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Now it happened on the day when God's sons came to present themselves before Yahweh, that Satan also came among them.
But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the earth.
There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.
He said, "Naked I came out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be the name of Yahweh."
"Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if you have understanding.
He stretches out the north over empty space, and hangs the earth on nothing.
Then Yahweh answered Job out of the whirlwind,
But put forth your hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will renounce you to your face."
Haven't you 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 substance is increased in the land.
when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
To man he said, 'Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.'"
It fell on a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house,
The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
For affliction doesn't come forth from the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground;
"I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?
that there came a messenger to Job, and said, "The oxen were plowing, and the donkeys feeding beside them,
"Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.
Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.
Who provides for the raven his prey, when his young ones cry to God, and wander for lack of food?
By his Spirit the heavens are garnished. His hand has pierced the swift serpent.
Then Job arose, and tore his robe, and shaved his head, and fell down on the ground, and worshiped.
Yahweh said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant, Job? For there is none like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil."
and the Sabeans attacked, and took them away. Yes, they have killed the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you."
While he was still speaking, there came also another, and said, "Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house,
While he was still speaking, there came also another, and said, "The Chaldeans made three bands, and swept down on the camels, and have taken them away, yes, and killed the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell you."
I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you.
But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I shall come forth like gold.
Let that day be darkness. Don't let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it.
While he was still speaking, there also came another, and said, "The fire of God has fallen from the sky, and has burned up the sheep and the servants, and consumed them, and I alone have escaped to tell you."
"I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be restrained.
In all this, Job did not sin, nor charge God with wrongdoing.
and behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young men, and they are dead. I alone have escaped to tell you."
You would call, and I would answer you. You would have a desire to the work of your hands.
Behold, he goes by me, and I don't see him. He passes on also, but I don't perceive him.
An empty-headed man becomes wise when a man is born as a wild donkey's colt.
The eye of him who sees me shall see me no more. Your eyes shall be on me, but I shall not be.
My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
"With God is wisdom and might. He has counsel and understanding.
Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black 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 knit me together with bones and sinews.
how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!
"If you set your heart aright, stretch out your hands toward him.
Satan answered Yahweh, and said, "Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.
(the foreigner has not lodged in the street, but I have opened my doors to the traveler);
There was nothing left that he didn't devour, therefore his prosperity shall not endure.
If you return to the Almighty, you shall be built up, if you put away unrighteousness far from your tents.
Shall they not teach you, tell you, and utter words out of their heart?
Behold, he breaks down, and it can't be built again. He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.
You have granted me life and loving kindness. Your visitation has preserved my spirit.
even that it would please God to crush me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, 'What are you doing?'
He shall have neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any remaining where he lived.
who gives rain on the earth, and sends waters on the fields;
Therefore my harp has turned to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of those who weep.
But put forth your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce you to your face."
who does great things that can't be fathomed, marvelous things without number;
"Have pity on me, have pity on me, you my friends; for the hand of God has touched me.
Yahweh said to Satan, "Behold, he is in your hand. Only spare his life."
Surely then you shall lift up your face without spot; Yes, you shall be steadfast, and shall not fear:
If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away. Don't let unrighteousness dwell in your tents.
Am I a sea, or a sea monster, that you put a guard over me?
As for that night, let thick darkness seize on 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 wisdom. The deceived and the deceiver are his.
According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity, and sow trouble, reap the same.
"Remember, now, whoever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?
so that he sets up on high those who are low, those who mourn are exalted to safety.
for you shall forget your misery. You shall remember it as waters that are passed away.
if I sin, then you mark me. You will not acquit me from my iniquity.
In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress shall overtake him. The hand of everyone who is in misery shall come on him.
Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up. Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.
Life shall be clearer than the noonday. Though there is darkness, it shall be as the morning.
But the eyes of the wicked shall fail. They shall have no way to flee. Their hope shall be the giving up of the spirit."
Those who come after shall be astonished at his day, as those who went before were frightened.
He uncovers deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death.
He leads priests away stripped, and overthrows the mighty.
"To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from his friend; even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty.
"But the mountain falling comes to nothing. The rock is removed out of its place;
You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your indignation on me. Changes and warfare are with me.
So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man shall perish,
While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withers before any other reed.
Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn't answer him. I would make supplication to my judge.
You shall be secure, because there is hope. Yes, you shall search, and shall take your rest in safety.
Whose confidence shall break apart, Whose trust is a spider's web.
Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,
Also you shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid. Yes, many shall court your favor.
before I go where I shall not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;
"Therefore I will not keep silent. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
He removes the speech of those who are trusted, and takes away the understanding of the elders.
He shall lean on his house, but it shall not stand. He shall cling to it, but it shall not endure.
