Job

(Job 1:1) There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and the man was perfect and upright, and one who feared God and turned away from evil.

(Job 1:2) And seven sons and three daughters were born to him.

(Job 1:3) Also, his possessions were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a very large household, so that this man was the greatest of all the people of the East.

(Job 1:4) And his sons went and prepared feasts in their houses, each on his appointed day, and sent and invited their three sisters to eat and drink with them.

(Job 1:5) So it was, when the days of feasting had made the rounds, that Job would send and sanctify them, and he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned and cursed God in their hearts. Thus Job did over time.

(Job 1:6) Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before Jehovah, and Satan also came among them.

(Job 1:7) And Jehovah said to Satan, From where do you come? So Satan answered Jehovah and said, From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking about on it.

(Job 1:8) Then Jehovah said to Satan, Have you set your heart on My servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a perfect and upright man, one who fears God and turns away from evil?

(Job 1:9) So Satan answered Jehovah and said, Does Job fear God for nothing?

(Job 1:10) Have You not made a hedge around him, around his household, and around all that he has on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his livestock have flourished in the land.

(Job 1:11) However, stretch out Your hand and touch all that he has, and will he not curse You to Your face!

(Job 1:12) And Jehovah said to Satan, Behold, all that he has is in your hand; only do not stretch forth your hand upon him. So Satan went out from the presence of Jehovah.

(Job 1:13) Now there was a day when his sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in the firstborn brother’s house;

(Job 1:14) and a messenger came to Job and said, The oxen were plowing and the donkeys feeding beside them,

(Job 1:15) when the Sabeans fell upon them and took them away; indeed they have killed the servants with the edge of the sword; and only I alone am escaped to tell you!

(Job 1:16) While he was still speaking, another also came and said, The fire of God has fallen from the heavens and burned up the sheep and the servants, and consumed them; and only I alone am escaped to tell you!

(Job 1:17) While he was still speaking, another also came and said, The Chaldeans formed three bands, rushed in upon the camels and took them away, yea, and killed the servants with the edge of the sword; and only I alone am escaped to tell you!

(Job 1:18) While he was still speaking, another also came and said, Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in the firstborn brother’s house,

(Job 1:19) and suddenly a great wind came from across the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young people, and they are dead; and only I alone am escaped to tell you!

(Job 1:20) Then Job arose, tore his robe, and shaved his head; and he fell down upon the ground and prostrated himself;

(Job 1:21) and he said: Naked I have come from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return there. Jehovah has given, and Jehovah has taken away; blessed is the name of Jehovah.

(Job 1:22) In all this Job did not sin nor charge God with folly.

(Job 2:1) Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before Jehovah, and Satan came also among them to present himself before Jehovah.

(Job 2:2) And Jehovah said to Satan, From where do you come? So Satan answered Jehovah and said, From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking about on it.

(Job 2:3) Then Jehovah said to Satan, Have you set your heart on My servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a perfect and upright man, one who fears God and turns away from evil? And still he holds fast to his integrity, although you incited Me against him, to swallow him up without cause.

(Job 2:4) So Satan answered Jehovah and said, Skin for skin! Yea, all that a man has he will give for his soul.

(Job 2:5) But stretch out Your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse You to Your face!

(Job 2:6) And Jehovah said to Satan, Behold, he is in your hand, but keep his soul alive.

(Job 2:7) So Satan went out from the presence of Jehovah, and struck Job with malignant inflammation from the sole of his foot to the top of his head.

(Job 2:8) And he took a potsherd with which to scrape himself; and he sat down in the middle of the ashes.

(Job 2:9) Then his wife said to him, Do you still hold fast to your integrity? Curse God and die!

(Job 2:10) But he said to her, You speak as one of the foolish ones speak. Shall we indeed receive good from God, and shall we not accept adversity? In all this Job did not sin with his lips.

(Job 2:11) Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, each one came from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. For they had made an appointment together to come and show sympathy for him, and to comfort him.

(Job 2:12) And when they lifted up their eyes from afar, and did not recognize him, they lifted up their voices and wept; and each one tore his robe and sprinkled dust on their heads toward the heavens.

(Job 2:13) So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his pain was very great.

(Job 3:1) After this Job opened his mouth and cursed his day.

(Job 3:2) And Job answered, and said:

(Job 3:3) Let the day perish in which I was born, and the night in which it was said, A male child has been conceived.

(Job 3:4) Let that day be darkness; let God above not inquire after it, nor the light shine upon it.

(Job 3:5) Let darkness and the shadow of death redeem it; let a cloud settle on it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

(Job 3:6) As for that night, let darkness take it away; let it not rejoice among the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.

(Job 3:7) Lo, let that night be barren! Let no joyful shout come into it!

(Job 3:8) Let those curse it who curse the day, those who are ready to stir up Leviathan.

(Job 3:9) Let the stars of its twilight be dark; let it look for light, but have none, and not see the eyelids of the dawn;

(Job 3:10) because it did not shut up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hide trouble from my eyes.

(Job 3:11) Why did I not die from the womb? Why did I not expire when I came forth from the belly?

(Job 3:12) Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breasts, that I should suck?

(Job 3:13) For now I would have lain down and been quiet, I would have slept; then I would have been at rest

(Job 3:14) with kings and counselors of the earth, who built desolate places for themselves;

(Job 3:15) or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver.

(Job 3:16) Or why was I not concealed like a miscarriage, like infants who never saw the light?

(Job 3:17) There the wicked cease from turmoil, and there the weary are at rest.

(Job 3:18) There the prisoners are at ease together; they do not hear the voice of the oppressor.

(Job 3:19) The small and great are there, and the slave is free from his master.

(Job 3:20) Why is light given to him who is in misery, and life to the bitter of soul,

(Job 3:21) who long for death, but it does not come, and search for it more than hidden treasures;

(Job 3:22) who are joyful with exultation, and are glad when they meet the grave;

(Job 3:23) or to a man whose way is concealed, whom God has covered?

(Job 3:24) For my sighing comes before my food, and my groanings pour out like waters.

(Job 3:25) For the thing I had dreaded with terror has come upon me, and what I had feared has come to me.

(Job 3:26) I am not at ease, nor am I quiet; I have no rest, for turmoil came.

(Job 4:1) Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:

(Job 4:2) If one attempts a word with you, will you become weary? But who can restrain words?

(Job 4:3) Surely you have instructed many, and you have strengthened weak hands.

(Job 4:4) Your words have upheld him who was stumbling, and you have strengthened the feeble knees.

(Job 4:5) But now it comes upon you, and you are weary; it touches you, and you are dismayed.

(Job 4:6) Is not your reverence your confidence? And the integrity of your ways your hope?

(Job 4:7) Remember now, who ever perished being innocent? Or where were the upright ever cut off?

(Job 4:8) Even as I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble reap the same.

(Job 4:9) By the breath of God they perish, and by the breath of His nostrils they are destroyed.

(Job 4:10) The roaring of the lion, the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions are broken.

(Job 4:11) The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.

(Job 4:12) Now a word was brought to me by stealth, and my ear received a whisper of it.

(Job 4:13) In the uncertainties from the visions of the night, when a man falls into deep sleep,

(Job 4:14) fear and trembling befell me, which made all my bones dread.

(Job 4:15) Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair on my flesh stood up.

(Job 4:16) It stood still, but I could not discern its appearance. A form was before my eyes in silence; then I heard a voice saying:

(Job 4:17) Is mortal man more righteous than God? Is a strong man more pure than his Maker?

(Job 4:18) Behold He puts no trust in His servants, and He charges His angels with error;

(Job 4:19) even more so those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the grass!

(Job 4:20) They are crushed from morning till evening; they perish forever, with no one regarding.

(Job 4:21) Is not their own excellence within them removed? They die, even without wisdom.

(Job 5:1) Call out now. Is there anyone who will answer you? And to which of the holy ones will you turn?

(Job 5:2) For anger kills a foolish man, and jealousy slays a simple one.

(Job 5:3) I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his dwelling place.

(Job 5:4) His sons are far from safety, they are crushed in the gate, and there is no one to rescue them.

(Job 5:5) The hungry eat up his harvest, taking it even from the thorns, and a snare snatches their wealth.

(Job 5:6) For affliction does not come forth from the dust, nor does trouble spring up out of the ground;

(Job 5:7) yet man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

(Job 5:8) But indeed, I would seek the Mighty God, and before God I would lay out my case;

(Job 5:9) who does great things, and unsearchable, marvelous things without number:

(Job 5:10) He gives rain upon the face of the earth, and sends waters abroad;

(Job 5:11) He sets the lowly on high, and those who mourn are exalted to safety;

(Job 5:12) He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot bring about their success;

(Job 5:13) He catches the wise in their own craftiness, and the counsel of the twisted is precipitated.

(Job 5:14) They meet with darkness by day, and grope at midday as in the night.

(Job 5:15) But He saves the needy from the sword, from the mouth of the mighty, and from their hand.

(Job 5:16) So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts her mouth.

(Job 5:17) Behold, blessed is the man whom God corrects; therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.

(Job 5:18) For He bruises, but He binds up; He shatters, but His hands heal.

(Job 5:19) He will deliver you in six troubles; yea, in seven no evil shall touch you:

(Job 5:20) In famine He shall redeem you from death, and in war from the power of the sword.

(Job 5:21) You shall be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, and you shall not be afraid of devastation when it comes.

(Job 5:22) You shall laugh at devastation and famine, and you shall not be afraid of the beasts of the earth.

(Job 5:23) For you shall have a covenant with the stones of the field, and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with you.

(Job 5:24) You shall know that your tent is in peace; you shall visit your dwelling and find nothing amiss.

(Job 5:25) You shall also know that your seed shall be many, and your offspring like the grass of the earth.

(Job 5:26) You shall come to the grave in full vigor, as a sheaf of grain springs up in its season.

(Job 5:27) Behold, this we have searched out; it is true. Hear and know it for yourself.

(Job 6:1) Then Job answered and said:

(Job 6:2) Oh, that my grief were fully weighed, and my calamity laid with it on the scales!

(Job 6:3) For then it would be heavier than the sand of the sea; therefore my words have been rash.

(Job 6:4) For the arrows of the Almighty are within me; my spirit drinks in their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.

(Job 6:5) Does the wild ass bray when it has grass, or does the ox low over its fodder?

(Job 6:6) Can something tasteless be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?

(Job 6:7) My soul refuses to touch them; they are as sickening food.

(Job 6:8) Oh, that I might have my request, that God would grant me the thing that I long for;

(Job 6:9) that it would please God to crush me, that He would loose His hand and cut me off!

(Job 6:10) Then I would still have comfort; though in anguish, I would leap for joy; let Him not spare; for I have not hidden the Words of the Holy One.

(Job 6:11) What strength do I have, that I should hope? And what is my end, that I should prolong my life?

(Job 6:12) Is my strength the strength of stones? Or is my flesh bronze?

(Job 6:13) Is my help not within me? And is wisdom driven from me?

(Job 6:14) To him who is despairing, kindness should be shown by his friend; but he forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

(Job 6:15) My brothers have dealt deceitfully. Like a brook, like the streams of the brooks, they pass away;

(Job 6:16) which are dark because of the ice, and into which the snow vanishes.

