ylt - Job:26-31

ylt@Job:26:1 @And Job answereth and saith: --

ylt@Job:26:2 @What -- thou hast helped the powerless, Saved an arm not strong!

ylt@Job:26:3 @What -- thou hast given counsel to the unwise, And wise plans in abundance made known.

ylt@Job:26:4 @With whom hast thou declared words? And whose breath came forth from thee?

ylt@Job:26:5 @The Rephaim are formed, Beneath the waters, also their inhabitants.

ylt@Job:26:6 @Naked [is] Sheol over-against Him, And there is no covering to destruction.

ylt@Job:26:7 @Stretching out the north over desolation, Hanging the earth upon nothing,

ylt@Job:26:8 @Binding up the waters in His thick clouds, And the cloud is not rent under them.

ylt@Job:26:9 @Taking hold of the face of the throne, Spreading over it His cloud.

ylt@Job:26:10 @A limit He hath placed on the waters, Unto the boundary of light with darkness.

ylt@Job:26:11 @Pillars of the heavens do tremble, And they wonder because of His rebuke.

ylt@Job:26:12 @By His power He hath quieted the sea, And by His understanding smitten the proud.

ylt@Job:26:13 @By His Spirit the heavens He beautified, Formed hath His hand the fleeing serpent.

ylt@Job:26:14 @Lo, these [are] the borders of His way, And how little a matter is heard of Him, And the thunder of His might Who doth understand?

ylt@Job:27:1 @And Job addeth to lift up his simile, and saith: --

ylt@Job:27:2 @God liveth! He turned aside my judgment, And the Mighty -- He made my soul bitter.

ylt@Job:27:3 @For all the while my breath [is] in me, And the spirit of God in my nostrils.

ylt@Job:27:4 @My lips do not speak perverseness, And my tongue doth not utter deceit.

ylt@Job:27:5 @Pollution to me -- if I justify you, Till I expire I turn not aside mine integrity from me.

ylt@Job:27:6 @On my righteousness I have laid hold, And I do not let it go, My heart doth not reproach me while I live.

ylt@Job:27:7 @As the wicked is my enemy, And my withstander as the perverse.

ylt@Job:27:8 @For what [is] the hope of the profane, When He doth cut off? When God doth cast off his soul?

ylt@Job:27:9 @His cry doth God hear, When distress cometh on him?

ylt@Job:27:10 @On the Mighty doth he delight himself? Call God at all times?

ylt@Job:27:11 @I shew you by the hand of God, That which [is] with the Mighty I hide not.

ylt@Job:27:12 @Lo, ye -- all of you -- have seen, And why [is] this -- ye are altogether vain?

ylt@Job:27:13 @This [is] the portion of wicked man with God, And the inheritance of terrible ones From the Mighty they receive.

ylt@Job:27:14 @If his sons multiply -- for them [is] a sword. And his offspring [are] not satisfied [with] bread.

ylt@Job:27:15 @His remnant in death are buried, And his widows do not weep.

ylt@Job:27:16 @If he heap up as dust silver, And as clay prepare clothing,

ylt@Job:27:17 @He prepareth -- and the righteous putteth [it] on, And the silver the innocent doth apportion.

ylt@Job:27:18 @He hath built as a moth his house, And as a booth a watchman hath made.

ylt@Job:27:19 @Rich he lieth down, and he is not gathered, His eyes he hath opened, and he is not.

ylt@Job:27:20 @Overtake him as waters do terrors, By night stolen him away hath a whirlwind.

ylt@Job:27:21 @Take him up doth an east wind, and he goeth, And it frighteneth him from his place,

ylt@Job:27:22 @And it casteth at him, and doth not spare, From its hand he diligently fleeth.

ylt@Job:27:23 @It clappeth at him its hands, And it hisseth at him from his place.

ylt@Job:28:1 @Surely there is for silver a source, And a place for the gold they refine;

ylt@Job:28:2 @Iron from the dust is taken, And [from] the firm stone brass.

ylt@Job:28:3 @An end hath he set to darkness, And to all perfection he is searching, A stone of darkness and death-shade.

ylt@Job:28:4 @A stream hath broken out from a sojourner, Those forgotten of the foot, They were low, from man they wandered.

