rsv Job:14-16
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.