They that hate thee, shall be confounded, and the dwellings of the ungodly shall come to naught."

He translateth the mountains, before they be aware, and overthroweth them in his wrath.

"My days are more swift than a runner: they are gone, and have seen no good thing.

They are passed away, as the ships that be good under sail, and as the Eagle that hasteth to the prey.

If they had carried me to my grave as soon as I was born, then should I be now, as though I had never been.

As for the eyes of the ungodly, they shall be consumed, and not escape: their hope shall be misery and sorrow of mind."

"The houses of robbers are in wealth and prosperity; and they that maliciously meddle against God, dwell without care: yea, God giveth all things richly with his hand.

Ask the cattle, and they shall inform thee; the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee.

Speak to the earth, and it shall show thee; or to the fishes of the sea, and they shall certify thee.

Behold, if he withhold the waters, they dry up; If he let them go, they destroy the earth.

He changeth the heart of the princes and kings of the earth, and disapointeth them; so that they go wandering out of the way,

The floods when they be dried up, and the rivers when they be empty, are filled again through the flowing waters of the sea:

Whether his children come to worship or no, he cannot tell: And if they be men of low degree, he knoweth not.

They have opened their mouths wide upon me, and smitten me upon the cheek despitefully, they have eased themselves through mine adversity.

Thou hast withholden their hearts from understanding, therefore shall they not be set up on high.

Yea the children despised me, and when I was gone from them, they spake evil upon me.

All such as were my most familiars, abhor me: And they whom I loved best, are turned against me.

O that my words were written, O that they were put in a book:

would God they were graven with an iron pen in lead or in stone.

yet he perisheth at the last, like dung. Insomuch that they which have seen him, say, 'Where is he?'

They send forth their children by flocks, and their sons lead the dance.

They bear with them tabrets and harps, and have instruments of music at their pleasure.

They spend their days in wealthiness: but suddenly, they go down to hell.

They say unto God, 'Go from us: we desire not the knowledge of thy ways!

Yea, they shall be even as chaff before the wind, and as dust that the storm carrieth away.

And though God save their children from such sorrow, yet will he so reward themselves, that they shall know it.

Their own destruction and misery shall they see with their eyes, and drink of the fearful wrath of the Almighty.

Now sleep they both alike in the earth, and the worms cover them.

Considering then that there is no time hid from the Almighty, how happeneth it, that they which know him, will not regard his days?

Behold, even as the wild asses in the desert go they forth to their work, and rise betimes to spoil: Yea, the very wilderness ministereth food for them and their children. by times, as their manner is, to spoil: Yea the very wilderness ministereth food for their children.

They reap the corn field that is not their own; and let the vineyard of the ungodly alone.

They are the cause that so many men are naked and bare, having no clothes to cover them and keep them from cold;

So that when the showers in the mountains have rained upon them, and they be all wet, they have none other succour, but to embrace the rock for want of a covering.

They spoil the sucking fatherless children, and put the poor in prison,

insomuch that they let him go naked without clothing, and take way the sheaf of the hungry.

whereas they, notwithstanding, are rebellious and disobedient enemies: which seek not his light and way, nor turn again in to his path.

Timely in the morning do they arise, to murder the simple and poor, and in the night they go a stealing.

In the night season they search the houses, and hide themselves in the daytime, but will not know the light.

For as soon as the day breaketh, the shadow of death cometh upon them, and they go in horrible darkness.

O that they, for the wickedness which they have done, were drawn to the hell, sooner than snow melteth at the heat.

O that all compassion upon them were forgotten: that their dainties were worms, that they were clean put out of remembrance, and utterly hewn down like an unfruitful tree.

For they maintain the barren, and make them that they cannot bear, and unto widows they do no good.

They pluck down the mighty with their power, and when they themselves are gotten up, they are never without fear, as long as they live.

And though they might be safe, yet they will not receive it, for their eyes look upon their own ways.

They are exalted for a little, but shortly are they gone, brought to extreme poverty, and taken out of the way: yea, and utterly plucked off, as the ears of corn.

yea, and all they which dwell beneath in the hell are not hid from him, and the very destruction itself cannot be kept out of his sight.

If he get many children, they shall perish with the sword, and his posterity shall have scarceness of bread.

Look, whom he leaveth behind him, they shall die and be buried, and no man shall have pity of his widows.

