bone cleaves to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.^19:21 Have pity on me, have pity on me, O you my friends; because the hand of Elohim has touched me.^19:22 Why do you persecute me as Elohim, and are not satisfied with my flesh? ^19:23 Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were inscribed in a book!^19:24 That they were engraved with an iron stylus and lead in the rock for the future.^19:25 Because I know that my kinsmen-redeemer lives, and that he will stand at the Last Days upon the earth.^19:26 And after my skin has compassed this body, then from my flesh I see Elohim.^19:27 Who I will see for myself, and my eyes will behold, and not another; though my kidneys be consumed within me.^19:28 But you should say, why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?^19:29 Be afraid of the sword^: for indignation brings the punishments of the sword, that you may know there is a Judgment.

20:1 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite and said,^20:2 therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I come quickly.^20:3 The chastisement of my shame I hear, and the spirit of my understanding does cause me to answer^:20:4 This have you known from antiquity? Since the placing of man on the earth? ^20:5 That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?^20:6 Though his excellency mount up to the cosmos, and his head reach to the clouds;^20:7 Like his own stubble he will utterly perish, they who had seen him will say, where is he? ^20:8 He will fly away as a dream, and will not be found^: yes, he will be chased away as a vision of the night.^20:9 The eye also that saw him will see him no more; neither will his place anymore see him.^20:10 His children will seek to please the poor, and his hands will restore their goods.^20:11 His bones have been full of his youth, and with him on the dust it lies down.^20:12 Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hides it under his tongue;^20:13 Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keeps it still within his mouth^:20:14 Still his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.^20:15 He has swallowed down riches, and he will vomit them up again^: Elohim will cast them out of his belly.^20:16 He will suck the poison of asps^: the viper's tongue will kill him.^20:17 He will not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.^20:18 He is giving back what he labored for, and does not consume it; as a bulwark is his exchange, and he exults not.^20:19 Because he has oppressed and has forsaken the poor; because he has violently taken away a house that he built not;^20:20 Surely he will not feel quietness in his belly, he will not save of what he desired.^20:21 There will none of his food be left; therefore will no man look for his goods.^20:22 In the fullness of his sufficiency he will be in straits^: every hand of the wicked will come upon him.^20:23 It comes to pass, at the filling of his belly, he sends forth against him the fierceness of his anger, yes, he rains on him in his eating.^20:24 He will flee from the iron weapon and the bow of steel will strike him through.^20:25 It is drawn, and comes out of the body; yes, the glittering sword comes out of his gall^: terrors are upon him.^20:26 All darkness will be concealed in his secret places^: a fire not blown will consume him; it will go ill with him that is left in his tent.^20:27 The cosmos will reveal his depravity; and the land will rise up against him.^20:28 The increase of his house will depart, and his goods will flow away in the day of his anger.^20:29 This is the portion of a wicked man from Elohim, and the heritage appointed to him by Elohim.

21:1 But Job answered and said,^21:2 hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.^21:3 Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.^21:4 As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my mind be troubled?^21:5 Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.^21:6 Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling takes hold on my flesh.^21:7 Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, they have been mighty in wealth?^21:8 Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.^21:9 Their houses are safe from terror, neither is the rod of Elohim upon them.^21:10 Their bull genders and fails not; their cow calves, and does not miscarry her calf.^21:11 They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.^21:12 They take the tambourine and lyre, and rejoice at the sound of the reed pipe (flute).^21:13 They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to Sheol.^21:14 Therefore they say to Elohim, depart from us; because we desire not the knowledge of your ways.^21:15 What is Shaddai, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray to him? ^21:16 Lo, their good is not in their hand^: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.^21:17 How often is the lamp of the wicked extinguished, and come on them does their calamity? Pangs he apportions in his anger.^21:18 They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carries away.^21:19 Elohim lays up his trouble for his children^: he rewards him, and he will know it.^21:20 His eyes will see his destruction, and he will drink of the anger of Shaddai.^21:21 For what pleasure has he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the middle?^21:22 Will any teach Elohim knowledge? seeing he judges those that are high.^21:23 One dies in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.^21:24 His breasts are full of milk and his bones are moistened with marrow.^21:25 And another dies in the bitterness of his life, and never eats with pleasure.^21:26 They will lie down alike in the dust and the maggots will cover them.^21:27 Observe, I know your thoughts and the devices that you wrongfully imagine against me.^21:28 Because you say, where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?^21:29 Have you not asked them that go by the way? and do you not know their tokens,^21:30 That the wicked is reserved to the day of calamity? they will be brought forth to the day of outpouring.^21:31 Who will declare his way to his face? and who will repay him what he has done?^21:32 Yet will he be brought to the grave, and will remain in the tomb.^21:33 The clods of the valley will be sweet to him and every man will draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.^21:34 How then comfort you me in vain, seeing in your answers there remains a falsehood?

