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;