ylt@Job:28:5 @The earth! from it cometh forth bread, And its under-part is turned like fire.

ylt@Job:28:6 @A place of the sapphire [are] its stones, And it hath dust of gold.

ylt@Job:28:7 @A path -- not known it hath a ravenous fowl, Nor scorched it hath an eye of the kite,

ylt@Job:28:8 @Nor trodden it have the sons of pride, Not passed over it hath the fierce lion.

ylt@Job:28:9 @Against the flint he sent forth his hand, He overturned from the root mountains.

ylt@Job:28:10 @Among rocks, brooks he hath cleaved, And every precious thing hath his eye seen.

ylt@Job:28:11 @From overflowing floods he hath bound, And the hidden thing bringeth out [to] light.

ylt@Job:28:12 @And the wisdom -- whence is it found? And where [is] this, the place of understanding?

ylt@Job:28:13 @Man hath not known its arrangement, Nor is it found in the land of the living.

ylt@Job:28:14 @The deep hath said, 'It [is] not in me,' And the sea hath said, 'It is not with me.'

ylt@Job:28:15 @Gold is not given for it, Nor is silver weighed -- its price.

ylt@Job:28:16 @It is not valued with pure gold of Ophir, With precious onyx and sapphire,

ylt@Job:28:17 @Not equal it do gold and crystal, Nor [is] its exchange a vessel of fine gold.

ylt@Job:28:18 @Corals and pearl are not remembered, The acquisition of wisdom [is] above rubies.

ylt@Job:28:19 @Not equal it doth the topaz of Cush, With pure gold it is not valued.

ylt@Job:28:20 @And the wisdom -- whence doth it come? And where [is] this, the place of understanding?

ylt@Job:28:21 @It hath been hid from the eyes of all living. And from the fowl of the heavens It hath been hidden.

ylt@Job:28:22 @Destruction and death have said: 'With our ears we have heard its fame.'

ylt@Job:28:23 @God hath understood its way, And He hath known its place.

ylt@Job:28:24 @For He to the ends of the earth doth look, Under the whole heavens He doth see,

ylt@Job:28:25 @To make for the wind a weight, And the waters He meted out in measure.

ylt@Job:28:26 @In His making for the rain a limit, And a way for the brightness of the voices,

ylt@Job:28:27 @Then He hath seen and declareth it, He hath prepared it, and also searched it out,

ylt@Job:28:28 @And He saith to man: -- 'Lo, fear of the Lord, that [is] wisdom, And to turn from evil [is] understanding.'

ylt@Job:29:1 @And Job addeth to lift up his simile, and saith: --

ylt@Job:29:2 @Who doth make me as [in] months past, As [in] the days of God's preserving me?

ylt@Job:29:3 @In His causing His lamp to shine on my head, By His light I walk [through] darkness.

ylt@Job:29:4 @As I have been in days of my maturity, And the counsel of God upon my tent.

ylt@Job:29:5 @When yet the Mighty One [is] with me. Round about me -- my young ones,

ylt@Job:29:6 @When washing my goings with butter, And the firm rock [is] with me rivulets of oil.

ylt@Job:29:7 @When I go out to the gate by the city, In a broad place I prepare my seat.

ylt@Job:29:8 @Seen me have youths, and they, been hidden, And the aged have risen -- they stood up.

ylt@Job:29:9 @Princes have kept in words, And a hand they place on their mouth.

ylt@Job:29:10 @The voice of leaders hath been hidden, And their tongue to the palate hath cleaved.

ylt@Job:29:11 @For the ear heard, and declareth me happy, And the eye hath seen, and testifieth [to] me.

ylt@Job:29:12 @For I deliver the afflicted who is crying, And the fatherless who hath no helper.

ylt@Job:29:13 @The blessing of the perishing cometh on me, And the heart of the widow I cause to sing.

ylt@Job:29:14 @Righteousness I have put on, and it clotheth me, As a robe and a diadem my justice.

ylt@Job:29:15 @Eyes I have been to the blind, And feet to the lame [am] I.

ylt@Job:29:16 @A father I [am] to the needy, And the cause I have not known I search out.