22:1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,^22:2 can a man be profitable to Elohim, as he that is wise may be profitable to himself?^22:3 Is it any pleasure to Shaddai, that you are righteous? or is it gain to him, that you make your ways complete?^22:4 Will he correct you for fear of you? will he enter with you into judgment?^22:5 Is not your wickedness great? and your depravities without end?^22:6 Because you have taken a pledge from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.^22:7 You have not given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.^22:8 But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honorable man lived in it.^22:9 You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.^22:10 Therefore snares are all around you, and sudden fear troubles you;^22:11 Or darkness, that you cannot see; and abundance of waters cover you.^22:12 Is not Elohim in the height of the cosmos? and observe the height of the stars, how high they are! ^22:13 And you say, how does Elohim know? can he judge through the dark cloud?^22:14 The cloud-mass is a covering to him, that he sees not; and he walks in the vault of the cosmos.^22:15 Have you observed the ages that wicked men have trodden?^22:16 Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was cast out with a flood^:22:17 That said to Elohim, depart from us^: and what can Shaddai do for them?^22:18 Yet he filled their houses with good things^: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.^22:19 The righteous see it, and are glad^: and the innocent laugh them to scorn.^22:20 Surely our substance has not been cut off, and their excellency has fire consumed.^22:21 Acquaint now yourself with him, and be at peace^: thereby good will come to you.^22:22 Receive, I ask you, the law from his mouth, and lay up his Words in your heart.^22:23 If you return to Shaddai, you will be built up, you will put away injustice far from your tents.^22:24 Then will you lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.^22:25 Yes, Shaddai will be your defense, and you will have plenty of silver.^22:26 Because then will you have your delight in Shaddai, and will lift up your face to Elohim.^22:27 You will make your prayer to him, and he will hear you, and you will pay your vows.^22:28 You will also decree a thing, and it will be established to you^: and the light will shine upon your ways.^22:29 When people are cast down, then you will say, there is lifting up; and he will save the humble person.^22:30 He will deliver the island of the innocent^: and it is delivered by the pureness of your hands.

23:1 Then Job answered and said,^23:2 even today is my complaint bitter^: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.^23:3 Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his Fixed Place! ^23:4 I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.^23:5 I would know the words that he would answer me, and understand what he would say to me.^23:6 Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me.^23:7 There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered unto the end from my judge.^23:8 Look, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him^:23:9 On the left hand, where he does work, but I cannot see him^: he hides himself on the right hand so that I cannot see him^:23:10 But he knows the way that I take^: when he has examined me, I will come forth as gold.^23:11 My foot has held his steps, his way have I guarded, and not declined.^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.^23:13 But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his mind desires, even that he does.^23:14 Because he performs the thing that is appointed for me^: and many such things are with him.^23:15 Therefore I am troubled at his presence^: when I consider, I am afraid of him.^23:16 Because Elohim makes my heart soft, and Shaddai troubles me^:23:17 Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither has he covered the darkness from my face.

24:1 Why, seeing times are not hidden from Shaddai, do they that know him not see his days?^24:2 Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks and feed.^24:3 They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.^24:4 They turn the needy out of the way^: the poor of the land hide themselves together.^24:5 Observe, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go out to their work; rising early for a prey^: the desert plain yields food for them and for their children.^24:6 They reap everyone his corn in the field^: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.^24:7 They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.^24:8 They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.^24:9 They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.^24:10 They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf (omer) from the hungry;^24:11 That make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.^24:12 Men groan from out of the city, and the minds of the wounded cries out^: yet Elohim lays not folly to them.^24:13 They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways, nor abide in the paths thereof.^24:14 The murderer rising with the light kills the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.^24:15 And the eye of an adulterer has observed the twilight saying, no eye does see me. And he puts the face in secret.^24:16 In the dark they dig through houses that they had marked for themselves in the daytime^: they do not know the light.^24:17 Because the morning is to them even as the death-shadow^: if one knows them, they are in the terrors of the death-shadow.^24:18 He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the land^: he considers not the way of the vineyards.^24:19 Drought and heat consume the snow waters^: so does Sheol for those that have sinned.^24:20 The womb will forget him; the maggot will feed sweetly on him; he will be no more remembered; and wickedness will be broken as a tree.^24:21 He oppresses the barren who bear not, and to the widow he does not good.^24:22 And has drawn the mighty by his power, he rises, and none has hope in life.^24:23 He gives to him confidence, and he is supported, and his eyes are on their ways.^24:24 They are 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 ears of corn.^24:25 And if it is not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech worth nothing?

25:1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite and said,^25:2 dominion and fear are with him, he makes peace in his Elevated Place.^25:3 Is their any number to his troops, and on whom does not his light arise? ^25:4 How then can man be rendered righteous with Elohim? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman? ^25:5 Look even to the moon, and it shines not; yes, the stars are not pure in his sight.^25:6 How much less man, that becomes a maggot? and the son of man, that is a worm?

26:1 But Job answered and said,^26:2 how have you helped him that is without power? how do you save the arm that has no strength?^26:3 How have you counseled him that has no wisdom? and how have you plentifully declared the thing as it is?^26:4 To whom have you uttered words? and whose spirit came from you?^26:5 The Rephaim are formed, beneath the waters, also their inhabitants.^26:6 Sheol is naked before him, and the place of destruction has no covering.^26:7 He stretches out the North over the empty space, and hangs the earth upon nothing.^26:8 He binds up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not bursting under them.^26:9 He holds back the presence of his throne, and spreads his cloud-mass upon it.^26:10 He has surrounded the waters with boundaries, until the day and night come to an end.^26:11 The pillars of the cosmos tremble and are astonished at his rebuke.^26:12 He divides the sea with his power, and by his understanding he strikes through arrogance.^26:13 By his Spirit the cosmos he beautified, formed has his hand the fleeing serpent.^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?

