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<div class="mt">Job </div>
<div class="chapterlabel" id="V0"> 1</div>
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<span class="verse" id="V1">1 </span>There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God,<a href="#FN1" class="notemark">*<span class="popup">The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).</span></a> and turned away from evil. <span class="verse" id="V2">2 </span>There were born to him seven sons and three daughters. <span class="verse" id="V3">3 </span>His possessions also were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the children of the east. <span class="verse" id="V4">4 </span>His sons went and held a feast in the house of each one on his birthday; and they sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them. <span class="verse" id="V5">5 </span>It was so, when the days of their feasting had run their course, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered <span class="w">ascensions|ascension</span><a href="#FN2" class="notemark">†<span class="popup">Hebrew עֹלָה (`olah). Typically rendered “burnt offering(s)” in English Bibles. </span></a> according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my sons have sinned, and renounced God in their hearts.” Job did so continually. </div>
<div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V6">6 </span>Now on the day when God’s sons came to present themselves before Yahweh,<a href="#FN3" class="notemark">‡<span class="popup">“Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.</span></a> Satan also came among them. <span class="verse" id="V7">7 </span>Yahweh said to Satan, “Where have you come from?” </div>
<div class="p">Then Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “From going back and forth in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.” </div>
<div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V8">8 </span>Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant, Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil.” </div>
<div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V9">9 </span>Then Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “Does Job fear God for nothing? <span class="verse" id="V10">10 </span>Haven’t you made a hedge around him, and around his house, and around all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land. <span class="verse" id="V11">11 </span>But stretch out your hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will renounce you to your face.” </div>
<div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V12">12 </span>Yahweh said to Satan, “Behold,<a href="#FN4" class="notemark">§<span class="popup">“Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.</span></a> all that he has is in your power. Only on himself don’t stretch out your hand.” </div>
<div class="p">So Satan went out from the presence of Yahweh. <span class="verse" id="V13">13 </span>It fell on a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house, <span class="verse" id="V14">14 </span>that there came a messenger to Job, and said, “The oxen were plowing, and the donkeys feeding beside them, <span class="verse" id="V15">15 </span>and the Sabeans attacked, and took them away. Yes, they have killed the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you.” </div>
<div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V16">16 </span>While he was still speaking, there also came another, and said, “The fire of God has fallen from the sky, and has burned up the sheep and the servants, and consumed them, and I alone have escaped to tell you.” </div>
<div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V17">17 </span>While he was still speaking, there came also another, and said, “The Chaldeans made three bands, and swept down on the camels, and have taken them away, yes, and killed the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell you.” </div>
<div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V18">18 </span>While he was still speaking, there came also another, and said, “Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house, <span class="verse" id="V19">19 </span>and behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young men, and they are dead. I alone have escaped to tell you.” </div>
<div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V20">20 </span>Then Job arose, and tore his robe, and shaved his head, and fell down on the ground, and worshiped. <span class="verse" id="V21">21 </span>He said, “Naked I came out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be Yahweh’s name.” <span class="verse" id="V22">22 </span>In all this, Job did not sin, nor charge God with wrongdoing. </div>
<div class="chapterlabel" id="V0"> 2</div>
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<span class="verse" id="V1">1 </span>Again, on the day when the God’s sons came to present themselves before Yahweh, Satan came also among them to present himself before Yahweh. <span class="verse" id="V2">2 </span>Yahweh said to Satan, “Where have you come from?” </div>
<div class="p">Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “From going back and forth in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.” </div>
<div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V3">3 </span>Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause.” </div>
<div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V4">4 </span>Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life. <span class="verse" id="V5">5 </span>But stretch out your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce you to your face.” </div>
<div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V6">6 </span>Yahweh said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your hand. Only spare his life.” </div>
<div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V7">7 </span>So Satan went out from the presence of Yahweh, and struck Job with painful sores from the sole of his foot to his head. <span class="verse" id="V8">8 </span>He took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he sat among the ashes. <span class="verse" id="V9">9 </span>Then his wife said to him, “Do you still maintain your integrity? Renounce God, and die.” </div>
<div class="p"> <span class="verse" id="V10">10 </span>But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” </div>
<div class="p">In all this Job didn’t sin with his lips. <span class="verse" id="V11">11 </span>Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him. <span class="verse" id="V12">12 </span>When they lifted up their eyes from a distance, and didn’t recognize him, they raised their voices, and wept; and they each tore his robe, and sprinkled dust on their heads toward the sky. <span class="verse" id="V13">13 </span>So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great. </div>
<div class="chapterlabel" id="V0"> 3</div>
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<span class="verse" id="V1">1 </span>After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth. <span class="verse" id="V2">2 </span>Job answered: </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V3">3 </span>“Let the day perish in which I was born, </div>
<div class="q2">the night which said, ‘There is a boy conceived.’ </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V4">4 </span>Let that day be darkness. </div>
<div class="q2">Don’t let God from above seek for it, </div>
<div class="q2">neither let the light shine on it. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V5">5 </span>Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. </div>
<div class="q2">Let a cloud dwell on it. </div>
<div class="q2">Let all that makes black the day terrify it. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V6">6 </span>As for that night, let thick darkness seize on it. </div>
<div class="q2">Let it not rejoice among the days of the year. </div>
<div class="q2">Let it not come into the number of the months. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V7">7 </span>Behold, let that night be barren. </div>
<div class="q2">Let no joyful voice come therein. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V8">8 </span>Let them curse it who curse the day, </div>
<div class="q2">who are ready to rouse up leviathan. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V9">9 </span>Let the stars of its twilight be dark. </div>
<div class="q2">Let it look for light, but have none, </div>
<div class="q2">neither let it see the eyelids of the morning, </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V10">10 </span>because it didn’t shut up the doors of my mother’s womb, </div>
<div class="q2">nor did it hide trouble from my eyes. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V11">11 </span>“Why didn’t I die from the womb? </div>
<div class="q2">Why didn’t I give up the spirit when my mother bore me? </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V12">12 </span>Why did the knees receive me? </div>
<div class="q2">Or why the breast, that I should nurse? </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V13">13 </span>For now should I have lain down and been quiet. </div>
<div class="q2">I should have slept, then I would have been at rest, </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V14">14 </span>with kings and counselors of the earth, </div>
<div class="q2">who built up waste places for themselves; </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V15">15 </span>or with princes who had gold, </div>
<div class="q2">who filled their houses with silver: </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V16">16 </span>or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, </div>
<div class="q2">as infants who never saw light. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V17">17 </span>There the wicked cease from troubling. </div>
<div class="q2">There the weary are at rest. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V18">18 </span>There the prisoners are at ease together. </div>
<div class="q2">They don’t hear the voice of the taskmaster. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V19">19 </span>The small and the great are there. </div>
<div class="q2">The servant is free from his master. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V20">20 </span>“Why is light given to him who is in misery, </div>
<div class="q2">life to the bitter in soul, </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V21">21 </span>Who long for death, but it doesn’t come; </div>