Aren't my days few? Cease then. Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,
"'Why, then, have you brought me forth out of the womb? I wish I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me.
Though I am righteous, my own mouth shall condemn me. Though I am blameless, it shall prove me perverse.
He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
If I had called, and he had answered me, yet I wouldn't believe that he listened to my voice.
He took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he sat among the ashes.
I wish that Job were tried to the end, because of his answering like wicked men.
Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous. This is the place of him who doesn't know God."
If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty! If of justice, 'Who,' says he, 'will summon me?'
"Why didn't I die from the womb? Why didn't I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?
He frustrates the devices of the crafty, So that their hands can't perform their enterprise.
The caravans of Tema looked. The companies of Sheba waited for them.
Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I shall not be."
Be it still my consolation, yes, let me exult in pain that doesn't spare, that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.
because it didn't shut up the doors of my mother's womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.
If he is destroyed from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, 'I have not seen you.'
If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still shall not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction.
A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer shall come on him.
His sons come to honor, and he doesn't know it. They are brought low, but he doesn't perceive it of them.
But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty.
When they lifted up their eyes from a distance, and didn't recognize him, they raised their voices, and wept; and they each tore his robe, and sprinkled dust on their heads toward the sky.
For then you will delight yourself in the Almighty, and shall lift up your face to God.
He takes the wise in their own craftiness; the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.
"Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away, they see no good,
or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.
that he would maintain the right of a man with God, of a son of man with his neighbor!
What is my strength, that I should wait? What is my end, that I should be patient?
All darkness is laid up for his treasures. An unfanned fire shall devour him. It shall consume that which is left in his tent.
For now should I have lain down 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 ready at his hand.
There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary are at rest.
with kings and counselors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves;
For when a few years are come, I shall go the way of no return.
So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.
Yahweh said to Satan, "Where have you come from?" Satan answered Yahweh, and said, "From going back and forth in the earth, and from walking up and down in it."
"My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, That they are led forth to the day of wrath?
With aged men is wisdom, in length of days understanding.
He increases the nations, and he destroys them. He enlarges the nations, and he leads them captive.
"Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, 'There is a boy conceived.'
Who shall declare his way to his face? Who shall repay him what he has done?
the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.'"
Whom I, even I, shall see on my side. My eyes shall see, and not as a stranger. "My heart is consumed within me.
Who is he who will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the spirit.
Then Zophar, the Naamathite, answered,
He will even deliver him who is not innocent. Yes, he shall be delivered through the cleanness of your hands."
Distress and anguish make him afraid. They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
I loathe my life. I don't want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.
so that my soul chooses strangling, death rather than my bones.
What is man, that you should magnify him, that you should set your mind on him,
Then call, and I will answer; or let me speak, and you answer me.
For he wounds, and binds up. He injures, and his hands make whole.
Then Job answered,
They are high as heaven. What can you do? They are deeper than Sheol. What can you know?
If you say, 'How we will persecute him!' because the root of the matter is found in me,
that he would show you the secrets of wisdom! For true wisdom has two sides. Know therefore that God exacts of you less than your iniquity deserves.
I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke.
At destruction and famine you shall laugh, neither shall you be afraid of the animals of the earth.
"Call now; is there any who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?
For resentment kills the foolish man, and jealousy kills the simple.
For you write bitter things against me, and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth:
though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
You shall be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, neither shall you be afraid of destruction when it comes.
Yet he will be borne to the grave. Men shall keep watch over the tomb.
When he is about to fill his belly, God will cast the fierceness of his wrath on him. It will rain on him while he is eating.
He has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no one inhabited, which were ready to become heaps.
He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive tree.
Should your boastings make men hold their peace? When you mock, shall no man make you ashamed?
"Shouldn't the multitude of words be answered? Should a man full of talk be justified?
I will tell God, 'Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me.
I would declare to him the number of my steps. as a prince would I go near to him.
If I have sinned, what do I do to you, you watcher of men? Why have you set me as a mark for you, so that I am a burden to myself?
Job answered:
The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
There the prisoners are at ease together. They don't hear the voice of the taskmaster.
For he knows false men. He sees iniquity also, even though he doesn't consider it.
For you shall be allied with the stones of the field. The animals of the field shall be at peace with you.
I should have been as though I had not been. I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
You also put my feet in the stocks, and mark all my paths. You set a bound to the soles of my feet,
Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,
My brothers have dealt deceitfully as a brook, as the channel of brooks that pass away;
So how can you comfort me with nonsense, because in your answers there remains only falsehood?"
You shall know that your tent is in peace. You shall visit your fold, and shall miss nothing.
Haven't you poured me out like milk, and curdled me like cheese?
If he passes by, or confines, or convenes a court, then who can oppose him?
Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?
The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their God in their hands.
He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth.
How long will you not look away from me, nor leave me alone until I swallow down my spittle?
because he has covered his face with his fatness, and gathered fat on his thighs.
He will still fill your mouth with laughter, your lips with shouting.
But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who doesn't know such things as these?
The increase of his house shall depart. They shall rush away in the day of his wrath.
Who long for death, but it doesn't come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,
because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and didn't go out of the door --
In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune. It is ready for them whose foot slips.
Those who hate you shall be clothed with shame. The tent of the wicked shall be no more."
Its measure is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and smile on the counsel of the wicked?
In famine he will redeem you from death; in war, from the power of the sword.
"Behold, God will not cast away a blameless man, neither will he uphold the evildoers.
Although you know that I am not wicked, there is no one who can deliver out of your hand.
"Truly I know that 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 flavor be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
whose harvest the hungry eats up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance.
For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.
The old lion perishes for lack of prey. The cubs of the lioness are scattered abroad.
the wicked man writhes in pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.
"Please inquire of past generations. Find out about the learning of their fathers.
Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase.
You shall know also that your seed shall be great, Your offspring as the grass of the earth.
Then Job answered,
Then Job answered,
"Teach me, and I will hold my peace. Cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
fear came on me, and trembling, which made all my bones shake.
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
He shakes the earth out of its place. Its pillars tremble.
The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of its judges. If not he, then who is it?
His children are far from safety. They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,
He commands the sun, and it doesn't rise, and seals up the stars.
God who is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself against him, and prospered?
"How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,
The waters wear the stones. The torrents of it wash away the dust of the earth. So you destroy the hope of man.
'Job speaks without knowledge. His words are without wisdom.'
When I lie down, I say, 'When shall I arise, and the night be gone?' I toss and turn until the dawning of the day.
You forever prevail against him, and he departs. You change his face, and send him away.
He removes the mountains, and they don't know it, when he overturns them in his anger.
In the dry season, they vanish. When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
The Almighty will be your treasure, and precious silver to you.
As a servant who earnestly desires the shadow, as a hireling who looks for his wages,
If your children have sinned against him, He has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience.
My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,
My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.
For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas, therefore have my words 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 awaken for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.
For he adds rebellion to his sin. He claps his hands among us, and multiplies his words against God."
The caravans that travel beside them turn aside. They go up into the waste, and perish.
"Now a thing was secretly brought to me. My ear received a whisper of it.
You shall also decree a thing, and it shall be established to you. Light shall shine on your ways.
They have passed away as the swift ships, as the eagle that swoops on the prey.
Behold, he puts no trust in his servants. He charges his angels with error.
Yes, you would even cast lots for the fatherless, and make merchandise of your friend.
How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?
They were distressed because they were confident. They came there, and were confounded.
or, 'Deliver me from the adversary's hand?' or, 'Redeem me from the hand of the oppressors?'
Do you intend to reprove words, since the speeches of one who is desperate are as wind?
You shall make your prayer to him, and he will hear you. You shall pay your vows.
If he is pleased to contend with him, he can't answer him one time in a thousand.
But he said to her, "You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?" In all this Job didn't sin with his lips.
If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,
But there is a spirit in man, and the breath of the Almighty gives them understanding.
His possessions also were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the children of the east.
It was so, that after Yahweh had spoken these words to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.
Please return. Let there be no injustice. Yes, return again. My cause is righteous.
If I say, 'I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and cheer up;'
"Can you fathom the mystery of God? Or can you probe the limits of the Almighty?
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.
Again it happened on the day when the God's sons came to present themselves before Yahweh, that Satan came also among them to present himself before Yahweh.
Yahweh said to Satan, "Behold, all that he has is in your power. Only on himself don't put forth your hand." So Satan went forth from the presence of Yahweh.
It was so, when the days of their feasting had run their course, 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 renounced God in their hearts." Job did so continually.
How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!
Yahweh said to Satan, "Where have you come from?" Then Satan answered Yahweh, and said, "From going back and forth in the earth, and from walking up and down in it."
If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my warfare would I wait, until my release should come.
"Behold, I know your thoughts, the devices with which you would wrong me.
He doesn't believe that he shall return out of darkness. He is waited for by the sword.
Yahweh turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends. Yahweh gave Job twice as much as he had before.
Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.
"Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.
"For there is hope for a tree, If it is cut down, that it will sprout again, that the tender branch of it will not cease.
Then his wife said to him, "Do you still maintain your integrity? Renounce God, and die."
Yahweh said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? For there is none like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause."
"But ask the animals, now, and they shall teach you; the birds of the sky, and they shall tell you.
Isn't their tent cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.'
