Holy Bible

Job

1.1 There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. And that man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God and shunned evil.

1.2 And they bore him seven sons and three daughters.

1.3 And his substance was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household. and that man was greater than all the men of old.

1.4 And his sons went and made a feast in their house, each one on his day, and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and drink with them.

1.5 And it came to pass, when the days of the feast were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered a burnt offering by the number of them all. for Job said, Perhaps my sons have sinned, and blessed God in their hearts. so doth Job do all the days.

1.6 And it came to pass on the day, that the sons of God came to present themselves before YHVH, and Satan also came among them.

1.7 And YHVH said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? And Satan answered YHVH, and said, From the earth, and from whence walkest thou?

1.8 And YHVH said unto Satan, Hast thou set thine heart upon my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a blameless and upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?

1.9 Then Satan answered YHVH, and said, Surely Job feareth God.

1.10 Have you not been silent for him, for his house, and for all that he has around him? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his livestock has spread throughout the land.

1.11 But put forth now thy hand, and touch all that he hath. and he will bless thee, if not to thy face.

1.12 And YHVH said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thine hand; only upon him put not forth thine hand. And Satan went out from the presence of YHVH.

1.13 And it came to pass on that day, that his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house.

1.14 And an angel came to Job, and said, The oxen were deaf, and the asses were evil in their hands.

1.15 And the king came and took them, and smote the young men with the edge of the sword. and I only escaped alone to tell thee.

1.16 While he was yet speaking, another also came and said, The fire of God fell from heaven, and burnt up the sheep and the children, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.

1.17 While he was yet speaking, another also came and said, The Chaldeans, whose name is Three Heads, fell upon the camels, and took them, and smote the young men with the edge of the sword. and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.

1.18 While one is speaking, another comes and says, "Your sons and daughters are eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother's house."

1.19 And, behold, there came a great wind from across the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead. and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.

1.20 Then Job arose, and rent his robe, and shaved his head, and fell to the ground, and worshipped.

1.21 And he said, Aram came I out of my mother's womb, and into Aram shall I return. for YHVH gave, and YHVH hath taken away. blessed be the name of YHVH.

1.22 Yet Job did not sin or pray to God.

2.1 And it came to pass in the day, that the sons of God came to present themselves before YHVH, and Satan also came among you to present himself before YHVH.

2.2 And YHVH said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? And Satan answered YHVH, and said, From the earth, and from whence comest thou to walk therein.

2.3 And YHVH said unto Satan, Hast thou set thine heart upon my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a blameless and upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil, and yet holdeth fast his integrity? and hast thou moved me against him, to swallow him up for nought?

2.4 And Satan answered YHVH, and said, Skin for skin, and all that a man hath he will give for his life.

2.5 But put forth now thy hand, and touch his flesh; if not thy face, he will bless thee.

2.6 And YHVH said unto Satan, Behold, he is in thine hand. only spare his life.

2.7 Then Satan went out from the presence of YHVH, and smote Job with a sore boil from the sole of his foot unto the crown of his head.

2.8 And he took a sickle to scrape himself with, and he sat in the ashes.

2.9 And his wife said unto him, Thou shalt hold fast thy peace, bless God, and die.

2.10 And he said unto her, As one of the scoundrels speaketh, We shall receive good from God, and we shall not receive evil. nevertheless Job sinned not with his lips.

2.11 And when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every man from his place, Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they appointed together to come to him, and to comfort him.

2.12 And they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not. and they lifted up their voice, and wept, and rent every man his garments, and cast dust upon their heads toward heaven.

2.13 And they sat with him in the land seven days and seven nights, and there was no word to him, for they saw that the pain was very great.

3.1 After this Job opened his mouth and cursed his day.

3.2 Then Job answered and said,

3.3 The day will perish, and the night will say, "A man is pregnant."

3.4 That day shall be darkness; God from above shall not search it, nor shall light shine upon it.

3.5 Darkness shall cover him, and darkness shall dwell upon him. a cloud shall terrify him as the bitter days.

3.6 That night will take him away in darkness, together with the days of a year, in the number of months, and he will not come.

3.7 Behold, that night shall be lonely; let no one come singing in it.

3.8 The curses of the day of the future shall be kindled, the curse of Leviathan.

3.9 The stars of the heavens shall be darkened, and there shall be no light, neither shall there be any light in the eyelids of the dawn.

3.10 For my belly has not shut the doors of my body, and labor has not been hidden from my eyes.

3.11 Why do I not have compassion on them? I will die from their womb. I will come out and be afflicted.

3.12 Why are the firstborn of the sheep, and what are the demons, that they are not

3.13 For now I will lie down and be quiet, I will sleep; then I will be at rest.

3.14 With the kings and counselors of the land, the sons of the sword have fallen.

3.15 Or with princes of gold, who fill their houses with silver,

3.16 Or I will not be like a hidden corpse, like a corpse that has not seen light.

3.17 There the wicked cease from their anger, and there the weary are at rest.

3.18 Together prisoners who did not hear the voice of the approaching

3.19 Small and great are there, and the slave is free from his master.

3.20 Why should he give light to labor, and life to the rebellious in spirit?

3.21 Those who wait for death, but it is not, and they dig it out of the crypts.

3.22 Those who rejoice in my age will be weary, for they will find a grave.

3.23 To a man whose way is hidden, and God will protect him.

3.24 For before my bread I sighed, and it came, and they melted like water, and I roared.

3.25 For the fear that I feared shall come upon me, and that which I feared shall come upon me.

3.26 I was not at rest, nor was I quiet, nor was I at rest, and wrath came.

4.1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,

4.2 He has tried to speak to you, O daughter of YHVH, and who can stop him in his speech?

4.3 Behold, you will afflict many, and you will strengthen the weak hands.

4.4 The king of the earth is broken, and you will be strengthened with your knees.

4.5 For now it will come to you, and you will be troubled, and you will be afraid.

4.6 Is not your fear your refuge, your hope, and your ways perfect?

4.7 Remember, O Lord, who is pure and has perished, and where are the upright?

4.8 When I saw that they plowed iniquity, and sowed the seeds of trouble, they would reap it.

4.9 By the breath of God they perish, and by the spirit of his wrath they are consumed.

4.10 The roar of a lion, and the voice of a jackal, and two unbelievers are cut off.

4.11 The lion is lost without prey, and the sons of Levi are separated.

4.12 And if a word is stolen from me, my ears will take a speck of it.

4.13 In the night, when sleep falls on people,

4.14 Fear and trembling seized me, and my bones trembled.

4.15 And a wind will pass over my face, and the hairs of my flesh will stand on end.

4.16 He will stand, and I will not recognize his appearance; a form before my eyes, silence, and I will hear a voice.

4.17 A man is justified by God if his deeds purify him.

4.18 For he will not put faith in his servants, nor put honor in his angels.

4.19 Even those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, shall be crushed before the moth.

4.20 Those who visit the evening will be hunted down without realizing it, they will be lost forever.

4.21 For he who goes forth to them will die, and not with wisdom.

5.1 Read, please, what is your sin, and to whom will you turn for help?

5.2 For the wicked will be killed like a moth, and envy will kill a deceiver.

5.3 I have seen a wild ox, and a donkey, suddenly destroyed.

5.4 Their sons shall be far from salvation, and they shall be oppressed in the gate, and there shall be none to deliver.

5.5 He who reaps his harvest will be eaten by the hungry, and he will take it to the slaughter, and he who longs for the fast will be satisfied.

5.6 For wickedness does not come out of the dust, nor does toil spring from the ground.

5.7 For a man is brought forth by labor, and the sons of Resheph shall raise him up by a bird.

5.8 But I will seek God, and to God will I commit my cause.

5.9 He has done great things, and there is no searching out his wonders, beyond number.

5.10 Who gives rain upon the earth, and sends waters upon the open fields.

5.11 To exalt the lowly, and to exalt the lowly, and to exalt the high.

5.12 He frustrates the thoughts of the naked, and their hands do not devise devices.

5.13 The wise are caught in their own craftiness, and the counsel of the wicked is hasty.

5.14 By day they will encounter darkness, and by night they will grope at noon.

5.15 And he was delivered from the sword of their mouth, and immediately the poor man was strengthened.

5.16 And there was a desolate hope, and her mouth leaped up.

5.17 Behold, blessed is the man whom God corrects and disciplines, and he does not become weary.

5.18 For he shall hurt, and bind up, and crush, and his hand shall be slack.

5.19 He will deliver you in six troubles, and in seven no evil will touch you.

5.20 In famine he shall be delivered from death, and in war from the hand of the sword.

5.21 You will hide yourself in the whip of your tongue, and you will not be afraid of the devil when he comes.

5.22 You shall play with the devil and the falcon, and you shall not be afraid of the beast of the earth.

5.23 For you are in covenant with the stones of the field, and the beasts of the field are at peace with you.

5.24 And you shall know that it is peace that you shall go into my house, and you shall visit me, and you shall not sin.

5.25 And you shall know that your seed and your offspring will be as numerous as the grass of the earth.

5.26 You will come to me in a hurry, like a goat in its season.

5.27 Behold, this is what we have examined, yes, it is what you have heard, and you know for yourself.

6.1 Then Job answered and said,

6.2 If only the scales could weigh me as I am, and I would be weighed in the balances together.

6.3 For now the day of reckoning is come, therefore speak to me.

6.4 For the half of my breasts, whose wrath I have drunk, my spirit has drunk in my afflictions; God will prepare me.

6.5 A wild animal will yowl on grass if an ox has trodden on its threshing floor.

6.6 It is bland food without salt, if it has a taste of slime, dreams.

6.7 My soul is like bread, and I am afraid to touch it.

6.8 May my prayer come true, and may God grant my hope.

6.9 But God was pleased, and with the rest of his hand he afflicted me, and brought me to nothing.

6.10 And my comfort shall be yet for me, and my mercy shall not be in vain. for I have not destroyed the words of the Holy One.

