jps - Job:12-14

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

jps@Job:12:2 @ No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.

jps@Job:12:3 @ But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you; yea, who knoweth not such things as these?

jps@Job:12:4 @ I am as one that is a laughing-stock to his neighbour, a man that called upon God, and He answered him; the just, the innocent man is a laughing-stock,

jps@Job:12:5 @ A contemptible brand in the thought of him that is at ease, a thing ready for them whose foot slippeth.

jps@Job:12:6 @ The tents of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure, in whatsoever God bringeth into their hand.

jps@Job:12:7 @ But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee;

jps@Job:12:8 @ Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee; and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee;

jps@Job:12:9 @ Who knoweth not among all these, that the hand of the LORD hath wrought this?

jps@Job:12:10 @ In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.--

jps@Job:12:11 @ Doth not the ear try words, even as the palate tasteth its food?

jps@Job:12:12 @ Is wisdom with aged men, and understanding in length of days?--

jps@Job:12:13 @ With Him is wisdom and might; He hath counsel and understanding.

jps@Job:12:14 @ Behold, He breaketh down, and it cannot be built again; He shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.

jps@Job:12:15 @ Behold, He withholdeth the waters, and they dry up; also He sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.

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

jps@Job:12:17 @ He leadeth counsellors away stripped, and judges maketh He fools.

jps@Job:12:18 @ He looseth the bond of kings, and bindeth their loins with a girdle.

jps@Job:12:19 @ He leadeth priests away stripped, and overthroweth the mighty.

jps@Job:12:20 @ He removeth the speech of men of trust, and taketh away the sense of the elders.

jps@Job:12:21 @ He poureth contempt upon princes, and looseth the belt of the strong.

jps@Job:12:22 @ He uncovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death.

jps@Job:12:23 @ He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them; He enlargeth the nations, and leadeth them away.

jps@Job:12:24 @ He taketh away the heart of the chiefs of the people of the land, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.

jps@Job:12:25 @ They grope in the dark without light, and He maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.

jps@Job:13:1 @ Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it.

jps@Job:13:2 @ What ye know, do I know also; I am not inferior unto you.

jps@Job:13:3 @ Notwithstanding I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.

jps@Job:13:4 @ But ye are plasterers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.

jps@Job:13:5 @ Oh that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it would be your wisdom.

jps@Job:13:6 @ Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.

jps@Job:13:7 @ Will ye speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for Him?

jps@Job:13:8 @ Will ye show Him favour? Will ye contend for God?

jps@Job:13:9 @ Would it be good that He should search you out? Or as one mocketh a man, will ye mock Him?

jps@Job:13:10 @ He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly show favour.

jps@Job:13:11 @ Shall not His majesty terrify you, and His dread fall upon you?

jps@Job:13:12 @ Your memorials shall be like unto ashes, your eminences to eminences of clay.

jps@Job:13:13 @ Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.

jps@Job:13:14 @ Wherefore? I will take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand.

jps@Job:13:15 @ Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him; but I will argue my ways before Him.

jps@Job:13:16 @ This also shall be my salvation, that a hypocrite cannot come before Him.

jps@Job:13:17 @ Hear diligently my speech, and let my declaration be in your ears.

jps@Job:13:18 @ Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.

jps@Job:13:19 @ Who is he that will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and die.

jps@Job:13:20 @ Only do not two things unto me, then will I not hide myself from Thee:

jps@Job:13:21 @ Withdraw Thy hand far from me; and let not Thy terror make me afraid.

jps@Job:13:22 @ Then call Thou, and I will answer; or let me speak, and answer Thou me.

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

jps@Job:13:24 @ Wherefore hidest Thou Thy face, and holdest me for Thine enemy?

jps@Job:13:25 @ Wilt Thou harass a driven leaf? And wilt Thou pursue the dry stubble?

jps@Job:13:26 @ That Thou shouldest write bitter things against me, and make me to inherit the iniquities of my youth.

jps@Job:13:27 @ Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; Thou drawest Thee a line about the soles of my feet;

jps@Job:13:28 @ Though I am like a wine-skin that consumeth, like a garment that is moth-eaten.

jps@Job:14:1 @ Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.

jps@Job:14:2 @ He cometh forth like a flower, and withereth; he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.

jps@Job:14:3 @ And dost Thou open Thine eyes upon such a one, and bringest me into judgment with Thee?

jps@Job:14:4 @ Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.

jps@Job:14:5 @ Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with Thee, and Thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;

jps@Job:14:6 @ Look away from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.

jps@Job:14:7 @ For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.

jps@Job:14:8 @ Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;

jps@Job:14:9 @ Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and put forth boughs like a plant.

jps@Job:14:10 @ But man dieth, and lieth low; yea, man perisheth, and where is he?

jps@Job:14:11 @ As the waters fail from the sea, and the river is drained dry;

jps@Job:14:12 @ So man lieth down and riseth not; till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep.

jps@Job:14:13 @ Oh that Thou wouldest hide me in the nether-world, that Thou wouldest keep me secret, until Thy wrath be past, that Thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!--

jps@Job:14:14 @ If a man die, may he live again? All the days of my service would I wait, till my relief should come--

jps@Job:14:15 @ Thou wouldest call, and I would answer Thee; Thou wouldest have a desire to the work of Thy hands.

jps@Job:14:16 @ But now Thou numberest my steps, Thou dost not even wait for my sin;

jps@Job:14:17 @ My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and Thou heapest up mine iniquity.

jps@Job:14:18 @ And surely the mountain falling crumbleth away, and the rock is removed out of its place;

jps@Job:14:19 @ The waters wear the stones; the overflowings thereof wash away the dust of the earth; so Thou destroyest the hope of man.

jps@Job:14:20 @ Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth; Thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.

jps@Job:14:21 @ His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he regardeth them not.

jps@Job:14:22 @ But his flesh grieveth for him, and his soul mourneth over him.

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