bes - Job:26-31

bes@Job:26:1 @ But Job answered and said,

bes@Job:26:2 @ To whom dost thou attach thyself, or whom art thou going to assist? is it not he that has much strength, and he who has a strong arm?

bes@Job:26:3 @ To whom hast thou given counsel? is it not to him who has all wisdom? whom wilt thou follow? is it not one who has the greatest power?

bes@Job:26:4 @ To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose breath is it that has come forth from thee?

bes@Job:26:5 @ Shall giants be born from under the water and the (note:)Gr. neighbours(:note) inhabitants thereof?

bes@Job:26:6 @ Hell is naked before him, and destruction has no covering.

bes@Job:26:7 @ He stretches out the north wind upon nothing, and he upon nothing hangs the earth;

bes@Job:26:8 @ binding water in his clouds, and the cloud is not rent under it.

bes@Job:26:9 @ He keeps back the face of his throne, stretching out his cloud upon it.

bes@Job:26:10 @ He has encompassed the face of the water by an appointed ordinance, until the end of light and darkness.

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

bes@Job:26:12 @ He has calmed the sea with his might, and by his wisdom the whale has been overthrown.

bes@Job:26:13 @ And the barriers of heaven fear him, and by a command he has slain the apostate dragon.

bes@Job:26:14 @ Behold, these are parts of his way; and we will hearken to him at the (note:)Gr. moisture, q. d. drop(:note) least intimation of his word: but the strength of his thunder who knows, when he shall employ it?

bes@Job:27:1 @ And Job further continued and said in his (note:)Gr. preface(:note) parable,

bes@Job:27:2 @ As God lives, who has thus judged me; and the Almighty, who has embittered my soul;

bes@Job:27:3 @ verily, while my breath is yet in me, and the breath of God which remains to me is in my nostrils,

bes@Job:27:4 @ my lips shall not speak evil words, neither shall my soul meditate unrighteous thoughts.

bes@Job:27:5 @ Far be it from me that I should justify you till I die; for I will not let go my innocence,

bes@Job:27:6 @ but keeping fast to my righteousness I will by no means let it go: for I am not conscious to myself of having done any thing (note:)Compare Lu strkjv@23:41(:note) amiss.

bes@Job:27:7 @ Nay rather, but let mine enemies be as the overthrow of the ungodly, and they that rise up against me, as the destruction of transgressors.

bes@Job:27:8 @ For what is the hope of the ungodly, that he holds to it? will he indeed trust in the Lord and be saved?

bes@Job:27:9 @ Will God hear his prayer? or, when distress has come upon him,

bes@Job:27:10 @ has he any confidence before him? or will God hear him as he calls upon him?

bes@Job:27:11 @ Yet now I will tell you what is in the hand of the Lord: I will not lie concerning the things which are with the Almighty.

bes@Job:27:12 @ Behold, ye all know that ye are adding vanity to vanity.

bes@Job:27:13 @ This is the portion of an ungodly man from the Lord, and the possession of oppressors shall come upon them from the Almighty.

bes@Job:27:14 @ And if their children be many, they shall be for slaughter: and if they grow up, they shall beg.

bes@Job:27:15 @ And they that survive of him shall utterly perish, and no one shall pity their widows.

bes@Job:27:16 @ Even if he should gather silver as earth, and prepare gold as clay;

bes@Job:27:17 @ All these things shall the righteous gain, and the truehearted shall possess his wealth.

bes@Job:27:18 @ And his house is gone like moths, and like a spider’s web.

bes@Job:27:19 @ The rich man shall lie down, and shall not continue: he has opened his eyes, and he is not.

bes@Job:27:20 @ Pains have come upon him as water, and darkness has carried him away by night.

bes@Job:27:21 @ And a burning wind shall catch him, and he shall depart, and it shall utterly drive him out of his place.

bes@Job:27:22 @ And God shall cast trouble upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.

bes@Job:27:23 @

bes@Job:28:1 @ For there is a place for the silver, whence it comes, and a place for the gold, whence it is refined.

bes@Job:28:2 @ For iron comes out of the earth, and brass is hewn out like stone.

bes@Job:28:3 @ He has set (note:)Possibly, «he searches out the limit of darkness,’ etc.(:note) a bound to darkness, and he searches out every limit: a stone is darkness, and the shadow of death.

