Job:5-10
rsv@Job:5:1 @ "Call now; is there any one who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?
rsv@Job:5:2 @ Surely vexation kills the fool, and jealousy slays the simple.
rsv@Job:5:3 @ I have seen the fool taking root, but suddenly I cursed his dwelling.
rsv@Job:5:4 @ His sons are far from safety, they are crushed in the gate, and there is no one to deliver them.
rsv@Job:5:5 @ His harvest the hungry eat, and he takes it even out of thorns; and the thirsty pant after his wealth.
rsv@Job:5:6 @ For affliction does not come from the dust, nor does trouble sprout from the ground;
rsv@Job:5:7 @ but man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward.
rsv@Job:5:8 @ "As for me, I would seek God, and to God would I commit my cause;
rsv@Job:5:9 @ who does great things and unsearchable, marvelous things without number:
rsv@Job:5:10 @ he gives rain upon the earth and sends waters upon the fields;
rsv@Job:5:11 @ he sets on high those who are lowly, and those who mourn are lifted to safety.
rsv@Job:5:12 @ He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands achieve no success.
rsv@Job:5:13 @ He takes the wise in their own craftiness; and the schemes of the wily are brought to a quick end.
rsv@Job:5:14 @ They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope at noonday as in the night.
rsv@Job:5:15 @ But he saves the fatherless from their mouth, the needy from the hand of the mighty.
rsv@Job:5:16 @ So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts her mouth.
rsv@Job:5:17 @ "Behold, happy is the man whom God reproves; therefore despise not the chastening of the Almighty.
rsv@Job:5:18 @ For he wounds, but he binds up; he smites, but his hands heal.
rsv@Job:5:19 @ He will deliver you from six troubles; in seven there shall no evil touch you.
rsv@Job:5:20 @ In famine he will redeem you from death, and in war from the power of the sword.
rsv@Job:5:21 @ You shall be hid from the scourge of the tongue, and shall not fear destruction when it comes.
rsv@Job:5:22 @ At destruction and famine you shall laugh, and shall not fear the beasts of the earth.
rsv@Job:5:23 @ For you shall be in league with the stones of the field, and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with you.
rsv@Job:5:24 @ You shall know that your tent is safe, and you shall inspect your fold and miss nothing.
rsv@Job:5:25 @ You shall know also that your descendants shall be many, and your offspring as the grass of the earth.
rsv@Job:5:26 @ You shall come to your grave in ripe old age, as a shock of grain comes up to the threshing floor in its season.
rsv@Job:5:27 @ Lo, this we have searched out; it is true. Hear, and know it for your good."
rsv@Job:6:1 @ Then Job answered:
rsv@Job:6:2 @ "O that my vexation were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!
rsv@Job:6:3 @ For then it would be heavier than the sand of the sea; therefore my words have been rash.
rsv@Job:6:4 @ For the arrows of the Almighty are in me; my spirit drinks their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.
rsv@Job:6:5 @ Does the wild ass bray when he has grass, or the ox low over his fodder?
rsv@Job:6:6 @ Can that which is tasteless be eaten without salt, or is there any taste in the slime of the purslane?
rsv@Job:6:7 @ My appetite refuses to touch them; they are as food that is loathsome to me.
rsv@Job:6:8 @ "O that I might have my request, and that God would grant my desire;
rsv@Job:6:9 @ that it would please God to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!
rsv@Job:6:10 @ This would be my consolation; I would even exult in pain unsparing; for I have not denied the words of the Holy One.
rsv@Job:6:11 @ What is my strength, that I should wait? And what is my end, that I should be patient?
rsv@Job:6:12 @ Is my strength the strength of stones, or is my flesh bronze?
rsv@Job:6:13 @ In truth I have no help in me, and any resource is driven from me.
rsv@Job:6:14 @ "He who withholds kindness from a friend forsakes the fear of the Almighty.
rsv@Job:6:15 @ My brethren are treacherous as a torrent-bed, as freshets that pass away,
rsv@Job:6:16 @ which are dark with ice, and where the snow hides itself.
rsv@Job:6:17 @ In time of heat they disappear; when it is hot, they vanish from their place.
rsv@Job:6:18 @ The caravans turn aside from their course; they go up into the waste, and perish.
rsv@Job:6:19 @ The caravans of Tema look, the travelers of Sheba hope.
rsv@Job:6:20 @ They are disappointed because they were confident; they come thither and are confounded.
rsv@Job:6:21 @ Such you have now become to me; you see my calamity, and are afraid.
rsv@Job:6:22 @ Have I said, `Make me a gift'? Or, `From your wealth offer a bribe for me'?
rsv@Job:6:23 @ Or, `y's hand'? Or, `ppressors'?
rsv@Job:6:24 @ "Teach me, and I will be silent; make me understand how I have erred.
rsv@Job:6:25 @ How forceful are honest words! But what does reproof from you reprove?
rsv@Job:6:26 @ Do you think that you can reprove words, when the speech of a despairing man is wind?
rsv@Job:6:27 @ You would even cast lots over the fatherless, and bargain over your friend.
rsv@Job:6:28 @ "But now, be pleased to look at me; for I will not lie to your face.
rsv@Job:6:29 @ Turn, I pray, let no wrong be done. Turn now, my vindication is at stake.
rsv@Job:6:30 @ Is there any wrong on my tongue? Cannot my taste discern calamity?
rsv@Job:7:1 @ "Has not man a hard service upon earth, and are not his days like the days of a hireling?
rsv@Job:7:2 @ Like a slave who longs for the shadow, and like a hireling who looks for his wages,
rsv@Job:7:3 @ so I am allotted months of emptiness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me.
rsv@Job:7:4 @ When I lie down I say, `en I lie down I say, "When shall I arise?' But the night is long, and I am full of tossing till the dawn.
rsv@Job:7:5 @ My flesh is clothed with worms and dirt; my skin hardens, then breaks out afresh.
rsv@Job:7:6 @ My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and come to their end without hope.
rsv@Job:7:7 @ "Remember that my life is a breath; my eye will never again see good.
rsv@Job:7:8 @ The eye of him who sees me will behold me no more; while thy eyes are upon me, I shall be gone.
rsv@Job:7:9 @ As the cloud fades and vanishes, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come up;
rsv@Job:7:10 @ he returns no more to his house, nor does his place know him any more.
rsv@Job:7:11 @ "Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
rsv@Job:7:12 @ Am I the sea, or a sea monster, that thou settest a guard over me?
rsv@Job:7:13 @ When I say, `en I say, "My bed will comfort me, my couch will ease my complaint,'
rsv@Job:7:14 @ then thou dost scare me with dreams and terrify me with visions,
rsv@Job:7:15 @ so that I would choose strangling and death rather than my bones.
rsv@Job:7:16 @ I loathe my life; I would not live for ever. Let me alone, for my days are a breath.
rsv@Job:7:17 @ What is man, that thou dost make so much of him, and that thou dost set thy mind upon him,
rsv@Job:7:18 @ dost visit him every morning, and test him every moment?
rsv@Job:7:19 @ How long wilt thou not look away from me, nor let me alone till I swallow my spittle?
rsv@Job:7:20 @ If I sin, what do I do to thee, thou watcher of men? Why hast thou made me thy mark? Why have I become a burden to thee?
rsv@Job:7:21 @ Why dost thou not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For now I shall lie in the earth; thou wilt seek me, but I shall not be."
rsv@Job:8:1 @ Then Bildad the Shuhite answered:
rsv@Job:8:2 @ "How long will you say these things, and the words of your mouth be a great wind?
rsv@Job:8:3 @ Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert the right?
rsv@Job:8:4 @ If your children have sinned against him, he has delivered them into the power of their transgression.
rsv@Job:8:5 @ If you will seek God and make supplication to the Almighty,
rsv@Job:8:6 @ if you are pure and upright, surely then he will rouse himself for you and reward you with a rightful habitation.
rsv@Job:8:7 @ And though your beginning was small, your latter days will be very great.
rsv@Job:8:8 @ "For inquire, I pray you, of bygone ages, and consider what the fathers have found;
rsv@Job:8:9 @ for we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, for our days on earth are a shadow.
rsv@Job:8:10 @ Will they not teach you, and tell you, and utter words out of their understanding?
rsv@Job:8:11 @ "Can papyrus grow where there is no marsh? Can reeds flourish where there is no water?
rsv@Job:8:12 @ While yet in flower and not cut down, they wither before any other plant.
rsv@Job:8:13 @ Such are the paths of all who forget God; the hope of the godless man shall perish.
rsv@Job:8:14 @ His confidence breaks in sunder, and his trust is a spider's web.
rsv@Job:8:15 @ He leans against his house, but it does not stand; he lays hold of it, but it does not endure.
rsv@Job:8:16 @ He thrives before the sun, and his shoots spread over his garden.
rsv@Job:8:17 @ His roots twine about the stoneheap; he lives among the rocks.
rsv@Job:8:18 @ If he is destroyed from his place, then it will deny him, saying, `ng, "I have never seen you.'
rsv@Job:8:19 @ Behold, this is the joy of his way; and out of the earth others will spring.
rsv@Job:8:20 @ "Behold, God will not reject a blameless man, nor take the hand of evildoers.
rsv@Job:8:21 @ He will yet fill your mouth with laughter, and your lips with shouting.
rsv@Job:8:22 @ Those who hate you will be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked will be no more."
rsv@Job:9:1 @ Then Job answered:
rsv@Job:9:2 @ "Truly I know that it is so: But how can a man be just before God?
rsv@Job:9:3 @ If one wished to contend with him, one could not answer him once in a thousand times.
