Let the day perish in which I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a mail child conceived.

Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.

For the thing which I greatly feared hath come upon me, and that which I dreaded hath come to me.

Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake.

Doth not their excellence which is in them depart? they die, even without wisdom.

Call now, if there is any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn?

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison of which drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God set themselves in array against me.

Can that which is unsavory be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?

Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and in which the snow is hid:

Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?

And that he would show thee the secrets of wisdom, that they are double to that which is! Know therefore that God exacteth of thee less than thy iniquity deserveth.

The waters wear the stones: thou washest away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man.

Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches with which he can do no good?

What knowest thou that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us?

I will show thee, hear me; and that which I have seen, I will declare;

Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:

And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.

And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.

The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.

His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.

That which he labored for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice in it.

Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away a house which he did not build.

Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired.

Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.

Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?

I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say to me.

In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the day-time: they know not the light.

Though it is given him to be in safety, on which he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways.

I will teach you by the hand of God: that which is with the Almighty will I not conceal.

This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty.

There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vultur's eye hath not seen:

I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.

Behold, my belly is as wine which hath no vent; it is ready to burst like new bottles.

He looketh upon men, and if any shall say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;

That which I see not teach thou me: if I have done iniquity, I will do no more.

Look to the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou.

Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table would be full of fatness.

Remember that thou magnify his work, which men behold.

Which the clouds do drop and distill upon man abundantly.

God thundereth marvelously with his voice; great things he doeth, which we cannot comprehend.

Hast thou with him spread out the sky which is strong, and as a molten looking-glass?

And now men see not the bright light which is in the clouds: but the wind passeth, and cleanseth them.

Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?

By what way is the light parted, which scattereth the east wind upon the earth?

To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; on the wilderness in which there is no man;

Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in the dust,

Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.

Canst thou draw out leviathan with a hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?

Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that which I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.

Therefore take to you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer for yourselves a burnt-offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job.