<div class="q2">and dig for it more than for hidden treasures, </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V22">22 </span>who rejoice exceedingly, </div>
<div class="q2">and are glad, when they can find the grave? </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V23">23 </span>Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, </div>
<div class="q2">whom God has hedged in? </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V24">24 </span>For my sighing comes before I eat. </div>
<div class="q2">My groanings are poured out like water. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V25">25 </span>For the thing which I fear comes on me, </div>
<div class="q2">That which I am afraid of comes to me. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V26">26 </span>I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest; </div>
<div class="q2">but trouble comes.” </div>
<div class="chapterlabel" id="V0"> 4</div>
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<span class="verse" id="V1">1 </span>Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V2">2 </span>“If someone ventures to talk with you, will you be grieved? </div>
<div class="q2">But who can withhold himself from speaking? </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V3">3 </span>Behold, you have instructed many, </div>
<div class="q2">you have strengthened the weak hands. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V4">4 </span>Your words have supported him who was falling, </div>
<div class="q2">You have made firm the feeble knees. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V5">5 </span>But now it has come to you, and you faint. </div>
<div class="q2">It touches you, and you are troubled. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V6">6 </span>Isn’t your piety your confidence? </div>
<div class="q2">Isn’t the integrity of your ways your hope? </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V7">7 </span>“Remember, now, whoever perished, being innocent? </div>
<div class="q2">Or where were the upright cut off? </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V8">8 </span>According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity, </div>
<div class="q2">and sow trouble, </div>
<div class="q2">reap the same. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V9">9 </span>By the breath of God they perish. </div>
<div class="q2">By the blast of his anger are they consumed. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V10">10 </span>The roaring of the lion, </div>
<div class="q2">and the voice of the fierce lion, </div>
<div class="q2">the teeth of the young lions, are broken. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V11">11 </span>The old lion perishes for lack of prey. </div>
<div class="q2">The cubs of the lioness are scattered abroad. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V12">12 </span>“Now a thing was secretly brought to me. </div>
<div class="q2">My ear received a whisper of it. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V13">13 </span>In thoughts from the visions of the night, </div>
<div class="q2">when <span class="w">death-sleep</span><a href="#FN1" class="notemark">*<span class="popup">a death-like sleep typically rendered as “deep sleep” in English Bibles.</span></a> falls on men, </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V14">14 </span>fear came on me, and trembling, </div>
<div class="q2">which made all my bones shake. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V15">15 </span>Then a spirit passed before my face. </div>
<div class="q2">The hair of my flesh stood up. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V16">16 </span>It stood still, but I couldn’t discern its appearance. </div>
<div class="q2">A form was before my eyes. </div>
<div class="q2">Silence, then I heard a voice, saying, </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V17">17 </span>‘Shall mortal man be more just than God? </div>
<div class="q2">Shall a man be more pure than his Maker? </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V18">18 </span>Behold, he puts no trust in his servants. </div>
<div class="q2">He charges his angels with error. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V19">19 </span>How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, </div>
<div class="q2">whose foundation is in the dust, </div>
<div class="q2">who are crushed before the moth! </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V20">20 </span>Between morning and evening they are destroyed. </div>
<div class="q2">They perish forever without any regarding it. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V21">21 </span>Isn’t their tent cord plucked up within them? </div>
<div class="q2">They die, and that without wisdom.’ </div>
<div class="chapterlabel" id="V0"> 5</div>
<div class="q">
<span class="verse" id="V1">1 </span>“Call now; is there any who will answer you? </div>
<div class="q2">To which of the holy ones will you turn? </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V2">2 </span>For resentment kills the foolish man, </div>
<div class="q2">and jealousy kills the simple. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V3">3 </span>I have seen the foolish taking root, </div>
<div class="q2">but suddenly I cursed his habitation. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V4">4 </span>His children are far from safety. </div>
<div class="q2">They are crushed in the gate. </div>
<div class="q2">Neither is there any to deliver them, </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V5">5 </span>whose harvest the hungry eats up, </div>
<div class="q2">and take it even out of the thorns. </div>
<div class="q2">The snare gapes for their substance. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V6">6 </span>For affliction doesn’t come out of the dust, </div>
<div class="q2">neither does trouble spring out of the ground; </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V7">7 </span>but man is born to trouble, </div>
<div class="q2">as the sparks fly upward. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V8">8 </span>“But as for me, I would seek God. </div>
<div class="q2">I would commit my cause to God, </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V9">9 </span>who does great things that can’t be fathomed, </div>
<div class="q2">marvelous things without number; </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V10">10 </span>who gives rain on the earth, </div>
<div class="q2">and sends waters on the fields; </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V11">11 </span>so that he sets up on high those who are low, </div>
<div class="q2">those who mourn are exalted to safety. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V12">12 </span>He frustrates the devices of the crafty, </div>
<div class="q2">So that their hands can’t perform their enterprise. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V13">13 </span>He takes the wise in their own craftiness; </div>
<div class="q2">the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V14">14 </span>They meet with darkness in the day time, </div>
<div class="q2">and grope at noonday as in the night. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V15">15 </span>But he saves from the sword of their mouth, </div>
<div class="q2">even the needy from the hand of the mighty. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V16">16 </span>So the poor has hope, </div>
<div class="q2">and injustice shuts her mouth. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V17">17 </span>“Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. </div>
<div class="q2">Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V18">18 </span>For he wounds, and binds up. </div>
<div class="q2">He injures, and his hands make whole. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V19">19 </span>He will deliver you in six troubles; </div>
<div class="q2">yes, in seven no evil shall touch you. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V20">20 </span>In famine he will redeem you from death; </div>
<div class="q2">in war, from the power of the sword. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V21">21 </span>You shall be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, </div>
<div class="q2">neither shall you be afraid of destruction when it comes. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V22">22 </span>At destruction and famine you shall laugh, </div>
<div class="q2">neither shall you be afraid of the animals of the earth. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V23">23 </span>For you shall be allied with the stones of the field. </div>
<div class="q2">The animals of the field shall be at peace with you. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V24">24 </span>You shall know that your tent is in peace. </div>
<div class="q2">You shall visit your fold, and shall miss nothing. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V25">25 </span>You shall know also that your offspring<a href="#FN1" class="notemark">*<span class="popup">or, seed</span></a> shall be great, </div>
<div class="q2">Your offspring as the grass of the earth. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V26">26 </span>You shall come to your grave in a full age, </div>
<div class="q2">like a shock of grain comes in its season. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V27">27 </span>Look this, we have searched it, so it is. </div>
<div class="q2">Hear it, and know it for your good.” </div>
<div class="chapterlabel" id="V0"> 6</div>
<div class="p">
<span class="verse" id="V1">1 </span>Then Job answered, </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V2">2 </span>“Oh that my anguish were weighed, </div>
<div class="q2">and all my calamity laid in the balances! </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V3">3 </span>For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas, </div>
<div class="q2">therefore have my words been rash. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V4">4 </span>For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. </div>
<div class="q2">My spirit drinks up their poison. </div>
<div class="q">The terrors of God set themselves in array against me. </div>
<div class="q2"> <span class="verse" id="V5">5 </span>Does the wild donkey bray when he has grass? </div>
<div class="q">Or does the ox low over his fodder? </div>
