Job 16 – Job 20
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21 – Chapter 25
Chapter 26 – Chapter 30
Chapter 31 – Chapter 35
Chapter 36 – Chapter 40
Chapter 41 – Chapter 42
1Then Job answered and said, 2I have heard many such things: Miserable comforters are ye all. 3Shall vain words have an end? Or what provoketh thee that thou answerest? 4I also could speak as ye do; If your soul were in my soul’s stead, I could join words together against you, And shake my head at you. 5[But] I would strengthen you with my mouth, And the solace of my lips would assuage [your grief]. 6Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged; And though I forbear, what am I eased? 7But now he hath made me weary: Thou hast made desolate all my company. 8And thou hast laid fast hold on me, [which] is a witness [against me]: And my leanness riseth up against me, It testifieth to my face. 9He hath torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me; He hath gnashed upon me with his teeth: Mine adversary sharpeneth his eyes upon me. 10They have gaped upon me with their mouth; They have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully: They gather themselves together against me. 11God delivereth me to the ungodly, And casteth me into the hands of the wicked. 12I was at ease, and he brake me asunder; Yea, he hath taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces: He hath also set me up for his mark. 13His archers compass me round about; He cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; He poureth out my gall upon the ground. 14He breaketh me with breach upon breach; He runneth upon me like a giant. 15I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, And have laid my horn in the dust. 16My face is red with weeping, And on my eyelids is the shadow of death; 17Although there is no violence in my hands, And my prayer is pure.
18O earth, cover not thou my blood, And let my cry have no [resting] -place. 19Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, And he that voucheth for me is on high. 20My friends scoff at me: [But] mine eye poureth out tears unto God, 21That he would maintain the right of a man with God, And of a son of man with his neighbor! 22For when a few years are come, I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
1My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, The grave is [ready] for me. 2Surely there are mockers with me, And mine eye dwelleth upon their provocation.
3Give now a pledge, be surety for me with thyself; Who is there that will strike hands with me? 4For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: Therefore shalt thou not exalt [them]. 5He that denounceth his friends for a prey, Even the eyes of his children shall fail.
6But he hath made me a byword of the people; And they spit in my face. 7Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, And all my members are as a shadow. 8Upright men shall be astonished at this, And the innocent shall stir up himself against the godless. 9Yet shall the righteous hold on his way, And he that hath clean hands shall wax stronger and stronger. 10But as for you all, come on now again; And I shall not find a wise man among you. 11My days are past, my purposes are broken off, Even the thoughts of my heart. 12They change the night into day: The light, [say they], is near unto the darkness. 13If I look for Sheol as my house; If I have spread my couch in the darkness; 14If I have said to corruption, Thou art my father; To the worm, [Thou art] my mother, and my sister; 15Where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it? 16It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, When once there is rest in the dust.
1Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, 2How long will ye hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak. 3Wherefore are we counted as beasts, [And] are become unclean in your sight? 4Thou that tearest thyself in thine anger, Shall the earth be forsaken for thee? Or shall the rock be removed out of its place?
5Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, And the spark of his fire shall not shine. 6The light shall be dark in his tent, And his lamp above him shall be put out. 7The steps of his strength shall be straitened, And his own counsel shall cast him down. 8For he is cast into a net by his own feet, And he walketh upon the toils. 9A gin shall take [him] by the heel, [And] a snare shall lay hold on him. 10A noose is hid for him in the ground, And a trap for him in the way. 11Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, And shall chase him at his heels. 12His strength shall be hunger-bitten, And calamity shall be ready at his side. 13The members of his body shall be devoured, [Yea], the first-born of death shall devour his members. 14He shall be rooted out of his tent where he trusteth; And he shall be brought to the king of terrors. 15There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his: Brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation. 16His roots shall be dried up beneath, And above shall his branch be cut off. 17His remembrance shall perish from the earth, And he shall have no name in the street. 18He shall be driven from light into darkness, And chased out of the world. 19He shall have neither son nor son’s son among his people, Nor any remaining where he sojourned. 20They that come after shall be astonished at his day, As they that went before were affrighted. 21Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous, And this is the place of him that knoweth not God.
