Job

Book 18        Job

18:001:001 There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and

           that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and

           eschewed evil.

18:001:002 And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters.

18:001:003 His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three

           thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five

           hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this

           man was the greatest of all the men of the east.

18:001:004 And his sons went and feasted in their houses, every one his

           day; and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to

           drink with them.

18:001:005 And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone

           about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in

           the morning, and offered 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 did Job

           continually.

18:001:006 Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present

           themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them.

18:001:007 And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan

           answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the

           earth, and from walking up and down in it.

18:001:008 And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant

           Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and

           an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?

18:001:009 Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for

           nought?

18:001:010 Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house,

           and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed

           the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the

           land.

18:001:011 But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and

           he will curse thee to thy face.

18:001:012 And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in

           thy power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand. So

           Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD.

18:001:013 And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were

           eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house:

18:001:014 And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were

           plowing, and the asses feeding beside them:

18:001:015 And the Sabeans fell upon them, and took them away; yea, they

           have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only

           am escaped alone to tell thee.

18:001:016 While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said,

           The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the

           sheep, and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am

           escaped alone to tell thee.

18:001:017 While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said,

           The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels,

           and have carried them away, yea, and slain the servants with

           the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell

           thee.

18:001:018 While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said,

           Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in

           their eldest brother's house:

18:001:019 And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and

           smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the

           young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to

           tell thee.

18:001:020 Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and

           fell down upon the ground, and worshipped,

18:001:021 And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked

           shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken

           away; blessed be the name of the LORD.

18:001:022 In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly.

18:002:001 Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present

           themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them to

           present himself before the LORD.

18:002:002 And the LORD said unto Satan, From whence comest thou? And

           Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in

           the earth, and from walking up and down in it.

18:002:003 And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant

           Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and

           an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? and

           still he holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me

           against him, to destroy him without cause.

18:002:004 And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all

           that a man hath will he give for his life.

18:002:005 But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his

           flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.

18:002:006 And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, he is in thine hand; but

           save his life.

18:002:007 So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote

           Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.

18:002:008 And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he

           sat down among the ashes.

18:002:009 Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine

           integrity? curse God, and die.

18:002:010 But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish

           women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of

           God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job

           sin with his lips.

18:002:011 Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was

           come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz

           the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the

           Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come

           to mourn with him and to comfort him.

18:002:012 And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not,

           they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one

           his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.

18:002:013 So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven

           nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his

           grief was very great.

18:003:001 After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.

18:003:002 And Job spake, and said,

18:003:003 Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which

           it was said, There is a man child conceived.

18:003:004 Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above,

           neither let the light shine upon it.

18:003:005 Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud

           dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

18:003:006 As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be

           joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the

           number of the months.

18:003:007 Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come

           therein.

18:003:008 Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise

           up their mourning.

18:003:009 Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for

           light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the

           day:

18:003:010 Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid

           sorrow from mine eyes.

18:003:011 Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost

           when I came out of the belly?

18:003:012 Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should

           suck?

18:003:013 For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have

           slept: then had I been at rest,

18:003:014 With kings and counsellors of the earth, which build desolate

           places for themselves;

18:003:015 Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with

           silver:

18:003:016 Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants

           which never saw light.

18:003:017 There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be

           at rest.

18:003:018 There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of

           the oppressor.

18:003:019 The small and great are there; and the servant is free from

           his master.

18:003:020 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life

           unto the bitter in soul;

18:003:021 Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more

           than for hid treasures;

18:003:022 Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find

           the grave?

18:003:023 Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God

           hath hedged in?

18:003:024 For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured

           out like the waters.

18:003:025 For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that

           which I was afraid of is come unto me.

18:003:026 I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet;

           yet trouble came.

18:004:001 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,

18:004:002 If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but

           who can withhold himself from speaking?

18:004:003 Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened

           the weak hands.

18:004:004 Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast

           strengthened the feeble knees.

18:004:005 But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth

           thee, and thou art troubled.

18:004:006 Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the

           uprightness of thy ways?

18:004:007 Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or

           where were the righteous cut off?

18:004:008 Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow

           wickedness, reap the same.

18:004:009 By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his

           nostrils are they consumed.

18:004:010 The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and

           the teeth of the young lions, are broken.

18:004:011 The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's

           whelps are scattered abroad.

18:004:012 Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received

           a little thereof.

18:004:013 In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep

           falleth on men,

18:004:014 Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to

           shake.

18:004:015 Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh

           stood up:

18:004:016 It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an

           image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a

           voice, saying,

18:004:017 Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more

           pure than his maker?

18:004:018 Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he

           charged with folly:

18:004:019 How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose

           foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?

18:004:020 They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for

           ever without any regarding it.

18:004:021 Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die,

           even without wisdom.

18:005:001 Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which

           of the saints wilt thou turn?

18:005:002 For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly

           one.

18:005:003 I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his

           habitation.

18:005:004 His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the

           gate, neither is there any to deliver them.

18:005:005 Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of

           the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.

18:005:006 Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth

           trouble spring out of the ground;

18:005:007 Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

18:005:008 I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:

18:005:009 Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things

           without number:

18:005:010 Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the

           fields:

18:005:011 To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn

           may be exalted to safety.

18:005:012 He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their

           hands cannot perform their enterprise.

18:005:013 He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of

           the froward is carried headlong.

