rsv Job:11-20
rsv@Job:11:1 @ Then Zophar the Na'amathite answered:
rsv@Job:11:2 @ "Should a multitude of words go unanswered, and a man full of talk be vindicated?
rsv@Job:11:3 @ Should your babble silence men, and when you mock, shall no one shame you?
rsv@Job:11:4 @ For you say, `r you say, "My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in God's eyes.'
rsv@Job:11:5 @ But oh, that God would speak, and open his lips to you,
rsv@Job:11:6 @ and that he would tell you the secrets of wisdom! For he is manifold in understanding. Know then that God exacts of you less than your guilt deserves.
rsv@Job:11:7 @ "Can you find out the deep things of God? Can you find out the limit of the Almighty?
rsv@Job:11:8 @ It is higher than heaven --what can you do? Deeper than Sheol--what can you know?
rsv@Job:11:9 @ Its measure is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
rsv@Job:11:10 @ If he passes through, and imprisons, and calls to judgment, who can hinder him?
rsv@Job:11:11 @ For he knows worthless men; when he sees iniquity, will he not consider it?
rsv@Job:11:12 @ But a stupid man will get understanding, when a wild ass's colt is born a man.
rsv@Job:11:13 @ "If you set your heart aright, you will stretch out your hands toward him.
rsv@Job:11:14 @ If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in your tents.
rsv@Job:11:15 @ Surely then you will lift up your face without blemish; you will be secure, and will not fear.
rsv@Job:11:16 @ You will forget your misery; you will remember it as waters that have passed away.
rsv@Job:11:17 @ And your life will be brighter than the noonday; its darkness will be like the morning.
rsv@Job:11:18 @ And you will have confidence, because there is hope; you will be protected and take your rest in safety.
rsv@Job:11:19 @ You will lie down, and none will make you afraid; many will entreat your favor.
rsv@Job:11:20 @ But the eyes of the wicked will fail; all way of escape will be lost to them, and their hope is to breathe their last."
rsv@Job:12:1 @ Then Job answered:
rsv@Job:12:2 @ "No doubt you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.
rsv@Job:12:3 @ But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?
rsv@Job:12:4 @ I am a laughingstock to my friends; I, who called upon God and he answered me, a just and blameless man, am a laughingstock.
rsv@Job:12:5 @ In the thought of one who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune; it is ready for those whose feet slip.
rsv@Job:12:6 @ The tents of robbers are at peace, and those who provoke God are secure, who bring their god in their hand.
rsv@Job:12:7 @ "But ask the beasts, and they will teach you; the birds of the air, and they will tell you;
rsv@Job:12:8 @ or the plants of the earth, and they will teach you; and the fish of the sea will declare to you.
rsv@Job:12:9 @ Who among all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this?
rsv@Job:12:10 @ In his hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of all mankind.
rsv@Job:12:11 @ Does not the ear try words as the palate tastes food?
rsv@Job:12:12 @ Wisdom is with the aged, and understanding in length of days.
rsv@Job:12:13 @ "With God are wisdom and might; he has counsel and understanding.
rsv@Job:12:14 @ If he tears down, none can rebuild; if he shuts a man in, none can open.
rsv@Job:12:15 @ If he withholds the waters, they dry up; if he sends them out, they overwhelm the land.
rsv@Job:12:16 @ With him are strength and wisdom; the deceived and the deceiver are his.
rsv@Job:12:17 @ He leads counselors away stripped, and judges he makes fools.
rsv@Job:12:18 @ He looses the bonds of kings, and binds a waistcloth on their loins.
rsv@Job:12:19 @ He leads priests away stripped, and overthrows the mighty.
rsv@Job:12:20 @ He deprives of speech those who are trusted, and takes away the discernment of the elders.
rsv@Job:12:21 @ He pours contempt on princes, and looses the belt of the strong.
rsv@Job:12:22 @ He uncovers the deeps out of darkness, and brings deep darkness to light.
rsv@Job:12:23 @ He makes nations great, and he destroys them: he enlarges nations, and leads them away.
rsv@Job:12:24 @ He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, and makes them wander in a pathless waste.
rsv@Job:12:25 @ They grope in the dark without light; and he makes them stagger like a drunken man.
rsv@Job:13:1 @ "Lo, my eye has seen all this, my ear has heard and understood it.
rsv@Job:13:2 @ What you know, I also know; I am not inferior to you.
rsv@Job:13:3 @ But I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to argue my case with God.
rsv@Job:13:4 @ As for you, you whitewash with lies; worthless physicians are you all.
rsv@Job:13:5 @ Oh that you would keep silent, and it would be your wisdom!
