And he had seven sons and three daughters.

And after this Job had a hundred and forty years of life, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.

The Lord has given knowledge of himself through his judging: the evil-doer is taken in the net which his hands had made. (Higgaion. Selah.)

But I have had faith in your mercy; my heart will be glad in your salvation.

The Lord was looking down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who had wisdom, searching after God.

He took me out into a wide place; he was my saviour because he had delight in me.

You have made me free from the fightings of the people; you have made me the head of the nations: a people of whom I had no knowledge will be my servants.

For their thoughts were bitter against you: they had an evil design in their minds, which they were not able to put into effect.

Our fathers had faith in you: they had faith and you were their saviour.

He put his faith in the Lord; let the Lord be his saviour now: let the Lord be his saviour, because he had delight in him.

I had almost given up my hope of seeing the blessing of the Lord in the land of the living.

The Lord is my strength and my breastplate, my heart had faith in him and I am helped; for this cause my heart is full of rapture, and I will give him praise in my song.

I will be glad and have delight in your mercy; because you have seen my trouble; you have had pity on my soul in its sorrows;

But I had faith in you, O Lord; I said, You are my God.

O how great is your grace, which you have put in store for your worshippers, and which you have made clear to those who had faith in you, before the sons of men!

False witnesses got up: they put questions to me about crimes of which I had no knowledge.

My behaviour was as if it had been my friend or my brother: I was bent low in grief like one whose mother is dead.

And the Lord will be their help, and keep them safe: he will take them out of the hands of the evil-doers, and be their saviour, because they had faith in him.

I was quiet, and kept my mouth shut; because you had done it.

You had no desire for offerings of beasts or fruits of the earth; ears you made for me: for burned offerings and sin offerings you made no request.

Even my dearest friend, in whom I had faith, who took bread with me, is turned against me.

For they did not make the land theirs by their swords, and it was not their arms which kept them safe; but your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your face, because you had pleasure in them.

But it is you who have been our saviour from those who were against us, and have put to shame those who had hate for us.

See, this is the man who did not make God his strength, but had faith in his goods and his property, and made himself

God was looking down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who had wisdom, searching after God.

And I said, If only I had wings like a dove! for then I would go in flight from here and be at rest.

We had loving talk together, and went to the house of God in company.

Those who have hate for me without cause are greater in number than the hairs of my head; those who are against me, falsely desiring my destruction, are very strong; I gave back what I had not taken away.

My heart is broken by bitter words, I am full of grief; I made a search for some to have pity on me, but there was no one; I had no comforter.

For you are my hope, O Lord God; I have had faith in you from the time when I was young.

But as for me, my feet had almost gone from under me; I was near to slipping;

They let his works go out of their memory, and the wonders which he had made them see.

Because they had no faith in God, and no hope in his salvation.

So they had food and were full; for he gave them their desire;

For all this they went on sinning even more, and had no faith in his great wonders.

How he had done his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan;

He took them on safely so that they had no fear; but their haters were covered by the sea.

And he was their guide to his holy land, even to the mountain, which his right hand had made his;

So that he went away from the holy place in Shiloh, the tent which he had put among men;

But he took the tribe of Judah for himself, and the mountain of Zion, in which he had pleasure.

The wrongdoing of your people had forgiveness; all their sin had been covered. (Selah.)

Rahab and Babylon will be named among those who have knowledge of me; see, Philistia and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this man had his birth there.

And of Zion it will be said, This or that man had his birth there; and the Most High will make her strong.

The Lord will keep in mind, when he is writing the records of the people, that this man had his birth there. (Selah.)

You have made your agreement with your servant of no effect: you have had no respect for his crown, it has come down even to the earth.

If the Lord had not been my helper, my soul would quickly have gone down into death.

The mountains came up and the valleys went down into the place which you had made ready for them.

He made him lord of his house, and ruler over everything he had;

Egypt was glad when they went; for the fear of them had come down on them.

Then they had faith in his words; they gave him songs of praise.

They had no memory of God their saviour, who had done great things in Egypt;

And he was purposing to put an end to them if Moses, his special servant, had not gone up before him, between him and his people, turning back his wrath, to keep them from destruction.

They were disgusted with the good land; they had no belief in his word;

They did not put an end to the peoples, as the Lord had said;

And gave the blood of their sons and their daughters who had done no wrong, offering them to the images of Canaan; and the land was made unclean with blood.

But when their cry came to his ears, he had pity on their trouble:

So that he made their hearts weighted down with grief; they were falling, and had no helper.

Because he had no mercy, but was cruel to the low and the poor, designing the death of the broken-hearted.

