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JOB CHAPTER 15
- Job 15:1 And Eliphaz the Temanite answereth and saith: --
- 15:2 Doth a wise man answer [with] vain knowledge? And fill [with] an east wind his belly?
- 15:3 To reason with a word not useful? And speeches -- no profit in them?
- 15:4 Yea, thou dost make reverence void, And dost diminish meditation before God.
- 15:5 For thy mouth teacheth thine iniquity, And thou chooseth the tongue of the subtile.
- 15:6 Thy mouth declareth thee wicked, and not I, And thy lips testify against thee.
- 15:7 The first man art thou born? And before the heights wast thou formed?
- 15:8 Of the secret counsel of God dost thou hear? And withdrawest thou unto thee wisdom?
- 15:9 What hast thou known, and we know not? Understandest thou -- and it is not with us?
- Job 15:10 Both the gray-headed And the very aged [are] among us -- Greater than thy father [in] days.
- 15:11 Too few for thee are the comforts of God? And a gentle word [is] with thee,
- 15:12 What -- doth thine heart take thee away? And what -- are thine eyes high?
- 15:13 For thou turnest against God thy spirit? And hast brought out words from thy mouth:
- 15:14 What [is] man that he is pure, And that he is righteous, one born of woman?
- 15:15 Lo, in His holy ones He putteth no credence, And the heavens have not been pure in His eyes.
- 15:16 Also -- surely abominable and filthy Is man drinking as water perverseness.
- 15:17 I shew thee -- hearken to me -- And this I have seen and declare:
- 15:18 Which the wise declare -- And have not hid -- from their fathers.
- 15:19 To them alone was the land given, And a stranger passed not over into their midst:
- Job 15:20 'All days of the wicked he is paining himself, And few years have been laid up for the terrible one.
- 15:21 A fearful voice [is] in his ears, In peace doth a destroyer come to him.
- 15:22 He believeth not to return from darkness, And watched [is] he for the sword.
- 15:23 He is wandering for bread -- 'Where [is] it?' He hath known that ready at his hand Is a day of darkness.
- 15:24 Terrify him do adversity and distress, They prevail over him As a king ready for a boaster.
- 15:25 For he stretched out against God his hand, And against the Mighty he maketh himself mighty.
- 15:26 He runneth unto Him with a neck, With thick bosses of his shields.
- 15:27 For he hath covered his face with his fat, And maketh vigour over [his] confidence.
- 15:28 And he inhabiteth cities cut off, houses not dwelt in, That have been ready to become heaps.
- 15:29 He is not rich, nor doth his wealth rise, Nor doth he stretch out on earth their continuance.
- Job 15:30 He turneth not aside from darkness, His tender branch doth a flame dry up, And he turneth aside at the breath of His mouth!
- 15:31 Let him not put credence in vanity, He hath been deceived, For vanity is his recompence.
- 15:32 Not in his day is it completed, And his bending branch is not green.
- 15:33 He shaketh off as a vine his unripe fruit, And casteth off as an olive his blossom.
- 15:34 For the company of the profane [is] gloomy, And fire hath consumed tents of bribery.
- 15:35 To conceive misery, and to bear iniquity, Even their heart doth prepare deceit.
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JOB CHAPTER 16
- Job 16:1 And Job answereth and saith: --
- 16:2 I have heard many such things, Miserable comforters [are] ye all.
- 16:3 Is there an end to words of wind? Or what doth embolden thee that thou answerest?
- 16:4 I also, like you, might speak, If your soul were in my soul's stead. I might join against you with words, And nod at you with my head.
- 16:5 I might harden you with my mouth, And the moving of my lips might be sparing.
- 16:6 If I speak, my pain is not restrained, And I cease -- what goeth from me?
- 16:7 Only, now, it hath wearied me; Thou hast desolated all my company,
- 16:8 And Thou dost loathe me, For a witness it hath been, And rise up against me doth my failure, In my face it testifieth.
- 16:9 His anger hath torn, and he hateth me, He hath gnashed at me with his teeth, My adversary sharpeneth his eyes for me.
- Job 16:10 They have gaped on me with their mouth, In reproach they have smitten my cheeks, Together against me they set themselves.
- 16:11 God shutteth me up unto the perverse, And to the hands of the wicked turneth me over.