6.11 What is my strength that I should desire? and what is my end that I should prolong my life?

6.12 If the strength of stones is as strong as the strength of my flesh,

6.13 Is my help not in me, and is my strength rejected of me?

6.14 Let him demand from his neighbor kindness and fear, that he may leave him alone.

6.15 My brother has betrayed me like a river, like a torrent, they will pass away.

6.16 The pots are covered with ice, and the snow is hidden from them.

6.17 When his anger is kindled, they are shaken from their place.

6.18 They will be caught in the ways of the wicked; they will go up into the pit and perish.

6.19 Look at the empty halls, the way of the one who is standing in front of them.

6.20 They said, "Surely they will come to her and dig."

6.21 For now you would not see, but would be afraid.

6.22 I said, "Come to me, and your servants will bribe me."

6.23 And deliver me from the hand of the oppressor, and from the hand of the oppressor, and deliver me.

6.24 They taught me, and I am the last, and they made me understand what I did wrong.

6.25 What is the zeal of the righteous? And what will prove it? Will prove it from you?

6.26 Think carefully about the words that are being spoken, and speak to the spirit.

6.27 Ye shall oppress the fatherless, and ye shall oppress your neighbor.

6.28 And now, behold, they have turned against me and against you, if I have failed you.

6.29 Please sit down, do not be a guest, and sit down again, you righteous one.

6.30 Is there anything on my tongue that I should not understand?

7.1 Is not man an army upon the earth, and his days a hireling?

7.2 Like a servant he longs for shade, and like a hired hand he longs for his work.

7.3 So I have allotted to myself months of vanity, and nights of toil.

7.4 If I lie down and say, "When will I arise?" and measure the evening, and I am full of wanderings, like a feast.

7.5 He clothed me with high flesh, and covered my skin with dust for a moment, and was disgusted.

7.6 My days are like a sack of bread, and they are spent in vain.

7.7 Remember that the spirit of my life will not return to my eyes to see good.

7.8 Do not look at me with your eyes, for your eyes see me, and I am not.

7.9 As the cloud is consumed, so it goes down, and the grave shall not ascend.

7.10 He will return no more to his house, nor will his place be known any more.

7.11 I also will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

7.12 I am the sea, the mother of the crocodile, because you set a guard over me.

7.13 For I said, "My bed will comfort me; my bed will support me with my words."

7.14 And you have afflicted me with dreams and divination,

7.15 And you have chosen the suffocation of my soul, death from my bones.

7.16 I am weary of not living forever, my brother, cease from me, for my days are in vain.

7.17 What is man that you should magnify him, and that you should set your heart upon him?

7.18 And we will be tested from morning to morning,

7.19 How long will you not withhold from me? Do not let me go until I have swallowed up my own soul.

7.20 I have sinned, what can I do to you, O son of man? Why have you made me a burden to you, and I should be a burden to you?

7.21 Why do you not bear my transgressions and pass over my poverty? For now I lie down in the dust, and you have made me desolate, and I am no more.

8.1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

8.2 Until I utter these words, and a mighty wind speak the words of your mouth.

8.3 God will judge, and if he is righteous, he will judge.

8.4 If your children sin against him, and he deliver them into the hand of their iniquity,

8.5 If you will pray to God, and to Shaddai, you will make supplication.

8.6 If you are pure and upright, now will he awaken you and reward you for your righteousness.

8.7 Your beginning will be sorrowful, and your end will be very wrong.

8.8 For ask now the father of Reshma, and set to inquire of their fathers.

8.9 For we are but yesterday, and we know not that the shadow of our days is upon the earth.

8.10 They will tell you, "Yoruh, and words will come out of their hearts."

8.11 A wild goose will wander without a marsh, like a meadow without water.

8.12 Our father will not reap, and before any grass will wither.

8.13 So you will be filled with all the forgetfulness of God, and the hope of flattery will perish.

8.14 He who gathers Kislev and the spider's web is his refuge.

8.15 He will lean on his house, but it will not stand; he will hold on to it, but it will not rise.

8.16 He is wet before the sun, and on his forehead his breast shall come forth.

8.17 On the wave whose roots will be entangled, a house of stones will be built.

8.18 If he swallows us up from our place and denies us, I have not seen you.

8.19 For he gropes his way, and from the dust other things shall spring up.

8.20 For God will not abhor the innocent, nor will he support the hand of the wicked.

8.21 Until your mouth is filled with tears, and your lips with a song.

8.22 Those who hate you will be clothed with sackcloth, and the tent of the wicked will not be.

9.1 ​​Then Job answered and said,

9.2 Surely I know that it is so, and how can man be just with God?

9.3 If he wishes to contend with him, not one in a thousand will answer him.

9.4 He is wise in heart and mighty in strength, who has made a breach upon him, and he has fulfilled it?

9.5 He who removes mountains, and they do not know what he has done with his nose.

9.6 He who shakes the earth from its place, and its pillars shake,

9.7 He saith unto the clay, and it shall not shine; and he sealeth it for the stars.

9.8 He alone stretches out the heavens and treads on the heights of the sea.

9.9 He made the fool and the scoundrel, and the chambers of Teman.

9.10 He has done great things beyond comprehension, and wonders without number.

9.11 Surely he will pass by me, and I will not see him; and he will pass by, and I will not perceive him.

9.12 Surely he will be divided, and who will say to him, What will you do?

9.13 God will not turn away his anger against those who have made the help of Rahab.

9.14 Though I answer him, I will choose the words of his people.

9.15 For if I am righteous, I will not answer my own judgment; I will plead.

9.16 If I call and he answers me, I will not believe that he will listen to my voice.

9.17 Whose hair is full of thorns and many wounds without cause.

9.18 He will not let me rest, for he will fill me with bitterness.

9.19 If it be for a mighty power, behold; and if for judgment, who will appoint me?

9.20 If I justify my mouth, he will judge me, but I am innocent, and he will harden me.

9.21 I will not know, my soul will be filled with my life.

9.22 It is one, therefore I said, The innocent and the wicked consume it.

9.23 If a sea whip suddenly strikes a clean mass, it will be mocked.

9.24 The land is given into the hand of the wicked. If not, who is he?

9.25 And the days are short, and they flee, and see no good.

9.26 They passed by with the ships of my father, as an eagle swoops down upon a leaf to eat.

9.27 If I say, I will forget my words, I will turn away from my face and perish.

9.28 I have poured out all my sorrow, knowing that you will not cleanse me.

9.29 I will be guilty, why is this vanity?

9.30 If I bathed in the snow and earned the right to a bar,

9.31 Then you will dip me in straw and cover me with it.

9.32 For there is none like me, that we should come together in judgment.

9.33 There is none among us who will lay his hand on us both.

9.34 Let his tribe and his truth depart from me; do not accuse me.

9.35 I will speak and not be afraid, for I am not like that.

10.1 My soul hath taken hold of my life; I will leave my words to myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

10.2 Say to God, Do not condemn me; show me wherewith thou wilt bring me to judgment.

10.3 It is good for you to be weary, for you will be disgusted, and your hand will come upon you, and you will appear in the counsel of the wicked.

10.4 You have eyes of flesh, if you see as a man sees,

10.5 Like a man, your days are like the days of a man, if your years are like the days of a man.

10.6 For you will seek for my poverty and my sin,

10.7 As for me, I will not be guilty, and there is none who can deliver from your hand.

10.8 Your hands have entangled me, they have gathered me together, and you have swallowed me up.

10.9 Remember, I pray thee, that thou hast made me as clay, and unto dust shalt thou return me.

10.10 You will not make me like milk, and you will curdle me like curd.

10.11 You clothe me with skin and flesh, and cover me with bones and sinews.

10.12 You have granted me life and kindness, and your presence has preserved my spirit.

10.13 And you have hidden these things in your heart, I know that they are with you.

10.14 If I have sinned, and you keep me, and do not cleanse me from my affliction,

10.15 If I have done wickedly, my God, and if I have done righteously, I will not lift up my head to shame, and he shall see my affliction.

10.16 And he was proud when he saw me, and sat down and wondered at me.

10.17 Renew your testimony against me and multiply it, as you have done with me, the caliphate and the army of my people.

10.18 And why did you bring me forth from the womb? I am afflicted, and no eye sees me.

10.19 If I had not been there, I would have been buried in mourning.

10.20 How little my days will be, and I will be a little lost!

10.21 Before I go and return no more to the land of darkness and gloom,

10.22 The land is weary like the darkness, shadows and no order, and a tumult like the darkness.

11.1 Then answered Zapher the Naamathite, and said,

11.2 A man of many words will not answer, but a man of many lips will be justified.

11.3 The dead will be silent at your feet, and you will mock them, and they will be nothing.

11.4 And thou shalt say, I am righteous in thine eyes, and thou shalt be righteous in thine eyes.

11.5 But who will give God the word, and open his lips with you?

11.6 And he will tell you the secret of wisdom, that there are double ends to wisdom. and know that God is with you from your dwelling place.

11.7 Seek God, and you will find out whether you will find out to the end that is sufficient.

11.8 What can you do, O heavens? What can you know, O depth of Sheol?

11.9 It is longer than the earth, and wider than the sea.

11.10 If he passes away and betrays and gathers, who will bring us back?

11.11 For he knows when it is false, and sees iniquity, and does not regard it.

11.12 And a foolish man will beget a wild man, and a wild city will give birth to a wild man.

11.13 If you prepare your heart and set your face toward him,

11.14 If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not a burnt offering dwell in thy tent.

11.15 For then you will lift up your face from the silence, and you will be in distress, and you will not be afraid.

11.16 For you will forget your labor like waters that have passed away.

11.17 And at noon the rust will rise, it will fly away like the morning.

11.18 And you have trusted that there is hope, and you have dug, and you will surely lie down.

11.19 And you lie down, and there is none to make you afraid, and many are afflicted with your face.

11.20 But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and their hope shall perish from them, and their hope shall perish from the spirit.

