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And make my speech nothing worth?

Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

2 Dominion and fear are with him;

He maketh peace in his high places.

3 Is there any number of his armies?
And upon whom doth not his light arise?
How then can man be just 'with God?

Or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?

5 Behold, even the moon hath no brightness,
And the stars are not pure in his sight:
6 How much less man, that is a worm!
And the son of man, which is a worm!

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Then Job answered and said,

2 How hast thou helped him that is without power!
How hast thou saved the arm that hath no
strength!

3

How hast thou counselled him that hath no
wisdom,

And plentifully declared sound knowledge!

4 To whom hast thou uttered words?

And whose 'spirit came forth from thee?

5 'They that are deceased tremble

1 Or, before

2 Heb. breath.

3 Or, The shades Heb. The

Beneath the waters and the inhabitants thereof. Rephaim.

6 'Sheol is naked before him,

And 'Abaddon hath no covering.

7 He stretcheth out the north over empty space,
And hangeth the earth upon nothing.

8 He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds;
And the cloud is not rent under them.

9 He closeth in the face of his throne,

And spreadeth his cloud upon it.

IO He hath described a boundary upon the face of

the waters,

Unto the confines of light and darkness.

II The pillars of heaven tremble

And are astonished at his rebuke.

4 Or, The grave

5 Or,

Destruction

6 Or, over

1 Or, stilleth

2 See ch.ix. 13.

4 Or, fleeing Or, gliding

He 'stirreth up the sea with his power,
And by his understanding he smiteth through
2 Rahab.

3 Heb. beauty. By his spirit the heavens are 'garnished;
His hand hath pierced the 'swift serpent.
Lo, these are but the outskirts of his ways:
And "how small a whisper "do we hear of him!
But the thunder of his 'power who can under-
stand?

5

Or, how little a portion

6 Or, is heard

7 Or, mighty deeds

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13 Or, when God cutteth

him off, when

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And Job again took up his parable, and said, 1 27
As God liveth, who hath taken away my right; 2
And the Almighty, who hath 'vexed my soul;
(For my life is yet whole in me,

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And the spirit of God is in my nostrils ;)

3

Surely my lips "shall not speak unrighteousness, 4
Neither "shall my tongue utter deceit.
God forbid that I should justify you:

Till I die I will not put away mine integrity
from me.

5

My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it 6
go:

My heart "shall not reproach me so long as I live.
Let mine enemy be as the wicked,

And let him that riseth up against me be as
the unrighteous.

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For what is the hope of the godless, "though he 8 get him gain,

he taketh &c. When God taketh away his soul?

Will God hear his cry,

When trouble cometh upon him?

Will he delight himself in the Almighty,

And call upon God at all times?

I will teach you concerning the hand of God;
That which is with the Almighty will I not
conceal.

Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it;

Why then are ye become altogether vain?

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II

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13 This is the portion of a wicked man with God, And the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty.

14 If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword; And his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread. 15 Those that remain of him shall be buried in death, And his widows shall make no lamentation.

16 Though he heap up silver as the dust,

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And prepare raiment as the clay;

He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on,
And the innocent shall divide the silver.

18 He buildeth his house as the 'moth,

And as a booth which the keeper maketh.

1 Some

ancient

versions

19 He lieth down rich, but he 'shall not be gathered; have, spider.

He openeth his eyes, and he is not.

20 Terrors overtake him like waters;

A tempest stealeth him away in the night.

21 The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth;

And it sweepeth him out of his place.

22 For God shall hurl at him, and not spare:

He would fain flee out of his hand.

23 Men shall clap their hands at him, And shall hiss him out of his place.

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And a place for gold which they refine. 2 Iron is taken out of the 'earth, And brass is molten out of the stone.

3 Man setteth an end to darkness,

And searcheth out to the furthest bound

The stones of thick darkness and of the shadow
of death.

4 'He breaketh open a shaft away from where men
sojourn ;

They are forgotten of the foot that passeth by; They hang afar from men, they 'swing to and fro. 5 As for the earth, out of it cometh bread :

2 Some ancient versions have, shall do so no

more.

3 Or, For

4 Or, dust

breaketh out
5 Or, The flood
from where
men sojourn;

even the waters forgotten of the foot: they are

minished, they are gone away

from man 6 Or, flit

of gold

1Or, And he winneth lumps

And underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.
The stones thereof are the place of sapphires,
1And it hath dust of gold.

That path no bird of prey knoweth,

Neither hath the falcon's eye seen it:

2 Heb. sons of The 'proud beasts have not trodden it,
pride.
Nor hath the fierce lion passed thereby.

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He putteth forth his hand upon the flinty rock; 9
He overturneth the mountains by the roots.

Or, passages He cutteth out 'channels among the rocks;
And his eye seeth every precious thing.

4 Heb.

He bindeth the streams 'that they trickle not; from weeping. And the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light.

But where shall wisdom be found?

And where is the place of understanding?
Man knoweth not the price thereof;

Neither is it found in the land of the living.
The deep saith, It is not in me :

And the sea saith, It is not with me.

* Or, treasure It cannot be gotten for 'gold,

6 Or, beryl

7 Or, vessels

8 Or, red coral Or, pearls

9 Heb. Abaddon.

Neither shall silver be weighed for the price
thereof.

It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir,
With the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
Gold and glass cannot equal it:

Neither shall the exchange thereof be 'jewels of
fine gold.

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13

14

15

16.

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No mention shall be made of coral or of crystal: 18
Yea, the price of wisdom is above rubies.
The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it,
Neither shall it be valued with pure gold.
Whence then cometh wisdom?

And where is the place of understanding?
Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living,
And kept close from the fowls of the air.
Destruction and Death say,

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We have heard a rumour thereof with our ears.

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23 God understandeth the way thereof,

And he knoweth the place thereof. 24 For he looketh to the ends of the earth, And seeth under the whole heaven; 25 1To make a weight for the wind;

Yea, he meteth out the waters by measure. 26 When he made a decree for the rain, And a way for the lightning of the thunder: 27 Then did he see it, and 'declare it;

He established it, yea, and searched it out. 28 And unto man he said,

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Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom;
And to depart from evil is understanding.

And Job again took up his parable, and said, 2 Oh that I were as in the months of old,

As in the days when God watched over me; 3 When his lamp shined 'upon my head,

And by his light I walked through darkness; 4 As I was in 'the ripeness of my days,

When the 'secret of God was upon my tent; 5 When the Almighty was yet with me, And children were about me;

my

6 When my steps were washed with butter,
And the rock poured me out rivers of oil!
7 When I went forth to the gate unto the city,
When I prepared my seat in the 'street,
8 The young men saw me and hid themselves,
And the aged rose up and stood;

9 The princes refrained talking,

And laid their hand on their mouth;

10 The voice of the nobles was 'hushed,

And their tongue cleaved to the roof of their
mouth.

II For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me;
And when the eye saw me, it gave witness unto

me:

12 Because I delivered the poor that cried,

1 Or, When he maketh

2 Or, recount

3 Or, above

4 Heb. my days of

autumn.

Or, counsel Or, friendship

6 Or, broad place

7 Heb. hid.

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