Job 10-19
10:1 My soul is weary of my life; I will
leave my complaint upon
myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my
soul.
10:2 I will say unto God, Do not condemn me;
shew me wherefore thou
contendest with me.
10:3 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? 10:4 Hast thou eyes of flesh?
or seest thou as man
seeth? 10:5 Are thy days as the days of man?
are thy years as man's
days, 10:6 That thou enquirest after mine
iniquity, and searchest
after my sin? 10:7 Thou knowest that I am
not wicked; and there is
none that can deliver out of thine hand.
10:8 Thine hands have made me and fashioned
me together round about;
yet thou dost destroy me.
10:9 Remember, I beseech thee, that thou
hast made me as the clay; and
wilt thou bring me into dust again? 10:10
Hast thou not poured me out
as milk, and curdled me like cheese? 10:11
Thou hast clothed me with
skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with
bones and sinews.
10:12 Thou hast granted me life and favour,
and thy visitation hath
preserved my spirit.
10:13 And these things hast thou hid in
thine heart: I know that this
is with thee.
10:14 If I sin, then thou markest me, and
thou wilt not acquit me from
mine iniquity.
10:15 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; 10:16 For it increaseth. Thou
huntest me as a fierce lion:
and again thou shewest thyself marvellous
upon me.
10:17 Thou renewest thy witnesses against
me, and increasest thine
indignation upon me; changes and war are
against me.
10:18 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! 10:19 I should
have been as though I had not been; I should
have been carried from
the womb to the grave.
10:20 Are not my days few? cease then, and
let me alone, that I may
take comfort a little, 10:21 Before I go
whence I shall not return,
even to the land of darkness and the shadow
of death; 10:22 A land of
darkness, as darkness itself; and of the
shadow of death, without any
order, and where the light is as darkness.
11:1 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite,
and said, 11:2 Should not
the multitude of words be answered? and
should a man full of talk be
justified? 11:3 Should thy lies make men
hold their peace? and when
thou mockest, shall no man make thee
ashamed? 11:4 For thou hast
said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in
thine eyes.
11:5 But oh that God would speak, and open
his lips against thee; 11:6
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.
11:7 Canst thou by searching find out God?
canst thou find out the
Almighty unto perfection? 11:8 It is as high
as heaven; what canst
thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou
know? 11:9 The measure
thereof is longer than the earth, and
broader than the sea.
11:10 If he cut off, and shut up, or gather
together, then who can
hinder him? 11:11 For he knoweth vain men:
he seeth wickedness also;
will he not then consider it? 11:12 For vain
men would be wise,
though man be born like a wild ass's colt.
11:13 If thou prepare thine heart, and
stretch out thine hands toward
him; 11:14 If iniquity be in thine hand, put
it far away, and let not
wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.
11:15 For then shalt thou lift up thy face
without spot; yea, thou
shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear: 11:16
Because thou shalt forget
thy misery, and remember it as waters that
pass away: 11:17 And thine
age shall be clearer than the noonday: thou
shalt shine forth, thou
shalt be as the morning.
11:18 And thou shalt be secure, because
there is hope; yea, thou shalt
dig about thee, and thou shalt take thy rest
in safety.
11:19 Also thou shalt lie down, and none
shall make thee afraid; yea,
many shall make suit unto thee.
11:20 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.
12:1 And Job answered and said, 12:2 No
doubt but ye are the people,
and wisdom shall die with you.
12:3 But I have understanding as well as
you; I am not inferior to
you: yea, who knoweth not such things as
these? 12:4 I am as one
mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon
God, and he answereth him:
the just upright man is laughed to scorn.
12:5 He that is ready to slip with his feet
is as a lamp despised in
the thought of him that is at ease.
12:6 The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and
they that provoke God are
secure; into whose hand God bringeth
abundantly.
12:7 But ask now the beasts, and they shall
teach thee; and the fowls
of the air, and they shall tell thee: 12:8
Or speak to the earth, and
it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the
sea shall declare unto
thee.
12:9 Who knoweth not in all these that the
hand of the LORD hath
wrought this? 12:10 In whose hand is the
soul of every living thing,
and the breath of all mankind.
12:11 Doth not the ear try words? and the
mouth taste his meat? 12:12
With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of
days understanding.
12:13 With him is wisdom and strength, he
hath counsel and
understanding.
12:14 Behold, he breaketh down, and it
cannot be built again: he
shutteth up a man, and there can be no
opening.
12:15 Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and
they dry up: also he
sendeth them out, and they overturn the
earth.
12:16 With him is strength and wisdom: the
deceived and the deceiver
are his.
12:17 He leadeth counsellors away spoiled,
and maketh the judges
fools.