bes@Job:28:4 @ There is a cutting off the torrent by reason of (note:)perhaps, «drought’(:note) dust: so they that forget the right way are weakened; they are removed from among men.

bes@Job:28:5 @ As for the earth, out of it shall come bread: under it has been turned up as it were fire.

bes@Job:28:6 @ Her stones are the place of the sapphire: and her dust supplies man with gold.

bes@Job:28:7 @ There is a path, the fowl has not known it, neither has the eye of the vulture seen it:

bes@Job:28:8 @ neither have the sons of the proud trodden it, a lion has not passed upon it.

bes@Job:28:9 @ He has stretched forth his hand on the sharp rock, and turned up mountains by the roots:

bes@Job:28:10 @ and he has (note:)Or, caused to break forth(:note) interrupted the whirlpools of rivers, and Alex. his eye mine eye has seen every precious thing.

bes@Job:28:11 @ And he has laid bare the depths of rivers, and has brought his power to light.

bes@Job:28:12 @ But whence has wisdom been discovered? and what is the place of knowledge?

bes@Job:28:13 @ A mortal has not known its way, neither indeed has it been discovered among men.

bes@Job:28:14 @ The depth said, It is not in me: and the sea said, It is not with me.

bes@Job:28:15 @ One shall not give fine gold instead of it, neither shall silver be weighed in exchange for it.

bes@Job:28:16 @ Neither shall it be compared with gold of Sophir, with the precious onyx and sapphire.

bes@Job:28:17 @ Gold and crystal shall not be equalled to it, neither shall vessels of gold be its exchange.

bes@Job:28:18 @ Coral and fine pearl shall not be mentioned: but do thou esteem wisdom above the most precious things.

bes@Job:28:19 @ The topaz of Ethiopia shall not be equalled to it; it shall not be compared with pure gold.

bes@Job:28:20 @ Whence then is wisdom found? and of what kind is the place of understanding?

bes@Job:28:21 @ It has escaped the notice of every man, and has been hidden from the birds of the sky.

bes@Job:28:22 @ Destruction and Death said, We have heard the report of it.

bes@Job:28:23 @ God has well ordered the way of it, and he knows the place of it.

bes@Job:28:24 @ For he surveys the whole earth under heaven, knowing the things in the earth:

bes@Job:28:25 @ all that he has made; the weight of the winds, the measures of the water.

bes@Job:28:26 @ When he made them, thus he saw and numbered them, and made a way for the pealing of the (note:)Some read fwnhv(:note) thunder.

bes@Job:28:27 @ Then he saw it, and declared it: he prepared it and traced it out.

bes@Job:28:28 @ And he said to man, Behold, godliness is wisdom: and to abstain from evil is understanding.

bes@Job:29:1 @ And Job continued and said in his parable,

bes@Job:29:2 @ Oh that I were as in months past, wherein God preserved me!

bes@Job:29:3 @ As when his lamp shone over my head; when by his light I walked through darkness.

bes@Job:29:4 @ As when I steadfastly (note:)Gr. pressed heavily on(:note) pursued my ways, when God took care of my house.

bes@Job:29:5 @ When I was very (note:)Gr. woody(:note) fruitful, and my children were about me;

bes@Job:29:6 @ when my ways were moistened with butter, and the mountains (note:)Gr. poured forth(:note) flowed for me with milk.

bes@Job:29:7 @ When I went forth early in the city, and the seat was placed for me in the streets.

bes@Job:29:8 @ The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and all the old men stood up.

bes@Job:29:9 @ And the great men ceased speaking, and laid their finger on their mouth.

bes@Job:29:10 @ And they that heard me blessed me, and their tongue clave to their throat.

bes@Job:29:11 @ For the ear heard, and blessed me; and the eye saw me, and turned aside.

bes@Job:29:12 @ For I saved the poor out of the hand of the oppressor, and helped the fatherless who had no helper.

bes@Job:29:13 @ Let the blessing of the perishing one come upon me; yea, the mouth of the widow has blessed me.

bes@Job:29:14 @ Also I put on righteousness, and clothed myself with judgement like a mantle.

bes@Job:29:15 @ I was the eye of the blind, and the foot of the lame.

bes@Job:29:16 @ I was the father of the helpless; and I searched out the cause which I knew not.

