Book 18        Job

18:001:001 There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and
           that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and
           eschewed evil.

18:001:002 And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters.

18:001:003 His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three
           thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five
           hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this
           man was the greatest of all the men of the east.

18:001:004 And his sons went and feasted in their houses, every one his
           day; and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to
           drink with them.

18:001:005 And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone
           about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in
           the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the
           number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have
           sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job
           continually.

18:001:006 Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present
           themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them.

18:001:007 And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan
           answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the
           earth, and from walking up and down in it.

18:001:008 And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant
           Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and
           an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?

18:001:009 Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for
           nought?

18:001:010 Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house,
           and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed
           the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the
           land.

18:001:011 But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and
           he will curse thee to thy face.

18:001:012 And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in
           thy power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand. So
           Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD.

18:001:013 And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were
           eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house:

18:001:014 And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were
           plowing, and the asses feeding beside them:

18:001:015 And the Sabeans fell upon them, and took them away; yea, they
           have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only
           am escaped alone to tell thee.

18:001:016 While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said,
           The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the
           sheep, and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am
           escaped alone to tell thee.

18:001:017 While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said,
           The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels,
           and have carried them away, yea, and slain the servants with
           the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell
           thee.

18:001:018 While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said,
           Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in
           their eldest brother's house:

18:001:019 And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and
           smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the
           young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to
           tell thee.

18:001:020 Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and
           fell down upon the ground, and worshipped,

18:001:021 And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked
           shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken
           away; blessed be the name of the LORD.

18:001:022 In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly.

18:002:001 Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present
           themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them to
           present himself before the LORD.

18:002:002 And the LORD said unto Satan, From whence comest thou? And
           Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in
           the earth, and from walking up and down in it.

18:002:003 And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant
           Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and
           an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? and
           still he holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me
           against him, to destroy him without cause.

18:002:004 And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all
           that a man hath will he give for his life.

18:002:005 But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his
           flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.

18:002:006 And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, he is in thine hand; but
           save his life.

18:002:007 So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote
           Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.

18:002:008 And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he
           sat down among the ashes.

18:002:009 Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine
           integrity? curse God, and die.

18:002:010 But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish
           women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of
           God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job
           sin with his lips.

18:002:011 Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was
           come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz
           the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the
           Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come
           to mourn with him and to comfort him.

18:002:012 And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not,
           they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one
           his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.

18:002:013 So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven
           nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his
           grief was very great.

18:003:001 After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.

18:003:002 And Job spake, and said,

18:003:003 Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which
           it was said, There is a man child conceived.

18:003:004 Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above,
           neither let the light shine upon it.

18:003:005 Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud
           dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

18:003:006 As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be
           joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the
           number of the months.

18:003:007 Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come
           therein.

18:003:008 Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise
           up their mourning.

18:003:009 Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for
           light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the
           day:

18:003:010 Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid
           sorrow from mine eyes.

18:003:011 Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost
           when I came out of the belly?

18:003:012 Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should
           suck?

18:003:013 For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have
           slept: then had I been at rest,

18:003:014 With kings and counsellors of the earth, which build desolate
           places for themselves;

18:003:015 Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with
           silver:

18:003:016 Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants
           which never saw light.

18:003:017 There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be
           at rest.

18:003:018 There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of
           the oppressor.

18:003:019 The small and great are there; and the servant is free from
           his master.

18:003:020 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life
           unto the bitter in soul;

18:003:021 Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more
           than for hid treasures;

18:003:022 Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find
           the grave?

18:003:023 Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God
           hath hedged in?

18:003:024 For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured
           out like the waters.

18:003:025 For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that
           which I was afraid of is come unto me.

18:003:026 I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet;
           yet trouble came.

18:004:001 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,

18:004:002 If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but
           who can withhold himself from speaking?

18:004:003 Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened
           the weak hands.

18:004:004 Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast
           strengthened the feeble knees.

18:004:005 But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth
           thee, and thou art troubled.

18:004:006 Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the
           uprightness of thy ways?

18:004:007 Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or
           where were the righteous cut off?

18:004:008 Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow
           wickedness, reap the same.

18:004:009 By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his
           nostrils are they consumed.

18:004:010 The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and
           the teeth of the young lions, are broken.

18:004:011 The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's
           whelps are scattered abroad.

18:004:012 Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received
           a little thereof.

18:004:013 In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep
           falleth on men,

18:004:014 Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to
           shake.

18:004:015 Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh
           stood up:

18:004:016 It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an
           image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a
           voice, saying,

18:004:017 Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more
           pure than his maker?