(Job 6:17) When it is warm, they stop flowing; when it is hot, they dry up from their place.

(Job 6:18) The paths of their journey are winding; they go into nothingness and vanish.

(Job 6:19) The wanderers of Tema have paid attention; the travelers of Sheba have looked for them.

(Job 6:20) They are disappointed because they had been confident, but when they had come there they were abashed.

(Job 6:21) Surely now you are nothing; you see terror and are afraid.

(Job 6:22) Did I ever say, Bring something to me? Or, Offer a bribe for me from your wealth?

(Job 6:23) Or, Deliver me from the hand of the adversary? Or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty?

(Job 6:24) Teach me, and I will keep silent; cause me to understand in what way I have erred.

(Job 6:25) Right words are grievous, but what does your rebuke prove?

(Job 6:26) Do you intend to rebuke the words and the speeches of one in despair, as wind?

(Job 6:27) Yea, you throw down the fatherless, and dig a pit for your friend.

(Job 6:28) Now therefore, be pleased to look at me; for my face will tell if I am lying.

(Job 6:29) Turn back, let there be no injustice! Yea, turn back; my righteousness still stands!

(Job 6:30) Is there injustice on my tongue? Cannot my taste discern calamity?

(Job 7:1) Is there not warfare for man on earth? Are not his days also like the days of a hired man?

(Job 7:2) Like a servant who pants for the shade, and like a hired man who waits eagerly for his wages,

(Job 7:3) so I have been allotted months of futility, and restless nights have been appointed to me.

(Job 7:4) When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise from the long night? For I have had my fill of tossing until the twilight of the dawn.

(Job 7:5) My flesh is clothed with worms and clods, my skin is hardened and cracked and oozes.

(Job 7:6) My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are used up without hope.

(Job 7:7) O remember that my life is a breath; my eye will never return to see good.

(Job 7:8) The eye of him who sees me shall watch me no more; while your eyes are upon me, I am not.

(Job 7:9) As the cloud vanishes and goes away, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come up.

(Job 7:10) He shall never again return to his house, nor shall his place know him anymore.

(Job 7:11) Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the distress of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

(Job 7:12) Am I a sea, or a sea serpent, that You set a guard over me?

(Job 7:13) When I say, My bed will comfort me, my couch will ease my complaint,

(Job 7:14) then You scare me with dreams and terrify me with visions,

(Job 7:15) so that my soul chooses strangling and death rather than my body.

(Job 7:16) I loathe my life; I would not live forever. Let me alone, for my days are but a breath.

(Job 7:17) What is man, that You should magnify him, that You should set Your heart upon him,

(Job 7:18) that You should visit him every morning, and try him every moment?

(Job 7:19) How long will You not look away from me, and let me alone until I swallow my spittle?

(Job 7:20) Have I sinned? What have I done to You, O Watcher of men? Why have You set me as Your target, so that I am a burden to myself?

(Job 7:21) Why then do You not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? For now I will lie down in the dust, and You shall seek me diligently, but I will no longer be.

(Job 8:1) Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:

(Job 8:2) How long will you speak these things, and the words of your mouth be like a strong wind?

(Job 8:3) Does the Mighty God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?

(Job 8:4) If your sons have sinned against Him, He has cast them away for their transgression.

(Job 8:5) If you would earnestly seek the Mighty God and make your supplication to the Almighty,

(Job 8:6) if you were pure and upright, surely now He would awake for you, and would have restored your righteous abode.

(Job 8:7) Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would increase abundantly.

(Job 8:8) For inquire now of the former generation, and prepare to search the fathers;

(Job 8:9) for we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.

(Job 8:10) Shall they not teach you and tell you, and utter words from their heart?

(Job 8:11) Can the rush grow up without a marsh? Can the reeds grow without water?

(Job 8:12) While it is yet green and not cut down, it dries up before any other plant.

(Job 8:13) So are the paths of all who forget the Mighty God; and the hope of the ungodly shall perish,

(Job 8:14) whose confidence shall be cut off, and whose trust as a spider’s house.

(Job 8:15) He leans on his house, but it does not stand. He holds it fast, but it does not endure.

(Job 8:16) He is moist before the sun, and his shoots spread out in his garden.

(Job 8:17) His roots are wrapped around a heap; he sees a house of stones.

(Job 8:18) If he is swallowed up from his place, then it will deny him, saying, I have not seen you.

(Job 8:19) Behold, this is the joy of His way, and out of the earth others shall grow.

(Job 8:20) Behold, the Mighty God will not cast away the perfect, nor will His hand support evildoers.

(Job 8:21) He will yet fill your mouth with laughter, and your lips with rejoicing.

(Job 8:22) Those who hate you shall be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked will come to nothing.

(Job 9:1) Then Job answered and said:

(Job 9:2) Truly I know it is so; but how can a man be just before the Mighty God?

(Job 9:3) If one wished to contend with Him, he could not answer Him one time out of a thousand.

(Job 9:4) He is wise in heart and mighty in strength. Who has hardened himself against Him and been at peace?

(Job 9:5) He removes the mountains, and they do not know when He overturns them in His anger;

(Job 9:6) He shakes the earth out of its place, and its pillars tremble;

(Job 9:7) He commands the sun, and it does not rise; He seals up the stars;

(Job 9:8) He alone spreads out the heavens, and treads upon the waves of the sea;

(Job 9:9) He made the Ursa Major, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the chambers of the south;

(Job 9:10) He does great things past finding out, yea, wonders without number.

(Job 9:11) If He passes by me, I do not see Him; if He moves past, I do not perceive Him.

(Job 9:12) If He takes away, who can repulse Him? Who can say to Him, What are You doing?

(Job 9:13) The Mighty God will not withdraw His anger; those who help the proud lie prostrate beneath Him.

(Job 9:14) How then can I answer Him, and choose my words before Him?

(Job 9:15) For though I had been righteous, I could not answer Him; I would beg mercy of my Judge.

(Job 9:16) If I had called and He answered me, I would not believe that He had heard the voice of my prayer.

(Job 9:17) For He crushes me with a tempest, and multiplies my wounds without cause.

(Job 9:18) He will not allow me to catch my breath, but fills me with bitterness.

(Job 9:19) If it is a matter of strength, indeed He is strong; and if of justice, who will appoint my meeting?

(Job 9:20) Though I were righteous, my own mouth would condemn me; though I were perfect, it would prove me perverse.

(Job 9:21) Though I were perfect, yet I do not know my soul; I despise my life.

(Job 9:22) It is all one; therefore I have said, He destroys the perfect and the wicked.

(Job 9:23) If the scourge slays suddenly, He mocks at the despair of the innocent.

(Job 9:24) The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of its judges. If it is not He, then who is it?

(Job 9:25) Now my days are swifter than a runner; they flee away, they see no good.

(Job 9:26) They pass by like swift ships, like an eagle swooping on its food.

(Job 9:27) If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face and wear a smile,

(Job 9:28) I am afraid of all my pain; I know that You will not hold me innocent.

(Job 9:29) If I am guilty, why then do I labor in vain?

(Job 9:30) If I wash myself with snow water, and cleanse my hands with soap,

(Job 9:31) yet You will plunge me into the pit, and my own clothes would abhor me.

(Job 9:32) For He is not a man, as I am, that I may answer Him, and that we should come together in judgment.

(Job 9:33) Nor is there any mediator between us, who may lay his hand on us both.

(Job 9:34) Let Him take His rod away from me, and do not let the dread of Him terrify me.

(Job 9:35) Then I would speak and not fear Him; but it is not so with me.

(Job 10:1) My soul loathes my life; I will leave behind my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

(Job 10:2) I will say to God, Do not condemn me; show me why You contend with me.

(Job 10:3) Has it been delightful to You that You oppress, that You despise the work of Your hands, and have shone on the counsel of the wicked?

(Job 10:4) Do You have eyes of flesh? Or do You see as man sees?

(Job 10:5) Are Your days like the days of mortal man? Are Your years like the days of a mighty man,

(Job 10:6) that You should seek out my iniquity and search out my sin,

(Job 10:7) although You know that I am not wicked, and there is no one who can rescue out of Your hand?

(Job 10:8) Your hands have made me and fashioned me together all around; yet You swallow me up.

(Job 10:9) Remember, I beseech You, that You have made me like clay. And will You bring me back and return me to dust?

(Job 10:10) Did you not pour me out like milk, and curdle me like cheese?

(Job 10:11) You clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.

(Job 10:12) You have granted me life and favor, and Your care has preserved my spirit.

(Job 10:13) And these things You have hidden in Your heart; I have known that this was with You.

(Job 10:14) If I have sinned, then You have kept watch over me, and will not acquit me of my iniquity.

(Job 10:15) If I have been wicked, woe to me! And if I am righteous, I cannot lift up my head; I am full of disgrace. Pay attention to my affliction!

(Job 10:16) If I am exalted, You hunt me like a lion, and return to show Yourself wondrously to me.

(Job 10:17) You renew Your witnesses against me, and increase Your indignation toward me; changes and war are with me.

(Job 10:18) Why then have You brought me out of the womb? Oh, that I had expired and no eye had seen me!

(Job 10:19) I would have been as though I had not been. I would have been carried from the womb to the grave.

(Job 10:20) Are not my days few? Then cease and leave me alone, that I may take a little comfort

(Job 10:21) before I go and not return; to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;

(Job 10:22) a land of darkness and gloom, as the shadow of death, without any order; where it shines as darkness.

(Job 11:1) Then Zophar the Naamathite answered and said:

(Job 11:2) Should not the multitude of words be answered? And should a man giving lip be justified?

(Job 11:3) Should your empty talk make men hold their peace? And when you mock, should no one make you ashamed?

(Job 11:4) For you have said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in Your eyes.

(Job 11:5) But oh that God would speak, and open His lips against you,

(Job 11:6) that He would show you the secrets of wisdom! For they would double your wisdom. Know therefore that God forgets some of your iniquity.

(Job 11:7) Can you search and find out God? Can you find out the limits of the Almighty?

(Job 11:8) They are higher than the heavens; what can you do? Deeper than Sheol; what can you know?

(Job 11:9) Their measure is longer than the earth and broader than the sea.

(Job 11:10) If He passes by, imprisons, and gathers together, then who can repulse Him?

(Job 11:11) For He knows the vanity of men; He sees wickedness also. Will He not then consider it?

(Job 11:12) For an empty-headed man will be wise, when a wild ass’s colt is born a man.

(Job 11:13) If you have prepared your heart, and spread out your hands toward Him;

(Job 11:14) if iniquity is in your hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in your tents.

(Job 11:15) Then surely you shall lift up your face without blemish; yea, you shall be steadfast, and not fear;

(Job 11:16) because you shall forget your misery, and remember it as waters that have passed away,

(Job 11:17) and your lifetime shall arise more than the brightness of the noonday. Though you were dark, you shall be like the morning.

(Job 11:18) And you shall be secure, because there is hope; yea, you shall dig around you, and rest in safety.

(Job 11:19) You shall also lie down, and no one shall cause you to tremble; yea, many shall entreat your favor.

(Job 11:20) But the eyes of the wicked will fail, and their place of escape shall perish; and their hope, as the expiring of the soul!