- 16:12 At ease I have been, and he breaketh me, And he hath laid hold on my neck, And he breaketh me in pieces, And he raiseth me to him for a mark.
- 16:13 Go round against me do his archers. He splitteth my reins, and spareth not, He poureth out to the earth my gall.
- 16:14 He breaketh me -- breach upon breach, He runneth upon me as a mighty one.
- 16:15 Sackcloth I have sewed on my skin, And have rolled in the dust my horn.
- 16:16 My face is foul with weeping, And on mine eyelids [is] death-shade.
- 16:17 Not for violence in my hands, And my prayer [is] pure.
- 16:18 O earth, do not thou cover my blood! And let there not be a place for my cry.
- 16:19 Also, now, lo, in the heavens [is] my witness, And my testifier in the high places.
- Job 16:20 My interpreter [is] my friend, Unto God hath mine eye dropped:
- 16:21 And he reasoneth for a man with God, And a son of man for his friend.
- 16:22 When a few years do come, Then a path I return not do I go.
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JOB CHAPTER 17
- Job 17:1 My spirit hath been destroyed, My days extinguished -- graves [are] for me.
- 17:2 If not -- mockeries [are] with me. And in their provocations mine eye lodgeth.
- 17:3 Place, I pray Thee, my pledge with Thee; Who is he that striketh hand with me?
- 17:4 For their heart Thou hast hidden From understanding, Therefore Thou dost not exalt them.
- 17:5 For a portion he sheweth friendship, And the eyes of his sons are consumed.
- 17:6 And he set me up for a proverb of the peoples, And a wonder before them I am.
- 17:7 And dim from sorrow is mine eye, And my members as a shadow all of them.
- 17:8 Astonished are the upright at this, And the innocent against the profane Stirreth himself up.
- 17:9 And the righteous layeth hold [on] his way, And the clean of hands addeth strength, And -- dumb are they all.
- Job 17:10 Return, and come in, I pray you, And I find not among you a wise man.
- 17:11 My days have passed by, My devices have been broken off, The possessions of my heart!
- 17:12 Night for day they appoint, Light [is] near because of darkness.
- 17:13 If I wait -- Sheol [is] my house, In darkness I have spread out my couch.
- 17:14 To corruption I have called: -- 'Thou [art] my father.' 'My mother' and 'my sister' -- to the worm.
- 17:15 And where [is] now my hope? Yea, my hope, who doth behold it?
- 17:16 [To] the parts of Sheol ye go down, If together on the dust we may rest.
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JOB CHAPTER 18
- Job 18:1 And Bildad the Shuhite answereth and saith: --
- 18:2 When do ye set an end to words? Consider ye, and afterwards do we speak.
- 18:3 Wherefore have we been reckoned as cattle? We have been defiled in your eyes!
- 18:4 (He is tearing himself in his anger.) For thy sake is earth forsaken? And removed is a rock from its place?
- 18:5 Also, the light of the wicked is extinguished. And there doth not shine a spark of his fire.
- 18:6 The light hath been dark in his tent, And his lamp over him is extinguished.
- 18:7 Straitened are the steps of his strength, And cast him down doth his own counsel.
- 18:8 For he is sent into a net by his own feet, And on a snare he doth walk habitually.
- 18:9 Seize on the heel doth a gin, Prevail over him do the designing.
- Job 18:10 Hidden in the earth is his cord, And his trap on the path.
- 18:11 Round about terrified him have terrors, And they have scattered him -- at his feet.
- 18:12 Hungry is his sorrow, And calamity is ready at his side.
- 18:13 It consumeth the parts of his skin, Consume his parts doth death's first-born.
- 18:14 Drawn from his tent is his confidence, And it causeth him to step to the king of terrors.
- 18:15 It dwelleth in his tent -- out of his provender, Scattered over his habitation is sulphur.
- 18:16 From beneath his roots are dried up, And from above cut off is his crop.
- 18:17 His memorial hath perished from the land, And he hath no name on the street.
- 18:18 They thrust him from light unto darkness, And from the habitable earth cast him out.
- 18:19 He hath no continuator, Nor successor among his people, And none is remaining in his dwellings.
- Job 18:20 At this day westerns have been astonished And easterns have taken fright.
