The eye which saw him shall see him not again; and his place beholdeth him no more.

Though he spare it, and forsake it not, but keep it within his mouth,

He shall not see streams, rivers, brooks of honey and butter.

That which he laboured for shall he restore, and not swallow down; its restitution shall be according to the value, and he shall not rejoice therein.

For he hath oppressed, hath forsaken the poor; he hath violently taken away a house that he did not build.

Nothing escaped his greediness; therefore his prosperity shall not endure.

All darkness is laid up for his treasures: a fire not blown shall devour him; it shall feed upon what is left in his tent.

As for me, is my complaint to a man? or wherefore should not my spirit be impatient?

Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.

And they say unto God, Depart from us, for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways!

Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked be far from me!

And another dieth in bitterness of soul, and hath not tasted good:

Have ye not asked the wayfarers? and do ye not regard their tokens:

Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities without end?

Thou hast not given water to the fainting to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.

Or darkness, that thou canst not see, and floods of waters cover thee.

Is not +God in the height of the heavens? And behold the summit of the stars: how exalted are they!

Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh on the vault of the heavens.

Is not he who rose against us destroyed, and doth not the fire consume his residue?

Even him that is not innocent shall he deliver; yea, he shall be delivered by the pureness of thy hands.

Lo, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I do not perceive him;

On the left hand, where he doth work, but I behold him not; he hideth himself on the right hand, and I see him not.

My foot hath held to his steps; his way have I kept, and not turned aside.

Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he hidden the gloom from me.

Why are not times treasured up with the Almighty? why do not they that know him see his days?

They pass the night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold;

Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out; and +God imputeth not the impiety.

There are those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.

The murderer riseth with the light, killeth the afflicted and needy, and in the night is as a thief.

In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves in; they know not the light:

He is swift on the face of the waters; their portion is cursed on the earth: he turneth not unto the way of the vineyards.

He that despoileth the barren that beareth not, and doeth not good to the widow:

If it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?

Is there any number of his troops? and upon whom doth not his light arise?

Lo, even the moon is not bright; and the stars are not pure in his sight:

He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not rent under them.

My lips shall not speak unrighteousness, nor my tongue utter deceit!

Be it far from me that I should justify you; till I die I will not remove my blamelessness from me.

My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart reproacheth me not one of my days.

I will teach you concerning the hand of God; what is with the Almighty will I not conceal.

If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword, and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread;

Those that remain of him shall be buried by death, and his widows shall not weep.

He lieth down rich, but will do so no more; he openeth his eyes, and he is not.

Terrors overtake him like waters; a whirlwind stealeth him away in the night.

And God shall cast upon him and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.

It is a path no bird of prey knoweth, and the vulture's eye hath not seen it;

The proud beasts have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed over it.

He bindeth the streams that they drip not, and what is hidden he bringeth forth to light.

Man knoweth not the value thereof; and it is not found in the land of the living.

The deep saith, It is not in me; and the sea saith, It is not with me.

It is not set in the balance with gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, and the sapphire.

The topaz of Ethiopia shall not be compared to it, neither shall it be set in the balance with pure gold.

I was a father to the needy, and the cause which I knew not I searched out;

My root shall be spread out to the waters, and the dew will lie all night on my branch;

After my words they spoke not again, and my speech dropped upon them;

If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and they troubled not the serenity of my countenance.

They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, yea, they spare not to spit in my face.

The night pierceth through my bones and detacheth them from me, and my gnawing pains take no rest:

I cry unto thee, and thou answerest me not; I stand up, and thou lookest at me.

Did not I weep for him whose days were hard? was not my soul grieved for the needy?

My bowels well up, and rest not; days of affliction have confronted me.

I go about blackened, but not by the sun; I stand up, I cry in the congregation.

Is not calamity for the unrighteous? and misfortune for the workers of iniquity?

Doth not he see my ways, and number all my steps?

Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not One fashion us in the womb?

Or have eaten my morsel alone, so that the fatherless ate not thereof,

If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my lambs;

If the men of my tent said not, Who shall find one that hath not been satisfied with his meat? --

The stranger did not lodge without; I opened my doors to the pathway.

Because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and went not out of the door, ...

Would I not take it upon my shoulder? I would bind it on to me as a crown;

It is not the great that are wise; neither do the aged understand judgment.

That ye may not say, We have found out wisdom; God will make him yield, not man.

Now he hath not directed his words against me; and I will not answer him with your speeches. ...

And I waited, for they spoke not, but stood still, and answered no more; --

Let me not, I pray you, accept any man's person; neither will I give flattery to man.

For I know not how to flatter; my Maker would soon take me away.

Behold, my terror shall not make thee afraid, nor my burden be heavy upon thee.

Behold, I will answer thee in this, thou art not right; for +God is greater than man.

Why dost thou strive against him? for he giveth not account of any of his matters.

For God speaketh once, and twice, and man perceiveth it not --

In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;

His flesh is consumed away from view, and his bones that were not seen stick out;

He will sing before men, and say, I have sinned, and perverted what was right, and it hath not been requited to me;

If not, hearken thou unto me; be silent, and I will teach thee wisdom.

For he hath said, It profiteth not a man if he delight himself in God.

Yea, surely, God acteth not wickedly, and the Almighty perverteth not judgment.

How then to him that accepteth not the persons of princes, nor regardeth the rich man more than the poor? for they are all the work of his hands.

For he doth not long consider a man, to bring him before God in judgment.

Since he knoweth their actions; and he overthroweth them in the night, and they are crushed.

That the ungodly man reign not, that the people be not ensnared.

For hath he said unto God, I bear chastisement, I will not offend;

What I see not, teach thou me; if I have done wrong, I will do so no more?

Shall he recompense according to thy mind? for thou hast refused his judgment; for thou so choosest, and not I; speak then what thou knowest.

Job hath spoken without knowledge, and his words were not with intelligence.

But none saith, Where is +God my Maker, who giveth songs in the night,

There they cry, and he answereth not, because of the pride of evil men.

Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.

Although thou sayest thou dost not see him, judgment is before him, therefore wait for him.

But now, because he hath not visited in his anger, doth not Job know his great arrogancy?