(Job 12:1) Then Job answered and said:

(Job 12:2) Truly you are the people, and wisdom will die with you!

(Job 12:3) But I have a heart as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Indeed, who does not know such things as these?

(Job 12:4) I am one as a laughingstock to his friends; one who called upon God, and He answered him; the just and whole one is a laughingstock.

(Job 12:5) A lamp is despised in the thoughts of one who is at ease; it is made ready for those whose feet slip.

(Job 12:6) The tents of plunderers prosper, and those who provoke the Mighty God are secure, as God brings into his hand.

(Job 12:7) But now ask the beasts, and they will teach you; and the birds of the heavens, and they will tell you;

(Job 12:8) or speak to the earth, and it will teach you; and the fish of the sea shall recount to you.

(Job 12:9) Who among all these does not know that the hand of Jehovah has done this,

(Job 12:10) in whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all the flesh of mankind?

(Job 12:11) Does not the ear test words and the mouth taste its food?

(Job 12:12) Wisdom is with old men, and with length of days is understanding.

(Job 12:13) With Him are wisdom and strength, He has counsel and understanding.

(Job 12:14) Behold, He breaks down, and it cannot be rebuilt; He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.

(Job 12:15) Behold, He withholds the waters, and they dry up; He sends them out, and they transform the earth.

(Job 12:16) With Him are strength and wisdom; the deceived and the deceiver are His.

(Job 12:17) He causes counselors to walk away barefoot, and makes fools of the judges.

(Job 12:18) He loosens the bonds of kings, and binds their loins with a waistband.

(Job 12:19) He causes the priests to walk away barefoot, and overthrows the mighty.

(Job 12:20) He removes the lips of the trusted ones, and takes away the discretion of the elders.

(Job 12:21) He pours contempt upon nobles, and drops the girdle off hollow bones.

(Job 12:22) He reveals deep dark mysteries, and brings out the deep darkness into the light of day.

(Job 12:23) He makes nations great, and destroys them; He spreads out nations, and guides them.

(Job 12:24) He takes away the heart of the heads of the people of the earth, and makes them wander in a wilderness with no path.

(Job 12:25) They grope in the darkness without light, and He makes them stagger like a drunkard.

(Job 13:1) Behold, my eye has seen all this, my ear has heard and understood it.

(Job 13:2) What you know, I also know; I am not inferior to you.

(Job 13:3) But I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to argue with the Mighty God.

(Job 13:4) But you smear lies; you are all worthless physicians.

(Job 13:5) O that you would be silent and stop talking, and it would be your wisdom!

(Job 13:6) Now listen to my arguments, and pay attention to the complaint of my lips.

(Job 13:7) Will you speak unjustly for the Mighty God, and talk deceitfully for Him?

(Job 13:8) Will you show partiality for Him? Will you contend for the Mighty God?

(Job 13:9) Will it be well when He searches you out? Or do you mock Him as one mocks a man?

(Job 13:10) He will surely rebuke you if you secretly show partiality.

(Job 13:11) Will not His loftiness make you afraid, and the dread of Him fall upon you?

(Job 13:12) Your remembered proverbs are worthless; your backs are backs of clay.

(Job 13:13) Keep quiet, let me be, that I may speak; then let pass over me what will!

(Job 13:14) Why do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my soul in my hands?

(Job 13:15) Though He slay me, yet will I wait for Him; but I will prove my own ways before Him.

(Job 13:16) He also is my salvation, for a hypocrite can not come before Him.

(Job 13:17) Listen and pay attention to my speech; to my declaration with your ears.

(Job 13:18) Behold now, I have prepared my case; I know that I shall be justified.

(Job 13:19) Who is he who will contend with me? For if I am silent, I will die.

(Job 13:20) Only two things do not do to me, O God, then I will not hide myself from Your face:

(Job 13:21) Remove Your hand far from me, and let not the dread of You make me afraid.

(Job 13:22) Then call, and I will answer; or let me speak, and You respond to me.

(Job 13:23) How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me know my transgression and my sin.

(Job 13:24) Why do You hide Your face, and regard me as Your enemy?

(Job 13:25) Will You terrify a leaf driven to and fro? And will You pursue dry stubble?

(Job 13:26) For You write bitter things against me, and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth.

(Job 13:27) You put my feet in the stocks, and watch all my paths. You set a limit for the soles of my feet;

(Job 13:28) worn out like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.

(Job 14:1) Man who is born of woman is of few days, and full of turmoil.

(Job 14:2) He comes forth like a flower and is cut off; he flees like a shadow and does not remain.

(Job 14:3) And do You open Your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with Yourself?

(Job 14:4) Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? No one!

(Job 14:5) Since his days are determined, the number of his months is with You; You have appointed his limits, so that he cannot pass beyond it.

(Job 14:6) Look away from him that he may rest, so like a hired man he may be satisfied with his day.

(Job 14:7) For there is hope for a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and its tender shoots will not cease.

(Job 14:8) Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stump dies in the ground,

(Job 14:9) yet at the scent of water it will bud and bring forth branches like a plant.

(Job 14:10) But a strong man dies and is laid away; indeed man expires and where is he?

(Job 14:11) As water evaporates from the sea, and a river wastes away and dries up,

(Job 14:12) so man lies down and does not rise. Until the heavens are no more, they shall not awake nor be aroused from their sleep.

(Job 14:13) O that You would hide me in Sheol, that You would conceal me until Your wrath is turned back, that You would appoint me a decree, and remember me!

(Job 14:14) If a man dies, shall he revive? All the days of my service I will wait, until my change comes.

(Job 14:15) You shall call, and I will answer You; You shall long for the work of Your hands.

(Job 14:16) For now You number my steps. Do you not watch over my sin?

(Job 14:17) My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and You cover my iniquity.

(Job 14:18) But as a mountain falls and crumbles away, and as a rock is moved out of its place;

(Job 14:19) as waters wear away stones, and as floods wash away the dust of the earth; so You destroy the hope of man.

(Job 14:20) You overpower him forever, and he passes on; You change his countenance and send him away.

(Job 14:21) His sons come to honor, and he does not recognize them; they are diminished, and he does not perceive it.

(Job 14:22) But his flesh will be in pain, and his soul will mourn.

(Job 15:1) Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:

(Job 15:2) Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?

(Job 15:3) Should he reason with speech that is not useful, or with words which do not profit?

(Job 15:4) Yea, you cast off fear, and restrain meditation before the Mighty God.

(Job 15:5) For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.

(Job 15:6) Your own mouth condemns you, and not I; yea, your own lips testify against you.

(Job 15:7) Are you the first man who was born? Or were you made before the hills?

(Job 15:8) Have you heard the counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?

(Job 15:9) What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that is not in us?

(Job 15:10) Both the grayheaded and the aged are among us, much older than your father.

(Job 15:11) Are the consolations of the Mighty God of little worth to you? Do you have secret words?

(Job 15:12) Why does your heart carry you away, and what do your eyes wink at,

(Job 15:13) that you turn your spirit against the Mighty God, and let such words go out of your mouth?

(Job 15:14) What is man, that he should be pure? And he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

(Job 15:15) If God puts no trust in His saints, and the heavens are not pure in His sight;

(Job 15:16) how much more abhorrent and corrupt is man, who drinks injustice like water!

(Job 15:17) I will tell you; hear me, and what I have seen I will declare,

(Job 15:18) what wise men have told, not hiding anything received from their fathers,

(Job 15:19) to whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them:

(Job 15:20) The wicked man writhes with pain all his days, and the number of years is stored up for the ruthless.

(Job 15:21) Dreadful sounds are in his ears; during peace, devastation comes upon him.

(Job 15:22) He does not believe that he will return from darkness, for a sword watches for him.

(Job 15:23) He wanders about for bread, saying, where is it? He knows that the day of darkness is ready at hand.

(Job 15:24) Adversity and distress terrify him; they overpower him, like a king ready for the attack.

(Job 15:25) For he stretches out his hand against the Mighty God, and acts defiantly against the Almighty,

(Job 15:26) running with stiff neck against Him with his thick, embossed shield.

(Job 15:27) He has covered his face with his fatness, and made his waist heavy with fat.

(Job 15:28) He dwells in desolate cities, in houses which no one inhabits, which are ready to become heaps.

(Job 15:29) He will not be rich, nor will his wealth endure, nor shall his possessions overspread the earth.

(Job 15:30) He shall not depart from darkness; the flame shall dry out his branches, and by the breath of His mouth he shall be removed.

(Job 15:31) Let not him who wanders about trust in vanity, for vanity shall be his recompense.

(Job 15:32) It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.

(Job 15:33) He will shake off his unripe grape like the vine, and cast off his blossom like the olive.

(Job 15:34) For the company of hypocrites shall be barren, and fire will consume the tents of bribery.

(Job 15:35) They conceive trouble and bring forth iniquity; their womb prepares deceit.

(Job 16:1) Then Job answered and said:

(Job 16:2) I have heard many such things; miserable comforters are you all!

(Job 16:3) Is there no end to windy words? What ails you that you answer thus?

(Job 16:4) I also could speak as you do, if your soul were in the place of my soul. I could heap up words against you, and shake my head at you.

(Job 16:5) But I would assure you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips would be restrained.

(Job 16:6) When I speak, my pain is not relieved; and if I remain silent, how do I proceed?

(Job 16:7) But now He has exhausted me; you have devastated my company.

(Job 16:8) You have seized me as a witness; my deception rises up against me and testifies to my face.

(Job 16:9) He tears me in His wrath, and hates me; He gnashes at me with His teeth; my adversary sharpens His eyes at me.

(Job 16:10) They have gaped at me with their mouth, and struck me reproachfully on the cheek; they gather together against me.

(Job 16:11) The Mighty God has delivered me to the perverse, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.

(Job 16:12) I was at ease, but He has shattered me; He also has taken hold on my neck, and dashed me to pieces; He has set me up for His target.

(Job 16:13) His archers surround me; He pierces my heart and does not pity; He pours out my gall on the ground.

(Job 16:14) He breaks me with break upon break; He runs at me like a mighty man.

(Job 16:15) I have sewn sackcloth over my skin, and have thrust my horn into the dust.

(Job 16:16) My face is flushed from weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;

(Job 16:17) although no violence is in my hands, and my prayer is pure.

(Job 16:18) O earth, do not cover my blood, and let my cry have no resting place!

(Job 16:19) Even now, behold, my evidence is in Heaven, and my witness is on high.

(Job 16:20) My friends scorn me; my eyes pour out tears to God.

(Job 16:21) Oh, that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleads for the son of his friend!

(Job 16:22) For when the number of years have come, I shall go the way from which I shall not return.

(Job 17:1) My spirit is broken, my days are extinguished, the grave is ready for me.

(Job 17:2) Are not mockers with me? And does not my eye dwell on their rebellion?

(Job 17:3) Now put down a pledge for me with Yourself. Who is he who will strike hands with me?

(Job 17:4) For You have hidden their heart from understanding; therefore You will not exalt them.

(Job 17:5) He who speaks flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.

(Job 17:6) But He has made me a byword of the people, and I have become one in whose face men spit.

(Job 17:7) My eye has also grown dim because of sorrow, and all my members are like shadows.