<div class="q2"> <span class="verse" id="V6">6 </span>Can that which has no flavor be eaten without salt? </div>
<div class="q">Or is there any taste in the white of an egg? </div>
<div class="q2"> <span class="verse" id="V7">7 </span>My soul refuses to touch them. </div>
<div class="q">They are as loathsome food to me. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V8">8 </span>“Oh that I might have my request, </div>
<div class="q2">that God would grant the thing that I long for, </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V9">9 </span>even that it would please God to crush me; </div>
<div class="q2">that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off! </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V10">10 </span>Be it still my consolation, </div>
<div class="q2">yes, let me exult in pain that doesn’t spare, </div>
<div class="q2">that I have not denied the words of the Holy One. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V11">11 </span>What is my strength, that I should wait? </div>
<div class="q2">What is my end, that I should be patient? </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V12">12 </span>Is my strength the strength of stones? </div>
<div class="q2">Or is my flesh of brass? </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V13">13 </span>Isn’t it that I have no help in me, </div>
<div class="q2">That wisdom is driven quite from me? </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V14">14 </span>“To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from his friend; </div>
<div class="q2">even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V15">15 </span>My brothers have dealt deceitfully as a brook, </div>
<div class="q2">as the channel of brooks that pass away; </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V16">16 </span>Which are black by reason of the ice, </div>
<div class="q2">in which the snow hides itself. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V17">17 </span>In the dry season, they vanish. </div>
<div class="q2">When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V18">18 </span>The caravans that travel beside them turn aside. </div>
<div class="q2">They go up into the waste, and perish. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V19">19 </span>The caravans of Tema looked. </div>
<div class="q2">The companies of Sheba waited for them. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V20">20 </span>They were distressed because they were confident. </div>
<div class="q2">They came there, and were confounded. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V21">21 </span>For now you are nothing. </div>
<div class="q2">You see a terror, and are afraid. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V22">22 </span>Did I say, ‘Give to me?’ </div>
<div class="q2">or, ‘Offer a present for me from your substance?’ </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V23">23 </span>or, ‘Deliver me from the adversary’s hand?’ </div>
<div class="q2">or, ‘Redeem me from the hand of the oppressors?’ </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V24">24 </span>“Teach me, and I will hold my peace. </div>
<div class="q2">Cause me to understand wherein I have erred. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V25">25 </span>How forcible are words of uprightness! </div>
<div class="q2">But your reproof, what does it reprove? </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V26">26 </span>Do you intend to reprove words, </div>
<div class="q2">since the speeches of one who is desperate are as wind? </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V27">27 </span>Yes, you would even cast lots for the fatherless, </div>
<div class="q2">and make merchandise of your friend. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V28">28 </span>Now therefore be pleased to look at me, </div>
<div class="q2">for surely I shall not lie to your face. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V29">29 </span>Please return. </div>
<div class="q2">Let there be no injustice. </div>
<div class="q2">Yes, return again. </div>
<div class="q2">My cause is righteous. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V30">30 </span>Is there injustice on my tongue? </div>
<div class="q2">Can’t my taste discern mischievous things? </div>
<div class="chapterlabel" id="V0"> 7</div>
<div class="q">
<span class="verse" id="V1">1 </span>“Isn’t a man forced to labor on earth? </div>
<div class="q2">Aren’t his days like the days of a hired hand? </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V2">2 </span>As a servant who earnestly desires the shadow, </div>
<div class="q2">as a hireling who looks for his wages, </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V3">3 </span>so am I made to possess months of misery, </div>
<div class="q2">wearisome nights are appointed to me. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V4">4 </span>When I lie down, I say, </div>
<div class="q2">‘When shall I arise, and the night be gone?’ </div>
<div class="q2">I toss and turn until the dawning of the day. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V5">5 </span>My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. </div>
<div class="q2">My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V6">6 </span>My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, </div>
<div class="q2">and are spent without hope. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V7">7 </span>Oh remember that my life is a breath. </div>
<div class="q2">My eye shall no more see good. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V8">8 </span>The eye of him who sees me shall see me no more. </div>
<div class="q2">Your eyes shall be on me, but I shall not be. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V9">9 </span>As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, </div>
<div class="q2">so he who goes down to Sheol<a href="#FN1" class="notemark">*<span class="popup">Sheol is the place of the dead.</span></a> shall come up no more. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V10">10 </span>He shall return no more to his house, </div>
<div class="q2">neither shall his place know him any more. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V11">11 </span>“Therefore I will not keep silent. </div>
<div class="q2">I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. </div>
<div class="q2">I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V12">12 </span>Am I a sea, or a sea monster, </div>
<div class="q2">that you put a guard over me? </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V13">13 </span>When I say, ‘My bed shall comfort me. </div>
<div class="q2">My couch shall ease my complaint;’ </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V14">14 </span>then you scare me with dreams, </div>
<div class="q2">and terrify me through visions: </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V15">15 </span>so that my soul chooses strangling, </div>
<div class="q2">death rather than my bones. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V16">16 </span>I loathe my life. </div>
<div class="q2">I don’t want to live forever. </div>
<div class="q2">Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V17">17 </span>What is man, that you should magnify him, </div>
<div class="q2">that you should set your mind on him, </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V18">18 </span>that you should visit him every morning, </div>
<div class="q2">and test him every moment? </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V19">19 </span>How long will you not look away from me, </div>
<div class="q2">nor leave me alone until I swallow down my spittle? </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V20">20 </span>If I have sinned, what do I do to you, you watcher of men? </div>
<div class="q2">Why have you set me as a mark for you, </div>
<div class="q2">so that I am a burden to myself? </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V21">21 </span>Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? </div>
<div class="q2">For now shall I lie down in the dust. </div>
<div class="q2">You will seek me diligently, but I shall not be.” </div>
<div class="chapterlabel" id="V0"> 8</div>
<div class="p">
<span class="verse" id="V1">1 </span>Then Bildad the Shuhite answered, </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V2">2 </span>“How long will you speak these things? </div>
<div class="q2">Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind? </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V3">3 </span>Does God pervert justice? </div>
<div class="q2">Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness? </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V4">4 </span>If your children have sinned against him, </div>
<div class="q2">He has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V5">5 </span>If you want to seek God diligently, </div>
<div class="q2">make your supplication to the Almighty. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V6">6 </span>If you were pure and upright, </div>
<div class="q2">surely now he would awaken for you, </div>
<div class="q">and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous. </div>
<div class="q2"> <span class="verse" id="V7">7 </span>Though your beginning was small, </div>
<div class="q">yet your latter end would greatly increase. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V8">8 </span>“Please inquire of past generations. </div>
<div class="q2">Find out about the learning of their fathers. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V9">9 </span>(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, </div>
<div class="q2">because our days on earth are a shadow.) </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V10">10 </span>Shall they not teach you, tell you, </div>
<div class="q2">and utter words out of their heart? </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V11">11 </span>“Can the papyrus grow up without mire? </div>
<div class="q2">Can the rushes grow without water? </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V12">12 </span>While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, </div>
<div class="q2">it withers before any other reed. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V13">13 </span>So are the paths of all who forget God. </div>
<div class="q2">The hope of the godless man shall perish, </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V14">14 </span>Whose confidence shall break apart, </div>