18:005:014 They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope in the

           noonday as in the night.

18:005:015 But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and

           from the hand of the mighty.

18:005:016 So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.

18:005:017 Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore

           despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:

18:005:018 For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands

           make whole.

18:005:019 He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there

           shall no evil touch thee.

18:005:020 In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the

           power of the sword.

18:005:021 Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither

           shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.

18:005:022 At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou

           be afraid of the beasts of the earth.

18:005:023 For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and

           the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.

18:005:024 And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be in peace; and

           thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin.

18:005:025 Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine

           offspring as the grass of the earth.

18:005:026 Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of

           corn cometh in in his season.

18:005:027 Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou

           it for thy good.

18:006:001 But Job answered and said,

18:006:002 Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid

           in the balances together!

18:006:003 For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea:

           therefore my words are swallowed up.

18:006:004 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison

           whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set

           themselves in array against me.

18:006:005 Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox

           over his fodder?

18:006:006 Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there

           any taste in the white of an egg?

18:006:007 The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful

           meat.

18:006:008 Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me

           the thing that I long for!

18:006:009 Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let

           loose his hand, and cut me off!

18:006:010 Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in

           sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words

           of the Holy One.

18:006:011 What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end,

           that I should prolong my life?

18:006:012 Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of

           brass?

18:006:013 Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?

18:006:014 To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his

           friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.

18:006:015 My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the

           stream of brooks they pass away;

18:006:016 Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow

           is hid:

18:006:017 What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are

           consumed out of their place.

18:006:018 The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing,

           and perish.

18:006:019 The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for

           them.

18:006:020 They were confounded because they had hoped; they came

           thither, and were ashamed.

18:006:021 For now ye are nothing; ye see my casting down, and are

           afraid.

18:006:022 Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of your

           substance?

18:006:023 Or, Deliver me from the enemy's hand? or, Redeem me from the

           hand of the mighty?

18:006:024 Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to

           understand wherein I have erred.

18:006:025 How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing

           reprove?

18:006:026 Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that

           is desperate, which are as wind?

18:006:027 Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your

           friend.

18:006:028 Now therefore be content, look upon me; for it is evident unto

           you if I lie.

18:006:029 Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again,

           my righteousness is in it.

18:006:030 Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern

           perverse things?

18:007:001 Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his

           days also like the days of an hireling?

18:007:002 As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling

           looketh for the reward of his work:

18:007:003 So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights

           are appointed to me.

18:007:004 When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be

           gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of

           the day.

18:007:005 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is

           broken, and become loathsome.

18:007:006 My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent

           without hope.

18:007:007 O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see

           good.

18:007:008 The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine

           eyes are upon me, and I am not.

18:007:009 As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth

           down to the grave shall come up no more.

18:007:010 He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place

           know him any more.

18:007:011 Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the

           anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my

           soul.

18:007:012 Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?

18:007:013 When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my

           complaints;

18:007:014 Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through

           visions:

18:007:015 So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my

           life.

18:007:016 I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days

           are vanity.

18:007:017 What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou

           shouldest set thine heart upon him?

18:007:018 And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him

           every moment?

18:007:019 How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I

           swallow down my spittle?

18:007:020 I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of

           men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am

           a burden to myself?

18:007:021 And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away

           my iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt

           seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.

18:008:001 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

18:008:002 How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the

           words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?

18:008:003 Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert

           justice?

18:008:004 If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them

           away for their transgression;

18:008:005 If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy

           supplication to the Almighty;

18:008:006 If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for

           thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.

18:008:007 Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should

           greatly increase.

18:008:008 For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare

           thyself to the search of their fathers:

18:008:009 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our

           days upon earth are a shadow:)

18:008:010 Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out

           of their heart?

18:008:011 Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without

           water?

18:008:012 Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it

           withereth before any other herb.

18:008:013 So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's

           hope shall perish:

18:008:014 Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a

           spider's web.

18:008:015 He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall

           hold it fast, but it shall not endure.

18:008:016 He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in

           his garden.

18:008:017 His roots are wrapped about the heap, and seeth the place of

           stones.

18:008:018 If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him,

           saying, I have not seen thee.

18:008:019 Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall

           others grow.

18:008:020 Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he

           help the evil doers:

18:008:021 Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with

           rejoicing.

18:008:022 They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the

           dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.

18:009:001 Then Job answered and said,

18:009:002 I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with

           God?

18:009:003 If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a

           thousand.

18:009:004 He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened

           himself against him, and hath prospered?

18:009:005 Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which

           overturneth them in his anger.

18:009:006 Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars

           thereof tremble.

18:009:007 Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up

           the stars.

18:009:008 Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the

           waves of the sea.

18:009:009 Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers

           of the south.

18:009:010 Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders

           without number.

18:009:011 Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not: he passeth on also, but

           I perceive him not.

18:009:012 Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto

           him, What doest thou?

18:009:013 If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop

           under him.

18:009:014 How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to

           reason with him?

18:009:015 Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I

           would make supplication to my judge.

18:009:016 If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not

           believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.

18:009:017 For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds

           without cause.

18:009:018 He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with

           bitterness.

18:009:019 If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment,

           who shall set me a time to plead?

18:009:020 If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I

           say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.

18:009:021 Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would

           despise my life.

