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

With kings and counsellers of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;

Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.

Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;

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

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

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

How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?

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

Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn?

Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number:

To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.

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

Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid:

Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?

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

Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.

Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars.

Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea.

Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.

Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders without number.

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

The waters wear the stones: thou washest away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man.

What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us?

What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?

I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;

Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:

And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.

And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.

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

The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.

His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.

That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein.

Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;

Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired.

Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.

Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?

Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:

Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?

I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.

Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.

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

Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned.

How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm?

I will teach you by the hand of God: that which is with the Almighty will I not conceal.

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

There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen:

I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.

Behold, my belly is as wine which hath no vent; it is ready to burst like new bottles.

He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;

Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men.

That which I see not teach thou me: if I have done iniquity, I will do no more.

Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou.

Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table should be full of fatness.

Remember that thou magnify his work, which men behold.

Which the clouds do drop and distil upon man abundantly.

God thundereth marvellously with his voice; great things doeth he, which we cannot comprehend.

Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him which is perfect in knowledge?

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

And now men see not the bright light which is in the clouds: but the wind passeth, and cleanseth them.

Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?

By what way is the light parted, which scattereth the east wind upon the earth?

Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust,

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

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

Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.

Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks 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 him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job.