But he said to her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. We have also received good from God, and should we not receive evil? In all this Job did not sin with his lips.

Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants that have not seen the light.

Even as I have seen, they that plough iniquity and sow mischief, reap the same.

Which are turbid by reason of the ice, in which the snow hideth itself:

The eye of him that hath seen me shall behold me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not.

He is full of sap before the sun, and his sprout shooteth forth over his garden;

If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him: I have not seen thee!

Who commandeth the sun, and it riseth not, and he sealeth up the stars;

If I washed myself with snow-water, and cleansed my hands in purity,

That thou searchest after mine iniquity, and inquirest into my sin;

And wherefore didst thou bring me forth out of the womb? I had expired, and no eye had seen me.

Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it.

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

For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?

I will shew thee, listen to me; and what I have seen I will declare;

Oh that there were arbitration for a man with +God, as a son of man for his friend!

He hath neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any remaining in the places of his sojourn.

Like his own dung doth he perish for ever; they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?

Drought and heat consume snow waters; so doth Sheol those that have sinned.

How much less man, a worm, and the son of man, a worm!

Behold, ye yourselves have all seen it; and why are ye thus altogether vain?

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

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

If I have seen any perishing for want of clothing, or any needy without covering;

If I beheld the sun when it shone, or the moon walking in brightness,

(Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse;)

Then was kindled the anger of Elihu the son of Barachel, the Buzite, of the family of Ram: against Job was his anger kindled, because he justified himself rather than God;

And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am young, and ye are aged; wherefore I was timid, and feared to shew you what I know.

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

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

For he addeth rebellion unto his sin, he clappeth his hands among us, and multiplieth his words against God.

Thy wickedness may affect a man as thou art, and thy righteousness a son of man.

For he saith to the snow, Fall on the earth! and to the pouring rain, even the pouring rains of his might.

Have the gates of death been revealed unto thee? and hast thou seen the gates of the shadow of death?

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