Your words have supported him who was falling, You have made firm the feeble knees.
Then came there to him all his brothers, and all his sisters, and all those who had been of his acquaintance before, and ate bread with him in his house. They comforted him, and consoled him concerning all the evil that Yahweh had brought on him. Everyone also gave him a piece of money, and everyone a ring of gold.
After my skin is destroyed, then in my flesh shall I see God,
When they cast down, you shall say, 'be lifted up.' He will save the humble person.
"Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades, or loosen the cords of Orion?
"Can you hunt the prey for the lioness, or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,
So Satan went forth from the presence of Yahweh, and struck Job with painful sores from the sole of his foot to his head.
Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his bounds that he can't pass;
I haven't gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
It stood still, but I couldn't discern its appearance. A form was before my eyes. Silence, then I heard a voice, saying,
Then Satan answered Yahweh, and said, "Does Job fear God for nothing?
Moreover Yahweh answered Job,
oh that I had one to hear me! (behold, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me); let the accuser write my indictment!
But he stands alone, and who can oppose him? What his soul desires, even that he does.
Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes."
but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
His sons went and held a feast in the house of each one on his birthday; and they sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.
Didn't he who made me in the womb make him? Didn't one fashion us in the womb?
He alone stretches out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea.
"But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs.
Have you entered the treasuries of the snow, or have you seen the treasures of the hail,
Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.
"Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook, or press down his tongue with a cord?
be afraid of the sword, for wrath brings the punishments of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment."
so man lies down and doesn't rise. Until the heavens are no more, they shall not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep.
"Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?
"If someone ventures to talk with you, will you be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?
Yet shall the righteous hold on his way. He who has clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger.
He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn't continue.
"Isn't a man forced to labor on earth? Aren't his days like the days of a hired hand?
For you say, 'Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?'
"Acquaint yourself with him, now, and be at peace. Thereby good shall come to you.
"Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth from the womb,
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,
Then Job answered,
in whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?
if I have seen the sun when it shined, or the moon moving in splendor,
What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
"If there is beside him an angel, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show to man what is right for him;
Then Job answered,
(For the length of my life is still in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils);
Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? Everything under the heavens is mine.
Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.
"Will the wild ox be content to serve you? Or will he stay by your feeding trough?
"Behold, I am of small account. What shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.
Then Job answered,
As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol shall come up no more.
"Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would keep me secret, until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!
when my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured out streams of oil for me,
let briars grow instead of wheat, and stinkweed instead of barley." The words of Job are ended.
They tell God, 'Depart from us, for we don't want to know about your ways.
He makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the rooms of the south.
After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth.
So Yahweh blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys.
If he set his heart on himself, If he gathered to himself his spirit and his breath,
He has described a boundary on the surface of the waters, and to the confines of light and darkness.
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,
"Those who are deceased tremble, those beneath the waters and all that live in them.
You asked, 'Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?' therefore I have uttered that which I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I didn't know.
"But as for me, I would seek God. I would commit my cause to God,
Then Zophar the Naamathite answered,
If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,
He draws it forth, and it comes out of his body. Yes, the glittering point comes out of his liver. Terrors are on him.
"If I have despised the cause of my male servant or of my female servant, when they contended with me;
"Have you commanded the morning in your days, and caused the dawn to know its place;
So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had none to help him,
The members of his body shall be devoured. The firstborn of death shall devour his members.
"My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct, And the grave is 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 don't know him. The number of his years is unsearchable.
Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones. Yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight;
Now therefore, take to yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept him, that I not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has."
Oh that I knew where I might find him! That I might come even to his seat!
He stirs up the sea with his power, and by his understanding he strikes through Rahab.
"The wings of the ostrich wave proudly; but are they the feathers and plumage of love?
Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,
that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?
How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?
He has torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me. He has gnashed on me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes on me.
"Therefore listen to me, you men of understanding: far be it from God, that he should do wickedness, from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.
There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them.
But none says, 'Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,
In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, in slumbering on the bed;
Job again took up his parable, and said,
Or do you have an arm like God? Can you thunder with a voice like him?
Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways. How small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?"
The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him. All men shall draw after him, as there were innumerable before him.
Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,
"Have you entered into the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep?
and said, 'Here you may come, but no further. Here your proud waves shall be stayed?'
They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol.
Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself; for emptiness shall be his reward.
"Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out, The spark of his fire shall not shine.
"Oh that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me;
"For his eyes are on the ways of a man. He sees all his goings.
Then the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel, the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was kindled against Job. His wrath was kindled because he justified himself rather than God.
"Why aren't times laid up by the Almighty? Why don't those who know him see his days?
Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?"
This is the portion of a wicked man from God, the heritage appointed to him by God."
