Job:26-31
ukjv@Job:26:1 @ But Job answered and said,
ukjv@Job:26:2 @ How have you helped him that is without power? how save you the arm that has no strength?
ukjv@Job:26:3 @ How have you counselled him that has no wisdom? and how have you plentifully declared the thing as it is?
ukjv@Job:26:4 @ To whom have you uttered words? and whose spirit came from you?
ukjv@Job:26:5 @ Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.
ukjv@Job:26:6 @ Hell is naked before him, and destruction has no covering.
ukjv@Job:26:7 @ He stretches out the north over the empty place, and hangs the earth upon nothing.
ukjv@Job:26:8 @ He binds up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.
ukjv@Job:26:9 @ He holds back the face of his throne, and spreads his cloud upon it.
ukjv@Job:26:10 @ He has compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.
ukjv@Job:26:11 @ The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof.
ukjv@Job:26:12 @ He divides the sea with his power, and by his understanding he strikes through the proud.
ukjv@Job:26:13 @ By his spirit he has garnished the heavens; his hand has formed the crooked serpent.
ukjv@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?
ukjv@Job:27:1 @ Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,
ukjv@Job:27:2 @ As God lives, who has taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who has vexed my soul;
ukjv@Job:27:3 @ All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;
ukjv@Job:27:4 @ My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.
ukjv@Job:27:5 @ God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me.
ukjv@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.
ukjv@Job:27:7 @ Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that rises up against me as the unrighteous.
ukjv@Job:27:8 @ For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he has gained, when God takes away his soul?
ukjv@Job:27:9 @ Will God hear his cry when trouble comes upon him?
ukjv@Job:27:10 @ Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God?
ukjv@Job:27:11 @ I will teach you by the hand of God: that which is with the Almighty will I not conceal.
ukjv@Job:27:12 @ Behold, all you yourselves have seen it; why then are all of you thus altogether vain?
ukjv@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.
ukjv@Job:27:14 @ If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
ukjv@Job:27:15 @ Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep.
ukjv@Job:27:16 @ Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;
ukjv@Job:27:17 @ He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.
ukjv@Job:27:18 @ He builds his house as a moth, and as a booth that the keeper makes.
ukjv@Job:27:19 @ The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he opens his eyes, and he is not.
ukjv@Job:27:20 @ Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest steals him away in the night.
ukjv@Job:27:21 @ The east wind carries him away, and he departs: and as a storm hurls him out of his place.
ukjv@Job:27:22 @ For God shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.
ukjv@Job:27:23 @ Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.
ukjv@Job:28:1 @ Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it.
ukjv@Job:28:2 @ Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone.
ukjv@Job:28:3 @ He sets an end to darkness, and searches out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.
ukjv@Job:28:4 @ The flood breaks out from the inhabitant; even the waters forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.
ukjv@Job:28:5 @ As for the earth, out of it comes bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.
ukjv@Job:28:6 @ The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it has dust of gold.
ukjv@Job:28:7 @ There is a path which no fowl knows, and which the vulture's eye has not seen:
ukjv@Job:28:8 @ The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.
ukjv@Job:28:9 @ He puts forth his hand upon the rock; he overturns the mountains by the roots.
ukjv@Job:28:10 @ He cuts out rivers among the rocks; and his eye sees every precious thing.
ukjv@Job:28:11 @ He binds the floods from overflowing; and the thing that is hid brings he forth to light.
ukjv@Job:28:12 @ But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding?
ukjv@Job:28:13 @ Man knows not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living.
ukjv@Job:28:14 @ The depth says, It is not in me: and the sea says, It is not with me.
ukjv@Job:28:15 @ It cannot be got for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.
ukjv@Job:28:16 @ It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
ukjv@Job:28:17 @ The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold.
ukjv@Job:28:18 @ No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies.
ukjv@Job:28:19 @ The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold.
ukjv@Job:28:20 @ Whence then comes wisdom? and where is the place of understanding?
ukjv@Job:28:21 @ Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air.
ukjv@Job:28:22 @ Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.
ukjv@Job:28:23 @ God understands the way thereof, and he knows the place thereof.
ukjv@Job:28:24 @ For he looks to the ends of the earth, and sees under the whole heaven;
ukjv@Job:28:25 @ To make the weight for the winds; and he weights the waters by measure.
ukjv@Job:28:26 @ When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:
ukjv@Job:28:27 @ Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out.
ukjv@Job:28:28 @ And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the LORD, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.
ukjv@Job:29:1 @ Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,
ukjv@Job:29:2 @ Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;
ukjv@Job:29:3 @ When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;
ukjv@Job:29:4 @ As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle;
ukjv@Job:29:5 @ When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me;
ukjv@Job:29:6 @ When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;
ukjv@Job:29:7 @ When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!
