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And a day came when the sons of God came to present themselves before Jehovah. And Satan also came among them.
For I know that my Redeemer lives, and He shall rise on the earth at the last;
There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. And that man was perfect and upright, and one who feared God and turned aside from evil.
And he said, I came naked out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return there. Jehovah gave, and Jehovah has taken away. Blessed be the name of Jehovah.
Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell if you have understanding!
He stretches out the north over the empty place, and He hung the earth on nothing.
And Jehovah answered Job out of the tempest, and said,
But put forth Your hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will curse You to Your face.
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 have increased in the land.
when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
And to man He said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom! And to depart from evil is understanding!
And a day came when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother's house.
The Spirit of God made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
For affliction does not come forth from the dust, nor does trouble spring up out of the ground;
I made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I look upon a virgin?
And there came a messenger to Job and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them.
Man born of woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
Though he slay me, I will not wait, but I will maintain my own ways before Him.
Who provides food for the raven, when its young ones cry to God and wander about without food?
By His Spirit the heavens were beautiful; His hand pierced the fleeing serpent.
And Job arose, and tore his robe, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground and worshiped.
And Jehovah said to Satan, Have you set your heart against My servant Job, because there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and upright man, one who fears God and turns away from evil?
And the Sabeans fell on and took them away. Yea, they have killed the servants with the edge of the sword. And I only have escaped alone to tell you.
While he was still speaking, there also came another and said, Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother's house.
While he was still speaking, there also came another and said, The Chaldeans made out three bands and swooped down upon the camels, and have carried them away, yea, and have killed the servants with the edge of the sword. And I only have escaped alone to tell you.
I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear; but now my eye has seen You.
But He knows the way that I take; when He has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Let that day be darkness. Let not God look upon it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
While he was still speaking, there also came another and said, The fire of God has fallen from the heavens and has burned up the sheep and the servants, and destroyed them. And I only have escaped alone to tell you.
I know that You can do all, and not any purpose is withheld from You.
In all this Job did not sin, nor charge God foolishly.
And, behold, a great wind came from the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead. And I only have escaped alone to tell you.
But now it has come upon you, and you faint. It touches you, and you are troubled.
You shall call, and I will answer You; You shall have a desire to the work of Your hands.
Behold! He goes by me, and I do not see Him; He passes on also, but I do not perceive Him.
For foolish man would be wise, and man is born a wild ass's colt.
The eye of him who has seen me shall see me no more; Your eyes are on me, and I am gone.
My bone clings to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped with the skin of my teeth.
With Him is wisdom and strength; He has wisdom and understanding.
Let darkness and the shadow of death claim 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 on earth are a shadow.
You have clothed me with skin and flesh, and have fenced me with bones and sinews.
How much more hateful and filthy is man, who drinks iniquity like water?
If you prepare your heart and stretch out your hands toward Him;
And Satan answered Jehovah and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man has he will give for his life.
The stranger did not sleep in the street, for I opened my doors to the traveler.
If you return to the Almighty, you shall be built up; you shall put away injustice far from your tents.
Shall they not teach you, and tell you, and speak words out of their heart?
Behold, He breaks down, and it can not be built up again; He shuts up a man, and no one opens.
You have granted me life and favor, and Your providence has preserved my spirit.
Even that it would please God to destroy me; that He would loose His hand and cut me off!
Behold, He takes away; who can turn Him back? Who will say to Him, What are You doing?
Oh that I might have my desire, and that God would grant the thing that I long for!
He shall have neither son nor kinsman among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.
Then you shall lay up gold like dust, and among the rock of the torrents of Ophir.
who gives rain on the earth and sends waters on the field,
But indeed put forth Your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse You to Your face.
Who is doing great things, even beyond searching; marvelous things without number,
Have pity on me! Have pity on me, my friends! For the hand of God has touched me.
And Jehovah said to Satan, Behold, he is in your hand, but save his life.
surely then you shall lift up your face without spot; yea, you shall be steadfast and shall not fear;
if iniquity is in your hand, put it far away, and do not let wickedness dwell in your tents;
Am I like the sea, or a whale, that You set a watch over me?
As for that night, let darkness seize upon it. Let it not rejoice among the days of the year, Let it not come into the number of the months.
With Him is strength and sound wisdom; the deceived and the deceiver are His.
As I have seen, the ones who plow iniquity and sow wickedness reap the same.
Remember, please, who ever perished, being innocent? Or where were the righteous cut off?
to set on high those who are low, so that those who mourn may be lifted up to safety;
for you shall forget your misery, and you shall remember it as waters that pass away.
If I sin, then You mark me, and You will not acquit me from my iniquity.
In the fullness of his plenty he shall be in trouble; every wretched one shall come on him.
Behold, He withholds the waters, and they dry up; also He sends them out, and they overturn the earth.
And your lifetime shall be clearer than the noonday; though there be darkness, you shall be as the morning.
But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall have no escape, and their hope shall be like the giving up of the spirit.
Those after him shall be amazed at his day; and those before were seized with horror.
He discovers deep things out of darkness, and brings the shadow of death to light.
He leads priests away stripped, and overthrows the mighty.
To him who is afflicted, pity is due from his friend, but he forsakes the fear of the Almighty.
And surely a falling mountain crumbles away, and the rock moves out of its place.
You renew Your witnesses against me, and increase Your anger on me; changes and warfare are against me.
So are the paths of all who forget God; and the hope of the ungodly shall perish.
While it is yet in its greenness, and not cut down, it dries out before any other herb.