18:004:018 Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he
           charged with folly:

18:004:019 How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose
           foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?

18:004:020 They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for
           ever without any regarding it.

18:004:021 Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die,
           even without wisdom.

18:005:001 Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which
           of the saints wilt thou turn?

18:005:002 For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly
           one.

18:005:003 I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his
           habitation.

18:005:004 His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the
           gate, neither is there any to deliver them.

18:005:005 Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of
           the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.

18:005:006 Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth
           trouble spring out of the ground;

18:005:007 Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

18:005:008 I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:

18:005:009 Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things
           without number:

18:005:010 Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the
           fields:

18:005:011 To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn
           may be exalted to safety.

18:005:012 He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their
           hands cannot perform their enterprise.

18:005:013 He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of
           the froward is carried headlong.

18:005:014 They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope in the
           noonday as in the night.

18:005:015 But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and
           from the hand of the mighty.

18:005:016 So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.

18:005:017 Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore
           despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:

18:005:018 For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands
           make whole.

18:005:019 He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there
           shall no evil touch thee.

18:005:020 In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the
           power of the sword.

18:005:021 Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither
           shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.

18:005:022 At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou
           be afraid of the beasts of the earth.

18:005:023 For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and
           the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.

18:005:024 And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be in peace; and
           thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin.

18:005:025 Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine
           offspring as the grass of the earth.

18:005:026 Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of
           corn cometh in in his season.

18:005:027 Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou
           it for thy good.

18:006:001 But Job answered and said,

18:006:002 Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid
           in the balances together!

18:006:003 For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea:
           therefore my words are swallowed up.

18:006:004 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison
           whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set
           themselves in array against me.

18:006:005 Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox
           over his fodder?

18:006:006 Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there
           any taste in the white of an egg?

18:006:007 The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful
           meat.

18:006:008 Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me
           the thing that I long for!

18:006:009 Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let
           loose his hand, and cut me off!

18:006:010 Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in
           sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words
           of the Holy One.

18:006:011 What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end,
           that I should prolong my life?

18:006:012 Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of
           brass?

18:006:013 Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?

18:006:014 To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his
           friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.

18:006:015 My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the
           stream of brooks they pass away;

18:006:016 Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow
           is hid:

18:006:017 What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are
           consumed out of their place.

18:006:018 The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing,
           and perish.

18:006:019 The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for
           them.

18:006:020 They were confounded because they had hoped; they came
           thither, and were ashamed.

18:006:021 For now ye are nothing; ye see my casting down, and are
           afraid.

18:006:022 Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of your
           substance?

18:006:023 Or, Deliver me from the enemy's hand? or, Redeem me from the
           hand of the mighty?

18:006:024 Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to
           understand wherein I have erred.

18:006:025 How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing
           reprove?

18:006:026 Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that
           is desperate, which are as wind?

18:006:027 Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your
           friend.

18:006:028 Now therefore be content, look upon me; for it is evident unto
           you if I lie.

18:006:029 Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again,
           my righteousness is in it.

18:006:030 Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern
           perverse things?

18:007:001 Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his
           days also like the days of an hireling?

18:007:002 As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling
           looketh for the reward of his work:

18:007:003 So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights
           are appointed to me.

18:007:004 When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be
           gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of
           the day.

18:007:005 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is
           broken, and become loathsome.

18:007:006 My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent
           without hope.

18:007:007 O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see
           good.

18:007:008 The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine
           eyes are upon me, and I am not.

18:007:009 As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth
           down to the grave shall come up no more.

18:007:010 He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place
           know him any more.

18:007:011 Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the
           anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my
           soul.

18:007:012 Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?

18:007:013 When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my
           complaints;

18:007:014 Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through
           visions:

18:007:015 So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my
           life.

18:007:016 I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days
           are vanity.

18:007:017 What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou
           shouldest set thine heart upon him?

18:007:018 And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him
           every moment?

18:007:019 How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I
           swallow down my spittle?

18:007:020 I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of
           men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am
           a burden to myself?

18:007:021 And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away
           my iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt
           seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.

18:008:001 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

18:008:002 How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the
           words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?

18:008:003 Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert
           justice?

18:008:004 If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them
           away for their transgression;

18:008:005 If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy
           supplication to the Almighty;

18:008:006 If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for
           thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.

18:008:007 Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should
           greatly increase.

18:008:008 For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare
           thyself to the search of their fathers:

18:008:009 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our
           days upon earth are a shadow:)

18:008:010 Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out
           of their heart?