"Do you know the time when the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch when the doe bears fawns?
Can you lead forth the constellations in their season? Or can you guide the Bear with her cubs?
They sing to the tambourine and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.
He shall not depart out of darkness. The flame shall dry up his branches. By the breath of God's mouth shall he go away.
Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he doesn't see. He walks on the vault of the sky.'
I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem.
"Listen to this, Job. Stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God.
He shall be rooted out of his tent where he trusts. He shall be brought to the king of terrors.
"Isn't God in the heights of heaven? See the height of the stars, how high they are!
"Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it."
He establishes the force of the wind. Yes, he measures out the waters by measure.
I also could speak as you do. If your soul were in my soul's place, I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you,
Do you know the workings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge?
"If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, 'You are my confidence;'
Drought and heat consume the snow waters, so does Sheol those who have sinned.
What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? 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,
"Have you given the horse might? Have you clothed his neck with a quivering mane?
For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
"These are of those who rebel against the light. They don't know its ways, nor stay in its paths.
Who doesn't respect the persons of princes, nor respects the rich more than the poor; for they all are the work of his hands.
For the company of the godless shall be barren, and fire shall consume the tents of bribery.
For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?
His flesh shall be fresher than a child's. He returns to the days of his youth.
Isn't your wickedness great? Neither is there any end to your iniquities.
He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not burst under them.
"How long will you torment me, and crush me with words?
"Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?
I was at ease, and he broke me apart. Yes, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up for his target.
Iron is taken out of the earth, and copper is smelted out of the ore.
You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
"How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out, that their calamity comes on them, that God distributes sorrows in his anger?
Please don't let me respect any man's person, neither will I give flattering titles to any man.
Surely there are mockers with me. My eye dwells on their provocation.
Look away from him, that he may rest, until he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.
My skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are burned with heat.
All my familiar friends abhor me. They whom I loved have turned against me.
Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceives a man, will you deceive him?
With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, much elder than your father.
if I have eaten its fruits without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life,
Pour out the fury of your anger. Look at everyone who is proud, and bring him low.
Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered, "I am young, and you are very old; Therefore I held back, and didn't dare show you my opinion.
God thunders marvelously with his voice. He does great things, which we can't comprehend.
Because he has stretched out his hand against God, and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty;
Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you establish its dominion over the earth?
He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. My hope he has plucked up like a tree.
"As God lives, who has taken away my right, the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter.
There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,
He is chastened also with pain on his bed, with continual strife in his bones;
"He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.
As the waters fail from the sea, and the river wastes and dries up,
Far be it from me that I should justify you. Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.
No mention shall be made of coral or of crystal. Yes, the price of wisdom is above rubies.
Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given understanding to the mind?
He moves his tail like a cedar. The sinews of his thighs are knit together.
You who tear yourself in your anger, shall the earth be forsaken for you? Or shall the rock be removed out of its place?
"Now deck yourself with excellency and dignity. Array yourself with honor and majesty.
My days are past, my plans are broken off, as are the thoughts of my heart.
He puts forth his hand on the flinty rock, and he overturns the mountains by the roots.
He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found. Yes, he shall be chased away like a vision of the night.
"Even today my complaint is rebellious. His hand is heavy in spite of my groaning.
Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?
Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.
Yes, he would have allured you out of distress, into a broad place, where there is no restriction. That which is set on your table would be full of fatness.
You say, 'What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?
Behold, even the moon has no brightness, and the stars are not pure in his sight;
Please receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.
If it is true that I have erred, my error remains with myself.
"Who has set the wild donkey free? Or who has loosened the bonds of the swift donkey,
then God is gracious to him, and says, 'Deliver him from going down to the pit, I have found a ransom.'
After this Job lived one hundred forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, to four generations.
"If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbor's door,
If I have said to corruption, 'You are my father;' to the worm, 'My mother,' and 'my sister;'
Destruction and Death say, 'We have heard a rumor of it with our ears.'
Are the consolations of God too small for you, even the word that is gentle toward you?
If they listen and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
but I would strengthen you with my mouth. The solace of my lips would relieve you.
"How have you helped him who is without power! How have you saved the arm that has no strength!
My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way, and not turned aside.
He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
His troops come on together, build a siege ramp against me, and encamp around my tent.
His sneezing flashes out light. His eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
He sings before men, and says, 'I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it didn't profit me.
His archers surround me. He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare. He pours out my gall on the ground.
He delivers the afflicted by their affliction, and opens their ear in oppression.
The steps of his strength shall be shortened. His own counsel shall cast him down.
"Now give a pledge, be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me?
I have heard the reproof which puts me to shame. The spirit of my understanding answers me.
You have shriveled me up. This is a witness against me. My leanness rises up against me. It testifies to my face.
