- 22:1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
- 22:2 Can a man be profitable to God, as he that is wise may be profitable to himself?
- 22:3 Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that you are righteous? or is it gain to him, that you make your ways perfect?
- 22:4 Will he reprove you for fear of you? will he enter with you into judgment?
- 22:5 Is not your wickedness great? and your iniquities infinite?
- 22:6 For you have taken a pledge from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
- 22:7 You have not given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.
- 22:8 But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honorable man dwelled in it.
- 22:9 You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
- 22:10 Therefore snares are round about you, and sudden fear troubles you;
- 22:11 Or darkness, that you can not see; and abundance of waters cover you.
- 22:12 Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are!
- 22:13 And you say, How does God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?
- 22:14 Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he sees not; and he walks in the circuit of heaven.
- 22:15 Have you marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?
- 22:16 Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflowed with a flood:
- 22:17 Which said to God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?
- 22:18 Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
- 22:19 The righteous see it, and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn.
- 22:20 Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumes.
- 22:21 Acquaint now yourself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come to you.
- 22:22 Receive, I pray you, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.
- 22:23 If you return to the Almighty, you shall be built up, you shall put away iniquity far from your tabernacles.
- 22:24 Then shall you lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.
- 22:25 Yes, the Almighty shall be your defense, and you shall have plenty of silver.
- 22:26 For then shall you have your delight in the Almighty, and shall lift up your face to God.
- 22:27 You shall make your prayer to him, and he shall hear you, and you shall pay your vows.
- 22:28 You shall also decree a thing, and it shall be established to you: and the light shall shine on your ways.
- 22:29 When men are cast down, then you shall say, There is lifting up; and he shall save the humble person.
- 22:30 He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of your hands.
Job 22
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Job 21
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- 21:1 But Job answered and said,
- 21:2 Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.
- 21:3 Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.
- 21:4 As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?
- 21:5 Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand on your mouth.
- 21:6 Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling takes hold on my flesh.
- 21:7 Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, are mighty in power?
- 21:8 Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.
- 21:9 Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God on them.
- 21:10 Their bull engenders, and fails not; their cow calves, and casts not her calf.
- 21:11 They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.
- 21:12 They take the tambourine and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.
- 21:13 They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.
- 21:14 Therefore they say to God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of your ways.
- 21:15 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray to him?
- 21:16 See, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
- 21:17 How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft comes their destruction on them! God distributes sorrows in his anger.
- 21:18 They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carries away.
- 21:19 God lays up his iniquity for his children: he rewards him, and he shall know it.
- 21:20 His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
- 21:21 For what pleasure has he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the middle?
- 21:22 Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judges those that are high.
- 21:23 One dies in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.
- 21:24 His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow.
- 21:25 And another dies in the bitterness of his soul, and never eats with pleasure.
- 21:26 They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.
- 21:27 Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which you wrongfully imagine against me.
- 21:28 For you say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?
- 21:29 Have you not asked them that go by the way? and do you not know their tokens,
- 21:30 That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.
- 21:31 Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he has done?
- 21:32 Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.
- 21:33 The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.
- 21:34 How then comfort you me in vain, seeing in your answers there remains falsehood?
Job 20
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- 20:1 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
- 20:2 Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.
- 20:3 I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causes me to answer.
- 20:4 Know you not this of old, since man was placed on earth,
- 20:5 That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
- 20:6 Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach to the clouds;
- 20:7 Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?
- 20:8 He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yes, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
- 20:9 The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.
- 20:10 His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.
- 20:11 His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.
- 20:12 Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;
- 20:13 Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:
- 20:14 Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.
- 20:15 He has swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.
- 20:16 He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper’s tongue shall slay him.
- 20:17 He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.
- 20:18 That which he labored for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein.
- 20:19 Because he has oppressed and has forsaken the poor; because he has violently taken away an house which he built not;
- 20:20 Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired.
- 20:21 There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.
- 20:22 In the fullness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come on him.
- 20:23 When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath on him, and shall rain it on him while he is eating.
- 20:24 He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through.
- 20:25 It is drawn, and comes out of the body; yes, the glittering sword comes out of his gall: terrors are on him.
- 20:26 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.
- 20:27 The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.
- 20:28 The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.
- 20:29 This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed to him by God.
Job 19
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- 19:1 Then Job answered and said,
- 19:2 How long will you vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
- 19:3 These ten times have you reproached me: you are not ashamed that you make yourselves strange to me.
- 19:4 And be it indeed that I have erred, my error remains with myself.
- 19:5 If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:
- 19:6 Know now that God has overthrown me, and has 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 has fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness in my paths.
- 19:9 He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
- 19:10 He has destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and my hope has he removed like a tree.
- 19:11 He has also kindled his wrath against me, and he counts me to 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 has put my brothers far from me, and my acquaintance are truly estranged from me.
- 19:14 My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
- 19:15 They that dwell in my 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 entreated him with my mouth.
- 19:17 My breath is strange to my wife, though I entreated for the children’s sake of my own body.
- 19:18 Yes, young children despised me; I arose, and they spoke against me.
- 19:19 All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.
- 19:20 My bone sticks to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
- 19:21 Have pity on me, have pity on me, O you my friends; for the hand of God has touched me.
- 19:22 Why do you 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 lives, and that he shall stand at the latter day on 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 my eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.
- 19:28 But you should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?
- 19:29 Be you afraid of the sword: for wrath brings the punishments of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment.
Job 18
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- 18:1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
- 18:2 How long will it be ere you make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.
- 18:3 Why are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?
- 18:4 He tears himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for you? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?
- 18:5 Yes, 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 walks on 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 extremely hungry, 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 on 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 astonished 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 knows not God.
Job 17
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- 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 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.
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