18:009:022 This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the

           perfect and the wicked.

18:009:023 If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of

           the innocent.

18:009:024 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth

           the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he?

18:009:025 Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see

           no good.

18:009:026 They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that

           hasteth to the prey.

18:009:027 If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my

           heaviness, and comfort myself:

18:009:028 I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold

           me innocent.

18:009:029 If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?

18:009:030 If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so

           clean;

18:009:031 Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes

           shall abhor me.

18:009:032 For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we

           should come together in judgment.

18:009:033 Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his

           hand upon us both.

18:009:034 Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear

           terrify me:

18:009:035 Then would I speak, and not fear him; but it is not so with

           me.

18:010:001 My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon

           myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

18:010:002 I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou

           contendest with me.

18:010:003 Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou

           shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the

           counsel of the wicked?

18:010:004 Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth?

18:010:005 Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man's days,

18:010:006 That thou enquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after

           my sin?

18:010:007 Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can

           deliver out of thine hand.

18:010:008 Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round

           about; yet thou dost destroy me.

18:010:009 Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay;

           and wilt thou bring me into dust again?

18:010:010 Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like

           cheese?

18:010:011 Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me

           with bones and sinews.

18:010:012 Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath

           preserved my spirit.

18:010:013 And these things hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that

           this is with thee.

18:010:014 If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me

           from mine iniquity.

18:010:015 If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I

           not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see

           thou mine affliction;

18:010:016 For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again

           thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.

18:010:017 Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine

           indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.

18:010:018 Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh

           that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!

18:010:019 I should have been as though I had not been; I should have

           been carried from the womb to the grave.

18:010:020 Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may

           take comfort a little,

18:010:021 Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of

           darkness and the shadow of death;

18:010:022 A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of

           death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.

18:011:001 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,

18:011:002 Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a

           man full of talk be justified?

18:011:003 Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou

           mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?

18:011:004 For thou hast said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in

           thine eyes.

18:011:005 But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against thee;

18:011:006 And that he would shew thee the secrets of wisdom, that they

           are double to that which is! Know therefore that God exacteth

           of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth.

18:011:007 Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the

           Almighty unto perfection?

18:011:008 It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell;

           what canst thou know?

18:011:009 The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than

           the sea.

18:011:010 If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can

           hinder him?

18:011:011 For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also; will he not

           then consider it?

18:011:012 For vain men would be wise, though man be born like a wild

           ass's colt.

18:011:013 If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands

           toward him;

18:011:014 If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not

           wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.

18:011:015 For then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; yea, thou

           shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear:

18:011:016 Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as

           waters that pass away:

18:011:017 And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday: thou shalt

           shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning.

18:011:018 And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope; yea, thou

           shalt dig about thee, and thou shalt take thy rest in safety.

18:011:019 Also thou shalt lie down, and none shall make thee afraid;

           yea, many shall make suit unto thee.

18:011:020 But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not

           escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost.

18:012:001 And Job answered and said,

18:012:002 No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.

18:012:003 But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to

           you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these?

18:012:004 I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and

           he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn.

18:012:005 He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised

           in the thought of him that is at ease.

18:012:006 The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God

           are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.

18:012:007 But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the

           fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee:

18:012:008 Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes

           of the sea shall declare unto thee.

18:012:009 Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the LORD hath

           wrought this?

18:012:010 In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the

           breath of all mankind.

18:012:011 Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat?

18:012:012 With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days

           understanding.

18:012:013 With him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and

           understanding.

18:012:014 Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he

           shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.

18:012:015 Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he

           sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.

18:012:016 With him is strength and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver

           are his.

18:012:017 He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and maketh the judges

           fools.

18:012:018 He looseth the bond of kings, and girdeth their loins with a

           girdle.

18:012:019 He leadeth princes away spoiled, and overthroweth the mighty.

18:012:020 He removeth away the speech of the trusty, and taketh away the

           understanding of the aged.

18:012:021 He poureth contempt upon princes, and weakeneth the strength

           of the mighty.

18:012:022 He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out

           to light the shadow of death.

18:012:023 He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he enlargeth

           the nations, and straiteneth them again.

18:012:024 He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the

           earth, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there

           is no way.

18:012:025 They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to

           stagger like a drunken man.

18:013:001 Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and

           understood it.

18:013:002 What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto

           you.

18:013:003 Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason

           with God.

18:013:004 But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.

18:013:005 O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be

           your wisdom.

18:013:006 Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my

           lips.

18:013:007 Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?

18:013:008 Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?

18:013:009 Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man

           mocketh another, do ye so mock him?

18:013:010 He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.

18:013:011 Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall

           upon you?

18:013:012 Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies

           of clay.

18:013:013 Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come

           on me what will.

18:013:014 Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in

           mine hand?

18:013:015 Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will

           maintain mine own ways before him.

18:013:016 He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come

           before him.

18:013:017 Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.

18:013:018 Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be

           justified.

18:013:019 Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my

           tongue, I shall give up the ghost.

18:013:020 Only do not two things unto me: then will I not hide myself

           from thee.

18:013:021 Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me

           afraid.

18:013:022 Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer

           thou me.

18:013:023 How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my

           transgression and my sin.

18:013:024 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine

           enemy?

18:013:025 Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue

           the dry stubble?

18:013:026 For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to

           possess the iniquities of my youth.