<div class="q2">Whose trust is a spider’s web. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V15">15 </span>He shall lean on his house, but it shall not stand. </div>
<div class="q2">He shall cling to it, but it shall not endure. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V16">16 </span>He is green before the sun. </div>
<div class="q2">His shoots go out along his garden. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V17">17 </span>His roots are wrapped around the rock pile. </div>
<div class="q2">He sees the place of stones. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V18">18 </span>If he is destroyed from his place, </div>
<div class="q2">then it shall deny him, saying, ‘I have not seen you.’ </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V19">19 </span>Behold, this is the joy of his way: </div>
<div class="q2">out of the earth, others shall spring. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V20">20 </span>“Behold, God will not cast away a blameless man, </div>
<div class="q2">neither will he uphold the evildoers. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V21">21 </span>He will still fill your mouth with laughter, </div>
<div class="q2">your lips with shouting. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V22">22 </span>Those who hate you shall be clothed with shame. </div>
<div class="q2">The tent of the wicked shall be no more.” </div>
<div class="chapterlabel" id="V0"> 9</div>
<div class="p">
<span class="verse" id="V1">1 </span>Then Job answered, </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V2">2 </span>“Truly I know that it is so, </div>
<div class="q2">but how can man be just with God? </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V3">3 </span>If he is pleased to contend with him, </div>
<div class="q2">he can’t answer him one time in a thousand. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V4">4 </span>God who is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: </div>
<div class="q2">who has hardened himself against him, and prospered? </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V5">5 </span>He removes the mountains, and they don’t know it, </div>
<div class="q2">when he overturns them in his anger. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V6">6 </span>He shakes the earth out of its place. </div>
<div class="q2">Its pillars tremble. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V7">7 </span>He commands the sun, and it doesn’t rise, </div>
<div class="q2">and seals up the stars. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V8">8 </span>He alone stretches out the heavens, </div>
<div class="q2">and treads on the waves of the sea. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V9">9 </span>He makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, </div>
<div class="q2">and the rooms of the south. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V10">10 </span>He does great things past finding out; </div>
<div class="q2">yes, marvelous things without number. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V11">11 </span>Behold, he goes by me, and I don’t see him. </div>
<div class="q2">He passes on also, but I don’t perceive him. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V12">12 </span>Behold, he snatches away. </div>
<div class="q2">Who can hinder him? </div>
<div class="q2">Who will ask him, ‘What are you doing?’ </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V13">13 </span>“God will not withdraw his anger. </div>
<div class="q2">The helpers of Rahab stoop under him. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V14">14 </span>How much less shall I answer him, </div>
<div class="q2">And choose my words to argue with him? </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V15">15 </span>Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn’t answer him. </div>
<div class="q2">I would make supplication to my judge. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V16">16 </span>If I had called, and he had answered me, </div>
<div class="q2">yet I wouldn’t believe that he listened to my voice. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V17">17 </span>For he breaks me with a storm, </div>
<div class="q2">and multiplies my wounds without cause. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V18">18 </span>He will not allow me to catch my breath, </div>
<div class="q2">but fills me with bitterness. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V19">19 </span>If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty! </div>
<div class="q2">If of justice, ‘Who,’ says he, ‘will summon me?’ </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V20">20 </span>Though I am righteous, my own mouth shall condemn me. </div>
<div class="q2">Though I am blameless, it shall prove me perverse. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V21">21 </span>I am blameless. </div>
<div class="q2">I don’t respect myself. </div>
<div class="q2">I despise my life. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V22">22 </span>“It is all the same. </div>
<div class="q2">Therefore I say he destroys the blameless and the wicked. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V23">23 </span>If the scourge kills suddenly, </div>
<div class="q2">he will mock at the trial of the innocent. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V24">24 </span>The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. </div>
<div class="q2">He covers the faces of its judges. </div>
<div class="q2">If not he, then who is it? </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V25">25 </span>“Now my days are swifter than a runner. </div>
<div class="q2">They flee away, they see no good. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V26">26 </span>They have passed away as the swift ships, </div>
<div class="q2">as the eagle that swoops on the prey. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V27">27 </span>If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint, </div>
<div class="q2">I will put off my sad face, and cheer up;’ </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V28">28 </span>I am afraid of all my sorrows, </div>
<div class="q2">I know that you will not hold me innocent. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V29">29 </span>I shall be condemned. </div>
<div class="q2">Why then do I labor in vain? </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V30">30 </span>If I wash myself with snow, </div>
<div class="q2">and cleanse my hands with lye, </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V31">31 </span>yet you will plunge me in the ditch. </div>
<div class="q2">My own clothes shall abhor me. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V32">32 </span>For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, </div>
<div class="q2">that we should come together in judgment. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V33">33 </span>There is no umpire between us, </div>
<div class="q2">that might lay his hand on us both. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V34">34 </span>Let him take his rod away from me. </div>
<div class="q2">Let his terror not make me afraid; </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V35">35 </span>then I would speak, and not fear him, </div>
<div class="q2">for I am not so in myself. </div>
<div class="chapterlabel" id="V0"> 10</div>
<div class="q">
<span class="verse" id="V1">1 </span>“My soul is weary of my life. </div>
<div class="q2">I will give free course to my complaint. </div>
<div class="q2">I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V2">2 </span>I will tell God, ‘Do not condemn me. </div>
<div class="q2">Show me why you contend with me. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V3">3 </span>Is it good to you that you should oppress, </div>
<div class="q2">that you should despise the work of your hands, </div>
<div class="q2">and smile on the counsel of the wicked? </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V4">4 </span>Do you have eyes of flesh? </div>
<div class="q2">Or do you see as man sees? </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V5">5 </span>Are your days as the days of mortals, </div>
<div class="q2">or your years as man’s years, </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V6">6 </span>that you inquire after my iniquity, </div>
<div class="q2">and search after my sin? </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V7">7 </span>Although you know that I am not wicked, </div>
<div class="q2">there is no one who can deliver out of your hand. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V8">8 </span>“ ‘Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether, </div>
<div class="q2">yet you destroy me. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V9">9 </span>Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. </div>
<div class="q2">Will you bring me into dust again? </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V10">10 </span>Haven’t you poured me out like milk, </div>
<div class="q2">and curdled me like cheese? </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V11">11 </span>You have clothed me with skin and flesh, </div>
<div class="q2">and knit me together with bones and sinews. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V12">12 </span>You have granted me life and loving kindness. </div>
<div class="q2">Your visitation has preserved my spirit. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V13">13 </span>Yet you hid these things in your heart. </div>
<div class="q2">I know that this is with you: </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V14">14 </span>if I sin, then you mark me. </div>
<div class="q2">You will not acquit me from my iniquity. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V15">15 </span>If I am wicked, woe to me. </div>
<div class="q2">If I am righteous, I still shall not lift up my head, </div>
<div class="q2">being filled with disgrace, </div>
<div class="q2">and conscious of my affliction. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V16">16 </span>If my head is held high, you hunt me like a lion. </div>
<div class="q2">Again you show yourself powerful to me. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V17">17 </span>You renew your witnesses against me, </div>
<div class="q2">and increase your indignation on me. </div>