They have gaped on me with their mouth. They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.
"This is the portion of a wicked man with God, the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty.
I was a father to the needy. The cause of him who I didn't know, I searched out.
Can you hold the wild ox in the furrow with his harness? Or will he till the valleys after you?
Look at everyone who is proud, and humble him. Crush the wicked in their place.
that it might take hold of the ends of the earth, and shake the wicked out of it?
For what is the portion from God above, and the heritage from the Almighty on high?
But now, God, you have surely worn me out. You have made desolate all my company.
Doesn't he see my ways, and number all my steps?
"If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him;
For I know that you will bring me to death, To the house appointed for all living.
My relatives have gone away. My familiar friends have forgotten me.
He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
Job again took up his parable, and said,
Their bulls breed without fail. Their cows calve, and don't miscarry.
He called the name of the first, Jemimah; and the name of the second, Keziah; and the name of the third, Keren Happuch.
The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, 'No eye shall see me.' He disguises his face.
Yes surely, God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert justice.
Then Job answered,
"Behold, God is mighty, and doesn't despise anyone. He is mighty in strength of understanding.
"Now I have become their song. Yes, I am a byword to them.
who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?'
There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his. Sulfur shall be scattered on his habitation.
Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stock dies in the ground,
(let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity);
If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach;
"Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice.
For the work of a man he will render to him, and cause every man to find according to his ways.
For it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase.
"Therefore do my thoughts give answer to me, even by reason of my haste that is in me.
"Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars, and stretches her wings toward the south?
who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was poured out as a stream,
"Because he knew no quietness within him, he shall not save anything of that in which he delights.
We can't reach the Almighty. He is exalted in power. In justice and great righteousness, he will not oppress.
The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, Neither shall it be valued with pure gold.
My breath is offensive to my wife. I am loathsome to the children of my own mother.
He prays to God, and he is favorable to him, so that he sees his face with joy. He restores to man his righteousness.
He builds his house as the moth, as a booth which the watchman makes.
Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread for their children.
Will you show partiality to him? Will you contend for God?
"But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.
For you have hidden their heart from understanding, Therefore you shall not exalt them.
yet he shall perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him shall say, 'Where is he?'
Out of whose womb came the ice? The gray frost of the sky, who has given birth to it?
Strong scales are his pride, shut up together with a close seal.
Can you send forth lightnings, that they may go? Do they report to you, 'Here we are?'
So Job died, being old and full of days. BOOK I
I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.
It can't be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
His breath kindles coals. A flame goes forth from his mouth.
The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.
From out of the populous city, men groan. The soul of the wounded cries out, yet God doesn't regard the folly.
He has swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly.
When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid. They retreat before his thrashing.
He doesn't withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne, he sets them forever, and they are exalted.
Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defenses are defenses of clay.
When he gives quietness, who then can condemn? When he hides his face, who then can see him? Alike whether to a nation, or to a man,
He who denounces his friends for a prey, Even the eyes of his children shall fail.
Out of its room comes the storm, and cold out of the north.
"But those who are godless in heart lay up anger. They don't cry for help when he binds them.
Behold, I am toward God even as you are. I am also formed out of the clay.
You say, 'God lays up his iniquity for his children.' Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it.
Then I said, 'I shall die in my own house, I shall number my days as the sand.
For what does he care for his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off?
By the breath of God, ice is given, and the breadth of the waters is frozen.
In all the land were no women found so beautiful as the daughters of Job. Their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers.
He has walled up my way so that I can't pass, and has set darkness in my paths.
"Behold, I will answer you. In this you are not just, for God is greater than man.
He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit. My life shall see the light.'
For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it commended me:
Can his armies be counted? On whom does his light not arise?
His bones are full of his youth, but youth shall lie down with him in the dust.
Moreover Elihu answered,
Behold, my breast is as wine which has no vent; like new wineskins it is ready to burst.
There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
But as for you all, come on now again; I shall not find a wise man among you.
What do you know, that we don't know? What do you understand, which is not in us?
He lies under the lotus trees, in the covert of the reed, and the marsh.
the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
If one attacks him with the sword, it can't prevail; nor the spear, the dart, nor the pointed shaft.
None is so fierce that he dare stir him up. Who then is he who can stand before me?
As often as the trumpet sounds he snorts, 'Aha!' He smells the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
If they are bound in fetters, and are taken in the cords of afflictions,
Why do you strive against him, because he doesn't give account of any of his matters?
For he says to the snow, 'Fall on the earth;' likewise to the shower of rain, and to the showers of his mighty rain.
He sends it forth under the whole sky, and his lightning to the ends of the earth.