18:008:011 Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without
           water?

18:008:012 Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it
           withereth before any other herb.

18:008:013 So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's
           hope shall perish:

18:008:014 Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a
           spider's web.

18:008:015 He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall
           hold it fast, but it shall not endure.

18:008:016 He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in
           his garden.

18:008:017 His roots are wrapped about the heap, and seeth the place of
           stones.

18:008:018 If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him,
           saying, I have not seen thee.

18:008:019 Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall
           others grow.

18:008:020 Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he
           help the evil doers:

18:008:021 Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with
           rejoicing.

18:008:022 They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the
           dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.

18:009:001 Then Job answered and said,

18:009:002 I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with
           God?

18:009:003 If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a
           thousand.

18:009:004 He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened
           himself against him, and hath prospered?

18:009:005 Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which
           overturneth them in his anger.

18:009:006 Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars
           thereof tremble.

18:009:007 Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up
           the stars.

18:009:008 Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the
           waves of the sea.

18:009:009 Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers
           of the south.

18:009:010 Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders
           without number.

18:009:011 Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not: he passeth on also, but
           I perceive him not.

18:009:012 Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto
           him, What doest thou?

18:009:013 If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop
           under him.

18:009:014 How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to
           reason with him?

18:009:015 Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I
           would make supplication to my judge.

18:009:016 If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not
           believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.

18:009:017 For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds
           without cause.

18:009:018 He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with
           bitterness.

18:009:019 If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment,
           who shall set me a time to plead?

18:009:020 If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I
           say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.

18:009:021 Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would
           despise my life.

18:009:022 This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the
           perfect and the wicked.

18:009:023 If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of
           the innocent.

18:009:024 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?

18:009:025 Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see
           no good.

18:009:026 They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that
           hasteth to the prey.

18:009:027 If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my
           heaviness, and comfort myself:

18:009:028 I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold
           me innocent.

18:009:029 If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?

18:009:030 If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so
           clean;

18:009:031 Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes
           shall abhor me.

18:009:032 For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we
           should come together in judgment.

18:009:033 Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his
           hand upon us both.

18:009:034 Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear
           terrify me:

18:009:035 Then would I speak, and not fear him; but it is not so with
           me.

18:010:001 My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon
           myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

18:010:002 I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou
           contendest with me.

18:010:003 Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou
           shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the
           counsel of the wicked?

18:010:004 Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth?

18:010:005 Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man's days,

18:010:006 That thou enquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after
           my sin?

18:010:007 Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can
           deliver out of thine hand.

18:010:008 Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round
           about; yet thou dost destroy me.

18:010:009 Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay;
           and wilt thou bring me into dust again?

18:010:010 Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like
           cheese?

18:010:011 Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me
           with bones and sinews.

18:010:012 Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath
           preserved my spirit.

18:010:013 And these things hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that
           this is with thee.

18:010:014 If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me
           from mine iniquity.

18:010:015 If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I
           not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see
           thou mine affliction;

18:010:016 For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again
           thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.

18:010:017 Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine
           indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.

18:010:018 Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh
           that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!

18:010:019 I should have been as though I had not been; I should have
           been carried from the womb to the grave.

18:010:020 Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may
           take comfort a little,

18:010:021 Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of
           darkness and the shadow of death;

18:010:022 A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of
           death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.

18:011:001 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,

18:011:002 Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a
           man full of talk be justified?

18:011:003 Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou
           mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?

18:011:004 For thou hast said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in
           thine eyes.

18:011:005 But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against thee;

18:011:006 And that he would shew thee the secrets of wisdom, that they
           are double to that which is! Know therefore that God exacteth
           of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth.

18:011:007 Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the
           Almighty unto perfection?

18:011:008 It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell;
           what canst thou know?

18:011:009 The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than
           the sea.

18:011:010 If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can
           hinder him?

18:011:011 For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also; will he not
           then consider it?

18:011:012 For vain men would be wise, though man be born like a wild
           ass's colt.

18:011:013 If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands
           toward him;

18:011:014 If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not
           wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.

18:011:015 For then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; yea, thou
           shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear:

18:011:016 Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as
           waters that pass away:

18:011:017 And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday: thou shalt
           shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning.

18:011:018 And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope; yea, thou
           shalt dig about thee, and thou shalt take thy rest in safety.

18:011:019 Also thou shalt lie down, and none shall make thee afraid;
           yea, many shall make suit unto thee.

18:011:020 But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not
           escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost.