rsv@Job:13:6 @ Hear now my reasoning, and listen to the pleadings of my lips.
rsv@Job:13:7 @ Will you speak falsely for God, and speak deceitfully for him?
rsv@Job:13:8 @ Will you show partiality toward him, will you plead the case for God?
rsv@Job:13:9 @ Will it be well with you when he searches you out? Or can you deceive him, as one deceives a man?
rsv@Job:13:10 @ He will surely rebuke you if in secret you show partiality.
rsv@Job:13:11 @ Will not his majesty terrify you, and the dread of him fall upon you?
rsv@Job:13:12 @ Your maxims are proverbs of ashes, your defenses are defenses of clay.
rsv@Job:13:13 @ "Let me have silence, and I will speak, and let come on me what may.
rsv@Job:13:14 @ I will take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand.
rsv@Job:13:15 @ Behold, he will slay me; I have no hope; yet I will defend my ways to his face.
rsv@Job:13:16 @ This will be my salvation, that a godless man shall not come before him.
rsv@Job:13:17 @ Listen carefully to my words, and let my declaration be in your ears.
rsv@Job:13:18 @ Behold, I have prepared my case; I know that I shall be vindicated.
rsv@Job:13:19 @ Who is there that will contend with me? For then I would be silent and die.
rsv@Job:13:20 @ Only grant two things to me, then I will not hide myself from thy face:
rsv@Job:13:21 @ withdraw thy hand far from me, and let not dread of thee terrify me.
rsv@Job:13:22 @ Then call, and I will answer; or let me speak, and do thou reply to me.
rsv@Job:13:23 @ How many are my iniquities and my sins? Make me know my transgression and my sin.
rsv@Job:13:24 @ Why dost thou hide thy face, and count me as thy enemy?
rsv@Job:13:25 @ Wilt thou frighten a driven leaf and pursue dry chaff+?
rsv@Job:13:26 @ For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me inherit the iniquities of my youth.
rsv@Job:13:27 @ Thou puttest my feet in the stocks, and watchest all my paths; thou settest a bound to the soles of my feet.
rsv@Job:13:28 @ Man wastes away like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
rsv@Job:14:1 @ "Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
rsv@Job:14:2 @ He comes forth like a flower, and withers; he flees like a shadow, and continues not.
rsv@Job:14:3 @ And dost thou open thy eyes upon such a one and bring him into judgment with thee?
rsv@Job:14:4 @ Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? There is not one.
rsv@Job:14:5 @ Since his days are determined, and the number of his months is with thee, and thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass,
rsv@Job:14:6 @ look away from him, and desist, that he may enjoy, like a hireling, his day.
rsv@Job:14:7 @ "For there is hope for a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its shoots will not cease.
rsv@Job:14:8 @ Though its root grow old in the earth, and its stump die in the ground,
rsv@Job:14:9 @ yet at the scent of water it will bud and put forth branches like a young plant.
rsv@Job:14:10 @ But man dies, and is laid low; man breathes his last, and where is he?
rsv@Job:14:11 @ As waters fail from a lake, and a river wastes away and dries up,
rsv@Job:14:12 @ so man lies down and rises not again; till the heavens are no more he will not awake, or be roused out of his sleep.
rsv@Job:14:13 @ Oh that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol, that thou wouldest conceal me until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!
rsv@Job:14:14 @ If a man die, shall he live again? All the days of my service I would wait, till my release should come.
rsv@Job:14:15 @ Thou wouldest call, and I would answer thee; thou wouldest long for the work of thy hands.
rsv@Job:14:16 @ For then thou wouldest number my steps, thou wouldest not keep watch over my sin;
rsv@Job:14:17 @ my transgression would be sealed up in a bag, and thou wouldest cover over my iniquity.
rsv@Job:14:18 @ "But the mountain falls and crumbles away, and the rock is removed from its place;
rsv@Job:14:19 @ the waters wear away the stones; the torrents wash away the soil of the earth; so thou destroyest the hope of man.
rsv@Job:14:20 @ Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passes; thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.
rsv@Job:14:21 @ His sons come to honor, and he does not know it; they are brought low, and he perceives it not.
rsv@Job:14:22 @ He feels only the pain of his own body, and he mourns only for himself."
rsv@Job:15:1 @ Then Eli'phaz the Te'manite answered:
rsv@Job:15:2 @ "Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?
rsv@Job:15:3 @ Should he argue in unprofitable talk, or in words with which he can do no good?
rsv@Job:15:4 @ But you are doing away with the fear of God, and hindering meditation before God.
rsv@Job:15:5 @ For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.
rsv@Job:15:6 @ Your own mouth condemns you, and not I; your own lips testify against you.
