that there came a messenger to Job, and said, "The oxen were plowing, and the donkeys feeding beside them,

While he was still speaking, there also came another, and said, "The fire of God has fallen from the sky, and has burned up the sheep and the servants, and consumed them, and I alone have escaped to tell you."

While he was still speaking, there came also another, and said, "The Chaldeans made three bands, and swept down on the camels, and have taken them away, yes, and killed the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell you."

While he was still speaking, there came also another, and said, "Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house,

He said, "Naked I came out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be the name of Yahweh."

Yahweh said to Satan, "Where have you come from?" Satan answered Yahweh, and said, "From going back and forth in the earth, and from walking up and down in it."

Yahweh said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? For there is none like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause."

Satan answered Yahweh, and said, "Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.

Yahweh said to Satan, "Behold, he is in your hand. Only spare his life."

Then his wife said to him, "Do you still maintain your integrity? Renounce God, and die."

But he said to her, "You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?" In all this Job didn't sin with his lips.

"Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, 'There is a boy conceived.'

If I have said to corruption, 'You are my father;' to the worm, 'My mother,' and 'my sister;'

who said to God, 'Depart from us;' and, 'What can the Almighty do for us?'

Job again took up his parable, and said,

To man he said, 'Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.'"

Job again took up his parable, and said,

Then I said, 'I shall die in my own house, I shall number my days as the sand.

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

if the men of my tent have not said, 'Who can find one who has not been filled with his meat?'

I said, 'Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.'

Therefore I said, 'Listen to me; I also will show my opinion.'

For Job has said, 'I am righteous, God has taken away my right:

For he has said, 'It profits a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.'

"For has any said to God, 'I am guilty, but I will not offend any more.

Elihu also continued, and said,

and said, 'Here you may come, but no further. Here your proud waves shall be stayed?'

You said, 'Listen, now, and I will speak; I will question you, and you will answer me.'

It was so, that after Yahweh had spoken these words to Job, Yahweh 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.

I will tell of the decree. Yahweh said to me, "You are my son. Today I have become your father.

who have said, "With our tongue we will prevail. Our lips are our own. Who is lord over us?"

The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt. They have done abominable works. There is none who does good.

My soul, you have said to Yahweh, "You are my Lord. Apart from you I have no good thing."

As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form. For the Chief Musician. By David the servant of Yahweh, who spoke to Yahweh the words of this song in the day that Yahweh delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. He said,

When you said, "Seek my face," my heart said to you, "I will seek your face, Yahweh."

As for me, I said in my prosperity, "I shall never be moved."

But I trust in you, Yahweh. I said, "You are my God."

As for me, I said in my haste, "I am cut off from before your eyes." Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.

I acknowledged my sin to you. I didn't hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to Yahweh, and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me. They said, "Aha! Aha! Our eye has seen it!"

For I said, "Don't let them gloat over me, or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips."

I said, "I will watch my ways, so that I don't sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me."

Then I said, "Behold, I have come. It is written about me in the book in the scroll.

I said, "Yahweh, have mercy on me! Heal me, for I have sinned against you."

The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity. There is no one who does good.

Oh that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion! When God brings back his people from captivity, then Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad. For the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A contemplation by David, when the Ziphites came and said to Saul, "Isn't David hiding himself among us?"

I said, "Oh that I had wings like a dove! Then I would fly away, and be at rest.

The Lord said, "I will bring you again from Bashan, I will bring you again from the depths of the sea;

If I had said, "I will speak thus;" behold, I would have betrayed the generation of your children.

They said in their heart, "We will crush them completely." They have burned up all the places in the land where God was worshiped.

I said to the arrogant, "Don't boast!" I said to the wicked, "Don't lift up the horn.

Yes, they spoke against God. They said, "Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?

I said, "You are gods, all of you are sons of the Most High.

who said, "Let us take possession of God's pasturelands."

Yes, of Zion it will be said, "This one and that one was born in her;" the Most High himself will establish her.

Then you spoke in vision to your saints, and said, "I have bestowed strength on the warrior. I have exalted a young man from the people.

When I said, "My foot is slipping!" Your loving kindness, Yahweh, held me up.