18:012:001 And Job answered and said,

18:012:002 No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.

18:012:003 But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to
           you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these?

18:012:004 I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and
           he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn.

18:012:005 He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised
           in the thought of him that is at ease.

18:012:006 The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God
           are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.

18:012:007 But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the
           fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee:

18:012:008 Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes
           of the sea shall declare unto thee.

18:012:009 Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the LORD hath
           wrought this?

18:012:010 In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the
           breath of all mankind.

18:012:011 Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat?

18:012:012 With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days
           understanding.

18:012:013 With him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and
           understanding.

18:012:014 Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he
           shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.

18:012:015 Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he
           sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.

18:012:016 With him is strength and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver
           are his.

18:012:017 He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and maketh the judges
           fools.

18:012:018 He looseth the bond of kings, and girdeth their loins with a
           girdle.

18:012:019 He leadeth princes away spoiled, and overthroweth the mighty.

18:012:020 He removeth away the speech of the trusty, and taketh away the
           understanding of the aged.

18:012:021 He poureth contempt upon princes, and weakeneth the strength
           of the mighty.

18:012:022 He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out
           to light the shadow of death.

18:012:023 He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he enlargeth
           the nations, and straiteneth them again.

18:012:024 He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the
           earth, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there
           is no way.

18:012:025 They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to
           stagger like a drunken man.

18:013:001 Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and
           understood it.

18:013:002 What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto
           you.

18:013:003 Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason
           with God.

18:013:004 But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.

18:013:005 O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be
           your wisdom.

18:013:006 Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my
           lips.

18:013:007 Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?

18:013:008 Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?

18:013:009 Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man
           mocketh another, do ye so mock him?

18:013:010 He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.

18:013:011 Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall
           upon you?

18:013:012 Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies
           of clay.

18:013:013 Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come
           on me what will.

18:013:014 Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in
           mine hand?

18:013:015 Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will
           maintain mine own ways before him.

18:013:016 He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come
           before him.

18:013:017 Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.

18:013:018 Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be
           justified.

18:013:019 Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my
           tongue, I shall give up the ghost.

18:013:020 Only do not two things unto me: then will I not hide myself
           from thee.

18:013:021 Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me
           afraid.

18:013:022 Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer
           thou me.

18:013:023 How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my
           transgression and my sin.

18:013:024 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine
           enemy?

18:013:025 Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue
           the dry stubble?

18:013:026 For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to
           possess the iniquities of my youth.

18:013:027 Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly
           unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my
           feet.

18:013:028 And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is
           moth eaten.

18:014:001 Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of
           trouble.

18:014:002 He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also
           as a shadow, and continueth not.

18:014:003 And doth thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest
           me into judgment with thee?

18:014:004 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.

18:014:005 Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are
           with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;

18:014:006 Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as
           an hireling, his day.

18:014:007 For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will
           sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not
           cease.

18:014:008 Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock
           thereof die in the ground;

18:014:009 Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth
           boughs like a plant.

18:014:010 But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost,
           and where is he?

18:014:011 As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and
           drieth up:

18:014:012 So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no
           more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.

18:014:013 O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest
           keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest
           appoint me a set time, and remember me!

18:014:014 If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my
           appointed time will I wait, till my change come.

18:014:015 Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a
           desire to the work of thine hands.

18:014:016 For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my
           sin?

18:014:017 My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up
           mine iniquity.

18:014:018 And surely the mountains falling cometh to nought, and the
           rock is removed out of his place.

18:014:019 The waters wear the stones: thou washest away the things which
           grow out of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the
           hope of man.

18:014:020 Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou
           changest his countenance, and sendest him away.

18:014:021 His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are
           brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.

18:014:022 But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within
           him shall mourn.

18:015:001 Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,

18:015:002 Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly
           with the east wind?

18:015:003 Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches
           wherewith he can do no good?

18:015:004 Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.

18:015:005 For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the
           tongue of the crafty.

18:015:006 Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own
           lips testify against thee.

18:015:007 Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before
           the hills?

18:015:008 Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain
           wisdom to thyself?

18:015:009 What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou,
           which is not in us?

18:015:010 With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder
           than thy father.

18:015:011 Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any
           secret thing with thee?

18:015:012 Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes
           wink at,

18:015:013 That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such
           words go out of thy mouth?

18:015:014 What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of
           a woman, that he should be righteous?

18:015:015 Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens
           are not clean in his sight.

18:015:016 How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh
           iniquity like water?

18:015:017 I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will
           declare;

18:015:018 Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid
           it:

18:015:019 Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed
           among them.

