noyes Job:1-4
noyes@Job:1:1 @ In the land of Uz lived a man whose name was Job. He was an upright and good man, fearing God and departing from evil.
noyes@Job:1:2 @ He had seven sons and three daughters.
noyes@Job:1:3 @ His substance was seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred sheasses, and a great number of servants; so that he was the greatest of all the inhabitants of the East.
noyes@Job:1:4 @ Now it was the custom of his sons to make a feast in their houses, each on his day, and to send and invite their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.
noyes@Job:1:5 @ And when the days of their feasting had gone round, Job used to send for them and sanctify them, and to rise up early in the morning and offer burntofferings according to the number of them all; for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and have renounced God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.
noyes@Job:1:6 @ Now on a certain day the sons of God came to present themselves before Jehovah, and Satan also came among them.
noyes@Job:1:7 @ And Jehovah said to Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered Jehovah, and said, From wandering over the earth, and walking up and down in it.
noyes@Job:1:8 @ And Jehovah said to Satan, Hast thou observed my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, an upright and good man, fearing God and departing from evil?
noyes@Job:1:9 @ Then Satan answered Jehovah, Is it for nought that Job feareth God?
noyes@Job:1:10 @ Hast thou not placed a hedge around him, and around his house, and around all his possessions? Thou hast prospered the work of his hands, and his herds are greatly increased in the land.
noyes@Job:1:11 @ But only put forth thy hand, and touch whatever he possesseth, and to thy face will he renounce thee.
noyes@Job:1:12 @ And Jehovah said to Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy power; but upon him lay not thy hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of Jehovah.
noyes@Job:1:13 @ Now on a certain day the sons and daughters of Job were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brothers house,
noyes@Job:1:14 @ when a messenger came to Job, and said, The oxen were ploughing, and the asses feeding beside them,
noyes@Job:1:15 @ and the Sabaeans fell upon them, and took them away; the servants also they slew with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
noyes@Job:1:16 @ While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God hath fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
noyes@Job:1:17 @ While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldaeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels, and carried them away; the servants also they slew with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
noyes@Job:1:18 @ While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brothers house;
noyes@Job:1:19 @ and, lo! there came a great wind from the desert, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
noyes@Job:1:20 @ Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped;
noyes@Job:1:21 @ and said, Naked came I forth from my mothers womb, and naked shall I return thither. Jehovah gave, and Jehovah hath taken away; blessed be the name of Jehovah!
noyes@Job:1:22 @ In all this Job sinned not, nor uttered vain words against God.
noyes@Job:2:1 @ Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before Jehovah; and Satan came also among them to present himself before Jehovah.
noyes@Job:2:2 @ And Jehovah said to Satan, Whence comest thou? And Satan answered Jehovah, and said, From wandering over the earth, and walking up and down in it.
noyes@Job:2:3 @ Then said Jehovah to Satan, Hast thou observed my servant Job, that there is none like him upon the earth, an upright and good man, fearing God and departing from evil? And still he holdeth fast his integrity, although thou didst excite me against him to destroy him without a cause.
noyes@Job:2:4 @ And Satan answered Jehovah, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.
noyes@Job:2:5 @ But put forth now thy hand, and touch his bone and his flesh, and to thy face will he renounce thee.
noyes@Job:2:6 @ And Jehovah said to Satan, Behold, he is in thy hand; but spare his life.
noyes@Job:2:7 @ Then Satan went forth from the presence of Jehovah, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot to his crown.
noyes@Job:2:8 @ And he took a potsherd to scrape himself withal, and sat down among the ashes.
noyes@Job:2:9 @ Then said his wife to him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? Renounce God, and die.
noyes@Job:2:10 @ But he said to her, Thou talkest like one of the foolish women. What! shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this, Job sinned not with his lips.
noyes@Job:2:11 @ Now three friends of Job heard of all this evil that had come upon him, and came each one from his home; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; for they had agreed to come to mourn with him, and to comfort him.
noyes@Job:2:12 @ And they lifted up their eyes at a distance, and knew him not; then they raised their voices and wept, and rent each one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.
noyes@Job:2:13 @ And they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word to him; for they saw that his grief was very great.
noyes@Job:3:1 @ At length Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth.
noyes@Job:3:2 @ And Job spake and said:
noyes@Job:3:3 @ Perish the day in which I was born, and the night which said, "A manchild is conceived!"
noyes@Job:3:4 @ Let that day be darkness; Let not God seek it from above; Yea, let not the light shine upon it!