bes@Job:29:17 @ And I broke the jaw-teeth of the unrighteous; I plucked the spoil out of the midst of their teeth.

bes@Job:29:18 @ And I said, My age shall continue as the stem of a palm-tree; I shall live a long while.

bes@Job:29:19 @ My root was spread out by the water, and the dew would lodge on my crop.

bes@Job:29:20 @ My glory was fresh in me, and by bow prospered in his hand.

bes@Job:29:21 @ Men heard me, and gave heed, and they were silent at my counsel.

bes@Job:29:22 @ At my word they spoke not again, and they were very glad whenever I spoke to them.

bes@Job:29:23 @ As the thirsty earth expecting the rain, so they waited for my speech.

bes@Job:29:24 @ Were I to laugh on them, they would not believe it; and the light of my face has not failed.

bes@Job:29:25 @ I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the midst of warriors, as one comforting mourners.

bes@Job:30:1 @ But now the youngest have laughed me to scorn, now they reprove me in their turn, whose fathers I set at nought; whom I did not deem worthy to be with my shepherd dogs.

bes@Job:30:2 @ Yea, why had I the strength of their hands? for them the full term of life was lost.

bes@Job:30:3 @ One is childless in want and famine, such as they that fled but lately the distress and misery of drought.

bes@Job:30:4 @ Who compass the salt places on the sounding shore, who had salt herbs for their food, and were dishonorable and of no repute, in want of every good thing; who also ate roots of trees by reason of great hunger.

bes@Job:30:5 @ Thieves have risen up against me,

bes@Job:30:6 @ whose houses were the caves of the rocks, who lived under the wild shrubs.

bes@Job:30:7 @ They will cry out among the rustling bushes.

bes@Job:30:8 @ They are sons of fools and vile men, whose name and glory are quenched from off the earth.

bes@Job:30:9 @ But now I am their music, and they have me for a by-word.

bes@Job:30:10 @ And they stood aloof and abhorred me, and spared not to spit in my face.

bes@Job:30:11 @ For he has opened his quiver and afflicted me: they also have cast off the restraint of my presence.

bes@Job:30:12 @ They have risen up against me on the right hand of their offspring; they have stretched out their foot, and directed against me the ways of their destruction.

bes@Job:30:13 @ My paths are ruined; for they have stripped off my raiment: he has shot at me with his weapons.

bes@Job:30:14 @ And he has pleaded against me as he will: I am overwhelmed with pains.

bes@Job:30:15 @ My pains return upon me; my hope is gone like the wind, and my safety as a cloud.

bes@Job:30:16 @ Even now my life shall be poured forth upon me; and days of anguish seize me.

bes@Job:30:17 @ And by night my bones are confounded; and my sinews are relaxed.

bes@Job:30:18 @ With great force my disease has taken hold of my garment: it has compassed me as the collar of my coat.

bes@Job:30:19 @ And thou hast counted me as clay; my portion in dust and ashes.

bes@Job:30:20 @ And I have cried to thee, but thou hearest me not: but they stood still, and observed me.

bes@Job:30:21 @ They attacked me also without mercy: thou hast scourged me with a strong hand.

bes@Job:30:22 @ And thou hast put me to grief, and hast cast me away from safety.

bes@Job:30:23 @ For I know that death will destroy me: for the earth is the house appointed for every mortal.

bes@Job:30:24 @ Oh then that I might lay hands upon myself, or at least ask another, and he should do this for me.

bes@Job:30:25 @ Yet I wept over every helpless man; I groaned when I saw a man in distress.

bes@Job:30:26 @ But I, when I waited for good things, behold, days of evils came the more upon me.

bes@Job:30:27 @ My belly boiled, and would not cease: the days of poverty prevented me.

bes@Job:30:28 @ I went mourning without restraint: and I have stood and cried out in the assembly.

bes@Job:30:29 @ I am become a brother of (note:)Gr. sirens(:note) monsters, and a companion of ostriches.

bes@Job:30:30 @ And my skin has been greatly blackened, and my bones (note:)Alex. +sunefruth(:note) are burned with heat.

bes@Job:30:31 @ My harp also has been turned into mourning, and my song into my weeping.

bes@Job:31:1 @ I made a covenant with mine eyes, and I will not think upon a virgin.

