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

Have you heard the council of God? and do you limit wisdom to yourself?

I will show you, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;

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

I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are you all.

Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldens you that you answer?

But now he has made me weary: you have made desolate all my company.

And you have filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me bears witness to my face.

They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.

I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and laid my strength in the dust.

O earth, cover not my blood, and let my cry have no place.

When a few years have come, then I shall go the way where I shall not return.

For you have hidden their heart from understanding: therefore shall you not exalt them.

If I wait, the grave is my house: I have made my bed in the darkness.

I have said to corruption, You are my father: to the worm, You are my mother, and my sister.

His memory shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.

He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.

These ten times have you reproached me: you are not ashamed that you have wronged me.

And if indeed I have erred, my error remains with myself.

My kinsfolk have failed, and my close friends have forgotten me.

All my close friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved have turned against me.

My bone clings to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

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

I have heard the rebuke of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causes me to answer.

Yet he shall perish forever like his own refuse: they who have seen him shall say, Where is he?

Bear with me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.

What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?

Have you not asked them that go by the way? and do you not know their evidences,

For you have taken a pledge from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

You have not given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.

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

Have you marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?

Yea, the Almighty shall be your defense, and you shall have plenty of silver.

For then shall you have your delight in the Almighty, and shall lift up your face unto God.

My foot has held fast to his steps, his way have I kept, and not turned aside.

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

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

Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so does the grave those who have sinned.

How have you helped him that is without power? how save you the arm that has no strength?

How have you counseled him that has no wisdom? and how have you plentifully declared the thing as it is?

To whom have you uttered words? and whose spirit came from you?

Behold, all you yourselves have seen it; why then are you thus altogether vain?

The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.

Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame of it with our ears.

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

Because he has loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also cast off restraint before me.

They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.

And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.

You have become cruel to me: with your strong hand you oppose yourself against me.

If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot has hastened to deceit;

If my heart has been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbor's door;

If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;

Or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it;

(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided him from my mother's womb;)

If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;

If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw I had help in the gate:

If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, You are my confidence;

This also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.

Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.

If the men of my tent have not, Oh that we had of his meat! we cannot be satisfied.

If I have eaten its fruit without payment, or have caused its owners to lose their life:

Lest you should say, We have found out wisdom: God vanquishes him, not man.

Behold, now I have opened my mouth, my tongue has spoken in my mouth.

Surely you have spoken in my hearing, and I have heard the voice of your words, saying,

Then he is gracious unto him, and says, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.

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

If you have any thing to say, answer me: speak, for I desire to justify you.

Hear my words, O you wise men; and give ear unto me, you that have knowledge.

If now you have understanding, hear this: hearken to the voice of my words.

Surely it is fitting to be said unto God, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend any more:

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

For you said, What advantage will it be unto you? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?

Bear with me a little, and I will show you that I have yet to speak on God's behalf.

Then he shows them their work, and their transgressions, that they have exceeded.

Even so would he have removed you out of the distress into a broad place, where there is no restraint; and that which should be set on your table should be full of richness.

But you have fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on you.

Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this have you chosen rather than affliction.

Who has prescribed him his way? or who can say, You have worked iniquity?

Have you with him spread out the sky, which is strong, and as a molten mirror?

Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if you have understanding.

Have you commanded the morning since your days began; and caused the dawn to know its place;

Have you entered into the springs of the sea? or have you walked in search of the depths?

Have the gates of death been revealed unto you? or have you seen the doors of the shadow of death?

Have you perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if you know it all.

Have you entered into the treasury of the snow? or have you seen the treasury of the hail,

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

Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.

Have you given the horse strength? have you clothed his neck with thunder?

Once have I spoken; but I will not answer: yea, twice; but I will proceed no further.

Have you an arm like God? or can you thunder with a voice like him?

He leaves a path shining after him; one would think the deep to have white hair.

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

I have heard of you by the hearing of the ear: but now my eye sees you.

And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD 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.

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 you have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job.

He that sits in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.

Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.

I will declare the decree: the LORD has said unto me, You are my Son; this day have I begotten you.

I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, that have set themselves against me round about.

Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for you have smitten all my enemies upon the cheek bone; you have broken the teeth of the ungodly.