12.1 Then Job answered and said,

12.2 Surely you are a people, and wisdom will die with you.

12.3 My heart also is not as weak as yours, and who is there like these?

12.4 He who mocks his neighbor, I will be; he will call upon God, and he will answer him; he will mock the righteous and the blameless.

12.5 A torch of contempt for complacency, ready for the feasts of YHVH.

12.6 He will make tents for robbers, and refuge for those who provoke God to anger, whom God has brought into his hand.

12.7 But ask now the beasts, and the creeping things, and the fowls of the air, and they will tell thee.

12.8 Or speak to the earth and tell it, and the fish of the sea will tell you.

12.9 Who does not know in all this that the hand of YHVH has done this?

12.10 In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the spirit of all flesh.

12.11 For the ear that heareth shall try, and the palate that eateth shall taste.

12.12 With the aged is wisdom, and with length of days understanding.

12.13 Wisdom and strength are with him; counsel and understanding are with him.

12.14 He will destroy and not build; he will shut against anyone and not open.

12.15 He will stop the waters and dry them up, and send them forth, and they will become dry land.

12.16 His people are strong and resourceful, and he is prone to error and error.

12.17 He who leads counselors astray will deceive and deceive judges.

12.18 He brought down kings from the land of the Philistines, and bound them with chains.

12.19 He who leads priests astray and deceives the Athenians will

12.20 He takes away the tongue of the faithful, and the taste of the elders he takes away.

12.21 He pours contempt on the generous and makes weak paths.

12.22 He reveals depths from darkness, and brings out the shadows into light.

12.23 He will bring the nations to ruin, and the nations will be comforted.

12.24 He turns away the heart of the chief of the people of the land, and they wander in vain, not in the way.

12.25 They will grope for darkness and not light, and they will stagger like a drunkard.

13.1 Behold, all that my eye has seen, and my ear has heard, and understood it.

13.2 I know that you are not like me.

13.3 But I will speak to YHVH, and I will prove myself to him whom I desire.

13.4 But you are all false healers, all of you false healers.

13.5 O that the deaf should be silent, and that it might be for your wisdom!

13.6 Hear, I pray thee, my reproof, and give ear unto the multitude of my lips.

13.7 If you do not speak a lie, if you do speak deceitfully,

13.8 Turn your faces away, if you contend with God.

13.9 The good thing is that he will examine you, whether you will hang on him as a man would.

13.10 He will reprove you if you secretly hate him.

13.11 For you will be judged by him, and his fear will fall upon you.

13.12 Remember the parable of the ashes concerning the clay of your backs.

13.13 Keep silent before me, and I will speak, and it shall be done to me.

13.14 For what shall I bear my flesh in my hand, and put my life in my hand?

13.15 I will not desire that he should slay me, but I will confess my ways to his face.

13.16 He is also my salvation, for no flatterer shall come before him.

13.17 Hear the words of my sister and me in your ears.

13.18 Behold, I have executed judgment; I know that I will be righteous.

13.19 Who is he that will contend with me? For now I am consumed and overcome.

13.20 But do not do this twice, then I will not hide from you.

13.21 Remove thy hand far from me, and in thy truth do not forsake me.

13.22 And he shall call, and I will answer; or he shall speak, and he shall answer me.

13.23 How many are my transgressions and sins? My transgressions and my sin, judge me!

13.24 Why do you hide your face and count me as your enemy?

13.25 You will chase away the withered leaf, and you will chase away the dry straw.

13.26 For you write bitterness upon me, and leave me the days of my youth.

13.27 And thou shalt put a brace upon my feet, and shalt keep all my ways upon the roots of my feet, and shalt tread them down.

13.28 And he shall rot like a garment, and shall wear out like a moth-eaten garment.

14.1 Man, born of woman, is of few days and full of wrath.

14.2 He shall come forth as a bud, and wither, and flee away as a shadow, and shall not continue.

14.3 Yet you have opened your eyes to this, and you will bring me into judgment with you.

14.4 Who is pure from unclean?

14.5 If his days are diligent, the number of his months is with you, and you have made a covenant with him, and he will not pass away.

14.6 An hour is upon him, and he shall rest until he pleases, as a day's hireling.

14.7 For there is hope for a tree, if it be cut down, and it shall yet sprout again, and its suck shall not cease.

14.8 If he grow old in the earth, his root and stock will die in the dust.

14.9 He who smells water will flourish and reap a harvest like a plant.

14.10 And a man shall die, and be weak, and a man shall be stricken, and shall be in trouble.

14.11 The waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.

14.12 And no one shall lie down and rise until the heavens are opened, and they shall not be awakened or stirred up from their sleep.

14.13 Oh that thou wouldest hide me in hell, that thou wouldest hide me until thy wrath return. that thou wouldest give me a law, and remember me!

14.14 If a man dies, he will live all the days of his life, I hope until my replacement comes.

14.15 You will call, and I will answer you, according to the work of your hands.

14.16 For now you will count my steps, you will not keep track of my sin.

14.17 Seal up my transgressions in a bundle, and take care of my poverty.

14.18 But a mountain shall fall, and a stone shall be removed from its place.

14.19 The stones are worn away by the waters, the dust of the earth is washed away, and the hopes of man are destroyed.

14.20 You will attack him forever, and he will turn his face away, and you will send him away.

14.21 They shall honor their sons, and he shall not know them; and they shall grieve them, and he shall not understand them.

14.22 But his flesh shall be in pain for him, and his soul shall mourn for him.

15.1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,

15.2 A wise man will answer with understanding, and his belly will be filled with good things.

15.3 A matter proved will not stand, and words will not profit them.

15.4 You too will break fear and hinder speech before God.

15.5 For your iniquity will chastise your mouth, and you will choose the tongue of the naked.

15.6 Your own mouth, and not I, shall condemn you; and your own lips shall condemn you.

15.7 The first man is born, and before the hills he is defiled.

15.8 The secret God will hear and give you wisdom.

15.9 What do you know that we do not know? Understand, and he is not with us.

15.10 And also, behold, Isaias, his son, is greater than thy father's days.

15.11 The least you can do is comfort God, and speak softly to him.

15.12 What will your heart take you to, and what will your eyes sing?

15.13 For thou shalt return thy spirit unto God, and out of thy mouth shall come forth a cry.

15.14 What is man that he should be righteous? and what is he that is born of a woman that is righteous?

15.15 For he will not trust in his holiness, and the heavens are not pure in his sight.

15.16 Though a man be abhorred and despised, he that drinketh it is as water of fire.

15.17 Ahoh, hear me, and this I have seen, and I will declare.

15.18 Which the wise will say, and have not forgotten from their fathers.

15.19 To them alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them.

15.20 All the days of wickedness it is wrought, and for several years we are looked upon as a tyrant.

15.21 The sound of fear in his ears, in peace a robber will come upon us.

15.22 He will no longer believe in darkness, and he will wait for the sword.

15.23 He wandered about for bread, and knew that a day of darkness was at hand.

15.24 Trouble and distress will terrify him, and he will attack him like a future king, for entertainment.

15.25 For he leans on his hand, and on his breast he is strengthened.

15.26 He will run to him with his neck in the thick of his armor.

15.27 For he covered his face with his milk, and made a basket of bread upon me.

15.28 And the cities that are desolate shall be inhabited, and houses not inhabited, which were prepared for the waves.

15.29 He will not become rich, nor will his army rise, nor will he be brought down to the earth from them.

15.30 He will not depart from darkness; his breast shall be dried up by the flame, and he shall drive it away with the breath of his mouth.

15.31 Do not trust in a deceived person, for his reward will be vain.

15.32 Without his day, it will be full, and his paw will not be fresh.

15.33 He will flourish like a vine in the cedars, and cast forth his bud like an olive tree.

15.34 For the congregation of the hypocrites is desolate, and fire hath devoured the tabernacles of the righteous.

15.35 She conceives in labor and gives birth to mischief, and her belly prepares for deceit.

16.1 Then Job answered and said,

16.2 I have heard many such things from those who comfort you all in your labor.

16.3 The end of the words of the Spirit, or what will make you answer?

16.4 I also would speak as you do. If your soul were as mine, I would plead with you in words, and with my own head I would persuade you.

16.5 I will strengthen you with my mouth, and the movement of my lips will be dark.

16.6 If I speak, my pain will not be darkened, and I will not be able to go anywhere.

16.7 But now all my people have cursed me.

16.8 And he will wrinkle me up forever, and my face will be like a cloud before him.

16.9 His nose devoured me and he gnawed at me with his teeth, he would not let his eyes gouge out at me.

16.10 They opened their mouth wide against me with shame; they struck my cheek together, they were filled with shame.

16.11 He will deliver me over to an unjust god, and the hands of the wicked will crush me.

16.12 I was his, and he made me flutter, and he took me by the scruff of the neck, and he made me snap, and he set me up for his purpose.

16.13 His enemies will turn against me, he will split my reins open and will not spare; he will pour out my bitterness on the ground.

16.14 They will break through me, they will break through my face, they will run against me like a mighty man.

16.15 I sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and I buried my horns in the dust.

16.16 My face is red from weeping, and my eyelids are red with tears.

16.17 For I have not been angry with my hand, and my prayer has been successful.

16.18 O earth, cover not my blood, and let there be no place for my cry.

16.19 Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my testimony is on high.

