Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the flame of his fire shall not shine.

The light shall become dark in his tent, and his lamp over him shall be put out.

The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.

For he is sent into the net by his own feet, and he walketh on the meshes;

The gin taketh him by the heel, the snare layeth hold on him;

His confidence shall be rooted out of his tent, and it shall lead him away to the king of terrors:

They who are none of his shall dwell in his tent; brimstone shall be showered upon his habitation:

His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off;

They that come after shall be astonished at his day, as they that went before them were affrighted.

And be it that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.

And if after my skin this shall be destroyed, yet from out of my flesh shall I see +God;

Be ye yourselves afraid of the sword! for the sword is fury against misdeeds, that ye may know there is a judgment.

I hear a reproof putting me to shame; and my spirit answereth me by mine understanding.

Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth and he hide it under his tongue,

That which he laboured for shall he restore, and not swallow down; its restitution shall be according to the value, and he shall not rejoice therein.

In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits; every hand of the wretched shall come upon him.

It shall be that, to fill his belly, he will cast his fierce anger upon him, and will rain it upon him into his flesh.

If he have fled from the iron weapon, the bow of brass shall strike him through.

This is the portion of the wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed to him by God.

As for me, is my complaint to a man? or wherefore should not my spirit be impatient?

Mark me, and be astonished, and lay the hand upon the mouth.

Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked be far from me!

Can a man be profitable to God? surely it is unto himself that the wise man is profitable.

Reconcile thyself now with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee.

If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up. If thou remove unrighteousness far from thy tents,

Then the Almighty will be thy precious ore, and silver heaped up unto thee;

Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he will hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows;

And thou shalt decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee; and light shall shine upon thy ways.

Even him that is not innocent shall he deliver; yea, he shall be delivered by the pureness of thy hands.

There would an upright man reason with him; and I should be delivered for ever from my judge.

In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves in; they know not the light:

The womb forgetteth him; the worm feedeth sweetly on him: he shall be no more remembered; and unrighteousness is broken as a tree, --

If it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?

And how should man be just with God? Or how should he be clean that is born of a woman?

He stirreth up the sea by his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through Rahab.

By his Spirit the heavens are adorned; his hand hath formed the fleeing serpent.

Be it far from me that I should justify you; till I die I will not remove my blamelessness from me.

Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous.

If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword, and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread;

Those that remain of him shall be buried by death, and his widows shall not weep.

As for the earth, out of it cometh bread, and underneath it is turned up as by fire;

Man putteth forth his hand upon the flinty rock, he overturneth the mountains by the root.

But wisdom, where shall it be found? and where is the place of understanding?

Choice gold cannot be given for it, nor silver be weighed for its price.

Gold and glass cannot be compared to it, nor vessels of fine gold be its exchange.

The topaz of Ethiopia shall not be compared to it, neither shall it be set in the balance with pure gold.

In making a weight for the wind, and meting out the waters by measure,

When his lamp shone over my head, and by his light I walked through darkness;

When I went out to the gate by the city, when I prepared my seat on the broadway,

My root shall be spread out to the waters, and the dew will lie all night on my branch;

My glory shall be fresh in me, and my bow be renewed in my hand.

By their great force they have become my raiment; they bind me about as the collar of my coat.

Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to be borne away, and dissolvest my substance.

I go about blackened, but not by the sun; I stand up, I cry in the congregation.

(Let me be weighed in an even balance, and +God will take knowledge of my blamelessness;)

Let me sow, and another eat; and let mine offspring be rooted out.

Let my wife grind for another, and let others bow down upon her.

For this is an infamy; yea, it is an iniquity to be judged by the judges:

Then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder-blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone!

For calamity from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his excellency I was powerless.

This also would be an iniquity for the judge, for I should have denied the God who is above.

(Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse;)

If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom,

My words shall be of the uprightness of my heart, and my lips shall utter knowledge purely.

Behold, my terror shall not make thee afraid, nor my burden be heavy upon thee.

He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from passing away by the sword.

If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to shew unto man his duty;

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

His flesh shall be fresher than in childhood; he shall return to the days of his youth.

To bring back his soul from the pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of the living.

Mark well, Job, hearken unto me; be silent, and I will speak.

If not, hearken thou unto me; be silent, and I will teach thee wisdom.

Therefore hearken unto me, ye men of understanding: Far be wickedness from God, and wrong from the Almighty!

That the ungodly man reign not, that the people be not ensnared.

Would that Job may be tried unto the end, because of his answers after the manner of evil men!

Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's?

If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? If thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?

If thou be righteous, what givest thou to him? or what doth he receive of thy hand?

By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry; they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty:

For truly my words shall be no falsehood: one perfect in knowledge is with thee.

And if, bound in fetters, they be held in cords of affliction,

But if they hearken not, they shall pass away by the sword, and expire without knowledge.

Even so would he have allured thee out of the jaws of distress into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and the supply of thy table would be full of fatness.

Lo, God is great, and we comprehend him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.

By the breath of God ice is given; and the breadth of the waters is straitened.

And they are turned every way by his guidance, that they may do whatsoever he commandeth them upon the face of the circuit of the earth,

How thy garments become warm when he quieteth the earth by the south wind?

Teach us what we shall say unto him! We cannot order our words by reason of darkness.

Shall it be told him if I would speak? if a man so say, surely he shall be swallowed up.

And now men see not the light as it gleameth, it is hidden in the skies. But the wind passeth by and cleareth them.

Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?

And said, Hitherto shalt thou come and no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?

That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, and the wicked might be shaken out of it?

By what way is the light parted, and the east wind scattered upon the earth?

They bow themselves, they give birth to their young ones, they cast out their pains;

Will the buffalo be willing to serve thee, or will he lodge by thy crib?

Doth the hawk fly by thine intelligence, and stretch his wings toward the south?

Wilt thou also annul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me that thou mayest be righteous?

Shall he be taken in front? will they pierce through his nose in the trap?

I will not be silent as to his parts, the story of his power, and the beauty of his structure.