ukjv@Job:29:8 @ The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up.
ukjv@Job:29:9 @ The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.
ukjv@Job:29:10 @ The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.
ukjv@Job:29:11 @ When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me:
ukjv@Job:29:12 @ Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
ukjv@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.
ukjv@Job:29:14 @ I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.
ukjv@Job:29:15 @ I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.
ukjv@Job:29:16 @ I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
ukjv@Job:29:17 @ And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
ukjv@Job:29:18 @ Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.
ukjv@Job:29:19 @ My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.
ukjv@Job:29:20 @ My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.
ukjv@Job:29:21 @ Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel.
ukjv@Job:29:22 @ After my words they spoke not again; and my speech dropped upon them.
ukjv@Job:29:23 @ And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.
ukjv@Job:29:24 @ If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.
ukjv@Job:29:25 @ I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforts the mourners.
ukjv@Job:30:1 @ But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.
ukjv@Job:30:2 @ Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?
ukjv@Job:30:3 @ For lack and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
ukjv@Job:30:4 @ Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their food.
ukjv@Job:30:5 @ They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)
ukjv@Job:30:6 @ To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.
ukjv@Job:30:7 @ Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.
ukjv@Job:30:8 @ They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
ukjv@Job:30:9 @ And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
ukjv@Job:30:10 @ They detest me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.
ukjv@Job:30:11 @ Because he has loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.
ukjv@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.
ukjv@Job:30:13 @ They ruin my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.
ukjv@Job:30:14 @ They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.
ukjv@Job:30:15 @ Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passes away as a cloud.
ukjv@Job:30:16 @ And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
ukjv@Job:30:17 @ My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
ukjv@Job:30:18 @ By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it binds me about as the collar of my coat.
ukjv@Job:30:19 @ He has cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
ukjv@Job:30:20 @ I cry unto you, and you do not hear me: I stand up, and you regard me not.
ukjv@Job:30:21 @ You are become cruel to me: with your strong hand you oppose yourself against me.
ukjv@Job:30:22 @ You lift me up to the wind; you cause me to ride upon it, and dissolve my substance.
ukjv@Job:30:23 @ For I know that you will bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
ukjv@Job:30:24 @ Nevertheless he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.
ukjv@Job:30:25 @ Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?
ukjv@Job:30:26 @ When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
ukjv@Job:30:27 @ My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.
ukjv@Job:30:28 @ I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.
ukjv@Job:30:29 @ I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
ukjv@Job:30:30 @ My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
ukjv@Job:30:31 @ My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.
ukjv@Job:31:1 @ I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?
ukjv@Job:31:2 @ For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?
ukjv@Job:31:3 @ Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?
ukjv@Job:31:4 @ Does not he see my ways, and count all my steps?
ukjv@Job:31:5 @ If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot has hasted to deceit;
ukjv@Job:31:6 @ Let me be weighed in an even balance that God may know mine integrity.
ukjv@Job:31:7 @ If my step has turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot has cleaved to mine hands;
ukjv@Job:31:8 @ Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.
ukjv@Job:31:9 @ If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour's door;
ukjv@Job:31:10 @ Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.
ukjv@Job:31:11 @ For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.
ukjv@Job:31:12 @ For it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.
ukjv@Job:31:13 @ If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;
ukjv@Job:31:14 @ What then shall I do when God rises up? and when he visits, what shall I answer him?
ukjv@Job:31:15 @ Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?
ukjv@Job:31:16 @ If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
ukjv@Job:31:17 @ Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless has not eaten thereof;
ukjv@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;)
ukjv@Job:31:19 @ If I have seen any perish for lack of clothing, or any poor without covering;
ukjv@Job:31:20 @ If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
ukjv@Job:31:21 @ If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:
ukjv@Job:31:22 @ Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.
ukjv@Job:31:23 @ For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.
ukjv@Job:31:24 @ If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, You are my confidence;
ukjv@Job:31:25 @ If I rejoice because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had got much;
ukjv@Job:31:26 @ If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;
ukjv@Job:31:27 @ And my heart has been secretly enticed, or my mouth has kissed my hand:
ukjv@Job:31:28 @ This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.
ukjv@Job:31:29 @ If I rejoice at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:
ukjv@Job:31:30 @ Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.
ukjv@Job:31:31 @ If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.
ukjv@Job:31:32 @ The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller.
ukjv@Job:31:33 @ If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:
ukjv@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?
ukjv@Job:31:35 @ Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.
ukjv@Job:31:36 @ Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.
ukjv@Job:31:37 @ I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.
ukjv@Job:31:38 @ If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;
ukjv@Job:31:39 @ If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:
ukjv@Job:31:40 @ Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.
ukjv@Job:32:1 @ So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
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