It is not the great who are wise, nor the aged who understand justice.
yet through the scent of water it will bud, and put forth boughs like a plant.
Terrors have turned on me. They chase my honor as the wind. My welfare has passed away as a cloud.
Didn't I weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn't my soul grieved for the needy?
Look now, his strength is in his thighs. His force is in the muscles of his belly.
So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did what Yahweh commanded them, and Yahweh accepted Job.
They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation.
They change the night into day, saying 'The light is near' in the presence of darkness.
My words shall utter the uprightness of my heart. That which my lips know they shall speak sincerely.
Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that you are righteous? Or does it benefit him, that you make your ways perfect?
Out of his nostrils a smoke goes, as of a boiling pot over a fire of reeds.
He works to the north, but I can't see him. He turns south, but I can't catch a glimpse of him.
Whether it is for correction, or for his land, or for loving kindness, that he causes it to come.
Gold and glass can't equal it, neither shall it be exchanged for jewels of fine gold.
They make oil within the walls of these men. They tread wine presses, and suffer thirst.
Those who dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger. I am an alien in their sight.
Man sets an end to darkness, and searches out, to the furthest bound, the stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.
Let his own eyes see his destruction. Let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me.
That for which he labored he shall restore, and shall not swallow it down. According to the substance that he has gotten, he shall not rejoice.
I said, 'Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.'
or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it
Don't let riches entice you to wrath, neither let the great size of a bribe turn you aside.
I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer. I beg him with my mouth.
The flakes of his flesh are joined together. They are firm on him. They can't be moved.
A noose is hidden for him in the ground, a trap for him in the way.
"Remember that you magnify his work, whereof men have sung.
They cut their provender in the field. They glean the vineyard of the wicked.
I have spoken once, and I will not answer; Yes, twice, but I will proceed no further."
Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power? No, but he would listen to me.
Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.
"I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, nor his mighty strength, nor his goodly frame.
By what way is the lightning distributed, or the east wind scattered on the earth?
Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked is far from me.
Out of his mouth go burning torches. Sparks of fire leap forth.
It is turned around by his guidance, that they may do whatever he commands them on the surface of the habitable world,
"If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot has hurried to deceit
If you are righteous, what do you give him? Or what does he receive from your hand?
He breaks in pieces mighty men in ways past finding out, and sets others in their place.
if my step has turned out of the way, if my heart walked after my eyes, if any defilement has stuck to my hands,
"By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out. They cry for help by reason of the arm of the mighty.
They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone. Yes, they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as all others, and are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.
If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;
You haven't given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.
The womb shall forget him. The worm shall feed sweetly on him. He shall be no more remembered. Unrighteousness shall be broken as a tree.
Surely the mountains produce food for him, where all the animals of the field play.
So that they go around naked without clothing. Being hungry, they carry the sheaves.
Hide them in the dust together. Bind their faces in the hidden place.
The quiver rattles against him, the flashing spear and the javelin.
He paws in the valley, and rejoices in his strength. He goes out to meet the armed men.
His children shall seek the favor of the poor. His hands shall give back his wealth.
The proud animals have not trodden it, nor has the fierce lion passed by there.
Behold, the hope of him is in vain. Won't one be cast down even at the sight of him?
She deals harshly with her young ones, as if they were not hers. Though her labor is in vain, she is without fear,
Behold, if a river overflows, he doesn't tremble. He is confident, though the Jordan swells even to his mouth.
My glory is fresh in me. My bow is renewed in my hand.'
My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.
For that would be a heinous crime. Yes, it would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges:
Yes, his soul draws near to the pit, and his life to the destroyers.
"Do you think this to be your right, or do you say, 'My righteousness is more than God's,'
Is it for your piety that he reproves you, that he enters with you into judgment?
because God has deprived her of wisdom, neither has he imparted to her understanding.
Look to the heavens, and see. See the skies, which are higher than you.
Will he make a covenant with you, that you should take him for a servant forever?
Will God hear his cry when trouble comes on him?
For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, for they know the terrors of the thick darkness.
They are joined one to another. They stick together, so that they can't be pulled apart.
The righteous see it, and are glad. The innocent ridicule them,
Their child is established with them in their sight, their offspring before their eyes.
'I am clean, without disobedience. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me.
Of what use is the strength of their hands to me, men in whom ripe age has perished?
Sapphires come from its rocks. It has dust of gold.
Yet God preserves the mighty by his power. He rises up who has no assurance of life.
"They are foam on the surface of the waters. Their portion is cursed in the earth. They don't turn into the way of the vineyards.
To cause it to rain on a land where no man is; on the wilderness, in which there is no man;
Yes, he loads the thick cloud with moisture. He spreads abroad the cloud of his lightning.