Then clap men their hands at him, yea and jest of him, when they look upon his place.

When I went through the city unto the gate, and when they set me a chair in the street;

When the young men, as soon as they saw me, hid themselves, and when the aged arose, and stood up unto me;

When all they that heard me, called me happy, and when all they that saw me, wished me good.

Unto me men gave ear, me they regarded, and with silence they tarried for my counsel.

If I had spoken, they would have it none other ways, my words were so well taken among them.

They waited for me, as the earth doth for the rain; and gaped upon me, as the ground doth to receive the latter shower.

When I laughed, they knew well it was not earnest; and this testimony of my countenance pleased them nothing at all.

When I agreed unto their way, I was the chief, and sat as a king among his servants; and when they were in heaviness, I was their comforter.

But now, they that are mine inferiors and younger than I, have me in derision; yea even they, whose fathers I would have thought scorn to have set with the dogs of my cattle.

For very misery and hunger, they went about in the wilderness like wretches and beggars,

And when they were driven forth, men cried after them, as it had been after a thief.

Upon the dry heath went they about crying, and under the thorns they gathered themselves together.

They were children of fools and villains, which are dead away from the world.

they abhor me, they flee far from me, and stain my face with spittle,

Upon my right hand they rose together against me; they have hurt my feet, made a way to destroy me,

and my path have they clean marred. It was so easy for them to do me harm, that they needed no man to help them.

They fell upon me, as it had been the breaking in of waters, and came in by heaps to destroy me.

With all their power have they changed my garment, and girded me therewith, as it were with a coat.

Now use not men to do violence unto them, that are destroyed already; but where hurt is done, there use they to help.

Did I ever think scorn to do right unto my servants and maidens, when they had any matter against me?

Yet they of mine own household say, 'Who shall let us to have our belly full of his flesh?'

And with Job's three friends he was angry also, because they had found no reasonable answer to overcome him.

Now tarried Elihu till they had ended their communication with Job: for why? They were elder than he.

For they where so abashed that they could not make answer, nor speak one word.

In dreams and visions of the night season - When slumbering cometh upon men, that they fall a sleep in their beds -

'Ungodly men are ye.' He hath none respect unto the persons of the lordly, and regardeth not the rich more than the poor. For they be all the work of his hands.

In the twinkling of an eye shall they be slain: and at midnight, when the people and the tyrants rage, then shall they perish, and be taken away without hands.

For he knoweth their evil and dark works: therefore shall they be destroyed.

They that were in the stead of Seers, dealt like ungodly men.

Therefore turned they back traitorously and unfaithfully from him, and would not receive his ways.

Insomuch that they have caused the voice of the poor to come unto him, and now he heareth the complaint of such as are in necessity.

Look unto the heaven, and behold it: consider the clouds, how they are higher than thou.

He turneth not his eyes away from the righteous; he setteth up kings in their throne, and confirmeth them, so that they alway sit therein.

But if they be laid in prison and chains, or bound with the bonds of poverty:

then sheweth he them their works and deeds and the sins wherewith they have used cruel violence.

If they now will take heed and be obedient, they shall wear out their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasure and joy.

But if they will not obey, they shall go through the sword, and perish before they be aware.

As for such as be fained hypocrites, they heap up wrath for themselves: for they call not upon him, though they be his prisoners.

yea, wonder at him, and yet they see him but afar off.

together for to rain, so that they pour down and drop upon men.

He sendeth fear upon every man, that they might know their own works.

He distributeth also on every side, according as it pleaseth him to deal out his works, that they may do whatsoever he commandeth them through the whole world:

Moreover, canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that they may pour down a great rain upon thee?

Canst thou thunder also that they may go their way, and be obedient unto thee, saying, 'Lo here are we'?

Reckonest thou the months after they engender, that thou knowest the time of their bearing?

Or when they lie down, when they cast their young ones, and when they are delivered of their travail and pain?

That they may give no force for the multitude of people in the cities, neither regard the crying of the driver,

She remembereth not that they might be trodden with feet or broken with some wild beast.

So hard is she to her young ones, as though they were not hers, and laboureth in vain without any fear.

Yea, one hangeth so upon another, and sticketh so together, that they cannot be sundered.

As for the ungodly, it is not so with them: but they are like the chaff, which the wind scattereth away from the face of the earth.