Job:12-14
noyes@Job:12:1 @ Then Job answered and said:
noyes@Job:12:2 @ No doubt ye are the whole people! And wisdom will die with you!
noyes@Job:12:3 @ But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: Yea, who knoweth not such things as these?
noyes@Job:12:4 @ I am become a laughingstock to my friend,I who call upon God, that he would answer me! The innocent and upright man is held in derision.
noyes@Job:12:5 @ To calamity belongeth contempt in the mind of one at ease; It is ready for them that slip with the feet.
noyes@Job:12:6 @ The tents of robbers are in prosperity, And they who provoke God are secure, Who carry their God in their hand.
noyes@Job:12:7 @ For ask now the beasts, and they will teach thee; Or the fowls of the air, and they will tell thee;
noyes@Job:12:8 @ Or speak to the earth, and it will instruct thee; And the fishes of the sea will declare unto thee.
noyes@Job:12:9 @ Who among all these doth not know That the hand of Jehovah doeth these things?
noyes@Job:12:10 @ In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, And the breath of all mankind.
noyes@Job:12:11 @ Doth not the ear prove words, As the mouth tasteth meat?
noyes@Job:12:12 @ With the aged is wisdom, And with length of days is understanding.
noyes@Job:12:13 @ With Him are wisdom and strength; With Him counsel and understanding.
noyes@Job:12:14 @ Lo! he pulleth down, and it shall not be rebuilt; He bindeth a man, and he shall not be set loose.
noyes@Job:12:15 @ Lo! he withholdeth the waters, and they are dried up; He sendeth them forth, and they lay waste the earth.
noyes@Job:12:16 @ With him are strength and wisdom; The deceived and the deceiver are his.
noyes@Job:12:17 @ He leadeth counsellors away captive, And judges he maketh fools.
noyes@Job:12:18 @ He looseth the authority of kings, And bindeth their loins with a cord.
noyes@Job:12:19 @ He leadeth priests away captive, And overthroweth the mighty.
noyes@Job:12:20 @ He removeth speech from the trusty, And taketh away judgment from the elders.
noyes@Job:12:21 @ He poureth contempt upon princes, And looseth the girdle of the mighty.
noyes@Job:12:22 @ He revealeth deep things out of darkness, And bringeth the shadow of death to light.
noyes@Job:12:23 @ He exalteth nations, and destroyeth them; He enlargeth nations, and leadeth them captive.
noyes@Job:12:24 @ He taketh away the understanding of the great men of the land, And causeth them to wander in a wilderness, where is no path;
noyes@Job:12:25 @ They grope in the dark without light; He maketh them stagger like a drunken man.
noyes@Job:13:1 @ Lo! all this mine eye hath seen; Mine ear hath heard and understood it.
noyes@Job:13:2 @ What ye know, I know also; I am not inferior to you.
noyes@Job:13:3 @ But O that I might speak with the Almighty! O that I might reason with God!
noyes@Job:13:4 @ For ye are forgers of lies; Physicians of no value, all of you!
noyes@Job:13:5 @ O that ye would altogether hold your peace! This, truly, would be wisdom in you.
noyes@Job:13:6 @ Hear, I pray you, my arguments; Attend to the pleadings of my lips!
noyes@Job:13:7 @ Will ye speak falsehood for God? Will ye utter deceit for him?
noyes@Job:13:8 @ Will ye be partial to his person? Will ye contend earnestly for God?
noyes@Job:13:9 @ Will it be well for you, if he search you thoroughly? Can ye deceive him, as one may deceive a man?
noyes@Job:13:10 @ Surely he will rebuke you, If ye secretly have respect to persons.
noyes@Job:13:11 @ Doth not his majesty make you afraid, And his dread fall upon you?
noyes@Job:13:12 @ Your maxims are words of dust; Your fortresses are fortresses of clay.
noyes@Job:13:13 @ Hold your peace, and let me speak: And then come upon me what will!