<div class="q2">Changes and warfare are with me. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V18">18 </span>“ ‘Why, then, have you brought me out of the womb? </div>
<div class="q2">I wish I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V19">19 </span>I should have been as though I had not been. </div>
<div class="q2">I should have been carried from the womb to the grave. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V20">20 </span>Aren’t my days few? </div>
<div class="q2">Cease then. </div>
<div class="q2">Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort, </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V21">21 </span>before I go where I shall not return from, </div>
<div class="q2">to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death; </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V22">22 </span>the land dark as midnight, </div>
<div class="q2">of the shadow of death, </div>
<div class="q2">without any order, </div>
<div class="q2">where the light is as midnight.’ ” </div>
<div class="chapterlabel" id="V0"> 11</div>
<div class="p">
<span class="verse" id="V1">1 </span>Then Zophar, the Naamathite, answered, </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V2">2 </span>“Shouldn’t the multitude of words be answered? </div>
<div class="q2">Should a man full of talk be justified? </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V3">3 </span>Should your boastings make men hold their peace? </div>
<div class="q2">When you mock, shall no man make you ashamed? </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V4">4 </span>For you say, ‘My doctrine is pure. </div>
<div class="q2">I am clean in your eyes.’ </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V5">5 </span>But oh that God would speak, </div>
<div class="q2">and open his lips against you, </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V6">6 </span>that he would show you the secrets of wisdom! </div>
<div class="q2">For true wisdom has two sides. </div>
<div class="q2">Know therefore that God exacts of you less than your iniquity deserves. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V7">7 </span>“Can you fathom the mystery of God? </div>
<div class="q2">Or can you probe the limits of the Almighty? </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V8">8 </span>They are high as heaven. What can you do? </div>
<div class="q2">They are deeper than Sheol.<a href="#FN1" class="notemark">*<span class="popup">Sheol is the place of the dead.</span></a> What can you know? </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V9">9 </span>Its measure is longer than the earth, </div>
<div class="q2">and broader than the sea. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V10">10 </span>If he passes by, or confines, </div>
<div class="q2">or convenes a court, then who can oppose him? </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V11">11 </span>For he knows false men. </div>
<div class="q2">He sees iniquity also, even though he doesn’t consider it. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V12">12 </span>An empty-headed man becomes wise </div>
<div class="q2">when a man is born as a wild donkey’s colt. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V13">13 </span>“If you set your heart aright, </div>
<div class="q2">stretch out your hands toward him. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V14">14 </span>If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away. </div>
<div class="q2">Don’t let unrighteousness dwell in your tents. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V15">15 </span>Surely then you shall lift up your face without spot; </div>
<div class="q2">Yes, you shall be steadfast, and shall not fear: </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V16">16 </span>for you shall forget your misery. </div>
<div class="q2">You shall remember it like waters that have passed away. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V17">17 </span>Life shall be clearer than the noonday. </div>
<div class="q2">Though there is darkness, it shall be as the morning. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V18">18 </span>You shall be secure, because there is hope. </div>
<div class="q2">Yes, you shall search, and shall take your rest in safety. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V19">19 </span>Also you shall lie down, and no one shall make you afraid. </div>
<div class="q2">Yes, many shall court your favor. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V20">20 </span>But the eyes of the wicked shall fail. </div>
<div class="q2">They shall have no way to flee. </div>
<div class="q2">Their hope shall be the giving up of the spirit.” </div>
<div class="chapterlabel" id="V0"> 12</div>
<div class="p">
<span class="verse" id="V1">1 </span>Then Job answered, </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V2">2 </span>“No doubt, but you are the people, </div>
<div class="q2">and wisdom shall die with you. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V3">3 </span>But I have understanding as well as you; </div>
<div class="q2">I am not inferior to you. </div>
<div class="q2">Yes, who doesn’t know such things as these? </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V4">4 </span>I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, </div>
<div class="q2">I, who called on God, and he answered. </div>
<div class="q2">The just, the blameless man is a joke. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V5">5 </span>In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune. </div>
<div class="q2">It is ready for them whose foot slips. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V6">6 </span>The tents of robbers prosper. </div>
<div class="q2">Those who provoke God are secure, </div>
<div class="q2">who carry their God in their hands. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V7">7 </span>“But ask the animals, now, and they shall teach you; </div>
<div class="q2">the birds of the sky, and they shall tell you. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V8">8 </span>Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach you. </div>
<div class="q2">The fish of the sea shall declare to you. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V9">9 </span>Who doesn’t know that in all these, </div>
<div class="q2">Yahweh’s hand has done this, </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V10">10 </span>in whose hand is the life of every living thing, </div>
<div class="q2">and the breath of all mankind? </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V11">11 </span>Doesn’t the ear try words, </div>
<div class="q2">even as the palate tastes its food? </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V12">12 </span>With aged men is wisdom, </div>
<div class="q2">in length of days understanding. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V13">13 </span>“With God is wisdom and might. </div>
<div class="q2">He has counsel and understanding. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V14">14 </span>Behold, he breaks down, and it can’t be built again. </div>
<div class="q2">He imprisons a man, and there can be no release. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V15">15 </span>Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up. </div>
<div class="q2">Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V16">16 </span>With him is strength and wisdom. </div>
<div class="q2">The deceived and the deceiver are his. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V17">17 </span>He leads counselors away stripped. </div>
<div class="q2">He makes judges fools. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V18">18 </span>He loosens the bond of kings. </div>
<div class="q2">He binds their waist with a belt. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V19">19 </span>He leads priests away stripped, </div>
<div class="q2">and overthrows the mighty. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V20">20 </span>He removes the speech of those who are trusted, </div>
<div class="q2">and takes away the understanding of the elders. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V21">21 </span>He pours contempt on princes, </div>
<div class="q2">and loosens the belt of the strong. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V22">22 </span>He uncovers deep things out of darkness, </div>
<div class="q2">and brings out to light the shadow of death. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V23">23 </span>He increases the nations, and he destroys them. </div>
<div class="q2">He enlarges the nations, and he leads them captive. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V24">24 </span>He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, </div>
<div class="q2">and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V25">25 </span>They grope in the dark without light. </div>
<div class="q2">He makes them stagger like a drunken man. </div>
<div class="chapterlabel" id="V0"> 13</div>
<div class="q">
<span class="verse" id="V1">1 </span>“Behold, my eye has seen all this. </div>
<div class="q2">My ear has heard and understood it. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V2">2 </span>What you know, I know also. </div>
<div class="q2">I am not inferior to you. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V3">3 </span>“Surely I would speak to the Almighty. </div>
<div class="q2">I desire to reason with God. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V4">4 </span>But you are forgers of lies. </div>
<div class="q2">You are all physicians of no value. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V5">5 </span>Oh that you would be completely silent! </div>
<div class="q2">Then you would be wise. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V6">6 </span>Hear now my reasoning. </div>
<div class="q2">Listen to the pleadings of my lips. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V7">7 </span>Will you speak unrighteously for God, </div>
<div class="q2">and talk deceitfully for him? </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V8">8 </span>Will you show partiality to him? </div>
<div class="q2">Will you contend for God? </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V9">9 </span>Is it good that he should search you out? </div>
<div class="q2">Or as one deceives a man, will you deceive him? </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V10">10 </span>He will surely reprove you, </div>
