- 32:1 So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
- 32:2 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.
- 32:3 Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.
- 32:4 Now Elihu had waited till Job had spoken, because they were elder than he.
- 32:5 When Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, then his wrath was kindled.
- 32:6 And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am young, and you are very old; why I was afraid, and dared not show you my opinion.
- 32:7 I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.
- 32:8 But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty gives them understanding.
- 32:9 Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment.
- 32:10 Therefore I said, Listen to me; I also will show my opinion.
- 32:11 Behold, I waited for your words; I gave ear to your reasons, whilst you searched out what to say.
- 32:12 Yes, I attended to you, and, behold, there was none of you that convinced Job, or that answered his words:
- 32:13 Lest you should say, We have found out wisdom: God thrusts him down, not man.
- 32:14 Now he has not directed his words against me: neither will I answer him with your speeches.
- 32:15 They were amazed, they answered no more: they left off speaking.
- 32:16 When I had waited, (for they spoke not, but stood still, and answered no more;)
- 32:17 I said, I will answer also my part, I also will show my opinion.
- 32:18 For I am full of matter, the spirit within me constrains me.
- 32:19 Behold, my belly is as wine which has no vent; it is ready to burst like new bottles.
- 32:20 I will speak, that I may be refreshed: I will open my lips and answer.
- 32:21 Let me not, I pray you, accept any man’s person, neither let me give flattering titles to man.
- 32:22 For I know not to give flattering titles; in so doing my maker would soon take me away.
Job 32
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Job 31
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- 31:1 I made a covenant with my eyes; why then should I think on a maid?
- 31:2 For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?
- 31:3 Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?
- 31:4 Does not he see my ways, and count all my steps?
- 31:5 If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot has hurried to deceit;
- 31:6 Let me be weighed in an even balance that God may know my integrity.
- 31:7 If my step has turned out of the way, and my heart walked after my eyes, and if any blot has stuck to my hands;
- 31:8 Then let me sow, and let another eat; yes, let my offspring be rooted out.
- 31:9 If my heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbor’s door;
- 31:10 Then let my wife grind to another, and let others bow down on her.
- 31:11 For this is an heinous crime; yes, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.
- 31:12 For it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase.
- 31:13 If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;
- 31:14 What then shall I do when God rises up? and when he visits, what shall I answer him?
- 31:15 Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?
- 31:16 If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
- 31:17 Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless has not eaten thereof;
- 31:18 (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother’s womb;)
- 31:19 If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;
- 31:20 If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
- 31:21 If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:
- 31:22 Then let my arm fall from my shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from the bone.
- 31:23 For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.
- 31:24 If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, You are my confidence;
- 31:25 If I rejoice because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;
- 31:26 If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;
- 31:27 And my heart has been secretly enticed, or my mouth has kissed my hand:
- 31:28 This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.
- 31:29 If I rejoice at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:
- 31:30 Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.
- 31:31 If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.
- 31:32 The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the travelers.
- 31:33 If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom:
- 31:34 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?
- 31:35 Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that my adversary had written a book.
- 31:36 Surely I would take it on my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.
- 31:37 I would declare to him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near to him.
- 31:38 If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;
- 31:39 If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:
- 31:40 Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.
Job 30
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- 30:1 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.
- 30:2 Yes, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?
- 30:3 For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
- 30:4 Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.
- 30:5 They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)
- 30:6 To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.
- 30:7 Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.
- 30:8 They were children of fools, yes, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
- 30:9 And now am I their song, yes, I am their byword.
- 30:10 They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.
- 30:11 Because he has loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.
- 30:12 On my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.
- 30:13 They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.
- 30:14 They came on me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves on me.
- 30:15 Terrors are turned on me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passes away as a cloud.
- 30:16 And now my soul is poured out on me; the days of affliction have taken hold on me.
- 30:17 My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
- 30:18 By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it binds me about as the collar of my coat.
- 30:19 He has cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
- 30:20 I cry to you, and you do not hear me: I stand up, and you regard me not.
- 30:21 You are become cruel to me: with your strong hand you oppose yourself against me.
- 30:22 You lift me up to the wind; you cause me to ride on it, and dissolve my substance.
- 30:23 For I know that you will bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
- 30:24 However, he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.
- 30:25 Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?
- 30:26 When I looked for good, then evil came to me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
- 30:27 My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.
- 30:28 I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.
- 30:29 I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
- 30:30 My skin is black on me, and my bones are burned with heat.
- 30:31 My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.
Job 29
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- 29:1 Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,
- 29:2 Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;
- 29:3 When his candle shined on my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;
- 29:4 As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was on my tabernacle;
- 29:5 When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me;
- 29:6 When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;
- 29:7 When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!
- 29:8 The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up.
- 29:9 The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.
- 29:10 The nobles held their peace, and their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.
- 29:11 When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me:
- 29:12 Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
- 29:13 The blessing of him that was ready to perish came on me: and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.
- 29:14 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.
- 29:15 I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.
- 29:16 I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
- 29:17 And I broke the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
- 29:18 Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.
- 29:19 My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night on my branch.
- 29:20 My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.
- 29:21 To me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel.
- 29:22 After my words they spoke not again; and my speech dropped on them.
- 29:23 And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.
- 29:24 If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.
- 29:25 I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelled as a king in the army, as one that comforts the mourners.