In a moment they die, even at midnight. The people are shaken and pass away. The mighty are taken away without a hand.
They are children of fools, yes, children of base men. They were flogged out of the land.
But as for the mighty man, he had the earth. The honorable man, he lived in it.
if I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;
He eats up the ground with fierceness and rage, neither does he stand still at the sound of the trumpet.
Those who remain of him shall be buried in death. His widows shall make no lamentation.
The eye which saw him shall see him no more, neither shall his place any more see him.
surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, neither shall my tongue utter deceit.
He binds the streams that they don't trickle. The thing that is hidden he brings forth to light.
If you have sinned, what effect do you have against him? If your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?
Will you confide in him, that he will bring home your seed, and gather the grain of your threshing floor?
Their young ones become strong. They grow up in the open field. They go forth, and don't return again.
There they cry, but none gives answer, because of the pride of evil men.
He lies down rich, but he shall not do so again. He opens his eyes, and he is not.
Upright men shall be astonished at this. The innocent shall stir up himself against the godless.
Yet he filled their houses with good things, but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves.
As for the earth, out of it comes bread; Underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.
For he has said, 'It profits a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.'
He had also seven sons and three daughters.
Should he reason with unprofitable talk, or with speeches with which he can do no good?
"Behold, God works all these things, twice, yes three times, with a man,
Shall even one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn him who is righteous and mighty? --
Who can number the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the bottles of the sky,
For it hurls at him, and does not spare, as he flees away from his hand.
to bring back his soul from the pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of the living.
If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword. His offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
Shall any take him when he is on the watch, or pierce through his nose with a snare?
When I looked for good, then evil came; When I waited for light, there came darkness.
He also opens their ears to instruction, and commands that they return from iniquity.
then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from the bone.
if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate,
so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him. He heard the cry of the afflicted.
Who put him in charge of the earth? or who has appointed him over the whole world?
For he has untied his cord, and afflicted me; and they have thrown off restraint before me.
On the cliff he dwells, and makes his home, on the point of the cliff, and the stronghold.
God gives them security, and they rest in it. His eyes are on their ways.
The range of the mountains is his pasture, He searches after every green thing.
I will teach you about the hand of God. That which is with the Almighty will I not conceal.
For truly my words are not false. One who is perfect in knowledge is with you.
Therefore Job opens his mouth with empty talk, and he multiplies words without knowledge."
Also his wrath was kindled against his three friends, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.
When she lifts up herself on high, she scorns the horse and his rider.
Now men don't see the light which is bright in the skies, but the wind passes, and clears them.
Seeing it is hidden from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the birds of the sky.
He scorns the tumult of the city, neither does he hear the shouting of the driver.
"Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover you?
I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would tell me.
Will you trust him, because his strength is great? Or will you leave to him your labor?
I go mourning without the sun. I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.
Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are, and your righteousness may profit a son of man.
I chose out their way, and sat as chief. I lived as a king in the army, as one who comforts the mourners.
You said, 'Listen, now, and I will speak; I will question you, and you will answer me.'
On my right hand rise the rabble. They thrust aside my feet, They cast up against me their ways of destruction.
How much less when you say you don't see him. The cause is before him, and you wait for him!
Notwithstanding my right I am considered a liar. My wound is incurable, though I am without disobedience.'
In the night season my bones are pierced in me, and the pains that gnaw me take no rest.
He breaks open a shaft away from where people live. They are forgotten by the foot. They hang far from men, they swing back and forth.
But if they don't listen, they shall perish by the sword; they shall die without knowledge.
After it a voice roars. He thunders with the voice of his majesty. He doesn't hold back anything when his voice is heard.
For he doesn't need to consider a man further, that he should go before God in judgment.
and forgets that the foot may crush them, or that the wild animal may trample them.
Its noise tells about him, and the livestock also concerning the storm that comes up.
"Behold, I waited for your words, and I listened for your reasoning, while you searched out what to say.
So that they dwell in frightful valleys, and in holes of the earth and of the rocks.
His flesh is so consumed away, that it can't be seen. His bones that were not seen stick out.
"Surely you have spoken in my hearing, I have heard the voice of your words, saying,
Yes, can any understand the spreading of the clouds, and the thunderings of his pavilion?
When Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, his wrath was kindled.
I smiled on them when they had no confidence. They didn't reject the light of my face.
Let us choose for us that which is right. Let us know among ourselves what is good.
There the upright might reason with him, so I should be delivered forever from my judge.
In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don't know the light.
"Bear with me a little, and I will show you; for I still have something to say on God's behalf.
saying, 'Surely those who rose up against us are cut off. The fire has consumed the remnant of them.'
They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for lack of a shelter.
The voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.
for he has not directed his words against me; neither will I answer him with your speeches.