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