vw - Job:11-20

vw@Job:11:1 @ Then Zophar the Naamathite answered and said:

vw@Job:11:2 @ Should not the multitude of words be answered? And should a man giving lip be justified?

vw@Job:11:3 @ Should your empty talk make men hold their peace? And when you mock, should no one make you ashamed?

vw@Job:11:4 @ For you have said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in Your eyes.

vw@Job:11:5 @ But oh that God would speak, and open His lips against you,

vw@Job:11:6 @ that He would show you the secrets of wisdom! For they would double your wisdom. Know therefore that God forgets some of your iniquity.

vw@Job:11:7 @ Can you search and find out God? Can you find out the limits of the Almighty?

vw@Job:11:8 @ They are higher than the heavens; what can you do? Deeper than Sheol; what can you know?

vw@Job:11:9 @ Their measure is longer than the earth and broader than the sea.

vw@Job:11:10 @ If He passes by, imprisons, and gathers together, then who can repulse Him?

vw@Job:11:11 @ For He knows the vanity of men; He sees wickedness also. Will He not then consider it?

vw@Job:11:12 @ For an empty-headed man will be wise, when a wild asss colt is born a man.

vw@Job:11:13 @ If you have prepared your heart, and spread out your hands toward Him;

vw@Job:11:14 @ if iniquity is in your hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in your tents.

vw@Job:11:15 @ Then surely you shall lift up your face without blemish; yea, you shall be steadfast, and not fear;

vw@Job:11:16 @ because you shall forget your misery, and remember it as waters that have passed away,

vw@Job:11:17 @ and your lifetime shall arise more than the brightness of the noonday. Though you were dark, you shall be like the morning.

vw@Job:11:18 @ And you shall be secure, because there is hope; yea, you shall dig around you, and rest in safety.

vw@Job:11:19 @ You shall also lie down, and no one shall cause you to tremble; yea, many shall entreat your favor.

vw@Job:11:20 @ But the eyes of the wicked will fail, and their place of escape shall perish; and their hope, as the expiring of the soul!

vw@Job:12:1 @ Then Job answered and said:

vw@Job:12:2 @ Truly you are the people, and wisdom will die with you!

vw@Job:12:3 @ But I have a heart as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Indeed, who does not know such things as these?

vw@Job:12:4 @ I am one as a laughingstock to his friends; one who called upon God, and He answered him; the just and whole one is a laughingstock.

vw@Job:12:5 @ A lamp is despised in the thoughts of one who is at ease; it is made ready for those whose feet slip.

vw@Job:12:6 @ The tents of plunderers prosper, and those who provoke the Mighty God are secure, as God brings into his hand.

vw@Job:12:7 @ But now ask the beasts, and they will teach you; and the birds of the heavens, and they will tell you;

vw@Job:12:8 @ or speak to the earth, and it will teach you; and the fish of the sea shall recount to you.

vw@Job:12:9 @ Who among all these does not know that the hand of Jehovah has done this,

vw@Job:12:10 @ in whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all the flesh of mankind?

vw@Job:12:11 @ Does not the ear test words and the mouth taste its food?

vw@Job:12:12 @ Wisdom is with old men, and with length of days is understanding.

vw@Job:12:13 @ With Him are wisdom and strength, He has counsel and understanding.

vw@Job:12:14 @ Behold, He breaks down, and it cannot be rebuilt; He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.

vw@Job:12:15 @ Behold, He withholds the waters, and they dry up; He sends them out, and they transform the earth.

vw@Job:12:16 @ With Him are strength and wisdom; the deceived and the deceiver are His.

vw@Job:12:17 @ He causes counselors to walk away barefoot, and makes fools of the judges.

vw@Job:12:18 @ He loosens the bonds of kings, and binds their loins with a waistband.

vw@Job:12:19 @ He causes the priests to walk away barefoot, and overthrows the mighty.