16.20 My eyes have failed me when I have spoken to God.

16.21 And man shall be judged with God, and man with his neighbor.

16.22 For many years will pass, and I will not return to your tent.

17.1 My spirit is troubled, my days are troubled, my graves are troubled.

17.2 If they had not stood before me, and my eyes had been darkened by their rebellion,

17.3 Please make surety for your people. Who is near me?

17.4 For their heart is beyond understanding, therefore they will not be comforted.

17.5 He will say evil things to some, and the eyes of his children will fail.

17.6 And I will set me up as a proverb to the nations, and I will be a trial before them.

17.7 And the evil eye shall smite me, and I shall make them all as a shadow.

17.8 The upright will be ashamed of this, and the pure will be ashamed of the hypocrites.

17.9 But the righteous holdeth fast his way, and cleanseth his hands, and increaseth strength.

17.10 But all of you, sit down and come, I pray you, and I will not find any wise man among you.

17.11 My days are past, my heart's heirs have been cut off.

17.12 Night and day they will bring light near because of darkness.

17.13 If I dwell in Sheol, my house in darkness, I will make my bed.

17.14 I have called to destruction, my father, you are my mother, my sister to Rama.

17.15 And where is my hope? and my hope, who will set it straight?

17.16 It is enough to ask you to descend if you land together on the ground.

18.1 Then answered Bildad the Shihite, and said,

18.2 Until when will you put your money in the account of Malin? You will understand, and then we will talk.

18.3 Why are we considered as beasts, and are we despised in your sight?

18.4 He devours his soul with his nose, for the earth will be abandoned for your sake, and he will uproot a stone from its place.

18.5 The light of the wicked will also be extinguished, and the light of their fire will not shine.

18.6 The light is darkened in his tent, and his light is dimmed upon him.

18.7 Let his steps be hindered, and his own counsel shall overthrow him.

18.8 For he casts a net with his feet, and he walks in a snare.

18.9 He will take hold of the heel of a thorn, and fast upon it.

18.10 His trap is hidden in the land, and his trap is on the path.

18.11 They surrounded him with terror and scattered him at his feet.

18.12 Let us be hungry and ready for his side.

18.13 He shall eat the flesh of his own flesh, he shall eat the blood of the firstborn of death.

18.14 He will tear away his confidence from his tent, and you will lead him to the king of terror.

18.15 You will dwell in his tent, but he will not rain sulfur on Noah.

18.16 Beneath its roots it withers, and above its harvest withers.

18.17 His memory has perished from the earth, and he is not remembered on the face of the earth.

18.18 He will turn him from light to darkness, and he will wander in the wilderness.

18.19 He has no grandson or grandson among his people, and there is no survivor in his dwellings.

18.20 On his day the last breathed, and the first took hold of the gate.

18.21 But these are the habitations of oppression, and this is a place that God knows not.

19.1 Then Job answered and said,

19.2 How long will my soul be troubled, and you will oppress me with words?

19.3 These ten times you will mock me, and you will not be ashamed; you will be known to me.

19.4 And though I have erred, yet remain thou from my error.

19.5 If indeed you magnify yourself against me and prove my reproach against me,

19.6 Know that God is my enemy, and his siege is against me.

19.7 I will cry out in anger, but I will not be answered, and there is no justice.

19.8 I will set up a wall, that I may not pass through, and darkness will be upon my paths.

19.9 He has stripped me of my honor and taken away the crown from my head.

19.10 He will sprout around me and go, and he will spread out like a green tree.

19.11 And his anger was kindled against me, and he counted me as his enemy.

19.12 His troops will come together and attack me, and they will encamp around my tent.

19.13 My brother is far above me, and I know him, but he is far from me.

19.14 My relatives have ceased, and my acquaintances have forgotten me.

19.15 My house is a stranger, and my mother a stranger. You will consider me a foreigner in their eyes.

19.16 I have called to my servant, but he will not answer; with my mouth I will plead with him.

19.17 My spirit is strange to my wife, and my affection to the children of my womb.

19.18 Even the wicked who hate me will rise up and speak against me.

19.19 My secret and my love have become my abominations.

19.20 My soul clings to my skin and to my flesh, and I flee with a second skin.

19.21 Have mercy on me, have mercy on me, my friends, for the hand of God has touched me.

19.22 Why do you persecute me as if I were a god? And you are not satisfied with my food?

19.23 Who will give his name and write it down? Who will give it in a book and erase it?

19.24 With a pen of iron and lead, they will be cut into stone forever.

19.25 And I knew that my soul was alive and that the last one would rise from the dust.

19.26 And after my skin they have plucked it off, and God hath taken hold of my flesh.

19.27 Which I have taken for myself, and my eyes have seen, and no stranger hath consumed it, I have consumed it by my law.

19.28 For you will say, "What is he that is persecuted for? And what root is found in me?"

19.29 Be ye delivered from the sword. for the wrath of the wicked is the sword. that ye may know that judgment is

20.1 Then answered Zapher the Naamathite, and said,

20.2 Therefore let them turn me away, and for my sake they shall be in me.

20.3 I will hear the word of my mouth, and the spirit of my understanding shall answer me.

20.4 This you know, since when have you placed man upon the earth?

20.5 For the wicked are near at hand, and the joy of the flatterer is but for a moment.

20.6 If his top mounts up to heaven, and his head reaches to the grave,

20.7 For he shall perish for ever. they that see him shall say, Aha!

20.8 He flies away like a dream and is not found, and he wanders like a vision of the night.

20.9 An eye that has been tarred and will not rise again, nor will its place be repaired again.

20.10 His sons will be poor, and his hands will be strong.

20.11 His bones are full of youth, and his people lie down in the dust.

20.12 If you sweeten evil in his mouth, he will destroy it under his tongue.

20.13 He will have mercy on her and not forsake her, but will keep her in his presence.

20.14 His food in his stomach has become bitter like gall in his stomach.

20.15 The army has swallowed us up and has thrown us out of its sight. Our inheritance is in the land of the living.

20.16 The head of a tyrant will suck, you will kill him with the tongue of a viper.

20.17 Do not fear the floods of rivers, rivers of honey and butter.

20.18 He who repays will be weary and will not be consumed, like a strong man who will not be discouraged.

20.19 For he has destroyed the poor, and left them a house of plunder, and they will not build it.

20.20 For he who does not know in his belly, in his beloved he will not escape.

20.21 There is nothing left to eat, therefore his good deeds will not be fulfilled.

20.22 In the fullness of their labor, all their labor will come to them.

20.23 Let him fill his belly, and let him send forth the fury of his anger, and let him rain upon him with his wrath.

20.24 He will flee from an iron weapon; a bronze bow will replace him.

20.25 He drew forth and came forth from the midst of the earth, and lightning from his bitterness shall walk upon him, O Amite.

20.26 All darkness lurks in his north; a fire will consume him; he will not be consumed; he will not harm the remnant of his tent.

