Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them.

For I know that my redeemer lives and that he shall rise at the latter day over the dust;

There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God and departed from evil.

and said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return there. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.

Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? Cause me to know, if thou hast understanding.

He stretches out the north wind over the empty place and hangs the earth upon nothing.

Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind and said,

But put forth thy hand now and touch all that he has, and thou shalt see if he will not blaspheme thee to thy face.

Hast thou not made a hedge about him and about his house and about all that he has on every side? Thou hast blessed the work of his hands; therefore, his substance has increased in the land.

when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters.

And unto man he said, Behold, that the fear of the Lord, is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.

And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in the house of their brother, the firstborn;

The Spirit of God made me, and the breath of the Almighty gave me life.

For the iniquity does not come forth out of the dust; neither does chastisement spring up out of the ground;

I made a covenant with my eyes; why then should I look upon a maid?

and a messenger came unto Job and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them;

Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble.

Though he slay me, yet I will trust in him; but I will defend my ways before him.

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

Who provided food for the raven; when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of food?

By his spirit he has adorned the heavens; his hand has formed the fleeing serpent.

Then Job arose and rent his mantle and shaved his head and fell down upon the ground and worshipped

And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my slave Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that fears God and has departed from evil?

and the Sabeans fell upon them and took them away; they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell thee.

While he was yet speaking, there another came and said, Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in the house of their brother, the firstborn;

While he was yet speaking, another came and said, The Chaldeans made three bands and fell upon the camels and have carried them away and have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell thee.

He who does great things past finding out, and wonders without number.

With my ears I had heard thee; but now my eyes see thee.

But he has known the way that I take; he has tried me, and I have come forth as gold.

Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above; neither let the light shine upon it.

While he was yet speaking, another came who said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven and has burned up the sheep and the servants and consumed them; and I alone have escaped to tell thee.

I know that thou canst do every thing and that there is no thought hidden from thee.

In all this Job did not sin nor charge God with folly.

and, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I alone have escaped to tell thee.

But now that it is come upon thee, thou art grieved; it touches thee, and thou art troubled.

Then thou shalt call, and I will answer thee; thou wilt have a desire towards the work of thine hands.

Behold, he shall pass before me, and I shall not see him; and he shall pass on, and I shall not understand him.

The vain man shall make himself understood, though man is born like a wild ass's colt.

The eyes of those that see me now shall not see me again; thine eyes shall be upon me, and I will cease to be.

My bones cleave to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.

With him is wisdom and strength; he has counsel and intelligence.

Why shall I take my flesh in my teeth and put my life in the palm of my hand?

Let darkness and the shadow of death redeem it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

for we are but of yesterday and know nothing because our days upon earth are as a shadow.

The things that my soul refused to touch before, now by my sorrow are my food.

Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh and hast hedged me with bones and sinews.

How much less the man who is abominable and filthy, who drinks iniquity like water?

Shall he teach God knowledge, seeing he judges those that are high?

If thou would prepare thine heart and stretch out thine hands toward him;

And Satan answered the LORD and said, Skin for skin, all that a man has he will give for his life.

For now thou dost number my steps; thou dost not open up my sin.

The stranger did not lodge in the street, but I opened my doors to the traveller.

Nothing is left that he did not eat; therefore, his goods shall not last.

If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tent;

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

Behold, he shall break down, and it shall not be built again; he shall shut up a man, and no one shall be able to open unto him.

Thou hast granted me life and mercy, and thy visitation has kept my spirit.

Even that it would please God to destroy me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!

Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the integrity of thy ways?

This one shall die in the full strength of his beauty, being completely at ease and quiet.

Behold, he shall take away, who can cause him to restore? Who shall say unto him, What doest thou?

Oh, that I might have my request and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!

He shall have neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any to succeed him in his dwellings.

then thou shalt lay up gold as dust and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.

Listen to me and I will show thee and declare unto thee that which I have seen,

even though there is no injustice in my hands, and my prayer has been pure.

who gives rain upon the earth and sends waters abroad;

My harp is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of those that weep.

But put forth thy hand now and touch his bone and his flesh, and thou shalt see if he does not blaspheme thee to thy face.

who does great things that no one can understand, and marvels that have no explanation;

Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God has touched me.

He also shall be my saving health; for the hypocrite shall not enter into his presence.

And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, he is in thy hand, but preserve his life.

then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; thou shalt be strongly established and shalt not fear;

he shall return no more to his house; neither shall his place know him any more.

if there is any iniquity in thy hand and thou dost put it far away and dost not consent that wickedness dwell in thy habitations,

And if it is not so now, who will make me a liar or reduce my speech to nothing?

He causes the counsellors to walk away stripped of counsel and makes the judges to be fools.

Why do ye persecute me as God and are not satisfied with my flesh?

Am I a sea, or a dragon, that thou settest a watch over me?

As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months.

With him is strength and existence; he who errs and he who leads astray are his.

O earth, do not cover my blood; and let there be no place where my cry is hidden.

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

Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? Or where were the righteous cut off?

when they crouch in their dens and abide in their lairs to lie in wait?

If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom;

who sets up the humble on high, that those who mourn may be lifted up with saving health.

and thou shalt forget thy misery and remember it as waters that passed away;

If I sinned, wilt thou mark me and not cleanse me from my iniquity?

My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou dost sew up my iniquity.

In the fullness of his sufficiency, he shall come into anguish; the hands of all the wicked shall come upon him.

Behold now, if I draw near unto the judgment; I know that I shall be justified.

Behold, he shall withhold the waters, and they shall dry up; also he shall send them forth, and they shall destroy the earth.

and thine age shall be clearer than the noonday; thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning.

But the eyes of the wicked shall consume themselves, and they shall have no refuge, and their hope shall be agony of the soul.

Those that come after him shall be dismayed at his day, as those that went before were overcome with fear.

He uncovers the depths of the darkness and brings out to light the shadow of death.

He leads priests away spoiled and overthrows the mighty.

He that is afflicted deserves mercy from his friend; but he has forsaken the fear of the Almighty.

And certainly the mountain that falls is undone, and the rocks are removed out of their place.

Thou dost renew thy plagues against me and increase thine indignation upon me, bringing up armies against me.

So are the paths of all that forget God, and the hypocrite's hope shall perish.

Whilst it is yet in its greenness and not cut down, it withers before any other herb.

Who even though I am righteous, yet I would not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge.

He looses the bond of kings and girds their loins with a girdle.

Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.

And thou shalt trust because there is hope; yea, thou shalt dig and sleep in safety;

God will not withdraw his anger, and under him those who help, unto pride are bent over.

For his hope shall be cut off, and his trust is a spider's web.

He pours contempt upon princes and weakens the strength of the mighty.

Let the stars of its dawn be darkened; they waited for light, but have none; neither let them see the dawning of the day;

thou shalt lie down, and no one shall make thee afraid; and many shall make requests unto thee.

before I go, to not return, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;

O, let that night be solitary; let no song come therein!

Therefore, I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;

He impedes the lips of those that speak the truth and takes away the counsel of the aged.

His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow.

And these things thou hast hid in thine heart; I know that this is with thee.

For he has broken me with a tempest and has multiplied my wounds without cause.

He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand; he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.

Are not my days few? Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

Why then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the spirit and no eye had seen me!

They grope in the darkness and not the light, and he causes them to err like drunken men.

Like a tree, he is green before the sun, and his branches go forth over his garden;

Can the rush grow up without mire? Can the meadow grow without water?

If I justify myself, my own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, he shall prove me perverse.

He takes away the heart of the heads of the people of the earth and causes them to become lost, wandering without a way.

Who if I were to invoke him, and he answered me; yet I would not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.

Hear diligently my reason and my declaration with your ears.

And he took a potsherd to scratch himself with, and he was sitting among the ashes.

My desire is that Job may be tried unto the end, that there may be answers against wicked men.

How much less shall I answer him and choose out my words to reason with him?

Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that does not know God.

If we were to speak of his strength, he is certainly strong; and if of his judgment, who shall cause us to meet?

Why did I not die from the womb? Why did I not give up the spirit when I came out of the belly?

Am I not doing all that I can, and even with all this I lack the power to do anything?

He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.

The travelers of Tema looked; the traveling companies of Sheba waited for them.

And why dost thou not take away my rebellion and pass over my iniquity? For now I shall sleep in the dust; and if thou shalt seek me in the morning, I shall not be found.

Then should my comfort grow; I would hold on to sorrow without mercy; for I have not contradicted the words of the Holy One.

because it did not shut up the doors of my mother's womb nor hide the misery from my eyes.

If he is uprooted from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee.

If I am wicked, woe unto me; and if I am righteous, I will not lift up my head, being full of dishonour and of seeing my affliction.

Fearful sounds are in his ears; in peace the destroyer shall come upon him.

His sons shall be honoured and he shall not know of it; or they shall be afflicted, but he shall not perceive of them.

Why did the knees receive me? Of what use the breasts that I should suck?

If I say I am imperfect, I know not my soul; I would condemn my life.

But he saves the poor from the sword, from the mouth of the wicked, and from the hand of the violent.

And when they lifted up their eyes afar off and knew him not, they lifted up their voice and wept; and each one rent his mantle and sprinkled dust upon his head toward heaven.

For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty and shalt lift up thy face unto God.

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

He takes the wise in their own prudence, and the counsel of his adversaries is turned to folly.

Now my days are swifter than a post; they fled away, they never saw good.

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

Or, why was I not hidden as an untimely birth, as infants who never saw light?

O that a man might dispute with God, as he can with his neighbour!

What is my strength that I should hope? What is my end that I should prolong my life?

All darkness is kept for his secrets; a fire not blown shall consume him; his successor shall be broken in his tent.

For now I should have lain still and been quiet; I should have slept; then I would have been at rest,

He wanders abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? He knows that the day of darkness is prepared for him.

By the breath of God they perish, and by the spirit of his anger they are consumed.

There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary are at rest.

that which the wise men have told us of their fathers and have not hid it,

with the kings and the counsellors of the earth, who built desolate places for themselves;

When the counted years are come, then I shall go the way from which I shall not return.

then thou dost scare me with dreams and terrify me with visions.

So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word unto him; for they saw that his grief was very great.

How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me to know my transgression and my sin.

Then Job answered and said,

Who is the hope of the poor, and iniquity closes her mouth.

And the LORD said unto Satan, Where dost thou come from? And Satan answered the LORD and said, From going to and fro in the earth and from walking up and down in it.

My soul is cut off in my life; therefore, I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

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

With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days intelligence.

No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.

He multiplies the Gentiles and destroys them; he scatters the Gentiles and gathers them again.

withdraw thy hand from me; and let not thy dread make me afraid.

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

Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;

Who shall declare his way to his face? And who shall repay him what he has done?

land of darkness, as darkness itself, and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.

At the least, grant me these two things; then I will not hide myself from thee:

whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another, though my kidneys be consumed within me.

Who is he that will contend with me? For now, if I remain silent, I shall die.

But while his flesh is upon him, he shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.

Then Zophar, the Naamathite, answered and said,

He shall deliver the island of the innocent; and in the pureness of thine hands thou shalt be kept.

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

I loathed life; I do not desire to live for ever; let me alone; for my days are vanity.

And my soul thought it better to be strangled and desired death more than my bones.

What is man that thou should magnify him and that thou should set thine heart upon him

Then call, and I will answer; or let me speak, and answer thou me.

For he makes sore, and binds up; he wounds, and his hands make whole.

And Job answered and said,

It is higher than the heavens; what canst thou do? It is deeper than Sheol; how canst thou know it?

But ye should say, Why should we persecute him, seeing that the root of the matter is found in me?

Is my strength the strength of stones? Or is my flesh of steel?

unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.

and that he would show thee the secrets of wisdom! For thou dost deserve double according to sound wisdom; and thou dost know that God has forgotten thee because of thine iniquity.

He who invokes God and he answers him is mocked by his friend; the just and perfect man is laughed to scorn.

At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh; neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth;

Call now, if there shall be anyone to answer thee; and if there shall be any of the saints for thee to look unto?

It is certain that wrath kills the foolish man, and envy consumes the covetous one.

Why dost thou write bitter things against me and make me carry the iniquities of my youth.

And man, is as a rotten thing that is being consumed, as a garment that is moth eaten.

Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue; neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it comes.

He shall yet be brought to the grave and shall remain in the tomb.

When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him and shall rain it upon him and upon his food.

Certainly my witness is even now in the heavens, and my record is on high.

and he dwelt in desolate cities and in houses which no one inhabited, which were in heaps.

He shall shake off his sour grapes as the vine and shall cast off his flower as the olive.

Should thy lies make men be silent? Shalt thou mock, and shall no man make thee ashamed?

What thing of all these does not know that the hand of the LORD made them?

Should not the multitude of words be answered? And should a man full of talk be justified?

I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; cause me to understand why thou dost contend with me.

I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince I would go near unto him.

If I have sinned, what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? Why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?

I never had prosperity, nor did I secure myself, neither was I at rest; yet trouble came.

And Job spoke and said,

The small and the great are there, and the slave is free from his master.

he shall run him through in the neck, upon the thick shoulder pieces of his shields;

Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? Wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?

or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver.

The roaring of the lion and the voice of the fierce lion and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.

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

For thou hast said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean before thine eyes.

For he knows the vain men; and he sees the iniquity; will he not then understand it?

for thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field; and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.

to the man who does not know which way he goes and whom God has hedged in?

Certainly the ear proves words and the mouth tastes foods.

I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

Thou dost put my feet also in the stocks and look narrowly unto all my paths; thou dost set a print upon the heels of my feet.

Then Bildad, the Shuhite, answered and said,

My brethren have lied to me as a brook; they passed away as an impetuous stream,

If my land cries against me and all its furrows likewise complain;

How then do ye comfort me in vain, given that your answers remain as falsehood?

Why dost thou hide thy face, and hold me for thine enemy?

Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth from where he was transplanted, others shall grow.

And thou shalt know that there is peace in thy tent, and thou shalt visit thy habitation and shalt not sin.

Hast thou not poured me out as milk and curdled me like cheese?

If he cuts off, or shuts up, or gathers together, then who can hinder him?

Remember now that thou hast formed me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?

The tents of robbers are at ease, and those that provoke God and those who carry gods in their hands live secure.

But oh, that God would speak and open his lips against thee

He shall not become rich, nor shall his strength be established, neither shall he extend his beauty upon the earth.

For how long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone until I swallow down my spittle?

for he covered his face with his fatness and made collops of fat on his flanks;

He will yet fill thy mouth with laughing and thy lips with shouts of joy.

But I have a heart as well as you; I am not inferior to you; and who shall not be able to say as much again?

They conceive pain and bring forth iniquity, and their belly meditates deceit.

The increase of his house shall be taken captive; they shall be scattered in the day of his wrath.

who long for death, but it comes not; and search for it more than for hid treasures;

And another dies in the bitterness of his soul, never having eaten with pleasure.

He will not suffer me to take my breath but has filled me with bitterness.

if I feared a great multitude or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and did not go out of the door?

The torch is held in low esteem in the thought of him that is prosperous, which was prepared to guard against a slip of the feet.

who rejoice exceedingly and are glad when they can find the grave;

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

The measure of it is longer than the earth and broader than the sea.

Is it good unto thee that thou should oppress, that thou should reject the work of thine hands and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?

In famine he shall ransom thee from death, and in war from the power of the sword.

In imaginations of visions of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men,

Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man; neither will he help the evil doers.

Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is no one that can deliver out of thy hand.

I know it is so of a truth, but how shall a man be justified with God?

Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like a shock of wheat that is gathered in its season.

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

Hast thou eyes of flesh? Dost thou see as man sees?

For my sighing comes before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.

The hungry shall eat up his harvest, and even take it out from among the thorns, and the thirsty shall drink up their substance.

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me; my spirit drinks of the poison; and terrors of God combat me.

Are thy days as the days of man? Are thy years as man's days,

that thou dost enquire after my iniquity and search after my sin?

The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad.

The wicked man travails with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden from the violent.

Ask, I pray thee, of the former age, and be willing to enquire of thy fathers regarding them;

In such a way that thy beginning would have been small, in comparison to the great increase of thy latter.

Thou shalt know that thy seed is great and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.

Then Job answered and said,

And Job answered and said,

Remember thou that my life is wind and that my eyes shall not return to see good.

I have seen the foolish taking root, but at the same time I cursed his habitation.

his roots weave themselves around a spring and secure themselves even in a stony place.

Teach me, and I will be silent; and cause me to understand in what I have erred.

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

if thou would seek God early and make thy supplication to the Almighty,

My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle and are spent without hope.

which was hidden by ice and covered by snow.

Behold that which we have searched out, so it is; hear it and judge it for thyself.

Who removes the earth out of her place and causes her pillars to tremble.

The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; he covers the faces of its judges; if it is not he who does this then, who is it and where is he?

His sons are far from saving health, and they shall be crushed in the gate, and there shall be no one to deliver them.

so I am made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.

Who commands the sun, and it rises not; and seals up the stars.

He is wise in heart and mighty in strength; who has hardened himself against him and remained in peace?

How long wilt thou speak such things and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?

Now ye are certainly as they; ye have seen the torment and are afraid.

Shall God pervert that which is right or shall the Almighty pervert justice?

Then Eliphaz, the Temanite, answered and said,

The impetuous waters break the stones and wash away the dust of the earth; in like manner thou dost cause man to lose hope.

Job has spoken without knowledge, and his words were without prudence.

Did I say, Bring unto me and pay for me out of your substance

and that thou should visit him every morning and try him every moment?

When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise? I measure the night, and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.

Thou shalt be stronger than him for ever, and he passes; thou dost change his countenance and send him away.

Who uproots the mountains in his anger, and they know not who overturned them.

Does the wild ass bray when he has grass? Does the ox low over his fodder?

Which in the time of heat, they vanish; when they are heated, they disappear out of their place;

And the Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou shalt have plenty of silver.

As a slave earnestly desires the shade and as a hireling waits for rest from his work,

Because thy sons sinned against him, he cast them away in the place of their rebellion;

Oh that my grief and calamity were justly weighed and laid equally in the balances!

Those who dispute with me are my friends, but my eyes shall pour out tears unto God.

My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken and abominable.

For it would be heavier than the sand of the sea; therefore, my words are swallowed up.

Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his maker?

if thou wert pure and upright, surely now he would awake upon thee and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.

For he added rebellion unto his sin, he claps his hands among us and multiplies his words against God.

One thing remains, that I say, He consumes the perfect and the wicked.

they turn aside out of the paths of their way; they go to nothing and perish.

He shall flee from the weapons of iron, and the bow of bronze shall strike him through.

Now the matter was also hidden from me, but my ear has perceived a little of it.

Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee; and the light shall shine upon thy ways.

If it is the scourge, it slays suddenly, and it does not laugh at the trial of the innocent.

They are passed away as the ships of Ebeh as the eagle that throws himself on the prey.

Behold, he put no trust in his slaves, and his angels he charged with folly.

Ye also overwhelm the fatherless and dig a pit before your friend.

They shall be as stubble before the wind and as chaff taken up by the whirlwind.

How forcible are the words of rectitude! But what does your argument reprove?

They were put to shame because of their hope; they came there and found them confused.

and deliver me from the enemy's hand and ransom me from the hand of the mighty?

Are ye not thinking up words of reproof and throw to the wind words that are lost?

Then Job answered the LORD, and said,

Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.

If there is iniquity in my tongue or if my taste cannot discern the torments.

Now, therefore, if ye desire, look upon me and see if I shall lie in your presence.

If he desires to contend with him, he will not be able to answer him one thing of a thousand.

But he said unto her, Thou hast spoken as any of the foolish women speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God and shall we not receive evil? In all this Job did not sin with his lips.

If I wash myself with snow water and make my hands never so clean;

I am afraid of all my troubles; I know that thou wilt not hold me guiltless.

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

Certainly there is a spirit in man, and the inspiration of the Almighty gives them understanding.

His substance was seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred she asses, and a very great store of servants, so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.

And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz, the Temanite, My wrath has been kindled against thee, and against thy two friends; for ye have not spoken by me in uprightness, as my slave Job has.

Turn now, and there is no iniquity; return again to look for my righteousness in this.

If I am wicked, why then shall I toil in vain?

If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness and comfort myself;

Canst thou by searching find out God? Canst thou come unto the perfection of the Almighty?

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? No one.

Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them to present himself before the LORD.

And the LORD said to Satan, Behold, all that he has is in thy power; only upon himself do not put forth thy hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD.

And it was so, when the days of their banquets were over, that Job sent and sanctified them and rose up early in the morning and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all; for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned and blasphemed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.

How much more with those that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who shall be crushed by the moth!

And the LORD said unto Satan, Where dost thou come from? Then Satan answered the LORD and said, From going to and fro in the earth and from walking up and down in it.

If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my appointed time I will wait until my transformation comes.

Behold, I know your thoughts and the imaginations which ye devise against me.

He will not believe that he shall return out of darkness, and he is always watching the sword.

Then a spirit passed before me which caused the hair of my flesh to stand up.

And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends; also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.

For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.

They are destroyed from morning to evening; they perish for ever without anyone regarding it.

Behold, blessed is the man whom God chastens; therefore, do not despise not the correction of the Almighty.

For there is yet hope for a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again and that its tender branch will not cease.

Then his wife said unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? Blaspheme God and die.

And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my slave Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that fears God and has departed from evil and that he still retains his perfection, although thou didst incite me against him to destroy him without cause.

But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the heavens, and they shall show thee;

Does their beauty perish with them? They die and do not know.

Thy words have upheld the one that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.

Then all his brethren came unto him and all his sisters and all those that had been of his acquaintance before and ate bread with him in his house; and they condoled him and comforted him over all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him; each one also gave him an ewe, and an earring of gold.

and afterward from this, my stricken skin and from my own flesh, I must see God:

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

When others are cast down, then thou shalt say, There is lifting up; and he shall save the humble person.

Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?

Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion or fill the appetite of the young lions,

So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto the crown of his head.

Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass.

Neither have I separated myself from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

A ghost stood in front of me, whose face I did not recognize, and I heard it say,

Then Satan answered the LORD and said, Does Job fear God for nothing?

Moreover, the LORD answered Job and said,

Oh that someone would hear me! Behold, my mark is, that the Almighty will testify for me, even though my adversary had written down the charges.

The heavens shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.

But if he determines something, who can turn him? His soul desired it, and he did it.

Surely there is a mine for the silver, and a place for gold where they refine it.

Therefore, I abhor myself and repent in dust and ashes.

yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands.

And his sons went and had banquets in their houses, each one on his day, and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.

Did not he that made me in the belly also make him? And did not the same one fashion us in the womb?

He alone extends the heavens and walks upon the waves of the sea.

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

Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow, and hast thou seen the treasures of the hail,

Now three friends of Job, Eliphaz, the Temanite, Bildad, the Shuhite, and Zophar, the Naamathite, when they heard of all this evil that had come upon him, each one came from his own place; for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.

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

Be ye afraid of the sword; for the wrath of the sword comes because of the iniquities, that ye may know there is a judgment.

But where shall wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding?

So man lies down and does not rise; until there is no heaven, they shall not awake nor be raised out of their sleep.

Why do the wicked live and become old and even increase in riches?

If we attempt to commune with thee, thou wilt be grieved. But who can withhold himself from speaking?

The righteous shall hold on to his way, and he that has clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.

He comes forth like an open flower and is cut down; he flees as a shadow and does not remain.

Man certainly has an appointed amount of time upon earth, and his days are like the days of a hireling.

For ye say, What is of the house of the prince, and what of the tent of the habitation of the wicked?

Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?

Make up thy friendship now with him, and thou shalt have peace; thereby good shall come unto thee.

Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?

Then Eliphaz, the Temanite, answered, and said,

And Job replied and said,

Neither is there any arbiter between us, that might lay his hand upon us both.

In his hand is the soul of every living thing and the spirit of all flesh of man.

if I beheld the sun when it shone or the moon walking in beauty;

What is man that he should be clean and that he that is born of a woman should be justified?

That ye are certainly forgers of lies; ye are all physicians of no value.

If there is a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show unto man his uprightness;

But Job answered and said,

that all the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils,

He shall deliver thee in six tribulations, and in the seventh no evil shall touch thee.

Who has preceded me, that I should repay him? All that is under the whole heaven is mine.

Sheol is naked before him, and hell has no covering.

Nevertheless, in one or two manners God speaks to the one who does not see.

Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee or abide by thy crib?

But when man shall die and be cut off, and the man shall perish, where shall he be?

Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay my hand over my mouth.

Then Job answered and said,

Thine hands have formed me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.

Can a man be profitable unto God? For he that is wise is profitable unto himself.

As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he that goes down to Sheol, who shall not come up again;

Upon what are its foundations founded? Or who laid its corner stone;

O that thou would hide me in Sheol, that thou would keep me covered until thy wrath is past, that thou would appoint me a set time and remember me!

when I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil!

let thistles grow up unto me instead of wheat and stinkweed instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.

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

He who made Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the secret places of the south.

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

After this Job opened his mouth and cursed his day.

So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning; for he had fourteen thousand sheep and six thousand camels and a thousand yoke of oxen and a thousand she asses.

If he were to set his heart upon man and gather unto himself his spirit and his breath,

He has compassed the waters with bounds until the end of light and darkness.

Then Eliphaz, the Temanite, answered and said,

Dead things are formed under the waters and of its dwelling places.

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

Who is he that hides counsel without knowledge? Therefore, I have denounced that which I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.

I would certainly seek God, and unto God would I commit my affairs;

Then Zophar, the Naamathite, answered and said,

Have ye not asked those that go by the way, and do ye not know their tokens?

If I wait, Sheol is my house; I have made my bed in the darkness.

He shall draw forth an arrow from his quiver, and like lightning it shall strike through his gall; terrors shall come upon him.

Behold, my eyes have seen all this; my ears have heard and understood it.

When I went out to the gate to judgment, when I had my seat prepared in the plaza!

How much less man, who is as a worm, and the son of man, who is also a worm?

If I had despised the right of my manslave or of my maidslave, when they contended with me;

Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days? Hast thou shown the dayspring its place,

So these three men ceased to answer Job because he was righteous in his own eyes.

because I delivered the poor that cried and the fatherless who had no one to help him.

They shall devour the protection of his skin; the firstborn of death shall devour his members.

My breath is corrupt, my days are cut off, and the grave is ready for me.

For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together unto judgment.

Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.

Behold, he puts no trust in his saints, and not even the heavens are clean in his sight.

Therefore, take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my slave Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my slave Job shall pray for you; for only because I will accept him, I shall not deal with you according to your folly, in that ye have not spoken by me in uprightness, like my slave Job.

Oh, that I knew where I might find him! That I might come even to his seat!

He divides the sea with his power, and by his intelligence he smites its pride.

Didst thou give beautiful wings unto the peacock, or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?

Then Bildad, the Shuhite, answered and said,

that the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?

How then can man be justified with God? Or how can he that is born of a woman be clean?

His wrath has torn me and has been against me; he gnashed upon me with his teeth; my enemy sharpened his eyes upon me.

Therefore, hearken unto me, ye men of understanding: far be it from God, that he should do wickedness; and from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.

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

But no one shall say, Where is God my maker, who gives songs in the night;

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

Moreover, Job continued his parable and said,

Hast thou an arm like God? And canst thou thunder with a voice like him?

Behold, these are parts of his ways; but how little a portion have we heard of him? For the thunder of his power, who shall understand?

The clods of the river valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall be drawn after him, as there were innumerable before him.

Behold, I shall go to the east and not find him; and to the west, but I cannot perceive him;

Then Bildad, the Shuhite, answered, and said,

Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? Or hast thou walked searching out the deep?

For he detains the drops of water; when the rain pours down rain out of its vapour,

Surely I would take it upon my shoulder and bind it as a crown to me.

How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? Understand, and afterwards we will speak.

and said, Thou shalt come unto here, but no further; and there shall the pride of thy waves be stayed.

They spend their days in pleasure and in a moment go down to Sheol.

He shall not be established; in vanity he shall err; therefore, he shall be changed into vanity.

The light of the wicked shall certainly be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.

Oh, that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;

For his eyes are upon the ways of man, and he sees all his steps.

The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof.

Then the wrath of Elihu, the son of Barachel, the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram, was kindled; against Job was his wrath kindled, because he justified himself rather than God.

Furthermore, Elihu answered and said,

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

Are ye to speak iniquity for God? Are ye to speak deceitfully for him?

They shall go down to the bars of Sheol, and together they shall rest in the dust.

This is the portion of a wicked man from God and the heritage that God appoints unto him by his word.

Knowest thou the time when the mountain goats bring forth? Hast thou observed when the hinds calve?

Canst thou bring forth the signs of the heavens in their season, or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?

They jump at the sound of the timbrel and harp and rejoice at the sound of the organ.

He shall not escape from the darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth he shall perish.

Thick clouds are his hiding place, and he does not see; and he walks in the circuit of heaven.

If wickedness was sweet in his mouth, if he hid it under his tongue,

I put on righteousness, and it clothed me as a robe; and my diadem was judgment.

At this also my heart trembles and is moved out of its place.

Where is the way to the habitation of the light, and where is the place of the darkness?

Hearken unto this, Job; stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God.

His confidence shall be rooted out of his tent, and he shall be brought to the king of terrors.

Is not God in the height of the heavens? Behold the height of the stars, how high they are!

Shall he that contends with the Almighty instruct him? Let him that disputes with God answer this.

Dost thou desire to keep the old way which wicked men have trodden?

To make a weight for the wind and to supply water by measure,

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

Dominion and fear are with God; he makes peace in his high places.

I also could speak as ye do. I wish your soul were in my soul's stead, that I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you.

Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of the one who is perfect in knowledge?

If I have made gold my hope or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;

Drought and heat consume the snow waters; so does Sheol consume those who have sinned.

Who is the Almighty that we should serve him? And what profit should we have if we pray unto him?

Thou dost also cast off fear and undermine prayer before God.

If I have disturbed the desire of the poor or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;

I have become a brother to dragons and a companion to owls.

Hast thou given the horse strength? Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder?

For thou didst take a pledge from thy brother without cause and stripped the naked of their clothing.

Fair weather comes out of the north; with God is terrible majesty.

For the ear tries words, as the mouth tastes food.

Hast thou heard the secret of God, that thou dost detain wisdom in thee alone?

Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind and said,

Now gird up thy loins like a man; for I will enquire of thee, and answer thou me.

They are among those that rebel against the light; they have never known its ways nor abided in its paths.

How much less to him who is not a respecter of the persons of princes, nor respects the rich more than the poor; for they all are the work of his hands.

For the congregation of the hypocrites shall be made desolate, and fire shall consume the tents of bribery.

For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he has stolen much, when God takes away his soul?

Many times I have heard such things; miserable comforters are ye all.

his flesh shall become more tender than a child's; and he shall return to the days of his youth.

Certainly thy wickedness is great and thine iniquities have no end.

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

How long will ye anguish my soul and break me in pieces with words?

Should a wise man utter vain knowledge and fill his belly with the east wind?

I was prosperous, but he has broken me asunder; he has taken me by my neck and shaken me to pieces and set me up for his mark.

Iron is taken out of the dust, and bronze is melted out of the stone.

For he looks unto the ends of the earth and sees under the whole heaven,

He shall be cut off before his time, and his branch shall not be green.

Thou hast sent the widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

How often is the lamp of the wicked put out and their destruction comes upon them, and God distributes sorrows upon them in his anger.

I will not now be a respecter of persons, neither will I give flattering titles unto man.

He shall suck the poison of asps; the viper's tongue shall slay him.

Now there are only mockers with me, upon whose bitterness my eye continues to gaze.

If thou should leave him, he will cease to exist; until then, he shall desire, as a hireling, his day.

Let him take his tormentor away from me, and his terror will not perturb me.

My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.

All my intimate friends abhorred me; and those whom I loved are turned against me.

Would it be good for him to search you out? As one man mocks another, do ye so mock him?

I have sewn sackcloth upon my skin and put dust over my head.

Among us are also gray hairs; there are also aged men, much elder than thy father.

if I ate of its strength without money or have afflicted the soul of its owners;

Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath; and behold every one that is proud and bring him down.

But I would speak with the Almighty, and I desired to dispute with God.

Wilt thou disannul my judgment? Wilt thou condemn me, that thou may be justified?

As you know it, I know it; I am not inferior unto you.

And Elihu, the son of Barachel, the Buzite, answered and said, I am younger, and ye are older; therefore, I was afraid, and I feared to declare unto you my opinion.

yet thou shalt plunge me into the pit, and my own clothes shall abhor me.

God shall thunder marvelously with his voice; he does great things, which we cannot comprehend.

Because he extended his hand against God and strengthens himself against the Almighty,

O that ye would altogether be silent! And it would be unto you instead of wisdom.

Dost thou know the ordinances of the heavens? Canst thou use its power in the earth?

He has pulled me up on every side, and I am dried up; he has caused my hope to pass like an uprooted tree.

As God lives, who has taken away my rights; and the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter,

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

He is chastened also upon his bed with strong pain in all his bones,

He has put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintances are verily estranged from me.

The waters from the sea went, and the river ran out, it dried up.

In no wise should I justify you; until I die I will not remove my integrity from me.

No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls; for wisdom is better than precious stones.

Who put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who gave intelligence to understanding?