vw@Job:12:20 @ He removes the lips of the trusted ones, and takes away the discretion of the elders.

vw@Job:12:21 @ He pours contempt upon nobles, and drops the girdle off hollow bones.

vw@Job:12:22 @ He reveals deep dark mysteries, and brings out the deep darkness into the light of day.

vw@Job:12:23 @ He makes nations great, and destroys them; He spreads out nations, and guides them.

vw@Job:12:24 @ He takes away the heart of the heads of the people of the earth, and makes them wander in a wilderness with no path.

vw@Job:12:25 @ They grope in the darkness without light, and He makes them stagger like a drunkard.

vw@Job:13:1 @ Behold, my eye has seen all this, my ear has heard and understood it.

vw@Job:13:2 @ What you know, I also know; I am not inferior to you.

vw@Job:13:3 @ But I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to argue with the Mighty God.

vw@Job:13:4 @ But you smear lies; you are all worthless physicians.

vw@Job:13:5 @ O that you would be silent and stop talking, and it would be your wisdom!

vw@Job:13:6 @ Now listen to my arguments, and pay attention to the complaint of my lips.

vw@Job:13:7 @ Will you speak unjustly for the Mighty God, and talk deceitfully for Him?

vw@Job:13:8 @ Will you show partiality for Him? Will you contend for the Mighty God?

vw@Job:13:9 @ Will it be well when He searches you out? Or do you mock Him as one mocks a man?

vw@Job:13:10 @ He will surely rebuke you if you secretly show partiality.

vw@Job:13:11 @ Will not His loftiness make you afraid, and the dread of Him fall upon you?

vw@Job:13:12 @ Your remembered proverbs are worthless; your backs are backs of clay.

vw@Job:13:13 @ Keep quiet, let me be, that I may speak; then let pass over me what will!

vw@Job:13:14 @ Why do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my soul in my hands?

vw@Job:13:15 @ Though He slay me, yet will I wait for Him; but I will prove my own ways before Him.

vw@Job:13:16 @ He also is my salvation, for a hypocrite can not come before Him.

vw@Job:13:17 @ Listen and pay attention to my speech; to my declaration with your ears.

vw@Job:13:18 @ Behold now, I have prepared my case; I know that I shall be justified.

vw@Job:13:19 @ Who is he who will contend with me? For if I am silent, I will die.

vw@Job:13:20 @ Only two things do not do to me, O God, then I will not hide myself from Your face:

vw@Job:13:21 @ Remove Your hand far from me, and let not the dread of You make me afraid.

vw@Job:13:22 @ Then call, and I will answer; or let me speak, and You respond to me.

vw@Job:13:23 @ How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me know my transgression and my sin.

vw@Job:13:24 @ Why do You hide Your face, and regard me as Your enemy?

vw@Job:13:25 @ Will You terrify a leaf driven to and fro? And will You pursue dry stubble?

vw@Job:13:26 @ For You write bitter things against me, and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth.

vw@Job:13:27 @ You put my feet in the stocks, and watch all my paths. You set a limit for the soles of my feet;

vw@Job:13:28 @ worn out like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.

vw@Job:14:1 @ Man who is born of woman is of few days, and full of turmoil.

vw@Job:14:2 @ He comes forth like a flower and is cut off; he flees like a shadow and does not remain.

vw@Job:14:3 @ And do You open Your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with Yourself?

vw@Job:14:4 @ Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? No one!

vw@Job:14:5 @ Since his days are determined, the number of his months is with You; You have appointed his limits, so that he cannot pass beyond it.

vw@Job:14:6 @ Look away from him that he may rest, so like a hired man he may be satisfied with his day.

vw@Job:14:7 @ For there is hope for a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and its tender shoots will not cease.

vw@Job:14:8 @ Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stump dies in the ground,

vw@Job:14:9 @ yet at the scent of water it will bud and bring forth branches like a plant.