ylt@Job:29:17 @And I break the jaw-teeth of the perverse, And from his teeth I cast away prey.

ylt@Job:29:18 @And I say, 'With my nest I expire, And as the sand I multiply days.'

ylt@Job:29:19 @My root is open unto the waters, And dew doth lodge on my branch.

ylt@Job:29:20 @My honour [is] fresh with me, And my bow in my hand is renewed.

ylt@Job:29:21 @To me they have hearkened, Yea, they wait, and are silent for my counsel.

ylt@Job:29:22 @After my word they change not, And on them doth my speech drop,

ylt@Job:29:23 @And they wait as [for] rain for me, And their mouth they have opened wide [As] for the latter rain.

ylt@Job:29:24 @I laugh unto them -- they give no credence, And the light of my face cause not to fall.

ylt@Job:29:25 @I choose their way, and sit head, And I dwell as a king in a troop, When mourners he doth comfort.

ylt@Job:30:1 @And now, laughed at me, Have the younger in days than I, Whose fathers I have loathed to set With the dogs of my flock.

ylt@Job:30:2 @Also -- the power of their hands, why [is it] to me? On them hath old age perished.

ylt@Job:30:3 @With want and with famine gloomy, Those fleeing to a dry place, Formerly a desolation and waste,

ylt@Job:30:4 @Those cropping mallows near a shrub, And broom-roots [is] their food.

ylt@Job:30:5 @From the midst they are cast out, (They shout against them as a thief),

ylt@Job:30:6 @In a frightful place of valleys to dwell, Holes of earth and clefts.

ylt@Job:30:7 @Among shrubs they do groan, Under nettles they are gathered together.

ylt@Job:30:8 @Sons of folly -- even sons without name, They have been smitten from the land.

ylt@Job:30:9 @And now, their song I have been, And I am to them for a byword.

ylt@Job:30:10 @They have abominated me, They have kept far from me, And from before me have not spared to spit.

ylt@Job:30:11 @Because His cord He loosed and afflicteth me, And the bridle from before me, They have cast away.

ylt@Job:30:12 @On the right hand doth a brood arise, My feet they have cast away, And they raise up against me, Their paths of calamity.

ylt@Job:30:13 @They have broken down my path, By my calamity they profit, 'He hath no helper.'

ylt@Job:30:14 @As a wide breach they come, Under the desolation have rolled themselves.

ylt@Job:30:15 @He hath turned against me terrors, It pursueth as the wind mine abundance, And as a thick cloud, Hath my safety passed away.

ylt@Job:30:16 @And now, in me my soul poureth itself out, Seize me do days of affliction.

ylt@Job:30:17 @At night my bone hath been pierced in me, And mine eyelids do not lie down.

ylt@Job:30:18 @By the abundance of power, Is my clothing changed, As the mouth of my coat it doth gird me.

ylt@Job:30:19 @Casting me into mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.

ylt@Job:30:20 @I cry unto Thee, And Thou dost not answer me, I have stood, and Thou dost consider me.

ylt@Job:30:21 @Thou art turned to be fierce to me, With the strength of Thy hand, Thou oppresest me.

ylt@Job:30:22 @Thou dost lift me up, On the wind Thou dost cause me to ride, And Thou meltest -- Thou levellest me.

ylt@Job:30:23 @For I have known To death Thou dost bring me back, And [to] the house appointed for all living.

ylt@Job:30:24 @Surely not against the heap Doth He send forth the hand, Though in its ruin they have safety.

ylt@Job:30:25 @Did not I weep for him whose day is hard? Grieved hath my soul for the needy.

ylt@Job:30:26 @When good I expected, then cometh evil, And I wait for light, and darkness cometh.

ylt@Job:30:27 @My bowels have boiled, and have not ceased, Gone before me have days of affliction.

ylt@Job:30:28 @Mourning I have gone without the sun, I have risen, in an assembly I cry.

ylt@Job:30:29 @A brother I have been to dragons, And a companion to daughters of the ostrich.

ylt@Job:30:30 @My skin hath been black upon me, And my bone hath burned from heat,

ylt@Job:30:31 @And my harp doth become mourning, And my organ the sound of weeping.

ylt@Job:31:1 @A covenant I made for mine eyes, And what -- do I attend to a virgin?

