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Job
| Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full
of trouble. |
| He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he
fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not. |
| And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and
bringest me into judgment with thee? |
| Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not
one. |
| Seeing his days are determined, the number of his
months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot
pass; |
| Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall
accomplish, as an hireling, his day. |
| For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that
it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. |
| Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and
the stock thereof die in the ground; |
| Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and
bring forth boughs like a plant. |
| But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up
the ghost, and where is he? |
| As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood
decayeth and drieth up: |
| So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens
be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. |
| O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou
wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest
appoint me a set time, and remember me! |
| If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of
my appointed time will I wait, till my change come. |
| Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt
have a desire to the work of thine hands. |
| For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch
over my sin? |
| My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou
sewest up mine iniquity. |
| And surely the mountain falling cometh to nought,
and the rock is removed out of his place. |
| The waters wear the stones: thou washest away the
things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the
hope of man. |
| Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth:
thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away. |
| His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and
they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them. |
| But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul
within him shall mourn. |
| Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said, |
| Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his
belly with the east wind? |
| Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with
speeches wherewith he can do no good? |
| Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer
before God. |
| For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou
choosest the tongue of the crafty. |
| Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea,
thine own lips testify against thee. |
| Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou
made before the hills? |
| Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou
restrain wisdom to thyself? |
| What knowest thou, that we know not? what
understandest thou, which is not in us? |
| With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men,
much elder than thy father. |
| Are the consolations of God small with thee? is
there any secret thing with thee? |
| Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do
thy eyes wink at, |
| That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and
lettest such words go out of thy mouth? |
| What is man, that he should be clean? and he which
is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? |
| Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the
heavens are not clean in his sight. |
| How much more abominable and filthy is man, which
drinketh iniquity like water? |
| I will show thee, hear me; and that which I have
seen I will declare; |
| Which wise men have told from their fathers, and
have not hid it: |
| Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger
passed among them. |
| The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days,
and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor. |
| A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the
destroyer shall come upon him. |
| He believeth not that he shall return out of
darkness, and he is waited for of the sword. |
| He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it?
he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand. |
| Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they
shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle. |
| For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and
strengtheneth himself against the Almighty. |
| He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the
thick bosses of his bucklers: |
| Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and
maketh collops of fat on his flanks. |
| And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses
which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps. |
| He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance
continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the
earth. |
| He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall
dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away. |
| Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for
vanity shall be his recompense. |
| It shall be accomplished before his time, and his
branch shall not be green. |
| He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and
shall cast off his flower as the olive. |
| For the congregation of hypocrites shall be
desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery. |
| They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and
their belly prepareth deceit. |
| Then Job answered and said, |
| I have heard many such things: miserable comforters
are ye all. |
| Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth
thee that thou answerest? |
| 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. |
| But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the
moving of my lips should asswage your grief. |
| Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though
I forbear, what am I eased? |
| But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made
desolate all my company. |
| 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. |
| He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he
gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me. |
| They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have
smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves
together against me. |
| 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. |
| His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my
reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the
ground. |
| He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth
upon me like a giant. |
| I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my
horn in the dust. |
| My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is
the shadow of death; |
| Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer
is pure. |
| O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry
have no place. |
| Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my
record is on high. |
| My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears
unto God. |
| O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man
pleadeth for his neighbour! |
| When a few years are come, then I shall go the way
whence I shall not return. |
| My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the
graves are ready for me. |
| Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye
continue in their provocation? |
| Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is
he that will strike hands with me? |
| For thou hast hid their heart from understanding:
therefore shalt thou not exalt them. |
| He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the
eyes of his children shall fail. |
| He hath made me also a byword of the people; and
aforetime I was as a tabret. |
| Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my
members are as a shadow. |
| Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the
innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite. |
| The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he
that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger. |
| But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for
I cannot find one wise man among you. |
| My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even
the thoughts of my heart. |
| They change the night into day: the light is short
because of darkness. |
| If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my
bed in the darkness. |
| I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to
the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister. |
| And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall
see it? |
| They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our
rest together is in the dust. |
| Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, |
| How long will it be ere ye make an end of words?
mark, and afterwards we will speak. |
| Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile
in your sight? |
| He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be
forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place? |
| Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and
the spark of his fire shall not shine. |
| The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his
candle shall be put out with him. |
| The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and
his own counsel shall cast him down. |
| For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he
walketh upon a snare. |
| The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber
shall prevail against him. |
| The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap
for him in the way. |
| Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and
shall drive him to his feet. |
| His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction
shall be ready at his side. |
| It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the
firstborn of death shall devour his strength. |
| His confidence shall be rooted out of his
tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors. |
| It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none
of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation. |
| His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall
his branch be cut off. |
| His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he
shall have no name in the street. |
| He shall be driven from light into darkness, and
chased out of the world. |
| He shall neither have son nor nephew among his
people, nor any remaining in his dwellings. |
| They that come after him shall be astonied at his
day, as they that went before were affrighted. |
| Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and
this is the place of him that knoweth not God. |
| Then Job answered and said, |
| How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces
with words? |
| These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not
ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me. |
| And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error
remaineth with myself. |
| If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and
plead against me my reproach: |
| Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath
compassed me with his net. |
| Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I
cry aloud, but there is no judgment. |
| He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he
hath set darkness in my paths. |
| He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown
from my head. |
| He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone:
and mine hope hath he removed like a tree. |
| He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he
counteth me unto him as one of his enemies. |
| His troops come together, and raise up their way
against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle. |
| He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine
acquaintance are verily estranged from me. |
| My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends
have forgotten me. |
| They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count
me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight. |
| I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I
entreated him with my mouth. |
| My breath is strange to my wife, though I entreated
for the children's sake of mine own body. |
| Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they
spake against me. |
| All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I
loved are turned against me. |
| My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I
am escaped with the skin of my teeth. |
| Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my
friends; for the hand of God hath touched me. |
| Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied
with my flesh? |
| Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were
printed in a book! |
| That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in
the rock for ever! |
| For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he
shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: |
| And though after my skin worms destroy this body,
yet in my flesh shall I see God: |
| Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall
behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me. |
| But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the
root of the matter is found in me? |
| Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the
punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment. |
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