27:1 Moreover Job continued his parable and said,^27:2 as Elohim lives, who has taken away my judgment; and Shaddai, who has vexed my life;^27:3 All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of Elohim is in my nostrils;^27:4 My lips will not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.^27:5 Elohim forbid that I should justify you^: until I die I will not remove my integrity from me.^27:6 My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go^: my heart will not upbraid me so long as I live.^27:7 Let my enemy be as the wicked, and he that rises up against me as the perverse one.^27:8 Because what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he has gained, when Elohim takes away his life? ^27:9 Will Elohim hear his cry when trouble comes upon him?^27:10 Will he delight himself in Shaddai? will he always call upon Elohim?^27:11 I will teach you by the hand of Elohim^: what is with Shaddai I will not conceal.^27:12 Observe, all you yourselves have seen it; why then are you so altogether vain?^27:13 This is the portion of a wicked man with Elohim, and the heritage of oppressors that they will receive of Shaddai.^27:14 If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword^: and his offspring will not be satisfied with food.^27:15 Those that survive of him will be buried in death^: and his widows will not weep.^27:16 Though he heap up silver as the dust, and as clay prepare clothing,^27:17 he may prepare it, but the righteous will put it on, and the innocent will divide the silver.^27:18 He builds his house as a moth, and as a booth that the guard makes.^27:19 The rich man will lie down, but he will not be gathered^: he opens his eyes, but he is not [existing].^27:20 Terrors take hold on him as waters, a storm-wind steals him away in the night.^27:21 The East wind carries him away, and he departs^: and as a storm hurls him out of his place.^27:22 And it casts at him, and does not spare, from its hand he diligently flees.^27:23 People will clap their hands at him, and will hiss him out of his place.

28:1 Certainly there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they refine it.^28:2 Iron is taken out of the ground, and copper is smelted from the ore.^28:3 An end has he set to darkness, and to all perfection he is searching, a stone of darkness and death- shadow.^28:4 A stream has broken out from a sojourner, those forgotten of the foot, they were low, from man they wandered.^28:5 As for the land, out of it comes food, and its under-part is turned like fire.^28:6 The stones of it are the place of sapphires^: and it has dust of gold.^28:7 There is a path that no fowl knows, and that the vulture's eye has not seen^:28:8 The lion's cubs have not walked there, nor the fierce lion passed by it.^28:9 He puts out his hand upon the rock; he overturns the mountains by its bottom.^28:10 He cuts out rivers among the rocks; and his eye sees every precious thing.^28:11 He binds the floods from overflowing; and the thing that is hidden he brings out to light.^28:12 But where will Wisdom be found? and where is the Standing Place of understanding?^28:13 Man knows not the order of it; neither is it found in the land of the living.^28:14 The abyss says, it is not in me^: and the sea says, it is not with me.^28:15 It cannot be exchanged for gold, neither will silver be weighed for its price.^28:16 It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.^28:17 The gold and the crystal cannot equal it^: and the exchange of it will not be for jewels of fine gold.^28:18 No mention will be made of coral or of pearls^: because the price of Wisdom is above rubies.^28:19 The topaz of Ethiopia will not equal it, neither will it be valued with pure gold.^28:20 Where then comes Wisdom? and where is the Standing Place of understanding?^28:21 Seeing it is hidden from the eyes of all living, and hidden from the flying creatures of the sky.^28:22 The place of destruction and death say, we have heard the fame of it with our ears.^28:23 Elohim understands its way, and he knows the Standing Place of it.^28:24 Because he looks to the ends of the land, and inspects under the whole cosmos;^28:25 To make the weight for the winds; and he weighed the waters by measure.^28:26 When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder^:28:27 Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yes, and searched it out.^28:28 And to man he said, Look, the fear of Adonai, that is Wisdom; and to depart from badness is understanding.

29:1 Moreover Job continued his parable and said,^29:2 oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when Elohim guarded me;^29:3 When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;^29:4 As I was in the days of my youth, when the counsel of Elohim was upon my tent;^29:5 When Shaddai was still with me, when my children were around me;^29:6 When I washed my steps with butter and the rock poured out for me rivers of oil;^29:7 When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!^29:8 The young men saw me, and hid themselves^: and the aged arose, and stood up.^29:9 The princes refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.^29:10 The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.^29:11 When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me^:29:12 Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.^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.^29:14 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me^: my judgment was as a robe and a turban.^29:15 I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame.^29:16 I was a dad to the poor^: and the cause that I knew not I searched out.^29:17 And I broke the jaws of the wicked, and cast the prey from his teeth.^29:18 Then I said, I will die in my nest, and I will multiply my days as the sand.^29:19 My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.^29:20 My honor was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.^29:21 Unto me people listened, and waited, and kept silent at my counsel.^29:22 After my words they spoke not again; and my speech dropped upon them.^29:23 And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide for the latter rain.^29:24 If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.^29:25 I chose out their way, and sat chief, and lived as a king in the army, as one that comforts the mourners.

