Job:15-21.
kjv@Job:15:1 @ Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,
kjv@Job:15:2 @ Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
kjv@Job:15:3 @ Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?
kjv@Job:15:4 @ Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.
kjv@Job:15:5 @ For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
kjv@Job:15:6 @ Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.
kjv@Job:15:7 @ Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills?
kjv@Job:15:8 @ Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?
kjv@Job:15:9 @ What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us?
kjv@Job:15:10 @ With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.
kjv@Job:15:11 @ Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee?
kjv@Job:15:12 @ Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,
kjv@Job:15:13 @ That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth?
kjv@Job:15:14 @ What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
kjv@Job:15:15 @ Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
kjv@Job:15:16 @ How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
kjv@Job:15:17 @ I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;
kjv@Job:15:18 @ Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:
kjv@Job:15:19 @ Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.
kjv@Job:15:20 @ The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.
kjv@Job:15:21 @ A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
kjv@Job:15:22 @ He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.
kjv@Job:15:23 @ He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
kjv@Job:15:24 @ Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
kjv@Job:15:25 @ For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.
kjv@Job:15:26 @ He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:
kjv@Job:15:27 @ Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his flanks.
kjv@Job:15:28 @ And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.
kjv@Job:15:29 @ He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.
kjv@Job:15:30 @ He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.
kjv@Job:15:31 @ Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.
kjv@Job:15:32 @ It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.
kjv@Job:15:33 @ He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.
kjv@Job:15:34 @ For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.
kjv@Job:15:35 @ They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.
kjv@Job:16:1 @ Then Job answered and said,
kjv@Job:16:2 @ I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.
kjv@Job:16:3 @ Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
kjv@Job:16:4 @ I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.
kjv@Job:16:5 @ But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.
kjv@Job:16:6 @ Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?
kjv@Job:16:7 @ But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.
kjv@Job:16:8 @ And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.
kjv@Job:16:9 @ He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.
kjv@Job:16:10 @ They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.
kjv@Job:16:11 @ God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.
kjv@Job:16:12 @ I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.
kjv@Job:16:13 @ His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.
kjv@Job:16:14 @ He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.
kjv@Job:16:15 @ I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.
kjv@Job:16:16 @ My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
kjv@Job:16:17 @ Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.
kjv@Job:16:18 @ O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.
kjv@Job:16:19 @ Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.
kjv@Job:16:20 @ My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
kjv@Job:16:21 @ O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!
kjv@Job:16:22 @ When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
kjv@Job:17:1 @ My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
kjv@Job:17:2 @ Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?
kjv@Job:17:3 @ Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?
kjv@Job:17:4 @ For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.
kjv@Job:17:5 @ He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
kjv@Job:17:6 @ He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
kjv@Job:17:7 @ Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
kjv@Job:17:8 @ Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
kjv@Job:17:9 @ The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
kjv@Job:17:10 @ But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.
kjv@Job:17:11 @ My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
kjv@Job:17:12 @ They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.
kjv@Job:17:13 @ If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
kjv@Job:17:14 @ I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.
kjv@Job:17:15 @ And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
kjv@Job:17:16 @ They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.
kjv@Job:18:1 @ Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
kjv@Job:18:2 @ How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.
kjv@Job:18:3 @ Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?
kjv@Job:18:4 @ He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?
kjv@Job:18:5 @ Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.
kjv@Job:18:6 @ The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.
kjv@Job:18:7 @ The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.
kjv@Job:18:8 @ For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.
kjv@Job:18:9 @ The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him.
kjv@Job:18:10 @ The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.
kjv@Job:18:11 @ Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.
kjv@Job:18:12 @ His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.
kjv@Job:18:13 @ It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.
kjv@Job:18:14 @ His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.
kjv@Job:18:15 @ It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
kjv@Job:18:16 @ His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.
kjv@Job:18:17 @ His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.
kjv@Job:18:18 @ He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
kjv@Job:18:19 @ He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.
kjv@Job:18:20 @ They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted.
