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025:001  Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

025:002 Dominion and fear are with him, he maketh peace in his high places.

025:003 Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth not his light arise?

025:004 How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?

025:005 Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight.

025:006 How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm?

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026:001  But Job answered and said,

026:002 How hast thou helped him that is without power? how savest thou the arm that hath no strength?

026:003 How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom? and how hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is?

026:004 To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee?

026:005 Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.

026:006 Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.

026:007 He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.

026:008 He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.

026:009 He holdeth back the face of his throne, and spreadeth his cloud upon it.

026:010 He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.

026:011 The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof.

026:012 He divideth the sea with his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through the proud.

026:013 By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent.

026:014 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?

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027:001  Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,

027:002 As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul;

027:003 All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;

027:004 My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.

027:005 God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me.

027:006 My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.

027:007 Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous.

027:008 For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?

027:009 Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him?

027:010 Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God?

027:011 I will teach you by the hand of God: that which is with the Almighty will I not conceal.

027:012 Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye thus altogether vain?

027:013 This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty.

027:014 If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

027:015 Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep.

027:016 Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;

027:017 He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.

027:018 He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth that the keeper maketh.

027:019 The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he openeth his eyes, and he is not.

027:020 Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.

027:021 The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.

027:022 For God shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.

027:023 Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.

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028:001  Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it.

028:002 Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone.

028:003 He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.

028:004 The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; even the waters forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.

028:005 As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.

028:006 The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold.

028:007 There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen:

028:008 The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.

028:009 He putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he overturneth the mountains by the roots.

028:010 He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing.

028:011 He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light.

028:012 But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding?

028:013 Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living.

028:014 The depth saith, It is not in me: and the sea saith, It is not with me.

028:015 It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.

028:016 It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.

028:017 The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold.

028:018 No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies.

028:019 The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold.

028:020 Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding?

028:021 Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air.

028:022 Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.

028:023 God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.

028:024 For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven;

028:025 To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.

028:026 When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:

028:027 Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out.

028:028 And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the LORD, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.

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029:001  Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,

029:002 Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;

029:003 When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;

029:004 As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle;

029:005 When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me;

029:006 When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;

029:007 When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!

029:008 The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up.

029:009 The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.

029:010 The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.

029:011 When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me:

029:012 Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.

029:013 The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

029:014 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.

029:015 I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.

029:016 I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.

029:017 And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.

029:018 Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.

029:019 My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.

029:020 My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.

029:021 Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel.

029:022 After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them.

029:023 And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.

029:024 If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.

029:025 I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.

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030:001  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.

030:002 Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?

030:003 For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.

030:004 Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.

030:005 They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)

030:006 To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.

030:007 Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.

030:008 They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.

030:009 And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.

030:010 They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.

030:011 Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.

030:012 Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.

030:013 They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.

030:014 They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.

030:015 Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.

030:016 And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.

030:017 My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.

030:018 By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.

030:019 He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.

030:020 I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not.

030:021 Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.

030:022 Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.

030:023 For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

030:024 Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.

030:025 Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?

030:026 When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.

030:027 My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.

030:028 I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.

030:029 I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.

030:030 My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.

030:031 My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.

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031:001  I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?

031:002 For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?

031:003 Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?

031:004 Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?

031:005 If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;

031:006 Let me be weighed in an even balance that God may know mine integrity.

031:007 If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands;

031:008 Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.

031:009 If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour's door;

031:010 Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.

031:011 For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.

031:012 For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.

031:013 If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;

031:014 What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?

031:015 Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?

031:016 If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;

031:017 Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;

031:018 (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;)

031:019 If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;

031:020 If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

031:021 If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:

031:022 Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.

031:023 For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.

031:024 If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;

031:025 If I rejoice because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much;

031:026 If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;

031:027 And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand:

031:028 This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.

031:029 If I rejoice at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:

031:030 Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.

031:031 If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.

031:032 The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller.

031:033 If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:

031:034 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?

031:035 Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.

031:036 Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.

031:037 I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.

031:038 If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;

031:039 If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:

031:040 Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.

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032:001  So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

032:002 Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram: against Job was his wrath kindled, because he justified himself rather than God.

032:003 Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.

032:004 Now Elihu had waited till Job had spoken, because they were elder than he.

032:005 When Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, then his wrath was kindled.

032:006 And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am young, and ye are very old; wherefore I was afraid, and durst not shew you mine opinion.

032:007 I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.

032:008 But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding.

032:009 Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment.

032:010 Therefore I said, Hearken to me; I also will shew mine opinion.

032:011 Behold, I waited for your words; I gave ear to your reasons, whilst ye searched out what to say.

032:012 Yea, I attended unto you, and, behold, there was none of you that convinced Job, or that answered his words:

032:013 Lest ye should say, We have found out wisdom: God thrusteth him down, not man.

032:014 Now he hath not directed his words against me: neither will I answer him with your speeches.

032:015 They were amazed, they answered no more: they left off speaking.

032:016 When I had waited, (for they spake not, but stood still, and answered no more;)

032:017 I said, I will answer also my part, I also will shew mine opinion.

032:018 For I am full of matter, the spirit within me constraineth me.

032:019 Behold, my belly is as wine which hath no vent; it is ready to burst like new bottles.

032:020 I will speak, that I may be refreshed: I will open my lips and answer.

032:021 Let me not, I pray you, accept any man's person, neither let me give flattering titles unto man.

032:022 For I know not to give flattering titles; in so doing my maker would soon take me away.

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