30:1 But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose dads I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.^30:2 Also - the power of their hands, why is it to me? On them has old age perished.^30:3 With want and with famine gloomy, those fleeing to a dry place, formerly a desolation and waste,^30:4 Those cropping mallows near a shrub, and broom-roots is their food.^30:5 They were driven out from among mankind, (they cried after them as after a thief;) ^30:6 To live in the cliffs of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.^30:7 Among the bushes they cried out, under the nettles they were gathered together.^30:8 Sons of folly - even sons without name, They have been stricken from the land.^30:9 And now am I their song, yes, I am their byword.^30:10 They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.^30:11 Because he has loosed my cord and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.^30:12 Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their calamity.^30:13 They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.^30:14 They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters^: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.^30:15 Terrors are turned upon me^: they pursue my life as the wind^: and my welfare passed away as a cloud.^30:16 And now my life is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.^30:17 My bones are pierced in me in the night season^: and my sinews take no rest.^30:18 By the great force of my disease is my garment changed^: it binds me around as the collar of my coat.^30:19 He has cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.^30:20 I cry to you, and you do not hear me^: I stand up, and you regard me not.^30:21 You are become cruel to me^: with your strong hand you oppose yourself against me.^30:22 You lift me up to the wind; you cause me to ride upon it, and dissolve my abiding success.^30:23 Because I know that you will bring me to death and to the house appointed for all living.^30:24 Yet he will not stretch out his hand to the heap of ruins, though they cry in his ruin.^30:25 Did I not weep for him that was in trouble? was not my mind grieved for the poor?^30:26 When I looked for good, then bad came to me^: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.^30:27 My bowels boiled, and rested not^: the days of affliction prevented me.^30:28 I went mourning without the sun^: I stood up and I cried in the company.^30:29 I am a brother to serpents, and a companion to owls.^30:30 My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with dryness.^30:31 My lyre also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.

31:1 I made a pledge with my eyes; why then should I think upon a virgin?^31:2 Because what portion of Elohim is there from above? and what inheritance of Shaddai from the Elevated Place?^31:3 Is not calamity to the wicked? and disaster to the workers of trouble?^31:4 Does not he see my ways, and count all my steps?^31:5 If I have walked with falsehood, or if my foot has hurried to deceit;^31:6 Let me be weighed in an even balance, that Elohim may know my integrity.^31:7 If my step has turned out of the way, and my heart walked after my eyes, and if any blot has cleaved to my hands;^31:8 Then let me sow, and let another eat; yes, let my offspring be rooted out.^31:9 If my heart has been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbor's door;^31:10 Then let my woman grind to another, and let others bow down upon her.^31:11 Because this is a heinous crime; yes, it is a depravity to be punished by the judges.^31:12 Because it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase.^31:13 If I did despise the cause of my male or female slave, when they contended with me;^31:14 What then will I do when Elohim rises up? and when he visits, what will I answer him?^31:15 Did not he that fashioned me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?^31:16 If I have withheld the poor from their pleasure, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;^31:17 Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it;^31:18 (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a dad, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;)^31:19 If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;^31:20 If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;^31:21 If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate^:31:22 Then let my arm fall from my shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from the bone.^31:23 Because destruction from Elohim was a terror to me, and by reason of his exaltation I could not endure.^31:24 If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, you are my confidence;^31:25 If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had attained much;^31:26 If I observed the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;^31:27 And my heart has been secretly enticed, or my mouth has kissed my hand^:31:28 This also was a depravity to be punished by the judge^: because I should have denied Elohim that is above.^31:29 If I rejoiced at the ruin of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when badness found him^:31:30 Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his life.^31:31 If not - you say, O men of my tent, O that we had of his flesh, we are not satisfied.^31:32 The sojourner did not lodge in the street^: but I opened my doors to the traveler.^31:33 If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding my depravity in my bosom^:31:34 Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silent, and did not go out of doors? ^31:35 Oh that one would hear me! see, my desire is, that Shaddai would answer me, and that my adversary had put things in writing.^31:36 Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.^31:37 I would declare to him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near to him.^31:38 If against me my land does cry out, and together its furrows weep,^31:39 If I have eaten the fruits of it without money, or have caused the owners to lose their life^:31:40 Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.

32:1 So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.^32:2 Then was kindled the anger of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the clan of Ram^: against Job was did his nostrils flare, because he justified himself rather than Elohim.^32:3 Also against his three friends was did his nostrils flare, because they had found no answer, and still had condemned Job.^32:4 Now Elihu had waited until Job had spoken, because they were elder than he.^32:5 When Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, then his nostrils flared.^32:6 And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am younger, and you are very old; therefore I was afraid, and did not show you my opinion.^32:7 I said, days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.^32:8 But there is a breath in man^: and the inspiration of Shaddai gives them understanding.^32:9 Great men are not always wise^: neither do the aged understand judgment.^32:10 Therefore I said, listen to me; I also will show my opinion.^32:11 Look, I waited for your words; I gave ear to your reasons, while you searched out what to say.^32:12 Yes, I attended to you, and see, there was none of you that convinced Job, or that answered his words^:32:13 Unless you should say, we have found out wisdom^: Elohim thrusts him down, not man.^32:14 Now he has not directed his words against me^: neither will I answer him with your speeches.^32:15 They were amazed, they answered no more^: they left off speaking.^32:16 When I had waited, (for they spoke not, but stood still, and answered no more;)^32:17 I said, I will answer also my part, I also will show my opinion.^32:18 For I am full of words, the breath within me constrains me.^32:19 Look, my belly is as wine that has no vent; it is ready to burst like new bottles.^32:20 I will speak that I may be refreshed^: I will open my lips and answer.^32:21 Let me not, I ask you, accept anyone's person, and neither let me give flattering titles to human beings.^32:22 Because I know not to give flattering titles; in so doing my maker would soon take me away.

