dby - Job:26-31

dby@Job:26:1 @ And Job answered and said,

dby@Job:26:2 @ How hast thou helped the powerless; how saved the arm that is without strength!

dby@Job:26:3 @ How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom, and abundantly declared the thing as it is!

dby@Job:26:4 @ For whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee?

dby@Job:26:5 @ The shades tremble beneath the waters and the inhabitants thereof;

dby@Job:26:6 @ Sheol is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.

dby@Job:26:7 @ He stretcheth out the north over empty space, he hangeth the earth upon nothing;

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

dby@Job:26:9 @ He covereth the face of his throne, he spreadeth his cloud upon it.

dby@Job:26:10 @ He hath traced a fixed circle over the waters, unto the confines of light and darkness.

dby@Job:26:11 @ The pillars of the heavens tremble and are astonished at his rebuke.

dby@Job:26:12 @ He stirreth up the sea by his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through Rahab.

dby@Job:26:13 @ By his Spirit the heavens are adorned; his hand hath formed the fleeing serpent.

dby@Job:26:14 @ Lo, these are the borders of his ways; but what a whisper of a word do we hear of him! And the thunder of his power, who can understand?

dby@Job:27:1 @ And Job continued his parable and said,

dby@Job:27:2 @ [As] �God liveth, who hath taken away my right, and the Almighty, who hath embittered my soul,

dby@Job:27:3 @ All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of +God is in my nostrils,

dby@Job:27:4 @ My lips shall not speak unrighteousness, nor my tongue utter deceit!

dby@Job:27:5 @ Be it far from me that I should justify you; till I die I will not remove my blamelessness from me.

dby@Job:27:6 @ My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart reproacheth [me] not one of my days.

dby@Job:27:7 @ Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous.

dby@Job:27:8 @ For what is the hope of the ungodly, when [God] cutteth him off, when +God taketh away his soul?

dby@Job:27:9 @ Will �God hear his cry when distress cometh upon him?

dby@Job:27:10 @ Doth he delight himself in the Almighty? will he at all times call upon +God?

dby@Job:27:11 @ I will teach you concerning the hand of �God; what is with the Almighty will I not conceal.

dby@Job:27:12 @ Behold, ye yourselves have all seen [it]; and why are ye thus altogether vain?

dby@Job:27:13 @ This is the portion of the wicked man with �God, and the heritage of the violent, which they receive from the Almighty: --

dby@Job:27:14 @ If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword, and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread;

dby@Job:27:15 @ Those that remain of him shall be buried by death, and his widows shall not weep.

dby@Job:27:16 @ Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare clothing as the clay;

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

dby@Job:27:18 @ He buildeth his house as the moth, and as a booth that a keeper maketh.

dby@Job:27:19 @ He lieth down rich, but will do so no more; he openeth his eyes, and he is not.

dby@Job:27:20 @ Terrors overtake him like waters; a whirlwind stealeth him away in the night.

dby@Job:27:21 @ The east wind carrieth him away and he is gone; and as a storm it hurleth him out of his place.

dby@Job:27:22 @ And [God] shall cast upon him and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.

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

dby@Job:28:1 @ Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold which they refine;

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

dby@Job:28:3 @ [Man] putteth an end to the darkness, and exploreth to the utmost limit, the stones of darkness and of the shadow of death.

dby@Job:28:4 @ He openeth a shaft far from the inhabitants [of the earth]: forgotten of the foot, they hang suspended; away below men they hover.

dby@Job:28:5 @ As for the earth, out of it cometh bread, and underneath it is turned up as by fire;

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

dby@Job:28:7 @ It is a path no bird of prey knoweth, and the vulture's eye hath not seen it;

dby@Job:28:8 @ The proud beasts have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed over it.

dby@Job:28:9 @ [Man] putteth forth his hand upon the flinty rock, he overturneth the mountains by the root.

dby@Job:28:10 @ He cutteth out channels in the rocks, and his eye seeth every precious thing.

dby@Job:28:11 @ He bindeth the streams that they drip not, and what is hidden he bringeth forth to light.

dby@Job:28:12 @ But wisdom, where shall it be found? and where is the place of understanding?

dby@Job:28:13 @ Man knoweth not the value thereof; and it is not found in the land of the living.

dby@Job:28:14 @ The deep saith, It is not in me; and the sea saith, It is not with me.

dby@Job:28:15 @ Choice gold cannot be given for it, nor silver be weighed for its price.

dby@Job:28:16 @ It is not set in the balance with gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, and the sapphire.