Whom, though I were righteous, yet I would not answer; I seek mercy for my judgment.
And you shall be safe, because there is hope; yea, you shall look around you, and you shall take your rest in safety.
His hope shall be cut off, and his trust shall be in a spider's web.
Let the stars of its twilight be dark; let it look for light, but have none. Let it not see the eyelids of the dawn.
You shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid. Yea, many shall seek your favor.
before I go, and I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
Therefore I will not hold my mouth; I will speak in the trouble of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
He removes the speech of the men of trust, and takes away the understanding of the aged.
He shall lean on his house, but it shall not stand; he shall hold fast to it, 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 have You brought me from the womb? Oh that I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me!
They grope in the dark without light, and He makes them to stagger like a drunkard.
If I justify myself, my own mouth shall condemn me; though I am perfect, He shall declare me perverse.
He takes away the heart of the chief of the people of the land, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no path.
If I had called and He had answered me, yet would I not believe that He had listened to my voice;
And he took a broken piece of pottery to scrape himself with. And he sat down among the ashes.
Would that Job may be tried to the end because his answers are like men of iniquity.
Surely these are the dwellings of the perverse, and this the place that has not known God.
If I speak of strength, lo, He is mighty! And if of judgment, who shall set me a time?
Why did I not die from the womb, come from the womb and expire?
frustrating the plans of the crafty, nor did their hands do wisely.
The troops of Tema looked; the companies of Sheba hoped for them.
And why do You not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? For now I shall sleep in the dust, and You shall seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.
And it is yet my comfort; yea, I would rejoice in pain, though He did not spare me; for I have not hidden the words of the Holy One.
For it did not shut up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hide sorrow from my eyes.
If I am wicked, woe to me; and if I am righteous, I will not lift up my head, being filled with shame, and looking on my affliction.
A dreadful sound of things is in his ears; the destroyer shall come to him in peace.
But He saves the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.
And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and did not know him, they lifted up their voice and wept. And each one tore his robe, and they sprinkled dust upon their heads toward Heaven.
For then you shall have your delight in the Almighty, and shall lift up your face to God.
He takes the wise in their own craftiness; and the counsel of the wily is carried headlong.
Now my days are swifter than a runner; they flee away, they see no good.
They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
or as a hidden untimely birth I would not have been, like infants who did not see light.
What is my strength, that I should hope? And what is my end, that I should be patient?
All darkness shall be hidden in his secret places; a fire not blown shall consume him; those left in his tent shall be broken.
For now I should have lain still and been quiet; I should have slept. Then I would have been at rest
He wanders for bread, saying, Where is it? He knows that the day of darkness is ready at hand.
By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of His nostrils they are destroyed.
There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest;
with kings and wise men of the earth, who built ruins for themselves,
For the years that are few will come, and I shall go the way from where I shall not return.
And they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights. And no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.
And Jehovah said to Satan, From where do you come? And Satan answered Jehovah and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint on my self; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
that the wicked is kept for the day of calamity? They shall be brought to the day of wrath.
With the aged is wisdom, and understanding in length of days.
He gives greatness to the nations, and destroys them. He spreads out the nations, and leads them away.
Let the day perish in which I was born, and the night which said, A man-child is conceived.
Who shall declare his way to his face? And who shall repay him what he has done?
a land of obscurity, the darkness of the shadow of death, without any order, and the shining is as darkness.
whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not a stranger's; though my heart be exhausted in my bosom.
And Zophar the Naamathite answered and said,
He shall deliver one not innocent, and will deliver by the pureness of your hands.
Trouble and pain shall terrify him; they shall overpower him, as a king ready for the battle;
I despise them; I will not live always; let me alone, for my days are vanity.
so that my soul chooses strangling, death rather than my life.
What is man, that You should magnify him, and that You should set Your heart on him,
Then call, and I will answer; or let me speak, and answer You me.
For He makes sore, and binds up; He wounds, and His hands make whole.
And Job answered and said,
Heights of the heavens! What can you do? It is deeper than hell, what can you know?
For you ought to say, Why do we persecute him, since the root of the matter is found in me?
and would tell you the secrets of His wisdom, that sound wisdom is manifold? Know therefore that God forgets for you some of your iniquity.
I am a laughing-stock to his friends; who calls on God, and He answers him; the just, the upright one is a mockery;
At destruction and famine you shall laugh; neither shall you be afraid of the beasts of the earth.
Call now, is there anyone who will answer you? And to which of the saints will you turn?
For vexation kills the fool, and envy slays the simple one.
For You write bitter things against me, and make me to possess the sins of my youth.
And he wears out like a rotten thing, like a garment that a moth eats.
You shall be hidden from the whip of the tongue; neither shall you be afraid of robbery when it comes.
Yet he shall be brought to the grave, and watch shall be kept over his tomb.
It shall happen at the filling of his belly, God shall cast the fury of His wrath on him, and He shall rain on him while he is eating.
Also now, behold, my Witness is in Heaven, and He who testifies of me is on high.
And he lives in cut off cities, in houses where none are living, which are ready to become heaps.
He shall shake off its unripe grape, as the vine; and shall cast off his flower like the olive.
Should not the multitude of words be answered? And should a man full of talk be justified?
I will say to God, Do not condemn me; make me know why You contend with me.
I would declare to Him the number of my steps; like a prince I would go near Him.
I have sinned. What shall I do to You, O Watcher of men? Why have You set me as a target for You, so that I am a burden to myself?
