acv - Job:26-31

acv@Job:26:1 @ Then Job answered, and said,

acv@Job:26:2 @ How thou have helped him who is without power! How thou have saved the arm that has no strength!

acv@Job:26:3 @ How thou have counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge!

acv@Job:26:4 @ To whom have thou uttered words? And whose spirit came forth from thee?

acv@Job:26:5 @ Those who are deceased tremble beneath the waters and the inhabitants of it.

acv@Job:26:6 @ Sheol is naked before [God], and Abaddon has no covering.

acv@Job:26:7 @ He stretches out the north over empty space, and hangs the earth upon nothing.

acv@Job:26:8 @ He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not rent under them.

acv@Job:26:9 @ He encloses the face of his throne, and spreads his cloud upon it.

acv@Job:26:10 @ He has described a boundary upon the face of the waters, to the confines of light and darkness.

acv@Job:26:11 @ The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his rebuke.

acv@Job:26:12 @ He stirs up the sea with his power, and by his understanding he smites through Rahab.

acv@Job:26:13 @ By his Spirit the heavens are garnished. His hand has pierced the swift serpent.

acv@Job:26:14 @ Lo, these are but the periphery of his ways. And how small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?

acv@Job:27:1 @ And Job again took up his parable, and said,

acv@Job:27:2 @ As God lives, who has taken away my right, and the Almighty, who has vexed my soul.

acv@Job:27:3 @ (For my life is yet whole in me. And the spirit of God is in my nostrils.)

acv@Job:27:4 @ Surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, nor shall my tongue utter deceit.

acv@Job:27:5 @ Far be it from me that I should justify you. Till I die I will not put away my integrity from me.

acv@Job:27:6 @ I hold fast my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart shall not reproach [me] so long as I live.

acv@Job:27:7 @ Let my enemy be as the wicked, and let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous.

acv@Job:27:8 @ For what is the hope of the profane, though he gets him gain, when God takes away his soul?

acv@Job:27:9 @ Will God hear his cry when trouble comes upon him?

acv@Job:27:10 @ Will he delight himself in the Almighty, and call upon God at all times?

acv@Job:27:11 @ I will teach you concerning the hand of God. That which is with the Almighty I will not conceal.

acv@Job:27:12 @ Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it. Why then have ye become altogether vain?

acv@Job:27:13 @ This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty.

acv@Job:27:14 @ If his sons be multiplied, it is for the sword. And his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

acv@Job:27:15 @ Those who remain of him shall be buried in death, and his widows shall make no lamentation.

acv@Job:27:16 @ Though he heaps up silver as the dust, and prepares raiment as the clay,

acv@Job:27:17 @ he may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.

acv@Job:27:18 @ He builds his house as the moth, and as a booth which the keeper makes.

acv@Job:27:19 @ He lays down rich, but he shall not be gathered [to his fathers]. He opens his eyes, and he is not.

acv@Job:27:20 @ Terrors overtake him like waters. A tempest steals him away in the night.

acv@Job:27:21 @ The east wind carries him away, and he departs, and it sweeps him out of his place.

acv@Job:27:22 @ For [God] shall hurl at him, and not spare. He would gladly flee out of his hand.

acv@Job:27:23 @ Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.

acv@Job:28:1 @ Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold which they refine.

acv@Job:28:2 @ Iron is taken out of the earth, and copper is molten out of the stone.

acv@Job:28:3 @ [Man] sets an end to darkness, and searches out to the furthest bound the stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.

acv@Job:28:4 @ He breaks open a shaft away from where men sojourn, [paths] forgotten by the foot. They hang afar from men; they swing to and fro.

acv@Job:28:5 @ As for the earth, out of it comes bread, and underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.

acv@Job:28:6 @ The stones of it are the place of sapphires, and it has dust of gold.

acv@Job:28:7 @ No bird of prey knows that path, nor has the falcon's eye seen it.

acv@Job:28:8 @ The proud beasts have not trodden it, nor has the fierce lion passed thereby.

acv@Job:28:9 @ He puts forth his hand upon the flinty rock. He overturns the mountains by the roots.

acv@Job:28:10 @ He cuts out channels among the rocks, and his eye sees every precious thing.

acv@Job:28:11 @ He binds the streams that they not trickle. And the thing that is hid he brings forth to light.

acv@Job:28:12 @ But where shall wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding?

acv@Job:28:13 @ Man does not know the price of it, nor is it found in the land of the living.

acv@Job:28:14 @ The deep says, It is not in me. And the sea says, It is not with me.

acv@Job:28:15 @ It cannot be gotten for gold, nor shall silver be weighed for the price of it.

acv@Job:28:16 @ It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.

