Chap. v, vi.

Fob rebroveth his friends.

JO R. 14 To him that Is amicted pity should be ewed from his friend; but he foriaketh the fear of the Almighty.

15 My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the ftream of brooks they pafs

away which are blackish by reafon of the ice,

and wherein the fnow is hid:

17 What time they wax warm they vanish; when it is hot they are confumed out of their place.

18 The paths of their way are turned afide; they go to nothing, and perish.

19 The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.

20 They were confounded because they had hoped: they came thither, and were ashamed. 21 For now ye are nothing; ye fee my caft ing down, and are afraid.

22 Did I fay, Bring unto me? or,Give a reward for me of your fubitance!

23 Or, Deliver me from the enemies hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the migh. ty!

24 Teach me, and I will hold my songue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.

25 How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?

26 Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the fpeeches of one that is defperate, which are as wind?

27 Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.

28 Now therefore, be content; look upon me: for it is evident unto you ift lie.

20 Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteoufnels is in

30 Is there ipiquity in my tongue ? Cannot my tatte difcern perverfe things!

CHAP. VII.

Fob excufeth his defire of death: 12 he complayeth of his own refilefness, and God's watchfulness.

Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth. Are not his days alfo like the days of an hireling?

2 As a fervant earnestly defireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of

his work;

3 So am I made to poffefs months of va nity, and wearifome nights are appointed to

me.

4 When I lie down, I fay, When shall I arife, and the night be gone! an 11 am full of toifings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.

My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of duft; my skin is broken, and become loathfome.

6 My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.

O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more fee good.

8 The eye of him that hath feen me fhall fee me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I

am not.

9 As the cloud is confumed and vanifheth away; fo he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.

10 He shall return no more to his house, nei. ther shall his place know him any more.

11 Therefore I will not refrain my mouth, will fpeak in the anguish of my spirit; Í

The hypocrite's defirullione

will complain in the bitterness of my fou 12 Am I a fea, or a whale, that thou sette a watch over me?

13 When I fay, My bed fhall comfort me, my couch thall eafe my complaint;

14 Then thou fcareft me with dreams, and terrifiest me through vifions:

15 So that my foul choofeth ftrangling, and death rather than my life.

16 I loathe it; I would not live always: let me alone; for my days are vanity.

17 What is man, that thou thouldest magnify him and that thou shouldeft fet thine heart upon him?

18 And that thou shouldeft vifit him every morning, and try him every moment?

19 How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I fwallow down my spittle?

20 I have finned, what fhall I do unto thee, O thou Preferver of men? Why hatt thou fet mé as a mark against thee, fo that I am a burden to myself!

21 And why doft thou not pardon my tranf. greifion, and take away mine iniquity! for now hall Pleep in the cuff; and thou shalt feek nie in the morning, but I fall not be.

CHAP. VIH.

1 Bildad fheweth God's juftice in dealing with men according to their works: 8 be appeal eth to antiquity to prove the certain defiruc tion of the hypocrite: zo be applieth God's juf dealing to Job.

THEN anfwered Bildad the Shuhite, and faid,

2 How long wilt thou speak these things? and bow long all the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?

3 Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert juftice?"

4 If thy children have finned against him, and he have caft them away for their tranf grethon;

If thou wouldeft feek unto God be. times, and make thy fupplication to the Almighty;

6 If thou wert pure and upright; furely now he would awake for thee, and make the babita tion of thy righteoufnefs profpercus.

7 Though thy beginning was tmall, yet thy latter end thould greatly increase.

8 For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyfelf to the fearch of their

fathers:

9(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a fhadow:)

10 Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?

11 Can the ruth grow up without mire! Can the flag grow without water?

12 Whilft it is yet in his greennefs, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.

13 So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope thall perish:"

14 Whole hope thall be cut off, and whofe truft shall be a fpider's web.

15 He hall lean upon his houfe, but it shall not ftand: he thall hold it faft, but it thall not

endure.

16 He is green before the fun, and his branch fhooteth forth in his garden.

17 His roots are wrapped about the heap, and feeth the place of ftones.

No contending with God.