12:18 He looseth the bond of kings, and
girdeth their loins with a
girdle.
12:19 He leadeth princes away spoiled, and
overthroweth the mighty.
12:20 He removeth away the speech of the
trusty, and taketh away the
understanding of the aged.
12:21 He poureth contempt upon princes, and
weakeneth the strength of
the mighty.
12:22 He discovereth deep things out of
darkness, and bringeth out to
light the shadow of death.
12:23 He increaseth the nations, and
destroyeth them: he enlargeth the
nations, and straiteneth them again.
12:24 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.
12:25 They grope in the dark without light,
and he maketh them to
stagger like a drunken man.
13:1 Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine
ear hath heard and
understood it.
13:2 What ye know, the same do I know also:
I am not inferior unto
you.
13:3 Surely I would speak to the Almighty,
and I desire to reason with
God.
13:4 But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all
physicians of no value.
13:5 O that ye would altogether hold your
peace! and it should be your
wisdom.
13:6 Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to
the pleadings of my lips.
13:7 Will ye speak wickedly for God? and
talk deceitfully for him?
13:8 Will ye accept his person? will ye
contend for God? 13:9 Is it
good that he should search you out? or as
one man mocketh another, do
ye so mock him? 13:10 He will surely reprove
you, if ye do secretly
accept persons.
13:11 Shall not his excellency make you
afraid? and his dread fall
upon you? 13:12 Your remembrances are like
unto ashes, your bodies to
bodies of clay.
13:13 Hold your peace, let me alone, that I
may speak, and let come on
me what will.
13:14 Wherefore do I take my flesh in my
teeth, and put my life in
mine hand? 13:15 Though he slay me, yet will
I trust in him: but I
will maintain mine own ways before him.
13:16 He also shall be my salvation: for an
hypocrite shall not come
before him.
13:17 Hear diligently my speech, and my
declaration with your ears.
13:18 Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I
know that I shall be
justified.
13:19 Who is he that will plead with me? for
now, if I hold my tongue,
I shall give up the ghost.
13:20 Only do not two things unto me: then
will I not hide myself from
thee.
13:21 Withdraw thine hand far from me: and
let not thy dread make me
afraid.
13:22 Then call thou, and I will answer: or
let me speak, and answer
thou me.
13:23 How many are mine iniquities and sins?
make me to know my
transgression and my sin.
13:24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and
holdest me for thine enemy?
13:25 Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and
fro? and wilt thou pursue
the dry stubble? 13:26 For thou writest
bitter things against me, and
makest me to possess the iniquities of my
youth.
13:27 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.
13:28 And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth,
as a garment that is moth
eaten.
14:1 Man that is born of a woman is of few
days and full of trouble.
14:2 He cometh forth like a flower, and is
cut down: he fleeth also as
a shadow, and continueth not.
14:3 And doth thou open thine eyes upon such
an one, and bringest me
into judgment with thee? 14:4 Who can bring
a clean thing out of an
unclean? not one.
14:5 Seeing his days are determined, the
number of his months are with
thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he
cannot pass; 14:6 Turn
from him, that he may rest, till he shall
accomplish, as an hireling,
his day.
14:7 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.
14:8 Though the root thereof wax old in the
earth, and the stock
thereof die in the ground; 14:9 Yet through
the scent of water it will
bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
14:10 But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea,
man giveth up the ghost,
and where is he? 14:11 As the waters fail
from the sea, and the flood
decayeth and drieth up: 14:12 So man lieth
down, and riseth not: till
the heavens be no more, they shall not
awake, nor be raised out of
their sleep.
14:13 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! 14:14 If a man
die, shall he live again?
all the days of my appointed time will I
wait, till my change come.
14:15 Thou shalt call, and I will answer
thee: thou wilt have a desire
to the work of thine hands.
14:16 For now thou numberest my steps: dost
thou not watch over my
sin? 14:17 My transgression is sealed up in
a bag, and thou sewest up
mine iniquity.
14:18 And surely the mountains falling
cometh to nought, and the rock
is removed out of his place.
14:19 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.
14:20 Thou prevailest for ever against him,
and he passeth: thou
changest his countenance, and sendest him
away.
14:21 His sons come to honour, and he
knoweth it not; and they are
brought low, but he perceiveth it not of
them.
14:22 But his flesh upon him shall have
pain, and his soul within him
shall mourn.
15:1 Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and
said, 15:2 Should a wise
man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly
with the east wind? 15:3
Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or
with speeches wherewith he
can do no good? 15:4 Yea, thou castest off
fear, and restrainest
prayer before God.
15:5 For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity,
and thou choosest the
tongue of the crafty.
15:6 Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and
not I: yea, thine own lips
testify against thee.