(Job 17:8) Upright men are astonished at this, and the innocent stirs himself up against the hypocrite.

(Job 17:9) Yet the righteous will take hold on his way, and he who has clean hands shall increase strength.

(Job 17:10) But please, return and come back, all of you, for I do not find one wise man among you.

(Job 17:11) My days have past, my plans have been torn apart, even the thoughts of my heart.

(Job 17:12) They set the night for day. The light is near, they say, in the face of darkness.

(Job 17:13) If I wait for the grave as my house, if I make my bed in the darkness;

(Job 17:14) if I have said to corruption, You are my father, and to the worm, You are my mother and my sister;

(Job 17:15) where then is my hope? As for my hope, who shall see it?

(Job 17:16) They shall go down to the gates of Sheol; we shall have rest together in the dust.

(Job 18:1) Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:

(Job 18:2) How long till you put an end to words? Consider, and afterward we will speak.

(Job 18:3) Why are we counted as beasts, and considered vile in your eyes?

(Job 18:4) You who tear yourself in anger, shall the earth be forsaken for you? Or shall the rock be removed from its place?

(Job 18:5) The light of the wicked shall be extinguished, and the flame of his fire shall not shine.

(Job 18:6) The light shall be dark in his tent, and his lamp beside him shall be extinguished.

(Job 18:7) The steps of his strength shall be shortened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.

(Job 18:8) For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks into a netting.

(Job 18:9) The snare takes him by the heel, and the noose takes hold of him.

(Job 18:10) A rope is hidden for him on the ground, and a trap for him in the path.

(Job 18:11) Terrors frighten him on every side, and have scattered him to his feet.

(Job 18:12) His strength is starved, and calamity is ready at his side.

(Job 18:13) It devours parts of his skin; the firstborn of death devours parts of his body.

(Job 18:14) He is drawn out of the security of his tent, and marched before the king of terrors.

(Job 18:15) What is not his dwells in his tent; brimstone is scattered on his dwelling.

(Job 18:16) His roots are dried up below, and his branch above is cut off.

(Job 18:17) The memory of him perishes from the earth, and he has no name on the face of the street.

(Job 18:18) He is driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

(Job 18:19) He has neither offspring nor posterity among his people, nor any survivors in his dwellings.

(Job 18:20) Those in the west are astonished at his day, and those in the east are seized with horror.

(Job 18:21) Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him who does not know the Mighty God.

(Job 19:1) Then Job answered and said:

(Job 19:2) How long will you torment my soul, and break me in pieces with words?

(Job 19:3) These ten times you have reproached me; you are not ashamed that you have wronged me.

(Job 19:4) And if indeed I have erred, my error remains with me.

(Job 19:5) If indeed you magnify yourselves against me, and adjudge my reproach against me,

(Job 19:6) know then that God has bowed me, and has surrounded me with His net.

(Job 19:7) Behold, I cry out concerning injustice, but I am not heard. I cry aloud, but there is no justice.

(Job 19:8) He has fenced up my way, so that I cannot pass; and He has set darkness in my paths.

(Job 19:9) He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.

(Job 19:10) He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone; my hope He has uprooted like a tree.

(Job 19:11) He has also kindled His wrath against me, and He counts me as one of His enemies.

(Job 19:12) His troops come together and build up their road against me; they encamp all around my tent.

(Job 19:13) He has removed my brothers far from me, and my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.

(Job 19:14) My relatives have left, and my close friends have forgotten me.

(Job 19:15) Those who dwell in my house, and my maidservants, count me as a stranger; I am a foreigner in their eyes.

(Job 19:16) I have called my servant, but he does not answer; I implored him with my mouth.

(Job 19:17) My breath is loathsome to my wife, and I must entreat the favor of children for the sake of my own body.

(Job 19:18) Even young children despise me; I arise, and they speak against me.

(Job 19:19) My circle of friends have abhorred me, and those whom I have loved have turned against me.

(Job 19:20) My bone clings to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

(Job 19:21) Have pity on me! Have pity on me, O you my friends! For the hand of God has struck me!

(Job 19:22) Why do you persecute me as the Mighty God does, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

(Job 19:23) Oh, that my words were now written! Oh, that they were inscribed in a book!

(Job 19:24) That they were forever engraved on a rock with an iron pen and lead!

(Job 19:25) For I know that my Redeemer is alive, and He shall stand at the latter time upon the earth;

(Job 19:26) and after my skin has been struck off from my flesh, I shall see God:

(Job 19:27) Whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not a stranger. O how my reins have been exhausted within me!

(Job 19:28) If you should say, How shall we persecute him? since the root of the matter has been found in me,

(Job 19:29) fear for yourselves because of the sword; for wrath brings the punishment of the sword; that you may know there is judgment.

(Job 20:1) Then Zophar the Naamathite answered and said:

(Job 20:2) Therefore my uncertain thoughts make me answer, because of the anxiety within me.

(Job 20:3) I have heard the admonition against my reproaches, but the spirit of my understanding causes me to answer.

(Job 20:4) Do you not know this from of old, ever since man was placed upon earth,

(Job 20:5) that the rejoicing of the wicked is near its end, and the mirth of the hypocrite is but for a moment?

(Job 20:6) Though his haughtiness mounts up to the heavens, and his head reaches to the clouds,

(Job 20:7) yet he shall perish forever like his own dung; those who see him shall say, where is he?

(Job 20:8) He shall fly away like a dream, and not be found; yea, he shall be chased away like a vision of the night.

(Job 20:9) The eye that has seen him shall see him no more, nor will his place regard him anymore.

(Job 20:10) His children shall seek the favor of the poor, and his hands shall return his wealth.

(Job 20:11) His bones are full of his youthful vigor, but it shall lie down with him in the dust.

(Job 20:12) Though evil is sweet in his mouth, and he hides it under his tongue,

(Job 20:13) though he spares it and does not forsake it, but still keeps it in his mouth,

(Job 20:14) yet his food in his stomach has churned up; it is serpent’s venom within him.

(Job 20:15) He swallows down riches and vomits them up again; the Mighty God casts them out of his belly.

(Job 20:16) He shall suck the poison of serpents; the viper’s tongue shall slay him.

(Job 20:17) He shall not see the streams, the rivers of honey and curds.

(Job 20:18) He shall give back that for which he labored, and shall not swallow it down; He shall have no enjoyment from the exchanges of his wealth.

(Job 20:19) For he has crushed and forsaken the poor, he has seized a house which he did not build.

(Job 20:20) Surely he has known no ease in his belly; he shall not save anything he desires.

(Job 20:21) No food is left for him; there is no travail after his well-being.

(Job 20:22) In the fullness of his scorn he shall be in distress; every hand of trouble shall come against him.

(Job 20:23) When he is about to fill his stomach, God will cast upon him the fury of His wrath, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating.

(Job 20:24) If he flees from the iron weapon, a bronze bow shall pierce him through.

(Job 20:25) It has been drawn, and comes out the back; yea, the glittering point comes out of his gall. Terrors come upon him;

(Job 20:26) total darkness is his hidden treasure. An unfanned fire shall devour him; and any survivors in his tent shall tremble.

(Job 20:27) The heavens shall lay bare his iniquity, and the earth shall rise up against him.

(Job 20:28) The fruit of his house shall be removed, being poured out in the day of His wrath.

(Job 20:29) This is the portion from God for a wicked man, the heritage promised to him by the Mighty God.

(Job 21:1) Then Job answered and said:

(Job 21:2) Listen carefully to my speech, and let this be your consolation.

(Job 21:3) Bear with me that I may speak, and after I have spoken, mock on.

(Job 21:4) As for me, is my complaint against man? And if it were, why should my spirit not be impatient?

(Job 21:5) Look at me and be astonished; put your hand over your mouth.

(Job 21:6) Even when I remember I am terrified, and trembling takes hold of my flesh.

(Job 21:7) Why do the wicked live and become old, yea, and become mighty in power?

(Job 21:8) Their seed is established in their presence, and their offspring before their eyes.

(Job 21:9) Their houses are at peace, without dread; neither is the rod of God upon them.

(Job 21:10) Their bull has bred without failure; their cow calves and does not miscarry.

(Job 21:11) They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.

(Job 21:12) They sing to the tambourine and harp, and rejoice to the sound of the flute.

(Job 21:13) They spend their days in prosperity, and in a moment go down to Sheol.

(Job 21:14) Yet they say to the Mighty God, Depart from us, for we do not desire the knowledge of Your ways.

(Job 21:15) Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him? And what profit do we have if we entreat Him?

(Job 21:16) Behold, their goodness is not in their hand! The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

(Job 21:17) How often is the lamp of the wicked put out! How often does their calamity come upon them, the sorrows God distributes in His anger!

(Job 21:18) They are like straw before the wind, and like chaff that a storm steals away.

(Job 21:19) God treasures up one’s iniquity for his children. He recompenses him, that he may know it.

(Job 21:20) His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

(Job 21:21) For what is his delight in his house after him, when the number of his months has been cut off?

(Job 21:22) Can anyone teach the Mighty God knowledge, since He judges those that are on high?

(Job 21:23) One dies in his full strength, being wholly secure and at ease;

(Job 21:24) his pails are full of milk, and the marrow of his bones is moist.

(Job 21:25) Another man dies in the bitterness of his soul, never having eaten with pleasure.

(Job 21:26) They lie down together in the dust, and worms cover them.

(Job 21:27) Behold, I know your thoughts, and the plots with which you would do me wrong.

(Job 21:28) For you say, Where is the house of the noble one? And where is the tent, the dwelling place of the wicked?

(Job 21:29) Have you not asked those who pass along the road? And do you not know their trademarks?

(Job 21:30) For the wicked are reserved for the day of calamity; they shall be brought out on the day of wrath.

(Job 21:31) Who declares his way to his face? And who repays him for what he has done?

(Job 21:32) Yet he shall be brought to the grave, and a vigil kept over the tomb.

(Job 21:33) The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him; everyone shall drag along after him, as countless ones before him.

(Job 21:34) How then do you comfort me with vanity, since treachery remains in your answers?

(Job 22:1) Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:

(Job 22:2) Can a man be of use to the Mighty God, as he who is wise may be profitable to himself?

(Job 22:3) Is it any pleasure to the Almighty that you are righteous? Or is it gain to Him that you make your ways perfect?

(Job 22:4) Is it because of your reverence that He corrects you, and enters into judgment with you?

(Job 22:5) Is not your wickedness great, and your iniquities without end?

(Job 22:6) For you have taken a pledge from your brother for no reason, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

(Job 22:7) You have not given the weary water to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.

(Job 22:8) But the man of strength possesses the land, and the honorable man dwells in it.

(Job 22:9) You have sent widows away empty, and crushed the arms of the fatherless.

(Job 22:10) Therefore snares are all around you, and sudden dread terrifies you;

(Job 22:11) or darkness so that you cannot see; and an abundance of water covers you.

(Job 22:12) Is not God in the height of the heavens? And see the highest stars, how lofty they are!

(Job 22:13) And you say, What does the Mighty God know? Can He judge through the deep darkness?

(Job 22:14) Thick clouds cover Him, so that He cannot see, and He walks above the circle of the heavens.

(Job 22:15) Will you keep to the old way which wicked men have trod,

(Job 22:16) who were snatched away before their time, whose foundations were poured out by the flood?