20.27 The heavens will reveal their iniquity, and the earth will rise up against them.

20.28 He will cut off the harvest of his house, and the carpenters will cut off the timber in the day of his wrath.

20.29 This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the inheritance of the wicked from God.

21.1 Then Job answered and said,

21.2 Hear the sound of my words, and this shall be your comfort.

21.3 Proclaim to me, and I will speak; and after my words you will mock.

21.4 I am a man, speak to me, and why is my spirit not shortened?

21.5 Turn to me and say, "Put your hand over your mouth."

21.6 If I remember, I am afraid, and my flesh trembles.

21.7 Why should the wicked live, even though they are old and strong?

21.8 Their seed is before them, their people, and their offspring before their eyes.

21.9 Their houses are safe from fear, and there is no fear of God upon them.

21.10 His ox shall go forth, and not be ashamed; his cow shall cast forth, and not miscarry.

21.11 They will send their slaves away like sheep, and their children will dance.

21.12 They shall bear the harp and the lyre, and rejoice to the sound of the organ.

21.13 They will spend their days in the best of times, and in a moment they will be cut off from the grave.

21.14 And they said unto God, Depart from him; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.

21.15 What is sufficient for us to be served, and what is the benefit for us to be harmed by it?

21.16 They have no good in their hand; the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

21.17 How many a lamp of the wicked shall he burn, and come to his own, and he shall divide ropes with his nose?

21.18 They will be a book before the wind, and a handful of it will be stolen by the storm.

21.19 God will hide his strength from his children, and he will repay him, and he will know.

21.20 His eye shall see his hand, and because he hath drunk enough,

21.21 For what did they desire in his house after him, and the number of his months they counted?

21.22 God will not teach wisdom, and he will judge the proud.

21.23 This one will die, for he will be completely satisfied and at peace.

21.24 His udders are full of milk, and his bones are filled with marrow.

21.25 And he shall die in bitterness of soul, and shall not eat of good things.

21.26 They shall lie down together in the dust, and the earth shall cover them.

21.27 For I know your thoughts and your plots against me.

21.28 For you say, "Where is the house of the generous one? Where is the tent where the wicked dwell?"

21.29 Did you not ask those who passed by and receive, and you were not rejected?

21.30 For the day of YHVH shall be dark, and the day of transgressions shall be brought.

21.31 Who can declare his way to his face? And he has done it, and who will repay him?

21.32 And he will be for the graves of Jubilee, and for Gadish he will be careful.

21.33 They will make for him a riverbed, and after him every man will draw, and before him there is no number.

21.34 And how will you comfort me in vain, and your answer remains above?

22.1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,

22.2 Let not a man be in danger, but let him be in danger of his wise master.

22.3 I desire that you will be righteous, and if you do wrong, that you will perfect your ways.

22.4 Your fear will save you, it will come with you in judgment.

22.5 Is not your wickedness great, and your iniquities endless?

22.6 For you have robbed your brother without cause, and have stripped the naked of their garments.

22.7 You will not give water to the thirsty, nor withhold bread from the hungry.

22.8 And a man shall sow the earth with his hands, and shall dwell therein with a proud countenance.

22.9 Widows you have sent away empty, and the seed of the fatherless you have crushed.

22.10 Therefore are the corners of thee full of iron, and fear shall suddenly come upon thee.

22.11 Or darkness you will not see, and a flood of water will cover you.

22.12 Did not God lift up the heavens and see the top of the stars, that they were lifted up?

22.13 And you said, "What does God know, for the sake of the cloud he will judge?"

22.14 Thick clouds hide him, and he does not see, and the circle of heaven moves.

22.15 You will guard the way of the stranger forever, whose way is always evil.

22.16 Which are wrinkled, and not in time did the river pour down their foundation.

22.17 They that say unto God, Depart from him; and what shall he do? it sufficeth them.

22.18 And he filled their houses with good things. but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

22.19 The righteous shall see and be glad. but the pure shall mock them.

22.20 If we do not perish, we will be saved, and the rest will be consumed by fire.

22.21 Be poor with him, and repay him with your good harvest.

22.22 Take the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.

22.23 If you return until you have finished building, you shall remove the burnt offering from your tent.

22.24 And thou shalt sit upon the dust of the field, and upon the fields of Ophir,

22.25 And it shall be that you have enough money and plenty of it.

22.26 For then you will delight in my breasts and lift up your face to God.

22.27 You will plead with him, and he will hear you, and you will pay your vows.

22.28 And you shall decree a word, and it shall arise for you, and a light shall shine on your paths.

22.29 For they have humbled him, and said, O body, and the eyes of Joshua shall be saved.

22.30 A clean island will escape and escape in the strength of your hands

23.1 Then Job answered and said,

23.2 Even today I am angry with you, my hand is heavy on my sighing.

23.3 Oh that I knew and found him, I would come to his end!

23.4 I will set judgment before him, and fill my mouth with reproofs.

23.5 I know the words that he will answer me, and I understand not what he will say to me.

23.6 The multitude of my enemies is not against me, but he dwells in me.

23.7 There the righteous shall be with his people, and I will not let my judgments be forever.

23.8 I will go forward and not back, and I will not understand it.

23.9 Samuel did it, and I did not hold back, he wrapped his right hand around me, and I did not see.

23.10 For he knows the way before me, and I will come forth as gold.

23.11 As for me, I have held fast to his way, and have not turned back.

23.12 The commandments of his lips I will not transgress. I have swallowed up the words of his mouth.

23.13 And he is in one, and who shall bring him back, and his soul shall be with him, and he shall do it?

23.14 For he will make a covenant with YHVH, and many priests will be with him.

23.15 Therefore I will be afraid of him; I will look upon him and be afraid of him.

23.16 And to the one who softened my heart and made my breasts tremble,

23.17 For I have not feared darkness, nor the shadow of death.

24.1 Why have times not been observed by me, and have they known and seen his days?

24.2 They will seize the borders, they will plunder and plunder the flock.

24.3 They will drive the orphan's donkey, they will trample the widow's ox.

24.4 The poor shall turn aside from the way together, and the poor of the land shall hide themselves.

24.5 They are wild beasts in the wilderness, they have gone forth from their labors to devour the pastures, to provide food for the young men.

24.6 In the field they shall reap in the night, and the vineyard of the wicked they shall tread down.

24.7 They will spend the night naked, without clothing, and without covering.

24.8 They will be wet from the mountain streams, and without shelter they will embrace the rock.

24.9 They rob the fatherless and rob the poor.

24.10 Naked they went without clothing, and hungry they carried sackcloth.

24.11 Among their ranks the vinedressers will cry out, and they will thirst.

24.12 He will be cleansed from the city of the dead, and the soul of the slain will be saved, and God will not despise prayer.

24.13 They were in rebellion against the light; they did not know his ways, nor did they abide in his paths.

24.14 In the light of day a murderer will kill the poor and needy, and in the night he will be like a thief.

24.15 And the eye of a wicked man shall keep his breath, saying, He shall not wink at me, nor hide his face.

24.16 He plowed in the darkness, and in the daytime he sealed his houses, and they knew no light.

24.17 For together they will eat the figs, for he will know the horrors of the figs.

24.18 He is swift on the face of the waters. cursed is their portion in the land. he turneth not into a way of vineyards.

24.19 The heat and the cold will steal from the days of snow, and the grave will sin.

24.20 The womb of the mountain shall forget him, and he shall be no more remembered, and shall be broken like a burning tree.

24.21 The barren woman will not bear children, and the widow will not prosper.

24.22 And he shall draw forth the mighty in his strength, and shall not trust in their lives.

24.23 He will give him confidence and support, and his eyes will be on their ways.

24.24 They rose up a little, and were not, and they smote as they leaped, and as the head of Shebal they were cut off.

24.25 And if I do not, who will deceive me, and will give my word to God?

25.1 Then answered Bildad the Shihite, and said,

25.2 The proverb and the fear of his people made peace on his high places.

25.3 Is there a number of his armies? And upon whom shall his light not arise?

25.4 How can man be just with God? How can he that is born of a woman be just?

25.5 Even the moon shall not shine, and the stars shall not be worthy of his sight.

25.6 Though man is a vile thing, and the son of man a worm,

26.1 Then Job answered and said,

26.2 What help have you without strength? Are you saved by an arm that is not strong?

26.3 Why do you advise without wisdom and insight to the wise?

26.4 Whom have you called by name, and whose spirit has gone out from you?

26.5 The ghosts will defile themselves under water and their neighbors

26.6 Sheol is naked before him, and there is no covering for destruction.

26.7 The north bows down to the earth, the earth hangs on nothing.

26.8 He poured out water in its thickets, and the clouds did not break under them.

26.9 From the stronghold of the face of the earth, Perez, answered him.

26.10 A feast on the face of the waters until the end of light with darkness

26.11 The pillars of heaven shall tremble and be astonished at his rebuke.

26.12 By his strength he divided the sea, and by his understanding he crushed Rahab.

26.13 In his spirit he has made a cow, and in his hand he has made a serpent.

26.14 These are the ends of his way, and what is the least thing heard of him? and the thunder of his might, who can behold it?

27.1 Then Job finished his parable and said,

27.2 Live in the pot of my judgment, and in the bitter den of my soul.

27.3 For as long as I have breath, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils,

27.4 If my lips speak, my tongue utters deceit.

27.5 God forbid that I should justify you to the point of being offended; I would not take away your innocence from me.

27.6 I have held fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go. my heart shall not be ashamed of my days.

27.7 Let my enemy be as the wicked, and let him rise up as a burden.

27.8 For what hope is there for a flatterer, when he shall do it, when God shall deceive his soul?

27.9 God will hear his cry, when trouble comes upon him.

27.10 If he delights in my breast, he will call upon God at all times.

27.11 I will enlighten you with the hand of God, whose people I will not destroy.

27.12 You have all seen it, and why is it a waste of time?

27.13 This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the inheritance of tyrants, which they shall take from me.

27.14 If his children are multiplied, they shall fall by the sword, and his descendants shall not be satisfied with bread.