18:013:027 Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly

           unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my

           feet.

18:013:028 And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is

           moth eaten.

18:014:001 Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of

           trouble.

18:014:002 He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also

           as a shadow, and continueth not.

18:014:003 And doth thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest

           me into judgment with thee?

18:014:004 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.

18:014:005 Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are

           with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;

18:014:006 Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as

           an hireling, his day.

18:014:007 For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will

           sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not

           cease.

18:014:008 Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock

           thereof die in the ground;

18:014:009 Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth

           boughs like a plant.

18:014:010 But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost,

           and where is he?

18:014:011 As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and

           drieth up:

18:014:012 So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no

           more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.

18:014:013 O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest

           keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest

           appoint me a set time, and remember me!

18:014:014 If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my

           appointed time will I wait, till my change come.

18:014:015 Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a

           desire to the work of thine hands.

18:014:016 For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my

           sin?

18:014:017 My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up

           mine iniquity.

18:014:018 And surely the mountains falling cometh to nought, and the

           rock is removed out of his place.

18:014:019 The waters wear the stones: thou washest away the things which

           grow out of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the

           hope of man.

18:014:020 Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou

           changest his countenance, and sendest him away.

18:014:021 His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are

           brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.

18:014:022 But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within

           him shall mourn.

18:015:001 Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,

18:015:002 Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly

           with the east wind?

18:015:003 Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches

           wherewith he can do no good?

18:015:004 Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.

18:015:005 For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the

           tongue of the crafty.

18:015:006 Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own

           lips testify against thee.

18:015:007 Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before

           the hills?

18:015:008 Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain

           wisdom to thyself?

18:015:009 What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou,

           which is not in us?

18:015:010 With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder

           than thy father.

18:015:011 Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any

           secret thing with thee?

18:015:012 Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes

           wink at,

18:015:013 That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such

           words go out of thy mouth?

18:015:014 What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of

           a woman, that he should be righteous?

18:015:015 Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens

           are not clean in his sight.

18:015:016 How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh

           iniquity like water?

18:015:017 I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will

           declare;

18:015:018 Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid

           it:

18:015:019 Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed

           among them.

18:015:020 The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the

           number of years is hidden to the oppressor.

18:015:021 A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer

           shall come upon him.

18:015:022 He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he

           is waited for of the sword.

18:015:023 He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth

           that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

18:015:024 Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail

           against him, as a king ready to the battle.

18:015:025 For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth

           himself against the Almighty.

18:015:026 He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses

           of his bucklers:

18:015:027 Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh

           collops of fat on his flanks.

18:015:028 And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man

           inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.

18:015:029 He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue,

           neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the

           earth.

18:015:030 He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up

           his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.

18:015:031 Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall

           be his recompence.

18:015:032 It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall

           not be green.

18:015:033 He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall

           cast off his flower as the olive.

18:015:034 For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire

           shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.

18:015:035 They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their

           belly prepareth deceit.

18:016:001 Then Job answered and said,

18:016:002 I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye

           all.

18:016:003 Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that

           thou answerest?

18:016:004 I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's

           stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head

           at you.

18:016:005 But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my

           lips should asswage your grief.

18:016:006 Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I

           forbear, what am I eased?

18:016:007 But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my

           company.

18:016:008 And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness

           against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to

           my face.

18:016:009 He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me

           with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.

18:016:010 They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me

           upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves

           together against me.

18:016:011 God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into

           the hands of the wicked.

18:016:012 I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also

           taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up

           for his mark.

18:016:013 His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins

           asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the

           ground.

18:016:014 He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me

           like a giant.

18:016:015 I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in

           the dust.

18:016:016 My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow

           of death;

18:016:017 Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.

18:016:018 O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no

           place.

18:016:019 Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on

           high.

18:016:020 My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.

18:016:021 O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth

           for his neighbour!

18:016:022 When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I

           shall not return.

18:017:001 My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are

           ready for me.

18:017:002 Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue

           in their provocation?

18:017:003 Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that

           will strike hands with me?

18:017:004 For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore

           shalt thou not exalt them.

18:017:005 He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his

           children shall fail.

18:017:006 He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I

           was as a tabret.

18:017:007 Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members

           are as a shadow.

18:017:008 Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall

           stir up himself against the hypocrite.

18:017:009 The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath

           clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.

18:017:010 But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot

           find one wise man among you.

18:017:011 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the

           thoughts of my heart.

18:017:012 They change the night into day: the light is short because of

           darkness.

18:017:013 If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the

           darkness.

18:017:014 I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm,

           Thou art my mother, and my sister.

18:017:015 And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?

18:017:016 They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest

           together is in the dust.

18:018:001 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

18:018:002 How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and

           afterwards we will speak.

18:018:003 Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your

           sight?

18:018:004 He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken

           for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?

18:018:005 Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark

           of his fire shall not shine.

18:018:006 The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle

           shall be put out with him.

18:018:007 The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own

           counsel shall cast him down.

18:018:008 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon

           a snare.

18:018:009 The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall

           prevail against him.

18:018:010 The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in

           the way.

18:018:011 Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive

           him to his feet.

18:018:012 His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be

           ready at his side.

18:018:013 It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn

           of death shall devour his strength.

18:018:014 His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it

           shall bring him to the king of terrors.

