Job:26-31

web@Job:26:1 @Then Job answered,

web@Job:26:2 @"How have you helped him who is without power! How have you saved the arm that has no strength!

web@Job:26:3 @How have you counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge!

web@Job:26:4 @To whom have you uttered words? Whose spirit came forth from you?

web@Job:26:5 @"Those who are deceased tremble, those beneath the waters and all that live in them.

web@Job:26:6 @Sheol {Sheol is the lower world or the grave.} is naked before God, and Abaddon {Abaddon means Destroyer.} has no covering.

web@Job:26:7 @He stretches out the north over empty space, and hangs the earth on nothing.

web@Job:26:8 @He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not burst under them.

web@Job:26:9 @He encloses the face of his throne, and spreads his cloud on it.

web@Job:26:10 @He has described a boundary on the surface of the waters, and to the confines of light and darkness.

web@Job:26:11 @The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his rebuke.

web@Job:26:12 @He stirs up the sea with his power, and by his understanding he strikes through Rahab.

web@Job:26:13 @By his Spirit the heavens are garnished. His hand has pierced the swift serpent.

web@Job:26:14 @Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways. How small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?"

web@Job:27:1 @Job again took up his parable, and said,

web@Job:27:2 @"As God lives, who has taken away my right, the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter.

web@Job:27:3 @(For the length of my life is still in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils);

web@Job:27:4 @surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, neither shall my tongue utter deceit.

web@Job:27:5 @Far be it from me that I should justify you. Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.

web@Job:27:6 @I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.

web@Job:27:7 @"Let my enemy be as the wicked. Let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous.

web@Job:27:8 @For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?

web@Job:27:9 @Will God hear his cry when trouble comes on him?

web@Job:27:10 @Will he delight himself in the Almighty, and call on God at all times?

web@Job:27:11 @I will teach you about the hand of God. That which is with the Almighty will I not conceal.

web@Job:27:12 @Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves; why then have you become altogether vain?

web@Job:27:13 @"This is the portion of a wicked man with God, the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty.

web@Job:27:14 @If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword. His offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

web@Job:27:15 @Those who remain of him shall be buried in death. His widows shall make no lamentation.

web@Job:27:16 @Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare clothing as the clay;

web@Job:27:17 @he may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.

web@Job:27:18 @He builds his house as the moth, as a booth which the watchman makes.

web@Job:27:19 @He lies down rich, but he shall not do so again. He opens his eyes, and he is not.

web@Job:27:20 @Terrors overtake him like waters. A storm steals him away in the night.

web@Job:27:21 @The east wind carries him away, and he departs. It sweeps him out of his place.

web@Job:27:22 @For it hurls at him, and does not spare, as he flees away from his hand.

web@Job:27:23 @Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.

web@Job:28:1 @"Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold which they refine.

web@Job:28:2 @Iron is taken out of the earth, and copper is smelted out of the ore.

web@Job:28:3 @Man sets an end to darkness, and searches out, to the furthest bound, the stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.

web@Job:28:4 @He breaks open a shaft away from where people live. They are forgotten by the foot. They hang far from men, they swing back and forth.

web@Job:28:5 @As for the earth, out of it comes bread; Underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.

web@Job:28:6 @Sapphires come from its rocks. It has dust of gold.

web@Job:28:7 @That path no bird of prey knows, neither has the falcon's eye seen it.

web@Job:28:8 @The proud animals have not trodden it, nor has the fierce lion passed by there.

web@Job:28:9 @He puts forth his hand on the flinty rock, and he overturns the mountains by the roots.

web@Job:28:10 @He cuts out channels among the rocks. His eye sees every precious thing.

web@Job:28:11 @He binds the streams that they don't trickle. The thing that is hidden he brings forth to light.

web@Job:28:12 @"But where shall wisdom be found? Where is the place of understanding?

web@Job:28:13 @Man doesn't know its price; Neither is it found in the land of the living.

web@Job:28:14 @The deep says, 'It isn't in me.' The sea says, 'It isn't with me.'

web@Job:28:15 @It can't be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for its price.

web@Job:28:16 @It can't be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire {or, lapis lazuli}.

