They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.

Now Elihu had waited till Job had spoken, because they were older than he.

They were amazed, they answered no more: they left off speaking.

His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen now stick out.

Job has spoken without knowledge, and his words were without wisdom.

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

Do you know it, because you were born then? or because the number of your days is great?

She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers: her labor is in vain without concern;

And in all the land were no women found so beautiful as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.

The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.

There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous.

Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! when the LORD brings back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.

Like as a lion that is greedy of its prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was angry.

There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.

He made darkness his secret place; his canopy round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.

Then the channels of the sea were seen, and the foundations of the world were uncovered at your rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.

He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them who hated me: for they were too strong for me.

For all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me.

I have pursued my enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I turn again till they were consumed.

I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are fallen under my feet.

They cried unto you, and were delivered: they trusted in you, and were not disappointed.

By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.

They looked unto him, and were radiant: and their faces were not ashamed.

But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into my own bosom.

Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not your peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with you, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.

Kings' daughters were among your honorable women: at your right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir.

The nations raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted.

For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together.

They saw it, and so they marveled; they were troubled, and hastened away.

If I were hungry, I would not tell you: for the world is mine, and the fullness thereof.

God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God.

There were they in great fear, where no fear was: for God has scattered the bones of him that encamps against you: you have put them to shame, because God has despised them.

Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! When God brings back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.

He has delivered my soul in peace from the battle that was against me: for there were many against me.

He has put forth his hands against such as were at peace with him: he has broken his covenant.

The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords.

The singers went before, the players on instruments followed after; among them were the damsels playing with timbrels.

To him that rides upon the heaven of heavens, which were of old; lo, he does send out his voice, and that a mighty voice.

But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had nearly slipped.

The waters saw you, O God, the waters saw you; they were afraid: the depths also were troubled.

So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire;

They were not separated from their desire. But while their food was yet in their mouths,

For their heart was not right with him, neither were they steadfast in his covenant.

For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passes away, and comes not again.

But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage.

The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars.

I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were freed from the basket.

Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.

You answered them, O LORD our God: you were a God that forgave them, though you took vengeance on their wrongdoings.

When they were but a few men in number; yea, very few, and strangers in it.

But were mixed among the nations, and learned their works.

And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them.

Thus were they defiled with their own works, and played the harlot with their own deeds.

Their enemies also oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their hand.

Many times did he deliver them; but they provoked him with their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity.

What ailed you, O you sea, that you fled? you Jordan, that you were driven back?

O that my ways were directed to keep your statutes!

[A song of ascents.] When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream.

Your eyes did see my substance, being yet unformed; and in your book they were all written, the days fashioned for me, when as yet there were none of them.

Let them praise the name of the LORD: for he commanded, and they were created.

When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.

Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:

Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men.

I got myself male and female servants, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattle more than all that were in Jerusalem before me:

So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me.

So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

Say you not, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for you do not inquire wisely concerning this.

And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the holy place, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this is also vanity.

Look not upon me, because I am dark, because the sun has darkened me: my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but my own vineyard have I not kept.

I went down into the garden of nuts to see the blossoms of the valley, and to see whether the vine had budded, and the pomegranates were in bloom.

O that you were as my brother, that nursed at the breasts of my mother! if I should find you outside, I would kiss you; yea, I would not be despised.

Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:

Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he has stretched forth his hand against them, and has stricken them: and the hills did tremble, and their dead bodies were as refuse in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

And the posts of the door were shaken at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.

And on all hills that were dug with the hoe, you shall not come there for fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be a range for oxen, and a place for sheep to tread.

Shall the ax boast itself against him that hews with it? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that uses it? as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were not wood.

And in that day you shall say, O LORD, I will praise you: though you were angry with me, your anger is turned away, and you comforted me.

And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the LORD for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captive, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.

And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give you rest from your sorrow, and from your fear, and from the hard bondage in which you were made to serve.

Yea, the cypress trees rejoice at you, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since you were laid low, no hewer has come up against us.

We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were given birth to wind; we have not accomplished any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.

Come, my people, enter you into your chambers, and shut your doors about you: hide yourself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation is past.

And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come who were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem.

For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes.

They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be a help nor a profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.

Woe to you that plunder, and you were not plundered; and deal treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with you! when you shall cease to plunder, you shall be plundered; and when you shall make an end of dealing treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with you.

At the noise of the tumult the people fled; at the lifting up of yourself the nations were scattered.

Have the gods of the nations delivered them whom my fathers have destroyed, as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden who were in Telassar?

And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.

Therefore their inhabitants were of little power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as grain blighted before it is grown.

Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and struck in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead corpses.

The coastlands saw it, and feared; the ends of the earth were afraid, drew near, and came.

Behold, all they that were incensed against you shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with you shall perish.

Let them bring them forth, and show us what shall happen: let them show the former things, what they were, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare to us things to come.

Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the LORD, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law.

Since you were precious in my sight, you have been honorable, and I have loved you: therefore will I give men for you, and people for your life.

Bel bows down, Nebo stoops, their idols were upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages were heavy laden; they are a burden to the weary beast.

Yea, you heard not; yea, you knew not; yea, from of old your ear was not opened: for I knew that you would deal very treacherously, and were called a transgressor from the womb.