ylt@Job:31:2 @And what [is] the portion of God from above? And the inheritance of the Mighty from the heights?

ylt@Job:31:3 @Is not calamity to the perverse? And strangeness to workers of iniquity?

ylt@Job:31:4 @Doth not He see my ways, And all my steps number?

ylt@Job:31:5 @If I have walked with vanity, And my foot doth hasten to deceit,

ylt@Job:31:6 @He doth weigh me in righteous balances, And God doth know my integrity.

ylt@Job:31:7 @If my step doth turn aside from the way, And after mine eyes hath my heart gone, And to my hands cleaved hath blemish,

ylt@Job:31:8 @Let me sow -- and another eat, And my products let be rooted out.

ylt@Job:31:9 @If my heart hath been enticed by woman, And by the opening of my neighbour I laid wait,

ylt@Job:31:10 @Grind to another let my wife, And over her let others bend.

ylt@Job:31:11 @For it [is] a wicked thing, and a judicial iniquity;

ylt@Job:31:12 @For a fire it [is], to destruction it consumeth, And among all mine increase doth take root,

ylt@Job:31:13 @If I despise the cause of my man-servant, And of my handmaid, In their contending with me,

ylt@Job:31:14 @Then what do I do when God ariseth? And when He doth inspect, What do I answer Him?

ylt@Job:31:15 @Did not He that made me in the womb make him? Yea, prepare us in the womb doth One.

ylt@Job:31:16 @If I withhold from pleasure the poor, And the eyes of the widow do consume,

ylt@Job:31:17 @And I do eat my morsel by myself, And the orphan hath not eat of it,

ylt@Job:31:18 @(But from my youth He grew up with me as [with] a father, And from the belly of my mother I am led.)

ylt@Job:31:19 @If I see [any] perishing without clothing, And there is no covering to the needy,

ylt@Job:31:20 @If his loins have not blessed me, And from the fleece of my sheep He doth not warm himself,

ylt@Job:31:21 @If I have waved at the fatherless my hand, When I see in [him] the gate of my court,

ylt@Job:31:22 @My shoulder from its blade let fall, And mine arm from the bone be broken.

ylt@Job:31:23 @For a dread unto me [is] calamity [from] God, And because of His excellency I am not able.

ylt@Job:31:24 @If I have made gold my confidence, And to the pure gold have said, 'My trust,'

ylt@Job:31:25 @If I rejoice because great [is] my wealth, And because abundance hath my hand found,

ylt@Job:31:26 @If I see the light when it shineth, And the precious moon walking,

ylt@Job:31:27 @And my heart is enticed in secret, And my hand doth kiss my mouth,

ylt@Job:31:28 @It also [is] a judicial iniquity, For I had lied to God above.

ylt@Job:31:29 @If I rejoice at the ruin of my hater, And stirred up myself when evil found him,

ylt@Job:31:30 @Yea, I have not suffered my mouth to sin, To ask with an oath his life.

ylt@Job:31:31 @If not -- say ye, O men of my tent, 'O that we had of his flesh, we are not satisfied.'

ylt@Job:31:32 @In the street doth not lodge a stranger, My doors to the traveller I open.

ylt@Job:31:33 @If I have covered as Adam my transgressions, To hide in my bosom mine iniquity,

ylt@Job:31:34 @Because I fear a great multitude, And the contempt of families doth affright me, Then I am silent, I go not out of the opening.

ylt@Job:31:35 @Who giveth to me a hearing? lo, my mark. The Mighty One doth answer me, And a bill hath mine adversary written.

ylt@Job:31:36 @If not -- on my shoulder I take it up, I bind it a crown on myself.

ylt@Job:31:37 @The number of my steps I tell Him, As a leader I approach Him.

ylt@Job:31:38 @If against me my land doth cry out, And together its furrows weep,

ylt@Job:31:39 @If its strength I consumed without money, And the life of its possessors, I have caused to breathe out,

ylt@Job:31:40 @Instead of wheat let a thorn go forth, And instead of barley a useless weed! The words of Job are finished.

ylt@Job:32:1 @And these three men cease from answering Job, for he [is] righteous in his own eyes,