dby@Job:28:17 @ Gold and glass cannot be compared to it, nor vessels of fine gold be its exchange.

dby@Job:28:18 @ Corals and crystal are no more remembered; yea, the acquisition of wisdom is above rubies.

dby@Job:28:19 @ The topaz of Ethiopia shall not be compared to it, neither shall it be set in the balance with pure gold.

dby@Job:28:20 @ Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding?

dby@Job:28:21 @ For it is hidden from the eyes of all living, and concealed from the fowl of the heavens.

dby@Job:28:22 @ Destruction and death say, We have heard its report with our ears.

dby@Job:28:23 @ God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth its place:

dby@Job:28:24 @ For he looketh to the ends of the earth, he seeth under the whole heaven.

dby@Job:28:25 @ In making a weight for the wind, and meting out the waters by measure,

dby@Job:28:26 @ In appointing a statute for the rain, and a way for the thunder's flash:

dby@Job:28:27 @ Then did he see it, and declare it; he established it, yea, and searched it out;

dby@Job:28:28 @ And unto man he said, Lo, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.

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

dby@Job:29:2 @ Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when +God preserved me;

dby@Job:29:3 @ When his lamp shone over my head, [and] by his light I walked through darkness;

dby@Job:29:4 @ As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret counsel of +God was over my tent,

dby@Job:29:5 @ When the Almighty was yet with me, my young men round about me;

dby@Job:29:6 @ When my steps were bathed in milk, and the rock poured out beside me rivers of oil!...

dby@Job:29:7 @ When I went out to the gate by the city, when I prepared my seat on the broadway,

dby@Job:29:8 @ The young men saw me, and hid themselves; and the aged arose [and] stood up;

dby@Job:29:9 @ Princes refrained from talking, and laid the hand on their mouth;

dby@Job:29:10 @ The voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue cleaved to their palate.

dby@Job:29:11 @ When the ear heard [me], then it blessed me, and when the eye saw [me], it gave witness to me;

dby@Job:29:12 @ For I delivered the afflicted that cried, and the fatherless who had no helper.

dby@Job:29:13 @ The blessing of him that was perishing came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

dby@Job:29:14 @ I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice was as a mantle and a turban.

dby@Job:29:15 @ I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame;

dby@Job:29:16 @ I was a father to the needy, and the cause which I knew not I searched out;

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

dby@Job:29:18 @ And I said, I shall die in my nest, and multiply my days as the sand;

dby@Job:29:19 @ My root shall be spread out to the waters, and the dew will lie all night on my branch;

dby@Job:29:20 @ My glory shall be fresh in me, and my bow be renewed in my hand.

dby@Job:29:21 @ Unto me they listened, and waited, and kept silence for my counsel:

dby@Job:29:22 @ After my words they spoke not again, and my speech dropped upon them;

dby@Job:29:23 @ And they waited for me as for the rain, and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.

dby@Job:29:24 @ [If] I laughed on them, they believed [it] not; and they troubled not the serenity of my countenance.

dby@Job:29:25 @ I chose their way, and sat as chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth mourners.

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

dby@Job:30:2 @ Yea, whereto [should] the strength of their hands [profit] me, [men] in whom vigour hath perished?

dby@Job:30:3 @ Withered up through want and hunger, they flee into waste places long since desolate and desert:

dby@Job:30:4 @ They gather the salt-wort among the bushes, and the roots of the broom for their food.

dby@Job:30:5 @ They are driven forth from among [men] -- they cry after them as after a thief --

dby@Job:30:6 @ To dwell in gloomy gorges, in caves of the earth and the rocks:

dby@Job:30:7 @ They bray among the bushes; under the brambles they are gathered together:

dby@Job:30:8 @ Sons of fools, and sons of nameless sires, they are driven out of the land.

dby@Job:30:9 @ And now I am their song, yea, I am their byword.

dby@Job:30:10 @ They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, yea, they spare not to spit in my face.

dby@Job:30:11 @ For he hath loosed my cord and afflicted me; so they cast off the bridle before me.

dby@Job:30:12 @ At [my] right hand rise the young brood; they push away my feet, and raise up against me their pernicious ways;

dby@Job:30:13 @ They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, without any to help them;

dby@Job:30:14 @ They come in as through a wide breach: amid the confusion they roll themselves onward.

dby@Job:30:15 @ Terrors are turned against me; they pursue mine honour as the wind; and my welfare is passed away like a cloud.

dby@Job:30:16 @ And now my soul is poured out in me; days of affliction have taken hold upon me.

dby@Job:30:17 @ The night pierceth through my bones [and detacheth them] from me, and my gnawing pains take no rest:

dby@Job:30:18 @ By their great force they have become my raiment; they bind me about as the collar of my coat.