27.15 Those who remain in death will be buried, and their widows will not weep.

27.16 If he heaps up silver like dust, and prepares clothing like clay,

27.17 He will prepare and the righteous will wear it, and he will distribute pure silver.

27.18 He built it as he built his house, and he made a fence as a branch.

27.19 The rich man lies down and does not lift up his eyes, but he is awake and does not see.

27.20 You will overtake him like water in a night terror, a storm will steal him away.

27.21 They will carry him forward and he will go, and they will remove him from his place.

27.22 And he shall cast upon him, and shall not spare. from his hand shall he flee in the wind.

27.23 He will be pleased with him as he is, and he will hiss at him from his place.

28.1 For there is a place for silver, and a place for gold,

28.2 He will take iron from the dust, and cast bronze from the stones.

28.3 There is an end to darkness, and for every purpose he searches out dark stones and images.

28.4 A stream burst forth from a foreign people, forgotten by the feet of the poor, moved by no man.

28.5 A land from which bread came forth, and beneath it it turned as if it were fire.

28.6 A place of sapphire stones and ore of gold.

28.7 The path they do not know is the eagle's, nor the eye of a deer that has tarred it.

28.8 The sons of the arrow did not tread him down, nor did they witness against him that he was afflicted.

28.9 He stretched out his hand in the wilderness, and became like the roots of the mountains.

28.10 In the droughts of the year he broke forth, and his eye saw every precious thing.

28.11 From the weeping of the rivers of Ethiopia and the oblivion, light has come forth.

28.12 But where can wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding?

28.13 No man knows its worth, nor will it be found in the land of the living.

28.14 The deep said, It is not in me; and the sea said, It is not with me.

28.15 He will not put a price under it, nor will he weigh out its price in silver.

28.16 You will not be ensnared by the stain of Ophir, with precious stones and sapphires.

28.17 Gold and glass will not be valued, nor will gold vessels be exchanged for them.

28.18 Ramoth and Gebisheth will not be remembered, and wisdom will be drawn from pearls.

28.19 The Ethiopian ephod will not be set in a pure spot, it will not be torn.

28.20 And where does wisdom come from? And where is the place of understanding?

28.21 And it was hid from the sight of all living things, and from the fowls of the heavens it was hid.

28.22 Doom and death have spoken with our ears, we have heard, we have heard.

28.23 God understands her way, and he knows her place.

28.24 For he shall look to the ends of the earth, and shall see under the whole heaven.

28.25 To make the wind a weight, and the waters a measure.

28.26 He made it a law for the rain and a way for the lightning to strike lightly.

28.27 Then the wise man saw and told, and also inquired.

28.28 And he said unto man, Behold, the fear of YHVH, that is wisdom, and to depart from evil is understanding.

29.1 Then Job finished his parable and said,

29.2 Who will give me the moon of the east, as God will preserve me?

29.3 O my God, my head is lighted by His light, I walk in darkness.

29.4 When I was in the days of my reproach, in the secret of God, my tabernacle was upon me.

29.5 While I am standing around my young men,

29.6 In the bathhouse of Hamath, and in the molten rock beside the rivers of oil.

29.7 I went out by the gate of Eli Kereth, in the street I will make my seat.

29.8 The young men saw me and hid themselves, and the old men arose and stood.

29.9 The ministers have stopped speaking, and they have put their hand to their mouth.

29.10 The voice of princes is hidden, and their tongue is hidden from the wise.

29.11 For the ear heard and approved of me, and the eye saw and confirmed me.

29.12 For I will deliver the poor, the needy, and the fatherless, and he that hath none to help him.

29.13 The blessing of the dead shall come upon me, and upon the heart of the widow of Arnan.

29.14 I put on righteousness, and he clothed me with judgment as a robe and a turban.

29.15 I was eyes for the skin and feet for the Passover.

29.16 I am a father to the poor, and I know not many; I will search them out.

29.17 And I will break the bands of the yoke, and I will cast out the prey from his teeth.

29.18 And he said, With the reeds of Ague and the blue of the locust,

29.19 My roots are open to the waters, and the dew will settle on my branches.

29.20 My glory is new, and I have a new bow in my hand.

29.21 They listened to me and prayed, and they followed my advice.

29.22 After my words they did not sleep, and my word flowed from them.

29.23 And they began to rain upon me, and opened their mouths wide for Malchus.

29.24 I will laugh at them, but they will not believe, and the light of my face will not fade.

29.25 I will choose their way, and sit at the head, and sit as a king in the army, as one who comforts the mourners.

30.1 And now they that are younger than I have mocked me, in the days when I had made their fathers to dwell with the dogs of my flock.

30.2 Even the strength of their hands, why should I be ashamed of them?

30.3 In the absence and in the lonely embrace of the deserters, last night a holocaust and a burden were laid.

30.4 Those who gather salt from the leaves of the bush and the roots of the briers to warm themselves

30.5 They will be driven out of the city, their tents will be torn down like a thief.

30.6 In the valley of the rivers, dwell the pits of clay and the pits of clay.

30.7 They will lie down among the bushes, they will lie down under the thornbushes.

30.8 The sons of Nabal, even the sons of the nameless, are cut off from the land.

30.9 And now I have become their music, and I have become their word.

30.10 My abominations are far from me, and they have not darkened before me, only

30.11 For Jethro opened and answered me, and restrained me from sending him.

30.12 At the right hand of the young man shall stand the feet of his messenger, and they shall spread out their tents upon me.

30.13 I have turned aside from my path to be fruitful, but it has not helped me.

30.14 They shall come like a wide flood, under whose feet they shall roll.

30.15 The opposite is against me. Fear pursues me like a wind, and my salvation like a storm.

30.16 And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold of me.

30.17 My soul is cut off from me by night, and my sins will not lie down.

30.18 With great power he will dress me up like my garment, he will bind me up like a garment.

30.19 Make me a donkey, and I will be like dust and ashes.

30.20 I cried to you, but you did not answer me; I stood still, and you looked at me.

30.21 Be cruel to me, and with your own hand you will destroy me.

30.22 Take me to the wind, ride me, and make me equal.

30.23 For I know that death will bring me back, and the house of meeting for all the living.

30.24 But I will not stretch out my hand, if in his redemption they are in trouble.

30.25 If I have not wept for the poor, my soul has been grieved for the needy.

30.26 For I hoped for good, but evil came; and I desired light, but darkness came.

30.27 Their bowels boiled, and their blood did not flow, the days of poverty.

30.28 I walked in the heat of the day, I stood up in the company of the righteous.

30.29 I was a brother to jackals, and a foe to the daughters of ostriches.

30.30 The dawn has risen upon me, and I am afraid of the sword.

30.31 And it came to pass, that the lyre was a harp, and the lute a lamentation.

31.1 I have made a covenant with my eyes, and how can I look upon a virgin?

31.2 And what portion is there for God above, and what inheritance for the wicked?

31.3 Is not he a stranger to oppression, and a stranger to workers of iniquity?

31.4 Surely he sees my ways and counts all my steps.

31.5 If I have walked with vanity, and have taken hold of deceit,

31.6 Let me be weighed in the balances of righteousness, and let God know my end.

31.7 If I turn aside from the way, my heart has gone after my eyes, and my hands have cleaved to a thing.

31.8 I will sow, and another shall eat; and my seed shall take root.

31.9 If my heart has been enticed by a woman, and I have laid wait at the door of my neighbor,

31.10 You will grind after my wife, and they will be crushed after her.

31.11 For it is a wickedness, and it is a crime.

31.12 For it is a fire that will devour to destruction, and will root out all my crops.

31.13 If I have withheld the judgment of my servant, and my truth from many before me,

31.14 What shall I do, if God arise? and if he visit, what shall I answer?

31.15 Did not he make him in the belly of my Maker, and fashion him in one womb?

31.16 If I have withheld the goods of the poor, and the eyes of the widow have eaten,

31.17 And the poor shall eat thereof alone, and the fatherless shall not eat thereof.

31.18 For I have been brought up in sorrow from my youth, and have groaned from my mother's womb.

31.19 If I see the poor without clothing, and the needy without covering,

31.20 If not, deliver me from my sins, and let my lambs be warmed by the fire.

31.21 If I have stretched out my hand against the fatherless, I will see my help in the gate.

31.22 My shoulder shall fall from the waist, and my thigh from the calf shall be broken.

31.23 For the fear of God is a God, and his burden I cannot bear.

31.24 If I put gold in baskets and went away, I said, "I am safe."

31.25 If I rejoice because my army is great, and because my hand is mighty,

31.26 If I see light, because it is gone, and the precious moon is gone,

31.27 And I will hide myself in the secret place of my heart, and I will put my hand on my mouth.

31.28 It is also a criminal offense because I have denied the God above.

31.29 If I rejoice in the food of my enemies, and I complain because they find evil,

31.30 And I have not suffered him to sin, that he should ask his soul in these things.

31.31 If they did not say, "When will my tents be built?" Who will not swear by their flesh?

31.32 No stranger shall lodge outside; I will open my doors to the guest.

31.33 If I have covered up my transgressions like a man, to hide poverty in my secret place,

31.34 For I will be abhorred by many, and despised by families, and I will not go out to anyone.

31.35 Who will give me the ear of my voice? They are my signs, and they will answer me. And the book of my teacher is written by a wise man.

31.36 If it were not for my head that I should wear crowns,

31.37 The number of our steps will be like the number of our steps.

31.38 If I were to fall, my land would cry out, and Ptolemy would weep together.

31.39 If I have eaten my flesh without money, and have wasted the soul of its owner,

31.40 Under the wheat came forth a worm, and under the hair of a woman the words of Job were ended.

32.1 And these three men sat down to afflict Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

32.2 Then the anger of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was kindled against Job; his anger was kindled against his righteousness, and his soul was moved with anger against God.

32.3 And his anger was kindled against his three friends, because they found no answer, and condemned Job.

32.4 And Elijah continued to speak to Job, because he was much older than he.

32.5 And Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of the three men, and his anger was kindled.

32.6 Then Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am young in years, and ye are old. therefore I bowed down, and feared to know you.

32.7 I said, "Days will speak, and many years will know wisdom."

32.8 Indeed, there is a spirit in man, and a soul that understands them.

32.9 Not many will be wise, nor will the aged understand judgment.

32.10 Therefore I said, Hearken unto me, O my brother; I also know.

32.11 I have been accustomed to your words, to listen to your wisdom, to investigate your complaint.

32.12 I will consider your witnesses, and behold, Job has no one to prove his words against you.

32.13 Lest ye say, We have found wisdom, let no man deceive us.

32.14 And he brought no complaint against me, and I will not answer him with your words.

32.15 They did not answer again, they copied words from them.

32.16 And I thought that they would not speak, for they stood still, and answered no more.

32.17 I will answer also, my brother, I also know.

32.18 For my words have troubled me, and the wind in my belly hath troubled me.

32.19 Behold, my belly shall not open like wine, it shall burst as new fathers.

32.20 I will speak, and I will be comforted; I will open my lips and answer.

32.21 I will not lift up my face to any man, nor will I call upon any man.

32.22 For I knew not that I should eat, and I was almost dead.

33.1 But hear, O Job, my words, and all the words of my hearing.

33.2 Behold, I have opened my mouth to speak, my tongue to my lips.

33.3 My words are sincere, and my lips are clear in their speech.

33.4 Give me a spirit, and a soul that is not satisfied,

33.5 If you can, restore my fortune before it is established.

33.6 Behold, I am like a clay god, I have also winked.

33.7 Behold, I will not demand of thee, and my oppressor shall not respect thee.

33.8 But you have spoken in my hearing, and I hear a voice of lamentation.

33.9 I am pure and without transgression; I am innocent, and there is no iniquity in me.

33.10 They will be angry with me; whoever finds them will consider me his enemy.

33.11 He will put a brace on my feet, he will guard all my guests.

33.12 Surely you are not right in this, I will answer you, for God is greater than man.

33.13 Why should there be strife with him? For he will not answer all his words.

33.14 For God will speak at once, and at two he will not be justified.

33.15 In a dream, a vision of the night, in deep sleep upon men, in slumbers upon my bed.

33.16 Then he will open the ears of men and seal their message.

33.17 To remove a man's deed, and a man's body shall cover him.

33.18 His soul shall be darkened by the wicked, and he shall live beyond the bounds of the law.

33.19 And he shall be proved in pain upon his bed, and his own strife shall be given him.

33.20 And his life is bread for his soul, and his soul is food for his desire.

33.21 His flesh was consumed from sight, and his bones did not see the mouths of his flesh.

33.22 And he drew near to destroy his soul, and they cut him to pieces.

33.23 If there is an angel over him, one in a thousand, to tell a man to be righteous,

33.24 And he was moved, and said, He hath redeemed him from the rebellion of the wicked. I have found a refuge.

33.25 He who has been weaned from his youth will return to the days of his youth.

33.26 He shall plead with God, and be pleased with him, and shall see his face with joy, and shall restore to man his righteousness.