18:018:015 It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his:

           brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.

18:018:016 His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his

           branch be cut off.

18:018:017 His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have

           no name in the street.

18:018:018 He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of

           the world.

18:018:019 He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any

           remaining in his dwellings.

18:018:020 They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they

           that went before were affrighted.

18:018:021 Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the

           place of him that knoweth not God.

18:019:001 Then Job answered and said,

18:019:002 How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with

           words?

18:019:003 These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that

           ye make yourselves strange to me.

18:019:004 And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with

           myself.

18:019:005 If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead

           against me my reproach:

18:019:006 Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me

           with his net.

18:019:007 Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud,

           but there is no judgment.

18:019:008 He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set

           darkness in my paths.

18:019:009 He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my

           head.

18:019:010 He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine

           hope hath he removed like a tree.

18:019:011 He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me

           unto him as one of his enemies.

18:019:012 His troops come together, and raise up their way against me,

           and encamp round about my tabernacle.

18:019:013 He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are

           verily estranged from me.

18:019:014 My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have

           forgotten me.

18:019:015 They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a

           stranger: I am an alien in their sight.

18:019:016 I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him

           with my mouth.

18:019:017 My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the

           children's sake of mine own body.

18:019:018 Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake

           against me.

18:019:019 All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are

           turned against me.

18:019:020 My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped

           with the skin of my teeth.

18:019:021 Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the

           hand of God hath touched me.

18:019:022 Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my

           flesh?

18:019:023 Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed

           in a book!

18:019:024 That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock

           for ever!

18:019:025 For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at

           the latter day upon the earth:

18:019:026 And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my

           flesh shall I see God:

18:019:027 Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and

           not another; though my reins be consumed within me.

18:019:028 But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of

           the matter is found in me?

18:019:029 Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments

           of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.

18:020:001 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,

18:020:002 Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I

           make haste.

18:020:003 I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my

           understanding causeth me to answer.

18:020:004 Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,

18:020:005 That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the

           hypocrite but for a moment?

18:020:006 Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head

           reach unto the clouds;

18:020:007 Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which

           have seen him shall say, Where is he?

18:020:008 He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he

           shall be chased away as a vision of the night.

18:020:009 The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither

           shall his place any more behold him.

18:020:010 His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands

           shall restore their goods.

18:020:011 His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie

           down with him in the dust.

18:020:012 Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it

           under his tongue;

18:020:013 Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still

           within his mouth:

18:020:014 Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps

           within him.

18:020:015 He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up

           again: God shall cast them out of his belly.

18:020:016 He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall

           slay him.

18:020:017 He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey

           and butter.

18:020:018 That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not

           swallow it down: according to his substance shall the

           restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein.

18:020:019 Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because

           he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;

18:020:020 Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not

           save of that which he desired.

18:020:021 There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man

           look for his goods.

18:020:022 In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits:

           every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.

18:020:023 When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of

           his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is

           eating.

18:020:024 He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall

           strike him through.

18:020:025 It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering

           sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him.

18:020:026 All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not

           blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left

           in his tabernacle.

18:020:027 The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise

           up against him.

18:020:028 The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall

           flow away in the day of his wrath.

18:020:029 This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage

           appointed unto him by God.

18:021:001 But Job answered and said,

18:021:002 Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.

18:021:003 Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock

           on.

18:021:004 As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why

           should not my spirit be troubled?

18:021:005 Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.

18:021:006 Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on

           my flesh.

18:021:007 Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in

           power?

18:021:008 Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their

           offspring before their eyes.

18:021:009 Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God

           upon them.

18:021:010 Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and

           casteth not her calf.

18:021:011 They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their

           children dance.

18:021:012 They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of

           the organ.

18:021:013 They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to

           the grave.

18:021:014 Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not

           the knowledge of thy ways.

18:021:015 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what

           profit should we have, if we pray unto him?

18:021:016 Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked

           is far from me.

18:021:017 How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft

           cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows

           in his anger.

18:021:018 They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the

           storm carrieth away.

18:021:019 God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him,

           and he shall know it.

18:021:020 His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the

           wrath of the Almighty.

18:021:021 For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the

           number of his months is cut off in the midst?

18:021:022 Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that

           are high.

18:021:023 One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and

           quiet.

18:021:024 His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with

           marrow.

18:021:025 And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never

           eateth with pleasure.

18:021:026 They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall

           cover them.

18:021:027 Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye

           wrongfully imagine against me.

18:021:028 For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are

           the dwelling places of the wicked?

18:021:029 Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know

           their tokens,

18:021:030 That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they

           shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.

18:021:031 Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him

           what he hath done?

18:021:032 Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the

           tomb.

18:021:033 The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man

           shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.

18:021:034 How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there

           remaineth falsehood?

18:022:001 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,

18:022:002 Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be

           profitable unto himself?

18:022:003 Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous?

           or is it gain to him, that thou makest thy ways perfect?

18:022:004 Will he reprove thee for fear of thee? will he enter with thee

           into judgment?

18:022:005 Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite?

18:022:006 For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and

           stripped the naked of their clothing.

18:022:007 Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast

           withholden bread from the hungry.

18:022:008 But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the

           honourable man dwelt in it.

18:022:009 Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the

           fatherless have been broken.

18:022:010 Therefore snares are round about thee, and sudden fear

           troubleth thee;

18:022:011 Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters

           cover thee.