vw@Job:14:10 @ But a strong man dies and is laid away; indeed man expires and where is he?

vw@Job:14:11 @ As water evaporates from the sea, and a river wastes away and dries up,

vw@Job:14:12 @ so man lies down and does not rise. Until the heavens are no more, they shall not awake nor be aroused from their sleep.

vw@Job:14:13 @ O that You would hide me in Sheol, that You would conceal me until Your wrath is turned back, that You would appoint me a decree, and remember me!

vw@Job:14:14 @ If a man dies, shall he revive? All the days of my service I will wait, until my change comes.

vw@Job:14:15 @ You shall call, and I will answer You; You shall long for the work of Your hands.

vw@Job:14:16 @ For now You number my steps. Do you not watch over my sin?

vw@Job:14:17 @ My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and You cover my iniquity.

vw@Job:14:18 @ But as a mountain falls and crumbles away, and as a rock is moved out of its place;

vw@Job:14:19 @ as waters wear away stones, and as floods wash away the dust of the earth; so You destroy the hope of man.

vw@Job:14:20 @ You overpower him forever, and he passes on; You change his countenance and send him away.

vw@Job:14:21 @ His sons come to honor, and he does not recognize them; they are diminished, and he does not perceive it.

vw@Job:14:22 @ But his flesh will be in pain, and his soul will mourn.

vw@Job:15:1 @ Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:

vw@Job:15:2 @ Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?

vw@Job:15:3 @ Should he reason with speech that is not useful, or with words which do not profit?

vw@Job:15:4 @ Yea, you cast off fear, and restrain meditation before the Mighty God.

vw@Job:15:5 @ For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.

vw@Job:15:6 @ Your own mouth condemns you, and not I; yea, your own lips testify against you.

vw@Job:15:7 @ Are you the first man who was born? Or were you made before the hills?

vw@Job:15:8 @ Have you heard the counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?

vw@Job:15:9 @ What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that is not in us?

vw@Job:15:10 @ Both the grayheaded and the aged are among us, much older than your father.

vw@Job:15:11 @ Are the consolations of the Mighty God of little worth to you? Do you have secret words?

vw@Job:15:12 @ Why does your heart carry you away, and what do your eyes wink at,

vw@Job:15:13 @ that you turn your spirit against the Mighty God, and let such words go out of your mouth?

vw@Job:15:14 @ What is man, that he should be pure? And he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

vw@Job:15:15 @ If God puts no trust in His saints, and the heavens are not pure in His sight;

vw@Job:15:16 @ how much more abhorrent and corrupt is man, who drinks injustice like water!

vw@Job:15:17 @ I will tell you; hear me, and what I have seen I will declare,

vw@Job:15:18 @ what wise men have told, not hiding anything received from their fathers,

vw@Job:15:19 @ to whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them:

vw@Job:15:20 @ The wicked man writhes with pain all his days, and the number of years is stored up for the ruthless.

vw@Job:15:21 @ Dreadful sounds are in his ears; during peace, devastation comes upon him.

vw@Job:15:22 @ He does not believe that he will return from darkness, for a sword watches for him.

vw@Job:15:23 @ He wanders about for bread, saying, where is it? He knows that the day of darkness is ready at hand.

vw@Job:15:24 @ Adversity and distress terrify him; they overpower him, like a king ready for the attack.

vw@Job:15:25 @ For he stretches out his hand against the Mighty God, and acts defiantly against the Almighty,

vw@Job:15:26 @ running with stiff neck against Him with his thick, embossed shield.

vw@Job:15:27 @ He has covered his face with his fatness, and made his waist heavy with fat.

vw@Job:15:28 @ He dwells in desolate cities, in houses which no one inhabits, which are ready to become heaps.

vw@Job:15:29 @ He will not be rich, nor will his wealth endure, nor shall his possessions overspread the earth.

vw@Job:15:30 @ He shall not depart from darkness; the flame shall dry out his branches, and by the breath of His mouth he shall be removed.

