sf_leeser_rev1 Job:26-31
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@Job:26:1 @ Then answered Job, and said,
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:26:2 @ What assistance hast thou given to the powerless? hast thou helped the arm without strength?
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:26:3 @ How hast thou counselled the unwise? and what sound wisdom hast thou made known so plentifully?
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:26:4 @ To whom hast thou told words? and whose spirit came from thee?
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:26:5 @ The departed are called into being beneath the waters, and their inhabitants.
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:26:6 @ Naked is the nether world before him, and there is no covering for the place of corruption.
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:26:7 @ He stretched out the north over empty space; he suspended the earth on nothing;
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:26:8 @ He bound up the waters in his clouds; and the cloud bursteth not under their weight;
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:26:9 @ He closed up the surface of his throne, spreading over it his cloud;
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:26:10 @ A fixed limit he compassed off over the face of the waters, for the division of the light and darkness.
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:26:11 @ The pillars of heaven tremble greatly, and are astounded at his rebuke.
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:26:12 @ By his power he split in pieces the sea, and by his understanding he crushed pride:
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:26:13 @ By his breath the heavens beauty; his hand hath created the flying serpent.
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:26:14 @ Lo, these are ends of his ways; for how slight a whisper is heard of him! but the thunder of his mighty deeds who can understand?
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:27:1 @ And Job continued taking up his parable, and said,
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:27:2 @ As God liveth, who hath removed justice from me; and by the Almighty, who hath embittered my soul:
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:27:3 @ All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:27:4 @ Shall my lips not speak any wrong, nor shall my tongue utter deceit.
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:27:5 @ Far be it from me that I should justify you; till I depart hence will I not allow to take my integrity away from me.
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:27:6 @ I have laid fast hold on my righteousness, and I will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me during all my life.
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:27:7 @ Like the wicked is my enemy, and he that riseth up against me like a wrongdoer.
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:27:8 @ For what is the hope of the hypocrite, when he hath gained unjust wealth, when God casteth forth his soul?
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:27:9 @ Will God hear his cry, when distress cometh upon him?
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:27:10 @ Or can he find delight in the Almighty? can he call on God at all times?
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:27:11 @ I will instruct you concerning what is in the hand of God: which is with the Almighty will I not conceal.
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:27:12 @ Lo! ye yourselves have all beheld it: why is it then that ye deal in such vanities?
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:27:13 @ This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the portion of tyrants, which they shall receive from the Almighty.
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:27:14 @ If his children be multiplied, it is only for the sword; and his offspring will not be satisfied with bread.
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:27:15 @ Those of his that are left to escape will be buried by death; and his widows will not be able to weep.
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:27:16 @ Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare garments as the clay:
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:27:17 @ He may prepare, but the righteous will clothe himself, and the silver the innocent will divide.
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:27:18 @ He buildeth his house like the moth, and like a hut that a keeper hath made.
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:27:19 @ Rich will he lie down, but will not be gathered: one openeth his eyes, and he is no more.
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:27:20 @ Like a flood will terror overtake him, in the night a tempest will steal him away.
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:27:21 @ The east wind will lift him up, and he must be gone; and it hurleth him like a storm out of his place.
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:27:22 @ And will cast upon him, and bare no pity: out of his hand will surely escape.
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:27:23 @ Men will clap their hands over him, and will hiss after him out of his place.
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:28:1 @ For truly there is a source for the silver, and a place for the gold which men refine.
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:28:2 @ Iron is taken out of the dust, and the stone is melted into copper.
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:28:3 @ An end doth he set to darkness, and the very utmost limit doth he search out, the stones of darkness, and of the shadow of death.
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:28:4 @ He breaketh a channel far from the inhabited place; those of unsteady foot, the poorest of men move.
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:28:5 @ The earth, out of which cometh forth bread, is under its surface turned up as it were with fire.
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:28:6 @ Her stones are the place whence the sapphire cometh; and golden dust is also there;
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:28:7 @ path which no bird of prey knoweth, and which the vultures eye hath not surveyed;
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:28:8 @ ravenous beasts have never trodden, over which the lion hath never passed.
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:28:9 @ To the flinty rock he stretcheth forth his hand; he overturneth the mountains from the root.
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:28:10 @ Amid rocks he heweth out canals: and every precious thing doth his eye behold.
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:28:11 @ The various droppings of water he uniteth into streams, and what is hidden he bringeth forth to light.
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:28:12 @ But wisdomwhere shall she he found? and where is the place of understanding?
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:28:13 @ Man knoweth not her value: and she is not to be found in the land of the living.
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:28:14 @ The deep saith, Not in me is she: and the sea saith, She is not with me.
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:28:15 @ No fine gold can be given in lieu of her, and silver cannot be weighed out as her price.
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:28:16 @ She cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:28:17 @ She cannot be estimated after gold and glass; and not in exchange for her vessels of refined gold
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:28:18 @ Coral and crystal will not be thought of; and the value of wisdom is above pearls.
