Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.

I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.

And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.

God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.

I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.

He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.

But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.

They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.

I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.

They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.

Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.

His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.

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

These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.

My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body.

My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.

Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:

Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.

I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.

Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;

His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.

That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein.

When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating.

The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.

As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?

Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?

They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.

Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens,

That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.

Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?

Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.

Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or is it gain to him, that thou makest thy ways perfect?

Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.

Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven.

Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?

The righteous see it, and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn.

If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.

Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.

Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!

Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?

Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.

They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.

They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;

Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.

For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.

He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.

Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways.

Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight.

To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee?

He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.

God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me.

He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.

He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light.

For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven;

To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.

And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.

When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!

The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.

When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me:

Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.

The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.

I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.

Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.

My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.

But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.

To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.

They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.

Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.

Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.

For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.

I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.

My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.

Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?

If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;

If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands;

For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.

For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.

What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?

If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;

For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.

If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;

This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.

Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.

The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller.

Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.

If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:

So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment.

Therefore I said, Hearken to me; I also will shew mine opinion.

Behold, I waited for your words; I gave ear to your reasons, whilst ye searched out what to say.

Behold, my belly is as wine which hath no vent; it is ready to burst like new bottles.

For I know not to give flattering titles; in so doing my maker would soon take me away.

Wherefore, Job, I pray thee, hear my speeches, and hearken to all my words.

Behold, I am according to thy wish in God's stead: I also am formed out of the clay.

Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers.

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