- 18:21 Only these [are] tabernacles of the perverse, And this the place God hath not known.
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JOB CHAPTER 19
- Job 19:1 And Job answereth and saith: --
- 19:2 Till when do ye afflict my soul, And bruise me with words?
- 19:3 These ten times ye put me to shame, ye blush not. Ye make yourselves strange to me --
- 19:4 And also -- truly, I have erred, With me doth my error remain.
- 19:5 If, truly, over me ye magnify yourselves, And decide against me my reproach;
- 19:6 Know now, that God turned me upside down, And His net against me hath set round,
- 19:7 Lo, I cry out -- violence, and am not answered, I cry aloud, and there is no judgment.
- 19:8 My way He hedged up, and I pass not over, And on my paths darkness He placeth.
- 19:9 Mine honour from off me He hath stripped, And He turneth the crown from my head.
- Job 19:10 He breaketh me down round about, and I go, And removeth like a tree my hope.
- 19:11 And He kindleth against me His anger, And reckoneth me to Him as His adversaries.
- 19:12 Come in do His troops together, And they raise up against me their way, And encamp round about my tent.
- 19:13 My brethren from me He hath put far off, And mine acquaintances surely Have been estranged from me.
- 19:14 Ceased have my neighbours And my familiar friends have forgotten me,
- 19:15 Sojourners of my house and my maids, For a stranger reckon me: An alien I have been in their eyes.
- 19:16 To my servant I have called, And he doth not answer, With my mouth I make supplication to him.
- 19:17 My spirit is strange to my wife, And my favours to the sons of my [mother's] womb.
- 19:18 Also sucklings have despised me, I rise, and they speak against me.
- 19:19 Abominate me do all the men of my counsel, And those I have loved, Have been turned against me.
- Job 19:20 To my skin and to my flesh Cleaved hath my bone, And I deliver myself with the skin of my teeth.
- 19:21 Pity me, pity me, ye my friends, For the hand of God hath stricken against me.
- 19:22 Why do you pursue me as God? And with my flesh are not satisfied?
- 19:23 Who doth grant now, That my words may be written? Who doth grant that in a book they may be graven?
- 19:24 With a pen of iron and lead -- For ever in a rock they may be hewn.
- 19:25 That -- I have known my Redeemer, The Living and the Last, For the dust he doth rise.
- 19:26 And after my skin hath compassed this [body], Then from my flesh I see God:
- 19:27 Whom I -- I see on my side, And mine eyes have beheld, and not a stranger, Consumed have been my reins in my bosom.
- 19:28 But ye say, 'Why do we pursue after him?' And the root of the matter hath been found in me.
- 19:29 Be ye afraid because of the sword, For furious [are] the punishments of the sword, That ye may know that [there is] a judgment.
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JOB CHAPTER 20
- Job 20:1 And Zophar the Naamathite answereth and saith: --
- 20:2 Therefore my thoughts cause me to answer, And because of my sensations in me.
- 20:3 The chastisement of my shame I hear, And the spirit of mine understanding Doth cause me to answer:
- 20:4 This hast thou known from antiquity? Since the placing of man on earth?
- 20:5 That the singing of the wicked [is] short, And the joy of the profane for a moment,
- 20:6 Though his excellency go up to the heavens, And his head against a cloud he strike --
- 20:7 As his own dung for ever he doth perish, His beholders say: 'Where [is] he?'
- 20:8 As a dream he fleeth, and they find him not, And he is driven away as a vision of the night,
- 20:9 The eye hath not seen him, and addeth not. And not again doth his place behold him.
- Job 20:10 His sons do the poor oppress, And his hands give back his wealth.
- 20:11 His bones have been full of his youth, And with him on the dust it lieth down.
- 20:12 Though he doth sweeten evil in his mouth, Doth hide it under his tongue,
- 20:13 Hath pity on it, and doth not forsake it, And keep it back in the midst of his palate,
- 20:14 His food in his bowels is turned, The bitterness of asps [is] in his heart.
- 20:15 Wealth he hath swallowed, and doth vomit it. From his belly God driveth it out.
- 20:16 Gall of asps he sucketh, Slay him doth the tongue of a viper.
- 20:17 He looketh not on rivulets, Flowing of brooks of honey and butter.