<div class="q2">if you secretly show partiality. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V11">11 </span>Shall not his majesty make you afraid, </div>
<div class="q2">And his dread fall on you? </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V12">12 </span>Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, </div>
<div class="q2">Your defenses are defenses of clay. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V13">13 </span>“Be silent, leave me alone, that I may speak. </div>
<div class="q2">Let come on me what will. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V14">14 </span>Why should I take my flesh in my teeth, </div>
<div class="q2">and put my life in my hand? </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V15">15 </span>Behold, he will kill me. </div>
<div class="q2">I have no hope. </div>
<div class="q2">Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V16">16 </span>This also shall be my salvation, </div>
<div class="q2">that a godless man shall not come before him. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V17">17 </span>Hear diligently my speech. </div>
<div class="q2">Let my declaration be in your ears. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V18">18 </span>See now, I have set my cause in order. </div>
<div class="q2">I know that I am righteous. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V19">19 </span>Who is he who will contend with me? </div>
<div class="q2">For then would I hold my peace and give up the spirit. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V20">20 </span>“Only don’t do two things to me; </div>
<div class="q2">then I will not hide myself from your face: </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V21">21 </span>withdraw your hand far from me; </div>
<div class="q2">and don’t let your terror make me afraid. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V22">22 </span>Then call, and I will answer; </div>
<div class="q2">or let me speak, and you answer me. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V23">23 </span>How many are my iniquities and sins? </div>
<div class="q2">Make me know my disobedience and my sin. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V24">24 </span>Why hide you your face, </div>
<div class="q2">and hold me for your enemy? </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V25">25 </span>Will you harass a driven leaf? </div>
<div class="q2">Will you pursue the dry stubble? </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V26">26 </span>For you write bitter things against me, </div>
<div class="q2">and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth: </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V27">27 </span>You also put my feet in the stocks, </div>
<div class="q2">and mark all my paths. </div>
<div class="q2">You set a bound to the soles of my feet, </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V28">28 </span>though I am decaying like a rotten thing, </div>
<div class="q2">like a garment that is moth-eaten. </div>
<div class="chapterlabel" id="V0"> 14</div>
<div class="q">
<span class="verse" id="V1">1 </span>“Man, who is born of a woman, </div>
<div class="q2">is of few days, and full of trouble. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V2">2 </span>He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. </div>
<div class="q2">He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V3">3 </span>Do you open your eyes on such a one, </div>
<div class="q2">and bring me into judgment with you? </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V4">4 </span>Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? </div>
<div class="q2">Not one. </div>
<div class="q2"> <span class="verse" id="V5">5 </span>Seeing his days are determined, </div>
<div class="q2">the number of his months is with you, </div>
<div class="q2">and you have appointed his bounds that he can’t pass; </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V6">6 </span>Look away from him, that he may rest, </div>
<div class="q2">until he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V7">7 </span>“For there is hope for a tree, </div>
<div class="q2">If it is cut down, that it will sprout again, </div>
<div class="q2">that the tender branch of it will not cease. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V8">8 </span>Though its root grows old in the earth, </div>
<div class="q2">and its stock dies in the ground, </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V9">9 </span>yet through the scent of water it will bud, </div>
<div class="q2">and sprout boughs like a plant. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V10">10 </span>But man dies, and is laid low. </div>
<div class="q2">Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he? </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V11">11 </span>As the waters fail from the sea, </div>
<div class="q2">and the river wastes and dries up, </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V12">12 </span>so man lies down and doesn’t rise. </div>
<div class="q2">Until the heavens are no more, they shall not awake, </div>
<div class="q2">nor be roused out of their sleep. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V13">13 </span>“Oh that you would hide me in Sheol,<a href="#FN1" class="notemark">*<span class="popup">Sheol is the place of the dead. </span></a> </div>
<div class="q2">that you would keep me secret, until your wrath is past, </div>
<div class="q2">that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me! </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V14">14 </span>If a man dies, shall he live again? </div>
<div class="q2">All the days of my warfare would I wait, </div>
<div class="q2">until my release should come. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V15">15 </span>You would call, and I would answer you. </div>
<div class="q2">You would have a desire to the work of your hands. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V16">16 </span>But now you count my steps. </div>
<div class="q2">Don’t you watch over my sin? </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V17">17 </span>My disobedience is sealed up in a bag. </div>
<div class="q2">You fasten up my iniquity. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V18">18 </span>“But the mountain falling comes to nothing. </div>
<div class="q2">The rock is removed out of its place; </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V19">19 </span>The waters wear the stones. </div>
<div class="q2">The torrents of it wash away the dust of the earth. </div>
<div class="q2">So you destroy the hope of man. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V20">20 </span>You forever prevail against him, and he departs. </div>
<div class="q2">You change his face, and send him away. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V21">21 </span>His sons come to honor, and he doesn’t know it. </div>
<div class="q2">They are brought low, but he doesn’t perceive it of them. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V22">22 </span>But his flesh on him has pain, </div>
<div class="q2">and his soul within him mourns.” </div>
<div class="chapterlabel" id="V0"> 15</div>
<div class="p">
<span class="verse" id="V1">1 </span>Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V2">2 </span>“Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, </div>
<div class="q2">and fill himself with the east wind? </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V3">3 </span>Should he reason with unprofitable talk, </div>
<div class="q2">or with speeches with which he can do no good? </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V4">4 </span>Yes, you do away with fear, </div>
<div class="q2">and hinder devotion before God. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V5">5 </span>For your iniquity teaches your mouth, </div>
<div class="q2">and you choose the language of the crafty. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V6">6 </span>Your own mouth condemns you, and not I. </div>
<div class="q2">Yes, your own lips testify against you. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V7">7 </span>“Are you the first man who was born? </div>
<div class="q2">Or were you brought out before the hills? </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V8">8 </span>Have you heard the secret counsel of God? </div>
<div class="q2">Do you limit wisdom to yourself? </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V9">9 </span>What do you know, that we don’t know? </div>
<div class="q2">What do you understand, which is not in us? </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V10">10 </span>With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, </div>
<div class="q2">much elder than your father. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V11">11 </span>Are the consolations of God too small for you, </div>
<div class="q2">even the word that is gentle toward you? </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V12">12 </span>Why does your heart carry you away? </div>
<div class="q2">Why do your eyes flash, </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V13">13 </span>That you turn your spirit against God, </div>
<div class="q2">and let such words go out of your mouth? </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V14">14 </span>What is man, that he should be clean? </div>
<div class="q2">What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V15">15 </span>Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones. </div>
<div class="q2">Yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight; </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V16">16 </span>how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, </div>
<div class="q2">a man who drinks iniquity like water! </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V17">17 </span>“I will show you, listen to me; </div>
<div class="q2">that which I have seen I will declare </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V18">18 </span>(which wise men have told by their fathers, </div>
<div class="q2">and have not hidden it; </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V19">19 </span>to whom alone the land was given, </div>
<div class="q2">and no stranger passed among them): </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V20">20 </span>the wicked man writhes in pain all his days, </div>
<div class="q2">even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V21">21 </span>A sound of terrors is in his ears. </div>