web@Job:28:17 @Gold and glass can't equal it, neither shall it be exchanged for jewels of fine gold.

web@Job:28:18 @No mention shall be made of coral or of crystal. Yes, the price of wisdom is above rubies.

web@Job:28:19 @The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, Neither shall it be valued with pure gold.

web@Job:28:20 @Where then does wisdom come from? Where is the place of understanding?

web@Job:28:21 @Seeing it is hidden from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the birds of the sky.

web@Job:28:22 @Destruction and Death say, 'We have heard a rumor of it with our ears.'

web@Job:28:23 @"God understands its way, and he knows its place.

web@Job:28:24 @For he looks to the ends of the earth, and sees under the whole sky.

web@Job:28:25 @He establishes the force of the wind. Yes, he measures out the waters by measure.

web@Job:28:26 @When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder;

web@Job:28:27 @then he saw it, and declared it. He established it, yes, and searched it out.

web@Job:28:28 @To man he said, 'Behold, the fear of the Lord {The word translated "Lord" is "Adonai."}, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.'"

web@Job:29:1 @Job again took up his parable, and said,

web@Job:29:2 @"Oh that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me;

web@Job:29:3 @when his lamp shone on my head, and by his light I walked through darkness,

web@Job:29:4 @as I was in the ripeness of my days, when the friendship of God was in my tent,

web@Job:29:5 @when the Almighty was yet with me, and my children were around me,

web@Job:29:6 @when my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured out streams of oil for me,

web@Job:29:7 @when I went forth to the city gate, when I prepared my seat in the street.

web@Job:29:8 @The young men saw me and hid themselves. The aged rose up and stood.

web@Job:29:9 @The princes refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.

web@Job:29:10 @The voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.

web@Job:29:11 @For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it commended me:

web@Job:29:12 @Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had none to help him,

web@Job:29:13 @the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

web@Job:29:14 @I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem.

web@Job:29:15 @I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame.

web@Job:29:16 @I was a father to the needy. The cause of him who I didn't know, I searched out.

web@Job:29:17 @I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the prey out of his teeth.

web@Job:29:18 @Then I said, 'I shall die in my own house, I shall number my days as the sand.

web@Job:29:19 @My root is spread out to the waters. The dew lies all night on my branch.

web@Job:29:20 @My glory is fresh in me. My bow is renewed in my hand.'

web@Job:29:21 @"Men listened to me, waited, and kept silence for my counsel.

web@Job:29:22 @After my words they didn't speak again. My speech fell on them.

web@Job:29:23 @They waited for me as for the rain. Their mouths drank as with the spring rain.

web@Job:29:24 @I smiled on them when they had no confidence. They didn't reject the light of my face.

web@Job:29:25 @I chose out their way, and sat as chief. I lived as a king in the army, as one who comforts the mourners.

web@Job:30:1 @"But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs.

web@Job:30:2 @Of what use is the strength of their hands to me, men in whom ripe age has perished?

web@Job:30:3 @They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation.

web@Job:30:4 @They pluck salt herbs by the bushes. The roots of the broom are their food.

web@Job:30:5 @They are driven out from the midst of men. They cry after them as after a thief;

web@Job:30:6 @So that they dwell in frightful valleys, and in holes of the earth and of the rocks.

web@Job:30:7 @Among the bushes they bray; and under the nettles they are gathered together.

web@Job:30:8 @They are children of fools, yes, children of base men. They were flogged out of the land.

web@Job:30:9 @"Now I have become their song. Yes, I am a byword to them.

web@Job:30:10 @They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, and don't hesitate to spit in my face.

web@Job:30:11 @For he has untied his cord, and afflicted me; and they have thrown off restraint before me.

web@Job:30:12 @On my right hand rise the rabble. They thrust aside my feet, They cast up against me their ways of destruction.

web@Job:30:13 @They mar my path, They set forward my calamity, without anyone's help.

web@Job:30:14 @As through a wide breach they come, in the midst of the ruin they roll themselves in.

web@Job:30:15 @Terrors have turned on me. They chase my honor as the wind. My welfare has passed away as a cloud.

