Job:12-14
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:
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