vw@Job:15:31 @ Let not him who wanders about trust in vanity, for vanity shall be his recompense.

vw@Job:15:32 @ It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.

vw@Job:15:33 @ He will shake off his unripe grape like the vine, and cast off his blossom like the olive.

vw@Job:15:34 @ For the company of hypocrites shall be barren, and fire will consume the tents of bribery.

vw@Job:15:35 @ They conceive trouble and bring forth iniquity; their womb prepares deceit.

vw@Job:16:1 @ Then Job answered and said:

vw@Job:16:2 @ I have heard many such things; miserable comforters are you all!

vw@Job:16:3 @ Is there no end to windy words? What ails you that you answer thus?

vw@Job:16:4 @ I also could speak as you do, if your soul were in the place of my soul. I could heap up words against you, and shake my head at you.

vw@Job:16:5 @ But I would assure you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips would be restrained.

vw@Job:16:6 @ When I speak, my pain is not relieved; and if I remain silent, how do I proceed?

vw@Job:16:7 @ But now He has exhausted me; you have devastated my company.

vw@Job:16:8 @ You have seized me as a witness; my deception rises up against me and testifies to my face.

vw@Job:16:9 @ He tears me in His wrath, and hates me; He gnashes at me with His teeth; my adversary sharpens His eyes at me.

vw@Job:16:10 @ They have gaped at me with their mouth, and struck me reproachfully on the cheek; they gather together against me.

vw@Job:16:11 @ The Mighty God has delivered me to the perverse, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.

vw@Job:16:12 @ I was at ease, but He has shattered me; He also has taken hold on my neck, and dashed me to pieces; He has set me up for His target.

vw@Job:16:13 @ His archers surround me; He pierces my heart and does not pity; He pours out my gall on the ground.

vw@Job:16:14 @ He breaks me with break upon break; He runs at me like a mighty man.

vw@Job:16:15 @ I have sewn sackcloth over my skin, and have thrust my horn into the dust.

vw@Job:16:16 @ My face is flushed from weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;

vw@Job:16:17 @ although no violence is in my hands, and my prayer is pure.

vw@Job:16:18 @ O earth, do not cover my blood, and let my cry have no resting place!

vw@Job:16:19 @ Even now, behold, my evidence is in Heaven, and my witness is on high.

vw@Job:16:20 @ My friends scorn me; my eyes pour out tears to God.

vw@Job:16:21 @ Oh, that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleads for the son of his friend!

vw@Job:16:22 @ For when the number of years have come, I shall go the way from which I shall not return.

vw@Job:17:1 @ My spirit is broken, my days are extinguished, the grave is ready for me.

vw@Job:17:2 @ Are not mockers with me? And does not my eye dwell on their rebellion?

vw@Job:17:3 @ Now put down a pledge for me with Yourself. Who is he who will strike hands with me?

vw@Job:17:4 @ For You have hidden their heart from understanding; therefore You will not exalt them.

vw@Job:17:5 @ He who speaks flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.

vw@Job:17:6 @ But He has made me a byword of the people, and I have become one in whose face men spit.

vw@Job:17:7 @ My eye has also grown dim because of sorrow, and all my members are like shadows.

vw@Job:17:8 @ Upright men are astonished at this, and the innocent stirs himself up against the hypocrite.

vw@Job:17:9 @ Yet the righteous will take hold on his way, and he who has clean hands shall increase strength.

vw@Job:17:10 @ But please, return and come back, all of you, for I do not find one wise man among you.

vw@Job:17:11 @ My days have past, my plans have been torn apart, even the thoughts of my heart.

vw@Job:17:12 @ They set the night for day. The light is near, they say, in the face of darkness.

vw@Job:17:13 @ If I wait for the grave as my house, if I make my bed in the darkness;

vw@Job:17:14 @ if I have said to corruption, You are my father, and to the worm, You are my mother and my sister;

vw@Job:17:15 @ where then is my hope? As for my hope, who shall see it?