rsv@Job:15:7 @ "Are you the first man that was born? Or were you brought forth before the hills?
rsv@Job:15:8 @ Have you listened in the council of God? And do you limit wisdom to yourself+?
rsv@Job:15:9 @ What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that is not clear to us?
rsv@Job:15:10 @ Both the gray-haired and the aged are among us, older than your father.
rsv@Job:15:11 @ Are the consolations of God too small for you, or the word that deals gently with you?
rsv@Job:15:12 @ Why does your heart carry you away, and why do your eyes flash,
rsv@Job:15:13 @ that you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?
rsv@Job:15:14 @ What is man, that he can be clean? Or he that is born of a woman, that he can be righteous?
rsv@Job:15:15 @ Behold, God puts no trust in his holy ones, and the heavens are not clean in his sight;
rsv@Job:15:16 @ how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!
rsv@Job:15:17 @ "I will show you, hear me; and what I have seen I will declare
rsv@Job:15:18 @ (what wise men have told, and their fathers have not hidden,
rsv@Job:15:19 @ to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them).
rsv@Job:15:20 @ The wicked man writhes in pain all his days, through all the years that are laid up for the ruthless.
rsv@Job:15:21 @ Terrifying sounds are in his ears; in prosperity the destroyer will come upon him.
rsv@Job:15:22 @ He does not believe that he will return out of darkness, and he is destined for the sword.
rsv@Job:15:23 @ He wanders abroad for bread, saying, ` wanders abroad for bread, saying, "Where is it?' He knows that a day of darkness is ready at his hand;
rsv@Job:15:24 @ distress and anguish terrify him; they prevail against him, like a king prepared for battle.
rsv@Job:15:25 @ Because he has stretched forth his hand against God, and bids defiance to the Almighty,
rsv@Job:15:26 @ running stubbornly against him with a thick-bossed shield;
rsv@Job:15:27 @ because he has covered his face with his fat, and gathered fat upon his loins,
rsv@Job:15:28 @ and has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no man should inhabit, which were destined to become heaps of ruins;
rsv@Job:15:29 @ he will not be rich, and his wealth will not endure, nor will he strike root in the earth;
rsv@Job:15:30 @ he will not escape from darkness; the flame will dry up his shoots, and his blossom will be swept away by the wind.
rsv@Job:15:31 @ Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself; for emptiness will be his recompense.
rsv@Job:15:32 @ It will be paid in full before his time, and his branch will not be green.
rsv@Job:15:33 @ He will shake off his unripe grape, like the vine, and cast off his blossom, like the olive tree.
rsv@Job:15:34 @ For the company of the godless is barren, and fire consumes the tents of bribery.
rsv@Job:15:35 @ They conceive mischief and bring forth evil and their heart prepares deceit."
rsv@Job:16:1 @ Then Job answered:
rsv@Job:16:2 @ "I have heard many such things; miserable comforters are you all.
rsv@Job:16:3 @ Shall windy words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?
rsv@Job:16:4 @ I also could speak as you do, if you were in my place; I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you.
rsv@Job:16:5 @ I could strengthen you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips would assuage your pain.
rsv@Job:16:6 @ "If I speak, my pain is not assuaged, and if I forbear, how much of it leaves me?
rsv@Job:16:7 @ Surely now God has worn me out; he has made desolate all my company.
rsv@Job:16:8 @ And he has shriveled me up, which is a witness against me; and my leanness has risen up against me, it testifies to my face.
rsv@Job:16:9 @ He has torn me in his wrath, and hated me; he has gnashed his teeth at me; my adversary sharpens his eyes against me.
rsv@Job:16:10 @ Men have gaped at me with their mouth, they have struck me insolently upon the cheek, they mass themselves together against me.
rsv@Job:16:11 @ God gives me up to the ungodly, and casts me into the hands of the wicked.
rsv@Job:16:12 @ I was at ease, and he broke me asunder; he seized me by the neck and dashed me to pieces; he set me up as his target,
rsv@Job:16:13 @ his archers surround me. He slashes open my kidneys, and does not spare; he pours out my gall on the ground.
rsv@Job:16:14 @ He breaks me with breach upon breach; he runs upon me like a warrior.
rsv@Job:16:15 @ I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and have laid my strength in the dust.
rsv@Job:16:16 @ My face is red with weeping, and on my eyelids is deep darkness;
rsv@Job:16:17 @ although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
rsv@Job:16:18 @ "O earth, cover not my blood, and let my cry find no resting place.
rsv@Job:16:19 @ Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and he that vouches for me is on high.
