updv - Job:26-31

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

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

updv@Job:26:3 @ How you have counseled him who has no wisdom, And plentifully declared sound knowledge!

updv@Job:26:4 @ To whom have you uttered words? And whose spirit came forth from you?

updv@Job:26:5 @ The spirits of the dead tremble Beneath the waters and those that stay in them.

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

updv@Job:26:7 @ He stretches out the north over empty space, And hangs the earth on nothing.

updv@Job:26:8 @ He binds up the waters in his thick clouds; And the cloud is not rent under them.

updv@Job:26:9 @ He encloses the face of the throne, And spreads his cloud on it.

updv@Job:26:10 @ He has described a boundary on the face of the waters, To the confines of light and darkness.

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

updv@Job:26:12 @ He stirs up the sea with his power, And by his understanding he strikes through Rahab.

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

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

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

updv@Job:27:2 @ As God lives, who has taken away my right, And the Almighty, who has vexed my soul:

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

updv@Job:27:4 @ Surely my lips will not speak unrighteousness, Neither will my tongue utter deceit.

updv@Job:27:5 @ Far be it from me that I should justify you(note:){+}(:note): Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.

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

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

updv@Job:27:8 @ For what is the hope of the godless, though he gets himself gain, When God takes away his soul?

updv@Job:27:9 @ Will God hear his cry, When trouble comes on him?

updv@Job:27:10 @ Will he delight himself in the Almighty, And call on God at all times?

updv@Job:27:11 @ I will teach you(note:){+}(:note) concerning the hand of God; That which is with the Almighty I will not conceal.

updv@Job:27:12 @ Look, all you(note:){+}(:note) yourselves have seen it; Why then have you{+} become altogether vain?

updv@Job:27:13 @ This is the portion of [the] wicked man with God, And the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty:

updv@Job:27:14 @ If his sons are multiplied, it is for the sword; And his offspring will not be satisfied with bread.

updv@Job:27:15 @ Those who remain of him will be buried in death, And his widows will make no lamentation.

updv@Job:27:16 @ Though he heaps up silver as the dust, And prepares raiment as the clay;

updv@Job:27:17 @ He may prepare it, but the just will put it on, And the innocent will divide the silver.

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

updv@Job:27:19 @ He lies down rich, but he will not be gathered [to his fathers]; He opens his eyes, and he is not.

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

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

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

updv@Job:27:23 @ Men will clap their hands at him, And will hiss him out of his place.

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

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

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

updv@Job:28:4 @ He breaks open a shaft away from where men sojourn; They are forgotten of the foot; They hang far from common man, they swing to and fro.

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

updv@Job:28:6 @ Its stones are the place of sapphires, And it has dust of gold.

updv@Job:28:7 @ That path no bird of prey knows, Neither has the falcon's eye seen it:

updv@Job:28:8 @ The proud beasts haven't trodden it, Nor has the fierce lion passed by it.

updv@Job:28:9 @ He puts forth his hand on the flinty rock; He overturns the mountains by the roots.

updv@Job:28:10 @ He cuts out channels among the rocks; And his eye sees every precious thing.

updv@Job:28:11 @ He dams up the sources of the rivers; And the thing that is hid he brings forth to light.

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

updv@Job:28:13 @ Common man doesn't know its price; Neither is it found in the land of the living.

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

updv@Job:28:15 @ It can't be obtained for gold, Neither will silver be weighed for its price.

updv@Job:28:16 @ It can't be valued with the gold of Ophir, With the precious onyx, or the sapphire.

updv@Job:28:17 @ Gold and glass can't equal it, Neither will it be exchanged for jewels of fine gold.

updv@Job:28:18 @ No mention will be made of coral or of crystal: Yes, the price of wisdom is above rubies.

updv@Job:28:19 @ The topaz of Ethiopia will not equal it, Neither will it be valued with pure gold.

updv@Job:28:20 @ From where then comes wisdom? And where is the place of understanding?

updv@Job:28:21 @ Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, And kept close from the birds of the heavens.