33.27 He is righteous before men, and he says, "I have sinned, and I have done wrong, and it is not right for me."

33.28 Redeem my soul beyond the chaff, and my life in the light.

33.29 All these things shall he do unto the threefold man.

33.30 To bring back his soul from corruption to the light of life

33.31 Hearken, O Job. hearken unto me, O deaf man, and I will speak.

33.32 If there is any that accuseth me, restore me. for I have desired thy righteousness.

33.33 If you do not listen to me, you deaf person, I will teach you wisdom.

34.1 Then Elihu answered and said,

34.2 The wise hearken unto me, and they that understand hearken unto me.

34.3 For the ear that heareth shall discern, and the palate that savoreth to eat.

34.4 Judgment is chosen for us, we know among us what is good.

34.5 For Job said, My righteousness is in me, and my judgment is in the bottle.

34.6 By my judgments I have disappointed a man who is half innocent.

34.7 Who is as strong as Job? He drinks up scorn like water.

34.8 And I kept company with workers of iniquity, and walked with men of wickedness.

34.9 For he said, "A man shall not perish in his own cause with God."

34.10 Therefore the men of heart have heard me, saying, blasphemy against the god of wickedness, and against the devil of oppression.

34.11 For a man's work shall be rewarded, and as a stranger shall a man find it.

34.12 Even though God will not condemn, and demons will not receive justice.

34.13 Who has appointed the earth over him? and who has established the whole world?

34.14 If he sets his heart and his spirit toward him, he will gather them together.

34.15 All flesh shall die together, and man shall return to dust.

34.16 And if Binah heard this, she listened to the voice of Meli

34.17 Shall he who hates justice be clothed? and if the righteous be condemned,

34.18 He said to the king, "The wicked one is not kind to the generous."

34.19 Who did not show partiality to princes, nor did he show partiality to the poor, for all were the work of his hands.

34.20 In a moment they will die, and at midnight they will attack and pass by, and will remove a knight without a hand.

34.21 For his eyes are on the ways of a man, and he watches all his steps.

34.22 There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

34.23 For no one is to be required to go to God in judgment any more.

34.24 He did not search out the mighty, and he set others in their stead.

34.25 Therefore he will know their servants, and turn it into night, and they will be oppressed.

34.26 Under the wicked there is doubt instead of vision.

34.27 Therefore they turned away from him, and all his ways were not wise.

34.28 He will bring upon him the cry of the poor, and the cry of the needy he will hear.

34.29 And he shall be silent, and who shall be wicked, and hide his face? and who shall make us righteous, and upon a nation, and upon a man together?

34.30 From a king to a man, from a people to a people,

34.31 For I have sworn to God, I will not repent.

34.32 Without you, I would have taken hold of you, and if I had worked hard, I would not have gathered.

34.33 Your mother will be happy because you are tired, because you will choose and not me, and what did you know?

34.34 Let the wise speak to me, and let a wise man hearken unto me.

34.35 Job speaks without knowledge, nor does he speak with understanding.

34.36 My father will test Job forever because he has been patient with evil people.

34.37 ​​For he will add to his sin transgression among us, and will be satisfied, and will multiply his words against God.

35.1 And Elijah answered and said,

35.2 This you have thought of for judgment, you have said, I am righteous before God.

35.3 For you will say, "What harm will it do you?" "What benefit will I get from my sin?"

35.4 I will bring you back from the wilderness, and your companions with you.

35.5 Look to the heavens and see, and behold, the heavens are higher than you.

35.6 If you have sinned, what will you do to him? And if your transgressions are many, what will you do to him?

35.7 If you are righteous, what will you give him, or what will he take from your hand?

35.8 To a man like you is your wickedness, and to a man like you is your righteousness.

35.9 Many oppressed people will call on Jesus from the arms of many.

35.10 And he said not, Where is God, that he should make singers in the night?

35.11 They will teach us from the beasts of the earth and from the birds of the heavens.

35.12 There they will cry out, but no one will answer them because of the wicked.

35.13 But God will not hear in vain, and my spirit will not be justified.

35.14 Though you say, "We will not judge before him," and yet you will bring trouble upon him,

35.15 And now, because he has no restraint for his anger, and knows no great evil,

35.16 And Job will make amends with his mouth, without knowledge, for he will not complain long ago.

36.1 And Elihu concluded, and said,

36.2 A crown is too small for me, and I am too weak, for God has yet words.

36.3 I will bring knowledge from afar, and I will make my deeds righteous.

36.4 For surely my thoughts are not false, but my thoughts are pure with you.

36.5 For God is mighty, and he will not be weary of the mighty in heart.

36.6 The wicked shall not live, but the judgment of the poor shall be given.

36.7 He will not lower his eyes to the righteous, and to kings to the throne, and he will set them forever, and they will exalt him.

36.8 And if the righteous are bound, they shall be snared in the ropes of the poor.

36.9 And he told them their deeds and their transgressions, that they might prevail.

36.10 And he inclined his ear to instruction, and said, They shall dwell in oppression.

36.11 If they listen and work, they will be able to spend their days in good and pleasant things.

36.12 And if they hear not the word, they will pass by, and be consumed without knowledge.

36.13 And the proud in heart will not even put their trust in him, because he has bound them.

36.14 They died in the youth of their soul, and they lived in the sanctuaries.

36.15 The poor will be delivered from their affliction, and will cry out in the oppression of their ears.

36.16 And he also stirred you up from a narrow, wide mouth, not firm under it, and your mouth fell, full of manure.

36.17 And the judgment of the wicked shall be full of judgment and justice.

36.18 For anger may not provoke you to doubt, and many apostasy may not befall you.

36.19 Prepare your rest, not in trouble, nor in all the efforts of your strength.

36.20 Do not seek to go up against the nations tonight.

36.21 Beware, turn not to iniquity. for this thou hast chosen me from among you.

36.22 For he shall not be exalted in his strength, whosoever shall be as a teacher?

36.23 Who has commanded him his way, and who has said, "The work of a high priest is finished?"

36.24 Remember that you will be successful in your work, for people have prevailed.

36.25 Every man who sees him will look from afar.

36.26 They are God, and we do not know the number of their seconds, nor do we search.

36.27 For he will cause the drops of water to fall, and they will pour down rain upon YHVH.

36.28 The clouds will pour down rain upon me, and many people will be scattered.

36.29 Even if he understands the interpretations of the Hebrews, his heart will be troubled.

36.30 For he spread his light upon it, and the roots of the sea covered it.

36.31 For in their hands he will give food to the multitude of the peoples.

36.32 He covered the palms with light, and they shone upon him with a blazing fire.

36.33 His neighbor will say of him, "More than a burnt offering,

37.1 Yet my heart trembles and is moved out of its place.

37.2 They heard the sound of a voice in anger, and a word came out of his mouth.

37.3 Under the whole heaven he will shine, and his light will be on the ends of the earth.

37.4 After him a voice shall roar, and shall thunder with the voice of his majesty. and they shall not follow them, because they shall hear his voice.

37.5 God thunders with his voice, doing wonders, great things that we do not know.

37.6 For he shall call the snow, "earth," and the rain, "rain," "rain of showers," and "rain of his strength."

37.7 Every man's hand shall be sealed, that all men may know his work.

37.8 And a beast shall come from the ambush, and shall dwell in her dens.

37.9 A storm will come from the room, and cold from the outcasts.

37.10 From the breath of God, ice and water are given in abundance.

37.11 Even a righteous man will trouble the thick cloud, spreading its light.

37.12 And he is the one who turns back in his cunning to do all that is fast upon the face of the earth.

37.13 Whether for his tribe, or for his country, or for his kindness, he will find him.

37.14 Job heard this, and stood and considered the wonders of God.

37.15 You knew that there was no god among them, and the light of our cloud appeared.

37.16 You have made known to the Philistines the wonders of the undivided.

37.17 Whose clothes are warm in the quiet of the land of the south?

37.18 You will soar with him to mighty heights, like a solid mirror.

37.19 We announced what was said to him, but he was not prepared for the darkness.

37.20 Let it be said to him, I will speak, if any man say, I will swallow him up.

37.21 And now they saw no light, but a bright light in the heavens, and a wind passed by, and purified them.

37.22 From a heart of gold, you will come to a God of great and terrible glory.

37.23 It is not enough that he is found wanting in strength and justice, and the great righteousness will not be answered.

37.24 Therefore shall men fear him, but none of the wise in heart shall see him.

38.1 Then YHVH answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,

38.2 Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?