18:015:020 The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the
           number of years is hidden to the oppressor.

18:015:021 A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer
           shall come upon him.

18:015:022 He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he
           is waited for of the sword.

18:015:023 He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth
           that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

18:015:024 Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail
           against him, as a king ready to the battle.

18:015:025 For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth
           himself against the Almighty.

18:015:026 He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses
           of his bucklers:

18:015:027 Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh
           collops of fat on his flanks.

18:015:028 And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man
           inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.

18:015:029 He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue,
           neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the
           earth.

18:015:030 He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up
           his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.

18:015:031 Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall
           be his recompence.

18:015:032 It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall
           not be green.

18:015:033 He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall
           cast off his flower as the olive.

18:015:034 For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire
           shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.

18:015:035 They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their
           belly prepareth deceit.

18:016:001 Then Job answered and said,

18:016:002 I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye
           all.

18:016:003 Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that
           thou answerest?

18:016:004 I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's
           stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head
           at you.

18:016:005 But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my
           lips should asswage your grief.

18:016:006 Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I
           forbear, what am I eased?

18:016:007 But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my
           company.

18:016:008 And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness
           against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to
           my face.

18:016:009 He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me
           with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.

18:016:010 They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me
           upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves
           together against me.

18:016:011 God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into
           the hands of the wicked.

18:016:012 I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also
           taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up
           for his mark.

18:016:013 His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins
           asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the
           ground.

18:016:014 He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me
           like a giant.

18:016:015 I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in
           the dust.

18:016:016 My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow
           of death;

18:016:017 Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.

18:016:018 O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no
           place.

18:016:019 Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on
           high.

18:016:020 My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.

18:016:021 O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth
           for his neighbour!

18:016:022 When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I
           shall not return.

18:017:001 My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are
           ready for me.

18:017:002 Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue
           in their provocation?

18:017:003 Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that
           will strike hands with me?

18:017:004 For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore
           shalt thou not exalt them.

18:017:005 He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his
           children shall fail.

18:017:006 He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I
           was as a tabret.

18:017:007 Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members
           are as a shadow.

18:017:008 Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall
           stir up himself against the hypocrite.

18:017:009 The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath
           clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.

18:017:010 But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot
           find one wise man among you.

18:017:011 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the
           thoughts of my heart.

18:017:012 They change the night into day: the light is short because of
           darkness.

18:017:013 If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the
           darkness.

18:017:014 I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm,
           Thou art my mother, and my sister.

18:017:015 And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?

18:017:016 They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest
           together is in the dust.

18:018:001 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

18:018:002 How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and
           afterwards we will speak.

18:018:003 Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your
           sight?

18:018:004 He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken
           for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?

18:018:005 Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark
           of his fire shall not shine.

18:018:006 The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle
           shall be put out with him.

18:018:007 The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own
           counsel shall cast him down.

18:018:008 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon
           a snare.

18:018:009 The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall
           prevail against him.

18:018:010 The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in
           the way.

18:018:011 Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive
           him to his feet.

18:018:012 His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be
           ready at his side.

18:018:013 It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn
           of death shall devour his strength.

18:018:014 His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it
           shall bring him to the king of terrors.

18:018:015 It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his:
           brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.

18:018:016 His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his
           branch be cut off.

18:018:017 His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have
           no name in the street.

18:018:018 He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of
           the world.

18:018:019 He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any
           remaining in his dwellings.

18:018:020 They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they
           that went before were affrighted.

18:018:021 Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the
           place of him that knoweth not God.

18:019:001 Then Job answered and said,

18:019:002 How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with
           words?

18:019:003 These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that
           ye make yourselves strange to me.

18:019:004 And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with
           myself.

18:019:005 If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead
           against me my reproach:

18:019:006 Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me
           with his net.

18:019:007 Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud,
           but there is no judgment.

18:019:008 He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set
           darkness in my paths.

18:019:009 He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my
           head.

18:019:010 He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine
           hope hath he removed like a tree.

18:019:011 He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me
           unto him as one of his enemies.

18:019:012 His troops come together, and raise up their way against me,
           and encamp round about my tabernacle.

18:019:013 He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are
           verily estranged from me.

18:019:014 My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have
           forgotten me.

18:019:015 They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a
           stranger: I am an alien in their sight.

18:019:016 I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him
           with my mouth.

18:019:017 My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the
           children's sake of mine own body.

18:019:018 Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake
           against me.

18:019:019 All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are
           turned against me.