And Job spoke and said,
The roar of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
For you shall be in covenant with the stones of the field; and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with you.
I should have been as though I had not been; I would have been carried from the womb to the grave.
You put my feet also in the stocks, and look closely to all my paths; You set a limit for the soles of my feet.
And Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,
My brothers have dealt deceitfully as a torrent; they pass away as the streams of torrents,
And you shall know that your tent is in peace; and you shall visit your fold, and shall miss nothing.
Have You not poured me out like milk, and curdled me like cheese?
If He passes through and shuts up, or gathers together, then who can turn Him back?
Remember, I beseech You, that You have formed me as the clay; and will You bring me into the dust again?
The tents of robbers are at peace, and those who provoke God are secure, in whatever God brings to their hand.
He shall not be rich, nor shall his wealth hold out, nor shall he stretch out his gain on the earth.
Until when will You look away from me, nor let me alone until I swallow down my spittle?
until He fills your mouth with laughter, and your lips with rejoicing.
But I have understanding as well as you; I do not fall short of you; yes, who does not know such things as these?
The increase of his house shall depart, and shall flow away in the day of his wrath.
who is waiting for death, but it comes not; and dig for it more than for treasures?
then let me tremble before a great multitude, and be terrified by the scorn of families; and I will be silent and not go out the door.
a flaming brand despised in the thoughts of him who feels secure; it is ready for those with slipping feet.
Those who hate you shall be clothed with shame; and the tent of the wicked shall be no more.
The measure of it is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
Is it good to You that You should press down, that You should despise the work of Your hands, and shine on the counsel of the wicked?
In famine He shall redeem you from death; and in war from the power of the sword.
You know that I am not wicked; and there is none who can deliver out of Your hand.
Truly I know it is so, but how can man be just with God?
You shall come to your grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season.
Can that which has no taste be eaten without salt? Or is there taste in the white of an egg?
For my sighing comes before I eat, and my groanings are poured out like the waters.
Their harvest the hungry eats, and takes it even out of the thorns; and the snare swallows up their wealth.
For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, their fury is drinking my spirit; the terrors of God are set against me.
The strong lion perishes for lack of prey, and the strong lion's cubs are scattered abroad.
The wicked man labors in pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden for the ruthless one.
For please ask of the former age, and prepare yourself to the search of their fathers,
And if your beginning was small, yet your end would greatly increase.
And you shall know that your seed will be numerous, and your offspring as the grass of the earth.
And Job answered and said,
And Job answered and said,
Teach me, and I will be silent; and cause me to understand where I have gone astray.
fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones shake.
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are ended without hope.
He who shakes the earth out of its place, and the pillars of it tremble;
The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; He covers the faces of its judges; if it is not He, then who is it?
His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, nor is there any to deliver them.
the One speaking to the sun, and it does not rise; and seals up the stars;
He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength. Who has hardened himself against Him and been blessed;
How long will you speak these things, since the words of your mouth are like a strong wind?
And Eliphaz the Temanite answered:
The waters wear away the stones; the outpouring of it washes the dust of the earth; and You cause the hope of man to perish.
Job has spoken without knowledge, and his words were without wisdom.
When I lie down, I say, When shall I rise? But the night is long, and I am full of tossing to and fro until the dawning of the day.
You overpower him forever, and he passes; You change his face, and send him away.
He who removes the mountains, and they know it not, when He overturns them in His anger;
When they become warm, they go away; when it is hot, they vanish out of their place.
Yea, the Almighty shall be your gold and silver, and strength to you.
As a servant earnestly desires the shadow, and as a hireling looks for his wages,
If your sons have sinned against Him, and if He has cast them away for their transgression,
My friends scorn me; my eye pours out tears to God.
My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken and has run afresh.
For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea; therefore my words have been rash.
Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?
if you were pure and upright, surely now He would awake for you, and make the dwelling-place of your righteousness blessed.
For he adds rebellion to his sins; he claps his hands among us, and multiplies his words against God.
And a word was secretly brought to me, and my ear received a little of it.
You shall also order a thing, and it shall be fulfilled to you; and the light shall shine on your ways.
They have passed away like the swift ships; like the eagle who swoops on the prey.
Behold, He puts no trust in His servants, and His angels He charges with folly!
Yea, you cause anger to fall on the fatherless, and you dig a pit for your friend.
Do you intend to criticize words, and the speeches of one who is hopeless, that are as wind?
You shall make your prayer to Him, and He shall hear you, and you shall pay your vows.
But he said to her, You speak as one of the foolish ones 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 ever so clean,
But a spirit is in man giving them perception, even the breath of the Almighty.
And his possessions were seven thousand sheep and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household, so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.
And it happened after Jehovah had spoken these words to Job, Jehovah said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against you and your two friends. For you have not spoken of Me what is right, as My servant Job has.
Turn back, please let there be no sin; yea, return again, my righteousness is in this matter.
If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will depart from my heaviness and be of good cheer,
Can you by searching find out God? Can you perfectly find out the Almighty?
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? No one!
And it happened that a day came when the sons of God came to present themselves before Jehovah. And Satan also came among them to present himself before Jehovah.
And Jehovah said to Satan, Behold, all that he has is in your power. Only do not lay your hand upon him. And Satan went forth from the presence of Jehovah.
And when they had gone around the day of feasting, 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 cursed God in their hearts. So Job did always.
How much less in those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth?
And Jehovah said to Satan, From where do you come? Then Satan answered Jehovah and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
If a man die, shall he revive? All the days of my warfare I will wait, until my change comes.