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:28:19 @ She cannot be estimated after the topaz of Ethiopia, nor can she be valued with pure gold.
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:28:20 @ But wisdomwhence cometh she? and where is the place of understanding?
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:28:21 @ Yea, she is hidden from the eyes of all living, and from the fowls of the heavens is she concealed.
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:28:22 @ Perdition and death say, With our ears have we heard a report of her.
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:28:23 @ God understandeth her way, and he knoweth her place;
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:28:24 @ For he looketh to the ends of the earth, under the whole heaven doth he see.
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:28:25 @ When he imparted weight unto the wind; and the waters he established by measure;
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:28:26 @ When he made a law for the rain, and a way for the lightning of thunders;
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:28:27 @ Then did he see her, and make her known; he established her, and also searched her out.
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:28:28 @ And he said unto man, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to eschew evil is understanding.
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:29:1 @ And Job continued to take up his parable, and said,
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:29:2 @ Who will give me back months like those which are past, days like those when God guarded me;
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:29:3 @ When his lamp shone over my head, when by his light I could walk in darkness;
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:29:4 @ As I was in the days of my abundance, when the confidence of God was upon my tent:
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:29:5 @ When the Almighty was yet with me, when my servants stood round about me;
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:29:6 @ When I bathed my steps in cream, and the rock poured out near me streamlets of oil!
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:29:7 @ When I went out to the gate close by the city, when in the open place I established my seat:
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:29:8 @ Young men saw me, and hid themselves; and the aged rose up, and remained standing;
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:29:9 @ Princes stopped in the midst of words, and laid their hand on their mouth:
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:29:10 @ The voice of nobles was arrested, and their tongue cleaved to their palate.
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:29:11 @ For the ear that heard me called me happy; and the eye that saw me bore witness for me;
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:29:12 @ Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, yea, that had none to help him.
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:29:13 @ The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me; and the heart of the widow I caused to sing for joy.
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:29:14 @ I took righteousness as my garment, and it clothed me: as a robe and a mitre was justice unto me.
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:29:15 @ Eyes was I to the blind; and feet to the lame was I.
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:29:16 @ A father was I to the needy; and the cause of him I knew not I used to investigate.
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:29:17 @ And I broke the cuttingteeth of the wrongdoer, and out of his teeth I cast down his prey.
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:29:18 @ And I said then, "In the midst of my nest shall I depart hence, and like the sand shall I have many days.
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:29:19 @ My root will stand open for the water, and the dew will lodge on my boughs.
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:29:20 @ My glory will ever be new with me, and my bow will acquire fresh strength in my hand."
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:29:21 @ Unto me men listened, and waited, and watched in silence for my counsel
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:29:22 @ After my words they made no reply, and my speech dropped on them.
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:29:23 @ And they waited for me as for the rain, and they opened wide their mouth as for the latter rain.
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:29:24 @ I smiled on those that had lost their confidence; and the light of my countenance they never cast down.
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:29:25 @ I chose their way for them, and I sat as chief, and dwelt as king in his army, as one that comforteth mourners.
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:30:1 @ But now they who are younger than I in years laugh at me, whose fathers I scorned to put as equals with the dogs of my flocks.
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:30:2 @ Yea, what possible use can the strength of their hands be unto me, over whom old age hath passed fruitlessly?
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:30:3 @ Who suffer for want and famine in solitude; who flee into the wilderness darkness, ruin, and desolation;
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:30:4 @ Who crop off mallows by the bushes, and have broombush roots as their bread;
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:30:5 @ Who are driven forth from among, who are shouted after as though they were thieves,
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:30:6 @ To dwell in the caverns of the valleys, in holes of the earth, and on naked cliffs.
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:30:7 @ Among the bushes they shriek; under briers they are huddled together,
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:30:8 @ The children of the worthless, yea, the children of the nameless, who were outcasts from the land.
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:30:9 @ But now I am become their song, and I am become a byword unto them.
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:30:10 @ They loathe me, they keep themselves far from me, and from my face they withhold not their spittle.
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:30:11 @ Because he hath loosened the cord of my bow, and afflicted me, they have also cast off the bridle before me.
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:30:12 @ Against my right hand rise up this swarm of worthless youths: they push away my feet, and they level against me their calamitybringing paths.
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:30:13 @ They destroy my footpath, they help forward my downfall, without any one to aid them.
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:30:14 @ As a broad breach they come: amidst a loud noise they rolled themselves along.
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:30:15 @ Terrors have turned their face against me; they chase like the wind my glory: and like a cloud is my happiness passed away.
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:30:16 @ And now my soul is poured out over me; the days of affliction have seized on me;
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:30:17 @ All night it holloweth out my bones out of my body; and my pursuers take no rest.
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:30:18 @ Through the Almlghtys power is my garment made unknown: like the opening of my coat hath he enclosed me.
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:30:19 @ He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:30:20 @ I cry aloud unto thee, but thou answerest me not: I stand up, and thou fixest thy regard against me.