rsv@Job:9:4 @ He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength --who has hardened himself against him, and succeeded?--
rsv@Job:9:5 @ he who removes mountains, and they know it not, when he overturns them in his anger;
rsv@Job:9:6 @ who shakes the earth out of its place, and its pillars tremble;
rsv@Job:9:7 @ who commands the sun, and it does not rise; who seals up the stars;
rsv@Job:9:8 @ who alone stretched out the heavens, and trampled the waves of the sea;
rsv@Job:9:9 @ who made the Bear and Orion, the Plei'ades and the chambers of the south;
rsv@Job:9:10 @ who does great things beyond understanding, and marvelous things without number.
rsv@Job:9:11 @ Lo, he passes by me, and I see him not; he moves on, but I do not perceive him.
rsv@Job:9:12 @ Behold, he snatches away; who can hinder him? who will say to him, `u'?
rsv@Job:9:13 @ "God will not turn back his anger; beneath him bowed the helpers of Rahab.
rsv@Job:9:14 @ How then can I answer him, choosing my words with him?
rsv@Job:9:15 @ Though I am innocent, I cannot answer him; I must appeal for mercy to my accuser.
rsv@Job:9:16 @ If I summoned him and he answered me, I would not believe that he was listening to my voice.
rsv@Job:9:17 @ For he crushes me with a tempest, and multiplies my wounds without cause;
rsv@Job:9:18 @ he will not let me get my breath, but fills me with bitterness.
rsv@Job:9:19 @ If it is a contest of strength, behold him! If it is a matter of justice, who can summon him?
rsv@Job:9:20 @ Though I am innocent, my own mouth would condemn me; though I am blameless, he would prove me perverse.
rsv@Job:9:21 @ I am blameless; I regard not myself; I loathe my life.
rsv@Job:9:22 @ It is all one; therefore I say, he destroys both the blameless and the wicked.
rsv@Job:9:23 @ When disaster brings sudden death, he mocks at the calamity of the innocent.
rsv@Job:9:24 @ The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; he covers the faces of its judges-- if it is not he, who then is it?
rsv@Job:9:25 @ "My days are swifter than a runner; they flee away, they see no good.
rsv@Job:9:26 @ They go by like skiffs of reed, like an eagle swooping on the prey.
rsv@Job:9:27 @ If I say, ` I say, "I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad countenance, and be of good cheer,'
rsv@Job:9:28 @ I become afraid of all my suffering, for I know thou wilt not hold me innocent.
rsv@Job:9:29 @ I shall be condemned; why then do I labor in vain?
rsv@Job:9:30 @ If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,
rsv@Job:9:31 @ yet thou wilt plunge me into a pit, and my own clothes will abhor me.
rsv@Job:9:32 @ For he is not a man, as I am, that I might answer him, that we should come to trial together.
rsv@Job:9:33 @ There is no umpire between us, who might lay his hand upon us both.
rsv@Job:9:34 @ Let him take his rod away from me, and let not dread of him terrify me.
rsv@Job:9:35 @ Then I would speak without fear of him, for I am not so in myself.
rsv@Job:10:1 @ "I loathe my life; I will give free utterance to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
rsv@Job:10:2 @ I will say to God, Do not condemn me; let me know why thou dost contend against me.
rsv@Job:10:3 @ Does it seem good to thee to oppress, to despise the work of thy hands and favor the designs of the wicked?
rsv@Job:10:4 @ Hast thou eyes of flesh? Dost thou see as man sees?
rsv@Job:10:5 @ Are thy days as the days of man, or thy years as man's years,
rsv@Job:10:6 @ that thou dost seek out my iniquity and search for my sin,
rsv@Job:10:7 @ although thou knowest that I am not guilty, and there is none to deliver out of thy hand?
rsv@Job:10:8 @ Thy hands fashioned and made me; and now thou dost turn about and destroy me.
rsv@Job:10:9 @ Remember that thou hast made me of clay; and wilt thou turn me to dust again?
rsv@Job:10:10 @ Didst thou not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese?
rsv@Job:10:11 @ Thou didst clothe me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.
rsv@Job:10:12 @ Thou hast granted me life and steadfast love; and thy care has preserved my spirit.
rsv@Job:10:13 @ Yet these things thou didst hide in thy heart; I know that this was thy purpose.
rsv@Job:10:14 @ If I sin, thou dost mark me, and dost not acquit me of my iniquity.
rsv@Job:10:15 @ If I am wicked, woe to me! If I am righteous, I cannot lift up my head, for I am filled with disgrace and look upon my affliction.
rsv@Job:10:16 @ And if I lift myself up, thou dost hunt me like a lion, and again work wonders against me;
rsv@Job:10:17 @ thou dost renew thy witnesses against me, and increase thy vexation toward me; thou dost bring fresh hosts against me.
rsv@Job:10:18 @ "Why didst thou bring me forth from the womb? Would that I had died before any eye had seen me,
rsv@Job:10:19 @ and were as though I had not been, carried from the womb to the grave.
rsv@Job:10:20 @ Are not the days of my life few? Let me alone, that I may find a little comfort
rsv@Job:10:21 @ before I go whence I shall not return, to the land of gloom and deep darkness,
rsv@Job:10:22 @ the land of gloom and chaos, where light is as darkness."
rsv@Job:11:1 @ Then Zophar the Na'amathite answered:
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