web@Job:30:16 @"Now my soul is poured out within me. Days of affliction have taken hold on me.

web@Job:30:17 @In the night season my bones are pierced in me, and the pains that gnaw me take no rest.

web@Job:30:18 @By great force is my garment disfigured. It binds me about as the collar of my coat.

web@Job:30:19 @He has cast me into the mire. I have become like dust and ashes.

web@Job:30:20 @I cry to you, and you do not answer me. I stand up, and you gaze at me.

web@Job:30:21 @You have turned to be cruel to me. With the might of your hand you persecute me.

web@Job:30:22 @You lift me up to the wind, and drive me with it. You dissolve me in the storm.

web@Job:30:23 @For I know that you will bring me to death, To the house appointed for all living.

web@Job:30:24 @"However doesn't one stretch out a hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?

web@Job:30:25 @Didn't I weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn't my soul grieved for the needy?

web@Job:30:26 @When I looked for good, then evil came; When I waited for light, there came darkness.

web@Job:30:27 @My heart is troubled, and doesn't rest. Days of affliction have come on me.

web@Job:30:28 @I go mourning without the sun. I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.

web@Job:30:29 @I am a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches.

web@Job:30:30 @My skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are burned with heat.

web@Job:30:31 @Therefore my harp has turned to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of those who weep.

web@Job:31:1 @"I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?

web@Job:31:2 @For what is the portion from God above, and the heritage from the Almighty on high?

web@Job:31:3 @Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?

web@Job:31:4 @Doesn't he see my ways, and number all my steps?

web@Job:31:5 @"If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot has hurried to deceit

web@Job:31:6 @(let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity);

web@Job:31:7 @if my step has turned out of the way, if my heart walked after my eyes, if any defilement has stuck to my hands,

web@Job:31:8 @then let me sow, and let another eat. Yes, let the produce of my field be rooted out.

web@Job:31:9 @"If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbor's door,

web@Job:31:10 @then let my wife grind for another, and let others sleep with her.

web@Job:31:11 @For that would be a heinous crime. Yes, it would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges:

web@Job:31:12 @For it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase.

web@Job:31:13 @"If I have despised the cause of my male servant or of my female servant, when they contended with me;

web@Job:31:14 @What then shall I do when God rises up? When he visits, what shall I answer him?

web@Job:31:15 @Didn't he who made me in the womb make him? Didn't one fashion us in the womb?

web@Job:31:16 @"If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

web@Job:31:17 @or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it

web@Job:31:18 @(no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, her have I guided from my mother's womb);

web@Job:31:19 @if I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;

web@Job:31:20 @if his heart hasn't blessed me, if he hasn't been warmed with my sheep's fleece;

web@Job:31:21 @if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate,

web@Job:31:22 @then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from the bone.

web@Job:31:23 @For calamity from God is a terror to me. Because his majesty, I can do nothing.

web@Job:31:24 @"If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, 'You are my confidence;'

web@Job:31:25 @If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;

web@Job:31:26 @if I have seen the sun when it shined, or the moon moving in splendor,

web@Job:31:27 @and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth,

web@Job:31:28 @this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges; for I should have denied the God who is above.

web@Job:31:29 @"If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him;

web@Job:31:30 @(yes, I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse);

web@Job:31:31 @if the men of my tent have not said, 'Who can find one who has not been filled with his meat?'

web@Job:31:32 @(the foreigner has not lodged in the street, but I have opened my doors to the traveler);

web@Job:31:33 @if like Adam I have covered my transgressions, by hiding my iniquity in my heart,

web@Job:31:34 @because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and didn't go out of the door--

web@Job:31:35 @oh that I had one to hear me! (behold, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me); let the accuser write my indictment!

web@Job:31:36 @Surely I would carry it on my shoulder; and I would bind it to me as a crown.

web@Job:31:37 @I would declare to him the number of my steps. as a prince would I go near to him.

web@Job:31:38 @If my land cries out against me, and its furrows weep together;

web@Job:31:39 @if I have eaten its fruits without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life,

web@Job:31:40 @let briars grow instead of wheat, and stinkweed instead of barley." The words of Job are ended.

web@Job:32:1 @So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

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