33:1 Therefore, Job, I ask you, hear my speeches, and listen to all my words.^33:2 See, now I have opened my mouth, my tongue has spoken in my mouth.^33:3 My words will be of the uprightness of my heart^: and my lips will utter knowledge clearly.^33:4 The Spirit of Elohim has fashioned me, and the breath of Shaddai has given me life.^33:5 If you can answer me, set your words in order before me, stand up.^33:6 Observe, I am according to your wish in EL's place^: I also am formed out of the clay.^33:7 See, my terror will not make you afraid, neither will my hand be heavy upon you.^33:8 Certainly you have spoken in my hearing, and I have heard the voice of your words saying,^33:9 I am clean without transgression, I am innocent; neither is there depravity in me.^33:10 See, he finds occasions against me, he counts me for his enemy,^33:11 He puts my feet in the stocks, he marks all my paths.^33:12 See, in this you are not just^: I will answer you, that Elohim is greater than man.^33:13 Why do you strive against him? because he gives not account of any of his matters.^33:14 Because Elohim speaks once, yes twice, still mankind perceives it not.^33:15 In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men, in slumber upon the bed;^33:16 Then he opens the ears of men, and seals their instruction,^33:17 To turn aside man from doing, and pride from man he conceals.^33:18 He keeps back his life from corruption and his life from passing away by a dart.^33:19 He is rebuked also with pain upon his bed and the multitude of his bones with strong pain^:33:20 So that his life loathes bread, and his appetite dainty food.^33:21 His flesh is consumed away so that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen stick out.^33:22 Yes, his life draws near to the grave and his life to the executioners.^33:23 If there is a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show to man his uprightness^:33:24 Then he is gracious to him and says, deliver him from going down to the pit^: I have found a ransom.^33:25 His flesh will be fresher than a child's^: he will return to the days of his youth^:33:26 He will pray to Elohim, and he will be favorable to him^: and he will see his face with joy^: because he will render to man his righteousness.^33:27 He looks upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted what was right, and it profited me not;^33:28 He will deliver his life from going into the pit, and his life will see the light.^33:29 Lo, all these does Elohim work, twice - thrice with man,^33:30 To bring back his life from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living.^33:31 Mark well, O Job, listen to me^: hold your peace and I will speak.^33:32 If you have anything to say, answer me^: speak, because I desire to justify you.^33:33 If not, listen to me^: hold your peace, and I will teach you wisdom.

34:1 Furthermore Elihu answered and said,^34:2 Hear my words, O you wise ones; and give ear to me, you that have knowledge.^34:3 Because the ear tests words, as the mouth tastes meat.^34:4 Let us choose to us judgment^: let us know among ourselves what is good.^34:5 Because Job has said, I am righteous^: and Elohim has taken away my judgment.^34:6 Should I lie against my right? my wound is incurable without transgression.^34:7 What man is like Job, who drinks up scorning like water?^34:8 Which goes in company with the workers of trouble, and walks with wicked men.^34:9 Because he has said, it profits a man nothing that he should delight himself with Elohim.^34:10 Therefore listen to me, you men of understanding^: far be it from Elohim, that he should do wickedness; and from Shaddai, that he should do wrong.^34:11 Because the work of a man will he render to him, and cause every man to find according to his ways.^34:12 Yes, certainly Elohim will not do wickedly, neither will Shaddai pervert judgment.^34:13 Who has given him a charge over the earth? or who has appointed the whole world?^34:14 If he set his heart upon man, if he gather to himself his spirit and his breath;^34:15 All flesh will perish together, and man will turn again to dust.^34:16 If now you have understanding, hear this^: listen to the voice of my words.^34:17 Will even he that hates right govern? and will you condemn him that is most just?^34:18 Is it fit to say to a king, you are wicked? and to princes, you are ungodly?^34:19 How much less to him that accepts not the persons of princes, nor regards the rich more than the poor? because they all are the work of his hands.^34:20 In a moment will they die, and the people will be troubled at midnight, and pass away^: and the mighty will be taken away without hand.^34:21 Because his eyes are upon the ways of man and he sees all his steps.^34:22 There is no darkness, nor death-shadow, where the workers of trouble may hide themselves.^34:23 Because he will not lay upon man more than right; that he should enter into judgment with Elohim.^34:24 He will break in pieces mighty men without number, and set others in their place.^34:25 Therefore he knows their works, and he overturns them in the night, so that they are destroyed.^34:26 He strikes them as wicked men in the open sight of others;^34:27 Because they turned back from him, and would not consider any of his ways^:34:28 So that they cause the cry of the poor to come to him, and he hears the cry of the afflicted.^34:29 When he gives quietness, who then can make trouble? and when he hides his face, who then can behold him? whether it is done against a nation, or against a man only^:34:30 That the hypocrite reign not, unless the people be ensnared.^34:31 Because unto Elohim has any said^: I have taken away, I do not corruptly,^34:32 Besides what I see, show you me, If injustice I have done - I do not add?^34:33 Should it be according to your mind? he will recompense it, whether you refuse, or whether you choose; and not I^: therefore speak what you know.^34:34 Let men of understanding tell me, and let a wise man listen to me.^34:35 Job has spoken without knowledge, and his words were without wisdom.^34:36 My desire is that Job may be tried to the end because of his answers for wicked men.^34:37 Because he adds rebellion to his sin, he claps his hands among us, and multiplies his words against Elohim.