(Job 22:17) They said to the Mighty God, Depart from us! What can the Almighty do to them?

(Job 22:18) Yet He filled their houses with good things. But the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

(Job 22:19) The righteous see it and are glad, and the innocent have them in derision:

(Job 22:20) Surely, are not our adversaries cut down; and the fire consumes their remnant.

(Job 22:21) Now be useful to Him, and be at peace; thereby good shall come to you.

(Job 22:22) Receive, now, the Law from His mouth, and lay up His Words in your heart.

(Job 22:23) If you return to the Almighty, you shall be built up; you shall remove injustice far from your tents.

(Job 22:24) Then you shall lay up your gold as the dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.

(Job 22:25) Yea, the Almighty will be your gold and your esteemed silver;

(Job 22:26) for then you shall have your delight in the Almighty, and lift up your face unto God.

(Job 22:27) You shall make your supplication to Him, He will hear you, and you shall make good your vows.

(Job 22:28) You shall also decree a thing, and it shall be confirmed for you; and light shall shine on your ways.

(Job 22:29) When you have been made low, then you will say in your heart, It was pride. Then He will save the lowly of eyes.

(Job 22:30) He will deliver one who is not innocent; yea, he will deliver by the purity of your hands.

(Job 23:1) Then Job answered and said:

(Job 23:2) Even today my complaint is bitter; my hand is heavy over my groaning.

(Job 23:3) Oh, that I knew where I might find Him, that I might come to His place!

(Job 23:4) I would present my case before Him, and fill my mouth with arguments.

(Job 23:5) I would know the words which He would answer me, and understand what He would say to me.

(Job 23:6) Would He contend with me in His great power? No! But He would set me in place.

(Job 23:7) There the upright could reason with Him, and I would be delivered forever from my Judge.

(Job 23:8) Behold, I go forward, but He is not there, and backward, but I cannot perceive Him;

(Job 23:9) when He works on the left hand, I cannot see Him; when He turns to the right hand, I cannot perceive Him.

(Job 23:10) But He knows the way that I take; when He has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

(Job 23:11) My foot has held fast to His steps; I have kept His way and not turned aside.

(Job 23:12) I have not departed from the Commandment of His lips; I have treasured the Words of His mouth more than my prescribed food.

(Job 23:13) But He is One, and who can turn Him back? And whatever His soul desires, that He does.

(Job 23:14) For He completes what is prescribed for me, and many such things are with Him.

(Job 23:15) Therefore I am terrified at His presence; when I consider this, I am in dread of Him.

(Job 23:16) For the Mighty God has made my heart weak, and the Almighty has terrified me.

(Job 23:17) But I have not been cut off by the face of darkness, and He has concealed the deep darkness from my face.

(Job 24:1) Since times are not hidden from the Almighty, why do those who know Him not see His days?

(Job 24:2) Some remove landmarks; they seize flocks and feed on them;

(Job 24:3) they drive away the donkey of the fatherless; they take the widow’s ox as a pledge.

(Job 24:4) They thrust away the needy out of the road; the poor of the land have been forced into hiding together.

(Job 24:5) Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert, they go out to their work, searching for food. The wilderness yields food for them and for their young.

(Job 24:6) They gather their fodder in the field and glean in the vineyard of the wicked.

(Job 24:7) They lodge the naked without clothing, with no covering against the cold.

(Job 24:8) They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and hug the rock for want of shelter.

(Job 24:9) They seize the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge from the poor.

(Job 24:10) They cause them to go naked, without clothing; and they take away the sheaves from the hungry.

(Job 24:11) They press out oil within their walls, and tread winepresses, but are thirsty.

(Job 24:12) Men groan from the city, and the souls of the wounded cry out; yet God does not charge them with folly.

(Job 24:13) They rebel against the Light; they have not recognized its ways nor stayed in its paths.

(Job 24:14) The murderer rises at daylight; he kills the poor and needy; and in the night he is like a thief.

(Job 24:15) The eye of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me; and puts a covering over his face.

(Job 24:16) In the dark they dig through into houses which they have marked for themselves by day; they do not know the light.

(Job 24:17) For the morning is the same to them as deep darkness; they know the terrors of deep darkness.

(Job 24:18) They are swift on the face of the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth; they do not turn into the way of the vineyards.

(Job 24:19) As drought and heat consume the snow waters, so Sheol consumes those who have sinned.

(Job 24:20) The womb shall forget him, the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be remembered no more, and injustice shall be broken like a tree.

(Job 24:21) He mistreats the barren who do not bear, and does no good to the widow.

(Job 24:22) He also draws the mighty away with his strength; he rises up, but no one is sure of life.

(Job 24:23) He gives them security, and they trust in it; yet His eyes are on their ways.

(Job 24:24) They are exalted for a little while, then they are gone. They are brought low; they are all drawn together out of the way, and cut off like heads of grain.

(Job 24:25) And if it is not so, who will prove me a liar, and make my speech worth nothing?

(Job 25:1) Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:

(Job 25:2) Dominion and fear belong to Him; He makes peace in His high places.

(Job 25:3) Is there any numbering of His armies? Upon whom does His light not rise?

(Job 25:4) How then can man be just before the Mighty God? Or how can one be pure who is born of a woman?

(Job 25:5) If even the moon does not shine, and the stars are not pure in His sight;

(Job 25:6) how much less man, who is a maggot; and the son of man, who is a worm!

(Job 26:1) But Job answered and said:

(Job 26:2) How have you helped him who is without power? How have you saved the arm that has no strength?

(Job 26:3) How have you counseled one who has no wisdom, or widely declared sound wisdom?

(Job 26:4) To whom have you uttered words? And whose spirit came from you?

(Job 26:5) The spirits of the dead wait anxiously under the waters, and those inhabiting them.

(Job 26:6) Sheol is naked before Him, and Abaddon has no covering.

(Job 26:7) He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth on nothing.

(Job 26:8) He binds up the waters in His thick clouds, yet the clouds are not split open under them.

(Job 26:9) He covers the face of His throne, and spreads His cloud over it.

(Job 26:10) He has encircled a boundary for the face of the waters at the edge of light and darkness.

(Job 26:11) The pillars of heaven tremble, and are astonished at His rebuke.

(Job 26:12) He has stirred up the sea with His power, and by His understanding has shattered the arrogant.

(Job 26:13) By His Spirit He has made the heavens beautiful; His hand has brought forth the fleeing serpent.

(Job 26:14) Lo, these are the extremities of His ways; yea, what a whisper of a word has been heard of Him! But the thunder of His might who can understand?

(Job 27:1) Moreover Job continued on with his discourse, and said:

(Job 27:2) As the Mighty God lives, who has taken away my justice, and the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter,

(Job 27:3) as long as my breath is in me, and the spirit of God in my nostrils,

(Job 27:4) my lips will not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.

(Job 27:5) Far be it from me that I should say you are right. Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.

(Job 27:6) I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go; my heart does not reproach any of my days.

(Job 27:7) Let my enemy be like the wicked, and he who rises up against me like the unrighteous.

(Job 27:8) For what is the hope of the hypocrite when he is cut off, when God draws out his soul?

(Job 27:9) Will the Mighty God hear his cry when distress comes upon him?

(Job 27:10) Will he delight in the Almighty? Will he always call upon God?

(Job 27:11) I will teach you about the hand of the Mighty God; that which is with the Almighty I will not hide.

(Job 27:12) Behold, all of you have seen it. Why then are you vain like a vapor?

(Job 27:13) This is the portion of a wicked man with the Mighty God, and the heritage of the ruthless, received from the Almighty:

(Job 27:14) If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword; and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

(Job 27:15) Those who survive him shall be buried in death, and their widows shall not weep,

(Job 27:16) though he heaps up silver like dust, and provides clothing like clay;

(Job 27:17) he may provide it, but the just shall wear it, and the innocent shall divide up the silver.

(Job 27:18) He builds his house like a moth, like a booth which a watchman makes.

(Job 27:19) The rich man shall lie down, but not be gathered up; he has opened his eyes, and is not.

(Job 27:20) Terrors overtake him like waters; a tempest steals him away in the night.

(Job 27:21) The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; it whirls him out of his place.

(Job 27:22) It casts him out without pity; he hastens to flee from its hand.

(Job 27:23) Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.

(Job 28:1) Surely there is a source for silver, and a place where gold is refined.

(Job 28:2) Iron is taken out of the earth, and copper is smelted from stone.

(Job 28:3) Man puts an end to darkness, and searches every recess for stone in the gloom and deep darkness.

(Job 28:4) The torrent breaks out far from the sojourners; forgotten by the feet of men, they hang and swing to and fro.

(Job 28:5) As for the earth, from it comes bread, but underneath it is churned up like fire;

(Job 28:6) its stones are the source of sapphires, and it contains gold dust.

(Job 28:7) It is a path no bird knows, nor has the falcon’s eye caught sight of it.

(Job 28:8) The young of the majestic beasts have not trodden it, nor has the lion passed by it.

(Job 28:9) He has put his hand on the rock; He has overturned the mountains by the roots.

(Job 28:10) He cuts out streams in the rocks, and his eye sees every precious thing.

(Job 28:11) He has bound up the streams from flowing; He brings what is hidden out into the light.

(Job 28:12) But where can wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding?

(Job 28:13) Man does not know its value, nor is it found in the land of the living.

(Job 28:14) The deep says, It is not in me; and the sea says, It is not with me.

(Job 28:15) It cannot be given for gold, nor can silver be weighed for its price.

(Job 28:16) It cannot be weighed against the gold of Ophir, the precious onyx or sapphire.

(Job 28:17) Neither gold nor crystal can be compared to it, nor can it be exchanged for articles of fine gold.

(Job 28:18) No mention shall be made of coral or crystal, for the acquiring of wisdom is above precious stones.

(Job 28:19) The topaz of Ethiopia cannot be compared to it, nor can it be weighed out for pure gold.

(Job 28:20) From where then does wisdom come? And where is the place of understanding?

(Job 28:21) It is hidden from the eyes of all living, and concealed from the birds of the heavens.

(Job 28:22) Abaddon and Death say, We have heard a report of it with our ears.

(Job 28:23) God understands its way, and He knows its place.

(Job 28:24) For He looks to the ends of the earth, and sees under the whole heavens,

(Job 28:25) to appoint a weight for the wind, and mete out the waters by measure.

(Job 28:26) When He made a decree for the rain, and a path for the thunderbolt,

(Job 28:27) then He saw and declared it; He prepared it, yea, He searched it out.

(Job 28:28) And to man He said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to depart from evil is understanding.

(Job 29:1) Moreover Job continued on with his discourse, and said:

(Job 29:2) Oh, that I were as in months past, as in the days when God watched over me;

(Job 29:3) when His lamp shone upon my head, and when by His light I walked through darkness;

(Job 29:4) just as I was in my productive days, when the counsel of God was over my tent;

(Job 29:5) when the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were around me;

(Job 29:6) when my steps were bathed in butter, and the rock poured out rivers of oil for me;

(Job 29:7) when I went out to the gate through the city, when I set up my seat in the open square.