As he took pleasure in cursing, so let it come on him; and as he had no delight in blessing, let it be far from him.

The nets of death were round me, and the pains of the underworld had me in their grip; I was full of trouble and sorrow.

I still had faith, though I said, I am in great trouble;

They had almost put an end to me on earth; but I did not give up your orders.

If your law had not been my delight, my troubles would have put an end to me.

I have long had knowledge that your unchanging word is for ever.

If it had not been the Lord who was on our side (let Israel now say);

For there those who had taken us prisoners made request for a song; and those who had taken away all we had gave us orders to be glad, saying, Give us one of the songs of Zion.

Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book all my days were recorded, even those which were purposed before they had come into being.

Looking to my right side, I saw no man who was my friend: I had no safe place; no one had any care for my soul.

They had no desire for my teaching, and my words of protest were as nothing to them.

When he had not made the earth or the fields or the dust of the world.

A man may be acting as if he had wealth, but have nothing; another may seem poor, but have great wealth.

If you say, See, we had no knowledge of this: does not the tester of hearts give thought to it? and he who keeps your soul, has he no knowledge of it? and will he not give to every man the reward of his work?

If you have done foolishly in lifting yourself up, or if you have had evil designs, put your hand over your mouth.

The words of Lemuel, king of Massa: the teaching which he had from his mother.

I got men-servants and women-servants, and they gave birth to sons and daughters in my house. I had great wealth of herds and flocks, more than all who were in Jerusalem before me.

And I became great; increasing more than all who had been before me in Jerusalem, and my wisdom was still with me.

Then I saw all the works which my hands had made, and everything I had been working to do; and I saw that all was to no purpose and desire for wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

Hate had I for all my work which I had done, because the man who comes after me will have its fruits.

So my mind was turned to grief for all the trouble I had taken and all my wisdom under the sun.

And again I saw all the cruel things which are done under the sun; there was the weeping of those who have evil done to them, and they had no comforter: and from the hands of the evil-doers there went out power, but they had no comforter.

And I saw the destruction of his wealth by an evil chance; and when he became the father of a son he had nothing in his hand.

Yes, it saw not the sun, and it had no knowledge; it is better with this than with the other.

And then I saw evil men put to rest, taken even from the holy place; and they went about and were praised in the town because of what they had done. This again is to no purpose.

Now there was in the town a poor, wise man, and he, by his wisdom, kept the town safe. But no one had any memory of that same poor man.

I was but a little way from them, when I came face to face with him who is the love of my soul. I took him by the hands, and did not let him go, till I had taken him into my mother's house, and into the room of her who gave me birth.

I made the door open to my loved one; but my loved one had taken himself away, and was gone, my soul was feeble when his back was turned on me; I went after him, but I did not come near him; I said his name, but he gave me no answer.

I am a wall, and my breasts are like towers; then was I in his eyes as one to whom good chance had come.

Solomon had a vine-garden at Baal-hamon; he let out the vine-garden to keepers; every one had to give a thousand bits of silver for its fruit.

If the Lord of armies had not kept some at least of us safe, we would have been like Sodom, and the fate of Gomorrah would have been ours.

The upright town has become untrue; there was a time when her judges gave right decisions, when righteousness had a resting-place in her, but now she is full of those who take men's lives.

Let me make a song about my loved one, a song of love for his vine-garden. My loved one had a vine-garden on a fertile hill:

Over him were the winged ones: every one had six wings; two for covering his face, two for covering his feed, and two for flight.

Then a winged one came to me with a burning coal in his hand, which he had taken from off the altar with the fire-spoon.

And word came to the family of David that Aram had put up its tents in Ephraim. And the king's heart, and the hearts of his people, were moved, like the trees of the wood shaking in the wind.

On the right a man was cutting off bits and was still in need; on the left a man took a meal but had not enough; no man had pity on his brother; every man was making a meal of the flesh of his neighbour.

Will the axe say high-sounding words against him who is using it, or the blade be full of pride against him who is cutting with it? As if a rod had the power of shaking him who is using it, or as if a stick might take up him who is not wood.

And he will put up a flag as a sign to the nations, and he will get together those of Israel who had been sent away, and the wandering ones of Judah, from the four ends of the earth.

And it will be, in the day when the Lord gives you rest from your sorrow, and from your trouble, and from the hard yoke which they had put on you,

We have had word of the pride of Moab, how great it is; how he is lifted up in pride and passion: his high words about himself are false.

And you had the houses of Jerusalem numbered, pulling down the houses to make the wall stronger.