35:1 Elihu spoke moreover and said,^35:2 this have you reckoned for judgment^: you have said - my righteousness is more than Elohim's?'^35:3 Because you said, what advantage will it be to you? and, what profit will I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?^35:4 I will answer you, and your companions with you.^35:5 Look to the skies and see; and observe the clouds that are higher than you.^35:6 If you have sinned, what do you achieve against him? And your transgressions have been multiplied, what does that do to Him?^35:7 If you are righteous, what does that give to him? or what receives he from your hand? ^35:8 Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are; and your righteousness may profit the son of man.^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.^35:10 But none say, where is Elohim my Maker, who gives songs in the night;^35:11 Who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the flying creatures of the skies?^35:12 There they cry, but none gives answer, because of the pride of bad men.^35:13 Surely Elohim will not hear vanity and neither will Shaddai regard it.^35:14 Although you say you will not see him, still judgment is before him; therefore trust in him.^35:15 And now, because there is not, he has appointed his anger, and he has not known in great extremity.^35:16 Therefore does Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplies words without knowledge.

36:1 Elihu also proceeded and said,^36:2 suffer me a little, and I will show you that I have yet to speak on Elohim's behalf.^36:3 I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.^36:4 Because truly my words will not be false^: he that is perfect in knowledge is with you.^36:5 Look, Elohim is mighty, and despises not any^: he is mighty in strength and wisdom.^36:6 He revives not the wicked, and the judgment of the poor appoints^36:7 He withdraws not from the righteous his eyes, and from kings on the throne, and causes them to sit unto the end, and they are high,^36:8 And if they are bound in fetters and are held in cords of affliction;^36:9 Then he shows them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded.^36:10 He opens also their ear to discipline, and commands that they return from wickedness.^36:11 If they obey and serve him, they will spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.^36:12 But if they obey not, they will perish by the sword, and they will die without knowledge.^36:13 But the hypocrites in heart heap up anger^: they cry not when he binds them.^36:14 They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean.^36:15 He delivers the poor in his affliction, and opens their ears in oppression.^36:16 And also he moved you from a narrow place, to a broad place - no narrowness under it, and what was set on your table has been full of fatness.^36:17 But you have fulfilled the judgment of the wicked^: judgment and justice take hold on you.^36:18 Because there is indignation, beware unless he takes you away with his stroke^: then a great ransom cannot deliver you.^36:19 Will he esteem your riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of strength.^36:20 Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.^36:21 Take heed, regard not trouble^: because you have chosen this rather than poverty.^36:22 Look, Elohim exalts by his power^: who teaches like him?^36:23 Who has enjoined him his way? or who can say, you have done wrong? ^36:24 Remember that you magnify his work that men observe.^36:25 Every man may see it; man may see it afar off.^36:26 Consider, Elohim is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.^36:27 Because he makes small the drops of water^: they pour down rain according to its vapors^:36:28 That the clouds do drop and drip upon man abundantly.^36:29 Also can any understand the spreading out of the clouds, or the noise of his thicket? ^36:30 See, he spreads his light upon it, and covers the bottom of the sea.^36:31 because by them he judges the people; he gives food in abundance.^36:32 With clouds he covers the light; and commands it not to shine by the cloud that comes between.^36:33 The noise of it announces concerning it, the cattle also concerning the vapor.

37:1 At this also my heart trembles, and is moved out of its place.^37:2 Hear attentively the noise of his voice, and the sound that goes out of his mouth.^37:3 He directs it under the whole cosmos, and his lightning to the ends of the earth.^37:4 After it a voice roars^: he thunders with the voice of his excellency; and he will not supplant them when his voice is heard.^37:5 Elohim thunders marvelously with his Voice; great things he does that we cannot comprehend.^37:6 Because he says to the snow, be you on the land; likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength.^37:7 He seals up the hand of every man; that all men may know his work.^37:8 Then the animals go into dens, and remain in their places.^37:9 Out of the South comes the whirlwind^: and cold out of the North.^37:10 By the breath of Elohim frost is given^: and the expanse of the waters is constrained.^37:11 Also by watering he wearies the thick cloud^: he scatters his bright cloud^:37:12 And it is turned around by his counsels^: that they may do whatever he commands them upon the surface of the world in the earth.^37:13 He causes it to come, whether for correction, or for his land, or for goodness.^37:14 Listen to this O Job^: stand still, and consider the wondrous works of Elohim.^37:15 Do you know when Elohim disposed them, and caused the light of his cloud to shine?^37:16 Do you know the balancing of the clouds, the wondrous works of him that is complete in knowledge?^37:17 How your garments are warm, when he quiets the earth by the South wind? ^37:18 You have made an expanse with him for the clouds - strong as a hard mirror!^37:19 Teach us what we will say to him; because we cannot order our words by reason of darkness.^37:20 Will it be told him that I speak? if a man speak, surely he will be swallowed up.^37:21 And now people see not the bright light that is in the clouds^: but the wind passes and cleanses them.^37:22 Fair weather comes out of the North^: with Elohim is terrible majesty.^37:23 Touching Shaddai, we cannot find him out^: he is excellent in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice^: he will not afflict.^37:24 Men do therefore fear him^: he respects not any that are wise of heart.

