- 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 does not my eye continue in their provocation?
- 17:3 Lay down now, put me in a surety with you; who is he that will strike hands with me?
- 17:4 For you have hid their heart from understanding: therefore shall you not exalt them.
- 17:5 He that speaks flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
- 17:6 He has made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
- 17:7 My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
- 17:8 Upright men shall be astonished 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 has clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
- 17:10 But as for you all, do you 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 my house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
- 17:14 I have said to corruption, You are my father: to the worm, You are 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.
Job 17
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Job 16
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- 16:1 Then Job answered and said,
- 16:2 I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are you all.
- 16:3 Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldens you that you answer?
- 16:4 I also could speak as you do: if your soul were in my soul’s stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake my head at you.
- 16:5 But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should assuage your grief.
- 16:6 Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?
- 16:7 But now he has made me weary: you have made desolate all my company.
- 16:8 And you have filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me bears witness to my face.
- 16:9 He tears me in his wrath, who hates me: he gnashes on me with his teeth; my enemy sharpens his eyes on me.
- 16:10 They have gaped on me with their mouth; they have smitten me on the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.
- 16:11 God has delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.
- 16:12 I was at ease, but he has broken me asunder: he has 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 splits my reins asunder, and does not spare; he pours out my gall on the ground.
- 16:14 He breaks me with breach on breach, he runs on me like a giant.
- 16:15 I have sewed sackcloth on 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 my hands: also my prayer is pure.
- 16:18 O earth, cover not you 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 my eye pours out tears to God.
- 16:21 O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleads for his neighbor!
- 16:22 When a few years are come, then I shall go the way from where I shall not return.
Job 15
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- 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 with which he can do no good?
- 15:4 Yes, you cast off fear, and restrain prayer before God.
- 15:5 For your mouth utters your iniquity, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.
- 15:6 Your own mouth comdemns you, and not I: yes, your own lips testify against you.
- 15:7 Are you the first man that was born? or were you made before the hills?
- 15:8 Have you heard the secret of God? and do you restrain wisdom to yourself?
- 15:9 What know you, that we know not? what understand you, which is not in us?
- 15:10 With us are both the gray headed and very aged men, much elder than your father.
- 15:11 Are the consolations of God small with you? is there any secret thing with you?
- 15:12 Why does your heart carry you away? and what do your eyes wink at,
- 15:13 That you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your 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 puts no trust in his saints; yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
- 15:16 How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinks iniquity like water?
- 15:17 I will show you, 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 To whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.
- 15:20 The wicked man travails 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 on him.
- 15:22 He believes not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.
- 15:23 He wanders abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knows 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 stretches out his hand against God, and strengthens himself against the Almighty.
- 15:26 He runs on him, even on his neck, on the thick bosses of his bucklers:
- 15:27 Because he covers his face with his fatness, and makes bulges of fat on his flanks.
- 15:28 And he dwells in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabits, 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 on 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 recompense.
- 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 prepares deceit.
Job 14
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- 14:1 Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble.
- 14:2 He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down: he flees also as a shadow, and continues not.
- 14:3 And does you open your eyes on such an one, and bring me into judgment with you?
- 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 you, you have 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 dies, and wastes away: yes, man gives up the ghost, and where is he?
- 14:11 As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decays and dries up:
- 14:12 So man lies down, and rises not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
- 14:13 O that you would hide me in the grave, that you would keep me secret, until your wrath be past, that you would 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 You shall call, and I will answer you: you will have a desire to the work of your hands.
- 14:16 For now you number my steps: do you not watch over my sin?
- 14:17 My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and you sew up my iniquity.
- 14:18 And surely the mountains falling comes to nothing, and the rock is removed out of his place.
- 14:19 The waters wear the stones: you wash away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and you destroy the hope of man.
- 14:20 You prevail for ever against him, and he passes: you change his countenance, and send him away.