<div class="q2">In prosperity the destroyer shall come on him. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V22">22 </span>He doesn’t believe that he shall return out of darkness. </div>
<div class="q2">He is waited for by the sword. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V23">23 </span>He wanders abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’ </div>
<div class="q2">He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V24">24 </span>Distress and anguish make him afraid. </div>
<div class="q2">They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V25">25 </span>Because he has stretched out his hand against God, </div>
<div class="q2">and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty; </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V26">26 </span>he runs at him with a stiff neck, </div>
<div class="q2">with the thick shields of his bucklers; </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V27">27 </span>because he has covered his face with his fatness, </div>
<div class="q2">and gathered fat on his thighs. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V28">28 </span>He has lived in desolate cities, </div>
<div class="q2">in houses which no one inhabited, </div>
<div class="q2">which were ready to become heaps. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V29">29 </span>He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, </div>
<div class="q2">neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V30">30 </span>He shall not depart out of darkness. </div>
<div class="q2">The flame shall dry up his branches. </div>
<div class="q2">By the breath of God’s mouth shall he go away. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V31">31 </span>Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself; </div>
<div class="q2">for emptiness shall be his reward. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V32">32 </span>It shall be accomplished before his time. </div>
<div class="q2">His branch shall not be green. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V33">33 </span>He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, </div>
<div class="q2">and shall cast off his flower as the olive tree. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V34">34 </span>For the company of the godless shall be barren, </div>
<div class="q2">and fire shall consume the tents of bribery. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V35">35 </span>They conceive mischief, and produce iniquity. </div>
<div class="q2">Their heart prepares deceit.” </div>
<div class="chapterlabel" id="V0"> 16</div>
<div class="p">
<span class="verse" id="V1">1 </span>Then Job answered, </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V2">2 </span>“I have heard many such things. </div>
<div class="q2">You are all miserable comforters! </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V3">3 </span>Shall vain words have an end? </div>
<div class="q2">Or what provokes you that you answer? </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V4">4 </span>I also could speak as you do. </div>
<div class="q2">If your soul were in my soul’s place, </div>
<div class="q2">I could join words together against you, </div>
<div class="q2">and shake my head at you, </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V5">5 </span>but I would strengthen you with my mouth. </div>
<div class="q2">The solace of my lips would relieve you. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V6">6 </span>“Though I speak, my grief is not subsided. </div>
<div class="q2">Though I forbear, what am I eased? </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V7">7 </span>But now, God, you have surely worn me out. </div>
<div class="q2">You have made desolate all my company. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V8">8 </span>You have shriveled me up. This is a witness against me. </div>
<div class="q2">My leanness rises up against me. </div>
<div class="q2">It testifies to my face. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V9">9 </span>He has torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me. </div>
<div class="q2">He has gnashed on me with his teeth. </div>
<div class="q2">My adversary sharpens his eyes on me. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V10">10 </span>They have gaped on me with their mouth. </div>
<div class="q2">They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. </div>
<div class="q2">They gather themselves together against me. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V11">11 </span>God delivers me to the ungodly, </div>
<div class="q2">and casts me into the hands of the wicked. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V12">12 </span>I was at ease, and he broke me apart. </div>
<div class="q2">Yes, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces. </div>
<div class="q2">He has also set me up for his target. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V13">13 </span>His archers surround me. </div>
<div class="q2">He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare. </div>
<div class="q2">He pours out my gall on the ground. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V14">14 </span>He breaks me with breach on breach. </div>
<div class="q2">He runs on me like a giant. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V15">15 </span>I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, </div>
<div class="q2">and have thrust my horn in the dust. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V16">16 </span>My face is red with weeping. </div>
<div class="q2">Deep darkness is on my eyelids. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V17">17 </span>Although there is no violence in my hands, </div>
<div class="q2">and my prayer is pure. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V18">18 </span>“Earth, don’t cover my blood. </div>
<div class="q2">Let my cry have no place to rest. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V19">19 </span>Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven. </div>
<div class="q2">He who vouches for me is on high. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V20">20 </span>My friends scoff at me. </div>
<div class="q2">My eyes pour out tears to God, </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V21">21 </span>that he would maintain the right of a man with God, </div>
<div class="q2">of a son of man with his neighbor! </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V22">22 </span>For when a few years have come, </div>
<div class="q2">I shall go the way of no return. </div>
<div class="chapterlabel" id="V0"> 17</div>
<div class="q">
<span class="verse" id="V1">1 </span>“My spirit is consumed. </div>
<div class="q2">My days are extinct, </div>
<div class="q2">And the grave is ready for me. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V2">2 </span>Surely there are mockers with me. </div>
<div class="q2">My eye dwells on their provocation. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V3">3 </span>“Now give a pledge, be collateral for me with yourself. </div>
<div class="q2">Who is there who will strike hands with me? </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V4">4 </span>For you have hidden their heart from understanding, </div>
<div class="q2">Therefore you shall not exalt them. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V5">5 </span>He who denounces his friends for plunder, </div>
<div class="q2">Even the eyes of his children shall fail. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V6">6 </span>“But he has made me a byword of the people. </div>
<div class="q2">They spit in my face. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V7">7 </span>My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. </div>
<div class="q2">All my members are as a shadow. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V8">8 </span>Upright men shall be astonished at this. </div>
<div class="q2">The innocent shall stir up himself against the godless. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V9">9 </span>Yet shall the righteous hold on his way. </div>
<div class="q2">He who has clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V10">10 </span>But as for you all, come on now again; </div>
<div class="q2">I shall not find a wise man among you. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V11">11 </span>My days are past, my plans are broken off, </div>
<div class="q2">as are the thoughts of my heart. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V12">12 </span>They change the night into day, </div>
<div class="q2">saying ‘The light is near’ in the presence of darkness. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V13">13 </span>If I look for Sheol<a href="#FN1" class="notemark">*<span class="popup">Sheol is the place of the dead.</span></a> as my house, </div>
<div class="q2">if I have spread my couch in the darkness, </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V14">14 </span>If I have said to corruption, ‘You are my father;’ </div>
<div class="q2">to the worm, ‘My mother,’ and ‘my sister;’ </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V15">15 </span>where then is my hope? </div>
<div class="q2">as for my hope, who shall see it? </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V16">16 </span>Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol,<a href="#FN2" class="notemark">†<span class="popup">Sheol is the place of the dead.</span></a> </div>
<div class="q2">or descend together into the dust?” </div>
<div class="chapterlabel" id="V0"> 18</div>
<div class="p">
<span class="verse" id="V1">1 </span>Then Bildad the Shuhite answered, </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V2">2 </span>“How long will you hunt for words? </div>
<div class="q2">Consider, and afterwards we will speak. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V3">3 </span>Why are we counted as animals, </div>
<div class="q2">which have become unclean in your sight? </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V4">4 </span>You who tear yourself in your anger, </div>
<div class="q2">shall the earth be forsaken for you? </div>
<div class="q2">Or shall the rock be removed out of its place? </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V5">5 </span>“Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out, </div>
<div class="q2">The spark of his fire shall not shine. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V6">6 </span>The light shall be dark in his tent. </div>
