Job 26 – Job 30
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31 – Chapter 35
Chapter 36 – Chapter 40
Chapter 41 – Chapter 42
1Then Job answered and said, 2How hast thou helped him that is without power! How hast thou saved the arm that hath no strength! 3How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom, And plentifully declared sound knowledge! 4To whom hast thou uttered words? And whose spirit came forth from thee?
5They that are deceased tremble Beneath the waters and the inhabitants thereof. 6Sheol is naked before [God], And Abaddon hath no covering. 7He stretcheth out the north over empty space, And hangeth the earth upon nothing. 8He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; And the cloud is not rent under them. 9He incloseth the face of his throne, And spreadeth his cloud upon it. 10He hath described a boundary upon the face of the waters, Unto the confines of light and darkness. 11The pillars of heaven tremble And are astonished at his rebuke. 12He stirreth up the sea with his power, And by his understanding he smiteth through Rahab. 13By his Spirit the heavens are garnished; His hand hath pierced the swift serpent. 14Lo, these are but the outskirts of his ways: And how small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?
1And Job again took up his parable, and said, 2As God liveth, who hath taken away my right, And the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul: 3(For my life is yet whole in me, And the spirit of God is in my nostrils); 4Surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, Neither shall my tongue utter deceit. 5Far be it from me that I should justify you: Till I die I will not put away mine integrity from me. 6My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: My heart shall not reproach [me] so long as I live. 7Let mine enemy be as the wicked, And let him that riseth up against me be as the unrighteous.
8For what is the hope of the godless, though he get him gain, When God taketh away his soul? 9Will God hear his cry, When trouble cometh upon him? 10Will he delight himself in the Almighty, And call upon God at all times? 11I will teach you concerning the hand of God; That which is with the Almighty will I not conceal. 12Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; Why then are ye become altogether vain?
13This is the portion of a wicked man with God, And the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty: 14If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword; And his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread. 15Those that remain of him shall be buried in death, And his widows shall make no lamentation. 16Though he heap up silver as the dust, And prepare raiment as the clay; 17He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, And the innocent shall divide the silver. 18He buildeth his house as the moth, And as a booth which the keeper maketh. 19He lieth down rich, but he shall not be gathered [to his fathers]; He openeth his eyes, and he is not. 20Terrors overtake him like waters; A tempest stealeth him away in the night. 21The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth; And it sweepeth him out of his place. 22For [God] shall hurl at him, and not spare: He would fain flee out of his hand. 23Men shall clap their hands at him, And shall hiss him out of his place.
1Surely there is a mine for silver, And a place for gold which they refine. 2Iron is taken out of the earth, And copper is molten out of the stone. 3[Man] setteth an end to darkness, And searcheth out, to the furthest bound, The stones of obscurity and of thick darkness. 4He breaketh open a shaft away from where men sojourn; They are forgotten of the foot; They hang afar from men, they swing to and fro. 5As for the earth, out of it cometh bread; And underneath it is turned up as it were by fire. 6The stones thereof are the place of sapphires, And it hath dust of gold. 7That path no bird of prey knoweth, Neither hath the falcon’s eye seen it: 8The proud beasts have not trodden it, Nor hath the fierce lion passed thereby. 9He putteth forth his hand upon the flinty rock; He overturneth the mountains by the roots. 10He cutteth out channels among the rocks; And his eye seeth every precious thing. 11He bindeth the streams that they trickle not; And the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light.
12But where shall wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding? 13Man knoweth not the price thereof; Neither is it found in the land of the living. 14The deep saith, It is not in me; And the sea saith, It is not with me. 15It cannot be gotten for gold, Neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof. 16It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, With the precious onyx, or the sapphire. 17Gold and glass cannot equal it, Neither shall it be exchanged for jewels of fine gold. 18No mention shall be made of coral or of crystal: Yea, the price of wisdom is above rubies. 19The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, Neither shall it be valued with pure gold. 20Whence then cometh wisdom? And where is the place of understanding? 21Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, And kept close from the birds of the heavens. 22Destruction and Death say, We have heard a rumor thereof with our ears.