1Then Job answered and said, 2How long will ye vex my soul, And break me in pieces with words? 3These ten times have ye reproached me: Ye are not ashamed that ye deal hardly with me. 4And be it indeed that I have erred, Mine error remaineth with myself. 5If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, And plead against me my reproach; 6Know now that God hath subverted me [in my cause], And hath compassed me with his net.
7Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry for help, but there is no justice. 8He hath walled up my way that I cannot pass, And hath set darkness in my paths. 9He hath stripped me of my glory, And taken the crown from my head. 10He hath broken me down on every side, and I am gone; And my hope hath he plucked up like a tree. 11He hath also kindled his wrath against me, And he counteth me unto him as [one of] his adversaries. 12His troops come on together, And cast up their way against me, And encamp round about my tent. 13He hath put my brethren far from me, And mine acquaintance are wholly estranged from me. 14My kinsfolk have failed, And my familiar friends have forgotten me. 15They that dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger; I am an alien in their sight. 16I call unto my servant, and he giveth me no answer, [Though] I entreat him with my mouth. 17My breath is strange to my wife, And my supplication to the children of mine own mother. 18Even young children despise me; If I arise, they speak against me. 19All my familiar friends abhor me, And they whom I loved are turned against me. 20My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, And I am escaped with the skin of my teeth. 21Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; For the hand of God hath touched me. 22Why do ye persecute me as God, And are not satisfied with my flesh?
23Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book! 24That with an iron pen and lead They were graven in the rock for ever! 25But as for me I know that my Redeemer liveth, And at last he will stand up upon the earth: 26And after my skin, [even] this [body], is destroyed, Then without my flesh shall I see God; 27Whom I, even I, shall see, on my side, And mine eyes shall behold, and not as a stranger. My heart is consumed within me. 28If ye say, How we will persecute him! And that the root of the matter is found in me; 29Be ye afraid of the sword: For wrath [bringeth] the punishments of the sword, That ye may know there is a judgment.
1Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said, 2Therefore do my thoughts give answer to me, Even by reason of my haste that is in me. 3I have heard the reproof which putteth me to shame; And the spirit of my understanding answereth me. 4Knowest thou [not] this of old time, Since man was placed upon earth, 5That the triumphing of the wicked is short, And the joy of the godless but for a moment? 6Though his height mount up to the heavens, And his head reach unto the clouds; 7Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: They that have seen him shall say, Where is he? 8He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: Yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night. 9The eye which saw him shall see him no more; Neither shall his place any more behold him. 10His children shall seek the favor of the poor, And his hands shall give back his wealth. 11His bones are full of his youth, But it shall lie down with him in the dust.
12Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, Though he hide it under his tongue, 13Though he spare it, and will not let it go, But keep it still within his mouth; 14Yet his food in his bowels is turned, It is the gall of asps within him. 15He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again; God will cast them out of his belly. 16He shall suck the poison of asps: The viper’s tongue shall slay him. 17He shall not look upon the rivers, The flowing streams of honey and butter. 18That which he labored for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down; According to the substance that he hath gotten, he shall not rejoice. 19For he hath oppressed and forsaken the poor; He hath violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.
20Because he knew no quietness within him, He shall not save aught of that wherein he delighteth. 21There was nothing left that he devoured not; Therefore his prosperity shall not endure. 22In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: The hand of every one that is in misery shall come upon him. 23When he is about to fill his belly, [God] will cast the fierceness of his wrath upon him, And will rain it upon him while he is eating. 24He shall flee from the iron weapon, And the bow of brass shall strike him through. 25He draweth it forth, and it cometh out of his body; Yea, the glittering point cometh out of his gall: Terrors are upon him. 26All darkness is laid up for his treasures: A fire not blown [by man] shall devour him; It shall consume that which is left in his tent. 27The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, And the earth shall rise up against him. 28The increase of his house shall depart; [His goods] shall flow away in the day of his wrath. 29This is the portion of a wicked man from God, And the heritage appointed unto him by God.
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