38.3 Gird up your loins like a man, that I may question you, and declare to me.

38.4 Where were you at the foundation of the land of Gad, if you knew wisdom?

38.5 Who has measured it, that it may know? or who has stretched out a line upon it?

38.6 On what did its owners tread? Or who threw a stone at it?

38.7 Let all the stars of heaven sing together, and let all the sons of God shout for joy.

38.8 He opened the gates of the sea, and he came forth from the womb.

38.9 They clothed him with a cloud, and thick darkness covered him.

38.10 And I will break my laws upon it, and will set bars and doors upon it.

38.11 And he said, Thus far shalt thou come, and no further. and thou shalt be exalted in the pride of thy countenance.

38.12 The waters commanded the morning, the dawn knew its place.

38.13 To take hold of the corners of the earth, and the wicked shall be shaken out of it.

38.14 You will be turned over like clay, and they will stand firm like a garment.

38.15 And he will withhold light from the wicked, and the arm of high ones will be broken.

38.16 You have brought me to the depths of the sea, and have walked in the depths of the abyss.

38.17 The gates of death are opened to you, and you will see the gates of hell.

38.18 You have searched throughout the land, whether you have known it all.

38.19 Where is the way, light shall dwell, and darkness, where is its place?

38.20 For you will take us to his border, and you will understand the paths of his house.

38.21 You knew that then you were born, and the number of your days will be many.

38.22 You have brought into the storehouses of snow and the storehouses of hail, you will see.

38.23 Which I have darkened for a time of trouble, for a day of battle and war.

38.24 Is this the way that will divide light, that will spread the dawn upon the earth?

38.25 A stream of water to wash away a ditch, and a path to make a firecracker easily.

38.26 To cause it to rain upon the earth, where there is no man, nor a man in it.

38.27 To satisfy the hungry and the thirsty, and to make grass grow,

38.28 Has the rain a father? Or who begot the dewdrops?

38.29 From whose womb did the ice come forth? And who gave birth to the sky?

38.30 Waters are hidden like a stone, and the face of the deep is closed together.

38.31 Call Adanot Kima or Maskot Kasil, it will open.

38.32 He came out of the bed in his time, and comforted her children.

38.33 You know the laws of heaven, if you establish their rule on earth.

38.34 Lift up your voice against the enemy, and a flood of waters will cover you.

38.35 Lightnings were sent, and they went and said to you, "Here we are."

38.36 Who has put wisdom in trust, or who has given understanding to silence?

38.37 Who can number the heavens with wisdom? And who can number the stars of heaven?

38.38 The swelling of the earth will become solid, and the clods will stick together.

38.39 The lion hunts for prey, and the wild beasts of the heathen are filled.

38.40 For they shall lie in wait in the tents, they shall sit in the pavilions, they shall lie in wait for them.

38.41 Who will prepare his game for the evening, for his child, his son, will wander about without food?

39.1 You know the time for the worship of the rock-hells, the hollow of the rock, you will guard it.

39.2 You will number the months, you will fill them, and you will know the time to give them.

39.3 You will make their children bow down, you will break their ropes, you will send them away.

39.4 Their children will dream, they will multiply in the wilderness, they will go out and not return to their homeland.

39.5 Who has sent forth a wild beast, and who has opened the wilderness?

39.6 Whose house I have made a wilderness, and his dwellings a wilderness.

39.7 He will play to the multitude, the city will rejoice, but he who approaches will not hear.

39.8 He will forsake the mountains from their pasture, and after every green thing he will seek.

39.9 May your servant be blessed if he sleeps at your table.

39.10 Call upon Rim in the furrow of his brow, if he plunders the valleys after you.

39.11 Trust in him, for his strength is great, and cast your cares upon him.

39.12 Believe him, and he will return to you, and gather your grain.

39.13 The wings of the swifts are folded, and the stork's wing is plucked and borne.

39.14 For you will be left in a land of famine, and you will be warmed in the dust.

39.15 And you will forget that the foot will trample it, and the beast of the field will trample it.

39.16 He who hardens his children without fear, he labors in vain without fear.

39.17 For God is wise, and he has no part in her understanding.

39.18 Now you will soar on high, playing with the horse and its chariot.

39.19 Give strength to the horse, clothe its neck with a mane.

39.20 We made a noise like locusts, they snorted in terror.

39.21 They will dig in the valley, and the mighty one will go forth against the sword.

39.22 He shall laugh at fear, and shall not be afraid, nor turn back from the sword.

39.23 On him will be placed a spear, a spearhead, and a spear.

39.24 The earth trembles with fear and rage, and does not believe that the trumpet is sounding.

39.25 The brother will say in a loud voice, and from afar he will smell the thunder of war, the noise of songs and fear.

39.26 Your understanding is like an eagle, spreading its wings over Yemen.

39.27 If at your word an eagle soars, or a kite soars,

39.28 A rock will dwell and lament on the crag and fortress.

39.29 From there he digs and eats, his eyes look far away.

39.30 And their branches shall be covered with blood, and where the slain are, there it is.

40.1 Then YHVH answered Job, and said,

40.2 The multitude of the people of Shedi Yasur reproves, and God answers.

40.3 Then Job answered YHVH, and said,

40.4 I have made light of it, how can I repay you? I have put my hand to my mouth.

40.5 I have spoken once, and I will not answer; and twice, and I will not add.

40.6 Then YHVH answered Job out of the storm, and said,

40.7 Gird up your loins like a man, I will ask you, and you will tell me.

40.8 Will you transgress my laws? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?

40.9 If you have an arm like God, and a voice like his, you will thunder.

40.10 You are glorious and exalted, and you will be clothed with majesty and splendor.

40.11 Spread out your anger and see every proud person and bring him low.

40.12 He saw all the proud, and he brought them down, and he trampled the wicked under them.

40.13 They are buried in the dust together, their faces covered with mud.

40.14 I also will praise you, for your right hand saves you.

40.15 Behold, the cattle which I have made with thee shall eat grass as oxen.

40.16 Behold, his strength is in his loins, and we are in the muscles of his belly.

40.17 He will move his tail like a cedar, his branches will be cut off.

40.18 His bones are like molten brass, his bones like molten iron.

40.19 He is the beginning of my path; his sword will approach the one who is in charge.

40.20 For the mountain goats shall feed on it, and all the beasts of the field shall play there.

40.21 Under the trees of Ze'el, the reed and the reed lie hidden.

40.22 The clouds will cover him, the valleys will surround him.

40.23 For he shall drink up a river, and shall not hasten. he shall trust that Jordan shall flow into his mouth.

40.24 In his eyes, he will take us with mines, he will pierce our noses.

40.25 You will draw Leviathan with a hook and a line, and you will drown him with a rope.

40.26 The thornbush is in his nose, and the thornbush is in his cheek.

40.27 He will make many supplications to you if he speaks softly to you.

40.28 You have made a covenant with us, you will take us as your servants forever.

40.29 Play with it like a bird, and we will call your maidens.

40.30 Friends will gather around him, they will divide him among the Canaanites.

40.31 His skin is full of scales, and his head is covered with scales.

40.32 Put on him your helmet, a symbol of war, and do not add.

41.1 Behold, his beginning is false, though he cast it upon his face.

41.2 He is not cruel, for he will be awakened, and who is before me will stand firm?

41.3 Who is before me, and will I repay under all heaven?

41.4 I will not pursue with ink, nor speak of mighty deeds, nor of the grace of their worth.

41.5 Who has revealed his face in the folds of his garment? Who will come?

41.6 Who opened the doors of his face, and terror surrounded him?

41.7 Pride is a narrow seal, a narrow path, a narrow seal.

41.8 They will approach one another, and no wind will come between them.

41.9 They will all cling to Ahijah; they will be united and will not be separated.

41.10 His eyelids are like the light, and his eyes are like the eyelids of dawn.

41.11 From his mouth go forth torches, like burning coals of fire,

41.12 Smoke went out of his nostrils like a burning coal,

41.13 His soul is like burning coals, and a flame comes out of his mouth.

41.14 A goat will cry out against his neck, and a donkey will run before him.

41.15 The waters of his flesh have clung to him, he is cast upon him, he cannot be moved.

41.16 His heart is as hard as a stone, and as hard as a bottomless pit.

41.17 From their feasts the gods will rise, from their troubles they will be cleansed.

41.18 The sword overtakes him without a spear or a spear of war.

41.19 Iron will be considered as straw, and copper as rotten wood.

41.20 The archer will not escape; his slingstones will become straw.

41.21 They were considered as straw by a cannon, and they were played with by the noise of a spear.

41.22 Under him shall the plowman make a plowman's plow, and the plowman shall make a plowman's

41.23 He will boil the sea like a pot, he will make it boil like a stew.

41.24 After him, Yair Nativ will consider the abyss as a path to return.

41.25 There is no one on earth who is not afraid.

41.26 He shall fear all her high places, he shall be king over all the sons of the arrow.

42.1 Then Job answered YHVH, and said,

42.2 You knew that you could do anything, and no plan could be thwarted from you.

42.3 Who is this that deviseth counsel without knowledge? Therefore I have declared, and I will not understand, wonders from me, and I will not know.

42.4 Hear, I pray thee, and I will speak. I will ask thee, and thou shalt declare unto me.

42.5 I have heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you.

42.6 Therefore I bow down and humble myself in dust and ashes.

42.7 And it came to pass, after that YHVH had spoken these words unto Job, that YHVH said unto Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends; for ye have not spoken unto me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath spoken.

42.8 Now therefore take you seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up a burnt offering for you. and my servant Job shall pray for you. but I will not deal wickedly with you, because ye have not spoken unto me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath spoken.

42.9 So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite, the Naamathite, went and did as YHVH had spoken to them. And YHVH uplifted the countenance of Job.

42.10 And YHVH restored the fortunes of Job, when he prayed for his friend. and YHVH restored all that Job had unto the end.

42.11 And all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before came to him, and they ate bread with him in his house, and they comforted him and comforted him over all the evil that YHVH had brought upon him. And they gave each of them a bracelet and each one a gold ring.

42.12 And YHVH blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. and he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.

42.13 And it came to pass, that he begat sons and three daughters.

42.14 And the name of the first was called Jemima, and the name of the second Keziah, and the name of the third Keren Havvok.

42.15 And in all the land were there no women so beautiful as the daughters of Job. and their father gave them an inheritance among their brethren.

42.16 And Job lived after this an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, four generations.

42.17 And Job died, being old and seven days old.