- 20:18 He is giving back [what] he laboured for, And doth not consume [it]; As a bulwark [is] his exchange, and he exults not.
- 20:19 For he oppressed -- he forsook the poor, A house he hath taken violently away, And he doth not build it.
- Job 20:20 For he hath not known ease in his belly. With his desirable thing he delivereth not himself.
- 20:21 There is not a remnant to his food, Therefore his good doth not stay.
- 20:22 In the fulness of his sufficiency he is straitened. Every perverse hand doth meet him.
- 20:23 It cometh to pass, at the filling of his belly, He sendeth forth against him The fierceness of His anger, Yea, He raineth on him in his eating.
- 20:24 He fleeth from an iron weapon, Pass through him doth a bow of brass.
- 20:25 One hath drawn, And it cometh out from the body, And a glittering weapon from his gall proceedeth. On him [are] terrors.
- 20:26 All darkness is hid for his treasures, Consume him doth a fire not blown, Broken is the remnant in his tent.
- 20:27 Reveal do the heavens his iniquity, And earth is raising itself against him.
- 20:28 Remove doth the increase of his house, Poured forth in a day of His anger.
- 20:29 This [is] the portion of a wicked man from God. And an inheritance appointed him by God.
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JOB CHAPTER 21
- Job 21:1 And Job answereth and saith: --
- 21:2 Hear ye diligently my word, And this is your consolation.
- 21:3 Bear with me, and I speak, And after my speaking -- ye may deride.
- 21:4 I -- to man [is] my complaint? and if [so], wherefore May not my temper become short?
- 21:5 Turn unto me, and be astonished, And put hand to mouth.
- 21:6 Yea, if I have remembered, then I have been troubled. And my flesh hath taken fright.
- 21:7 Wherefore do the wicked live? They have become old, Yea, they have been mighty in wealth.
- 21:8 Their seed is established, Before their face with them, And their offspring before their eyes.
- 21:9 Their houses [are] peace without fear, Nor [is] a rod of God upon them.
- Job 21:10 His bullock hath eaten corn, and doth not loath. His cow bringeth forth safely, And doth not miscarry.
- 21:11 They send forth as a flock their sucklings, And their children skip,
- 21:12 They lift [themselves] up at timbrel and harp, And rejoice at the sound of an organ.
- 21:13 They wear out in good their days, And in a moment [to] Sheol go down.
- 21:14 And they say to God, 'Turn aside from us, And the knowledge of Thy ways We have not desired.
- 21:15 What [is] the Mighty One that we serve Him? And what do we profit when we meet with Him?'
- 21:16 Lo, not in their hand [is] their good, (The counsel of the wicked Hath been far from me.)
- 21:17 How oft is the lamp of the wicked extinguished, And come on them doth their calamity? Pangs He apportioneth in His anger.
- 21:18 They are as straw before wind, And as chaff a hurricane hath stolen away,
- 21:19 God layeth up for his sons his sorrow, He giveth recompense unto him -- and he knoweth.
- Job 21:20 His own eyes see his destruction, And of the wrath of the Mighty he drinketh.
- 21:21 For what [is] his delight in his house after him, And the number of his months cut off?
- 21:22 To God doth [one] teach knowledge, And He the high doth judge?
- 21:23 This [one] dieth in his perfect strength, Wholly at ease and quiet.
- 21:24 His breasts have been full of milk, And marrow his bones doth moisten.
- 21:25 And this [one] dieth with a bitter soul, And have not eaten with gladness.
- 21:26 Together -- on the dust they lie down, And the worm doth cover them over.
- 21:27 Lo, I have known your thoughts, And the devices against me ye do wrongfully.
- 21:28 For ye say, 'Where [is] the house of the noble? And where the tent -- The tabernacles of the wicked?'
- 21:29 Have ye not asked those passing by the way? And their signs do ye not know?
- Job 21:30 That to a day of calamity is the wicked spared. To a day of wrath they are brought.
- 21:31 Who doth declare to his face his way? And [for] that which he hath done, Who doth give recompence to him?
- 21:32 And he -- to the graves he is brought. And over the heap a watch is kept.
- 21:33 Sweet to him have been the clods of the valley, And after him every man he draweth, And before him there is no numbering.
- 21:34 And how do ye comfort me [with] vanity, And in your answers hath been left trespass?
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