18:019:020 My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped
           with the skin of my teeth.

18:019:021 Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the
           hand of God hath touched me.

18:019:022 Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my
           flesh?

18:019:023 Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed
           in a book!

18:019:024 That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock
           for ever!

18:019:025 For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at
           the latter day upon the earth:

18:019:026 And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my
           flesh shall I see God:

18:019:027 Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and
           not another; though my reins be consumed within me.

18:019:028 But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of
           the matter is found in me?

18:019:029 Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments
           of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.

18:020:001 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,

18:020:002 Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I
           make haste.

18:020:003 I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my
           understanding causeth me to answer.

18:020:004 Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,

18:020:005 That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the
           hypocrite but for a moment?

18:020:006 Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head
           reach unto the clouds;

18:020:007 Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which
           have seen him shall say, Where is he?

18:020:008 He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he
           shall be chased away as a vision of the night.

18:020:009 The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither
           shall his place any more behold him.

18:020:010 His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands
           shall restore their goods.

18:020:011 His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie
           down with him in the dust.

18:020:012 Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it
           under his tongue;

18:020:013 Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still
           within his mouth:

18:020:014 Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps
           within him.

18:020:015 He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up
           again: God shall cast them out of his belly.

18:020:016 He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall
           slay him.

18:020:017 He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey
           and butter.

18:020:018 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.

18:020:019 Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because
           he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;

18:020:020 Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not
           save of that which he desired.

18:020:021 There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man
           look for his goods.

18:020:022 In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits:
           every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.

18:020:023 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.

18:020:024 He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall
           strike him through.

18:020:025 It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering
           sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him.

18:020:026 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.

18:020:027 The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise
           up against him.

18:020:028 The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall
           flow away in the day of his wrath.

18:020:029 This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage
           appointed unto him by God.

18:021:001 But Job answered and said,

18:021:002 Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.

18:021:003 Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock
           on.

18:021:004 As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why
           should not my spirit be troubled?

18:021:005 Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.

18:021:006 Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on
           my flesh.

18:021:007 Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in
           power?

18:021:008 Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their
           offspring before their eyes.

18:021:009 Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God
           upon them.

18:021:010 Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and
           casteth not her calf.

18:021:011 They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their
           children dance.

18:021:012 They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of
           the organ.

18:021:013 They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to
           the grave.

18:021:014 Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not
           the knowledge of thy ways.

18:021:015 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what
           profit should we have, if we pray unto him?

18:021:016 Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked
           is far from me.

18:021:017 How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft
           cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows
           in his anger.

18:021:018 They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the
           storm carrieth away.

18:021:019 God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him,
           and he shall know it.

18:021:020 His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the
           wrath of the Almighty.

18:021:021 For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the
           number of his months is cut off in the midst?

18:021:022 Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that
           are high.

18:021:023 One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and
           quiet.

18:021:024 His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with
           marrow.

18:021:025 And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never
           eateth with pleasure.

18:021:026 They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall
           cover them.

18:021:027 Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye
           wrongfully imagine against me.

18:021:028 For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are
           the dwelling places of the wicked?

18:021:029 Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know
           their tokens,

18:021:030 That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they
           shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.

18:021:031 Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him
           what he hath done?

18:021:032 Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the
           tomb.

18:021:033 The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man
           shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.

18:021:034 How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there
           remaineth falsehood?

18:022:001 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,

18:022:002 Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be
           profitable unto himself?

18:022:003 Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous?
           or is it gain to him, that thou makest thy ways perfect?

18:022:004 Will he reprove thee for fear of thee? will he enter with thee
           into judgment?

18:022:005 Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite?

18:022:006 For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and
           stripped the naked of their clothing.

18:022:007 Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast
           withholden bread from the hungry.

18:022:008 But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the
           honourable man dwelt in it.

18:022:009 Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the
           fatherless have been broken.

18:022:010 Therefore snares are round about thee, and sudden fear
           troubleth thee;

18:022:011 Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters
           cover thee.

18:022:012 Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of
           the stars, how high they are!

18:022:013 And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the
           dark cloud?

18:022:014 Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he
           walketh in the circuit of heaven.

18:022:015 Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?

18:022:016 Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was
           overflown with a flood:

18:022:017 Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty
           do for them?

18:022:018 Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel
           of the wicked is far from me.

18:022:019 The righteous see it, and are glad: and the innocent laugh
           them to scorn.

18:022:020 Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them
           the fire consumeth.

18:022:021 Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good
           shall come unto thee.

18:022:022 Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his
           words in thine heart.