23God understandeth the way thereof, And he knoweth the place thereof. 24For he looketh to the ends of the earth, And seeth under the whole heaven; 25To make a weight for the wind: Yea, he meteth out the waters by measure. 26When he made a decree for the rain, And a way for the lightning of the thunder; 27Then did he see it, and declare it; He established it, yea, and searched it out. 28And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; And to depart from evil is understanding.
1And Job again took up his parable, and said, 2Oh that I were as in the months of old, As in the days when God watched over me; 3When his lamp shined upon my head, And by his light I walked through darkness; 4As I was in the ripeness of my days, When the friendship of God was upon my tent; 5When the Almighty was yet with me, And my children were about me; 6When my steps were washed with butter, And the rock poured me out streams of oil! 7When I went forth to the gate unto the city, When I prepared my seat in the street, 8The young men saw me and hid themselves, And the aged rose up and stood; 9The princes refrained from talking, And laid their hand on their mouth; 10The voice of the nobles was hushed, And their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth. 11For when the ear heard [me], then it blessed me; And when the eye saw [me], it gave witness unto me: 12Because I delivered the poor that cried, The fatherless also, that had none to help him. 13The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me; And I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy. 14I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: My justice was as a robe and a diadem. 15I was eyes to the blind, And feet was I to the lame. 16I was a father to the needy: And the cause of him that I knew not I searched out. 17And I brake the jaws of the unrighteous, And plucked the prey out of his teeth. 18Then I said, I shall die in my nest, And I shall multiply my days as the sand: 19My root is spread out to the waters, And the dew lieth all night upon my branch; 20My glory is fresh in me, And my bow is renewed in my hand. 21Unto me men gave ear, and waited, And kept silence for my counsel. 22After my words they spake not again; And my speech distilled upon them. 23And they waited for me as for the rain; And they opened their mouth wide [as] for the latter rain. 24I smiled on them, when they had no confidence; And the light of my countenance they cast not down. 25I chose out their way, and sat [as] chief, And dwelt as a king in the army, As one that comforteth the mourners.
1But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, Whose fathers I disdained to set with the dogs of my flock. 2Yea, the strength of their hands, whereto should it profit me? Men in whom ripe age is perished. 3They are gaunt with want and famine; They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of wasteness and desolation. 4They pluck salt-wort by the bushes; And the roots of the broom are their food. 5They are driven forth from the midst [of men]; They cry after them as after a thief; 6So that they dwell in frightful valleys, In holes of the earth and of the rocks. 7Among the bushes they bray; Under the nettles they are gathered together. 8[They are] children of fools, yea, children of base men; They were scourged out of the land. 9And now I am become their song, Yea, I am a byword unto them. 10They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, And spare not to spit in my face. 11For he hath loosed his cord, and afflicted me; And they have cast off the bridle before me. 12Upon my right hand rise the rabble; They thrust aside my feet, And they cast up against me their ways of destruction. 13They mar my path, They set forward my calamity, [Even] men that have no helper. 14As through a wide breach they come: In the midst of the ruin they roll themselves [upon me]. 15Terrors are turned upon me; They chase mine honor as the wind; And my welfare is passed away as a cloud.
16And now my soul is poured out within me; Days of affliction have taken hold upon me. 17In the night season my bones are pierced in me, And the [pains] that gnaw me take no rest. 18By [God’s] great force is my garment disfigured; It bindeth me about as the collar of my coat. 19He hath cast me into the mire, And I am become like dust and ashes. 20I cry unto thee, and thou dost not answer me: I stand up, and thou gazest at me. 21Thou art turned to be cruel to me; With the might of thy hand thou persecutest me. 22Thou liftest me up to the wind, thou causest me to ride [upon it]; And thou dissolvest me in the storm. 23For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, And to the house appointed for all living. 24Howbeit doth not one stretch out the hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help? 25Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? Was not my soul grieved for the needy? 26When I looked for good, then evil came; And when I waited for light, there came darkness. 27My heart is troubled, and resteth not; Days of affliction are come upon me. 28I go mourning without the sun: I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help. 29I am a brother to jackals, And a companion to ostriches. 30My skin is black, [and falleth] from me, And my bones are burned with heat. 31Therefore is my harp [turned] to mourning, And my pipe into the voice of them that weep.
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