(Job 29:8) The young men saw me and hid, and the aged arose and stood up;

(Job 29:9) the rulers refrained from talking, and put their hand on their mouth;

(Job 29:10) the leaders hid their voice, and their tongue clung to the roof of their mouth.

(Job 29:11) When the ear heard, it blessed me, and when the eye saw, it bore witness to me;

(Job 29:12) because I delivered the poor who cried out, the fatherless and the one who had no one to help him.

(Job 29:13) The blessing of the dying man came upon me, and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.

(Job 29:14) I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice was like a robe and a turban.

(Job 29:15) I was eyes to the blind and feet to the lame.

(Job 29:16) I was a father to the needy, and I searched out the case that I did not know.

(Job 29:17) I broke the fangs of the perverse, and flung out the prey from his teeth.

(Job 29:18) Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and multiply my days as the sand.

(Job 29:19) My root was open to the waters, and the dew lay all night on my branch.

(Job 29:20) My glory was fresh within me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.

(Job 29:21) Men listened to me and waited, and kept silent for my counsel.

(Job 29:22) After my speech they did not change anything, and my words dropped upon them.

(Job 29:23) They waited for me as for the rain, and they opened their mouth wide as for the spring rain.

(Job 29:24) I laughed at them when they did not believe it, and did not allow the light of my countenance to fall.

(Job 29:25) I chose the way for them, and sat as chief; so I dwelt as a king among the troops, as one who comforts mourners.

(Job 30:1) But now they mock at me, men younger than I, whose fathers I have refused to put with the dogs of my flock.

(Job 30:2) Indeed, what profit is the strength of their hands to me? Their vigor has perished.

(Job 30:3) They are gaunt from want and famine, gnawing the dry ground recently made desolate and waste;

(Job 30:4) who pluck mallow by the bushes, and broom tree roots for their food.

(Job 30:5) They were driven out from the midst; they shouted at them as against a thief;

(Job 30:6) to dwell in the ravines of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and the rocks.

(Job 30:7) Among the bushes they brayed, under the nettles they huddled.

(Job 30:8) They were sons of fools, yea, sons without a name; they were scourged from the land.

(Job 30:9) And now I am their taunting song; yea, I am their byword.

(Job 30:10) They abhor me, they keep far from me; they do not refrain from spitting in my face.

(Job 30:11) Because He has loosed His bowstring and afflicted me, they have cast off restraint before me.

(Job 30:12) At my right hand the brood arises; they push away my feet, and they raise against me their ways of destruction.

(Job 30:13) They have broken up my path, they profit from my calamity; they have no helper.

(Job 30:14) They come as broad breakers; under the devastation they roll along.

(Job 30:15) Terrors are turned upon me; they pursue my honor as the wind, and my prosperity has vanished like a cloud.

(Job 30:16) And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction take hold of me.

(Job 30:17) My bones are pierced in me at night, and my gnawing pains take no rest.

(Job 30:18) By great force my garment is disfigured; it binds me about as the collar of my coat.

(Job 30:19) He has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.

(Job 30:20) I cry out to You, but You do not answer me; I stand up, and You pay no attention to me.

(Job 30:21) But You have changed to be cruel to me; with the strength of Your hand You oppose me.

(Job 30:22) You lift me up to the wind and cause me to ride on it; You dissipate me in the storm.

(Job 30:23) For I know that You will bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

(Job 30:24) Surely He would not stretch out His hand against a heap of ruins. Behold, they cry out for help when He destroys it.

(Job 30:25) Have I not wept for him who had a hard day? Has not my soul grieved for the needy?

(Job 30:26) But when I looked for good, evil came; and when I waited for light, then came darkness.

(Job 30:27) My stomach has been upset and is not still; days of affliction have confronted me.

(Job 30:28) I have walked about in the dark, not in the sun; I have stood up in the assembly and cried out for help.

(Job 30:29) I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to the daughters of the owl.

(Job 30:30) My skin has grown black on me; my bones are burned with dryness.

(Job 30:31) My harp is turned to mourning, and my flute into the voice of those who weep.

(Job 31:1) I have made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I look intently upon a virgin?

(Job 31:2) For what is the portion from God above, and the inheritance of the Almighty from on high?

(Job 31:3) Is it not destruction for the wicked, and calamity for the workers of iniquity?

(Job 31:4) Does He not see my ways, and count all my steps?

(Job 31:5) If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot has hastened to deceit,

(Job 31:6) let me be weighed on just scales, that God may know my integrity.

(Job 31:7) If my step has turned aside from the way, or my heart walked after my eyes, or if any blemish has clung to my hands,

(Job 31:8) then let me sow, and another eat; yea, let my harvest be rooted out.

(Job 31:9) If my heart has been enticed by a woman, or if I have lurked at my neighbor’s door,

(Job 31:10) then let my wife grind for another, and let others bow down over her.

(Job 31:11) For that would be wickedness; yea, it would be perversity deserving of judgment.

(Job 31:12) For that would be a fire that devours to Abaddon, and would root out all my increase.

(Job 31:13) If I despised the cause of my male or female servant when they have a dispute with me,

(Job 31:14) what then shall I do when the Mighty God rises up? When He reviews my case, what shall I answer Him?

(Job 31:15) Did not He who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same One fashion us in the womb?

(Job 31:16) If I have withheld from the poor their desire, or caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

(Job 31:17) or eaten my morsel by myself, and the fatherless has not eaten of it

(Job 31:18) (when from my youth, as a father I have raised him, and from my mother’s womb I guided her);

(Job 31:19) if I have seen anyone perish for lack of clothing, or any poor man without covering;

(Job 31:20) if his heart has not blessed me, and if he was not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

(Job 31:21) if I have waved my hand against the fatherless, when I was looking after my help in the gate;

(Job 31:22) then let my shoulder fall from my back, and let my arm be broken from the joint.

(Job 31:23) For calamity from the Mighty God is a terror to me, and because of His majesty I could not do such things.

(Job 31:24) If I have made gold my hope, or said to fine gold, you are my confidence;

(Job 31:25) if I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had acquired much;

(Job 31:26) if I have observed the sun when it shines, or the moon moving in splendor,

(Job 31:27) so that my heart has been secretly enticed, and my mouth has kissed my hand;

(Job 31:28) this also would be a perversity deserving of judgment, for I would have denied the Mighty God above.

(Job 31:29) If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or been excited when evil found him

(Job 31:30) (indeed I have not allowed my mouth to sin, to request a curse upon his soul);

(Job 31:31) if the men of my tent have not said, who is there that is not satisfied with his flesh?

(Job 31:32) (no sojourner had to pass the night in the street, for I have opened my doors to the traveler);

(Job 31:33) if I have covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom,

(Job 31:34) then let me fear the great multitude, and let the contempt of families terrify me, and I will keep silent and not go out of the door.

(Job 31:35) Oh, that I had one to hear me! Behold, my desire is that the Almighty would answer me, that the man complaining had written an indictment!

(Job 31:36) Surely I would carry it on my shoulder, and bind it on me like a crown;

(Job 31:37) I would declare to Him the number of my steps; like a prince I would approach Him.

(Job 31:38) If my land cries out against me, or its furrows weep together;

(Job 31:39) if I have eaten its produce without money, or caused its owners to expire their souls;

(Job 31:40) then let thistles come forth instead of wheat, and weeds instead of barley. The words of Job are finished.

(Job 32:1) So these three men ceased answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

(Job 32:2) Then the wrath of Elihu, the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was kindled against Job; his wrath was kindled because he was justifying his soul more than God.

(Job 32:3) Also against his three friends his wrath was kindled, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.

(Job 32:4) Now because they were years older than he, Elihu had waited for Job, to speak.

(Job 32:5) So when Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of the three men, his wrath was kindled.

(Job 32:6) And Elihu, the son of Barachel the Buzite, answered and said: I am young in years, and you are very old; therefore I have shrunk back, and out of respect for you, have not told my opinion.

(Job 32:7) I said, Age should speak, and multitude of years should declare wisdom.

(Job 32:8) But there is a spirit in man, and the breath of the Almighty gives him understanding.

(Job 32:9) Great men are not always wise, nor do the aged always discern justice.

(Job 32:10) Therefore I have said, Listen to me; I also will declare my opinion.

(Job 32:11) Behold, I waited for your speech, I listened to your reasonings, while you searched out words.

(Job 32:12) Yea, I paid attention to you, and behold, not one of you proved Job wrong, nor answered his words;

(Job 32:13) lest you should say, We have found wisdom; the Mighty God will drive him out, not man.

(Job 32:14) Now he has not directed his words against me; so I will not answer him with your words.

(Job 32:15) They have been dismayed and answer no more; they have left off speaking.

(Job 32:16) And I have waited, because they did not speak, because they have stood still and answered no more.

(Job 32:17) I also will answer my share, I too will declare my opinion.

(Job 32:18) For I am full of words; the spirit within me has compelled me.

(Job 32:19) Behold, my belly is like wine that has no vent; it is about to split open like new wineskins.

(Job 32:20) I will speak, that I may find relief; I must open my lips and answer.

(Job 32:21) I will not show partiality to anyone, nor will I flatter any man.

(Job 32:22) For I do not know how to flatter, else my Maker would soon take me away.

(Job 33:1) But please, Job, hear my speech, and listen to all my words.

(Job 33:2) Behold, now I have opened my mouth; my tongue has spoken in my mouth.

(Job 33:3) My words come from my upright heart; my lips shall utter knowledge in purity.

(Job 33:4) The Spirit of the Mighty God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

(Job 33:5) If you are able, answer me, set your words in order before me; take your stand.

(Job 33:6) Behold, I am as your spokesman before the Mighty God; I also have been formed out of clay.

(Job 33:7) Surely no fear of me will terrify you, nor shall my burden be heavy upon you.

(Job 33:8) Surely you have spoken in my ears, and I have heard the sound of your words, saying,

(Job 33:9) I am pure, without transgression; I am innocent, and there is no iniquity in me.

(Job 33:10) Yet He finds opposition in me, He counts me as His enemy;

(Job 33:11) He puts my feet in the stocks, He watches all my paths.

(Job 33:12) Behold, in this you have not been righteous. I will answer you, for God is greater than man.

(Job 33:13) Why do you contend with Him? For He does not give account to you of His business.

(Job 33:14) For the Mighty God may speak once or twice, yet no one regards it.

(Job 33:15) In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men, while slumbering on their beds,

(Job 33:16) then He opens the ears of men, and seals their instruction.

(Job 33:17) In order to turn man from his deed, and conceal pride from man,

(Job 33:18) He keeps back his soul from the Pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.

(Job 33:19) Man is also chastened with pain on his bed, and with perpetual strife in his bones,

(Job 33:20) so that his life loathes bread, and his soul desirable food.

(Job 33:21) His flesh wastes away from sight, and his bones which once were not seen are laid bare.

(Job 33:22) Yea, his soul draws near the Pit, and his life to the executioners.

(Job 33:23) If there is a messenger for him, a mediator, one among a thousand, to declare for man his uprightness,

(Job 33:24) then let Him be gracious to him and say, Deliver him from going down to the Pit; I have found a ransom.

(Job 33:25) His flesh shall be fresh like a youth’s, he shall return to the days of his vigor.

(Job 33:26) He shall pray unto God, and He will delight in him; he shall see His face with joy, for He restores to man His righteousness.

