Job:26-31
wbs@Job:26:1 @ But Job answered and said,
wbs@Job:26:2 @ How hast thou helped him that is without power? how savest thou the arm that hath no strength?
wbs@Job:26:3 @ How hast thou counseled him that hath no wisdom? and how hast thou abundantly declared the thing as it is?
wbs@Job:26:4 @ To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee?
wbs@Job:26:5 @ Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.
wbs@Job:26:6 @ Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.
wbs@Job:26:7 @ He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.
wbs@Job:26:8 @ He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.
wbs@Job:26:9 @ He holdeth back the face of his throne, and spreadeth his cloud upon it.
wbs@Job:26:10 @ He hath encompassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.
wbs@Job:26:11 @ The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof.
wbs@Job:26:12 @ He divideth the sea by his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through the proud.
wbs@Job:26:13 @ By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent.
wbs@Job:26:14 @ Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?
wbs@Job:27:1 @ Moreover, Job continued his parable, and said,
wbs@Job:27:2 @ As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty who hath afflicted my soul;
wbs@Job:27:3 @ All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;
wbs@Job:27:4 @ My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.
wbs@Job:27:5 @ Far be it from me that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove my integrity from me.
wbs@Job:27:6 @ My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.
wbs@Job:27:7 @ Let my enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous.
wbs@Job:27:8 @ For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?
wbs@Job:27:9 @ Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him?
wbs@Job:27:10 @ Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God?
wbs@Job:27:11 @ I will teach you by the hand of God: that which is with the Almighty will I not conceal.
wbs@Job:27:12 @ Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye thus altogether vain?
wbs@Job:27:13 @ This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty.
wbs@Job:27:14 @ If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
wbs@Job:27:15 @ Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep.
wbs@Job:27:16 @ Though he should heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay?
wbs@Job:27:17 @ He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.
wbs@Job:27:18 @ He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth that the keeper maketh.
wbs@Job:27:19 @ The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he openeth his eyes, and he is not.
wbs@Job:27:20 @ Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.
wbs@Job:27:21 @ The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.
wbs@Job:27:22 @ For God shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.
wbs@Job:27:23 @ Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.
wbs@Job:28:1 @ Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it.
wbs@Job:28:2 @ Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is melted out of the stone.
wbs@Job:28:3 @ He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shades of death.
wbs@Job:28:4 @ The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant: even the waters forgotten by the foot: they are dried up, they have gone away from men.
wbs@Job:28:5 @ As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.
wbs@Job:28:6 @ The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold.
wbs@Job:28:7 @ There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vultur's eye hath not seen:
wbs@Job:28:8 @ The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.
wbs@Job:28:9 @ He putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he overturneth the mountains by the roots.
wbs@Job:28:10 @ He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing.
wbs@Job:28:11 @ He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and the thing that is hid he bringeth forth to light.
wbs@Job:28:12 @ But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding?
wbs@Job:28:13 @ Man knoweth not the price of it; neither is it found in the land of the living.
wbs@Job:28:14 @ The depth saith, It is not in me: and the sea saith, It is not with me.
wbs@Job:28:15 @ It cannot be obtained for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price of it.
wbs@Job:28:16 @ It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
wbs@Job:28:17 @ The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold.
wbs@Job:28:18 @ No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies.
wbs@Job:28:19 @ The topaz of Cush shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold.
wbs@Job:28:20 @ Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding?
wbs@Job:28:21 @ Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air.
wbs@Job:28:22 @ Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame of it with our ears.
wbs@Job:28:23 @ God understandeth the way of it, and he knoweth its place.
wbs@Job:28:24 @ For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven;
wbs@Job:28:25 @ To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.
wbs@Job:28:26 @ When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:
wbs@Job:28:27 @ Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out.
wbs@Job:28:28 @ And to man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.
wbs@Job:29:1 @ Moreover, Job continued his parable, and said,
wbs@Job:29:2 @ Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;
wbs@Job:29:3 @ When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;
wbs@Job:29:4 @ As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle;
wbs@Job:29:5 @ When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me;
wbs@Job:29:6 @ When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;
wbs@Job:29:7 @ When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!
wbs@Job:29:8 @ The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up.
wbs@Job:29:9 @ The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.
wbs@Job:29:10 @ The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.
wbs@Job:29:11 @ When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me:
wbs@Job:29:12 @ Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
wbs@Job:29:13 @ The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
wbs@Job:29:14 @ I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.