acv@Job:28:17 @ Gold and glass cannot equal it, nor shall it be exchanged for jewels of fine gold.

acv@Job:28:18 @ No mention shall be made of coral or of crystal. Yea, the price of wisdom is above rubies.

acv@Job:28:19 @ The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, nor shall it be valued with pure gold.

acv@Job:28:20 @ Where then does wisdom come from? And where is the place of understanding?

acv@Job:28:21 @ Since it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept closed from the birds of the heavens.

acv@Job:28:22 @ Destruction and Death say, We have heard a rumor of it with our ears.

acv@Job:28:23 @ God understands the way of it, and he knows the place of it.

acv@Job:28:24 @ For he looks to the ends of the earth, and sees under the whole heaven,

acv@Job:28:25 @ to make a weight for the wind. Yea, he distributes the waters by measure.

acv@Job:28:26 @ When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder,

acv@Job:28:27 @ then he saw it, and declared it. He established it, yea, and searched it out.

acv@Job:28:28 @ And to man he said, Behold, the fear of LORD, that is wisdom, and to depart from evil is understanding.

acv@Job:29:1 @ And Job again took up his parable, and said,

acv@Job:29:2 @ O that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me,

acv@Job:29:3 @ when his lamp shone upon my head, and by his light I walked through darkness,

acv@Job:29:4 @ as I was in the ripeness of my days, when the friendship of God was upon my tent,

acv@Job:29:5 @ when the Almighty was yet with me, and my sons were about me,

acv@Job:29:6 @ when my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured out streams of oil to me,

acv@Job:29:7 @ when I went forth to the gate to the city, when I prepared my seat in the street.

acv@Job:29:8 @ The young men saw me and hid themselves, and the aged rose up and stood.

acv@Job:29:9 @ The rulers refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.

acv@Job:29:10 @ The voice of the ranking men was hushed, and their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.

acv@Job:29:11 @ For when the ear heard [me], then it blessed me, and when the eye saw [me], it gave witness to me.

acv@Job:29:12 @ Because I delivered the poor who cried, also the fatherless who had none to help him.

acv@Job:29:13 @ The blessing of him who was ready to perish came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

acv@Job:29:14 @ I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem.

acv@Job:29:15 @ I was eyes to the blind, and I was feet to the lame.

acv@Job:29:16 @ I was a father to the needy, and I searched out the case of him whom I did not know.

acv@Job:29:17 @ And I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the prey out of his teeth.

acv@Job:29:18 @ Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.

acv@Job:29:19 @ My root is spread out to the waters, and the dew lays all night upon my branch.

acv@Job:29:20 @ My glory is fresh in me, and my bow is renewed in my hand.

acv@Job:29:21 @ To me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence for my counsel.

acv@Job:29:22 @ After my words they spoke not again, and my speech distilled upon them.

acv@Job:29:23 @ And they waited for me as for the rain. And they opened their mouth wide [as] for the latter rain.

acv@Job:29:24 @ I smiled on them when they had no confidence, and they did not cast down the light of my countenance.

acv@Job:29:25 @ I chose out their way, and sat [as] chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as a man who comforts the mourners.

acv@Job:30:1 @ But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.

acv@Job:30:2 @ Yea, the strength of their hands, to what should it profit me? Men in whom ripe age is perished.

acv@Job:30:3 @ They are gaunt with want and famine. They gnaw the dry ground in the gloom of waste and desolation.

acv@Job:30:4 @ They pluck mallows by the bushes, and the roots of the juniper are their food.

acv@Job:30:5 @ They are driven forth from the midst [of men]. They cry out after them as after a thief,

acv@Job:30:6 @ so that they dwell in frightful valleys, in holes of the earth and of the rocks.

acv@Job:30:7 @ Among the bushes they bray, under the nettles they are gathered together.

acv@Job:30:8 @ [They are] sons of fools, yea, sons of base men. They were scourged out of the land.

acv@Job:30:9 @ And now I have become their song, Yea, I am a byword to them.

acv@Job:30:10 @ They abhor me. They stand aloof from me, and do not spare to spit in my face.

acv@Job:30:11 @ For he has loosed his cord, and afflicted me. And they have cast off the bridle before me.

acv@Job:30:12 @ Upon my right hand rise the rabble. They thrust aside my feet, and they cast up against me their ways of destruction.

acv@Job:30:13 @ They mar my path. They set forward my calamity, [even] men who have no helper.

acv@Job:30:14 @ As through a wide breach they come. In the midst of the ruin they roll themselves [upon me].

acv@Job:30:15 @ Terrors are turned upon me. They chase my honor as the wind, and my welfare is passed away as a cloud.