(Job 33:27) Then he observes men and says, I have sinned, and perverted what was right; and it has not been equaled to me.

(Job 33:28) He has redeemed my soul from passing over to the Pit, and my life shall see the light.

(Job 33:29) Lo, the Mighty God works all these things twice or three times with a man,

(Job 33:30) to bring back his soul from the Pit, that he may be enlightened with the Light of Life.

(Job 33:31) Pay attention, Job, listen to me; be silent, and I will speak.

(Job 33:32) If you have anything to say, answer me; speak, for I desire to justify you.

(Job 33:33) If not, listen to me; be silent, and I will teach you wisdom.

(Job 34:1) Elihu further answered and said:

(Job 34:2) Hear my words, you wise men; give ear to me, you who have knowledge.

(Job 34:3) For the ear examines words as the palate tastes food.

(Job 34:4) Let us choose justice for ourselves; let us know among ourselves what is good.

(Job 34:5) For Job has said, I am righteous, but the Mighty God has taken away my justice;

(Job 34:6) should I lie concerning my right? My wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.

(Job 34:7) What man is like Job, who drinks up derision like water,

(Job 34:8) who goes in company with the workers of iniquity, and walks with wicked men?

(Job 34:9) For he has said, It profits a man nothing when he is pleasing to God.

(Job 34:10) Therefore listen to me, you men with heart: far be it from the Mighty God to do wickedness, and from the Almighty to do injustice.

(Job 34:11) For He repays man according to his work, and causes him to attain according to his way.

(Job 34:12) Surely the Mighty God will never do wickedly, nor will the Almighty pervert justice.

(Job 34:13) Who has given Him charge over the earth? Or who appointed Him over the whole world?

(Job 34:14) If He should set His heart on it, if He should gather to Himself His Spirit and His breath,

(Job 34:15) all flesh would perish together, and man would return to dust.

(Job 34:16) If you have understanding, hear this; listen to the sound of my words:

(Job 34:17) Shall one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn a righteous mighty one?

(Job 34:18) Is it fitting to say to a king, You are worthless; and to nobles, You are wicked?

(Job 34:19) He is not partial to rulers, nor does He regard the rich more than the poor; for they are all the work of His hands.

(Job 34:20) In a moment they die, in the middle of the night; people convulse and pass away; the mighty are taken away without a hand.

(Job 34:21) For His eyes are on the ways of man, and He sees all his steps.

(Job 34:22) There is no darkness nor shadow of death where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

(Job 34:23) For He does not lay more upon man, that he should go before the Mighty God in judgment.

(Job 34:24) He breaks mighty men in pieces without inquiry, and makes others stand in their place.

(Job 34:25) Therefore he knows their works; He overthrows them in the night, and they are crushed.

(Job 34:26) He chastises them as wicked men, in a place where others can see,

(Job 34:27) because they have turned aside from following Him, and have not considered any of His ways,

(Job 34:28) so that they cause the cry of the poor to come to Him; for He hears the cry of the lowly.

(Job 34:29) When He gives quietness, who then can condemn? And when He hides His face, who then can see Him? It might be against a nation or mankind altogether,

(Job 34:30) so that the hypocrite should not reign, lest the people be ensnared.

(Job 34:31) For has anyone said to the Mighty God, I have endured; I will offend no more;

(Job 34:32) teach me what I do not see; if I have done injustice, I will do no more?

(Job 34:33) Shall He recompense on your terms, just because you have rejected it? You must choose, and not I; therefore speak what you know.

(Job 34:34) Men with heart say to me, wise men who listen to me:

(Job 34:35) Job speaks without knowledge, his words are without insight.

(Job 34:36) Oh, that Job were tried to the utmost, because his answers are like those of wicked men!

(Job 34:37) For he adds rebellion to his sin; he claps his hands among us, and multiplies his words against the Mighty God.

(Job 35:1) Moreover Elihu answered and said:

(Job 35:2) Do you think this is just? Do you say, I am more righteous than the Mighty God?

(Job 35:3) For you say, What advantage will it be to You? What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?

(Job 35:4) I will answer your words, and your friends with you.

(Job 35:5) Look to the heavens and see; and behold the clouds; they are higher than you.

(Job 35:6) If you sin, what do you do against Him? Or, if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to Him?

(Job 35:7) If you are righteous, what do you give Him? Or what does He receive from your hand?

(Job 35:8) Your wickedness is for a man such as yourself, and your righteousness a son of man.

(Job 35:9) Because of the multitude of oppressions they cry out; they cry out for help because of the arm of the mighty.

(Job 35:10) But no one says, Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,

(Job 35:11) who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?

(Job 35:12) There they cry out, but He does not answer, because of the arrogance of evil men.

(Job 35:13) Surely, the Mighty God will not listen to vanity, nor will the Almighty regard it.

(Job 35:14) Although you say you do not see Him, yet the case is before Him, and you must wait for Him.

(Job 35:15) And now, because He has not punished in His anger, nor taken notice of great folly,

(Job 35:16) therefore Job opens his mouth in vain; he multiplies words without knowledge.

(Job 36:1) Elihu also continued on and said:

(Job 36:2) Bear with me a little, and I will show you that there are yet words to speak on God’s behalf.

(Job 36:3) I will take away my knowledge from afar; I will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

(Job 36:4) For truly my words are not false; the One who is perfect in knowledge is with you.

(Job 36:5) Behold, the Mighty God is great, and refuses no one; He is mighty in strength and heart.

(Job 36:6) He does not preserve the life of the wicked, but gives justice to the lowly.

(Job 36:7) He does not withdraw His eyes from the righteous; but they are on the throne with kings, for He has seated them forever, and they are exalted.

(Job 36:8) And if they are bound in fetters, caught in cords of affliction,

(Job 36:9) then He declares to them their work and their transgressions; that they have acted proudly.

(Job 36:10) He also opens their ear to instruction, and commands that they turn back from iniquity.

(Job 36:11) If they obey and serve Him, they shall spend their days in good, and their years in pleasures.

(Job 36:12) But if they do not obey, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.

(Job 36:13) But the hypocrites in heart store up wrath; they do not cry for help when He has bound them.

(Job 36:14) Their soul dies in youth, and their life is among the male temple prostitutes.

(Job 36:15) He delivers the poor in their affliction, and opens their ears in oppression.

(Job 36:16) Indeed He would have brought you out of the mouth of distress, into a broad place where there is no constraint; and what is set on your table would be full of fatness.

(Job 36:17) But you are filled with the judgment due the wicked; judgment and justice take hold of you.

(Job 36:18) Beware wrath, lest He entice you away to a mocking slap; for a large ransom will not turn it away.

(Job 36:19) He will not esteem your cry for help, riches, strength or might.

(Job 36:20) Do not long for the night, when people retreat into their place.

(Job 36:21) Take heed and do not turn away to iniquity, for you have chosen this rather than affliction.

(Job 36:22) Behold, the Mighty God is exalted by His power; who teaches like Him?

(Job 36:23) Who has assigned Him His way, or who has said, You have done wrong?

(Job 36:24) Remember to magnify His work, of which men have sung.

(Job 36:25) Mankind has seen it; man regards it from afar.

(Job 36:26) Behold, the Mighty God is great, and we cannot find Him out; nor can the number of His years be searched out.

(Job 36:27) For He draws up drops of water, which distill as rain from the mist,

(Job 36:28) which the clouds drop down and pour abundantly upon man.

(Job 36:29) Also, can anyone understand the spreading of the clouds, the thunder from His canopy?

(Job 36:30) Behold, He has spread his light upon it, and has covered the bottom of the sea.

(Job 36:31) For by these He judges the peoples; He gives food in abundance.

(Job 36:32) He covers His hands with lightning, and gives charge to strike the mark.

(Job 36:33) His thunder declares it; the cattle also go up.

(Job 37:1) At this also my heart trembles, and leaps from its place.

(Job 37:2) Listen to hear the thunder of His voice, and the rumbling that comes out of His mouth.

(Job 37:3) He has let it loose under the whole heavens, His lightning unto the ends of the earth.

(Job 37:4) After it a voice roars; He thunders with His majestic voice, and He does not hold back when His voice is heard.

(Job 37:5) The Mighty God thunders marvelously with His voice; He does great things which we cannot comprehend.

(Job 37:6) For He says to the snow, Fall on the earth; likewise to the showers of rain and the showers of heavy rain.

(Job 37:7) He seals up the hand of every man, that all men may know His work.

(Job 37:8) The beasts go into dens, and remain in their lairs.

(Job 37:9) Out of the chamber comes the windstorm, and cold from the scattering winds.

(Job 37:10) By the breath of the Mighty God frost is given, and the expanse of the waters is frozen.

(Job 37:11) He also loads the thick clouds with moisture; He scatters His bright clouds;

(Job 37:12) and they swirl round about at His direction, that they may do whatever He commands them on the face of the world upon the earth.

(Job 37:13) He causes it to come, whether as a rod, or for His land, or for mercy.

(Job 37:14) Listen to this, O Job; stand still and consider the wondrous works of the Mighty God.

(Job 37:15) Do you know when God appoints them, and causes the lightning of His cloud to shine?

(Job 37:16) Do you know how the clouds are balanced, those wondrous works of Him who is perfect in knowledge?

(Job 37:17) How your garments are warm, when He quiets the earth with the south wind?

(Job 37:18) Have you spread out the clouds with Him, firm as a molten mirror?

(Job 37:19) Teach us what we should say to Him, for we can not set our case in order in the face of darkness.

(Job 37:20) Should He be told that I wish to speak? If a man were to speak, surely he would be swallowed up.

(Job 37:21) Even now men cannot look at the brilliance of the sunlight in the clouds, when the wind has passed and cleared them.

(Job 37:22) Golden splendor comes out of the north; with God is awesome majesty.

(Job 37:23) As for the Almighty, we cannot find Him out; He is great in power, in justice and abundant righteousness; He does not afflict.

(Job 37:24) Therefore men fear Him; He does not regard the wise of heart.

(Job 38:1) Then Jehovah answered Job out of the tempest, and said:

(Job 38:2) Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge?

(Job 38:3) Now gird up your loins like a man; I will consult with you, and you declare unto Me.

(Job 38:4) Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if you have become acquainted with understanding.

(Job 38:5) Who has fixed its measurements? Surely you know! Or who has stretched the line upon it?

(Job 38:6) To what were its foundations fastened? Or who laid its cornerstone,

(Job 38:7) when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

(Job 38:8) Or who shut in the sea with doors, when it burst forth and came forth from the womb;

(Job 38:9) when I made the clouds its garment, and thick darkness its swaddling band;

(Job 38:10) when I broke My limit for it, and set bars and doors;

(Job 38:11) and said, This far you may come, but no farther, and here your proud waves shall stay!?

(Job 38:12) Have you commanded the morning since your days began, and caused the dawn to know its place,

(Job 38:13) that it might take hold of the ends of the earth, and the wicked be shaken out of it?

(Job 38:14) It takes on form like clay under a seal, and stands out like a garment.

(Job 38:15) From the wicked their light is withheld, and the lofty arm is broken.

(Job 38:16) Have you entered the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in search of the depths?