<div class="q2">His lamp above him shall be put out. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V7">7 </span>The steps of his strength shall be shortened. </div>
<div class="q2">His own counsel shall cast him down. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V8">8 </span>For he is cast into a net by his own feet, </div>
<div class="q2">and he wanders into its mesh. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V9">9 </span>A snare will take him by the heel. </div>
<div class="q2">A trap will catch him. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V10">10 </span>A noose is hidden for him in the ground, </div>
<div class="q2">a trap for him on the path. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V11">11 </span>Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, </div>
<div class="q2">and shall chase him at his heels. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V12">12 </span>His strength shall be famished. </div>
<div class="q2">Calamity shall be ready at his side. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V13">13 </span>The members of his body shall be devoured. </div>
<div class="q2">The firstborn of death shall devour his members. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V14">14 </span>He shall be rooted out of the security of his tent. </div>
<div class="q2">He shall be brought to the king of terrors. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V15">15 </span>There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his. </div>
<div class="q2">Sulfur shall be scattered on his habitation. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V16">16 </span>His roots shall be dried up beneath. </div>
<div class="q2">Above shall his branch be cut off. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V17">17 </span>His memory shall perish from the earth. </div>
<div class="q2">He shall have no name in the street. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V18">18 </span>He shall be driven from light into darkness, </div>
<div class="q2">and chased out of the world. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V19">19 </span>He shall have neither son nor grandson among his people, </div>
<div class="q2">nor any remaining where he lived. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V20">20 </span>Those who come after shall be astonished at his day, </div>
<div class="q2">as those who went before were frightened. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V21">21 </span>Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous. </div>
<div class="q2">This is the place of him who doesn’t know God.” </div>
<div class="chapterlabel" id="V0"> 19</div>
<div class="p">
<span class="verse" id="V1">1 </span>Then Job answered, </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V2">2 </span>“How long will you torment me, </div>
<div class="q2">and crush me with words? </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V3">3 </span>You have reproached me ten times. </div>
<div class="q2">You aren’t ashamed that you attack me. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V4">4 </span>If it is true that I have erred, </div>
<div class="q2">my error remains with myself. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V5">5 </span>If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, </div>
<div class="q2">and plead against me my reproach; </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V6">6 </span>know now that God has subverted me, </div>
<div class="q2">and has surrounded me with his net. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V7">7 </span>“Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. </div>
<div class="q2">I cry for help, but there is no justice. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V8">8 </span>He has walled up my way so that I can’t pass, </div>
<div class="q2">and has set darkness in my paths. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V9">9 </span>He has stripped me of my glory, </div>
<div class="q2">and taken the crown from my head. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V10">10 </span>He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. </div>
<div class="q2">My hope he has plucked up like a tree. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V11">11 </span>He has also kindled his wrath against me. </div>
<div class="q2">He counts me among his adversaries. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V12">12 </span>His troops come on together, </div>
<div class="q2">build a siege ramp against me, </div>
<div class="q2">and encamp around my tent. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V13">13 </span>“He has put my brothers far from me. </div>
<div class="q2">My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V14">14 </span>My relatives have gone away. </div>
<div class="q2">My familiar friends have forgotten me. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V15">15 </span>Those who dwell in my house and my maids consider me a stranger. </div>
<div class="q2">I am an alien in their sight. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V16">16 </span>I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer. </div>
<div class="q2">I beg him with my mouth. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V17">17 </span>My breath is offensive to my wife. </div>
<div class="q2">I am loathsome to the children of my own mother. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V18">18 </span>Even young children despise me. </div>
<div class="q2">If I arise, they speak against me. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V19">19 </span>All my familiar friends abhor me. </div>
<div class="q2">They whom I loved have turned against me. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V20">20 </span>My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. </div>
<div class="q2">I have escaped by the skin of my teeth. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V21">21 </span>“Have pity on me, have pity on me, you my friends; </div>
<div class="q2">for the hand of God has touched me. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V22">22 </span>Why do you persecute me as God, </div>
<div class="q2">and are not satisfied with my flesh? </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V23">23 </span>“Oh that my words were now written! </div>
<div class="q2">Oh that they were inscribed in a book! </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V24">24 </span>That with an iron pen and lead </div>
<div class="q2">they were engraved in the rock forever! </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V25">25 </span>But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. </div>
<div class="q2">In the end, he will stand upon the earth. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V26">26 </span>After my skin is destroyed, </div>
<div class="q2">then in my flesh shall I see God, </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V27">27 </span>Whom I, even I, shall see on my side. </div>
<div class="q2">My eyes shall see, and not as a stranger. </div>
<div class="q">“My heart is consumed within me. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V28">28 </span>If you say, ‘How we will persecute him!’ </div>
<div class="q2">because the root of the matter is found in me, </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V29">29 </span>be afraid of the sword, </div>
<div class="q2">for wrath brings the punishments of the sword, </div>
<div class="q2">that you may know there is a judgment.” </div>
<div class="chapterlabel" id="V0"> 20</div>
<div class="p">
<span class="verse" id="V1">1 </span>Then Zophar the Naamathite answered, </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V2">2 </span>“Therefore do my thoughts give answer to me, </div>
<div class="q2">even by reason of my haste that is in me. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V3">3 </span>I have heard the reproof which puts me to shame. </div>
<div class="q2">The spirit of my understanding answers me. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V4">4 </span>Don’t you know this from old time, </div>
<div class="q2">since man was placed on earth, </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V5">5 </span>that the triumphing of the wicked is short, </div>
<div class="q2">the joy of the godless but for a moment? </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V6">6 </span>Though his height mount up to the heavens, </div>
<div class="q2">and his head reach to the clouds, </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V7">7 </span>yet he shall perish forever like his own dung. </div>
<div class="q2">Those who have seen him shall say, ‘Where is he?’ </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V8">8 </span>He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found. </div>
<div class="q2">Yes, he shall be chased away like a vision of the night. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V9">9 </span>The eye which saw him shall see him no more, </div>
<div class="q2">neither shall his place any more see him. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V10">10 </span>His children shall seek the favor of the poor. </div>
<div class="q2">His hands shall give back his wealth. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V11">11 </span>His bones are full of his youth, </div>
<div class="q2">but youth shall lie down with him in the dust. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V12">12 </span>“Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, </div>
<div class="q2">though he hide it under his tongue, </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V13">13 </span>though he spare it, and will not let it go, </div>
<div class="q2">but keep it still within his mouth; </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V14">14 </span>yet his food in his bowels is turned. </div>
<div class="q2">It is cobra venom within him. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V15">15 </span>He has swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again. </div>
<div class="q2">God will cast them out of his belly. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V16">16 </span>He shall suck cobra venom. </div>
<div class="q2">The viper’s tongue shall kill him. </div>
<div class="q"> <span class="verse" id="V17">17 </span>He shall not look at the rivers, </div>
<div class="q2">the flowing streams of honey and butter. </div>