Behold, I know your thoughts, and the plots which you wrongfully hatch against me.
And Jehovah turned the captivity of Job when he prayed for his friends. Also Jehovah added to Job all that had been his, to double.
For the thing which I greatly feared has come upon me, and that which I was afraid of has come to me.
They are destroyed from morning till evening; they perish forever without anyone caring.
Behold, blessed is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.
For there is hope of a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and its tender branch will not cease.
And his wife said to him, Do you still hold to your integrity? Curse God and die!
And Jehovah said unto Satan, Have you set your heart on My servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one who fears God and turns away from evil? And still he is keeping hold of his integrity, although you moved Me against him to destroy him without cause.
But now ask the animals, and they shall teach you; and the birds of the air, and they shall tell you;
Your words have upheld him who was falling, and you have made strong the feeble knees.
And came to him all his brothers, and all his sisters, and all those who had known him before. And they ate bread with him in his house, and consoled him and comforted him over all the evil that Jehovah had brought on him. Each one also gave him a piece of money, and each one a ring of gold.
and even after they corrupt my skin, yet this: in my flesh I shall see God,
For they have humiliated you, and you shall say, Pride! And He shall save the lowly of eyes.
Can you bind the bands of the Pleiades, or loosen the cords of Orion?
And Satan went forth from the presence of Jehovah and struck Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot to the top of his head.
For his days are fixed, the number of his months is with You, and You have set his bounds so that he cannot pass;
nor have I gone back from the commandment of His lips; I treasured the words of His mouth more than my portion.
It stood still, but I could not tell the form of it. An image was before my eyes; silence; then I heard a voice,
And Satan answered Jehovah and said, Does Job fear God for nothing?
And Jehovah answered Job and said,
Oh that I had one to hear me! Behold my mark. Let the Almighty answer me, and my Accuser write an indictment.
But He is in one mind, and who can turn Him? Yea, what His soul desires, He does it.
Therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
And his sons went and feasted in the house of each one on his day. And they sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.
Did not He who made me in the womb make him? And did not One shape us in the womb?
who alone stretches out the heavens, and walks on the waves of the sea;
But now those younger laugh at me, whose fathers I would have refused to set with the dogs of my flock.
Have you entered into the storehouses of the snow? Or have you seen the storehouses of the hail,
And Job's three friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, and they each one came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. For they had met together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.
Fear for yourselves because of the sword; for wrath brings the punishments of the sword, so that you may know there is a judgment.
so man lies down and does not rise. Till the heavens are no more, they shall not awake, nor be awakened out of their sleep.
Why do the wicked live? They grow old and become mighty in power.
Shall one try a word with you, you who are weary? But who can hold back with words?
The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he who has clean hands adds strength.
He comes forth like a flower, and withers; he also flees as a shadow, and does not stand.
Is there not a warfare to man on earth? Are not his days also like the days of a hireling?
For you say, Where is the house of the noble, and where the dwelling-places of the wicked?
Now be of service with Him, and be at peace. Good shall come to you by them.
Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth as it came from the womb?
And Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
And Job answered and said,
In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all flesh, even of man?
if I looked to the light when it shone, or the moon walking in brightness,
What is man, that he should be clean? And what is he born of a woman that he should be righteous?
If there is a messenger for him, a mediator, one among a thousand, to declare for man his uprightness,
And Job answered and said,
As long as my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils,
Who has gone before Me that I should repay? All that is the heavens is Mine.
Hell is naked before Him, and the Pit has no covering.
Will the wild ox be willing to serve you, or spend the night by your feed-trough?
Behold, I am vile! What shall I answer You? I will lay my hand on my mouth.
And Job answered and said,
As the cloud falls and vanishes away, so he who goes down to the grave shall come up no more.
Who will grant that You would hide me in the grave, that You would keep me secret, until Your wrath is past, that You would set me a fixed time and remember me?
let thorns come forth instead of wheat, and weeds instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.
And they say to God, Depart from us; for we do not desire the knowledge of Your ways;
who made the Bear, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south;
After this Job opened his mouth and cursed his day.
And Jehovah blessed the latter days of Job more than the beginning. For he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.
If He sets His heart on man, if He gathers to Himself his spirit and his breath,
He has described a circle on the surface of the waters to the boundary of light with darkness.
And Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
Who is he who hides counsel without knowledge? Therefore I have spoken what I did not understand; things too wonderful for me; yea, I did not know.
Truly, I would seek to God, and to God I would put my plea,
And Zophar the Naamathite answered and said,
If I wait for the grave as my home, I have made my bed in the darkness;
One draws it, and treads it from behind, even lightning from his gall; terror is on him.
If I despised the cause of my man servant or of my slave-girl, when they argued with me;
Have you commanded the morning from your days, and caused the dawn to know its place,
And these three men ceased from answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
For I delivered the poor who cried for help, and the fatherless who had none to help him.
It shall devour the parts of his skin; the first-born of death consumes his parts.
My spirit is broken, my days are ended, the graves are ready for me.
For He is not a man, as I am, that I should answer Him, that we should come together in judgment;
Behold, God is great, and we do not know; the number of His years cannot be searched out.
Behold, He puts no trust in His saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in His sight.
And now take to yourselves seven young bulls and seven rams, and go to My servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering. And My servant Job will pray for you. Surely I will lift up his face so as not to do with you according to your foolishness, in that you have not spoken of Me what is right, like My servant Job.
Oh that I knew where I might find Him, that I might come even to His seat!
