So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great.

There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.

Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?

Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.

By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.

They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.

Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.

His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.

They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.

My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;

What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.

They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.

Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?

They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.

Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger.

Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.

They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.

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

But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost.

The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.

But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee:

Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.

They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.

So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.

His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.

Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.

They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.

They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.

They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.

They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted.

They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.

Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.

All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.

Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!

That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!

Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?

They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.

They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.

They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.

Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.

They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.

They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.

That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.

Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are!

Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?

Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.

They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.

They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.

Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.

They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.

They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.

They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.

They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.

They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;

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

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

For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.

They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.

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

Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it.

The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; even the waters forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.

After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them.

And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.

If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.

But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.

For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.

They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)

Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.

They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.

They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.

Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.

Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.

They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.

They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.

Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.

Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.

If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;

Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.

Now Elihu had waited till Job had spoken, because they were elder than he.

They were amazed, they answered no more: they left off speaking.

When I had waited, (for they spake not, but stood still, and answered no more;)

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

In a moment shall they die, and the people shall be troubled at midnight, and pass away: and the mighty shall be taken away without hand.

Therefore he knoweth their works, and he overturneth them in the night, so that they are destroyed.

Because they turned back from him, and would not consider any of his ways:

So that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto him, and he heareth the cry of the afflicted.

By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.

There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men.

He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings are they on the throne; yea, he doth establish them for ever, and they are exalted.

And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction;

Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded.

He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity.

If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.

But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.

But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he bindeth them.

They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean.

For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof:

And it is turned round about by his counsels: that they may do whatsoever he commandeth them upon the face of the world in the earth.