15:7 Art thou the first man that was born?
or wast thou made before
the hills? 15:8 Hast thou heard the secret
of God? and dost thou
restrain wisdom to thyself? 15:9 What
knowest thou, that we know not?
what understandest thou, which is not in us?
15:10 With us are both
the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder
than thy father.
15:11 Are the consolations of God small with
thee? is there any secret
thing with thee? 15:12 Why doth thine heart
carry thee away? and what
do thy eyes wink at, 15:13 That thou turnest
thy spirit against God,
and lettest such words go out of thy mouth?
15:14 What is man, that
he should be clean? and he which is born of
a woman, that he should be
righteous? 15:15 Behold, he putteth no trust
in his saints; yea, the
heavens are not clean in his sight.
15:16 How much more abominable and filthy is
man, which drinketh
iniquity like water? 15:17 I will shew thee,
hear me; and that which
I have seen I will declare; 15:18 Which wise
men have told from their
fathers, and have not hid it: 15:19 Unto
whom alone the earth was
given, and no stranger passed among them.
15:20 The wicked man travaileth with pain
all his days, and the number
of years is hidden to the oppressor.
15:21 A dreadful sound is in his ears: in
prosperity the destroyer
shall come upon him.
15:22 He believeth not that he shall return
out of darkness, and he is
waited for of the sword.
15:23 He wandereth abroad for bread, saying,
Where is it? he knoweth
that the day of darkness is ready at his
hand.
15:24 Trouble and anguish shall make him
afraid; they shall prevail
against him, as a king ready to the battle.
15:25 For he stretcheth out his hand against
God, and strengtheneth
himself against the Almighty.
15:26 He runneth upon him, even on his neck,
upon the thick bosses of
his bucklers: 15:27 Because he covereth his
face with his fatness, and
maketh collops of fat on his flanks.
15:28 And he dwelleth in desolate cities,
and in houses which no man
inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.
15:29 He shall not be rich, neither shall
his substance continue,
neither shall he prolong the perfection
thereof upon the earth.
15:30 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.
15:31 Let not him that is deceived trust in
vanity: for vanity shall
be his recompence.
15:32 It shall be accomplished before his
time, and his branch shall
not be green.
15:33 He shall shake off his unripe grape as
the vine, and shall cast
off his flower as the olive.
15:34 For the congregation of hypocrites
shall be desolate, and fire
shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.
15:35 They conceive mischief, and bring
forth vanity, and their belly
prepareth deceit.
16:1 Then Job answered and said, 16:2 I have
heard many such things:
miserable comforters are ye all.
16:3 Shall vain words have an end? or what
emboldeneth thee that thou
answerest? 16:4 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.
16:5 But I would strengthen you with my
mouth, and the moving of my
lips should asswage your grief.
16:6 Though I speak, my grief is not
asswaged: and though I forbear,
what am I eased? 16:7 But now he hath made
me weary: thou hast made
desolate all my company.
16:8 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.
16:9 He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth
me: he gnasheth upon me
with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his
eyes upon me.
16:10 They have gaped upon me with their
mouth; they have smitten me
upon the cheek reproachfully; they have
gathered themselves together
against me.
16:11 God hath delivered me to the ungodly,
and turned me over into
the hands of the wicked.
16:12 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.
16:13 His archers compass me round about, he
cleaveth my reins
asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out
my gall upon the ground.
16:14 He breaketh me with breach upon
breach, he runneth upon me like
a giant.
16:15 I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin,
and defiled my horn in the
dust.
16:16 My face is foul with weeping, and on
my eyelids is the shadow of
death; 16:17 Not for any injustice in mine
hands: also my prayer is
pure.
16:18 O earth, cover not thou my blood, and
let my cry have no place.
16:19 Also now, behold, my witness is in
heaven, and my record is on
high.
16:20 My friends scorn me: but mine eye
poureth out tears unto God.
16:21 O that one might plead for a man with
God, as a man pleadeth for
his neighbour! 16:22 When a few years are
come, then I shall go the
way whence I shall not return.
17:1 My breath is corrupt, my days are
extinct, the graves are ready
for me.
17:2 Are there not mockers with me? and doth
not mine eye continue in
their provocation? 17:3 Lay down now, put me
in a surety with thee;
who is he that will strike hands with me?
17:4 For thou hast hid
their heart from understanding: therefore
shalt thou not exalt them.
17:5 He that speaketh flattery to his
friends, even the eyes of his
children shall fail.
17:6 He hath made me also a byword of the
people; and aforetime I was
as a tabret.
17:7 Mine eye also is dim by reason of
sorrow, and all my members are
as a shadow.
17:8 Upright men shall be astonied at this,
and the innocent shall
stir up himself against the hypocrite.