38:1 Then YHWH answered Job out of the whirlwind and said,^38:2 Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?^38:3 Gird up now your hips like a man; because I will demand of you, and answer me.^38:4 Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if you have understanding.^38:5 Who has laid the measures of it, if you know? or who has stretched the line upon it?^38:6 Where are the foundations of it fastened? or who laid the cornerstone;^38:7 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of Elohim shouted for joy?^38:8 Or who shut up the sea with gates, when it broke out, as if it had issued out of the womb? ^38:9 When I made the cloud the garment of it, and thick darkness a swaddling-band for it,^38:10 And broke up for it my decreed place, and set bars and gates,^38:11 And said, Here will you come, but no further^: and here will your proud waves be fixed? ^38:12 Have you commanded the morning since your days; and caused the dawn to know its place;^38:13 That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?^38:14 It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment.^38:15 And from the wicked their light is withheld, and the high arm will be broken.^38:16 Have you entered into the springs of the sea? or have you walked in the search of the depth? ^38:17 Have the gates of death been opened to you? or have you seen the gate of the death-shadow?^38:18 Have you perceived the width of the earth? declare if you know it all.^38:19 Where is the path where light dwells? and as for darkness, where is its standing place,^38:20 that you do take it to its boundary, and that you do understand the paths of its house.^38:21 You have known - for then you are born and the number of your days are many! ^38:22 Have you entered into the treasures of the snow? or have you seen the treasures of the hail,^38:23 Which I have reserved against the Time of Trouble, against the day of battle and war?^38:24 By what way is the light parted, that scatters the East wind upon the earth?^38:25 Who has divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder;^38:26 To cause it to rain on the land, where no man is; on the wilderness, where there is no man;^38:27 To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth? ^38:28 Has the rain a father? or who has begotten the drops of dew?^38:29 Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of the skies, who has engendered it? ^38:30 The waters are hidden as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.^38:31 Can you bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion? ^38:32 Can you bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or can you guide Arcturus with his sons?^38:33 Do you know the ordinances of the skies? can you set the dominion of it in the earth?^38:34 Can you lift up your voice to the clouds so that abundance of waters may cover you? ^38:35 Can you send lightning's, that they may go, and say to you, here we are?^38:36 Who has put Wisdom in the inward parts? or who has given understanding to the heart? ^38:37 Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the water-skins of the skies,^38:38 When the dust grows into hardness, and the clods cleave fast together? ^38:39 Will you hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the appetite of the young lions,^38:40 When they couch in their dens, and abide in the covert to lie in ambush? ^38:41 Who provides for the raven his food? when his young ones cry to Elohim, they wander for lack of food.

39:1 Do you know the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? or can you mark when the doe do calve? ^39:2 Can you number the months that they fulfill? or know the time when they bring forth?^39:3 They bow themselves, they bring forth their young ones, they cast out their sorrows.^39:4 Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they go out, and return not to them.^39:5 Who has sent out the wild donkey free? or who has loosed the bands of the wild donkey?^39:6 Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.^39:7 He scorns the multitude of the city, neither regards he the crying of the driver.^39:8 The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searches after every green thing.^39:9 Will the buffalo be willing to serve you, or abide by your crib?^39:10 Can you bind the buffalo with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after you?^39:11 Will you trust him, because his strength is great? or will you leave your labor to him? ^39:12 Will you believe him, that he will bring home your seed, and gather it into your barn?^39:13 The wing of the rattling ones exults, whether the pinion of the ostrich or hawk.^39:14 Which leaves her eggs in the ground and warms them in dust,^39:15 And forgets that the foot may crush them, or that the wild animal may break them.^39:16 She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers^: her labor is in vain without fear;^39:17 Because Elohim has deprived her of wisdom, neither has he imparted to her understanding.^39:18 What time she lifts up herself on high, she scorns the horse and his rider.^39:19 Have you given the horse strength? have you clothed his neck with thunder?^39:20 Can you make him afraid as a grasshopper? the glory of his nostrils is terrible.^39:21 He paws in the valley, and rejoices in his strength^: he goes on to meet the armed men.^39:22 He mocks at fear, and is not affrighted; neither turns he back from the sword.^39:23 The quiver rattles against him, the glittering spear and the shield.^39:24 He swallows the ground with fierceness and rage^: neither believes he that it is the sound of the trumpet.^39:25 He says among the trumpets, ha, ha; and he smells the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.^39:26 Does the hawk fly by your wisdom, and stretch her wings toward the South?^39:27 Does the eagle mount up at your command, and make her nest on high?^39:28 She dwells and abides on the rock, upon the crag of the rock and the strong place.^39:29 From there she seeks the prey, and her eyes behold afar off.^39:30 Her young ones also suck up blood^: and where the slain are, there she is.