rsv@Job:16:20 @ My friends scorn me; my eye pours out tears to God,
rsv@Job:16:21 @ that he would maintain the right of a man with God, like that of a man with his neighbor.
rsv@Job:16:22 @ For when a few years have come I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
rsv@Job:17:1 @ My spirit is broken, my days are extinct, the grave is ready for me.
rsv@Job:17:2 @ Surely there are mockers about me, and my eye dwells on their provocation.
rsv@Job:17:3 @ "Lay down a pledge for me with thyself; who is there that will give surety for me?
rsv@Job:17:4 @ Since thou hast closed their minds to understanding, therefore thou wilt not let them triumph.
rsv@Job:17:5 @ He who informs against his friends to get a share of their property, the eyes of his children will fail.
rsv@Job:17:6 @ "He has made me a byword of the peoples, and I am one before whom men spit.
rsv@Job:17:7 @ My eye has grown dim from grief, and all my members are like a shadow.
rsv@Job:17:8 @ Upright men are appalled at this, and the innocent stirs himself up against the godless.
rsv@Job:17:9 @ Yet the righteous holds to his way, and he that has clean hands grows stronger and stronger.
rsv@Job:17:10 @ But you, come on again, all of you, and I shall not find a wise man among you.
rsv@Job:17:11 @ My days are past, my plans are broken off, the desires of my heart.
rsv@Job:17:12 @ They make night into day; `he light,' they say, "is near to the darkness.'
rsv@Job:17:13 @ If I look for Sheol as my house, if I spread my couch in darkness,
rsv@Job:17:14 @ if I say to the pit, `You are my father,' and to the worm, `My mother,' or `My sister,'
rsv@Job:17:15 @ where then is my hope? Who will see my hope?
rsv@Job:17:16 @ Will it go down to the bars of Sheol? Shall we descend together into the dust?"
rsv@Job:18:1 @ Then Bildad the Shuhite answered:
rsv@Job:18:2 @ "How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and then we will speak.
rsv@Job:18:3 @ Why are we counted as cattle? Why are we stupid in your sight?
rsv@Job:18:4 @ You who tear yourself in your anger, shall the earth be forsaken for you, or the rock be removed out of its place?
rsv@Job:18:5 @ "Yea, the light of the wicked is put out, and the flame of his fire does not shine.
rsv@Job:18:6 @ The light is dark in his tent, and his lamp above him is put out.
rsv@Job:18:7 @ His strong steps are shortened and his own schemes throw him down.
rsv@Job:18:8 @ For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks on a pitfall.
rsv@Job:18:9 @ A trap seizes him by the heel, a snare lays hold of him.
rsv@Job:18:10 @ A rope is hid for him in the ground, a trap for him in the path.
rsv@Job:18:11 @ Terrors frighten him on every side, and chase him at his heels.
rsv@Job:18:12 @ His strength is hunger-bitten, and calamity is ready for his stumbling.
rsv@Job:18:13 @ By disease his skin is consumed, the first-born of death consumes his limbs.
rsv@Job:18:14 @ He is torn from the tent in which he trusted, and is brought to the king of terrors.
rsv@Job:18:15 @ In his tent dwells that which is none of his; brimstone is scattered upon his habitation.
rsv@Job:18:16 @ His roots dry up beneath, and his branches wither above.
rsv@Job:18:17 @ His memory perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the street.
rsv@Job:18:18 @ He is thrust from light into darkness, and driven out of the world.
rsv@Job:18:19 @ He has no offspring or descendant among his people, and no survivor where he used to live.
rsv@Job:18:20 @ They of the west are appalled at his day, and horror seizes them of the east.
rsv@Job:18:21 @ Surely such are the dwellings of the ungodly, such is the place of him who knows not God."
rsv@Job:19:1 @ Then Job answered:
rsv@Job:19:2 @ "How long will you torment me, and break me in pieces with words?
rsv@Job:19:3 @ These ten times you have cast reproach upon me; are you not ashamed to wrong me?
rsv@Job:19:4 @ And even if it be true that I have erred, my error remains with myself.
rsv@Job:19:5 @ If indeed you magnify yourselves against me, and make my humiliation an argument against me,
rsv@Job:19:6 @ know then that God has put me in the wrong, and closed his net about me.
rsv@Job:19:7 @ Behold, I cry out, `hold, I cry out, "Violence!' but I am not answered; I call aloud, but there is no justice.
rsv@Job:19:8 @ He has walled up my way, so that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness upon my paths.
rsv@Job:19:9 @ He has stripped from me my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
rsv@Job:19:10 @ He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone, and my hope has he pulled up like a tree.