noyes@Job:3:5 @ Let darkness and the shadow of death redeem it; Let a cloud dwell upon it; Let whatever darkeneth the day terrify it!
noyes@Job:3:6 @ As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; Let it not rejoice among the days of the year; Let it not come into the number of the months!
noyes@Job:3:7 @ O let that night be unfruitful! Let there be in it no voice of joy;
noyes@Job:3:8 @ Let them that curse the day curse it, Who are skilful to stir up the leviathan!
noyes@Job:3:9 @ Let the stars of its twilight be darkened; Let it long for light, and have none; Neither let it see the eyelashes of the morning!
noyes@Job:3:10 @ Because it shut not up the doors of my mothers womb, And hid not trouble from mine eyes.
noyes@Job:3:11 @ Why died I not at my birth? Why did I not expire when I came forth from the womb?
noyes@Job:3:12 @ Why did the knees receive me, And why the breasts, that I might suck?
noyes@Job:3:13 @ For now should I lie down and be quiet; I should sleep; then should I be at rest,
noyes@Job:3:14 @ With kings and counsellors of the earth, Who built up for themselvesruins!
noyes@Job:3:15 @ Or with princes that had gold, And filled their houses with silver;
noyes@Job:3:16 @ Or, as a hidden untimely birth, I had perished; As infants which never saw the light.
noyes@Job:3:17 @ There the wicked cease from troubling; There the weary are at rest.
noyes@Job:3:18 @ There the prisoners rest together; They hear not the voice of the oppressor.
noyes@Job:3:19 @ The small and the great are there, And the servant is free from his master.
noyes@Job:3:20 @ Why giveth He light to him that is in misery, And life to the bitter in soul,
noyes@Job:3:21 @ Who long for death, and it cometh not, And dig for it more than for hid treasures;
noyes@Job:3:22 @ Who rejoice exceedingly, Yea, exult, when they can find a grave?
noyes@Job:3:23 @ Why is light given to a man from whom the way is hid, And whom God hath hedged in?
noyes@Job:3:24 @ For my sighing cometh before I eat, And my groans are poured out like water.
noyes@Job:3:25 @ For that which I dread overtaketh me; That at which I shudder cometh upon me.
noyes@Job:3:26 @ I have no peace, nor quiet, nor respite: Misery cometh upon me continually.
noyes@Job:4:1 @ Then spake Eliphaz the Temanite, and said:
noyes@Job:4:2 @ If one attempt a word with thee, wilt thou be offended? But who can refrain from speaking?
noyes@Job:4:3 @ Behold, thou hast admonished many; Thou hast strengthened feeble hands;
noyes@Job:4:4 @ Thy words have upheld him that was falling, And thou hast given strength to feeble knees.
noyes@Job:4:5 @ But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; It toucheth thee, and thou art confounded!
noyes@Job:4:6 @ Is not thy fear of God thy hope, And the uprightness of thy ways thy confidence?
noyes@Job:4:7 @ Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished being innocent? Or where have the righteous been cut off?
noyes@Job:4:8 @ According to what I have seen, they who plough iniquity, And sow mischief, reap the same.
noyes@Job:4:9 @ By the blast of God they perish, And by the breath of his nostrils they are consumed.
noyes@Job:4:10 @ The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, And the teeth of the young lions are broken.
noyes@Job:4:11 @ The fierce lion perisheth for lack of prey, And the whelps of the lioness are scattered abroad.
noyes@Job:4:12 @ A word was once secretly brought to me, And mine ear caught a whisper thereof.
noyes@Job:4:13 @ Amid thoughts from visions of the night, When deep sleep falleth upon men,
noyes@Job:4:14 @ A fear and a horror came upon me, Which made all my bones to shake.
noyes@Job:4:15 @ Then a spirit passed before my face, The hair of my flesh rose on end;
noyes@Job:4:16 @ It stood still, but its form I could not discern; An image was before mine eyes; There was silence, and I heard a voice:
noyes@Job:4:17 @ "Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall man be more pure than his Maker?
noyes@Job:4:18 @ Behold, he putteth no trust in his ministering spirits, And his angels he chargeth with frailty.
noyes@Job:4:19 @ What then are they who dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Who crumble to pieces, as if motheaten!
noyes@Job:4:20 @ Between morning and evening are they destroyed; They perish for ever, and none regardeth it.
noyes@Job:4:21 @ The excellency that is in them is torn away; They die before they have become wise."
noyes@Job:5:1 @ Call now, see if any will answer thee! And to which of the holy ones wilt thou look?
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