7 27 Yea, ye would cast lots upon the fatherless, Cannot my taste discern mischievous things? "When shall I arise? but the night is long; 5 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; 7 Oh remember that my life is wind: Mine eye shall no more see good. 8 The eye of him that seeth me shall behold me no more: Thine eyes shall be upon me, but I shall not be. 9 As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away, So he that goeth down to "Sheol shall come up Or, the grave no more. 10 He shall return no more to his house, Neither shall his place know him any more. 12 Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, That thou settest a watch over me? 13 When I say, My bed shall comfort me, 6 My couch shall ease my complaint; 1 Or, I waste 1I loathe my life; I would not live alway: Let me alone; for my days are 'vanity. away 2 Or, shall 3 Or, as a breath 14 15 16 What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him, 17 19 How long wilt thou not look away from me, Why hast thou set me as a mark for thee, So that I am a burden to myself? And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, 21 For now shall I lie down in the dust; And thou shalt seek me diligently, but I shall Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, 1 8 And how long shall the words of thy mouth be Doth God pervert judgement? Or doth the Almighty pervert justice? "If thy children have sinned against him, And he have delivered them into the hand of If thou wouldest seek diligently unto God, Surely now he would awake for thee, And make the habitation of thy righteousness 2 3 5 6 7 And though thy beginning was small, Yet thy latter end should greatly increase. 8 For 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, 10 Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, And utter words out of their heart ? II Can the 'rush grow up without mire? 12 Whilst it is yet in its greenness, and not cut It withereth before any other herb. 13 So are the paths of all that forget God; And the hope of the godless man shall perish : 14 Whose confidence shall break in sunder, And whose trust is a spider's 'web. 15 He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: He shall hold fast thereby, but it shall not endure. 16 He is green before the sun, And his shoots go forth over his garden. 17 His roots are wrapped 'about the heap, He beholdeth the place of stones. 18 If he be destroyed from his place, Then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen 19 Behold, this is the joy of his way, And out of the 'earth shall others spring. 20 Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, Neither will he uphold the evil-doers. 21 "He will yet fill thy mouth with laughter, And thy lips with shouting. 22 They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; And the tent of the wicked shall be no more. 9 I Then Job answered and said, 1 Or, papyrus 2 Or, reed-grass 3 Or, be cut off 4 Heb. house. 5 Or, beside the spring 6 Or, dust 7 Or, Till he fill 1 Or, For 2 Or, before 4 Heb. Of a truth I know that it is so : 'But how can man be just 'with God? 2 3 Which removeth the mountains, and they know 5 it not, When he overturneth them in his anger. Which shaketh the earth out of her place, 6 Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; 7 Which alone stretcheth out the heavens, And treadeth upon the 'waves of the sea. 8 Which maketh the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, 9 ΙΟ II Which doeth great things past finding out; Yea, marvellous things without number. Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not: He passeth on also, but I perceive him not. Or, turn him Behold, he seizeth the prey, who can hinder 12 back 6 Or, arrogancy See Is. xxx. 7. 7 Or, did 8 Or, him that would judge me him? Who will say unto him, What doest thou? The helpers of "Rahab 'do stoop under him. 13 14 And choose out my words to reason with him? not answer; I would make supplication to mine adversary. 16 9 Heb. He who. For he breaketh me with a tempest, 17 18 But filleth me with bitterness. 19 1If we speak of the strength of the mighty, 'lo, he is there! 20 4 And if of judgement, who will appoint me a time? Though I be righteous, mine own mouth shall condemn me: am I, saith he; and if of judgement, Though I be perfect, 'it shall prove me perverse. Who &c. 21 *I am perfect; I regard not myself; I despise my life. 22 It is all one; therefore I say, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked. 23 If the scourge slay suddenly, He will mock at the "trial of the innocent. 24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: He covereth the faces of the judges thereof; If it be not he, who then is it? 25 Now my days are swifter than a 'post: They flee away, they see no good. 26 They are passed away as the swift ships: As the eagle that swoopeth on the prey. 27 If I say, I will forget my complaint, 3 Or, he &c. 5 See ch. i. I. 6 Or, calamity 7 Or, runner 8 Heb. ships of reed. I will put off my sad countenance, and 'be of Heb. good cheer: 28 I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent. 29 I shall be condemned; Why then do I labour in vain? 30 If I wash myself with snow water, And "make my hands never so clean; 31 Yet wilt thou plunge me in the ditch, And mine own clothes shall abhor me. 32 For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, That we should come together in judgement. 33 There is no "daysman betwixt us, That might lay his hand upon us both. 34 Let him take his rod away from me, And let not his terror make me afraid: brighten up. 10 Another 12 Or, umpire |