rsv@Job:19:11 @ He has kindled his wrath against me, and counts me as his adversary.
rsv@Job:19:12 @ His troops come on together; they have cast up siegeworks against me, and encamp round about my tent.
rsv@Job:19:13 @ "He has put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.
rsv@Job:19:14 @ My kinsfolk and my close friends have failed me;
rsv@Job:19:15 @ the guests in my house have forgotten me; my maidservants count me as a stranger; I have become an alien in their eyes.
rsv@Job:19:16 @ I call to my servant, but he gives me no answer; I must beseech him with my mouth.
rsv@Job:19:17 @ I am repulsive to my wife, loathsome to the sons of my own mother.
rsv@Job:19:18 @ Even young children despise me; when I rise they talk against me.
rsv@Job:19:19 @ All my intimate friends abhor me, and those whom I loved have turned against me.
rsv@Job:19:20 @ My bones cleave to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
rsv@Job:19:21 @ Have pity on me, have pity on me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me!
rsv@Job:19:22 @ Why do you, like God, pursue me? Why are you not satisfied with my flesh?
rsv@Job:19:23 @ "Oh that my words were written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!
rsv@Job:19:24 @ Oh that with an iron pen and lead they were graven in the rock for ever!
rsv@Job:19:25 @ For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at last he will stand upon the earth;
rsv@Job:19:26 @ and after my skin has been thus destroyed, then from my flesh I shall see God,
rsv@Job:19:27 @ whom I shall see on my side, and my eyes shall behold, and not another. My heart faints within me!
rsv@Job:19:28 @ If you say, `e him!' and, `s found in him';
rsv@Job:19:29 @ be afraid of the sword, for wrath brings the punishment of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment."
rsv@Job:20:1 @ Then Zophar the Na'amathite answered:
rsv@Job:20:2 @ "Therefore my thoughts answer me, because of my haste within me.
rsv@Job:20:3 @ I hear censure which insults me, and out of my understanding a spirit answers me.
rsv@Job:20:4 @ Do you not know this from of old, since man was placed upon earth,
rsv@Job:20:5 @ that the exulting of the wicked is short, and the joy of the godless but for a moment?
rsv@Job:20:6 @ Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach to the clouds,
rsv@Job:20:7 @ he will perish for ever like his own dung; those who have seen him will say, `ose who have seen him will say, "Where is he?'
rsv@Job:20:8 @ He will fly away like a dream, and not be found; he will be chased away like a vision of the night.
rsv@Job:20:9 @ The eye which saw him will see him no more, nor will his place any more behold him.
rsv@Job:20:10 @ His children will seek the favor of the poor, and his hands will give back his wealth.
rsv@Job:20:11 @ His bones are full of youthful vigor, but it will lie down with him in the dust.
rsv@Job:20:12 @ "Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hides it under his tongue,
rsv@Job:20:13 @ though he is loath to let it go, and holds it in his mouth,
rsv@Job:20:14 @ yet his food is turned in his stomach; it is the gall of asps within him.
rsv@Job:20:15 @ He swallows down riches and vomits them up again; God casts them out of his belly.
rsv@Job:20:16 @ He will suck the poison of asps; the tongue of a viper will kill him.
rsv@Job:20:17 @ He will not look upon the rivers, the streams flowing with honey and curds.
rsv@Job:20:18 @ He will give back the fruit of his toil, and will not swallow it down; from the profit of his trading he will get no enjoyment.
rsv@Job:20:19 @ For he has crushed and abandoned the poor, he has seized a house which he did not build.
rsv@Job:20:20 @ "Because his greed knew no rest, he will not save anything in which he delights.
rsv@Job:20:21 @ There was nothing left after he had eaten; therefore his prosperity will not endure.
rsv@Job:20:22 @ In the fulness of his sufficiency he will be in straits; all the force of misery will come upon him.
rsv@Job:20:23 @ To fill his belly to the full God will send his fierce anger into him, and rain it upon him as his food.
rsv@Job:20:24 @ He will flee from an iron weapon; a bronze arrow will strike him through.
rsv@Job:20:25 @ It is drawn forth and comes out of his body, the glittering point comes out of his gall; terrors come upon him.
rsv@Job:20:26 @ Utter darkness is laid up for his treasures; a fire not blown upon will devour him; what is left in his tent will be consumed.
rsv@Job:20:27 @ The heavens will reveal his iniquity, and the earth will rise up against him.
rsv@Job:20:28 @ The possessions of his house will be carried away, dragged off in the day of God's wrath.
rsv@Job:20:29 @ This is the wicked man's portion from God, the heritage decreed for him by God."
rsv@Job:21:1 @ Then Job answered:
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