Chap. ix, x, 48 If he deftroy him from his place, then #thall deny him, saying, I have not feen thee.

19 Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth fhall others grow.

20 Behold, God will not caft away a perfect san, neither will he help the evil doers:

2 Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing.

22 They that hate thee fhall be clothed with fhame; and the dwelling place of the wicked fhall come to nought.

CHAP. IX.

1 Job, acknowledging God's juftice, fbewerb there is no contending with him. 22 Man's innocency is not to be condemned by afflic

tions.

THEN Job anfwered and faid,

2 I know it is fo of a truth: but how Should man be juft with God?

3 if he will contend with him, he cannot anfwer him one of a thoufand.

4 He is wife in heart, and mighty in ftrength: who hath hardened bimfelf against him and hath profpered?

Which removeth the mountains, and they know not; which overturneth them in his anger;

Fob expoftulateth with God.

26 They are paffed away as the fwift ship as the eagle that hafteth to the prey.

27 If I fay, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heavinefs, and comfort my. Self;

28 I am afraid of all my forrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.

29 If I he wicked, why then labour I in vain ?

30 if wash myself with fnow water, and make my hands never to clean ;

31 Yet thait thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes thall abhor me,

32 For he is not a man, as I am, that 1 thould anfwer him, and we thould come toge. ther in judgment.

33 Neither is there any dayfman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.

34 Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me:

35 Then would I fpeak, and not fear him; but it is not 10 with ine.

CHAP. X.

1 Job, taking liberty of complaint, expoftulat eth with God about his afflictions: 18 he complaineth of life, and craveth a little eafe before deith.

6 Which thaketh the earth out of her place, MY foul is weary of my life; I will leave

and the pillars thereof tremble;

7 Which commandeth the fun, and it rifeth not, and fealeth up the ftars;

8 Which alone fpreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the fea. 9 Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the fouth; 10 Which doeth great things paft finding out; yea, and wonders without number.

11 Lo, he goeth by me, and I fee him not: he paffeth on alfo, but I perceive him not.

12 Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? Who will fay unto him, What doeft thou?

13 If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do ftoop under him.

14 How much lefs fhall I anfwer him, and choose out my words to reafon with him?

15 Whom, though 1 were righteous, yet would I not anfwer, but I would make fupplication to my judge.

M16 If I had called, and he had anfwered me; get would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.

17 For he breaketh me with a tempeft, and multiplieth my wounds without caufe.

18 He will not futter me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.

19 If I speak of ftrength, 10, be is strong: and if of judgment, who fhall fet me a time to plead?

20 If I juftify myself, mine own mouth fhall condemn me: if I fay, I am perfect, it shall alfo prove me perverfe.

21 Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my foul: I would defpife my life. 22 This is one thing, therefore I faid it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked. 23 If the fcourge lay fuddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.

24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the

Judges thereof; if not, where, and who is

he

25 Now my days are fwifter than a poft: they flee away, they fee no good.

my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my foul.

2 I will fay unto God, Do not condemn me; thew me wherefore thou contendeft with me.

3 Is it good unto thee that thou fhouldeft opprefs, that thou thouldeft defpife the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counfe) of the wicked?

4 Haft thou eyes of flesh or seeft thou as man feeth?

5 Are thy days as the days of man? Are thy years as man's days,

6 That thou enquireft after mine iniquity, and fearcheft after my fin?

7 Thou knoweft that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.

8 Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost deftroy me.

9 Remember, I beseech thee, that thou haft made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into duft again?

10 Haft thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese

II Thou haft clothed me with skin and flesh, and haft fenced me with bones and

finews.

12 Thou haft granted me life and favour, and thy vifitation hath preferved my fpirit.

13 And these things hatt thou hid in thine heart: I know that this is with thee.

14 If fit, then thou markeft me, and thou wilt not acquit me frem mine iniquity.

15 If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if 1 be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of contufion; therefore fee thou mine

affliction;

16 For it increaseth. Thou hun eft me as a fierce lion and again thou the west thy feli mar. vellous upon me.

17 Thou reneweft thy witneffes against me, and increafeft thine indignation upon me changes and war are againft me.

18 Wherefore then hatt thou brought me forth out of the womb! Oh that I had given

God's wisdom unfearchable.

His omnipotency.

I am not inferior to you: yea, who know th not fuch things as these?

JOB. up the ghost, and no eye had feen me! 19 1 fhould have been as though I had not been; I thould have been carried from the womb to the grave.

20 Are not my days few? Ceafe then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little, 21 Before I go whence I thall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;

22 A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.

z Should not the multitude of words be an-facred? and should a man fuil of talk be juftified?

Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and, when thou mockeft, fhall no man make thee ashamed?

4 For thou haft faid, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes.

5 But Oh that God would fpeak, and open his lips against thee;

6 And that he would fhew thee the fecrets of wisdom, that they are double to that which is! Know therefore that God exacteth of thee lefs than thine iniquity deserveth.

7 Canft thou by fearching nd out God? Canft thou find out the Almighty unto perieetion?

8 It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canft thou know?

9 The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the fea.

10 It he cut off, and shut up, or gather toge. ther, then who can hinder him?

1 For he knoweth vain men: he feeth wick edness alfo; will he not then confider it?

12 For vain man would be wife, though man be born like a wild afs's colt.

13 If thou prepare thine heart, and ftretch out thine hands toward him;

14 If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickednets dwell in thy tabernacles.

15 For then thalt thou lift up thy face with out fpot; yea, thou shalt be ftediaft, and shalt not fear:

16 Because thou shalt forget thy milery, and remember it as waters that pafs away:

17 And thine age thall be clearer than the neonday; thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning.

18 And thou shalt be fecure, because there is hope; yea, thou shalt dig about thee, and thou fhalt take thy reft in fatery.

19 Alfo thou shalt lie down, and none fhall make thee afraid; yea, many fhall make fuit unto thee.

20 But the eyes of the wicked fhall fail, and they thall not cicape, and their hope fall be as the giving up of the ghoft.

CHAP. XII.

1 Fob maintaineth himself against his friends that reprove bim: q he acknowledgeth the general doctrine of God's omnipotency. AND Job anfwered and faid,

2 No doubt but ye are the people, and wifdem fhall die with you.

3 But I have understanding as well as you:

I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he anfwereth him: the juft upright man is laughed to fcorn.

5 He that is ready to flip with his feet is as a lamp defpifed in the thought of him that is at

eafe.

6 The tabernacles of robbers profper, and they that provoke God are fecure; into whofe hand God bringeth abundantly.

7 But aik now the beafts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they thall tell thee:

8 Or fpeak to the earth, and it fhall teach thee; and the fishes of the fea thall declare unto thee.

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Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the Lord hath wrought this?

to In whofe hand is the foul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.

11 Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth tafte his meat?

12 With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.

13 With him is wisdom and ftrength, he hath counsel and understanding.

14 Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he fhutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.

15 Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: alfo he fendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.

16 With him is ftrength and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver are his.

17 He leadeth counsellors away fpoiled, and maketh the judges fools.

18 He looteth the bond of kings, and girdeth their loins with a girdle.

19 He leadeth princes away fpoiled, and overthroweth the mighty.

20 He removeth away the fpeech of the trufty, and taketh away the understanding of the aged.

21 He poureth contempt upon princes, and weakeneth the strength of the mighty.

22 He difcovereth deep things out of dark nels, and bringeth out to light the fhadow of death.

23 He increafeth the nations, and deftroyeth them: he enlargeth the nations, and straiteneth them again.

24 He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and caufeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.

25 They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to ftagger like a drunken man.

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CHA P. XIII.

1 Fob reproveth his friends of partiality: 14 be profefleth his confidence in God, &c. I, mine eye hath feeu all this, mine car

hath beard and underfood it.

2 What ye know, the fame do I know alfo : I am not interior unto you.

3 Surely I would fpeak to the Almighty, and 1 defire to reafon with God.

4 But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all phy ficians of no value.

50 that ye would altogether hold your peace; and it thould be your wifdom.

6 Hear now my reafoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.

Job's confidence in God.

The condition of man's life. 9 Yet through the fcent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.

Chap. xiv, xv. 7 Will ye fpeak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?

8 Will ye accept his perfon? Will ye contend for God!

9 Is it good that he should fearch you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye fo mock him?

10 He will furely reprove you, if ye do fecretly accept perfons.

11 Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?

12 Your remembrances are like unto afhes, your bodies to bodies of clay.

13 Hold your peace, let me alone that I may fpeak, and let come on me what will.

14 Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?

15 Though he flay me, yet will I trust in him but I will maintain mine own ways be fore him.

16 He alfo fall be my falvation: for an hypocrite fhall not come before him.

17 Hear diligently my fpeech and my declaration with your ears.

18 Behold now, I have ordered my caufe; I know that I thall be justified.

19 Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, i thall give up the ghoit.

20 Only do not two things unto me: then will I not hide myfelf from thee.

21 Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.

22 Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me fpeak, and anfwer thou me.

23 How many are mine iniquities and fins? Make me to know my tranfgression and my

fin.

24 Wherefore hideft thou thy face, and holdeft me for thine enemy?

25 Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry ftubble?

26 For thou writeft bitter things against me, and makeft me to poffefs the iniquities of my youth.

27 Thou putteft my feet alfo in the flocks, and lookeft narrowly unto all my paths; thou fetteft a print upon the heels of my teet.

28 And he, as a rotten thing, confumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.

CHAP. XIV.

1 Fob entreateth God for favour, by the shortnefs of life, and certainty of death. 7 Though life once left be irrecoverable, yet he wait. eth for his chance, &c.

to But man diets, and waiteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghoft, and where is he? Is the waters fail from the fea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:

12 So man lieth down, and rifeth not: till the heavens be no more, they thall not awake, nor be raised out of their fleep.

13 O that thou wouldert hide me in the grave, that thou wouldeft keep me fecret, until thy wrath be paft, that thou wouldeft appoint me a fet time, and remember me!

14 If a man die, thall he live again? All the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.

15 Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a defire to the work of thine hands.

16 For now thou numbereft my steps: doft thou not watch over my fin?

17 My tranfgretion is fealed up in a bag, and thou feweft up rame miquity.

18 And ft-ely the mountain falling cometh to nought, and the rock is removed out of his place.

19 The waters wear the ftones: thou washeft away the things which grow out of the duft of the earth; and thou deitroyeft the hope of man.

20 Thou prevaileft for ever against him, and he paffeth: thou changeft his countenance, and fendett him away.

21 His fons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiv. eth it not of them.

22 But his neth upon him thall have pain, and his foul within him thall mourn. CHAP. XV.

1 Eliphaz reproveth Fob of impiety in jufti fying himself: 17 he proveth by tradition the unquietnefs of wicked men.

T

HEN anfwered Fliphaz the Temanite, ard

2 Should a wife man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the caft wind?

3 Should he reafon with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?

4 Yea, thou cafteft off fear, and reftraineft prayer before God.

5 For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou chooseft the tongue of the crafty.

6 Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not : yea, thine own lips teftity againft

MAN that is born of a woman is of few thee.

days, and full of trouble.

2 He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth alfo as a thadow, and continueth not.

3 And doft thou open thine eyes upon fuch an one, and bringet me into judgment with

thee?

4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.

5 Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou haft appointed his bounds that he cannot pafs:

6 Turn from him, that he may reft, till he fhall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.

7 For there is hope of tree, if it be cut down, that it will fprout again, and that the

tender branch thereof will not ceafe.

8 Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the Rock thereof die in the ground;

7 Art thou the first man that was born? or waft thou made before the hills?.

8 Haft thou heard the fecret of God? and doft thou reftrain wifdom to thyself?

9 What knoweit thou, that we know not? What understandent thou, which is not in us?

10 With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.

11 Are the confolations of God Imall with thee? Is there any fecret thing with thee?

12 Why doth thine heart carry thee away; and what do thine eyes wink at,

13 That thou turiet thy fpirit against God, and lettest fuch words go out of thy mouth?

14 What is man, that he should be clean; and be which is born of a woman, that he fhould be righteous ?

15 Behold, he putteth no truft in his faints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his fight.