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

updv@Job:28:23 @ God understands its way, And he knows its place.

updv@Job:28:24 @ For he looks to the ends of the earth, And sees under the whole heaven;

updv@Job:28:25 @ To make a weight for the wind: Yes, he metes out the waters by measure.

updv@Job:28:26 @ When he made a decree for the rain, And a way for the lightning of the thunder;

updv@Job:28:27 @ Then he saw it, and declared it; He established it, yes, and searched it out.

updv@Job:28:28 @ And to man he said, Look, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; And to depart from evil is understanding.

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

updv@Job:29:2 @ Oh that I were as in the months of old, As in the days when God watched over me;

updv@Job:29:3 @ When his lamp shined on my head, And by his light I walked through darkness;

updv@Job:29:4 @ As I was in the ripeness of my days, When the friendship of God was on my tent;

updv@Job:29:5 @ When the Almighty was yet with me, And my children were about me;

updv@Job:29:6 @ When my steps were washed with butter, And the rock poured me out streams of oil!

updv@Job:29:7 @ When I went forth to the gate to the city, When I prepared my seat in the street,

updv@Job:29:8 @ The young men saw me and hid themselves, And the aged rose up and stood;

updv@Job:29:9 @ The princes refrained from talking, And laid their hand on their mouth;

updv@Job:29:10 @ The voice of the leaders was hushed, And their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.

updv@Job:29:11 @ For when the ear heard [me], then it blessed me; And when the eye saw [me], it gave witness to me:

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

updv@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.

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

updv@Job:29:15 @ I was eyes to the blind, And I was feet to the lame.

updv@Job:29:16 @ I was a father to the needy: And the cause of him who I didn't know I searched out.

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

updv@Job:29:18 @ Then I said, I will die in my nest, And I will multiply my days as the sand:

updv@Job:29:19 @ My root is spread out to the waters, And the dew lies all night on my branch;

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

updv@Job:29:21 @ To me men gave ear, and waited, And kept silent for my counsel.

updv@Job:29:22 @ After my words they did not speak again; And my speech distilled on them.

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

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

updv@Job:29:25 @ I chose out their way, and sat [as] chief, And stayed as a king in the army, As one who comforts the mourners.

updv@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.

updv@Job:30:2 @ Yes, the strength of their hands, whereto should it profit me? Men in whom ripe age has perished.

updv@Job:30:3 @ They are gaunt with want and famine; They gnaw the desert, in the gloom of wasteness and desolation.

updv@Job:30:4 @ They pluck salt-wort by the bushes; And the roots of the broom are their food.

updv@Job:30:5 @ They are driven forth from the midst [of men]; They cry after them as after a thief;

updv@Job:30:6 @ So that they stay in frightful valleys, In holes of the earth and of the rocks.

updv@Job:30:7 @ Among the bushes they bray; Under the nettles they are gathered together.

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

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

updv@Job:30:10 @ They are disgusted by me, they stand aloof from me, And do not spare to spit in my face.

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

updv@Job:30:12 @ On my right hand rise the rabble; They thrust aside my feet, And they cast up against me their ways of destruction.

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

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

updv@Job:30:15 @ Terrors are turned on me; They chase my honor as the wind; And my welfare has passed away as a cloud.

updv@Job:30:16 @ And now my soul is poured out inside me; Days of affliction have taken hold on me.

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

updv@Job:30:18 @ By [God's] great force is my garment disfigured; It binds me about as the collar of my coat.

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

updv@Job:30:20 @ I cry to you, and you do not answer me: I stand up, and you gaze at me.

updv@Job:30:21 @ You have turned to be cruel to me; With the might of your hand you persecute me.

updv@Job:30:22 @ You lift me up to the wind, you cause me to ride [on it]; And you dissolve me in the storm.

updv@Job:30:23 @ For I know that you will bring me to death, And to the house appointed for all living.

updv@Job:30:24 @ Nevertheless, does not one stretch out his hand when he falls? And, when he is ruined, cry for help because of it?

updv@Job:30:25 @ Didn't I weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn't my soul grieved for the needy?