kjv@Job:18:21 @ Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.
kjv@Job:19:1 @ Then Job answered and said,
kjv@Job:19:2 @ How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
kjv@Job:19:3 @ These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.
kjv@Job:19:4 @ And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.
kjv@Job:19:5 @ If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:
kjv@Job:19:6 @ Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.
kjv@Job:19:7 @ Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
kjv@Job:19:8 @ He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
kjv@Job:19:9 @ He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
kjv@Job:19:10 @ He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.
kjv@Job:19:11 @ He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.
kjv@Job:19:12 @ His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.
kjv@Job:19:13 @ He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.
kjv@Job:19:14 @ My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
kjv@Job:19:15 @ They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
kjv@Job:19:16 @ I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.
kjv@Job:19:17 @ My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body.
kjv@Job:19:18 @ Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.
kjv@Job:19:19 @ All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.
kjv@Job:19:20 @ My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
kjv@Job:19:21 @ Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
kjv@Job:19:22 @ Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
kjv@Job:19:23 @ Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!
kjv@Job:19:24 @ That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
kjv@Job:19:25 @ For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:
kjv@Job:19:26 @ And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:
kjv@Job:19:27 @ Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.
kjv@Job:19:28 @ But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?
kjv@Job:19:29 @ Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.
kjv@Job:20:1 @ Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
kjv@Job:20:2 @ Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.
kjv@Job:20:3 @ I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.
kjv@Job:20:4 @ Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,
kjv@Job:20:5 @ That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
kjv@Job:20:6 @ Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;
kjv@Job:20:7 @ Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?
kjv@Job:20:8 @ He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
kjv@Job:20:9 @ The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.
kjv@Job:20:10 @ His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.
kjv@Job:20:11 @ His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.
kjv@Job:20:12 @ Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;
kjv@Job:20:13 @ Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:
kjv@Job:20:14 @ Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.
kjv@Job:20:15 @ He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.
kjv@Job:20:16 @ He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.
kjv@Job:20:17 @ He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.
kjv@Job:20:18 @ That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein.
kjv@Job:20:19 @ Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;
kjv@Job:20:20 @ Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired.
kjv@Job:20:21 @ There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.
kjv@Job:20:22 @ In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.
kjv@Job:20:23 @ When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating.
kjv@Job:20:24 @ He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through.
kjv@Job:20:25 @ It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him.
kjv@Job:20:26 @ All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.
kjv@Job:20:27 @ The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.
kjv@Job:20:28 @ The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.
kjv@Job:20:29 @ This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.
kjv@Job:21:1 @ But Job answered and said,
kjv@Job:21:2 @ Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.
kjv@Job:21:3 @ Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.
kjv@Job:21:4 @ As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?
kjv@Job:21:5 @ Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.
kjv@Job:21:6 @ Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.
kjv@Job:21:7 @ Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
kjv@Job:21:8 @ Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.
kjv@Job:21:9 @ Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.
kjv@Job:21:10 @ Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.
kjv@Job:21:11 @ They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.
kjv@Job:21:12 @ They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.
kjv@Job:21:13 @ They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.
kjv@Job:21:14 @ Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
kjv@Job:21:15 @ What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
kjv@Job:21:16 @ Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
kjv@Job:21:17 @ How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.
kjv@Job:21:18 @ They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.
kjv@Job:21:19 @ God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.
kjv@Job:21:20 @ His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
kjv@Job:21:21 @ For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?
kjv@Job:21:22 @ Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high.
kjv@Job:21:23 @ One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.
kjv@Job:21:24 @ His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow.
kjv@Job:21:25 @ And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.
kjv@Job:21:26 @ They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.
kjv@Job:21:27 @ Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.
kjv@Job:21:28 @ For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?
kjv@Job:21:29 @ Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens,
kjv@Job:21:30 @ That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.
kjv@Job:21:31 @ Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?
kjv@Job:21:32 @ Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.
kjv@Job:21:33 @ The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.
kjv@Job:21:34 @ How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?
kjv@Job:22:1 @ Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
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