acv@Job:30:16 @ And now my soul is poured out within me. Days of affliction have taken hold upon me.

acv@Job:30:17 @ In the night season my bones are pierced in me, and the [pains] that gnaw me take no rest.

acv@Job:30:18 @ By the great force my garment is disfigured. It binds me about as the collar of my coat.

acv@Job:30:19 @ He has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.

acv@Job:30:20 @ I cry to thee, and thou do not answer me. I stand up, and thou gaze at me.

acv@Job:30:21 @ Thou have turned to be cruel to me. With the might of thy hand thou persecute me.

acv@Job:30:22 @ Thou lift me up to the wind. Thou cause me to ride [upon it], and thou disintegrate me in the storm.

acv@Job:30:23 @ For I know that thou will bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

acv@Job:30:24 @ However does not a man stretch out the hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?

acv@Job:30:25 @ Did I not weep for him who was in trouble? Was not my soul grieved for the needy?

acv@Job:30:26 @ When I looked for good, then evil came. And when I waited for light, there came darkness.

acv@Job:30:27 @ My heart is troubled, and does not rest. Days of affliction have come upon me.

acv@Job:30:28 @ I go mourning without the sun. I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.

acv@Job:30:29 @ I am a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches.

acv@Job:30:30 @ My skin is black, [and falls] from me. And my bones are burned with heat.

acv@Job:30:31 @ Therefore my harp has [turned] to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of those who weep.

acv@Job:31:1 @ I made a covenant with my eyes. How then should I look upon a virgin?

acv@Job:31:2 @ For what is the portion from God above, and the heritage from the Almighty on high?

acv@Job:31:3 @ Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?

acv@Job:31:4 @ Does he not see my ways, and number all my steps?

acv@Job:31:5 @ If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot has hastened to deceit

acv@Job:31:6 @ (let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity);

acv@Job:31:7 @ if my step has turned out of the way, and my heart walked after my eyes, and if any spot has clung to my hands,

acv@Job:31:8 @ then let me sow, and let another eat, yea, let the produce of my field be rooted out.

acv@Job:31:9 @ If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbor's door,

acv@Job:31:10 @ then let my wife grind to another, and let others bow down upon her.

acv@Job:31:11 @ For that is a heinous crime, yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.

acv@Job:31:12 @ For it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase.

acv@Job:31:13 @ If I have despised the case of my man-servant or of my maid-servant when they contended with me,

acv@Job:31:14 @ what then shall I do when God rises up? And when he visits, what shall I answer him?

acv@Job:31:15 @ Did not he who made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb?

acv@Job:31:16 @ If I have withheld the poor from [their] desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

acv@Job:31:17 @ or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it

acv@Job:31:18 @ (no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, and her I have guided from my mother's womb);

acv@Job:31:19 @ if I have seen any perish for lack of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;

acv@Job:31:20 @ if his loins have not blessed me, and if he has not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

acv@Job:31:21 @ if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate,

acv@Job:31:22 @ then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder-blade, and my arm be broken from the bone.

acv@Job:31:23 @ For calamity from God is a terror to me, and I can do nothing because of his majesty.

acv@Job:31:24 @ If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, [Thou are] my confidence;

acv@Job:31:25 @ if I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;

acv@Job:31:26 @ if I have beheld the sun when it shone, or the moon walking in brightness,

acv@Job:31:27 @ and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my mouth has kissed my hand

acv@Job:31:28 @ (this also is an iniquity to be punished by the judges, for I would have denied the God that is above);

acv@Job:31:29 @ if I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him

acv@Job:31:30 @ (yea, I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse);

acv@Job:31:31 @ if the men of my tent have not said, Who can find one who has not been filled with his food?

acv@Job:31:32 @ (the sojourner has not lodged in the street, but I have opened my doors to the traveler);

acv@Job:31:33 @ if like Adam I have covered my transgressions by hiding my iniquity in my bosom

acv@Job:31:34 @ because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me so that I kept silence, and did not go out of the door--

acv@Job:31:35 @ O that I had someone to hear me (Lo, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me), and [that I had] the indictment which my adversary has written!

acv@Job:31:36 @ Surely I would carry it upon my shoulder. I would bind it to me as a crown.

acv@Job:31:37 @ I would declare to him the number of my steps. I would go near to him as a prince.

acv@Job:31:38 @ If my land cries out against me, and the furrows of it weep together;

acv@Job:31:39 @ if I have eaten the fruits of it without money, or have caused the owners of it to lose their lives,

acv@Job:31:40 @ let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.

acv@Job:32:1 @ So these three men ceased to answer Job because he was righteous in his own eyes.