18:022:012 Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of

           the stars, how high they are!

18:022:013 And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the

           dark cloud?

18:022:014 Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he

           walketh in the circuit of heaven.

18:022:015 Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?

18:022:016 Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was

           overflown with a flood:

18:022:017 Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty

           do for them?

18:022:018 Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel

           of the wicked is far from me.

18:022:019 The righteous see it, and are glad: and the innocent laugh

           them to scorn.

18:022:020 Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them

           the fire consumeth.

18:022:021 Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good

           shall come unto thee.

18:022:022 Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his

           words in thine heart.

18:022:023 If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou

           shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.

18:022:024 Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as

           the stones of the brooks.

18:022:025 Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou shalt have

           plenty of silver.

18:022:026 For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and

           shalt lift up thy face unto God.

18:022:027 Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee,

           and thou shalt pay thy vows.

18:022:028 Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established

           unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.

18:022:029 When men are cast down, then thou shalt say, There is lifting

           up; and he shall save the humble person.

18:022:030 He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is

           delivered by the pureness of thine hands.

18:023:001 Then Job answered and said,

18:023:002 Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than

           my groaning.

18:023:003 Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even

           to his seat!

18:023:004 I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with

           arguments.

18:023:005 I would know the words which he would answer me, and

           understand what he would say unto me.

18:023:006 Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he

           would put strength in me.

18:023:007 There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be

           delivered for ever from my judge.

18:023:008 Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I

           cannot perceive him:

18:023:009 On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him:

           he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him:

18:023:010 But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I

           shall come forth as gold.

18:023:011 My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not

           declined.

18:023:012 Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I

           have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary

           food.

18:023:013 But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul

           desireth, even that he doeth.

18:023:014 For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many

           such things are with him.

18:023:015 Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am

           afraid of him.

18:023:016 For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:

18:023:017 Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he

           covered the darkness from my face.

18:024:001 Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they

           that know him not see his days?

18:024:002 Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks,

           and feed thereof.

18:024:003 They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the

           widow's ox for a pledge.

18:024:004 They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide

           themselves together.

18:024:005 Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their

           work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food

           for them and for their children.

18:024:006 They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the

           vintage of the wicked.

18:024:007 They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have

           no covering in the cold.

18:024:008 They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace

           the rock for want of a shelter.

18:024:009 They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge

           of the poor.

18:024:010 They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take

           away the sheaf from the hungry;

18:024:011 Which make oil within their walls, and tread their

           winepresses, and suffer thirst.

18:024:012 Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded

           crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.

18:024:013 They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not

           the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.

18:024:014 The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy,

           and in the night is as a thief.

18:024:015 The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight,

           saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.

18:024:016 In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for

           themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.

18:024:017 For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one

           know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.

18:024:018 He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the

           earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.

18:024:019 Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave

           those which have sinned.

18:024:020 The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him;

           he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken

           as a tree.

18:024:021 He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not

           good to the widow.

18:024:022 He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and

           no man is sure of life.

18:024:023 Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth;

           yet his eyes are upon their ways.

18:024:024 They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought

           low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off

           as the tops of the ears of corn.

18:024:025 And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my

           speech nothing worth?

18:025:001 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

18:025:002 Dominion and fear are with him, he maketh peace in his high

           places.

18:025:003 Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth not his

           light arise?

18:025:004 How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean

           that is born of a woman?

18:025:005 Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars

           are not pure in his sight.

18:025:006 How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which

           is a worm?

18:026:001 But Job answered and said,

18:026:002 How hast thou helped him that is without power? how savest

           thou the arm that hath no strength?

18:026:003 How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom? and how hast

           thou plentifully declared the thing as it is?

18:026:004 To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from

           thee?

18:026:005 Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the

           inhabitants thereof.

18:026:006 Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.

18:026:007 He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth

           the earth upon nothing.

18:026:008 He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is

           not rent under them.

18:026:009 He holdeth back the face of his throne, and spreadeth his

           cloud upon it.

18:026:010 He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and

           night come to an end.

18:026:011 The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his

           reproof.

18:026:012 He divideth the sea with his power, and by his understanding

           he smiteth through the proud.

18:026:013 By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath

           formed the crooked serpent.

18:026:014 Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is

           heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?

18:027:001 Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,

18:027:002 As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment; and the

           Almighty, who hath vexed my soul;

18:027:003 All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in

           my nostrils;

18:027:004 My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter

           deceit.

18:027:005 God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not

           remove mine integrity from me.

18:027:006 My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart

           shall not reproach me so long as I live.

18:027:007 Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against

           me as the unrighteous.

18:027:008 For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained,

           when God taketh away his soul?

18:027:009 Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him?

18:027:010 Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call

           upon God?

18:027:011 I will teach you by the hand of God: that which is with the

           Almighty will I not conceal.

18:027:012 Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye thus

           altogether vain?

18:027:013 This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage

           of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty.

18:027:014 If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his

           offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

18:027:015 Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his

           widows shall not weep.

18:027:016 Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as

           the clay;

18:027:017 He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the

           innocent shall divide the silver.

18:027:018 He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth that the

           keeper maketh.

18:027:019 The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he

           openeth his eyes, and he is not.

18:027:020 Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him

           away in the night.

18:027:021 The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a

           storm hurleth him out of his place.

18:027:022 For God shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee

           out of his hand.

18:027:023 Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of

           his place.

18:028:001 Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold

           where they fine it.

18:028:002 Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the

           stone.

18:028:003 He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all

           perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.

18:028:004 The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; even the waters

           forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away

           from men.

18:028:005 As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is

           turned up as it were fire.

18:028:006 The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust

           of gold.

18:028:007 There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's

           eye hath not seen:

18:028:008 The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion

           passed by it.

18:028:009 He putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he overturneth the

           mountains by the roots.

18:028:010 He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every

           precious thing.

18:028:011 He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and the thing that is

           hid bringeth he forth to light.

18:028:012 But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of

           understanding?

18:028:013 Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the

           land of the living.

18:028:014 The depth saith, It is not in me: and the sea saith, It is not

           with me.

18:028:015 It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed

           for the price thereof.

18:028:016 It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious

           onyx, or the sapphire.

18:028:017 The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of

           it shall not be for jewels of fine gold.

18:028:018 No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price

           of wisdom is above rubies.

18:028:019 The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be

           valued with pure gold.

18:028:020 Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of

           understanding?

18:028:021 Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close

           from the fowls of the air.

18:028:022 Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with

           our ears.

18:028:023 God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place

           thereof.

18:028:024 For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the

           whole heaven;

18:028:025 To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters

           by measure.

18:028:026 When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the

           lightning of the thunder:

18:028:027 Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and

           searched it out.

18:028:028 And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the LORD, that is

           wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.

18:029:001 Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,

18:029:002 Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God

           preserved me;

18:029:003 When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I

           walked through darkness;

18:029:004 As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was

           upon my tabernacle;

18:029:005 When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about

           me;

18:029:006 When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out

           rivers of oil;

18:029:007 When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared

           my seat in the street!

18:029:008 The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose,

           and stood up.

18:029:009 The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their

           mouth.

18:029:010 The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the

           roof of their mouth.

18:029:011 When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye

           saw me, it gave witness to me:

18:029:012 Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless,

           and him that had none to help him.

18:029:013 The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and

           I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

18:029:014 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as

           a robe and a diadem.

18:029:015 I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.

18:029:016 I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I

           searched out.

18:029:017 And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out

           of his teeth.

18:029:018 Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my

           days as the sand.

18:029:019 My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all

           night upon my branch.

18:029:020 My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.

18:029:021 Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my

           counsel.

18:029:022 After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped

           upon them.

18:029:023 And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their

           mouth wide as for the latter rain.

18:029:024 If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of

           my countenance they cast not down.

18:029:025 I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in

           the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.

18:030:001 But now they that are younger than I have me in derision,

           whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs

           of my flock.

18:030:002 Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in

           whom old age was perished?

18:030:003 For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the

           wilderness in former time desolate and waste.

18:030:004 Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their

           meat.

18:030:005 They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them

           as after a thief;)

18:030:006 To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, in caves of the earth,

           and in the rocks.

18:030:007 Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were

           gathered together.

18:030:008 They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they

           were viler than the earth.

18:030:009 And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.

18:030:010 They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in

           my face.

18:030:011 Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have

           also let loose the bridle before me.

18:030:012 Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and

           they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.

18:030:013 They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no

           helper.

18:030:014 They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the

           desolation they rolled themselves upon me.

18:030:015 Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind:

           and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.

18:030:016 And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction

           have taken hold upon me.

18:030:017 My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews

           take no rest.

18:030:018 By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it

           bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.

18:030:019 He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and

           ashes.

18:030:020 I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and

           thou regardest me not.

18:030:021 Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou

           opposest thyself against me.

18:030:022 Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon

           it, and dissolvest my substance.

18:030:023 For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house

           appointed for all living.

18:030:024 Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though

           they cry in his destruction.

18:030:025 Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul

           grieved for the poor?

18:030:026 When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I

           waited for light, there came darkness.

18:030:027 My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction

           prevented me.

18:030:028 I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in

           the congregation.

18:030:029 I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.

18:030:030 My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.

18:030:031 My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the

           voice of them that weep.

18:031:001 I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon

           a maid?

18:031:002 For what portion of God is there from above? and what

           inheritance of the Almighty from on high?

18:031:003 Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to

           the workers of iniquity?

18:031:004 Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?

18:031:005 If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to

           deceit;

18:031:006 Let me be weighed in an even balance that God may know mine

           integrity.

18:031:007 If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked

           after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands;

18:031:008 Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be

           rooted out.

18:031:009 If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid

           wait at my neighbour's door;

18:031:010 Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down

           upon her.

18:031:011 For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be

           punished by the judges.

18:031:012 For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root

           out all mine increase.

18:031:013 If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my

           maidservant, when they contended with me;

18:031:014 What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth,

           what shall I answer him?

18:031:015 Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one

           fashion us in the womb?

18:031:016 If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused

           the eyes of the widow to fail;

18:031:017 Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath

           not eaten thereof;

18:031:018 (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a

           father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;)

18:031:019 If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor

           without covering;

18:031:020 If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed

           with the fleece of my sheep;

18:031:021 If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw

           my help in the gate:

18:031:022 Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be

           broken from the bone.

18:031:023 For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of

           his highness I could not endure.