Forty long years I was grieved with that generation, and said, "It is a people that errs in their heart. They have not known my ways."

I said, "My God, don't take me away in the midst of my days. Your years are throughout all generations.

Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had Moses, his chosen, not stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, so that he wouldn't destroy them.

I believed, therefore I said, "I was greatly afflicted."

I said in my haste, "All men are liars."

I was glad when they said to me, "Let's go to Yahweh's house!"

Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing. Then they said among the nations, "Yahweh has done great things for them."

Remember, Yahweh, against the children of Edom, the day of Jerusalem; who said, "Raze it! Raze it even to its foundation!"

I said to Yahweh, "You are my God." Listen to the cry of my petitions, Yahweh.

I cried to you, Yahweh. I said, "You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living."

He taught me, and said to me: "Let your heart retain my words. Keep my commandments, and live.

So she caught him, and kissed him. With an impudent face she said to him:

for it is better that it be said to you, "Come up here," than that you should be put lower in the presence of the prince, whom your eyes have seen.

Is there a thing of which it may be said, "Behold, this is new?" It has been long ago, in the ages which were before us.

I said to myself, "Behold, I have obtained for myself great wisdom above all who were before me in Jerusalem. Yes, my heart has had great experience of wisdom and knowledge."

I said in my heart, "Come now, I will test you with mirth: therefore enjoy pleasure;" and behold, this also was vanity.

I said of laughter, "It is foolishness;" and of mirth, "What does it accomplish?"

Then I said in my heart, "As it happens to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise?" Then I said in my heart that this also is vanity.

I said in my heart, "God will judge the righteous and the wicked; for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work."

I said in my heart, "As for the sons of men, God tests them, so that they may see that they themselves are like animals.

All this have I proved in wisdom. I said, "I will be wise;" but it was far from me.

There is a vanity which is done on the earth, that there are righteous men to whom it happens according to the work of the wicked. Again, there are wicked men to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.

Then I said, "Wisdom is better than strength." Nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.

My beloved spoke, and said to me, "Rise up, my love, my beautiful one, and come away.

I said, "I will climb up into the palm tree. I will take hold of its fruit." Let your breasts be like clusters of the vine, the smell of your breath like apples, Beloved

Moreover Yahweh said, "Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with outstretched necks and flirting eyes, walking to trip as they go, jingling ornaments on their feet;

One called to another, and said, "Holy, holy, holy, is Yahweh of Armies! The whole earth is full of his glory!"

Then I said, "Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, Yahweh of Armies!"

He touched my mouth with it, and said, "Behold, this has touched your lips; and your iniquity is taken away, and your sin forgiven."

I heard the Lord's voice, saying, "Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?" Then I said, "Here I am. Send me!"

He said, "Go, and tell this people, 'You hear indeed, but don't understand; and you see indeed, but don't perceive.'

Then I said, "Lord, how long?" He answered, "Until cities are waste without inhabitant, and houses without man, and the land becomes utterly waste,

Then Yahweh said to Isaiah, "Go out now to meet Ahaz, you, and Shearjashub your son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool, on the highway of the fuller's field.

But Ahaz said, "I will not ask, neither will I tempt Yahweh."

He said, "Listen now, house of David. Is it not enough for you to try the patience of men, that you will try the patience of my God also?

Yahweh said to me, "Take a large tablet, and write on it with a man's pen, 'For Maher Shalal Hash Baz;'

I went to the prophetess, and she conceived, and bore a son. Then Yahweh said to me, "Call his name 'Maher Shalal Hash Baz.'

For he has said, "By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I have understanding: and I have removed the boundaries of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures. Like a valiant man I have brought down their rulers.

You said in your heart, "I will ascend into heaven! I will exalt my throne above the stars of God! I will sit on the mountain of assembly, in the far north!

For Yahweh said to me, "I will be still, and I will see in my dwelling place, like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest."

Yahweh said, "As my servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and a wonder concerning Egypt and concerning Ethiopia,

For the Lord said to me, "Go, set a watchman. Let him declare what he sees.

The watchman said, "The morning comes, and also the night. If you will inquire, inquire. Come back again."