He quiets the sea with His power, and by His understanding He shatters the proud.
The wing of the ostrich beats joyously; though not like the stork's pinions for flight.
And Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,
that the exulting of the wicked is short, and the joy of the ungodly is for a moment?
How then can man be justified with God? Or how can one who is born of a woman be clean?
His anger has torn and hated me; He gnashes on me with His teeth; my enemy sharpens his eyes at me;
Therefore listen to me, O man of heart; far be it from God to commit iniquity; and from the Almighty, to do wrong.
They remove the landmarks; they seize flocks and feed them.
But none says, Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night;
In a dream, a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men; while they slumber on the bed;
And Job continued the lifting up of his speech, and said,
And have you an arm like God? Or can you thunder with a voice like His?
Lo, these are the edges of His ways; but what a whisper of a word we hear of Him! And the thunder of His power who can understand?
And the clods of the valley shall be sweet to him and every man shall draw after him, as there is no numbering of those before him.
And Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,
Have you gone to the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in search of the depths?
Until when will you set a snare for words? Understand, and afterwards we will speak.
and I said, You shall come to here, but no further; and here your proud waves shall stop.
They spend their days in good, and in a moment go down to the grave.
Let not he being deceived trust in vanity; for vanity shall be his reward.
Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.
For His eyes are on the ways of man, and He sees all his steps.
And burned the anger of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram. His wrath burned against Job, because he had justified himself rather than God.
Since times are not hidden from the Almighty, why do those who know Him not see His days?
They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our descent together is in the dust.
This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the inheritance of his word from God.
Do you know the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? Can you observe the calving of deer?
Can you bring the constellations in their season? Or can you guide the Bear with its sons?
They lift up voice at the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the flute.
He shall not escape from darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and at the breath of his mouth he shall turn away.
Clouds are a covering to Him, so that He does not see; and He walks in the circuit of Heaven.
I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my judgment was like a robe and a diadem.
Listen to this, Job; stand still, and consider the wonderful works of God.
His hope shall be rooted out of his tent, and you marched to the king of terrors.
Shall a reprover contend with the Almighty? He who reproves God, let him answer it.
making a weight for the winds, and measuring out the waters by measure.
I also could speak as you do; if your soul were in my soul's place. I could heap up words against you, and shake my head at you.
Do you know the balancing of the clouds, the wonderful works of Him who is perfect in knowledge?
If I have made gold my hope, or have called fine gold my trust;
Drought and heat eat up the snow waters; so does the grave those who have sinned.
what is the Almighty, that we should serve Him? And what profit should we have if we pray to Him?
If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
For you have taken a pledge from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
They are of those who rebel against the light; they know not His ways, nor stay in His paths.
How much less to Him who does not lift up the face of rulers, nor regard the rich before the poor? For all of them are the work of His hands.
For the company of the ungodly shall be barren, and fire shall devour the tents of bribery.
For what is the hope of the ungodly when He cuts off, when God takes away his soul?
His flesh shall be fresher than in vigor; he shall return to the days of his youth;
Is not your wickedness great, and your iniquity without measure?
He binds up the waters in His thick clouds; and the cloud is not torn under them.
How long will you torment my soul and break me in pieces with words?
Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
I was at ease, but He has broken me in pieces; yea, He has also taken me by my neck and shaken me to pieces and set me up for His mark.
Iron is taken out of the earth, and bronze is melted out of the stone.
You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
How often is the lamp of the wicked put out, and their trouble comes on them! He shares out pains in His anger;
Are not mockeries with me? Yea, my eye rests on their insults.
look away from him, so that he may rest until he shall finish his day, as a hireling.
My skin is black on me, and my bones are burned with heat.
All the men of my counsel detest me, even this one I loved has turned against me.
Is it good that He should search you out? Or as one man mocks another, do you mock Him?
With us are both the gray-headed and aged, mightier than your father as to days.
Pour forth the rage of your wrath; and behold everyone who is proud, and abase him.
Will you also set aside My judgment? Will you condemn Me so that you may be justified?
And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am young, and you are very old; therefore I was afraid, and dared not show you my opinion.
God thunders marvelously with His voice; He does great things, and we do not understand.
because he stretches out his hand against God, and sets himself against the Almighty.
Do you know the ordinances of the heavens? Can you set up their rulership on the earth?
He has broken me on every side, and I am gone, and He has uprooted my hope like a tree.
As God lives, He has taken away my judgment; and the Almighty has made my soul bitter.
They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge from the poor.
He is also chastened with pain on his bed, and enduring strife in his bones;
He has put my brothers far from me, and my friends have truly turned away from me.
As the waters fail from the sea, and a river falls away and dries up,
Far be it from me that I should justify you; until I die I will not retract my integrity from me.
No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls; and the price of wisdom is above rubies.
Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given understanding to the mind?
He hangs his tail like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are knit together.
He tears himself in his anger; shall the earth be forsaken for you? And shall the rock be moved out of its place?
Adorn yourself now with majesty and grandeur, and with glory and honor clothe yourself.
My days are past, my purposes are broken off, the desires of my heart.
He puts forth His hand on the flinty places; He overturns the mountains by the roots.
He flies away like a dream, and shall not be found, and shall be chased away like a vision of the night.
Even today is my complaint bitter; my stroke is heavier than my groaning.
And You open Your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with You.
Have the gates of death been opened to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
For he pressed down and forsook the poor; he stole a house, but he had not built it.
And He also would have lured you from the mouth of distress to a wide place not cramped; and the setting of your table would be full of fatness.