wbs@Job:29:15 @ I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.
wbs@Job:29:16 @ I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
wbs@Job:29:17 @ And I broke the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
wbs@Job:29:18 @ Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.
wbs@Job:29:19 @ My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.
wbs@Job:29:20 @ My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.
wbs@Job:29:21 @ To me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel.
wbs@Job:29:22 @ After my words they spoke not again; and my speech dropped upon them.
wbs@Job:29:23 @ And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.
wbs@Job:29:24 @ If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.
wbs@Job:29:25 @ I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.
wbs@Job:30:1 @ But now they that are younger than I, have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.
wbs@Job:30:2 @ Yes, to what might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age had perished?
wbs@Job:30:3 @ For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
wbs@Job:30:4 @ Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their food.
wbs@Job:30:5 @ They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them, as after a thief;)
wbs@Job:30:6 @ To dwell in the clefts of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.
wbs@Job:30:7 @ Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were collected.
wbs@Job:30:8 @ They were children of fools, yes, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
wbs@Job:30:9 @ And now I am their song, yes, I am their by-word.
wbs@Job:30:10 @ They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.
wbs@Job:30:11 @ Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.
wbs@Job:30:12 @ Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.
wbs@Job:30:13 @ They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.
wbs@Job:30:14 @ They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.
wbs@Job:30:15 @ Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.
wbs@Job:30:16 @ And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
wbs@Job:30:17 @ My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
wbs@Job:30:18 @ By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.
wbs@Job:30:19 @ He hath cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.
wbs@Job:30:20 @ I cry to thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not.
wbs@Job:30:21 @ Thou hast become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.
wbs@Job:30:22 @ Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.
wbs@Job:30:23 @ For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
wbs@Job:30:24 @ Yet he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.
wbs@Job:30:25 @ Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?
wbs@Job:30:26 @ When I looked for good, then evil came: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
wbs@Job:30:27 @ My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction came upon me.
wbs@Job:30:28 @ I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.
wbs@Job:30:29 @ I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
wbs@Job:30:30 @ My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
wbs@Job:30:31 @ My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.
wbs@Job:31:1 @ I Made a covenant with my eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?
wbs@Job:31:2 @ For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?
wbs@Job:31:3 @ Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?
wbs@Job:31:4 @ Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?
wbs@Job:31:5 @ If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;
wbs@Job:31:6 @ Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity.
wbs@Job:31:7 @ If my step hath turned out of the way, and my heart walked after my eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to my hands;
wbs@Job:31:8 @ Then let me sow, and let another eat; yes, let my offspring be rooted out.
wbs@Job:31:9 @ If my heart hath been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbor's door;
wbs@Job:31:10 @ Then let my wife grind to another, and let others bow down upon her.
wbs@Job:31:11 @ For this is a hainous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.
wbs@Job:31:12 @ For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all my increase.
wbs@Job:31:13 @ If I despised the cause of my man-servant or of my maid-servant, when they contended with me;
wbs@Job:31:14 @ What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?
wbs@Job:31:15 @ Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?
wbs@Job:31:16 @ If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
wbs@Job:31:17 @ Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten of it;
wbs@Job:31:18 @ (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;)
wbs@Job:31:19 @ If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;
wbs@Job:31:20 @ If his loins have not blessed me, and if he hath not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
wbs@Job:31:21 @ If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:
wbs@Job:31:22 @ Then let my arm fall from my shoulder-blade, and my arm be broken from the bone.
wbs@Job:31:23 @ For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.
wbs@Job:31:24 @ If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;
wbs@Job:31:25 @ If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gained much;
wbs@Job:31:26 @ If I have beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;
wbs@Job:31:27 @ And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand:
wbs@Job:31:28 @ This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.
wbs@Job:31:29 @ If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or have lifted up myself when evil found him:
wbs@Job:31:30 @ Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.
wbs@Job:31:31 @ If the men of my tabernacle have not said, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.
wbs@Job:31:32 @ The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveler.
wbs@Job:31:33 @ If I have covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom:
wbs@Job:31:34 @ Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door?
wbs@Job:31:35 @ Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that my adversary had written a book.
wbs@Job:31:36 @ Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.
wbs@Job:31:37 @ I would declare to him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near to him.
wbs@Job:31:38 @ If my land crieth against me, or its furrows likewise complain;
wbs@Job:31:39 @ If I have eaten the fruits of it without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life:
wbs@Job:31:40 @ Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.
wbs@Job:32:1 @ So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
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