noyes@Job:13:14 @ Why do I take my flesh in my teeth, And put my life in my hand?
noyes@Job:13:15 @ Lo! he slayeth me, and I have no hope! Yet will I justify my ways before him.
noyes@Job:13:16 @ This also shall be my deliverance; For no unrighteous man will come before him.
noyes@Job:13:17 @ Hear attentively my words, And give ear to my declaration!
noyes@Job:13:18 @ Behold, I have now set in order my cause; I know that I am innocent.
noyes@Job:13:19 @ Who is he that can contend with me? For then would I hold my peace, and die!
noyes@Job:13:20 @ Only do not unto me two things, Then will I not hide myself from thy presence;
noyes@Job:13:21 @ Let not thy hand be heavy upon me, And let not thy terrors make me afraid:
noyes@Job:13:22 @ Then call upon me, and I will answer; Or I will speak, and answer thou me.
noyes@Job:13:23 @ How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me to know my faults and transgressions.
noyes@Job:13:24 @ Wherefore dost thou hide thy face, And account me as thine enemy?
noyes@Job:13:25 @ Wilt thou put in fear the driven leaf? Wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
noyes@Job:13:26 @ For thou writest bitter things against me, And makest me inherit the sins of my youth.
noyes@Job:13:27 @ Yea, thou puttest my feet in the stocks, And waterest all my paths; Thou hemmest in the soles of my feet.
noyes@Job:13:28 @ And I, like an abandoned thing, shall waste away; Like a garment which is motheaten.
noyes@Job:14:1 @ Man, that is born of woman, Is of few days, and full of trouble.
noyes@Job:14:2 @ He cometh forth as a flower, and is cut down; He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
noyes@Job:14:3 @ And dost thou fix thine eyes upon such a one? And dost thou bring me into judgment with thee?
noyes@Job:14:4 @ Who can produce a clean thing from an unclean? Not one.
noyes@Job:14:5 @ Seeing that his days are determined, And the number of his months, with thee, And that thou hast appointed him bounds which he cannot pass,
noyes@Job:14:6 @ O turn thine eyes from him, and let him rest, That he may enjoy, as a hireling, his day!
noyes@Job:14:7 @ For there is hope for a tree, If it be cut down, that it will sprout again, And that its tender branches will not fail;
noyes@Job:14:8 @ Though its root may have grown old in the earth, And though its trunk be dead upon the ground,
noyes@Job:14:9 @ Through the scent of water it will bud, And put forth boughs, like a young plant.
noyes@Job:14:10 @ But man dieth, and he is gone! Man expireth, and where is he?
noyes@Job:14:11 @ The waters fail from the lake; And the stream wasteth and drieth up;
noyes@Job:14:12 @ So man lieth down, and riseth not; Till the heavens be no more, he shall not awake, Nor be roused from his sleep.
noyes@Job:14:13 @ O that thou wouldst hide me in the underworld! That thou wouldst conceal me till thy wrath be past! That thou wouldst appoint me a time, and then remember me!
noyes@Job:14:14 @ If a man die, can he live again? All the days of my warservice would I wait, Till my change should come.
noyes@Job:14:15 @ Thou wilt call, and I will answer thee; Thou wilt have compassion upon the work of thy hands!
noyes@Job:14:16 @ But now thou numberest my steps; Thou watchest over my sins.
noyes@Job:14:17 @ My transgression is sealed up in a bag; Yea, thou addest unto my iniquity.
noyes@Job:14:18 @ As the mountain falling cometh to nought, And the rock is removed from its place;
noyes@Job:14:19 @ As the waters wear away the stones, And the floods wash away the dust of the earth, So thou destroyest the hope of man.
noyes@Job:14:20 @ Thou prevailest against him continually, and he perisheth; Thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.
noyes@Job:14:21 @ His sons come to honor, but he knoweth it not; Or they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not.
noyes@Job:14:22 @ But his flesh shall have pain for itself alone; For itself alone shall his soul mourn.
noyes@Job:15:1 @ Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said:
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