And you say, What does God know? Can He judge through the dark cloud?
Look even to the moon, and it shines not; yea, the stars are not pure in His sight;
Please receive the Law from His mouth and lay up His words in your heart.
And if indeed I have erred, my error remains with me.
then He is gracious to him and says, Deliver him from going down to the Pit; for I have found a ransom.
After this Job lived a hundred and forty years, and he saw his sons, and his sons' sons, four generations.
If my heart has been enticed by a woman, or I have laid wait at my neighbor's door,
I have said to corruption, You are my father; to the worm, My mother and my sister!
The place of ruin and death say, We have heard the fame of it with our ears.
If they obey and serve Him, they shall spend their days in blessedness, and their years in pleasures.
I might make you strong with my mouth, and the moving of my lips would spare you.
My foot has held fast in His steps; I have kept His way, and have not fallen away;
They drive him from light to darkness, and they make him flee from the world.
His troops come together and raise up their way against me, and camp around my tent.
His sneezings flash forth light, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the dawn.
He will observe to men, and say, I have sinned and perverted righteousness; and it was not equally repaid to me,
His archers hem me in; He splits my inward parts, and does not spare; He pours out my gall on the ground.
He delivers the poor in his affliction, and opens their ears by oppression.
The steps of his strength shall be hampered, and his own plans shall throw him down.
Please lay down a pledge for me with Yourself; who is he who will strike hands with me?
Though I speak, my pain is not held back, and though I forbear, in what way am I eased?
I have heard the rebuke meant to shame me, and the spirit of my understanding causes me to answer.
And You have plucked me, for it is a witness, and my failure rises up against me, and it answers to my face.
They have gaped on me with their mouth; and have scornfully beaten me on the cheek; they gather themselves against me.
This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the inheritance of cruel men which they shall receive from the Almighty.
I was a father to the poor; and the cause which I did not know, I searched out.
Can you tie the wild ox in the furrow with his rope? Or will he harrow the valleys for you?
Look on everyone who is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place.
that it might take hold of the ends of the earth; that the wicked might be shaken out of it?
For what is the portion from God above? And what is the inheritance from the Almighty on high?
Does He not see my ways, and count all my steps?
For I know that You will bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
My people have fallen away, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
He has stripped me of my glory, and has taken the crown from my head.
And Job continued the lifting up of His speech, and said,
Their bull mates and does not fail; their cow calves, and does not cast her calf.
And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second, Keziah; and the name of the third, Keren-happuch.
And the eye of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, No eye will see me; and he puts a covering on his face.
Yes, surely God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert justice.
But Job answered and said,
Behold, God is mighty, and does not despise; He is mighty in strength of heart.
And now I am their song; yea, I am their byword.
who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?
What is not his shall dwell in his tent; brimstone shall be scattered on his home.
Though its root becomes old in the earth, and its stump dies in the dust,
let me be weighed in an even balance so that God may know my uprightness.
Behold, I cry out, Violence! And I am not answered. I cry aloud, but there is no justice.
For it is a fire that devours to the Place of Ruin, and it would root out all my gain.
Does the hawk soar by your understanding? Will he spread his wings toward the south?
They were seized, but there was not time; their foundation was poured out by a flood;
Surely he shall not know quietness in his belly; he will not escape with the things of desire.
The Almighty, whom we cannot find out, is exalted in power; and to judgment and overflowing righteousness He does no violence.
he shall pray to God, and He will be gracious to him; and he shall see His face with joy, for He will restore to man his righteousness.
He builds his house like a moth, and like a booth that a watchman makes.
Behold, like wild asses in the desert, they go forth to their work, rising early for a prey. The wilderness yields food for them and for their children.
Will you lift up His person, or contend for God?
He has made me also a byword of the peoples; and I am one in whose face they spit.
For You have hidden their heart from understanding; therefore You shall not lift them up.
The rows of shields are his pride, shut up with a close seal;
And Job died, being old and full of days.
I hold fast by my righteousness, and I will not let it go; my heart shall not shame me any of my days.
And this, ten times you have blamed me; you are not ashamed that you have wronged me.
It cannot be weighed against the gold of Ophir, against precious onyx, or sapphire;
Listen carefully to the thunder of His voice, and the rumbling that comes out of His mouth.
His breath kindles coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth.
I cried to You, and You did not hear me; I stood up, and You did not consider me.
The murderer rising with the light kills the poor and needy, and in the night he is a thief.
Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded cries for help; yet God does not charge foolishness.
He swallows riches, but vomits it; God shall cast them out of his belly.
His heart is cast hard as a stone, even cast hard as a piece of a riding millstone.
The mighty are afraid from his rising; they are beside themselves from the crashing.
He withdraws not His eyes from the righteous, but they are like kings on the throne; yes, He causes them to sit forever, and they are very high.
Your remembered sayings are like ashes, your bodies like bodies of clay.
And He gives quietness, who then can condemn? And when He hides His face, who can behold Him? And it may be against a nation and a man together;
He who for a share informs against friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
Out of the storeroom comes the tempest; and cold from scattering winds.
But the ungodly in heart heap up wrath; they cry not when He binds them.
Behold, I am toward God even as you are; I also am formed out of the clay.
God lays up his iniquity for his children. He repays him, and he knows.
Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days like the sand.
For what is his pleasure in his house after him, and the number of his months is cut off?
By the breath of God ice is given; and the expanse of waters is frozen tight.
And in all the land there were not found women as beautiful as the daughters of Job. And their father gave them inheritance among their brothers.