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

updv@Job:30:27 @ My insides are troubled, and do not rest; Days of affliction have come upon me.

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

updv@Job:30:29 @ I am a brother to jackals, And a companion to ostriches.

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

updv@Job:30:31 @ Therefore my harp is [turned] to mourning, And my pipe into the voice of those who weep.

updv@Job:31:1 @ I made a covenant with my eyes; How then should I look at a virgin?

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

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

updv@Job:31:4 @ Doesn't he see my ways, And number all my steps?

updv@Job:31:5 @ If I have walked with falsehood, And my foot has hurried to deceit

updv@Job:31:6 @ (Let me be weighed in an even balance, That God may know my integrity);

updv@Job:31:7 @ If my step has turned out of the way, And my heart walked after my eyes, And if any spot has stuck to my hands:

updv@Job:31:8 @ Then let me sow, and let another eat; Yes, let the produce of my field be rooted out.

updv@Job:31:9 @ If my heart has been enticed to a woman, And I have laid wait at my fellow man's door;

updv@Job:31:10 @ Then let my wife grind to another, And let others have sex with her.

updv@Job:31:11 @ For that were a heinous crime; Yes, it were an iniquity to be punished by the judges:

updv@Job:31:12 @ For it is a fire that consumes to Destruction, And would root out all my increase.

updv@Job:31:13 @ If I have despised the cause of my male slave or of my female slave, When they contended with me;

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

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

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

updv@Job:31:17 @ Or have eaten my morsel alone, And the fatherless has not eaten of it

updv@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);

updv@Job:31:19 @ If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, Or that the needy had no covering;

updv@Job:31:20 @ If his loins haven't blessed me, And if he has not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

updv@Job:31:21 @ If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, Because I saw my help in the gate:

updv@Job:31:22 @ Then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder-blade, And my arm be broken from the bone.

updv@Job:31:23 @ For calamity from God is a terror to me, And by reason of his majesty I can do nothing.

updv@Job:31:24 @ If I have made gold my hope, And have said to the fine gold, [You are] my confidence;

updv@Job:31:25 @ If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, And because my hand had gotten much;

updv@Job:31:26 @ If I have seen the sun when it shined, Or the moon walking in brightness,

updv@Job:31:27 @ And my heart has been secretly enticed, And my mouth has kissed my hand:

updv@Job:31:28 @ This also was an iniquity to be punished by the judges; For I should have denied the God who is above.

updv@Job:31:29 @ If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, Or lifted up myself when evil found him;

updv@Job:31:30 @ (Yes, I haven't allowed my mouth to sin By asking his life with a curse);

updv@Job:31:31 @ If the men of my tent haven't said, Who can find one who has not been filled with his meat?

updv@Job:31:32 @ (The sojourner has not lodged in the street; But I have opened my doors to the traveler);

updv@Job:31:33 @ If like man I have covered my transgressions, By hiding my iniquity in my bosom,

updv@Job:31:34 @ Because I feared the great multitude, And the contempt of families terrified me, So that I kept silent, and didn't go out of the door-

updv@Job:31:35 @ Oh that I had one to hear me! (Look, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me); And [that I had] the indictment which my adversary has written!

updv@Job:31:36 @ Surely I would carry it on my shoulder; I would bind it to me as a crown:

updv@Job:31:37 @ I would declare to him the number of my steps; As a leader I would go near to him.

updv@Job:31:38 @ If my land cries out against me, And its furrows weep together;

updv@Job:31:39 @ If I have eaten its fruits without money, Or have caused its owners to lose their life:

updv@Job:31:40 @ Let thistles grow instead of wheat, And cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.

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