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017:001  My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.

017:002 Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?

017:003 Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?

017:004 For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.

017:005 He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.

017:006 He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.

017:007 Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.

017:008 Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.

017:009 The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.

017:010 But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.

017:011My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.

017:012 They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness. 

017:013 If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.

017:014 I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.

017:015 And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?

017:016 They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.

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018:001  Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

018:002 How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.

018:003 Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?

018:004 He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?

018:005 Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.

018:006 The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.

018:007 The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.

018:008 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.

018:009 The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him.

018:010 The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.

018:011 Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.

018:012 His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.

018:013 It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.

018:014 His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.

018:015 It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.

018:016 His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.

018:017 His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.

018:018 He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

018:019 He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.

018:020 They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted.

018:021 Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.

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019:001  Then Job answered and said,

019:002 How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?

019:003 These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.

019:004 And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.

019:005 If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:

019:006 Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.

019:007 Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.

019:008 He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.

019:009 He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.

019:010 He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.

019:011 He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.

019:012 His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.

019:013 He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.

019:014 My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.

019:015 They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.

019:016 I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.

019:017 My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body.

019:018 Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.

019:019 All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.

019:020 My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.

019:021 Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.

019:022 Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

019:023 Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!

019:024 That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!

019:025 For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:

019:026 And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:

019:027 Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.

019:028 But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?

019:029 Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.

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020:001  Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,

020:002 Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.

020:003 I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.

020:004 Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,

020:005 That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?

020:006 Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;

020:007 Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?

020:008 He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.

020:009 The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.

020:010 His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.

020:011 His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.

020:012 Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;

020:013 Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:

020:014 Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.

020:015 He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.

020:016 He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.

020:017 He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.

020:018 That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein.

020:019 Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;

020:020 Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired.

020:021 There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.

020:022 In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.

020:023 When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating.

020:024 He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through.

020:025 It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him.

020:026 All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.

020:027 The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.

020:028 The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.

020:029 This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.

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021:001  But Job answered and said,

021:002 Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.

021:003 Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.

021:004 As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?

021:005 Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.

021:006 Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.

021:007 Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?

021:008 Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.

021:009 Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.

021:010 Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.

021:011 They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.

021:012 They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.

021:013 They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.

021:014 Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.

021:015 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?

021:016 Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

021:017 How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.

021:018 They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.

021:019 God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.

021:020 His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

021:021 For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?

021:022 Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high.

021:023 One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.

021:024 His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow.

021:025 And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.

021:026 They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.

021:027 Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.

021:028 For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?

021:029 Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens,

021:030 That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.

021:031 Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?

021:032 Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.

021:033 The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.

021:034 How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?

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022:001  Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,

022:002 Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself?

022:003 Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or is it gain to him, that thou makest thy ways perfect?

022:004 Will he reprove thee for fear of thee? will he enter with thee into judgment?

022:005 Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite?

022:006 For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

022:007 Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.

022:008 But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honourable man dwelt in it.

022:009 Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

022:010 Therefore snares are round about thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee;

022:011 Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.

022:012 Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are!

022:013 And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?

022:014 Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven.

022:015 Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?

022:016 Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:

022:017 Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?

022:018 Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

022:019 The righteous see it, and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn.

022:020 Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth.

022:021 Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee.

022:022 Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.

022:023 If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.

022:024 Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.

022:025 Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou shalt have plenty of silver.

022:026 For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God.

022:027 Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.

022:028 Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.

022:029 When men are cast down, then thou shalt say, There is lifting up; and he shall save the humble person.

022:030 He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands.

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023:001  Then Job answered and said,

023:002 Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.

023:003 Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!

023:004 I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.

023:005 I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.

023:006 Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me.

023:007 There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.

023:008 Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:

023:009 On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him:

023:010 But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

023:011 My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.

023:012 Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

023:013 But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.

023:014 For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him.

023:015 Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.

023:016 For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:

023:017 Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face.

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024:001  Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?

024:002 Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.

024:003 They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.

024:004 They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.

024:005 Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.

024:006 They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.

024:007 They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.

024:008 They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.

024:009 They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.

024:010 They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;

024:011 Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.

024:012 Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.

024:013 They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.

024:014 The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.

024:015 The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.

024:016 In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.

024:017 For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.

024:018 He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.

024:019 Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned.

024:020 The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.

024:021 He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.

024:022 He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no man is sure of life.

024:023 Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways.

024:024 They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.

024:025 And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?

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