He has fenced up my way so that I cannot pass, and He has set darkness in my paths.
Behold, in this you are not right; I will answer you, for God is greater than man.
God has delivered me to the perverse; and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.
if his loins have not blessed me, and he warmed himself with the fleece of my flock;
He has redeemed my soul from passing over into the Pit, and my life shall see the light.
Is there any number of His armies? And on whom does not His light arise?
His bones are full of his youthful vigor, but it lies down with him in the dust.
And Elihu answered and said,
And now all of them, go back, and please come again; and I shall not find among you a wise man.
He lies under the lotus, in the hiding place of the reed and the marsh.
The blessing of the perishing came on me; and I caused the widow's heart to sing.
There is a path which no bird knows, nor has the vulture's eye caught sight of it;
They drive away the ass of the fatherless; they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
The sword overtakes him, but will not hold firm. The spear, the dart, and the javelin also.
None is so fierce as to dare to stir him up; who then is able to stand before Me?
When the trumpet sounds, he says, Aha! And he smells the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
And if they are bound in chains, and are held in cords of affliction,
Why do you fight against Him? For He does not give account for any of His matters.
For He says to the snow, Fall on the earth; also to the shower of rain, and to the shower of heavy rains in its strength.
He loosens it under the whole heavens, and His lightning to the ends of the earth.
It is not the great that are wise, nor the aged who understand judgment.
yet at the scent of water it will bud and bring forth branches like a plant.
Terrors have turned on me; they pursue my soul like the wind; and my good passes away like a cloud.
Did I not weep for him whose day was hard; and my soul grieved for the poor?
see, now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the muscles of his belly.
And Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, went and did as Jehovah commanded them. Jehovah also accepted the face of Job.
They are dried up with want and famine; they who gnaw the dry ground, which was before waste and ruin,
They set night for day; the light is near in the face of darkness.
my words shall be from my upright heart, and my lips will clearly speak knowledge.
Is it any pleasure to the Almighty that you are righteous, or gain to Him that you make your ways perfect?
Out of his nostrils goes smoke, as out of a boiling pot fired by reeds.
on the left hand, where He works, but I cannot behold Him. He turns to the right, but I do not see Him.
Whether as a whip, or for His land, or for mercy, He finds it.
gold and the crystal cannot equal it, nor can it be exchanged for a vessel of fine gold.
what then shall I do when God rises up? And when He calls me to account, what shall I answer Him?
They press out oil between their walls; they tread their winepresses, and still suffer thirst.
Those who dwell in my house, and my slave-girls, count me as a stranger; I am a foreigner in their sight.
He sets an end to darkness, and to every extremity He searches out the stones of darkness and the shadow of death.
Even young children despise me; I arise, and they speak against me.
giving back his gain, and he will not eat. As to the wealth of his trading, even he shall not enjoy it.
I said, Days should speak, and the multitude of years should teach wisdom.
or have eaten my bit alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it,
For beware wrath, that He not lure you with His scorn; then a great ransom cannot turn you aside.
I called my servant, and he gave no answer; I must beg him with my mouth.
The folds of his flesh are joined together, cast firm on him; he cannot be moved.
The pitfall is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.
Remember that you magnify His work of which men have sung;
They reap his fodder in the field; and they gather the grapes of the wicked.
His memory shall perish from the earth, and there is no name to him on the face of the street.
Will He plead against me with His great power? No, surely He would give heed to me.
He shall clap His hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.
to whom I have assigned the wilderness for its home, and the salt land for its dwellings?
I will not keep silent concerning his limbs, or his mighty strength, or the grace of his frame.
How is it, the way the light is distributed, and how does the east wind spread itself on the earth?
And Elihu had waited beside Job with words, because they were older than he in days.
Behold, their good is not in their hand; the wisdom of the wicked is far from me.
Out of his mouth go burning torches, sparks of fire leap out.
and it is turned around by His guidance, so that they may do whatever He commands them on the face of the world in the earth.
If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot has hurried to deceit,
If you are righteous, what do you give Him? Or what does He receive from your hand?
Shall your companions bargain over him? Shall they divide him among the merchants?
He shall break in pieces mighty men without number, and set others in their place.
If my step has turned out of the way, or my heart has walked after my eyes, and if any blot has held fast to my hands;
From the host of tyrannies they cry out; they cry out because of the arm of the multitude.
They are lifted up for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are gathered in like all others, and are cut off like the heads of the ears of grain.
You have not given water to the weary to drink, and you have held back bread from the hungry.
The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be remembered no more; and injustice shall be broken like a tree.
He has also kindled His wrath against me, and to Himself He counts me as His enemy.
For the mountains yield food for him, and all the beasts of the field play there.
They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaves from the hungry.
Hide them in the dust together; and bind their faces in darkness.
The quiver rattles against him, the glittering spear and the shield.
He paws in the valley, and rejoices in his strength; he goes on to meet the weapons.
the sons of pride have not walked on it, the lion has not passed by.
Behold, his hope has been made false; will not one be cast down at the sight of him?
She treats her young roughly, as if not hers; for her labor is vanity without fear;
Behold, though a flood presses, he does not run away; he feels safe even if Jordan swells up to his mouth.
My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.
My eye also is dim from grief; and all my members are like a shadow.
For that would be an evil purpose; yea, it would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges.
Yea, his soul draws near to the Pit, and his life to the dealers of death.
Do you think this to be right, you that say, I am more just than God?
because God has caused her to forget wisdom, and He has not given her a share in understanding.
