Job 6 – Job 10
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11 – Chapter 15
Chapter 16 – Chapter 20
Chapter 21 – Chapter 25
Chapter 26 – Chapter 30
Chapter 31 – Chapter 35
Chapter 36 – Chapter 40
Chapter 41 – Chapter 42
1Then Job answered and said, 2Oh that my vexation were but weighed, And all my calamity laid in the balances! 3For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas: Therefore have my words been rash. 4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, The poison whereof my spirit drinketh up: The terrors of God do set themselves in array against me. 5Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? Or loweth the ox over his fodder? 6Can that which hath no savor be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg? 7My soul refuseth to touch [them]; They are as loathsome food to me.
8Oh that I might have my request; And that God would grant [me] the thing that I long for! 9Even that it would please God to crush me; That he would let loose his hand, and cut me off! 10And be it still my consolation, Yea, let me exult in pain that spareth not, That I have not denied the words of the Holy One. 11What is my strength, that I should wait? And what is mine end, that I should be patient? 12Is my strength the strength of stones? Or is my flesh of brass? 13Is it not that I have no help in me, And that wisdom is driven quite from me? 14To him that is ready to faint kindness [should be showed] from his friend; Even to him that forsaketh the fear of the Almighty. 15My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, As the channel of brooks that pass away; 16Which are black by reason of the ice, [And] wherein the snow hideth itself: 17What time they wax warm, they vanish; When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place. 18The caravans [that travel] by the way of them turn aside; They go up into the waste, and perish. 19The caravans of Tema looked, The companies of Sheba waited for them. 20They were put to shame because they had hoped; They came thither, and were confounded. 21For now ye are nothing; Ye see a terror, and are afraid. 22Did I say, Give unto me? Or, Offer a present for me of your substance? 23Or, Deliver me from the adversary’s hand? Or, Redeem me from the hand of the oppressors? 24Teach me, and I will hold my peace; And cause me to understand wherein I have erred. 25How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what doth it reprove? 26Do ye think to reprove words, Seeing that the speeches of one that is desperate are as wind? 27Yea, ye would cast [lots] upon the fatherless, And make merchandise of your friend. 28Now therefore be pleased to look upon me; For surely I shall not lie to your face. 29Return, I pray you, let there be no injustice; Yea, return again, my cause is righteous. 30Is there injustice on my tongue? Cannot my taste discern mischievous things?
1Is there not a warfare to man upon earth? And are not his days like the days of a hireling? 2As a servant that earnestly desireth the shadow, And as a hireling that looketh for his wages: 3So am I made to possess months of misery, And wearisome nights are appointed to me. 4When 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. 5My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; My skin closeth up, and breaketh out afresh. 6My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, And are spent without hope. 7Oh remember that my life is a breath: Mine eye shall no more see good. 8The eye of him that seeth me shall behold me no more; Thine eyes shall be upon me, but I shall not be. 9As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away, So he that goeth down to Sheol shall come up no more. 10He shall return no more to his house, Neither shall his place know him any more.
11Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. 12Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, That thou settest a watch over me? 13When I say, My bed shall comfort me, My couch shall ease my complaint; 14Then thou scarest me with dreams, And terrifiest me through visions: 15So that my soul chooseth strangling, And death rather than [these] my bones. 16I loathe [my life]; I would not live alway: Let me alone; for my days are vanity. 17What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him, And that thou shouldest set thy mind upon him, 18And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, And try him every moment? 19How long wilt thou not look away from me, Nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle? 20If I have sinned, what do I unto thee, O thou watcher of men? Why hast thou set me as a mark for thee, So that I am a burden to myself? 21And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust; And thou wilt seek me diligently, but I shall not be.
1Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, 2How long wilt thou speak these things? And [how long] shall the words of thy mouth be [like] a mighty wind? 3Doth God pervert justice? Or doth the Almighty pervert righteousness? 4If thy children have sinned against him, And he hath delivered them into the hand of their transgression; 5If thou wouldest seek diligently unto God, And make thy supplication to the Almighty; 6If thou wert pure and upright: Surely now he would awake for thee, And make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous. 7And though thy beginning was small, Yet thy latter end would greatly increase. 8For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, And apply thyself to that which their fathers have searched out: 9(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, Because our days upon earth are a shadow); 10Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, And utter words out of their heart?