vw@Job:17:16 @ They shall go down to the gates of Sheol; we shall have rest together in the dust.

vw@Job:18:1 @ Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:

vw@Job:18:2 @ How long till you put an end to words? Consider, and afterward we will speak.

vw@Job:18:3 @ Why are we counted as beasts, and considered vile in your eyes?

vw@Job:18:4 @ You who tear yourself in anger, shall the earth be forsaken for you? Or shall the rock be removed from its place?

vw@Job:18:5 @ The light of the wicked shall be extinguished, and the flame of his fire shall not shine.

vw@Job:18:6 @ The light shall be dark in his tent, and his lamp beside him shall be extinguished.

vw@Job:18:7 @ The steps of his strength shall be shortened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.

vw@Job:18:8 @ For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks into a netting.

vw@Job:18:9 @ The snare takes him by the heel, and the noose takes hold of him.

vw@Job:18:10 @ A rope is hidden for him on the ground, and a trap for him in the path.

vw@Job:18:11 @ Terrors frighten him on every side, and have scattered him to his feet.

vw@Job:18:12 @ His strength is starved, and calamity is ready at his side.

vw@Job:18:13 @ It devours parts of his skin; the firstborn of death devours parts of his body.

vw@Job:18:14 @ He is drawn out of the security of his tent, and marched before the king of terrors.

vw@Job:18:15 @ What is not his dwells in his tent; brimstone is scattered on his dwelling.

vw@Job:18:16 @ His roots are dried up below, and his branch above is cut off.

vw@Job:18:17 @ The memory of him perishes from the earth, and he has no name on the face of the street.

vw@Job:18:18 @ He is driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

vw@Job:18:19 @ He has neither offspring nor posterity among his people, nor any survivors in his dwellings.

vw@Job:18:20 @ Those in the west are astonished at his day, and those in the east are seized with horror.

vw@Job:18:21 @ Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him who does not know the Mighty God.

vw@Job:19:1 @ Then Job answered and said:

vw@Job:19:2 @ How long will you torment my soul, and break me in pieces with words?

vw@Job:19:3 @ These ten times you have reproached me; you are not ashamed that you have wronged me.

vw@Job:19:4 @ And if indeed I have erred, my error remains with me.

vw@Job:19:5 @ If indeed you magnify yourselves against me, and adjudge my reproach against me,

vw@Job:19:6 @ know then that God has bowed me, and has surrounded me with His net.

vw@Job:19:7 @ Behold, I cry out concerning injustice, but I am not heard. I cry aloud, but there is no justice.

vw@Job:19:8 @ He has fenced up my way, so that I cannot pass; and He has set darkness in my paths.

vw@Job:19:9 @ He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.

vw@Job:19:10 @ He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone; my hope He has uprooted like a tree.

vw@Job:19:11 @ He has also kindled His wrath against me, and He counts me as one of His enemies.

vw@Job:19:12 @ His troops come together and build up their road against me; they encamp all around my tent.

vw@Job:19:13 @ He has removed my brothers far from me, and my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.

vw@Job:19:14 @ My relatives have left, and my close friends have forgotten me.

vw@Job:19:15 @ Those who dwell in my house, and my maidservants, count me as a stranger; I am a foreigner in their eyes.

vw@Job:19:16 @ I have called my servant, but he does not answer; I implored him with my mouth.

vw@Job:19:17 @ My breath is loathsome to my wife, and I must entreat the favor of children for the sake of my own body.

vw@Job:19:18 @ Even young children despise me; I arise, and they speak against me.

vw@Job:19:19 @ My circle of friends have abhorred me, and those whom I have loved have turned against me.

vw@Job:19:20 @ My bone clings to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

vw@Job:19:21 @ Have pity on me! Have pity on me, O you my friends! For the hand of God has struck me!