Job 28
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- 28:1 Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it.
- 28:2 Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone.
- 28:3 He sets an end to darkness, and searches out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.
- 28:4 The flood breaks out from the inhabitant; even the waters forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.
- 28:5 As for the earth, out of it comes bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.
- 28:6 The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it has dust of gold.
- 28:7 There is a path which no fowl knows, and which the vulture’s eye has not seen:
- 28:8 The lion’s whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.
- 28:9 He puts forth his hand on the rock; he overturns the mountains by the roots.
- 28:10 He cuts out rivers among the rocks; and his eye sees every precious thing.
- 28:11 He binds the floods from overflowing; and the thing that is hid brings he forth to light.
- 28:12 But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding?
- 28:13 Man knows not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living.
- 28:14 The depth said, It is not in me: and the sea said, It is not with me.
- 28:15 It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.
- 28:16 It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
- 28:17 The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold.
- 28:18 No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies.
- 28:19 The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold.
- 28:20 From where then comes wisdom? and where is the place of understanding?
- 28:21 Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air.
- 28:22 Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.
- 28:23 God understands the way thereof, and he knows the place thereof.
- 28:24 For he looks to the ends of the earth, and sees under the whole heaven;
- 28:25 To make the weight for the winds; and he weighs the waters by measure.
- 28:26 When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:
- 28:27 Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yes, and searched it out.
- 28:28 And to man he said, Behold, the fear of the LORD, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.
Job 27
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- 27:1 Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,
- 27:2 As God lives, who has taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who has vexed my soul;
- 27:3 All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;
- 27:4 My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.
- 27:5 God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove my integrity from me.
- 27:6 My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.
- 27:7 Let my enemy be as the wicked, and he that rises up against me as the unrighteous.
- 27:8 For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he has gained, when God takes away his soul?
- 27:9 Will God hear his cry when trouble comes on him?
- 27:10 Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call on God?
- 27:11 I will teach you by the hand of God: that which is with the Almighty will I not conceal.
- 27:12 Behold, all you yourselves have seen it; why then are you thus altogether vain?
- 27:13 This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty.
- 27:14 If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
- 27:15 Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep.
- 27:16 Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;
- 27:17 He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.
- 27:18 He builds his house as a moth, and as a booth that the keeper makes.
- 27:19 The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he opens his eyes, and he is not.
- 27:20 Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest steals him away in the night.
- 27:21 The east wind carries him away, and he departs: and as a storm hurles him out of his place.
- 27:22 For God shall cast on him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.
- 27:23 Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.
Job 26
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- 26:1 But Job answered and said,
- 26:2 How have you helped him that is without power? how save you the arm that has no strength?
- 26:3 How have you counceled him that has no wisdom? and how have you plentifully declared the thing as it is?
- 26:4 To whom have you uttered words? and whose spirit came from you?
- 26:5 Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.
- 26:6 Hell is naked before him, and destruction has no covering.
- 26:7 He stretches out the north over the empty place, and hangs the earth on nothing.
- 26:8 He binds up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.
- 26:9 He holds back the face of his throne, and spreads his cloud on it.
- 26:10 He has compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.
- 26:11 The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof.
- 26:12 He divides the sea with his power, and by his understanding he smites through the proud.
- 26:13 By his spirit he has garnished the heavens; his hand has formed the crooked serpent.
- 26:14 See, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?
Job 25
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- 25:1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
- 25:2 Dominion and fear are with him, he makes peace in his high places.
- 25:3 Is there any number of his armies? and on whom does not his light arise?
- 25:4 How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
- 25:5 Behold even to the moon, and it shines not; yes, the stars are not pure in his sight.
- 25:6 How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm?
Job 24
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- 24:1 Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?
- 24:2 Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.
- 24:3 They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
- 24:4 They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
- 24:5 Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yields food for them and for their children.
- 24:6 They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.
- 24:7 They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.
- 24:8 They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
- 24:9 They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
- 24:10 They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;
- 24:11 Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.
- 24:12 Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded cries out: yet God lays not folly to them.
- 24:13 They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
- 24:14 The murderer rising with the light kills the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
- 24:15 The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguises his face.
- 24:16 In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
- 24:17 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.
- 24:18 He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholds not the way of the vineyards.
- 24:19 Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so does the grave those which have sinned.
- 24:20 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.
- 24:21 He evil entreats the barren that bears not: and does not good to the widow.
- 24:22 He draws also the mighty with his power: he rises up, and no man is sure of life.
- 24:23 Though it be given him to be in safety, where on he rests; yet his eyes are on their ways.
- 24:24 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.
- 24:25 And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?
Job 23
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- 23:1 Then Job answered and said,
- 23:2 Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.
- 23:3 Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!
- 23:4 I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
- 23:5 I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say to me.
- 23:6 Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me.
- 23:7 There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.
- 23:8 Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:
- 23:9 On the left hand, where he does work, but I cannot behold him: he hides himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him:
- 23:10 But he knows the way that I take: when he has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
- 23:11 My foot has held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.
- 23:12 Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
- 23:13 But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desires, even that he does.
- 23:14 For he performes the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him.
- 23:15 Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.
- 23:16 For God makes my heart soft, and the Almighty troubles me:
- 23:17 Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither has he covered the darkness from my face.
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