40:1 Moreover YHWH answered Job and said,^40:2 Will he that contends with Shaddai instruct him? he that reasons with Elohim, let him answer it.^40:3 Then Job answered YHWH and said,^40:4 behold, I am vile; what will I answer you? I will lay my hand on my mouth.^40:5 Once have I spoken; but I will not answer^: yes, twice; but I will proceed no further.^40:6 Then YHWH answered to Job out of the whirlwind and said,^40:7 Gird up your hips now like a man^: I will demand of you, and you declare to me.^40:8 Will you also frustrate my judgment? will you condemn me so that you may be righteous?^40:9 Have you an arm like Elohim? or can you thunder with a Voice like him? ^40:10 Deck yourself now with majesty and excellency; and array yourself with glory and beauty.^40:11 Cast abroad the rage of your anger^: and behold everyone that is proud, and abase him.^40:12 Look on everyone that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place.^40:13 Hide them in the dust together; and bind their faces in secret.^40:14 Then I will also confess to you that your own right hand can save you.^40:15 Behold now behemoth, that I made with you; he eats grass as an ox.^40:16 Lo now, his strength is in his hips, and his force is in the navel of his belly.^40:17 He moves his tail like a cedar^: the sinews of his thighs are wrapped together.^40:18 His bones are as strong pieces of bronze; his bones are like bars of iron.^40:19 He is the chief of the ways of Elohim^: he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him.^40:20 Certainly the mountains bring him forth food, where all the animals of the field play.^40:21 He lies under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens.^40:22 The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him all around.^40:23 Observe, he drinks up a river and hurries not^: he trusts that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth.^40:24 He takes it with his eyes^: his nose pierces through snares.

41:1 Can you draw out the large aquatic animal with an hook? or his tongue with a cord that you let down? ^41:2 Can you put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?^41:3 Will he make many supplications to you? will he speak soft words to you? ^41:4 Will he make a pledge with you? will you take him for a slave for the ages?^41:5 Will you play with him as with a bird? or will you bind him for your female slaves? ^41:6 Will the companions make a banquet of him? will they part him among the merchants?^41:7 Can you fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears? ^41:8 Lay your hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more.^41:9 Observe, the hope of him is in vain^: will not one be cast down even at the sight of him?^41:10 None is so fierce that dare stir him up^: who then is able to stand before me? ^41:11 Who has prevented me, that I should repay him? whatever is under the whole cosmos is mine.^41:12 I will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his graceful proportion.^41:13 Who can discover the face of his garment? or who can come to him with his double bridle? ^41:14 Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible all around.^41:15 His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.^41:16 One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.^41:17 They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be separated.^41:18 By his sneezing a light does shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.^41:19 Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out.^41:20 Out of his nostrils goes smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron.^41:21 His breath kindles coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth.^41:22 In his neck remains strength, and sorrow is turned into joy before him.^41:23 The flakes of his flesh are joined together^: they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved.^41:24 His heart is as firm as a stone; yes, as hard as a piece of the lower [millstone].^41:25 When he raises up himself, the mighty are afraid^: by reason of breakings they purify themselves.^41:26 The sword of him that lays at him cannot hold^: the spear, the dart, nor the breastplate.^41:27 He esteems iron as straw, and bronze as rotten wood.^41:28 The arrow cannot make him flee^: sling-stones are turned with him into stubble.^41:29 Darts are counted as stubble^: he laughs at the shaking of a spear.^41:30 Sharp stones are under him^: he spreads sharp pointed things upon the mire.^41:31 He makes the deep sea to boil like a pot^: he makes the sea like a pot of ointment.^41:32 He makes a path to shine after him; one would think the abyss to be hoary.^41:33 Upon earth there is not his like, who behaves without fear.^41:34 He beholds all high things^: he is a king over all the children of pride.

42:1 Then Job answered YHWH and said,^42:2 I know that you can do everything, and that no thought can be withheld from you.^42:3 Who is he that hides counsel without knowledge? therefore I have uttered what I understood not; things too wonderful for me that I knew not.^42:4 Hear, I beseech you, and I will speak^: I will demand of you, and declare to me.^42:5 I have heard of you by the hearing of the ear^: but now my eye sees you.^42:6 Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.^42:7 And it was so, that after YHWH had spoken these words to Job, YHWH said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My anger is kindled against you, and against your two friends^: because you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my slave Job has.^42:8 Therefore take to you now 7 young bull and 7 rams, and go to my slave Job, and offer up for yourselves a Burnt-Offering; and my slave Job will pray for you. Because him I will accept^: unless I deal with you after your folly, in that you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, like my slave Job.^42:9 So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as YHWH commanded them^: YHWH also accepted Job.^42:10 And YHWH turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends^: also YHWH gave Job twice as much as he had before.^42:11 Then came there to him all his brothers, 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 had compassion for him, and comforted him over all the badness that YHWH had brought upon him^: every man also gave him a piece of money, and everyone an earring of gold.^42:12 So YHWH blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning^: because he had 14,000 sheep, and 6000 camels, and 1000 yoke of oxen, and 1000 female donkeys.^42:13 He had also 7 sons and 3 daughters.^42:14 And he called the name of the 1st, Jemima; and the name of the 2nd, Kezia; and the name of the 3rd, Kerenhappuch.^42:15 And in all the land were no women found so beautiful as the daughters of Job^: and their father gave them inheritance among their kinsmen.^42:16 After this lived Job 140 years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even to 4 generations.^42:17 So Job died, being old and full of days.

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