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:30:21 @ Thou art changed into a cruel master toward me: with the strength of thy hand thou assailest me.
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:30:22 @ Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to pass away, and dissolvest in me all wise counsel.
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:30:23 @ For I know that thou wilt bring me back to death, and to the house of assembly for all the living.
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:30:24 @ But doth not a man stretch out his hand among ruins? or doth one not cry out therefrom when he meeteth his downfall?
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:30:25 @ Did I not weep for him that was hard pressed by misfortune? was not my soul grieved for the needy?
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:30:26 @ That I hoped for good, but there came evil; and I waited for light, and there came darkness!
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:30:27 @ My bowels heave, and rest not: the days of affliction have overcome me.
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:30:28 @ I walk about mournfully without sunlight: when I rise up, in the assembly, I cry with pain.
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:30:29 @ I am a brother to monsters, and a companion to ostriches.
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:30:30 @ My skin hangeth down black from me, and my bones are burnt from heat.
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:30:31 @ And thus is changed to mourning my harp, and my pipe to the sound of weeping.
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:31:1 @ A covenant had I made with my eyes: how then should I fix my look on a virgin?
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:31:2 @ And what then would have been my portion of God from above? and what lot of the Almighty from on high?
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:31:3 @ Is not calamity for the unjust? and misfortune for the wrongdoers?
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:31:4 @ Behold, he truly seeth my ways, and numbereth all my steps;
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:31:5 @ whether I have walked with vain desires, or if my foot hath hastened after deceit.
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:31:6 @ Let him weigh me then in a righteous balance, and let God acknowledge my integrity,
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:31:7 @ If my step have turned aside from the way, and my heart have walked after my eyes, and if any blemish have cleaved to my hands:
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:31:8 @ Then let me sow, and let another eat; and let what I have growing be rooted out.
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:31:9 @ If my heart have been beguiled toward a woman, or if I have lain in wait at my neighbors door:
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:31:10 @ Then may my wife labor at the mill for another, and may strangers illuse her;
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:31:11 @ For this would be incest; yea, it would be an iniquity the judges;
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:31:12 @ For it would be a fire that consumeth down to the place of corruption, and would root out all my products.
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:31:13 @ If ever I cast aside the justice due to my manservant and my maidservant, when they contended with me:
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:31:14 @ What then could I do when God should rise up? and when he should investigate, what could I answer him?
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:31:15 @ Did not he that made me make him born or a woman? and did not the same one fashion us in the womb?
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:31:16 @ If ever I denied the wish of the indigent, or ever allowed the eyes of the widow to fall;
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:31:17 @ Or if ever I ate my bread by myself alone, and the fatherless did not eat thereof;
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:31:18 @ (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as though we were of one father, and I have guided her from my mothers womb;)
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:31:19 @ If ever I saw any one perishing for want of clothing, or the needy without covering:
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:31:20 @ If his loins have not blessed me, and if he have not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:31:21 @ If I have swung my hand against the fatherless, because I saw in the gate those that would help me:
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:31:22 @ Then may my shoulder fall from my shoulderblade, and my arm be broken from the channelbone;
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:31:23 @ For dreaded by me was the calamitous punishment of God, and against his highness I can accomplish nothing.
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:31:24 @ If I have made gold my confidence, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my trust:
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:31:25 @ If ever I rejoiced because my wealth was abundant, and because my hand had gotten much;
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:31:26 @ If ever I looked at the light when he shone brightly and on the moon walking in splendor:
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:31:27 @ And my heart became misled in secret, and my hand kissed my mouth:
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:31:28 @ This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge; for thus would I have denied the God that is above.
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:31:29 @ If ever I rejoiced at the downfall of him that hated me, or was elated when evil befell him;
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:31:30 @ But I suffered not my mouth to sin by denouncing with a curse his soul:
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:31:31 @ If the men of my tent said not, Oh is there one that is not satisfied of his flesh;
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:31:32 @ In the street a stranger had not to lodge; my doors I held open to the roadside;
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:31:33 @ If I covered up my transgressions like a common man, by hiding in my bosom my iniquity;
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:31:34 @ Because I dreaded the great multitude, or because the contempt of families did terrify me, so that I kept silence, and dared not to go out of the door;
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:31:35 @ Oh who will bring me one that would hear me! behold, here is my plea; may the Almighty answer me; and any record which my opponent may have written,
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:31:36 @ Surely upon my shoulder would I carry it: I would bind it as a crown unto me.
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:31:37 @ The number of my steps would I tell him: as a prince would I go near unto him.
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:31:38 @ If my land ever cried out because of me, or if its furrows wept together;
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:31:39 @ If I ever consumed its strength without payment, or caused the soul of its owners to grieve:
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:31:40 @ Then may instead of wheat, thorns come forth, and instead of barley, cockle. (Here end the words of Job.)
sf_leeser_rev1@Job:32:1 @ So had these three men abstained from answering Job; because he was righteous in his own eyes.
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