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 astonished 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.

He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me to him as one of his enemies.

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

My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I have 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 will 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 excellence shall mount up to the heavens, and his head reach to the clouds;

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

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

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.

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

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

Why do the wicked live, become old, and, are mighty in power?

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

Therefore they say to God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.

What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray to him?

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

The clods of the valley will be sweet to him, and every man will draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.

Can a man be profitable to God, as he that is wise may be profitable to himself?

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 withheld bread from the hungry.

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

Who said to God, depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them!

Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: by this good shall come to thee.

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

For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face to God.

Thou shalt make thy prayer to him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.

Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established to thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.

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!

I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say to me.

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

Behold, as wild asses in the desert, they go 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.

In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the day-time: they know not the light.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Far be it from me that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove my integrity from me.

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

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

To me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel.

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

Yes, to what might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age had perished?

To dwell in the clefts 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.

I cry to thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not.

Thou hast 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.

Yet 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 my heart walked after my eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to my hands;

Then let my wife grind to another, and let others bow down upon her.

For this is a hainous 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 my 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 traveler.

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

I would declare to him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near to him.

If I have eaten the fruits of it without money, or have caused its owners 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.