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

dby@Job:30:20 @ I cry unto thee, and thou answerest me not; I stand up, and thou lookest at me.

dby@Job:30:21 @ Thou art changed to a cruel one to me; with the strength of thy hand thou pursuest me.

dby@Job:30:22 @ Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to be borne away, and dissolvest my substance.

dby@Job:30:23 @ For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and into the house of assemblage for all living.

dby@Job:30:24 @ Indeed, no prayer [availeth] when he stretcheth out [his] hand: though they cry when he destroyeth.

dby@Job:30:25 @ Did not I weep for him whose days were hard? was not my soul grieved for the needy?

dby@Job:30:26 @ For I expected good, and there came evil; and I waited for light, but there came darkness.

dby@Job:30:27 @ My bowels well up, and rest not; days of affliction have confronted me.

dby@Job:30:28 @ I go about blackened, but not by the sun; I stand up, I cry in the congregation.

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

dby@Job:30:30 @ My skin is become black [and falleth] off me, and my bones are parched with heat.

dby@Job:30:31 @ My harp also is [turned] to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of weepers.

dby@Job:31:1 @ I made a covenant with mine eyes; and how should I fix my regard upon a maid?

dby@Job:31:2 @ For what would have been [my] portion of +God from above, and what the heritage of the Almighty from on high?

dby@Job:31:3 @ Is not calamity for the unrighteous? and misfortune for the workers of iniquity?

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

dby@Job:31:5 @ If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot hath hasted to deceit,

dby@Job:31:6 @ (Let me be weighed in an even balance, and +God will take knowledge of my blamelessness;)

dby@Job:31:7 @ If my step have turned out of the way, and my heart followed mine eyes, and if any blot cleaveth to my hands;

dby@Job:31:8 @ Let me sow, and another eat; and let mine offspring be rooted out.

dby@Job:31:9 @ If my heart have been enticed unto a woman, so that I laid wait at my neighbour's door,

dby@Job:31:10 @ Let my wife grind for another, and let others bow down upon her.

dby@Job:31:11 @ For this is an infamy; yea, it is an iniquity [to be judged by] the judges:

dby@Job:31:12 @ For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.

dby@Job:31:13 @ If I have despised the cause of my bondman or of my bondmaid, when they contended with me,

dby@Job:31:14 @ What then should I do when �God riseth up? and if he visited, what should I answer him?

dby@Job:31:15 @ Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not One fashion us in the womb?

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

dby@Job:31:17 @ Or have eaten my morsel alone, so that the fatherless ate not thereof,

dby@Job:31:18 @ (For from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, and I have guided the [widow] from my mother's womb;)

dby@Job:31:19 @ If I have seen any perishing for want of clothing, or any needy without covering;

dby@Job:31:20 @ If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my lambs;

dby@Job:31:21 @ If I have lifted up my hand against an orphan, because I saw my help in the gate:

dby@Job:31:22 @ [Then] let my shoulder fall from the shoulder-blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone!

dby@Job:31:23 @ For calamity from �God was a terror to me, and by reason of his excellency I was powerless.

dby@Job:31:24 @ If I have made gold my hope, or said to the fine gold, My confidence!

dby@Job:31:25 @ If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;

dby@Job:31:26 @ If I beheld the sun when it shone, or the moon walking in brightness,

dby@Job:31:27 @ And my heart have been secretly enticed, so that my mouth kissed my hand:

dby@Job:31:28 @ This also would be an iniquity for the judge, for I should have denied the �God who is above.

dby@Job:31:29 @ If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, and exulted when evil befell him;

dby@Job:31:30 @ (Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse;)

dby@Job:31:31 @ If the men of my tent said not, Who shall find one that hath not been satisfied with his meat? --

dby@Job:31:32 @ The stranger did not lodge without; I opened my doors to the pathway.

dby@Job:31:33 @ If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom,

dby@Job:31:34 @ Because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and went not out of the door,...

dby@Job:31:35 @ Oh that I had one to hear me! Behold my signature: let the Almighty answer me! And let mine opponent write an accusation!

dby@Job:31:36 @ Would I not take it upon my shoulder? I would bind it on to me [as] a crown;

dby@Job:31:37 @ I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I come near to him.

dby@Job:31:38 @ If my land cry out against me, and its furrows weep together;

dby@Job:31:39 @ If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, and have tormented to death the souls of its owners:

dby@Job:31:40 @ Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and tares instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.

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