The Bible, King James version, Book 18: Job
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18:009:023 If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of
the innocent.
18:009:024 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth
the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he?
18:009:025 Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see
no good.
18:009:026 They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that
hasteth to the prey.
18:009:027 If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my
heaviness, and comfort myself:
18:009:028 I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold
me innocent.
18:009:029 If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
18:009:030 If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so
clean;
18:009:031 Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes
shall abhor me.
18:009:032 For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we
should come together in judgment.
18:009:033 Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his
hand upon us both.
18:009:034 Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear
terrify me:
18:009:035 Then would I speak, and not fear him; but it is not so with
me.
18:010:001 My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon
myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
18:010:002 I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou
contendest with me.
18:010:003 Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou
shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the
counsel of the wicked?
18:010:004 Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth?
18:010:005 Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man's days,
18:010:006 That thou enquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after
my sin?
18:010:007 Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can
deliver out of thine hand.
18:010:008 Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round
about; yet thou dost destroy me.
18:010:009 Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay;
and wilt thou bring me into dust again?
18:010:010 Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like
cheese?
18:010:011 Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me
with bones and sinews.
18:010:012 Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath
preserved my spirit.
18:010:013 And these things hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that
this is with thee.
18:010:014 If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me
from mine iniquity.
18:010:015 If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I
not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see
thou mine affliction;
18:010:016 For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again
thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.
18:010:017 Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine
indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.
18:010:018 Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh
that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!
18:010:019 I should have been as though I had not been; I should have
been carried from the womb to the grave.
18:010:020 Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may
take comfort a little,
18:010:021 Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of
darkness and the shadow of death;
18:010:022 A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of
death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
18:011:001 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
18:011:002 Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a
man full of talk be justified?
18:011:003 Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou
mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?
18:011:004 For thou hast said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in
thine eyes.
18:011:005 But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against thee;
18:011:006 And that he would shew thee the secrets of wisdom, that they
are double to that which is! Know therefore that God exacteth
of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth.
18:011:007 Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the
Almighty unto perfection?
18:011:008 It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell;
what canst thou know?
18:011:009 The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than
the sea.
18:011:010 If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can
hinder him?
18:011:011 For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also; will he not
then consider it?
18:011:012 For vain men would be wise, though man be born like a wild
ass's colt.
18:011:013 If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands
toward him;
18:011:014 If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not
wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.
18:011:015 For then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; yea, thou
shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear:
18:011:016 Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as
waters that pass away:
18:011:017 And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday: thou shalt
shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning.
18:011:018 And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope; yea, thou
shalt dig about thee, and thou shalt take thy rest in safety.
18:011:019 Also thou shalt lie down, and none shall make thee afraid;
yea, many shall make suit unto thee.
18:011:020 But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not
escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost.
18:012:001 And Job answered and said,
18:012:002 No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.
18:012:003 But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to
you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these?
18:012:004 I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and
he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn.
18:012:005 He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised
in the thought of him that is at ease.
18:012:006 The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God
are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.
18:012:007 But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the
fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee:
18:012:008 Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes
of the sea shall declare unto thee.
18:012:009 Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the LORD hath
wrought this?
18:012:010 In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the
breath of all mankind.
18:012:011 Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat?
18:012:012 With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days
understanding.
18:012:013 With him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and
understanding.
18:012:014 Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he
shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.
18:012:015 Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he
sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.
18:012:016 With him is strength and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver
are his.
18:012:017 He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and maketh the judges
fools.
18:012:018 He looseth the bond of kings, and girdeth their loins with a
girdle.
18:012:019 He leadeth princes away spoiled, and overthroweth the mighty.
18:012:020 He removeth away the speech of the trusty, and taketh away the
understanding of the aged.
18:012:021 He poureth contempt upon princes, and weakeneth the strength
of the mighty.
18:012:022 He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out
to light the shadow of death.
18:012:023 He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he enlargeth
the nations, and straiteneth them again.
18:012:024 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.
18:012:025 They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to
stagger like a drunken man.
18:013:001 Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and
understood it.
18:013:002 What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto
you.
18:013:003 Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason
with God.
18:013:004 But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
18:013:005 O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be
your wisdom.
18:013:006 Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my
lips.
18:013:007 Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?
18:013:008 Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?
18:013:009 Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man
mocketh another, do ye so mock him?
18:013:010 He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.
18:013:011 Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall
upon you?
18:013:012 Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies
of clay.
18:013:013 Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come
on me what will.
18:013:014 Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in
mine hand?
18:013:015 Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will
maintain mine own ways before him.
18:013:016 He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come
before him.
18:013:017 Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.
18:013:018 Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be
justified.
18:013:019 Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my
tongue, I shall give up the ghost.
18:013:020 Only do not two things unto me: then will I not hide myself
from thee.
18:013:021 Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me
afraid.
18:013:022 Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer
thou me.
18:013:023 How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my
transgression and my sin.
18:013:024 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine
enemy?
18:013:025 Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue
the dry stubble?
18:013:026 For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to
possess the iniquities of my youth.
18:013:027 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.
18:013:028 And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is
moth eaten.
18:014:001 Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of
trouble.
18:014:002 He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also
as a shadow, and continueth not.
18:014:003 And doth thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest
me into judgment with thee?
18:014:004 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
18:014:005 Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are
with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
18:014:006 Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as
an hireling, his day.
18:014:007 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.
18:014:008 Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock
thereof die in the ground;
18:014:009 Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth
boughs like a plant.
18:014:010 But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost,
and where is he?
18:014:011 As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and
drieth up:
18:014:012 So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no
more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
18:014:013 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!
18:014:014 If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my
appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
18:014:015 Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a
desire to the work of thine hands.
18:014:016 For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my
sin?
18:014:017 My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up
mine iniquity.
18:014:018 And surely the mountains falling cometh to nought, and the
rock is removed out of his place.
18:014:019 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.
18:014:020 Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou
changest his countenance, and sendest him away.
18:014:021 His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are
brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.
18:014:022 But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within
him shall mourn.
18:015:001 Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,
18:015:002 Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly
with the east wind?
18:015:003 Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches
wherewith he can do no good?
18:015:004 Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.
18:015:005 For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the
tongue of the crafty.
18:015:006 Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own
lips testify against thee.
18:015:007 Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before
the hills?
18:015:008 Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain
wisdom to thyself?
18:015:009 What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou,
which is not in us?
18:015:010 With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder
than thy father.
18:015:011 Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any
secret thing with thee?
18:015:012 Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes
wink at,
18:015:013 That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such
words go out of thy mouth?
18:015:014 What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of
a woman, that he should be righteous?
18:015:015 Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens
are not clean in his sight.
18:015:016 How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh
iniquity like water?
18:015:017 I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will
declare;
18:015:018 Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid
it:
18:015:019 Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed
among them.
18:015:020 The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the
number of years is hidden to the oppressor.
18:015:021 A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer
shall come upon him.
18:015:022 He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he
is waited for of the sword.
18:015:023 He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth
that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
18:015:024 Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail
against him, as a king ready to the battle.
18:015:025 For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth
himself against the Almighty.
18:015:026 He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses
of his bucklers:
18:015:027 Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh
collops of fat on his flanks.
18:015:028 And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man
inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.
18:015:029 He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue,
neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the
earth.
18:015:030 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.
18:015:031 Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall
be his recompence.
18:015:032 It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall
not be green.
18:015:033 He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall
cast off his flower as the olive.
18:015:034 For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire
shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.
18:015:035 They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their
belly prepareth deceit.
18:016:001 Then Job answered and said,
18:016:002 I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye
all.
18:016:003 Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that
thou answerest?
18:016:004 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.
18:016:005 But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my
lips should asswage your grief.
18:016:006 Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I
forbear, what am I eased?
18:016:007 But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my
company.
18:016:008 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.
18:016:009 He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me
with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.
18:016:010 They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me
upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves
together against me.
18:016:011 God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into
the hands of the wicked.
18:016:012 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.
18:016:013 His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins
asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the
ground.
18:016:014 He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me
like a giant.
18:016:015 I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in
the dust.
18:016:016 My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow
of death;
18:016:017 Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.
18:016:018 O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no
place.
18:016:019 Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on
high.
18:016:020 My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
18:016:021 O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth
for his neighbour!
18:016:022 When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I
shall not return.
18:017:001 My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are
ready for me.
18:017:002 Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue
in their provocation?
18:017:003 Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that
will strike hands with me?
18:017:004 For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore
shalt thou not exalt them.
18:017:005 He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his
children shall fail.
18:017:006 He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I
was as a tabret.
18:017:007 Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members
are as a shadow.
18:017:008 Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall
stir up himself against the hypocrite.
18:017:009 The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath
clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
18:017:010 But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot
find one wise man among you.
18:017:011 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the
thoughts of my heart.
18:017:012 They change the night into day: the light is short because of
darkness.
18:017:013 If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the
darkness.
18:017:014 I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm,
Thou art my mother, and my sister.
18:017:015 And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
18:017:016 They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest
together is in the dust.
18:018:001 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
18:018:002 How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and
afterwards we will speak.
18:018:003 Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your
sight?
18:018:004 He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken
for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?
18:018:005 Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark
of his fire shall not shine.
18:018:006 The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle
shall be put out with him.
18:018:007 The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own
counsel shall cast him down.
18:018:008 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon
a snare.
18:018:009 The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall
prevail against him.
18:018:010 The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in
the way.
18:018:011 Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive
him to his feet.
18:018:012 His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be
ready at his side.
18:018:013 It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn
of death shall devour his strength.
18:018:014 His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it
shall bring him to the king of terrors.
18:018:015 It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his:
brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
18:018:016 His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his
branch be cut off.
18:018:017 His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have
no name in the street.
18:018:018 He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of
the world.
18:018:019 He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any
remaining in his dwellings.
18:018:020 They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they
that went before were affrighted.
18:018:021 Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the
place of him that knoweth not God.
18:019:001 Then Job answered and said,
18:019:002 How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with
words?
18:019:003 These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that
ye make yourselves strange to me.
18:019:004 And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with
myself.
18:019:005 If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead
against me my reproach:
18:019:006 Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me
with his net.
18:019:007 Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud,
but there is no judgment.
18:019:008 He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set
darkness in my paths.