(Job 38:17) Have the gates of death been disclosed to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?

(Job 38:18) Have you comprehended the breadth of the earth? Declare, if you know it all!

(Job 38:19) Where is the way to where light dwells? And darkness, where is its place,

(Job 38:20) that you may take it to its territory, that you may observe the paths to its house?

(Job 38:21) You know, because you were born then, and because the number of your days is great.

(Job 38:22) Have you entered the storehouses of snow, or have you seen the storehouses of hail,

(Job 38:23) which I have reserved for the time of distress, for the day of battle and war?

(Job 38:24) By what way is light diffused, or the east wind scattered over the earth?

(Job 38:25) Who has split a channel for the flood, or a path for the thunderbolt,

(Job 38:26) to cause it to rain on a land where there is no man, a wilderness devoid of mankind;

(Job 38:27) to satisfy the desolate waste, and cause to spring forth the growth of vegetation?

(Job 38:28) Has the rain a father? Or who has begotten the drops of dew?

(Job 38:29) From whose womb comes the ice? And the frost of the heavens, who has given it birth?

(Job 38:30) The waters harden like stone, and the surface of the deep is stuck together.

(Job 38:31) Can you bind the bands of the Pleiades, or loosen the cords of Orion?

(Job 38:32) Can you bring out the constellations in their seasons? Or can you guide Ursa Major with its sons?

(Job 38:33) Do you know the ordinances of the heavens? Can you appoint their authority over the earth?

(Job 38:34) Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, that an abundance of water may cover you?

(Job 38:35) Can you send out lightnings, that they may go, and say to you, Here we are!?

(Job 38:36) Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given understanding to the mind?

(Job 38:37) Who can number the clouds by wisdom? Or who can lay down the pitchers of the heavens,

(Job 38:38) when the dust is poured into castings, and the clods cling together?

(Job 38:39) Can you hunt the prey for the lion, or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,

(Job 38:40) when they crouch in their dens, or sit in their lairs to lie in wait?

(Job 38:41) Who provides food for the raven, when its young ones cry out to the Mighty God, and wander about for lack of food?

(Job 39:1) Do you know the time when the wild mountain goats bear young? Or can you keep watch for when the deer gives birth?

(Job 39:2) Can you number the months that they fulfill? Or do you know the time when they bring forth,

(Job 39:3) when they crouch, bring forth their young, and deliver their pangs?

(Job 39:4) Their young ones are healthy, they grow up with grain; when they have departed they do not return to them.

(Job 39:5) Who set the wild donkey free? Who loosed the bands of the wild ass,

(Job 39:6) whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwelling?

(Job 39:7) He scorns the tumult of the city; he does not heed the clamor of the driver.

(Job 39:8) The mountain ranges are his pasture, and he searches after every green thing.

(Job 39:9) Will the oryx consent to serve you? Will he pass the night by your feeding trough?

(Job 39:10) Can you bind the oryx in the furrow with ropes? Or will he harrow the valleys after you?

(Job 39:11) Will you trust him because his strength is great? Or will you leave your labor to him?

(Job 39:12) Will you trust him to bring back your grain, and gather it to your threshing floor?

(Job 39:13) Have you made the wings of the ostrich flap joyously, or the wings and feathers of the stork?

(Job 39:14) For she leaves her eggs on the ground, and warms them in the dust;

(Job 39:15) she does not care that a foot may crush them, or that a beast of the field may trample them.

(Job 39:16) She treats her young roughly, as if they were not hers; her labor is in vain without fear,

(Job 39:17) because God has caused her to forget wisdom, and has not imparted understanding to her.

(Job 39:18) When she lifts herself on high, she laughs at the horse and its rider.

(Job 39:19) Have you given the horse its strength? Have you clothed its neck with a mane?

(Job 39:20) Can you make him leap like a locust? His majestic snorting strikes terror.

(Job 39:21) He paws in the valley, and rejoices in his strength; he goes forth to meet the weapons.

(Job 39:22) He mocks at fear, and is not dismayed; nor does he turn back from the sword.

(Job 39:23) The quiver rattles against him, the glittering spear and javelin.

(Job 39:24) He swallows the ground with rumbling and agitation; nor does he stand still at the sound of the shofar.

(Job 39:25) Every time the shofar sounds he says, Aha! He smells the battle from afar, the thunder of captains and shouting.

(Job 39:26) Does the hawk fly by your wisdom, and spread its wings toward the south?

(Job 39:27) Does the eagle mount up at your mouth, and make its nest on high?

(Job 39:28) It settles down and dwells on the rocks, on the crag of the rock and the stronghold.

(Job 39:29) From there it searches for food; its eyes see great distances.

(Job 39:30) Its young ones suck up blood; and where the slain are, there it is.

(Job 40:1) Moreover Jehovah answered Job, and said:

(Job 40:2) Shall the one who contends with the Almighty find fault? He who reproves God, let him testify.

(Job 40:3) Then Job answered Jehovah and said:

(Job 40:4) Behold, I have been vile! What shall I answer You? I have put my hand to my mouth.

(Job 40:5) Once I have spoken, but I will not answer; yea, twice, but I will proceed no further.

(Job 40:6) Then Jehovah answered Job out of the tempest, and said:

(Job 40:7) Now gird up your loins like a man; I will question you, and you declare unto Me:

(Job 40:8) Would you indeed annul My judgment? Would you condemn Me so that you may be justified?

(Job 40:9) Have you an arm like the Mighty God? Or can you thunder with a voice like His?

(Job 40:10) Adorn yourself with majesty and grandeur, and clothe yourself with glory and honor.

(Job 40:11) Scatter abroad the outburst of your anger; look upon everyone who is proud, and humiliate him.

(Job 40:12) Look upon everyone who is proud, and humble him; tread down the wicked in their place.

(Job 40:13) Hide them in the dust together; bind their faces in darkness.

(Job 40:14) Then I will also confess to you that your own right hand can save you.

(Job 40:15) Behold now, Behemoth, which I made along with you; he eats grass like an ox.

(Job 40:16) See now, his power is in his hips, and his strength is in the muscles of his belly.

(Job 40:17) He moves his tail like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are knit together.

(Job 40:18) His bones are like channels of bronze, his ribs like bars of iron.

(Job 40:19) He is the first of the ways of the Mighty God; only He who made him can bring near His sword.

(Job 40:20) Surely the mountains yield food for him, and all the beasts of the field play there.

(Job 40:21) He lies under the lotus, in the shelter of the reeds and marsh.

(Job 40:22) The lotus trees cover him with their shade; the willows by the brook surround him.

(Job 40:23) If the river becomes violent he is not alarmed; he is confident, though the Jordan bursts forth against his mouth.

(Job 40:24) Can anyone capture him before his eyes, or pierce his nose with snares?

(Job 41:1) Can you draw out Leviathan with a hook, or snare his tongue with a cord which you let down?

(Job 41:2) Can you put a reed rope through his nose, or pierce his jaw with a hook?

(Job 41:3) Will he make many supplications to you? Will he speak gentle words to you?

(Job 41:4) Will he make a covenant with you? Will you capture him as a slave forever?

(Job 41:5) Will you play with him as with a bird, or will you bind him on a leash for your maidens?

(Job 41:6) Will your associates bargain over him? Will they divide him up among the merchants?

(Job 41:7) Can you fill his skin with barbs, or his head with fishing spears?

(Job 41:8) Lay your hand upon him; remember the battle; you will not do it again!

(Job 41:9) Behold, any hope regarding him is false; shall one not be thrown down at the mere sight of him?

(Job 41:10) No one is so fierce that he would dare stir him up. Who then is able to stand before Me?

(Job 41:11) Who has anticipated Me, that I should repay? Everything under the heavens is Mine.

(Job 41:12) I will not keep silent with lies about his mighty utterances, or his graceful proportions.

(Job 41:13) Who has laid bare the face of his apparel? Who can come upon him with a double bridle?

(Job 41:14) Who has opened the doors of his face, with his terrible teeth all around?

(Job 41:15) His rows of shields are his pride, closed up as a tight seal;

(Job 41:16) one is so near another that no air can come between them;

(Job 41:17) they are joined one to another, they stick together and cannot be separated.

(Job 41:18) His sneezings flash forth light, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the dawn.

(Job 41:19) Out of his mouth go burning torches; sparks of fire shoot out.

(Job 41:20) Smoke goes out of his nostrils, as from a boiling pot and burning rushes.

(Job 41:21) His breath kindles coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth.

(Job 41:22) Strength abides in his neck, and sorrow dances before him.

(Job 41:23) The folds of his flesh are joined together; they are firm on him and cannot be moved.

(Job 41:24) His heart is cast hard as stone, even cast hard as the lower millstone.

(Job 41:25) When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid; because of his crashings they are beside themselves.

(Job 41:26) Though the sword overtakes him, it does not stick; nor does spear, dart, or javelin.

(Job 41:27) He regards iron as straw, and bronze as rotten wood.

(Job 41:28) The arrow cannot make him flee; slingstones are turned into stubble by him.

(Job 41:29) Darts are regarded as straw; he laughs at the rattling of javelins.

(Job 41:30) His undersides are like sharp potsherds; he spreads sharp marks in the mire.

(Job 41:31) He makes the deep boil like a pot; he makes the sea like a pot of ointment.

(Job 41:32) He leaves a shining wake behind him; one would think the deep was gray-headed.

(Job 41:33) On earth there is nothing like him, which is made without fear.

(Job 41:34) He beholds every high thing; he is king over all the children of pride.

(Job 42:1) Then Job answered Jehovah and said:

(Job 42:2) I know that You can do everything, and that no purpose is withheld from You.

(Job 42:3) You asked, Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge? So I have proclaimed what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.

(Job 42:4) Grant me this request, and I will speak: I will inquire of You, and You declare to me.

(Job 42:5) I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye has seen You.

(Job 42:6) Therefore I despise myself, and have repented in dust and ashes.

(Job 42:7) And so it was, after Jehovah had spoken these words to Job, that Jehovah said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath has been kindled against you and your two friends, for you have not spoken of Me what is right, as My servant Job has.

(Job 42:8) Now therefore, take for yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, go to My servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and My servant Job will pray for you; for I accept him; lest I deal with you according to your folly; because you have not spoken of Me what is right, as My servant Job has.

(Job 42:9) So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went and did as Jehovah commanded them; for Jehovah accepted Job.

(Job 42:10) And Jehovah returned what had been taken captive from Job when he prayed for his friends. Indeed Jehovah gave Job twice as much as he had before.

(Job 42:11) Then all his brothers, all his sisters, and all those who had been his acquaintances before, came to him and ate food with him in his house; and they consoled him and comforted him for all the evil that Jehovah had brought upon him. Each one gave him a piece of money and each a ring of gold.

(Job 42:12) So Jehovah blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning; for he had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and one thousand female donkeys.

(Job 42:13) He also had seven sons and three daughters.

(Job 42:14) And he called the name of the first Jemimah, the name of the second Keziah, and the name of the third Keren-Happuch.

(Job 42:15) In all the land were found no women so beautiful as the daughters of Job; and their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers.

(Job 42:16) After this Job lived one hundred and forty years, and saw his children and grandchildren to four generations.

(Job 42:17) So Job died, old and full of days.