bes@Job:31:2 @ Now what portion has God given from above? and is there an inheritance given of the Mighty One from the highest?

bes@Job:31:3 @ Alas! destruction to the unrighteous, and rejection to them that do iniquity.

bes@Job:31:4 @ Will he not see my way, and number all my steps?

bes@Job:31:5 @ But if I had gone with scorners, and if too my foot has hasted to deceit:

bes@Job:31:6 @ (for I am weighed in a just balance, and the Lord knows my innocence:)

bes@Job:31:7 @ if my foot has turned aside out of the way, or if mine heart has followed mine eye, and if too I have touched gifts with my hands;

bes@Job:31:8 @ then let me sow, and let others eat; and let me be uprooted on the earth.

bes@Job:31:9 @ If my heart has gone forth after another man’s wife, and if I laid wait at her doors;

bes@Job:31:10 @ then let my wife also please another, and let my children be brought low.

bes@Job:31:11 @ For the rage of anger is not to be controlled, in the case of defiling another man’s wife.

bes@Job:31:12 @ For it is a fire burning on every side, and whomsoever it attacks, it utterly destroys.

bes@Job:31:13 @ And if too I despised the judgement of my servant or my handmaid, when they pleaded with me;

bes@Job:31:14 @ what then shall I do if the Lord should try me? and if also he should at all visit me, can I make an answer?

bes@Job:31:15 @ Were not they too formed as I also was formed in the womb? yea, we were formed in the same womb.

bes@Job:31:16 @ But the helpless missed not whatever need they had, and I did not (note:)Gr. wear out(:note) cause the eye of the widow to fail.

bes@Job:31:17 @ And if too I ate my morsel alone, and did not impart of it to the orphan;

bes@Job:31:18 @ (for I nourished them as a father from my youth and guided them from my mother’s womb.)

bes@Job:31:19 @ And if too I overlooked the naked as he was perishing, and did not clothe him;

bes@Job:31:20 @ and if the poor did not bless me, and their shoulders were not warmed with the fleece of my lambs;

bes@Job:31:21 @ if I lifted my hand against an orphan, trusting that my strength was far superior to his:

bes@Job:31:22 @ let them my shoulder start from the blade-bone, and my arm be crushed off from the elbow.

bes@Job:31:23 @ For the fear of the Lord constrained me, and I cannot bear up by reason of his (note:)See Hebrew(:note) burden.

bes@Job:31:24 @ If I made gold my treasure, and if too I trusted the precious stone;

bes@Job:31:25 @ and if too I rejoiced when my wealth was abundant, and if too I laid my hand on innumerable treasures:

bes@Job:31:26 @ (do we not see the shining sun eclipsed, and the moon waning? for they have not power to continue:)

bes@Job:31:27 @ and if my heart was secretly deceived, and if I have laid my hand upon my mouth and kissed it:

bes@Job:31:28 @ let this also then be reckoned to me as the greatest iniquity: for I should have lied against the Lord Most High.

bes@Job:31:29 @ And if too I was glad at the fall of mine enemies, and mine heart said, Aha!

bes@Job:31:30 @ let then mine ear hear my curse, and let me be a byword among my people in my affliction.

bes@Job:31:31 @ And if too my handmaids have often said, Oh that we might be satisfied with his flesh; (whereas I was very kind:

bes@Job:31:32 @ for the stranger did not lodge without, and my door was opened to every one that came:)

bes@Job:31:33 @ or if too having sinned unintentionally, I hid my sin;

bes@Job:31:34 @ (for I did not stand in awe of a great multitude, so as not to declare boldly before them:) and if too I permitted a poor man to go out of my door with an empty bosom:

bes@Job:31:35 @

bes@Job:31:36 @ I would place it as a chaplet on my shoulders, and read it.

bes@Job:31:37 @

bes@Job:31:38 @ If at any time the land groaned against me, and if its furrows mourned together;

bes@Job:31:39 @ and if I ate its strength alone without price, and if I too grieved the heart of the owner of the soil, by taking aught from him:

bes@Job:31:40 @ then let the nettle come up to me instead of wheat, and a bramble instead of barley. And Job ceased speaking.

bes@Job:32:1 @ And his three friends also ceased any longer to answer Job: for Job was righteous before them.