18:022:023 If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou
           shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.

18:022:024 Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as
           the stones of the brooks.

18:022:025 Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou shalt have
           plenty of silver.

18:022:026 For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and
           shalt lift up thy face unto God.

18:022:027 Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee,
           and thou shalt pay thy vows.

18:022:028 Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established
           unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.

18:022:029 When men are cast down, then thou shalt say, There is lifting
           up; and he shall save the humble person.

18:022:030 He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is
           delivered by the pureness of thine hands.

18:023:001 Then Job answered and said,

18:023:002 Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than
           my groaning.

18:023:003 Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even
           to his seat!

18:023:004 I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with
           arguments.

18:023:005 I would know the words which he would answer me, and
           understand what he would say unto me.

18:023:006 Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he
           would put strength in me.

18:023:007 There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be
           delivered for ever from my judge.

18:023:008 Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I
           cannot perceive him:

18:023:009 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:

18:023:010 But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I
           shall come forth as gold.

18:023:011 My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not
           declined.

18:023:012 Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I
           have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary
           food.

18:023:013 But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul
           desireth, even that he doeth.

18:023:014 For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many
           such things are with him.

18:023:015 Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am
           afraid of him.

18:023:016 For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:

18:023:017 Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he
           covered the darkness from my face.

18:024:001 Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they
           that know him not see his days?

18:024:002 Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks,
           and feed thereof.

18:024:003 They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the
           widow's ox for a pledge.

18:024:004 They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide
           themselves together.

18:024:005 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.

18:024:006 They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the
           vintage of the wicked.

18:024:007 They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have
           no covering in the cold.

18:024:008 They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace
           the rock for want of a shelter.

18:024:009 They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge
           of the poor.

18:024:010 They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take
           away the sheaf from the hungry;

18:024:011 Which make oil within their walls, and tread their
           winepresses, and suffer thirst.

18:024:012 Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded
           crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.

18:024:013 They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not
           the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.

18:024:014 The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy,
           and in the night is as a thief.

18:024:015 The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight,
           saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.

18:024:016 In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for
           themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.

18:024:017 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.

18:024:018 He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the
           earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.

18:024:019 Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave
           those which have sinned.

18:024:020 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.

18:024:021 He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not
           good to the widow.

18:024:022 He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and
           no man is sure of life.

18:024:023 Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth;
           yet his eyes are upon their ways.

18:024:024 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.

18:024:025 And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my
           speech nothing worth?

18:025:001 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

18:025:002 Dominion and fear are with him, he maketh peace in his high
           places.

18:025:003 Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth not his
           light arise?

18:025:004 How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean
           that is born of a woman?

18:025:005 Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars
           are not pure in his sight.

18:025:006 How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which
           is a worm?

18:026:001 But Job answered and said,

18:026:002 How hast thou helped him that is without power? how savest
           thou the arm that hath no strength?

18:026:003 How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom? and how hast
           thou plentifully declared the thing as it is?

18:026:004 To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from
           thee?

18:026:005 Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the
           inhabitants thereof.

18:026:006 Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.

18:026:007 He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth
           the earth upon nothing.

18:026:008 He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is
           not rent under them.

18:026:009 He holdeth back the face of his throne, and spreadeth his
           cloud upon it.

18:026:010 He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and
           night come to an end.

18:026:011 The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his
           reproof.

18:026:012 He divideth the sea with his power, and by his understanding
           he smiteth through the proud.

18:026:013 By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath
           formed the crooked serpent.

18:026:014 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?

18:027:001 Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,

18:027:002 As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment; and the
           Almighty, who hath vexed my soul;

18:027:003 All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in
           my nostrils;

18:027:004 My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter
           deceit.

18:027:005 God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not
           remove mine integrity from me.

18:027:006 My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart
           shall not reproach me so long as I live.

18:027:007 Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against
           me as the unrighteous.

18:027:008 For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained,
           when God taketh away his soul?

18:027:009 Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him?

18:027:010 Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call
           upon God?

18:027:011 I will teach you by the hand of God: that which is with the
           Almighty will I not conceal.

18:027:012 Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye thus
           altogether vain?

18:027:013 This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage
           of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty.

18:027:014 If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his
           offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

18:027:015 Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his
           widows shall not weep.

18:027:016 Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as
           the clay;

18:027:017 He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the
           innocent shall divide the silver.

18:027:018 He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth that the
           keeper maketh.

18:027:019 The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he
           openeth his eyes, and he is not.

18:027:020 Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him
           away in the night.

18:027:021 The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a
           storm hurleth him out of his place.

18:027:022 For God shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee
           out of his hand.

18:027:023 Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of
           his place.

18:028:001 Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold
           where they fine it.

18:028:002 Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the
           stone.

18:028:003 He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all
           perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.

18:028:004 The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; even the waters
           forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away
           from men.

18:028:005 As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is
           turned up as it were fire.

18:028:006 The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust
           of gold.

18:028:007 There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's
           eye hath not seen:

18:028:008 The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion
           passed by it.

18:028:009 He putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he overturneth the
           mountains by the roots.

18:028:010 He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every
           precious thing.

18:028:011 He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and the thing that is
           hid bringeth he forth to light.

18:028:012 But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of
           understanding?

18:028:013 Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the
           land of the living.

18:028:014 The depth saith, It is not in me: and the sea saith, It is not
           with me.

18:028:015 It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed
           for the price thereof.

18:028:016 It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious
           onyx, or the sapphire.

18:028:017 The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of
           it shall not be for jewels of fine gold.

18:028:018 No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price
           of wisdom is above rubies.

18:028:019 The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be
           valued with pure gold.

18:028:020 Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of
           understanding?

18:028:021 Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close
           from the fowls of the air.

18:028:022 Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with
           our ears.

18:028:023 God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place
           thereof.

18:028:024 For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the
           whole heaven;

18:028:025 To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters
           by measure.

18:028:026 When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the
           lightning of the thunder:

18:028:027 Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and
           searched it out.

18:028:028 And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the LORD, that is
           wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.

18:029:001 Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,

18:029:002 Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God
           preserved me;

18:029:003 When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I
           walked through darkness;

18:029:004 As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was
           upon my tabernacle;

18:029:005 When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about
           me;

18:029:006 When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out
           rivers of oil;

18:029:007 When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared
           my seat in the street!

18:029:008 The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose,
           and stood up.

18:029:009 The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their
           mouth.

18:029:010 The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the
           roof of their mouth.

18:029:011 When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye
           saw me, it gave witness to me:

18:029:012 Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless,
           and him that had none to help him.

18:029:013 The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and
           I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

18:029:014 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as
           a robe and a diadem.

18:029:015 I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.

18:029:016 I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I
           searched out.

18:029:017 And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out
           of his teeth.

18:029:018 Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my
           days as the sand.

18:029:019 My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all
           night upon my branch.

18:029:020 My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.

18:029:021 Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my
           counsel.

18:029:022 After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped
           upon them.

18:029:023 And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their
           mouth wide as for the latter rain.

18:029:024 If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of
           my countenance they cast not down.

18:029:025 I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in
           the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.

18:030:001 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.

18:030:002 Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in
           whom old age was perished?

18:030:003 For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the
           wilderness in former time desolate and waste.

18:030:004 Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their
           meat.

18:030:005 They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them
           as after a thief;)

18:030:006 To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, in caves of the earth,
           and in the rocks.

18:030:007 Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were
           gathered together.

18:030:008 They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they
           were viler than the earth.

18:030:009 And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.

18:030:010 They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in
           my face.

18:030:011 Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have
           also let loose the bridle before me.

18:030:012 Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and
           they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.

18:030:013 They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no
           helper.

18:030:014 They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the
           desolation they rolled themselves upon me.

18:030:015 Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind:
           and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.

18:030:016 And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction
           have taken hold upon me.

18:030:017 My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews
           take no rest.

18:030:018 By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it
           bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.

18:030:019 He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and
           ashes.

18:030:020 I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and
           thou regardest me not.

18:030:021 Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou
           opposest thyself against me.

18:030:022 Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon
           it, and dissolvest my substance.

18:030:023 For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house
           appointed for all living.

18:030:024 Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though
           they cry in his destruction.

18:030:025 Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul
           grieved for the poor?

18:030:026 When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I
           waited for light, there came darkness.

18:030:027 My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction
           prevented me.

18:030:028 I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in
           the congregation.

18:030:029 I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.

18:030:030 My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.

18:030:031 My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the
           voice of them that weep.

18:031:001 I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon
           a maid?

18:031:002 For what portion of God is there from above? and what
           inheritance of the Almighty from on high?

18:031:003 Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to
           the workers of iniquity?

18:031:004 Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?

18:031:005 If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to
           deceit;

18:031:006 Let me be weighed in an even balance that God may know mine
           integrity.

18:031:007 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;

18:031:008 Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be
           rooted out.

18:031:009 If mine heart have been deceived by