11Can the rush grow up without mire? Can the flag grow without water? 12Whilst it is yet in its greenness, [and] not cut down, It withereth before any [other] herb. 13So are the paths of all that forget God; And the hope of the godless man shall perish: 14Whose confidence shall break in sunder, And whose trust is a spider’s web. 15He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: He shall hold fast thereby, but it shall not endure. 16He is green before the sun, And his shoots go forth over his garden. 17His roots are wrapped about the [stone] -heap, He beholdeth the place of stones. 18If he be destroyed from his place, Then it shall deny him, [saying], I have not seen thee. 19Behold, this is the joy of his way; And out of the earth shall others spring. 20Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, Neither will he uphold the evil-doers. 21He will yet fill thy mouth with laughter, And thy lips with shouting. 22They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; And the tent of the wicked shall be no more.
1Then Job answered and said, 2Of a truth I know that it is so: But how can man be just with God? 3If he be pleased to contend with him, He cannot answer him one of a thousand. 4[He is] wise in heart, and mighty in strength: Who hath hardened himself against him, and prospered?- 5[Him] that removeth the mountains, and they know it not, When he overturneth them in his anger; 6That shaketh the earth out of its place, And the pillars thereof tremble; 7That commandeth the sun, and it riseth not, And sealeth up the stars; 8That alone stretcheth out the heavens, And treadeth upon the waves of the sea; 9That maketh the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, And the chambers of the south; 10That doeth great things past finding out, Yea, marvellous things without number. 11Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not: He passeth on also, but I perceive him not. 12Behold, he seizeth [the prey], who can hinder him? Who will say unto him, What doest thou?
13God will not withdraw his anger; The helpers of Rahab do stoop under him. 14How much less shall I answer him, And choose out my words [to reason] with him? 15Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer; I would make supplication to my judge. 16If I had called, and he had answered me, Yet would I not believe that he hearkened unto my voice. 17For he breaketh me with a tempest, And multiplieth my wounds without cause. 18He will not suffer me to take my breath, But filleth me with bitterness. 19If [we speak] of strength, lo, [he is] mighty! And if of justice, Who, [saith he], will summon me? 20Though I be righteous, mine own mouth shall condemn me: Though I be perfect, it shall prove me perverse. 21I am perfect; I regard not myself; I despise my life. 22It is all one; therefore I say, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked. 23If the scourge slay suddenly, He will mock at the trial of the innocent. 24The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; He covereth the faces of the judges thereof: If [it be] not [he], who then is it?
25Now my days are swifter than a post: They flee away, they see no good, 26They are passed away as the swift ships; As the eagle that swoopeth on the prey. 27If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will put off my [sad] countenance, and be of good cheer; 28I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent. 29I shall be condemned; Why then do I labor in vain? 30If I wash myself with snow water, And make my hands never so clean; 31Yet wilt thou plunge me in the ditch, And mine own clothes shall abhor me. 32For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, That we should come together in judgment. 33There is no umpire betwixt us, That might lay his hand upon us both. 34Let him take his rod away from me, And let not his terror make me afraid: 35Then would I speak, and not fear him; For I am not so in myself.
1My soul is weary of my life; I will give free course to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. 2I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; Show me wherefore thou contendest with me. 3Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, That thou shouldest despise the work of thy hands, And shine upon the counsel of the wicked? 4Hast thou eyes of flesh? Or seest thou as man seeth? 5Are thy days as the days of man, Or thy years as man’s days, 6That thou inquirest after mine iniquity, And searchest after my sin, 7Although thou knowest that I am not wicked, And there is none that can deliver out of thy hand?
8Thy hands have framed me and fashioned me Together round about; yet thou dost destroy me. 9Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast fashioned me as clay; And wilt thou bring me into dust again? 10Hast thou not poured me out as milk, And curdled me like cheese? 11Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, And knit me together with bones and sinews. 12Thou hast granted me life and lovingkindness; And thy visitation hath preserved my spirit. 13Yet these things thou didst hide in thy heart; I know that this is with thee: 14If I sin, then thou markest me, And thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity. 15If I be wicked, woe unto me; And if I be righteous, yet shall I not lift up my head; Being filled with ignominy, And looking upon mine affliction. 16And if [my head] exalt itself, thou huntest me as a lion; And again thou showest thyself marvellous upon me. 17Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, And increasest thine indignation upon me: Changes and warfare are with me.
18Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me. 19I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave. 20Are not my days few? cease then, And let me alone, that I may take comfort a little, 21Before I go whence I shall not return, [Even] to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death; 22The land dark as midnight, [The land] of the shadow of death, without any order, And where the light is as midnight.
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