- 14:21 His sons come to honor, and he knows it not; and they are brought low, but he perceives it not of them.
- 14:22 But his flesh on him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.
Job 13
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- 13:1 See, my eye has seen all this, my ear has heard and understood it.
- 13:2 What you know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior to you.
- 13:3 Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
- 13:4 But you are forgers of lies, you are all physicians of no value.
- 13:5 O that you would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
- 13:6 Hear now my reasoning, and listen to the pleadings of my lips.
- 13:7 Will you speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?
- 13:8 Will you accept his person? will you contend for God?
- 13:9 Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocks another, do you so mock him?
- 13:10 He will surely reprove you, if you do secretly accept persons.
- 13:11 Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall on you?
- 13:12 Your remembrances are like to 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 Why do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand?
- 13:15 Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain my 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 to me: then will I not hide myself from you.
- 13:21 Withdraw your hand far from me: and let not your dread make me afraid.
- 13:22 Then call you, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer you me.
- 13:23 How many are my iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.
- 13:24 Why hide you your face, and hold me for your enemy?
- 13:25 Will you break a leaf driven to and fro? and will you pursue the dry stubble?
- 13:26 For you write bitter things against me, and make me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
- 13:27 You put my feet also in the stocks, and look narrowly to all my paths; you set a print on the heels of my feet.
- 13:28 And he, as a rotten thing, consumes, as a garment that is moth eaten.
Job 12
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- 12:1 And Job answered and said,
- 12:2 No doubt but you 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: yes, who knows not such things as these?
- 12:4 I am as one mocked of his neighbor, who calls on God, and he answers 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 brings abundantly.
- 12:7 But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach you; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell you:
- 12:8 Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach you: and the fishes of the sea shall declare to you.
- 12:9 Who knows not in all these that the hand of the LORD has worked this?
- 12:10 In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.
- 12:11 Does 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 has counsel and understanding.
- 12:14 Behold, he breaks down, and it cannot be built again: he shuts up a man, and there can be no opening.
- 12:15 Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up: also he sends 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 leads counsellors away spoiled, and makes the judges fools.
- 12:18 He looses the bond of kings, and girds their loins with a girdle.
- 12:19 He leads princes away spoiled, and overthrows the mighty.
- 12:20 He removes away the speech of the trusty, and takes away the understanding of the aged.
- 12:21 He pours contempt on princes, and weakens the strength of the mighty.
- 12:22 He discovers deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death.
- 12:23 He increases the nations, and destroys them: he enlarges the nations, and straitens them again.
- 12:24 He takes away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
- 12:25 They grope in the dark without light, and he makes them to stagger like a drunken man.
Job 11
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- 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 your lies make men hold their peace? and when you mock, shall no man make you ashamed?
- 11:4 For you have said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in your eyes.
- 11:5 But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against you;
- 11:6 And that he would show you the secrets of wisdom, that they are double to that which is! Know therefore that God exacts of you less than your iniquity deserves.
- 11:7 Can you by searching find out God? can you find out the Almighty to perfection?
- 11:8 It is as high as heaven; what can you do? deeper than hell; what can you 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 knows vain men: he sees 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 you prepare your heart, and stretch out your hands toward him;
- 11:14 If iniquity be in your hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in your tabernacles.
- 11:15 For then shall you lift up your face without spot; yes, you shall be steadfast, and shall not fear:
- 11:16 Because you shall forget your misery, and remember it as waters that pass away:
- 11:17 And your age shall be clearer than the noonday: you shall shine forth, you shall be as the morning.
- 11:18 And you shall be secure, because there is hope; yes, you shall dig about you, and you shall take your rest in safety.
- 11:19 Also you shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid; yes, many shall make suit to you.
- 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.
Job 10
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- 10:1 My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint on myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
- 10:2 I will say to God, Do not condemn me; show me why you contend with me.
- 10:3 Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and shine on the counsel of the wicked?
- 10:4 Have you eyes of flesh? or see you as man sees?
- 10:5 Are your days as the days of man? are your years as man’s days,
- 10:6 That you enquire after my iniquity, and search after my sin?
- 10:7 You know that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of your hand.
- 10:8 Your hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet you do destroy me.
- 10:9 Remember, I beseech you, that you have made me as the clay; and will you bring me into dust again?
- 10:10 Have you not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?
- 10:11 You have clothed me with skin and flesh, and have fenced me with bones and sinews.
- 10:12 You have granted me life and favor, and your visitation has preserved my spirit.
- 10:13 And these things have you hid in your heart: I know that this is with you.
- 10:14 If I sin, then you mark me, and you will not acquit me from my iniquity.
- 10:15 If I be wicked, woe to me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see you my affliction;
- 10:16 For it increases. You hunt me as a fierce lion: and again you show yourself marvelous on me.
- 10:17 You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your indignation on me; changes and war are against me.
- 10:18 Why then have you 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 from where 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.
Job 9
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- 9:1 Then Job answered and said,
- 9:2 I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?
- 9:3 If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.
- 9:4 He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself against him, and has prospered?
- 9:5 Which removes the mountains, and they know not: which overturns them in his anger.
- 9:6 Which shakes the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.
- 9:7 Which commands the sun, and it rises not; and seals up the stars.
- 9:8 Which alone spreads out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea.
- 9:9 Which makes Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.
- 9:10 Which does great things past finding out; yes, and wonders without number.
- 9:11 See, he goes by me, and I see him not: he passes on also, but I perceive him not.
- 9:12 Behold, he takes away, who can hinder him? who will say to him, What do you?
- 9:13 If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him.
- 9:14 How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him?
- 9:15 Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge.
- 9:16 If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had listened to my voice.
- 9:17 For he breaks me with a tempest, and multiplies my wounds without cause.
- 9:18 He will not suffer me to take my breath, but fills me with bitterness.
- 9:19 If I speak of strength, see, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead?
- 9:20 If I justify myself, my own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.
- 9:21 Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
- 9:22 This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroys the perfect and the wicked.
- 9:23 If the whip slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.
- 9:24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covers the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he?
- 9:25 Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
- 9:26 They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hastens to the prey.
- 9:27 If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:
- 9:28 I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that you will not hold me innocent.
- 9:29 If I be wicked, why then labor I in vain?
- 9:30 If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
- 9:31 Yet shall you plunge me in the ditch, and my own clothes shall abhor me.
- 9:32 For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment.
- 9:33 Neither is there any judge between us, that might lay his hand on us both.
- 9:34 Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me:
- 9:35 Then would I speak, and not fear him; but it is not so with me.
Job 8
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- 8:1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
- 8:2 How long will you speak these things? and how long shall the words of your mouth be like a strong wind?
- 8:3 Does God pervert judgment? or does the Almighty pervert justice?
- 8:4 If your children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;
- 8:5 If you would seek to God betimes, and make your supplication to the Almighty;
- 8:6 If you were pure and upright; surely now he would awake for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.
- 8:7 Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end should greatly increase.
- 8:8 For inquire, I pray you, of the former age, and prepare yourself to the search of their fathers:
- 8:9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow:)
- 8:10 Shall not they teach you, and tell you, and utter words out of their heart?
- 8:11 Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?
- 8:12 Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it wither before any other herb.
- 8:13 So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite’s hope shall perish:
- 8:14 Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider’s web.
- 8:15 He shall lean on his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.
- 8:16 He is green before the sun, and his branch shoots forth in his garden.
- 8:17 His roots are wrapped about the heap, and sees the place of stones.
- 8:18 If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen you.
- 8:19 Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow.
- 8:20 Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evil doers:
- 8:21 Till he fill your mouth with laughing, and your lips with rejoicing.
- 8:22 They that hate you shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nothing.
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