vw@Job:19:22 @ Why do you persecute me as the Mighty God does, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

vw@Job:19:23 @ Oh, that my words were now written! Oh, that they were inscribed in a book!

vw@Job:19:24 @ That they were forever engraved on a rock with an iron pen and lead!

vw@Job:19:25 @ For I know that my Redeemer is alive, and He shall stand at the latter time upon the earth;

vw@Job:19:26 @ and after my skin has been struck off from my flesh, I shall see God:

vw@Job:19:27 @ Whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not a stranger. O how my reins have been exhausted within me!

vw@Job:19:28 @ If you should say, How shall we persecute him? since the root of the matter has been found in me,

vw@Job:19:29 @ fear for yourselves because of the sword; for wrath brings the punishment of the sword; that you may know there is judgment.

vw@Job:20:1 @ Then Zophar the Naamathite answered and said:

vw@Job:20:2 @ Therefore my uncertain thoughts make me answer, because of the anxiety within me.

vw@Job:20:3 @ I have heard the admonition against my reproaches, but the spirit of my understanding causes me to answer.

vw@Job:20:4 @ Do you not know this from of old, ever since man was placed upon earth,

vw@Job:20:5 @ that the rejoicing of the wicked is near its end, and the mirth of the hypocrite is but for a moment?

vw@Job:20:6 @ Though his haughtiness mounts up to the heavens, and his head reaches to the clouds,

vw@Job:20:7 @ yet he shall perish forever like his own dung; those who see him shall say, where is he?

vw@Job:20:8 @ He shall fly away like a dream, and not be found; yea, he shall be chased away like a vision of the night.

vw@Job:20:9 @ The eye that has seen him shall see him no more, nor will his place regard him anymore.

vw@Job:20:10 @ His children shall seek the favor of the poor, and his hands shall return his wealth.

vw@Job:20:11 @ His bones are full of his youthful vigor, but it shall lie down with him in the dust.

vw@Job:20:12 @ Though evil is sweet in his mouth, and he hides it under his tongue,

vw@Job:20:13 @ though he spares it and does not forsake it, but still keeps it in his mouth,

vw@Job:20:14 @ yet his food in his stomach has churned up; it is serpents venom within him.

vw@Job:20:15 @ He swallows down riches and vomits them up again; the Mighty God casts them out of his belly.

vw@Job:20:16 @ He shall suck the poison of serpents; the vipers tongue shall slay him.

vw@Job:20:17 @ He shall not see the streams, the rivers of honey and curds.

vw@Job:20:18 @ He shall give back that for which he labored, and shall not swallow it down; He shall have no enjoyment from the exchanges of his wealth.

vw@Job:20:19 @ For he has crushed and forsaken the poor, he has seized a house which he did not build.

vw@Job:20:20 @ Surely he has known no ease in his belly; he shall not save anything he desires.

vw@Job:20:21 @ No food is left for him; there is no travail after his well-being.

vw@Job:20:22 @ In the fullness of his scorn he shall be in distress; every hand of trouble shall come against him.

vw@Job:20:23 @ When he is about to fill his stomach, God will cast upon him the fury of His wrath, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating.

vw@Job:20:24 @ If he flees from the iron weapon, a bronze bow shall pierce him through.

vw@Job:20:25 @ It has been drawn, and comes out the back; yea, the glittering point comes out of his gall. Terrors come upon him;

vw@Job:20:26 @ total darkness is his hidden treasure. An unfanned fire shall devour him; and any survivors in his tent shall tremble.

vw@Job:20:27 @ The heavens shall lay bare his iniquity, and the earth shall rise up against him.

vw@Job:20:28 @ The fruit of his house shall be removed, being poured out in the day of His wrath.

vw@Job:20:29 @ This is the portion from God for a wicked man, the heritage promised to him by the Mighty God.

vw@Job:21:1 @ Then Job answered and said: