Job:12-14
bes@Job:12:1 @ And Job answered and said,
bes@Job:12:2 @ So then ye alone are men, and wisdom shall die with you?
bes@Job:12:3 @ But I also have a heart as well as you.
bes@Job:12:4 @ For a righteous and blameless man has become a subject for mockery.
bes@Job:12:5 @ For it had been ordained that he should fall under others (note:)Or, for(:note) at the appointed time, and that his houses should be spoiled by transgressors: let not however any one trust that, being evil, he shall be held guiltless,
bes@Job:12:6 @ even as many as provoke the Lord, as if there were indeed to be no inquisition made of them.
bes@Job:12:7 @ But ask now the beasts, if they may speak to thee; and the birds of the air, if they may declare to thee.
bes@Job:12:8 @ Tell the earth, if it may speak to thee: and the fishes of the sea shall explain to thee.
bes@Job:12:9 @ Who then has not known in all these things, that the hand of the Lord has made them?
bes@Job:12:10 @ Whereas the life of all living things is in his hand, and the breath of every man.
bes@Job:12:11 @ For the ear tries words, and the (note:)Gr. throat(:note) palate tastes meats.
bes@Job:12:12 @ In length of time is wisdom, and in long life knowledge.
bes@Job:12:13 @ With him are wisdom and power, with him counsel and understanding.
bes@Job:12:14 @ If he should cast down, who will build up? if he should shut up against man, who shall open?
bes@Job:12:15 @ If he should withhold the water, he will dry the earth: and if he should let it loose, he overthrows and destroys it.
bes@Job:12:16 @ With him are strength and power: he has knowledge and understanding.
bes@Job:12:17 @ He leads counsellors away captive, and maddens the judges of the earth.
bes@Job:12:18 @ He seats kings upon thrones, and girds their loins with a girdle.
bes@Job:12:19 @ He sends away priests into captivity, and overthrows the mighty ones of the earth.
bes@Job:12:20 @ He changes the lips of the trusty, and he knows the understanding of the elders.
bes@Job:12:21 @ He pours dishonour upon princes, and heals the lowly.
bes@Job:12:22 @ Revealing deep things out of darkness: and he has brought into light the shadow of death.
bes@Job:12:23 @ Causing the nations to wander, and destroying them: overthrowing the nations, and leading them away.
bes@Job:12:24 @ Perplexing the minds of the princes of the earth: and he causes them to wander in a way, they have not known, saying,
bes@Job:12:25 @ Let them grope in darkness, and let there be no light, and let them wander as a drunken man.
bes@Job:13:1 @ Behold, mine eye has seen these things, and mine ear has heard them.
bes@Job:13:2 @ And I know all that ye too know; and I have not less understanding than you.
bes@Job:13:3 @ Nevertheless I will speak to the Lord, and I will reason before him, if he will.
bes@Job:13:4 @ But ye are all bad physicians, and healers of diseases.
bes@Job:13:5 @ But would that ye were silent, and it would be wisdom to you in the end.
bes@Job:13:6 @ But hear ye the reasoning of my mouth, and attend to the judgement of my lips.
bes@Job:13:7 @ Do ye not speak before the Lord, and utter deceit before him?
bes@Job:13:8 @ Or will ye draw back? nay do, ye yourselves be judges.
bes@Job:13:9 @ For it were well if he would thoroughly search you: for though doing all things in your power ye should attach yourselves to him,
bes@Job:13:10 @ he will not reprove you at all the less: but if moreover ye should secretly respect persons,
bes@Job:13:11 @ shall not his whirlpool sweep you round, and terror from him fall upon you?
bes@Job:13:12 @ And your glorying shall prove in the end to you like ashes, and your body like a body of clay.
bes@Job:13:13 @ Be silent, that I may speak, and cease from mine anger,
bes@Job:13:14 @
bes@Job:13:15 @ Though the Mighty One should lay hand upon me, forasmuch as he has begun, verily I will speak, and plead before him.
bes@Job:13:16 @ And this shall turn to me for salvation; for fraud shall have no entrance before him.
bes@Job:13:17 @ Hear, hear ye my words, for I will declare in your hearing.
bes@Job:13:18 @ Behold, I am near my judgement: I know that I shall appear evidently just.
bes@Job:13:19 @ For who is he that shall plead with me, that I should now be silent, and (note:)Gr. faint, etc.(:note) expire?
bes@Job:13:20 @ But grant me two things: then I will not hide myself from thy face.
bes@Job:13:21 @ Withhold thine hand from me: and let not thy fear terrify me.
bes@Job:13:22 @ Then shalt thou call, and I will hearken to thee: or thou shalt speak, and I will give thee an answer.
bes@Job:13:23 @ How many are my sins and my transgressions? teach me what they are.
bes@Job:13:24 @ Wherefore hidest thou thyself from me, and deemest me thine enemy?
bes@Job:13:25 @ Wilt thou be startled at me, as at a leaf shaken by the wind? or wilt thou set thyself against me as against grass borne upon the breeze?
bes@Job:13:26 @ for thou hast written evil things against me, and thou hast compassed me with the sins of my youth.
bes@Job:13:27 @ And thou hast placed my foot in the stocks; and thou hast watched all my works, and hast penetrated my heels.
bes@Job:13:28 @ I am as that which waxes old like a (note:)Or, bladder(:note) bottle, or like a moth-eaten garment.
bes@Job:14:1 @ For a mortal born of a woman is short lived, and full of (note:)Or, vengeance, q. d. passively(:note) wrath.
bes@Job:14:2 @ Or he falls like a flower that has bloomed; and he departs like a shadow, and cannot continue.
bes@Job:14:3 @ Hast thou not taken account even of him, and caused him to enter into judgement before thee?
bes@Job:14:4 @ For who shall be pure from uncleanness? not even one;
bes@Job:14:5 @ if even his life should be but one day upon the earth: and his months are numbered by him: thou hast appointed him for a time, and he shall by no means exceed it.
bes@Job:14:6 @ Depart from him, that he may be quiet, and take pleasure in his life, though as a hireling.
bes@Job:14:7 @ For there is hope for a tree, even if it should be cut down, that it shall blossom again, and its branch shall not fail.
bes@Job:14:8 @ For though its root should grow old in the earth, and its stem die in the rock;
bes@Job:14:9 @ it will blossom from the scent of water, and will produce a crop, as one newly planted.
bes@Job:14:10 @ But a man that has died is utterly gone; and when a mortal has fallen, he is no more.
bes@Job:14:11 @ For the sea wastes in length of time, and a river fails and is dried up.
bes@Job:14:12 @ And man that has lain down in death shall certainly not rise again till the heaven (note:)Gr. be not sewn together(:note) be dissolved, and they shall not awake from their sleep.
bes@Job:14:13 @ For oh that thou hadst kept me in the grave, and hadst hidden me until thy wrath should cease, and thou shouldest set me a time in which thou wouldest remember me!
bes@Job:14:14 @ For if a man should die, shall he live again, having accomplished the days of his life? I will wait till I (note:)Or, am made again(:note) exist again?
bes@Job:14:15 @ Then shalt thou call, and I will hearken to thee: but do not thou reject the work of thine hands.
bes@Job:14:16 @ But thou hast numbered my devices: and not one of my sins shall escape thee?
bes@Job:14:17 @ And thou hast sealed up my transgressions in a (note:)Or, purse(:note) bag, and marked if I have been guilty of any transgression unawares.
bes@Job:14:18 @ And verily a mountain falling will utterly be destroyed, and a rock shall be worn out of its place.
bes@Job:14:19 @ The waters wear the stones, and waters falling headlong overflow a heap of the earth: and thou destroyest the (note:)Or, patience, or, endurance(:note) hope of man.
bes@Job:14:20 @ Thou drivest him to an end, and he is gone: thou settest thy face against him, and sendest him away;
bes@Job:14:21 @ and though his children be multiplied, he knows it not; and if they be few, he is not aware.
bes@Job:14:22 @ But his flesh is in pain, and his soul mourns.
bes@Job:15:1 @ Then Eliphaz the Thaemanite answered and said,
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