17:9 The righteous also shall hold on his
way, and he that hath clean
hands shall be stronger and stronger.
17:10 But as for you all, do ye return, and
come now: for I cannot
find one wise man among you.
17:11 My days are past, my purposes are
broken off, even the thoughts
of my heart.
17:12 They change the night into day: the
light is short because of
darkness.
17:13 If I wait, the grave is mine house: I
have made my bed in the
darkness.
17:14 I have said to corruption, Thou art my
father: to the worm, Thou
art my mother, and my sister.
17:15 And where is now my hope? as for my
hope, who shall see it?
17:16 They shall go down to the bars of the
pit, when our rest
together is in the dust.
18:1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and
said, 18:2 How long will it
be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and
afterwards we will speak.
18:3 Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and
reputed vile in your
sight? 18:4 He teareth himself in his anger:
shall the earth be
forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be
removed out of his place?
18:5 Yea, the light of the wicked shall be
put out, and the spark of
his fire shall not shine.
18:6 The light shall be dark in his
tabernacle, and his candle shall
be put out with him.
18:7 The steps of his strength shall be
straitened, and his own
counsel shall cast him down.
18:8 For he is cast into a net by his own
feet, and he walketh upon a
snare.
18:9 The gin shall take him by the heel, and
the robber shall prevail
against him.
18:10 The snare is laid for him in the
ground, and a trap for him in
the way.
18:11 Terrors shall make him afraid on every
side, and shall drive him
to his feet.
18:12 His strength shall be hungerbitten,
and destruction shall be
ready at his side.
18:13 It shall devour the strength of his
skin: even the firstborn of
death shall devour his strength.
18:14 His confidence shall be rooted out of
his tabernacle, and it
shall bring him to the king of terrors.
18:15 It shall dwell in his tabernacle,
because it is none of his:
brimstone shall be scattered upon his
habitation.
18:16 His roots shall be dried up beneath,
and above shall his branch
be cut off.
18:17 His remembrance shall perish from the
earth, and he shall have
no name in the street.
18:18 He shall be driven from light into
darkness, and chased out of
the world.
18:19 He shall neither have son nor nephew
among his people, nor any
remaining in his dwellings.
18:20 They that come after him shall be
astonied at his day, as they
that went before were affrighted.
18:21 Surely such are the dwellings of the
wicked, and this is the
place of him that knoweth not God.
19:1 Then Job answered and said, 19:2 How
long will ye vex my soul,
and break me in pieces with words? 19:3
These ten times have ye
reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye
make yourselves strange to
me.
19:4 And be it indeed that I have erred,
mine error remaineth with
myself.
19:5 If indeed ye will magnify yourselves
against me, and plead
against me my reproach: 19:6 Know now that
God hath overthrown me, and
hath compassed me with his net.
19:7 Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am
not heard: I cry aloud, but
there is no judgment.
19:8 He hath fenced up my way that I cannot
pass, and he hath set
darkness in my paths.
19:9 He hath stripped me of my glory, and
taken the crown from my
head.
19:10 He hath destroyed me on every side,
and I am gone: and mine hope
hath he removed like a tree.
19:11 He hath also kindled his wrath against
me, and he counteth me
unto him as one of his enemies.
19:12 His troops come together, and raise up
their way against me, and
encamp round about my tabernacle.
19:13 He hath put my brethren far from me,
and mine acquaintance are
verily estranged from me.
19:14 My kinsfolk have failed, and my
familiar friends have forgotten
me.
19:15 They that dwell in mine house, and my
maids, count me for a
stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
19:16 I called my servant, and he gave me no
answer; I intreated him
with my mouth.
19:17 My breath is strange to my wife,
though I intreated for the
children's sake of mine own body.
19:18 Yea, young children despised me; I
arose, and they spake against
me.
19:19 All my inward friends abhorred me: and
they whom I loved are
turned against me.
19:20 My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my
flesh, and I am escaped
with the skin of my teeth.
19:21 Have pity upon me, have pity upon me,
O ye my friends; for the
hand of God hath touched me.
19:22 Why do ye persecute me as God, and are
not satisfied with my
flesh? 19:23 Oh that my words were now
written! oh that they were
printed in a book! 19:24 That they were
graven with an iron pen and
lead in the rock for ever! 19:25 For I know
that my redeemer liveth,
and that he shall stand at the latter day
upon the earth: 19:26 And
though after my skin worms destroy this
body, yet in my flesh shall I
see God: 19:27 Whom I shall see for myself,
and mine eyes shall
behold, and not another; though my reins be
consumed within me.
19:28 But ye should say, Why persecute we
him, seeing the root of the
matter is found in me? 19:29 Be ye afraid of
the sword: for wrath
bringeth the punishments of the sword, that
ye may know there is a
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