Look to the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds; they are higher than you.
The lotus trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook surround him.
Will God hear his cry when trouble comes on him?
For the morning is to them like the shadow of death; for they know the terrors of the shadow of death.
they are joined one to another, they clasp each other so that they can not be separated.
The righteous see it, and are glad; and the innocent laugh them to scorn.
Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.
You said, I am pure, without transgression; I am innocent, and no iniquity is in me;
Also, what profit for me was the strength of their hands, for full vigor had perished from them?
Its stones are the place of sapphires; and it has dust of gold.
He also draws the mighty with his power; he rises up, and no one is sure of life.
He is swift on the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth; he does not behold the way of the vineyards.
to cause rain to fall on the earth where no man is, a wilderness and no man in it;
In a moment they die, and a people are shaken at midnight and pass away; and the mighty shall be taken away without a hand.
sons of fools, yea, sons without a name; they have been whipped out of the land.
But as for the mighty man, he had the earth, and the honored man lived in it.
if I have seen any perish for lack of clothing, or there was no covering for the needy;
He swallows the ground with quivering and rage; and he does not stand still at the sound of the trumpet.
my lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.
He holds back the floods from overflowing; and the hidden thing, He brings to light.
And now my soul is poured out within me; the days of affliction have taken hold on me.
If you sin, what do you do against Him? Or if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to Him?
Who can take off the surface of his skin; who can come to him with his double bridle?
Will you trust him, that he will return your seed and gather it to your grain-floor?
Their young ones are strong, they multiply with grain; they go forth and do not return to them again.
There they cry, but He gives no answer, because of the pride of evildoers.
The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered. He opens his eyes, and he is not.
Upright ones shall be amazed at this, and the innocent shall stir himself up against the ungodly.
Yet He filled their houses with substance; and the wisdom of the wicked is far from me.
For trouble from God is a terror to me, and I could not do anything because of His highness.
They turn the needy out of the way; the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
As to the earth, out of it comes bread; and underneath it is turned up like fire.
He also had seven sons and three daughters.
Should he reason with talk that is not useful, or with speeches which have no profit?
He mocks at fear, and is not terrified; and he does not turn back from the sword.
Lo, all these things God does two or three times with a man,
Shall one who hates right govern? And will you condemn Him who is just and mighty?
Who can number the clouds by wisdom; or who can empty out the jars of the heavens,
And they waited for me like the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.
For it will hurl at him, and will not spare; he will surely flee out of its hand.
If his sons are multiplied, the sword is for them; and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
When I looked for good, then evil came; and when I waited for light, then darkness came.
He also opens their ears to teaching, and commands that they return from iniquity.
then let my arm fall from the shoulder blade, and let my arm be broken from the elbow.
if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless when I watched over my help in the gate;
so as to cause the cry of the poor to come to Him, for He hears the cry of the afflicted.
Who has given the earth as a deposit with Him? Or who has set the whole world in order?
Because He has loosed His bowstring and afflicted me, they have also thrown off the bridle before me.
He gives safety to him, and he rests on it; yet His eyes are on their ways.
He seeks out mountains for his pasture, and he searches after every green thing.
I will teach you by the hand of God; that which is with the Almighty I will not hide.
For truly my words are not false; He who is perfect in knowledge is with you.
Also his wrath was kindled against his three friends, because they had found no answer and had condemned Job.
At the time she lifts herself up on high, she scorns the horse and its rider.
And now men cannot look upon the light; it is in the clouds; but the wind passes and clears them.
Yea, it is hidden from the eyes of all living, and hidden from the birds of the heavens.
Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, so that floods of waters may cover you?
I would know the words which He would answer me, and understand what He would say to me.
Will you trust him because his strength is great? Or will you leave your labor to him?
I go in mourning with no sun; I stood up and I cried out in the congregation.
Your wickedness may hurt a man like yourself; and your righteousness may profit the son of man.
I chose out their way, and sat as chief; and I lived like a king in the army, as one who comforts the mourners.
Hear, I beseech You, and I will speak; I will ask You, and You will cause me to know.
On my right a brood rises; they push away my feet and raise up against me the ways of their ruin.
How much less when you say you do not see Him! Judgment is before Him; you are waiting for Him.
My bones are pierced in me in the night; and my gnawings never lie down.
He opens a shaft far from the visitor; they are forgotten by man's foot; they hang far away from men, they swing to and fro.
But if they do not obey, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.
After it a voice roars; He thunders with the voice of His majesty, and He will not hold them when His voice is heard.
For He does not still impose on man to go before God in judgment.
and forgets that a foot may crush them, or that the beast of the field may break them.
Behold, I waited for your words; I listened to your reasons, while you searched out what to say.
Surely you have spoken in my ears, and I have heard the sound of your words.
Also can any understand the spreading of the clouds, or the crashing of His canopy?
When Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, then his wrath was kindled.
You lift me up to the wind; You cause me to ride on it; and You melt me in a storm.
I smiled kindly on them when they did not believe; and they did not make the light of my face fall.
Let us choose for ourselves what is right; let us know among ourselves what is good.
There the righteous might reason with Him; and I would be delivered forever from my Judge.
In the dark they dig through houses which they had marked for themselves in the daytime; they do not know the light.
They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for lack of shelter.
The noble's voice was subdued, and their tongue clung to the roof of their mouth.
I will bring my knowledge from afar, and I will credit righteousness to my Maker.
And he has not directed his words against me; and I will not answer him with your words.