18:031:024 If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold,

           Thou art my confidence;

18:031:025 If I rejoice because my wealth was great, and because mine

           hand had gotten much;

18:031:026 If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in

           brightness;

18:031:027 And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath

           kissed my hand:

18:031:028 This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I

           should have denied the God that is above.

18:031:029 If I rejoice at the destruction of him that hated me, or

           lifted up myself when evil found him:

18:031:030 Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to

           his soul.

18:031:031 If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his

           flesh! we cannot be satisfied.

18:031:032 The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my

           doors to the traveller.

18:031:033 If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine

           iniquity in my bosom:

18:031:034 Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families

           terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door?

18:031:035 Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the

           Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written

           a book.

18:031:036 Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a

           crown to me.

18:031:037 I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince

           would I go near unto him.

18:031:038 If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise

           thereof complain;

18:031:039 If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have

           caused the owners thereof to lose their life:

18:031:040 Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of

           barley. The words of Job are ended.

18:032:001 So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was

           righteous in his own eyes.

18:032:002 Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the

           Buzite, of the kindred of Ram: against Job was his wrath

           kindled, because he justified himself rather than God.

18:032:003 Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because

           they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.

18:032:004 Now Elihu had waited till Job had spoken, because they were

           elder than he.

18:032:005 When Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these

           three men, then his wrath was kindled.

18:032:006 And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I

           am young, and ye are very old; wherefore I was afraid, and

           durst not shew you mine opinion.

18:032:007 I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach

           wisdom.

18:032:008 But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the

           Almighty giveth them understanding.

18:032:009 Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand

           judgment.

18:032:010 Therefore I said, Hearken to me; I also will shew mine

           opinion.

18:032:011 Behold, I waited for your words; I gave ear to your reasons,

           whilst ye searched out what to say.

18:032:012 Yea, I attended unto you, and, behold, there was none of you

           that convinced Job, or that answered his words:

18:032:013 Lest ye should say, We have found out wisdom: God thrusteth

           him down, not man.

18:032:014 Now he hath not directed his words against me: neither will I

           answer him with your speeches.

18:032:015 They were amazed, they answered no more: they left off

           speaking.

18:032:016 When I had waited, (for they spake not, but stood still, and

           answered no more;)

18:032:017 I said, I will answer also my part, I also will shew mine

           opinion.

18:032:018 For I am full of matter, the spirit within me constraineth me.

18:032:019 Behold, my belly is as wine which hath no vent; it is ready to

           burst like new bottles.

18:032:020 I will speak, that I may be refreshed: I will open my lips and

           answer.

18:032:021 Let me not, I pray you, accept any man's person, neither let

           me give flattering titles unto man.

18:032:022 For I know not to give flattering titles; in so doing my maker

           would soon take me away.

18:033:001 Wherefore, Job, I pray thee, hear my speeches, and hearken to

           all my words.

18:033:002 Behold, now I have opened my mouth, my tongue hath spoken in

           my mouth.

18:033:003 My words shall be of the uprightness of my heart: and my lips

           shall utter knowledge clearly.

18:033:004 The spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty

           hath given me life.

18:033:005 If thou canst answer me, set thy words in order before me,

           stand up.

18:033:006 Behold, I am according to thy wish in God's stead: I also am

           formed out of the clay.

18:033:007 Behold, my terror shall not make thee afraid, neither shall my

           hand be heavy upon thee.

18:033:008 Surely thou hast spoken in mine hearing, and I have heard the

           voice of thy words, saying,

18:033:009 I am clean without transgression, I am innocent; neither is

           there iniquity in me.

18:033:010 Behold, he findeth occasions against me, he counteth me for

           his enemy,

18:033:011 He putteth my feet in the stocks, he marketh all my paths.

18:033:012 Behold, in this thou art not just: I will answer thee, that

           God is greater than man.

18:033:013 Why dost thou strive against him? for he giveth not account of

           any of his matters.

18:033:014 For God speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not.

18:033:015 In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth

           upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;

18:033:016 Then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their

           instruction,

18:033:017 That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from

           man.

18:033:018 He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from

           perishing by the sword.

18:033:019 He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude

           of his bones with strong pain:

18:033:020 So that his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty meat.

18:033:021 His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his

           bones that were not seen stick out.

18:033:022 Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the

           destroyers.

18:033:023 If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a

           thousand, to shew unto man his uprightness:

18:033:024 Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from

           going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.

18:033:025 His flesh shall be fresher than a child's: he shall return to

           the days of his youth:

18:033:026 He shall pray unto God, and he will be favourable unto him:

           and he shall see his face with joy: for he will render unto

           man his righteousness.

18:033:027 He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and

           perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;

18:033:028 He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life

           shall see the light.

18:033:029 Lo, all these things worketh God oftentimes with man,

18:033:030 To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with

           the light of the living.

18:033:031 Mark well, O Job, hearken unto me: hold thy peace, and I will

           speak.

18:033:032 If thou hast anything to say, answer me: speak, for I desire

           to justify thee.

18:033:033 If not, hearken unto me: hold thy peace, and I shall teach

           thee wisdom.

18:034:001 Furthermore Elihu answered and said,

18:034:002 Hear my words, O ye wise men; and give ear unto me, ye that

           have knowledge.

18:034:003 For the ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat.