\NormalFont\ShortTitle{Job}

{\MT Job



\par }\PoetryChap{1}{\Q \VerseOne{1}{\SC{There}} was a certain man in the land of Uz, whose name
{\ADD{was}} Job;

\par }{\Q And that man was true, blameless, righteous,
{\ADD{and}} godly,

\par }{\Q Abstaining from everything evil.


\par }{\Q \VS{2}And he had seven sons and three daughters.


\par }{\Q \VS{3}And his cattle consisted of seven thousand sheep,

\par }{\Q Three thousand camels,

\par }{\Q Five hundred yoke of oxen,

\par }{\Q Five hundred she-asses in the pastures,

\par }{\Q And a very great household,

\par }{\Q And he had a great husbandry on the earth;

\par }{\Q And that man was
{\ADD{most}} noble of the
{\ADD{men}} of the east.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{4}And his sons visiting one another

\par }{\Q Prepared a banquet every day,

\par }{\Q Taking with them also their three sisters

\par }{\Q To eat and drink with them.


\par }{\Q \VS{5}And when the days of the banquet were completed,

\par }{\Q Job sent and purified them, having risen up in the morning,

\par }{\Q And offered sacrifices for them, according to their number,

\par }{\Q And one calf for a sin offering for their souls:

\par }{\Q For Job said, Lest peradventure my sons have thought evil in their minds against God.

\par }{\Q Thus then Job did continually.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{6}And it came to pass on a day,

\par }{\Q That, behold, the angels of God came to stand before the Lord,

\par }{\Q And the devil came with them.


\par }{\Q \VS{7}And the Lord said to the devil, Whence art thou come?

\par }{\Q And the devil answered the Lord, and said,

\par }{\Q I am come from compassing the earth, and walking up and down in the world.


\par }{\Q \VS{8}And the Lord said to him,

\par }{\Q Hast thou diligently considered my servant Job,

\par }{\Q That there is none like him on the earth,

\par }{\Q A man blameless, true, godly,

\par }{\Q Abstaining from everything evil?


\par }{\Q \VS{9}Then the devil answered, and said before the Lord,

\par }{\Q Does Job worship the Lord for nothing?


\par }{\Q \VS{10}Hast thou not made a hedge about him, and about his household,

\par }{\Q And all his possessions round about?

\par }{\Q And hast thou not blessed the works of his hands,

\par }{\Q And multiplied his cattle upon the land?


\par }{\Q \VS{11}But put forth thy hand, and touch all that he has:

\par }{\Q Verily he will curse thee to
{\ADD{thy}} face.


\par }{\Q \VS{12}Then the Lord said to the devil,

\par }{\Q Behold, I give into thy hand all that he has,

\par }{\Q But touch not him.

\par }{\Q So the devil went out from the presence of the Lord.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{13}And it came to pass on a certain day,

\par }{\Q That Job’s sons and his daughters

\par }{\Q Were drinking wine in the house of their elder brother.


\par }{\Q \VS{14}And, behold, there came a messenger to Job, and said to him,

\par }{\Q The yokes of oxen were plowing,

\par }{\Q And the she-asses were feeding near them;


\par }{\Q \VS{15}And the spoilers came and took them for a prey,

\par }{\Q And slew the servants with the sword;

\par }{\Q And I having escaped alone am come to tell thee.


\par }{\Q \VS{16}While he was yet speaking, there came another messenger, and said to Job,

\par }{\Q Fire has fallen from heaven, and burned up the sheep, and devoured the shepherds likewise;

\par }{\Q And I having escaped alone am come to tell thee.


\par }{\Q \VS{17}While he was yet speaking, there came another messenger, and said to Job,

\par }{\Q The horsemen formed three companies against us,

\par }{\Q And surrounded the camels, and took them for a prey,

\par }{\Q And slew the servants with the sword;

\par }{\Q And I only escaped, and am come to tell thee.


\par }{\Q \VS{18}While he is yet speaking, another messenger comes, saying to Job,

\par }{\Q While thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking with their elder brother,


\par }{\Q \VS{19}Suddenly a great wind came on from the desert, and caught the four corners of the house,

\par }{\Q And the house fell upon thy children, and they are dead;

\par }{\Q And I have escaped alone, and am come to tell thee.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{20}So Job arose, and rent his garments,

\par }{\Q And shaved the hair of his head,

\par }{\Q And fell on the earth, and worshiped,

\VS{21}and said,

\par }{\Q I myself came forth naked from my mother’s womb,

\par }{\Q And naked shall I return thither:

\par }{\Q The Lord gave, the Lord has taken away:

\par }{\Q As it seemed good to the Lord, so has it come to pass;

\par }{\Q Blessed be the name of the Lord.


\par }{\Q \VS{22}In all these events that befell him

\par }{\Q Job sinned not at all before the Lord,

\par }{\Q And did not impute folly to God.


\par }{\BB \par }


\PoetryChap{2}{\Q \VerseOne{1}And it came to pass on a certain day,

\par }{\Q That the angels of God came to stand before the Lord,

\par }{\Q And the devil came among them

\par }{\Q To stand before the Lord.


\par }{\Q \VS{2}And the Lord said to the devil, Whence comest thou?

\par }{\Q Then the devil said before the Lord,

\par }{\Q I am come from going through the world, and walking about the whole earth.


\par }{\Q \VS{3}And the Lord said to the devil,

\par }{\Q Hast thou then observed my servant Job,

\par }{\Q That there is none of
{\ADD{men}} upon the earth like him,

\par }{\Q A harmless, true, blameless, godly man,

\par }{\Q Abstaining from all evil?

\par }{\Q And he yet cleaves to innocence,

\par }{\Q Whereas thou hast told
{\ADD{me}} to destroy his substance without cause?


\par }{\Q \VS{4}And the devil answered and said to the Lord,

\par }{\Q Skin for skin,

\par }{\Q All that a man has will he give as a ransom for his life.


\par }{\Q \VS{5}Nay, but put forth thy hand, and touch his bones and his flesh:

\par }{\Q Verily he will curse thee to
{\ADD{thy}} face.


\par }{\Q \VS{6}And the Lord said to the devil, Behold, I deliver him up to thee;

\par }{\Q Only save his life.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{7}So the devil went out from the Lord,

\par }{\Q And smote Job with sore boils from
{\ADD{his}} feet to
{\ADD{his}} head.


\par }{\Q \VS{8}And he took a potsherd to scrape away the discharge,

\par }{\Q And sat upon a dungheap outside the city.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{9}And when much time had passed, his wife said to him,

\par }{\Q How long wilt thou hold out, saying,


\par }{\Q \VS{9a}Behold, I wait yet a little while,

\par }{\Q Expecting the hope of my deliverance?


\par }{\Q \VS{9b}For, behold, thy memorial is abolished from the earth,

\par }{\Q {\ADD{Even thy}} sons and daughters, the pangs and pains of my womb

\par }{\Q Which I bore in vain with sorrows;


\par }{\Q \VS{9c}And thou thyself sittest down to spend the nights in the open air among the corruption of worms,


\par }{\Q \VS{9d}And I am a wanderer and a servant

\par }{\Q From place to place and house to house,

\par }{\Q Waiting for the setting of the sun,

\par }{\Q That I may rest from my labors and my pangs which now beset me:


\par }{\Q \VS{9e}But say some word against the Lord, and die.


\par }{\Q \VS{10}But he looked on her, and said to her,

\par }{\Q Thou hast spoken like one of the foolish women.

\par }{\Q If we have received good things of the hand of the Lord, shall we not endure evil things?

\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q In all these things that happened to him,

\par }{\Q Job sinned not at all with his lips before God.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{11}Now his three friends having heard of all the evil that was come upon him,

\par }{\Q Came to him each from his own country:

\par }{\Q Eliphaz the king of the Temanites,

\par }{\Q Bildad sovereign of the Shuhites,

\par }{\Q Zophar king of the Minaeans:

\par }{\Q And they came to him with one accord,

\par }{\Q To comfort and to visit him.


\par }{\Q \VS{12}And when they saw him from a distance they did not know him;

\par }{\Q And they cried with a loud voice, and wept,

\par }{\Q And rent every one his garment,

\par }{\Q And sprinkled dust upon
{\ADD{their heads}},


\par }{\Q \VS{13}And they sat down beside him seven days and seven nights,

\par }{\Q And no one of them spoke;

\par }{\Q For they saw that
{\ADD{his}} affliction was dreadful and very great.


\par }{\BB \par }


\PoetryChap{3}{\Q \VerseOne{1}After this Job opened his mouth,

\par }{\Q And cursed his day,

\VS{2}saying,


\par }{\Q \VS{3}Let the day perish in which I was born,

\par }{\Q And that night in which they said, Behold a man-child!


\par }{\Q \VS{4}Let that night be darkness,

\par }{\Q And let not the Lord regard it from above,

\par }{\Q Neither let light come upon it.


\par }{\Q \VS{5}But let darkness and the shadow of death seize it;

\par }{\Q Let blackness come upon it;


\par }{\Q \VS{6}Let that day and night be cursed,

\par }{\Q Let darkness carry them away;

\par }{\Q Let it not come into the days of the year,

\par }{\Q Neither let it be numbered with the days of the months.


\par }{\Q \VS{7}But let that night be pain,

\par }{\Q And let not mirth come upon it, nor joy.


\par }{\Q \VS{8}But let him that curses that day curse it,

\par }{\Q {\ADD{Even}} he that is ready to attack the great whale.


\par }{\Q \VS{9}Let the stars of that night be darkened;

\par }{\Q Let it remain
{\ADD{dark}}, and not come into light;

\par }{\Q And let it not see the morning star arise:


\par }{\Q \VS{10}Because it shut not up the gates of my mother’s womb,

\par }{\Q For
{\ADD{so}} it would have removed sorrow from my eyes.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{11}For why died I not in the belly?

\par }{\Q And
{\ADD{why}} did I not come forth from the womb and die immediately?


\par }{\Q \VS{12}And why did the knees support me?

\par }{\Q And why did I suck the breasts?


\par }{\Q \VS{13}Now I should have lain down and been quiet,

\par }{\Q I should have slept and been at rest,


\par }{\Q \VS{14}With kings
{\ADD{and}} counselors of the earth,

\par }{\Q Who gloried in
{\ADD{their}} swords;


\par }{\Q \VS{15}Or with rulers, whose gold was abundant,

\par }{\Q Who filled their houses with silver:


\par }{\Q \VS{16}Or
{\ADD{I should have been}} as an untimely birth proceeding from his mother’s womb,

\par }{\Q Or as infants who never saw light.


\par }{\Q \VS{17}There the ungodly have burned out the fury of rage;

\par }{\Q There the wearied in body rest.


\par }{\Q \VS{18}And the men of old time have together

\par }{\Q Ceased to hear the exactor’s voice.


\par }{\Q \VS{19}The small and great are there,

\par }{\Q And the servant that feared his lord.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{20}For why is light given to those who are in bitterness,

\par }{\Q And life to the souls which are in griefs?


\par }{\Q \VS{21}Who desire death, and obtain it not,

\par }{\Q Digging
{\ADD{for it}} as
{\ADD{for}} treasures;


\par }{\Q \VS{22}And would be very joyful if they should gain it?


\par }{\Q \VS{23}Death
{\ADD{is}} rest to
{\ADD{such}} a man,

\par }{\Q For God has hedged him in.


\par }{\Q \VS{24}For my groaning comes before my food,

\par }{\Q And I weep being beset with terror.


\par }{\Q \VS{25}For the terror of which I meditated has come upon me,

\par }{\Q And that which I had feared has befallen me.


\par }{\Q \VS{26}I was not at peace, nor quiet, nor had I rest;

\par }{\Q Yet wrath came upon me.


\par }{\BB \par }


\PoetryChap{4}{\Q \VerseOne{1}Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{2}Hast thou been often spoken to in distress?

\par }{\Q But who shall endure the force of thy words?


\par }{\Q \VS{3}For whereas thou hast instructed many,

\par }{\Q And hast strengthened the hands of the weak one,


\par }{\Q \VS{4}And hast supported the failing with words,

\par }{\Q And hast imparted courage to feeble knees.


\par }{\Q \VS{5}Yet now
{\ADD{that}} pain has come upon thee, and touched thee, thou art troubled.


\par }{\Q \VS{6}Is not thy fear
{\ADD{founded}} in folly,

\par }{\Q Thy hope also, and the mischief of thy way?


\par }{\Q \VS{7}Remember then who has perished, being pure?

\par }{\Q Or when were the truehearted utterly destroyed?


\par }{\Q \VS{8}Accordingly as I have seen men plowing barren places,

\par }{\Q And they that sow them will reap sorrows for themselves.


\par }{\Q \VS{9}They shall perish by the command of the Lord,

\par }{\Q And shall be utterly consumed by the breath of his wrath.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{10}The strength of the lion, and the voice of the lioness,

\par }{\Q And the exulting cry of serpents are quenched.


\par }{\Q \VS{11}The old lion has perished for want of food,

\par }{\Q And the lions’ whelps have forsaken one another.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{12}But if there had been any truth in thy words,

\par }{\Q None of these evils would have befallen thee.

\par }{\Q Shall not mine ear receive excellent
{\ADD{revelations}} from him?


\par }{\Q \VS{13}But
{\ADD{as when}} terror falls upon men,

\par }{\Q With dread and a sound in the night,


\par }{\Q \VS{14}Horror and trembling seized me,

\par }{\Q And caused all my bones greatly to shake.


\par }{\Q \VS{15}And a spirit came before my face;

\par }{\Q And my hair and flesh quivered.


\par }{\Q \VS{16}I arose and perceived it not:

\par }{\Q I looked, and there was no form before my eyes:

\par }{\Q But I only heard a breath and a voice,
{\ADD{saying}},


\par }{\Q \VS{17}What, shall a mortal be pure before the Lord?

\par }{\Q Or a man be blameless in regard to his works?


\par }{\Q \VS{18}Whereas he trusts not in his servants,

\par }{\Q And perceives perverseness in his angels.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{19}But
{\ADD{as for}} them that dwell in houses of clay,

\par }{\Q Of whom we also are formed of the same clay,

\par }{\Q He smites them like a moth.


\par }{\Q \VS{20}And from morning to evening they no longer exist:

\par }{\Q They have perished, because they cannot help themselves.


\par }{\Q \VS{21}For he blows upon them, and they are withered:

\par }{\Q They have perished for lack of wisdom.


\par }{\BB \par }


\PoetryChap{5}{\Q \VerseOne{1}But call, if anyone will hearken to thee,

\par }{\Q Or if thou shalt see any of the holy angels.


\par }{\Q \VS{2}For wrath destroys the foolish one,

\par }{\Q And envy slays him that has gone astray.


\par }{\Q \VS{3}And I have seen foolish ones taking root:

\par }{\Q But suddenly their habitation was devoured.


\par }{\Q \VS{4}Let their children be far from safety,

\par }{\Q And let them be crushed at the doors of vile men, and let there be no deliverer.


\par }{\Q \VS{5}For what they have collected, the just shall eat;

\par }{\Q But they shall not be delivered out of calamities:

\par }{\Q Let their strength be utterly exhausted.


\par }{\Q \VS{6}For labor cannot by any means come out of the earth,

\par }{\Q Nor shall trouble spring out of the mountains:


\par }{\Q \VS{7}Yet man is born to labor,

\par }{\Q And
{\ADD{even so}} the vulture’s young seek the high places.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{8}Nevertheless I will beseech the Lord,

\par }{\Q And will call upon the Lord, the sovereign of all;


\par }{\Q \VS{9}Who does great things and untraceable,

\par }{\Q Glorious things also, and marvelous, of which there is no number:


\par }{\Q \VS{10}Who gives rain upon the earth,

\par }{\Q Sending water on the earth:


\par }{\Q \VS{11}Who exalts the lowly,

\par }{\Q And raises up them that are lost:


\par }{\Q \VS{12}Frustrating the counsels of the crafty,

\par }{\Q And their hands shall not perform the truth:


\par }{\Q \VS{13}Who takes the wise in their wisdom,

\par }{\Q And subverts the counsel of the crafty.


\par }{\Q \VS{14}In the day darkness shall come upon them,

\par }{\Q And let them grope in the noonday even as in the night:


\par }{\Q \VS{15}And let them perish in war,

\par }{\Q And let the weak escape from the hand of the mighty.


\par }{\Q \VS{16}And let the weak have hope,

\par }{\Q But the mouth of the unjust be stopped.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{17}But blessed
{\ADD{is}} the man whom the Lord has reproved;

\par }{\Q And reject not thou the chastening of the Almighty.


\par }{\Q \VS{18}For he causes
{\ADD{a man}} to be in pain, and restores
{\ADD{him}} again:

\par }{\Q He smites, and his hands heal.


\par }{\Q \VS{19}Six times he shall deliver thee out of distresses:

\par }{\Q And in the seventh harm shall not touch thee.


\par }{\Q \VS{20}In famine he shall deliver thee from death:

\par }{\Q And in war he shall free thee from the power of the sword.


\par }{\Q \VS{21}He shall hide thee from the scourge of the tongue:

\par }{\Q And thou shalt not be afraid of coming evils.


\par }{\Q \VS{22}Thou shalt laugh at the unrighteous and the lawless:

\par }{\Q And thou shalt not be afraid of wild beasts.


\par }{\Q \VS{23}For the wild beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.


\par }{\Q \VS{24}Then shalt thou know that thy house shall be at peace,

\par }{\Q And the provision for thy tabernacle shall not fail.


\par }{\Q \VS{25}And thou shalt know that thy seed
{\ADD{shall be}} abundant;

\par }{\Q And thy children shall be like the herbage of the field.


\par }{\Q \VS{26}And thou shalt come to the grave like ripe corn reaped in its season,

\par }{\Q Or as a heap of the corn flour collected in proper time.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{27}Behold, we have thus sought out these matters;

\par }{\Q These are what we have heard:

\par }{\Q But do thou reflect with thyself, if thou hast done anything
{\ADD{wrong}}.


\par }{\BB \par }


\PoetryChap{6}{\Q \VerseOne{1}But Job answered and said,


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{2}Oh that one would indeed weigh the wrath that is upon me,

\par }{\Q And take up my griefs in a balance together!


\par }{\Q \VS{3}And verily they would be heavier than the sand by the seashore:

\par }{\Q But, as it seems, my words are vain.


\par }{\Q \VS{4}For the arrows of the Lord are in my body,

\par }{\Q Whose violence drinks up my blood:

\par }{\Q Whenever I am going to speak, they pierce me.


\par }{\Q \VS{5}What then? will the wild ass bray for nothing, if he is not seeking food?

\par }{\Q Or again, will the ox low at the manger, when he has fodder?


\par }{\Q \VS{6}Shall bread be eaten without salt?

\par }{\Q Or again, is there taste in empty words?


\par }{\Q \VS{7}For my wrath cannot cease;

\par }{\Q For I perceive my food as the smell of a lion
{\ADD{to be}} loathsome.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{8}For oh that he would grant
{\ADD{my desire}}, and my petition might come,

\par }{\Q And the Lord would grant my hope!


\par }{\Q \VS{9}Let the Lord begin and wound me,

\par }{\Q But let him not utterly destroy me.


\par }{\Q \VS{10}Let the grave be my city, upon the walls of which I have leaped: I will not shrink from it;

\par }{\Q For I have not denied the holy words of my God.


\par }{\Q \VS{11}For what is my strength, that I continue?

\par }{\Q What is my time, that my soul endures?


\par }{\Q \VS{12}Is my strength the strength of stones?

\par }{\Q Or is my flesh of brass?


\par }{\Q \VS{13}Or have I not trusted in him?

\par }{\Q But help is
{\ADD{far}} from me.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{14}Mercy has rejected me;

\par }{\Q And the visitation of the Lord has disregarded me.


\par }{\Q \VS{15}My nearest relations have not regarded me;

\par }{\Q They have passed me by like a failing brook, or like a wave.


\par }{\Q \VS{16}They who used to reverence me, now have come against me

\par }{\Q Like snow or congealed ice.


\par }{\Q \VS{17}When it has melted at the approach of heat, it is not known what it was.


\par }{\Q \VS{18}Thus I also have been deserted of all;

\par }{\Q And I am ruined, and become an outcast.


\par }{\Q \VS{19}Behold the ways of the Temanites,

\par }{\Q Ye that mark the paths of the Sabeans.


\par }{\Q \VS{20}They too that trust in cities and riches

\par }{\Q Shall come to shame.


\par }{\Q \VS{21}But ye also have come to me without pity;

\par }{\Q So that beholding my wound ye are afraid.


\par }{\Q \VS{22}What? have I made any demand of you?

\par }{\Q Or do I ask for strength from you,


\par }{\Q \VS{23}To deliver me from enemies,

\par }{\Q Or to rescue me from the hand of the mighty ones?


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{24}Teach ye me, and I will be silent:

\par }{\Q If in anything I have erred, tell me.


\par }{\Q \VS{25}But as it seems, the words of a true man are vain,

\par }{\Q Because I do not ask strength of you.


\par }{\Q \VS{26}Neither will your reproof cause me to cease my words,

\par }{\Q For neither will I endure the sound of your speech.


\par }{\Q \VS{27}Even because ye attack the fatherless,

\par }{\Q And insult your friend.


\par }{\Q \VS{28}But now, having looked upon your countenances, I will not lie.


\par }{\Q \VS{29}Sit down now, and let there not be unrighteousness;

\par }{\Q And unite again with the just.


\par }{\Q \VS{30}For there is no injustice in my tongue;

\par }{\Q And does not my throat meditate understanding?


\par }{\BB \par }


\PoetryChap{7}{\Q \VerseOne{1}Is not the life of man upon earth a state of trial?

\par }{\Q And his existence as that of a hireling by the day?


\par }{\Q \VS{2}Or as a servant that fears his master, and one who has grasped a shadow?

\par }{\Q Or as a hireling waiting for his pay?


\par }{\Q \VS{3}So have I also endured months of vanity,

\par }{\Q And nights of pain have been appointed me.


\par }{\Q \VS{4}Whenever I lie down, I say, When
{\ADD{will it be}} day?

\par }{\Q And whenever I rise up, again
{\ADD{I say}} when
{\ADD{will it be}} evening?

\par }{\Q And I am full of pains from evening to morning.


\par }{\Q \VS{5}And my body is covered with loathsome worms;

\par }{\Q And I waste away, scraping off clods of dust from my eruption.


\par }{\Q \VS{6}And my life is lighter than a word,

\par }{\Q And has perished in vain hope.


\par }{\Q \VS{7}Remember then that my life is breath,

\par }{\Q And mine eye shall not yet again see good.


\par }{\Q \VS{8}The eye of him that sees me shall not see me
{\ADD{again}}:

\par }{\Q Thine eyes are upon me, and I am no more.


\par }{\Q \VS{9}{\ADD{I am}} as a cloud that is cleared away from the sky:

\par }{\Q For if a man go down to the grave, he shall not come up again:


\par }{\Q \VS{10}And he shall surely not return to his own house,

\par }{\Q Neither shall his place know him anymore.


\par }{\Q \VS{11}Then neither will I refrain my mouth:

\par }{\Q I will speak being in distress;

\par }{\Q Being in anguish I will disclose the bitterness of my soul.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{12}Am I a sea, or a serpent,

\par }{\Q That thou hast set a watch over me?


\par }{\Q \VS{13}I said that my bed should comfort me,

\par }{\Q And I would privately counsel with myself on my couch.


\par }{\Q \VS{14}Thou scarest me with dreams, and dost terrify me with visions.


\par }{\Q \VS{15}Thou wilt separate life from my spirit;

\par }{\Q And yet
{\ADD{keep}} my bones from death.


\par }{\Q \VS{16}For I shall not live forever, that I should patiently endure:

\par }{\Q Depart from me, for my life
{\ADD{is}} vain.


\par }{\Q \VS{17}For what is man, that thou hast magnified him?

\par }{\Q Or that thou givest heed to him?


\par }{\Q \VS{18}Wilt thou visit him till the morning,

\par }{\Q And judge him till
{\ADD{the time of}} rest?


\par }{\Q \VS{19}How long dost thou not let me alone,

\par }{\Q Nor let me go, until I shall swallow down my spittle?


\par }{\Q \VS{20}If I have sinned, what shall I be able to do,

\par }{\Q O thou that understandest the mind of men?

\par }{\Q Why hast thou made me as thine accuser,

\par }{\Q And
{\ADD{why}} am I a burden to thee?


\par }{\Q \VS{21}Why hast thou not forgotten my iniquity,

\par }{\Q And purged my sin?

\par }{\Q But now I shall depart to the earth;

\par }{\Q And in the morning, I am no more.


\par }{\BB \par }


\PoetryChap{8}{\Q \VerseOne{1}Then Bildad the Shuhite answered, and said,


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{2}How long wilt thou speak these things,

\par }{\Q {\ADD{How long shall}} the breath of thy mouth
{\ADD{be}} abundant in words?


\par }{\Q \VS{3}Will the Lord be unjust when he judges;

\par }{\Q Or will he that has made all things pervert justice?


\par }{\Q \VS{4}If thy sons have sinned before him,

\par }{\Q He has cast them away because of their transgression.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{5}But be thou early in prayer to the Lord Almighty.


\par }{\Q \VS{6}If thou art pure and true, he will hearken to thy supplication,

\par }{\Q And will restore to thee the habitation of righteousness.


\par }{\Q \VS{7}Though then thy beginning should be small,

\par }{\Q Yet thy end should be unspeakably great.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{8}For ask of the former generation,

\par }{\Q And search diligently among the race of
{\ADD{our}} fathers


\par }{\Q \VS{9}(For we are of yesterday, and know nothing;

\par }{\Q For our life upon the earth is a shadow):


\par }{\Q \VS{10}Shall not these teach thee, and report
{\ADD{to thee}},

\par }{\Q And bring out words from
{\ADD{their}} heart?


\par }{\Q \VS{11}Does the rush flourish without water,

\par }{\Q Or shall the flag grow up without moisture?


\par }{\Q \VS{12}When it is yet on the root, and
{\ADD{though}} it has not been cut down,

\par }{\Q Does not any herb wither before it has received moisture?


\par }{\Q \VS{13}Thus then shall be the end of all that forget the Lord:

\par }{\Q For the hope of the ungodly shall perish.


\par }{\Q \VS{14}For his house shall be without inhabitants,

\par }{\Q And his tent shall prove a spider’s web.


\par }{\Q \VS{15}If he should prop up his house, it shall not stand:

\par }{\Q And when he has taken hold of it, it shall not remain.


\par }{\Q \VS{16}For it is moist under the sun,

\par }{\Q And his branch shall come forth out of his dungheap.


\par }{\Q \VS{17}He lies down upon a gathering of stones,

\par }{\Q And shall live in the midst of flints.


\par }{\Q \VS{18}If
{\ADD{God}} should destroy
{\ADD{him}}, his place shall deny him.

\par }{\Q Hast thou not seen such things,


\par }{\Q \VS{19}That such is the overthrow of the ungodly?

\par }{\Q And out of the earth another shall grow.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{20}For the Lord will by no means reject the harmless man;

\par }{\Q But he will not receive any gift of the ungodly.


\par }{\Q \VS{21}But he will fill with laughter the mouth of the sincere,

\par }{\Q And their lips with thanksgiving.


\par }{\Q \VS{22}But their adversaries shall clothe themselves with shame;

\par }{\Q And the habitation of the ungodly shall perish.


\par }{\BB \par }


\PoetryChap{9}{\Q \VerseOne{1}Then Job answered and said,


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{2}I know of a truth that it is so:

\par }{\Q For how shall a mortal man be just before the Lord?


\par }{\Q \VS{3}For if he would enter into judgment with him,

\par }{\Q {\ADD{God}} would not hearken to him,

\par }{\Q So that he should answer to one of his charges of a thousand.


\par }{\Q \VS{4}For he is wise in mind, and mighty, and great:

\par }{\Q Who has hardened himself against him and endured?


\par }{\Q \VS{5}Who wears out the mountains, and
{\ADD{men}} know it not:

\par }{\Q Who overturns them in anger.


\par }{\Q \VS{6}Who shakes the
{\ADD{earth}} under heaven from its foundations,

\par }{\Q And its pillars totter.


\par }{\Q \VS{7}Who commands the sun, and it rises not;

\par }{\Q And he seals up the stars.


\par }{\Q \VS{8}Who alone has stretched out the heavens,

\par }{\Q And walks on the sea as on firm ground.


\par }{\Q \VS{9}Who makes Pleiades, and Hesperus, and Arcturus, and the chambers of the south.


\par }{\Q \VS{10}Who does great and unsearchable things;

\par }{\Q Glorious also and excellent things, innumerable.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{11}If ever he should go beyond me, I shall not see him:

\par }{\Q If he should pass by me, neither thus have I known
{\ADD{it}}.


\par }{\Q \VS{12}If he would take away, who shall turn him back?

\par }{\Q Or who shall say to him, What hast thou done?


\par }{\Q \VS{13}For
{\ADD{if}} he has turned away
{\ADD{his}} anger,

\par }{\Q The whales under heaven have stooped under him.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{14}Oh then that he would hearken to me, or judge my cause.


\par }{\Q \VS{15}For though I be righteous, he will not hearken to me:

\par }{\Q I will entreat his judgment.


\par }{\Q \VS{16}And if I should call and he should not hearken,

\par }{\Q I cannot believe that he has listened to my voice.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{17}Let him not crush me with a dark storm:

\par }{\Q But he has made my bruises many without cause.


\par }{\Q \VS{18}For he suffers me not to take breath,

\par }{\Q But he has filled me with bitterness.


\par }{\Q \VS{19}For indeed he is strong in power:

\par }{\Q Who then shall resist his judgment?


\par }{\Q \VS{20}For though I should seem righteous, my mouth will be profane:

\par }{\Q And though I should seem blameless, I shall be proved perverse.


\par }{\Q \VS{21}For even if I have sinned, I know it not
{\ADD{in}} my soul:

\par }{\Q But my life is taken away.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{22}Wherefore I said, Wrath slays the great and mighty man.


\par }{\Q \VS{23}For the worthless die,

\par }{\Q But the righteous are laughed to scorn.


\par }{\Q \VS{24}For they are delivered into the hands of the unrighteous
{\ADD{man}}:

\par }{\Q He covers the faces of the judges
{\ADD{of the earth}}:

\par }{\Q But if it be not he, who is it?


\par }{\Q \VS{25}But my life is swifter than a post:

\par }{\Q {\ADD{My days}} have fled away, and they knew it not.


\par }{\Q \VS{26}Or again, is there a trace of
{\ADD{their}} path
{\ADD{left}} by ships?

\par }{\Q Or is there one of the flying eagle as it seeks
{\ADD{its}} prey?


\par }{\Q \VS{27}And if I should say, I will forget to speak,

\par }{\Q I will bow down my face and groan;


\par }{\Q \VS{28}I quake in all my limbs,

\par }{\Q For I know that thou wilt not leave me alone
{\ADD{as}} innocent.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{29}But since I am ungodly, why have I not died?


\par }{\Q \VS{30}For if I should wash myself with snow,

\par }{\Q And purge myself with pure hands,


\par }{\Q \VS{31}Thou hadst thoroughly plunged me in filth,

\par }{\Q And my garment had abhorred me.


\par }{\Q \VS{32}For thou art not man like me, with whom I could contend,

\par }{\Q That we might come together to judgment.


\par }{\Q \VS{33}Would that
{\ADD{he}} our mediator were
{\ADD{present}}, and a reprover,

\par }{\Q And one who should hear
{\ADD{the cause}} between both.


\par }{\Q \VS{34}Let him remove
{\ADD{his}} rod from me,

\par }{\Q And let not his fear terrify me:


\par }{\Q \VS{35}So shall I not be afraid, but I will speak:

\par }{\Q For I am not thus conscious
{\ADD{of guilt}}.


\par }{\BB \par }


\PoetryChap{10}{\Q \VerseOne{1}Weary in my soul,

\par }{\Q I will pour my words with groans upon him:

\par }{\Q I will speak being straitened in the bitterness of my soul.


\par }{\Q \VS{2}And I will say to the Lord, Do not teach me to be impious;

\par }{\Q And wherefore hast thou thus judged me?


\par }{\Q \VS{3}Is it good before thee if I be unrighteous?

\par }{\Q For thou hast disowned the work of thy hands,

\par }{\Q And attended to the counsel of the ungodly.


\par }{\Q \VS{4}Or dost thou see as a mortal sees?

\par }{\Q Or wilt thou look as a man sees?


\par }{\Q \VS{5}Or is thy life human,

\par }{\Q Or thy years
{\ADD{the years}} of a man,


\par }{\Q \VS{6}That thou hast inquired into mine iniquity,

\par }{\Q And searched out my sins?


\par }{\Q \VS{7}For thou knowest that I have not committed iniquity:

\par }{\Q But who is he that can deliver out of thy hands?


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{8}Thy hands have formed me and made me;

\par }{\Q Afterward thou didst change
{\ADD{thy mind}}, and smite me.


\par }{\Q \VS{9}Remember that thou hast made me
{\ADD{as}} clay,

\par }{\Q And thou dost turn me again to earth.


\par }{\Q \VS{10}Hast thou not poured me out like milk,

\par }{\Q And curdled me like cheese?


\par }{\Q \VS{11}And thou didst clothe me with skin and flesh,

\par }{\Q And frame me with bones and sinews.


\par }{\Q \VS{12}And thou didst bestow upon me life and mercy,

\par }{\Q And thy oversight has preserved my spirit.


\par }{\Q \VS{13}Having these things in thyself, I know that thou canst do all things;

\par }{\Q For nothing is impossible with thee.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{14}And if I should sin, thou watchest me;

\par }{\Q And thou hast not cleared me from iniquity.


\par }{\Q \VS{15}Or if I should be ungodly, woe is me:

\par }{\Q And if I should be righteous, I cannot lift myself up,

\par }{\Q For I am full of dishonor.


\par }{\Q \VS{16}For I am hunted like a lion for slaughter;

\par }{\Q For again thou hast changed and art terribly destroying me;


\par }{\Q \VS{17}Renewing against me my torture:

\par }{\Q And thou hast dealt with me in great anger,

\par }{\Q And thou hast brought trials upon me.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{18}Why then didst thou bring me out of the womb?

\par }{\Q And why did I not die, and no eye see me,


\par }{\Q \VS{19}And I become as if I had not been?

\par }{\Q For why was I not carried from the womb to the grave?


\par }{\Q \VS{20}Is not the time of my life short?

\par }{\Q Suffer me to rest a little,


\par }{\Q \VS{21}Before I go whence I shall not return,

\par }{\Q To a land of darkness and gloominess;


\par }{\Q \VS{22}To a land of perpetual darkness, where there is no light,

\par }{\Q Neither
{\ADD{can anyone}} see the life of mortals.


\par }{\BB \par }


\PoetryChap{11}{\Q \VerseOne{1}Then Zophar the Minaean answered and said,


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{2}He that speaks much, should also hear on the other side:

\par }{\Q Or does the fluent speaker think himself to be righteous?

\par }{\Q Blessed
{\ADD{is}} the short-lived offspring of woman.


\par }{\Q \VS{3}Be not a speaker of many words;

\par }{\Q For is there none to answer thee?


\par }{\Q \VS{4}For say not, I am pure in my works,

\par }{\Q And blameless before him.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{5}But oh that the Lord would speak to thee,

\par }{\Q And open his lips with thee!


\par }{\Q \VS{6}Then shall he declare to thee the power of wisdom;

\par }{\Q For it shall be double of that which is with thee:

\par }{\Q And then shalt thou know, that a just recompense of thy sins has come to thee from the Lord.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{7}Wilt thou find out the traces of the Lord?

\par }{\Q Or hast thou come to the end
{\ADD{of that}} which the Almighty has made?


\par }{\Q \VS{8}Heaven
{\ADD{is}} high; and what wilt thou do?

\par }{\Q And there are deeper things than those in hell; what dost thou know?


\par }{\Q \VS{9}Or longer than the measure of the earth,

\par }{\Q Or the breadth of the sea.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{10}And if he should overthrow all things, who will say to him, What hast thou done?


\par }{\Q \VS{11}For he knows the works of transgressors;

\par }{\Q And when he sees wickedness, he will not overlook
{\ADD{it}}.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{12}But man vainly buoys himself up with words;

\par }{\Q And a mortal born of woman
{\ADD{is}} like an ass of the desert.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{13}For if thou hast made thy heart pure,

\par }{\Q And liftest up
{\ADD{thine}} hands toward him;


\par }{\Q \VS{14}If there is any iniquity in thy hands,

\par }{\Q Put it far from thee,

\par }{\Q And let not unrighteousness lodge in thy habitation.


\par }{\Q \VS{15}For thus shall thy countenance shine again, as pure water;

\par }{\Q And thou shalt divest thyself of uncleanness, and shalt not fear.


\par }{\Q \VS{16}And thou shalt forget trouble,

\par }{\Q As a wave that has passed by; and thou shalt not be scared.


\par }{\Q \VS{17}And thy prayer
{\ADD{shall be}} as the morning star,

\par }{\Q And life shall arise to thee
{\ADD{as}} from the noonday.


\par }{\Q \VS{18}And thou shalt be confident, because thou hast hope;

\par }{\Q And peace shall dawn to thee from out of anxiety and care.


\par }{\Q \VS{19}For thou shalt be at ease, and there shall be no one to fight against thee;

\par }{\Q And many shall charge, and make supplication to thee.


\par }{\Q \VS{20}But safety shall fail them;

\par }{\Q For their hope is destruction,

\par }{\Q And the eyes of the ungodly shall waste away.


\par }{\BB \par }


\PoetryChap{12}{\Q \VerseOne{1}And Job answered and said,


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{2}So then ye
{\ADD{alone}} are men,

\par }{\Q And wisdom shall die with you?


\par }{\Q \VS{3}{\ADD{But}} I also have a heart as well as you.


\par }{\Q \VS{4}For a righteous and blameless man has become a subject for mockery.


\par }{\Q \VS{5}For it had been ordained that he should fall under others at the appointed time,

\par }{\Q And that his houses should be spoiled by transgressors:

\par }{\Q Let not however anyone trust that, being evil, he shall be
{\ADD{held}} guiltless,


\par }{\Q \VS{6}Even as many as provoke the Lord,

\par }{\Q As if there were indeed to be no inquisition
{\ADD{made}} of them.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{7}But ask now the beasts, if they may speak to thee;

\par }{\Q And the birds of the air, if they may declare to thee.


\par }{\Q \VS{8}Tell the earth, if it may speak to thee:

\par }{\Q And the fish of the sea shall explain to thee.


\par }{\Q \VS{9}Who then has not known in all these things,

\par }{\Q That the hand of the Lord has made them?


\par }{\Q \VS{10}Whereas the life of all living things is in his hand,

\par }{\Q And the breath of every man.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{11}For the ear tries words,

\par }{\Q And the palate tastes meats.


\par }{\Q \VS{12}In length of time is wisdom,

\par }{\Q And in long life knowledge.


\par }{\Q \VS{13}With him are wisdom and power,

\par }{\Q With him counsel and understanding.


\par }{\Q \VS{14}If he should cast down, who will build up?

\par }{\Q If he should shut up against men, who shall open?


\par }{\Q \VS{15}If he should withhold the water, he will dry the earth:

\par }{\Q And if he should let it loose, he overthrows and destroys it.


\par }{\Q \VS{16}With him are strength and power:

\par }{\Q He has knowledge and understanding.


\par }{\Q \VS{17}He leads counselors away captive,

\par }{\Q And maddens the judges of the earth.


\par }{\Q \VS{18}He seats kings upon thrones,

\par }{\Q And girds their loins with a girdle.


\par }{\Q \VS{19}He sends away priests into captivity,

\par }{\Q And overthrows the mighty ones of the earth.


\par }{\Q \VS{20}He changes the lips of the trustworthy,

\par }{\Q And he knows the understanding of the elders.


\par }{\Q \VS{21}He pours dishonor upon princes,

\par }{\Q And heals the lowly.


\par }{\Q \VS{22}Revealing deep things out of darkness:

\par }{\Q And he has brought into light the shadow of death.


\par }{\Q \VS{23}Causing the nations to wander, and destroying them:

\par }{\Q Overthrowing the nations, and leading them
{\ADD{away}}.


\par }{\Q \VS{24}Perplexing the minds of the princes of the earth:

\par }{\Q And he causes them to wander in a way they have not known,
{\ADD{saying}},


\par }{\Q \VS{25}Let them grope
{\ADD{in}} darkness, and
{\ADD{let there be}} no light,

\par }{\Q And let them wander as a drunken man.


\par }{\BB \par }


\PoetryChap{13}{\Q \VerseOne{1}Behold, mine eye has seen these things,

\par }{\Q And mine ear has heard
{\ADD{them}}.


\par }{\Q \VS{2}And I know all that ye too know;

\par }{\Q And I have not less understanding than you.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{3}Nevertheless I will speak to the Lord,

\par }{\Q And I will reason before him, if he will.


\par }{\Q \VS{4}But ye are all bad physicians,

\par }{\Q And healers of diseases.


\par }{\Q \VS{5}But would that ye were silent,

\par }{\Q And it would be wisdom to you in the end.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{6}But hear ye the reasoning of my mouth,

\par }{\Q And attend to the judgment of my lips.


\par }{\Q \VS{7}Do ye not speak before the Lord,

\par }{\Q And utter deceit before him?


\par }{\Q \VS{8}Or will ye draw back?

\par }{\Q Nay, do ye yourselves be judges.


\par }{\Q \VS{9}For
{\ADD{it were}} well if he would thoroughly search you:

\par }{\Q For though doing all things
{\ADD{in your power}} ye should attach yourselves to him,


\par }{\Q \VS{10}He will not reprove you at all the less:

\par }{\Q But if moreover ye should secretly respect persons,


\par }{\Q \VS{11}Shall not his whirlpool sweep you round,

\par }{\Q And terror from him fall upon you?


\par }{\Q \VS{12}And your glorying shall prove in the end to you like ashes,

\par }{\Q And your body
{\ADD{like a body}} of clay.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{13}Be silent, that I may speak, and cease from
{\ADD{mine}} anger,


\par }{\Q \VS{14}While I may take my flesh in my teeth,

\par }{\Q And put my life in my hand.


\par }{\Q \VS{15}Though the Mighty One should lay hand upon me, forasmuch as he has begun,

\par }{\Q Verily I will speak, and plead before him.


\par }{\Q \VS{16}And this shall turn to me for salvation;

\par }{\Q For fraud shall have no entrance before him.


\par }{\Q \VS{17}Hear, hear ye my words,

\par }{\Q For I will declare in your hearing.


\par }{\Q \VS{18}Behold, I am near my judgment:

\par }{\Q I know that I shall appear evidently just.


\par }{\Q \VS{19}For who is he that shall plead with me,

\par }{\Q That I should now be silent, and expire?


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{20}But grant me two things:

\par }{\Q Then I will not hide myself from thy face.


\par }{\Q \VS{21}Withhold
{\ADD{thine}} hand from me:

\par }{\Q And let not thy fear terrify me.


\par }{\Q \VS{22}Then shalt thou call, and I will hearken to thee:

\par }{\Q Or thou shalt speak, and I will give thee an answer.


\par }{\Q \VS{23}How many are my sins and my transgressions?

\par }{\Q Teach me what they are.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{24}Wherefore hidest thou thyself from me,

\par }{\Q And deemest me thine enemy?


\par }{\Q \VS{25}Wilt thou be startled
{\ADD{at me}}, as
{\ADD{at}} a leaf shaken by the wind?

\par }{\Q Or wilt thou set thyself against me as against grass borne upon the breeze?


\par }{\Q \VS{26}For thou hast written evil things against me,

\par }{\Q And thou hast compassed me with the sins of my youth.


\par }{\Q \VS{27}And thou hast placed my foot in the stocks;

\par }{\Q And thou hast watched all my works,

\par }{\Q And hast penetrated to my heels.


\par }{\Q \VS{28}{\ADD{I am as}} that which waxes old like a bottle,

\par }{\Q Or like a moth-eaten garment.


\par }{\BB \par }


\PoetryChap{14}{\Q \VerseOne{1}For a mortal born of a woman
{\ADD{is}} short-lived, and full of wrath.


\par }{\Q \VS{2}Or he falls like a flower that has bloomed;

\par }{\Q And he departs like a shadow, and cannot continue.


\par }{\Q \VS{3}Hast thou not taken account even of him,

\par }{\Q And caused him to enter into judgment before thee?


\par }{\Q \VS{4}For who shall be pure from uncleanness? not even one;


\par }{\Q \VS{5}If even his life should be
{\ADD{but}} one day upon the earth:

\par }{\Q And his months are numbered by him:

\par }{\Q Thou hast appointed
{\ADD{him}} for a time, and he shall by no means exceed
{\ADD{it}}.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{6}Depart from him, that he may be quiet,

\par }{\Q And take pleasure in his life,
{\ADD{though}} as a hireling.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{7}For there is hope for a tree,

\par }{\Q Even if it should be cut down,
{\ADD{that}} it shall blossom again,

\par }{\Q And its branch shall not fail.


\par }{\Q \VS{8}For though its root should grow old in the earth,

\par }{\Q And its stem die in the rock;


\par }{\Q \VS{9}It will blossom from the scent of water,

\par }{\Q And will produce a crop, as one newly planted.


\par }{\Q \VS{10}But a man that has died is utterly gone;

\par }{\Q And when a mortal has fallen, he is no more.


\par }{\Q \VS{11}For the sea wastes in
{\ADD{length of}} time,

\par }{\Q And a river fails and is dried up.


\par }{\Q \VS{12}And man that has lain down
{\ADD{in death}} shall certainly not rise again

\par }{\Q Till the heaven be dissolved,

\par }{\Q And they shall not awake from their sleep.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{13}For oh that thou hadst kept me in the grave,

\par }{\Q And hadst hidden me until thy wrath should cease,

\par }{\Q And thou shouldest set me a time in which thou wouldest remember me!


\par }{\Q \VS{14}For if a man should die, shall he live
{\ADD{again}},

\par }{\Q Having accomplished the days of his life?

\par }{\Q I will wait till I exist again?


\par }{\Q \VS{15}Then shalt thou call, and I will hearken to thee:

\par }{\Q But do not thou reject the work of thy hands.


\par }{\Q \VS{16}But thou hast numbered my devices: and not one of my sins shall escape thee?


\par }{\Q \VS{17}And thou hast sealed up my transgressions in a bag,

\par }{\Q And marked if I have been guilty of any transgression unawares.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{18}And verily a mountain falling will utterly be destroyed,

\par }{\Q And a rock shall be worn out of its place.


\par }{\Q \VS{19}The waters wear the stones,

\par }{\Q And waters falling headlong
{\ADD{overflow}} a heap of the earth:

\par }{\Q And thou destroyest the hope of man.


\par }{\Q \VS{20}Thou drivest him to an end, and he is gone:

\par }{\Q Thou settest thy face against him, and sendest him away;


\par }{\Q \VS{21}And though his children be multiplied, he knows
{\ADD{it}} not;

\par }{\Q And if they be few, he is not aware.


\par }{\Q \VS{22}But his flesh is in pain,

\par }{\Q And his soul mourns.


\par }{\BB \par }


\PoetryChap{15}{\Q \VerseOne{1}Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{2}Will a wise man give for answer a
{\ADD{mere}} breath of wisdom?

\par }{\Q And does he fill up the pain of his belly,


\par }{\Q \VS{3}Reasoning with improper sayings,

\par }{\Q And with words wherein is no profit?


\par }{\Q \VS{4}Hast not thou moreover cast off fear,

\par }{\Q And accomplished such words before the Lord?


\par }{\Q \VS{5}Thou art guilty by the words of thy mouth,

\par }{\Q Neither hast thou discerned the words of the mighty.


\par }{\Q \VS{6}Let thine own mouth, and not me, reprove thee:

\par }{\Q And thy lips shall testify against thee.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{7}What! art thou the first man that was born?

\par }{\Q Or wert thou established before the hills?


\par }{\Q \VS{8}Or hast thou heard the ordinance of the Lord?

\par }{\Q Or has God used thee as
{\ADD{his}} counselor?

\par }{\Q And has wisdom come
{\ADD{only}} to thee?


\par }{\Q \VS{9}For what knowest thou, that we know not?

\par }{\Q Or what understandest thou, which we do not also?


\par }{\Q \VS{10}Truly among us
{\ADD{are}} both the old and very aged man,

\par }{\Q More advanced in days than thy father.


\par }{\Q \VS{11}Thou hast been scourged for
{\ADD{but}} few of thy sins:

\par }{\Q Thou hast spoken haughtily
{\ADD{and}} extravagantly.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{12}What has thy heart dared?

\par }{\Q Or what have thine eyes
{\ADD{aimed at}},


\par }{\Q \VS{13}That thou hast vented
{\ADD{thy}} rage before the Lord,

\par }{\Q And delivered such words from
{\ADD{thy}} mouth?


\par }{\Q \VS{14}For who, being a mortal,
{\ADD{is such}} that he shall be blameless?

\par }{\Q Or,
{\ADD{who that is}} born of a woman, that he should be just?


\par }{\Q \VS{15}Forasmuch as he trusts not his saints;

\par }{\Q And the heaven is not pure before him.


\par }{\Q \VS{16}Alas then, abominable and unclean is man,

\par }{\Q Drinking unrighteousness as a draft.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{17}But I will tell thee, hearken to me;

\par }{\Q I will tell thee now what I have seen;


\par }{\Q \VS{18}Things wise men say, and their fathers have not hidden.


\par }{\Q \VS{19}To them alone the earth was given,

\par }{\Q And no stranger came upon them.


\par }{\Q \VS{20}All the life of the ungodly
{\ADD{is spent}} in care,

\par }{\Q And the years granted to the oppressor are numbered.


\par }{\Q \VS{21}And his terror is in his ears:

\par }{\Q Just when he seems to be at peace,

\par }{\Q His overthrow will come.


\par }{\Q \VS{22}Let him not trust that he shall return from darkness,

\par }{\Q For he has been already made over to the power of the sword.


\par }{\Q \VS{23}And he has been appointed to be food for vultures;

\par }{\Q And he knows within himself that he is doomed to be a carcass:

\par }{\Q And a dark day shall carry him away as with a whirlwind.


\par }{\Q \VS{24}Distress also and anguish shall come upon him:

\par }{\Q He shall fall as a captain in the first rank.


\par }{\Q \VS{25}For he has lifted his hands against the Lord,

\par }{\Q And he has hardened his neck against the Almighty Lord.


\par }{\Q \VS{26}And he has run against him with insolence,

\par }{\Q On the thickness of the back of his shield.


\par }{\Q \VS{27}For he has covered his face with his fat,

\par }{\Q And made layers of fat upon his thighs.


\par }{\Q \VS{28}And let him lodge in desolate cities,

\par }{\Q And enter into houses without inhabitant:

\par }{\Q And what they have prepared, others shall carry away.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{29}Neither shall he at all grow rich, nor shall his substance remain:

\par }{\Q He shall not cast a shadow upon the earth.


\par }{\Q \VS{30}Neither shall he in anywise escape the darkness:

\par }{\Q Let the wind blast his blossom,

\par }{\Q And let his flower fall off.


\par }{\Q \VS{31}Let him not think that he shall endure;

\par }{\Q For his end shall be vanity.


\par }{\Q \VS{32}His harvest shall perish before the time,

\par }{\Q And his branch shall not flourish.


\par }{\Q \VS{33}And let him be gathered as the unripe grape before the time,

\par }{\Q And let him fall as the blossom of the olive.


\par }{\Q \VS{34}For death is the witness of an ungodly man,

\par }{\Q And fire shall burn the houses of them that receive gifts.


\par }{\Q \VS{35}And he shall conceive sorrows,

\par }{\Q And his end shall be vanity,

\par }{\Q And his belly shall bear deceit.


\par }{\BB \par }


\PoetryChap{16}{\Q \VerseOne{1}But Job answered and said,


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{2}I have heard many such things:

\par }{\Q Poor comforters are ye all.


\par }{\Q \VS{3}What! is there any reason in vain words?

\par }{\Q Or what will hinder thee from answering?


\par }{\Q \VS{4}I also will speak as ye
{\ADD{do}}:

\par }{\Q If indeed your soul were in my
{\ADD{soul’s}} stead,

\par }{\Q Then would I insult you with words,

\par }{\Q And I would shake my head at you.


\par }{\Q \VS{5}And would there were strength in my mouth,

\par }{\Q And I would not spare the movement of my lips.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{6}For if I should speak, I shall not feel the pain of my wound:

\par }{\Q And if I should be silent, how shall I be wounded the less?


\par }{\Q \VS{7}But now he has made me weary, and a worn-out fool;

\par }{\Q And thou hast laid hold of me.


\par }{\Q \VS{8}My falsehood has become a testimony,

\par }{\Q And has risen up against me:

\par }{\Q It has confronted me to my face.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{9}In his anger he has cast me down;

\par }{\Q He has gnashed his teeth upon me:

\par }{\Q The weapons of his robbers have fallen upon me.


\par }{\Q \VS{10}He has attacked me with the keen glances of his eyes;

\par }{\Q With his sharp
{\ADD{spear}} he has smitten me
{\ADD{down}} upon my knees;

\par }{\Q And they have run upon me with one accord.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{11}For the Lord has delivered me into the hands of unrighteous men,

\par }{\Q And thrown me upon the ungodly.


\par }{\Q \VS{12}When I was at peace he distracted me:

\par }{\Q He took me by the hair of the head, and plucked it out:

\par }{\Q He set me up as a mark.


\par }{\Q \VS{13}They surrounded me with spears,

\par }{\Q Aiming at my reins:

\par }{\Q Without sparing
{\ADD{me}} they poured out my gall upon the ground.


\par }{\Q \VS{14}They overthrew me with fall upon fall:

\par }{\Q They ran upon me in
{\ADD{their}} might.


\par }{\Q \VS{15}They sewed sackcloth upon my skin,

\par }{\Q And my strength has been spent on the ground.


\par }{\Q \VS{16}My belly has been parched with wailing,

\par }{\Q And darkness is on my eyelids.


\par }{\Q \VS{17}Yet there was no injustice in my hands,

\par }{\Q And my prayer is pure.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{18}Earth, cover not over the blood of my flesh,

\par }{\Q And let my cry have no place.


\par }{\Q \VS{19}And now, behold, my witness is in heaven,

\par }{\Q And my advocate is on high.


\par }{\Q \VS{20}Let my supplication come to the Lord,

\par }{\Q And let mine eye weep before him.


\par }{\Q \VS{21}Oh that a man might plead before the Lord,

\par }{\Q Even
{\ADD{as}} the son of man with his neighbor!


\par }{\Q \VS{22}But my years are numbered and
{\ADD{their end}} come,

\par }{\Q And I shall go by the way by which I shall not return.


\par }{\BB \par }


\PoetryChap{17}{\Q \VerseOne{1}I perish, carried away by the wind,

\par }{\Q And I seek for burial, and obtain
{\ADD{it}} not.


\par }{\Q \VS{2}Weary I entreat; and what have I done?

\par }{\Q And strangers have stolen my goods.


\par }{\Q \VS{3}Who is this? let him join hands with me.


\par }{\Q \VS{4}For thou hast hidden their heart from wisdom;

\par }{\Q Therefore thou shalt not exalt them.


\par }{\Q \VS{5}He shall promise mischief to
{\ADD{his}} companions:

\par }{\Q But
{\ADD{their}} eyes have failed for
{\ADD{their}} children.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{6}But thou hast made me a byword among the nations,

\par }{\Q And I am become a scorn to them.


\par }{\Q \VS{7}For my eyes are dimmed through pain;

\par }{\Q I have been grievously beset by all.


\par }{\Q \VS{8}Wonder has seized true men upon this;

\par }{\Q And let the just rise up against the transgressor.


\par }{\Q \VS{9}But let the faithful hold on his own way,

\par }{\Q And let him that is pure of hands take courage.


\par }{\Q \VS{10}Howbeit, do ye all strengthen
{\ADD{yourselves}} and come now,

\par }{\Q For I do not find truth in you.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{11}My days have passed in groaning,

\par }{\Q And my heartstrings are broken.


\par }{\Q \VS{12}I have turned the night into day:

\par }{\Q The light is short because of darkness.


\par }{\Q \VS{13}For if I remain, Hades is my habitation:

\par }{\Q And my bed has been made in darkness.


\par }{\Q \VS{14}I have called upon death to be my father,

\par }{\Q And corruption
{\ADD{to be}} my mother and sister.


\par }{\Q \VS{15}Where then is yet my hope?

\par }{\Q Or
{\ADD{where}} shall I see my good?


\par }{\Q \VS{16}Will they go down with me to Hades,

\par }{\Q Or shall we go down together to the tomb?


\par }{\BB \par }


\PoetryChap{18}{\Q \VerseOne{1}Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{2}How long wilt thou continue?

\par }{\Q Forbear, that we also may speak.


\par }{\Q \VS{3}For wherefore have we been silent before thee like brutes?


\par }{\Q \VS{4}Anger has possessed thee:

\par }{\Q For what if thou shouldest die; would
{\ADD{the earth}} under heaven be desolate?

\par }{\Q Or shall the mountains be overthrown from their foundations?


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{5}But the light of the ungodly shall be quenched,

\par }{\Q And their flame shall not go up.


\par }{\Q \VS{6}His light
{\ADD{shall be}} darkness in
{\ADD{his}} habitation,

\par }{\Q And his lamp shall be put out with him.


\par }{\Q \VS{7}Let the meanest of men spoil his goods,

\par }{\Q And let his counsel deceive
{\ADD{him}}.


\par }{\Q \VS{8}His foot also has been caught in a snare,

\par }{\Q {\ADD{And}} let it be entangled in a net.


\par }{\Q \VS{9}And let snares come upon him:

\par }{\Q He shall strengthen those that thirst for his destruction.


\par }{\Q \VS{10}His snare is hidden in the earth,

\par }{\Q And that which shall take him is by the path.


\par }{\Q \VS{11}Let pains destroy him round about,

\par }{\Q And let many
{\ADD{enemies}} come about him,


\par }{\Q \VS{12}{\ADD{Vex him}} with distressing hunger:

\par }{\Q And a signal destruction has been prepared for him.


\par }{\Q \VS{13}Let the soles of his feet be devoured:

\par }{\Q And death shall consume his beauty.


\par }{\Q \VS{14}And let health be utterly banished from his tabernacle,

\par }{\Q And let distress seize upon him with a charge from the king.


\par }{\Q \VS{15}It shall dwell in his tabernacle in his night:

\par }{\Q His excellency shall be sown with brimstone.


\par }{\Q \VS{16}His roots shall be dried up from beneath,

\par }{\Q And his crop shall fall away from above.


\par }{\Q \VS{17}Let his memorial perish out of the earth,

\par }{\Q And his name shall be publicly cast out.


\par }{\Q \VS{18}Let
{\ADD{one}} drive him from light into darkness.


\par }{\Q \VS{19}He shall not be known among his people,

\par }{\Q Nor his house preserved on the earth.


\par }{\Q \VS{20}But strangers shall dwell in his possessions:

\par }{\Q The last groaned for him,

\par }{\Q And wonder seized the first.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{21}These are the houses of the unrighteous,

\par }{\Q And this is the place of them that know not the Lord.


\par }{\BB \par }


\PoetryChap{19}{\Q \VerseOne{1}Then Job answered and said,


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{2}How long will ye vex my soul,

\par }{\Q And destroy me with words?

\par }{\Q Only know that the Lord has dealt with me thus.


\par }{\Q \VS{3}Ye speak against me; ye do not feel for me, but bear hard upon me.


\par }{\Q \VS{4}Yea verily, I have erred in truth

\par }{\Q (But the error abides with myself)


\par }{\Q \VS{4a}In having spoken words which it was not right
{\ADD{to speak}};

\par }{\Q And my words err, and are unseasonable.


\par }{\Q \VS{5}But alas! for ye magnify yourselves against me,

\par }{\Q And insult me with reproach.


\par }{\Q \VS{6}Know then that it is the Lord that has troubled
{\ADD{me}},

\par }{\Q And has raised his bulwark against me.


\par }{\Q \VS{7}Behold, I laugh at reproach; I will not speak:

\par }{\Q {\ADD{Or}} I will cry out, but
{\ADD{there is}} nowhere judgment.


\par }{\Q \VS{8}I am fenced round about, and can by no means escape:

\par }{\Q He has set darkness before my face.


\par }{\Q \VS{9}And he has stripped me of my glory,

\par }{\Q And has taken the crown from my head.


\par }{\Q \VS{10}He has torn me round about, and I am gone:

\par }{\Q And he has cut off my hope like a tree.


\par }{\Q \VS{11}And he has dreadfully handled me in anger,

\par }{\Q And has counted me for an enemy.


\par }{\Q \VS{12}His troops also came upon me with one accord,

\par }{\Q Liers in wait compassed my ways.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{13}My brethren have stood aloof from me;

\par }{\Q They have recognized strangers
{\ADD{rather}} than me:

\par }{\Q And my friends have become pitiless.


\par }{\Q \VS{14}My nearest of kin have not acknowledged me,

\par }{\Q And they that knew my name have forgotten me.


\par }{\Q \VS{15}{\ADD{As for}} my household, and my maidservants,

\par }{\Q I was a stranger before them.


\par }{\Q \VS{16}I called my servant, and he hearkened not;

\par }{\Q And my mouth entreated
{\ADD{him}}.


\par }{\Q \VS{17}And I besought my wife,

\par }{\Q And earnestly entreated the sons of my concubines.


\par }{\Q \VS{18}But they rejected me forever;

\par }{\Q Whenever I rise up, they speak against me.


\par }{\Q \VS{19}They that saw me abhorred me:

\par }{\Q The very persons whom I had loved, rose up against me.


\par }{\Q \VS{20}My flesh is corrupt under my skin,

\par }{\Q And my bones are held in
{\ADD{my}} teeth.


\par }{\Q \VS{21}Pity me, pity me, O friends;

\par }{\Q For it is the hand of the Lord that has touched me.


\par }{\Q \VS{22}Wherefore do ye persecute me as also the Lord
{\ADD{does}},

\par }{\Q And are not satisfied with my flesh?


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{23}For oh that my words were written,

\par }{\Q And that they were recorded in a book forever,


\par }{\Q \VS{24}With an iron pen and lead,

\par }{\Q Or graven in the rocks!


\par }{\Q \VS{25}For I know that he is eternal who is about to deliver me,


\par }{\Q \VS{26}{\ADD{And}} to raise up upon the earth my skin that endures these
{\ADD{sufferings}}:

\par }{\Q For these things have been accomplished to me of the Lord;


\par }{\Q \VS{27}Which I am conscious of in myself,

\par }{\Q Which mine eye has seen, and not another,

\par }{\Q But all have been fulfilled to me in
{\ADD{my}} bosom.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{28}But if ye shall also say, What shall we say before him,

\par }{\Q And
{\ADD{so}} find the root of the matter in him?


\par }{\Q \VS{29}Do ye also beware of deceit:

\par }{\Q For wrath will come upon transgressors;

\par }{\Q And then shall they know where their substance is.


\par }{\BB \par }


\PoetryChap{20}{\Q \VerseOne{1}Then Zophar the Minaean answered and said,


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{2}I did not suppose that thou wouldest answer thus:

\par }{\Q Neither do ye understand more than I.


\par }{\Q \VS{3}I will hear my shameful reproach;

\par }{\Q And the spirit of my understanding answers me.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{4}Hast thou
{\ADD{not}} known these things of old,

\par }{\Q From the time that man was set upon the earth?


\par }{\Q \VS{5}But the mirth of the ungodly is a signal downfall,

\par }{\Q And the joy of transgressors is destruction:


\par }{\Q \VS{6}Although his gifts should go up to heaven,

\par }{\Q And his sacrifice reach the clouds.


\par }{\Q \VS{7}For when he shall seem to be now established,

\par }{\Q Then he shall utterly perish:

\par }{\Q And they that knew him shall say, Where is he?


\par }{\Q \VS{8}Like a dream that has fled away, he shall not be found;

\par }{\Q And he has fled like a vision of the night.


\par }{\Q \VS{9}The eye has looked upon him, but shall not
{\ADD{see him}} again;

\par }{\Q And his place shall no longer perceive him.


\par }{\Q \VS{10}Let
{\ADD{his}} inferiors destroy his children,

\par }{\Q And let his hands kindle the fire of sorrow.


\par }{\Q \VS{11}His bones have been filled with
{\ADD{vigor of}} his youth,

\par }{\Q And it shall lie down with him in the dust.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{12}Though evil be sweet in his mouth,

\par }{\Q {\ADD{Though}} he will hide it under his tongue;


\par }{\Q \VS{13}Though he will not spare it, and will not leave it,

\par }{\Q But will keep it in the midst of his throat:


\par }{\Q \VS{14}Yet he shall not at all be able to help himself;

\par }{\Q The gall of an asp is in his belly.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{15}{\ADD{His}} wealth unjustly collected shall be vomited up;

\par }{\Q A messenger
{\ADD{of wrath}} shall drag him out of his house.


\par }{\Q \VS{16}And let him suck the poison of serpents,

\par }{\Q And let the serpent’s tongue slay him.


\par }{\Q \VS{17}Let him not see the milk of the pastures,

\par }{\Q Nor the supplies of honey and butter.


\par }{\Q \VS{18}He has labored unprofitably and in vain,
{\ADD{for}} wealth of which he shall not taste:

\par }{\Q {\ADD{It is}} as a lean thing, unfit for food, which he cannot swallow.


\par }{\Q \VS{19}For he has broken down the houses of many mighty men:

\par }{\Q And he has plundered a habitation, though he built
{\ADD{it}} not.


\par }{\Q \VS{20}There is no security to his possessions;

\par }{\Q He shall not be saved by his desire.


\par }{\Q \VS{21}There is nothing remaining of his provisions;

\par }{\Q Therefore his goods shall not flourish.


\par }{\Q \VS{22}But when he shall seem to be just satisfied, he shall be straitened;

\par }{\Q And all distress shall come upon him.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{23}If by any means he would fill his belly,

\par }{\Q Let
{\ADD{God}} send upon him the fury of wrath;

\par }{\Q Let him bring a torrent of pains upon him.


\par }{\Q \VS{24}And he shall by no means escape from the power of the sword;

\par }{\Q Let the brazen bow wound him.


\par }{\Q \VS{25}And let the arrow pierce through his body;

\par }{\Q And let the stars be against his dwelling place:

\par }{\Q Let terrors come upon him.


\par }{\Q \VS{26}And let all darkness wait for him:

\par }{\Q A fire that burns not out shall consume him;

\par }{\Q And let a stranger plague his house.


\par }{\Q \VS{27}And let the heaven reveal his iniquities,

\par }{\Q And the earth rise up against him.


\par }{\Q \VS{28}Let destruction bring his house to an end;

\par }{\Q Let a day of wrath come upon him.


\par }{\Q \VS{29}This is the portion of an ungodly man from the Lord,

\par }{\Q And the possession of his goods
{\ADD{appointed him}} by the all-seeing
{\ADD{God}}.


\par }{\BB \par }


\PoetryChap{21}{\Q \VerseOne{1}But Job answered and said,


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{2}Hear ye, hear ye my words,

\par }{\Q That I may not have this consolation from you.


\par }{\Q \VS{3}Raise me, and I will speak;

\par }{\Q Then ye shall not laugh me to scorn.


\par }{\Q \VS{4}What! is my reproof of man?

\par }{\Q And why should I not be angry?


\par }{\Q \VS{5}Look upon me, and wonder,

\par }{\Q Laying your hand upon your cheek.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{6}For even when I remember, I am alarmed,

\par }{\Q And pains seize my flesh.


\par }{\Q \VS{7}Wherefore do the ungodly live,

\par }{\Q And grow old even in wealth?


\par }{\Q \VS{8}Their seed is according to
{\ADD{their}} desire,

\par }{\Q And their children are in
{\ADD{their}} sight.


\par }{\Q \VS{9}Their houses are prosperous, neither
{\ADD{have they}} anywhere
{\ADD{cause for}} fear,

\par }{\Q Neither is there a scourge from the Lord upon them.


\par }{\Q \VS{10}Their cow does not cast her calf,

\par }{\Q And their
{\ADD{beast}} with young is safe, and does not miscarry.


\par }{\Q \VS{11}And they remain as an unfailing flock,

\par }{\Q And their children play before
{\ADD{them}},

\par }{\Q Taking up the psaltery and harp;


\par }{\Q \VS{12}And they rejoice at the voice of a song.


\par }{\Q \VS{13}And they spend their days in wealth,

\par }{\Q And fall asleep in the rest of the grave.


\par }{\Q \VS{14}Yet
{\ADD{such a man}} says to the Lord, Depart from me;

\par }{\Q I desire not to know thy ways.


\par }{\Q \VS{15}What is the Mighty One, that we should serve him?

\par }{\Q And what profit is there that we should approach him?


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{16}For their good things were in
{\ADD{their}} hands,

\par }{\Q But he regards not the works of the ungodly.


\par }{\Q \VS{17}Nevertheless, the lamp of the ungodly also shall be put out,

\par }{\Q And destruction shall come upon them,

\par }{\Q And pangs of vengeance shall seize them.


\par }{\Q \VS{18}And they shall be as chaff before the wind,

\par }{\Q Or as dust which the storm has taken up.


\par }{\Q \VS{19}Let his substance fail
{\ADD{to supply}} his children:

\par }{\Q {\ADD{God}} shall recompense him, and he shall know it.


\par }{\Q \VS{20}Let his eyes see his own destruction,

\par }{\Q And let him not be saved by the Lord.


\par }{\Q \VS{21}For his desire is in his house with him,

\par }{\Q And the number of his months has been suddenly cut off.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{22}Is it not the Lord who teaches understanding and knowledge?

\par }{\Q And does not he judge murders?


\par }{\Q \VS{23}One shall die in his perfect strength,

\par }{\Q And wholly at ease and prosperous;


\par }{\Q \VS{24}And his innards are full of fat,

\par }{\Q And his marrow is diffused
{\ADD{throughout him}}.


\par }{\Q \VS{25}And another dies in bitterness of soul,

\par }{\Q Not eating any good thing.


\par }{\Q \VS{26}But they lie down in the earth together,

\par }{\Q And corruption covers them.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{27}So I know you, that ye presumptuously attack me:


\par }{\Q \VS{28}So that ye will say, Where is the house of the prince?

\par }{\Q And where is the covering of the tabernacles of the ungodly?


\par }{\Q \VS{29}Ask those that go by the way,

\par }{\Q And do not disown their tokens.


\par }{\Q \VS{30}For the wicked hastens to the day of destruction:

\par }{\Q They shall be led away for the day of his vengeance.


\par }{\Q \VS{31}Who will tell him his way to his face, whereas he has done
{\ADD{it}}?

\par }{\Q Who shall recompense him?


\par }{\Q \VS{32}And he has been led away to the tombs,

\par }{\Q And he has watched over the heaps.


\par }{\Q \VS{33}The stones of the valley have been sweet to him,

\par }{\Q And every man shall depart after him,

\par }{\Q And
{\ADD{there are}} innumerable
{\ADD{ones}} before him.


\par }{\Q \VS{34}How then do ye comfort me in vain?

\par }{\Q Whereas I have no rest from your molestation.


\par }{\BB \par }


\PoetryChap{22}{\Q \VerseOne{1}Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{2}Is it not the Lord that teaches understanding and knowledge?


\par }{\Q \VS{3}For what matters it to the Lord, if thou wert blameless in
{\ADD{thy}} works?

\par }{\Q Or is it profitable that thou shouldest perfect thy way?


\par }{\Q \VS{4}Wilt thou maintain and plead thine own cause?

\par }{\Q And will he enter into judgment with thee?


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{5}Is not thy wickedness abundant,

\par }{\Q And thy sins innumerable?


\par }{\Q \VS{6}And thou hast taken security of thy brethren for nothing,

\par }{\Q And hast taken away the clothing of the naked.


\par }{\Q \VS{7}Neither hast thou given water to the thirsty to drink,

\par }{\Q But hast taken away the morsel of the hungry.


\par }{\Q \VS{8}And thou hast accepted the persons of some;

\par }{\Q And thou hast established those
{\ADD{that were already settled}} on the earth.


\par }{\Q \VS{9}But thou hast sent widows away empty,

\par }{\Q And hast afflicted orphans.


\par }{\Q \VS{10}Therefore snares have compassed thee,

\par }{\Q And disastrous war has troubled thee.


\par }{\Q \VS{11}The light has proved darkness to thee,

\par }{\Q And water has covered thee on thy lying down.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{12}Does not he that dwells in the high places observe?

\par }{\Q And has he not brought down the proud?


\par }{\Q \VS{13}And thou hast said, What does the Mighty One know?

\par }{\Q Does he judge in the dark?


\par }{\Q \VS{14}A cloud is his hiding place, and he shall not be seen;

\par }{\Q And he passes through the circle of heaven.


\par }{\Q \VS{15}Wilt thou
{\ADD{not}} mark the old way,

\par }{\Q Which righteous men have trodden?


\par }{\Q \VS{16}Who were seized before their time:

\par }{\Q Their foundations
{\ADD{are as}} an overflowing stream.


\par }{\Q \VS{17}Who say, What will the Lord do to us?

\par }{\Q Or what will the Almighty bring upon us?


\par }{\Q \VS{18}Yet he filled their houses with good things:

\par }{\Q But the counsel of the wicked is far from him.


\par }{\Q \VS{19}The righteous have seen
{\ADD{it}}, and laughed,

\par }{\Q And the blameless one has derided
{\ADD{them}}.


\par }{\Q \VS{20}Verily their substance has been utterly destroyed,

\par }{\Q And the fire shall devour what is left of their
{\ADD{property}}.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{21}Be firm, I pray thee, if thou canst endure;

\par }{\Q Then thy fruit shall prosper.


\par }{\Q \VS{22}And receive a declaration from his mouth,

\par }{\Q And lay up his words in thy heart.


\par }{\Q \VS{23}And if thou shalt turn and humble thyself before the Lord,

\par }{\Q Thou hast
{\ADD{thus}} removed unrighteousness far from thy habitation.


\par }{\Q \VS{24}Thou shalt lay up for thyself
{\ADD{treasure}} in a heap on the rock;

\par }{\Q And Ophir
{\ADD{shall be}} as the rock of the torrent.


\par }{\Q \VS{25}So the Almighty shall be thy helper from enemies,

\par }{\Q And he shall bring thee forth pure as silver that has been tried by fire.


\par }{\Q \VS{26}Then shalt thou have boldness before the Lord,

\par }{\Q Looking up cheerfully to heaven.


\par }{\Q \VS{27}And he shall hear thee when thou prayest to him,

\par }{\Q And he shall grant thee
{\ADD{power}} to pay thy vows.


\par }{\Q \VS{28}And he shall establish to thee again a habitation of righteousness

\par }{\Q And there shall be light upon thy paths.


\par }{\Q \VS{29}Because thou hast humbled thyself; and thou shalt say,
{\ADD{Man}} has behaved proudly,

\par }{\Q But he shall save him that is of lowly eyes.


\par }{\Q \VS{30}He shall deliver the innocent,

\par }{\Q And do thou save thyself by thy pure hands.


\par }{\BB \par }


\PoetryChap{23}{\Q \VerseOne{1}Then Job answered and said,


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{2}Yea, I know that pleading is out of my reach;

\par }{\Q And his hand has been made heavy upon my groaning.


\par }{\Q \VS{3}Who would then know that I might find him,

\par }{\Q And come to an end
{\ADD{of the matter}}?


\par }{\Q \VS{4}And I would plead my own cause,

\par }{\Q And he would fill my mouth with arguments.


\par }{\Q \VS{5}And I would know the remedies which he would speak to me,

\par }{\Q And I would perceive what he would tell me.


\par }{\Q \VS{6}Though he should come on me in
{\ADD{his}} great strength,

\par }{\Q Then he would not threaten me;


\par }{\Q \VS{7}For truth and reproof are from him;

\par }{\Q And he would bring forth my judgment to an end.


\par }{\Q \VS{8}For if I shall go first, and exist no longer,

\par }{\Q Still what do I know
{\ADD{concerning}} the latter end?


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{9}When he wrought on the left hand, then I observed
{\ADD{it}} not:

\par }{\Q His right hand shall encompass me but I shall not see
{\ADD{it}}.


\par }{\Q \VS{10}For he knows already my way;

\par }{\Q And he has tried me as gold.


\par }{\Q \VS{11}And I will go forth according to his commandments,

\par }{\Q For I have kept his ways; and I shall not turn aside from his commandments,


\par }{\Q \VS{12}Neither shall I transgress;

\par }{\Q But I have hidden his words in my bosom.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{13}And if too he has thus judged, who is he that has contradicted,

\par }{\Q For he has both willed
{\ADD{a thing}} and done it.


\par }{\Q \VS{15}Therefore am I troubled at him;

\par }{\Q And when I was reproved, I thought of him.


\par }{\Q \VS{15a}Therefore let me take good heed before him:

\par }{\Q I will consider, and be afraid of him.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{16}But the Lord has softened my heart,

\par }{\Q And the Almighty has troubled me.


\par }{\Q \VS{17}For I knew not that darkness would come upon me,

\par }{\Q And thick darkness has covered
{\ADD{me}} before my face.


\par }{\BB \par }


\PoetryChap{24}{\Q \VerseOne{1}But why have the seasons been hidden from the Lord,


\par }{\Q \VS{2}While the ungodly have passed over the bound,

\par }{\Q Carrying off the flock with the shepherd?


\par }{\Q \VS{3}They have led away the ass of the fatherless,

\par }{\Q And taken the widow’s ox for a pledge.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{4}They have turned aside the weak from the right way:

\par }{\Q And the meek of the earth have hidden themselves together.


\par }{\Q \VS{5}And they have departed like asses in the field,

\par }{\Q Having gone forth on my account according to their own order:

\par }{\Q His bread is sweet to
{\ADD{his}} little ones.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{6}They have reaped a field that was not their own before the time:

\par }{\Q The poor have labored in the vineyards of the ungodly without pay and without food.


\par }{\Q \VS{7}They have caused many naked to sleep without clothes,

\par }{\Q And they have taken away the covering of their body.


\par }{\Q \VS{8}They are wet with the drops of the mountains:

\par }{\Q They have embraced the rock, because they had no shelter.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{9}They have snatched the fatherless from the breast,

\par }{\Q And have afflicted the outcast.


\par }{\Q \VS{10}And they have wrongfully caused
{\ADD{others}} to sleep without clothing,

\par }{\Q And taken away the morsel of the hungry.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{11}They have unrighteously laid wait in narrow places,

\par }{\Q And have not known the righteous way.


\par }{\Q \VS{12}Who have cast forth
{\ADD{the}} poor from the city and their own houses,

\par }{\Q And the soul of the children has groaned aloud.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{13}Why then has he not visited these?

\par }{\Q Forasmuch as they were upon the earth, and took no notice,

\par }{\Q And they knew not the way of righteousness,

\par }{\Q Neither have they walked in their
{\ADD{appointed}} paths?


\par }{\Q \VS{14}But having known their works, he delivered them into darkness:

\par }{\Q And in the night one will be as a thief:


\par }{\Q \VS{15}And the eye of the adulterer has watched
{\ADD{for}} the darkness,

\par }{\Q Saying, Eye shall not perceive me, and he puts a covering on his face.


\par }{\Q \VS{16}In darkness he digs through houses:

\par }{\Q By day they conceal themselves securely:

\par }{\Q They know not the light.


\par }{\Q \VS{17}For the morning is to them all
{\ADD{as}} the shadow of death,

\par }{\Q For
{\ADD{each}} will be conscious of the terror of the shadow of death.


\par }{\Q \VS{18}He is swift on the face of the water:

\par }{\Q Let his portion be cursed on the earth;

\par }{\Q And let their plants be laid bare.


\par }{\Q \VS{19}{\ADD{Let them be}} withered upon the earth;

\par }{\Q For they have plundered the sheaves of the fatherless.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{20}Then is his sin brought to remembrance,

\par }{\Q And he vanishes like a vapor of dew:

\par }{\Q But let what he has done be recompensed to him,

\par }{\Q And let every unrighteous one be crushed like rotten wood.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{21}For he has not treated the barren woman well,

\par }{\Q And has had no pity on a feeble woman.


\par }{\Q \VS{22}And in wrath he has overthrown the helpless:

\par }{\Q Therefore when he has arisen,
{\ADD{a man}} will not feel secure of his own life.


\par }{\Q \VS{23}When he has fallen sick, let him not hope to recover: but let him perish by disease.


\par }{\Q \VS{24}For his exaltation has hurt many;

\par }{\Q But he has withered as mallows in the heat,

\par }{\Q Or as an ear of corn falling off of itself from the stalk.


\par }{\Q \VS{25}But if not, who is he that says I speak falsely,

\par }{\Q And will make my words of no account?


\par }{\BB \par }


\PoetryChap{25}{\Q \VerseOne{1}Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{2}What beginning or fear is his—

\par }{\Q Even he that makes all things in the highest?


\par }{\Q \VS{3}For let none think that there is a respite for robbers:

\par }{\Q And upon whom will there not come a snare from him?


\par }{\Q \VS{4}For how shall a mortal be just before the Lord?

\par }{\Q Or who that is born of a woman shall purify himself?


\par }{\Q \VS{5}If he gives an order to the moon, then it shines not;

\par }{\Q And the stars are not pure before him.


\par }{\Q \VS{6}But alas! man is corruption,

\par }{\Q And the son of man a worm.


\par }{\BB \par }


\PoetryChap{26}{\Q \VerseOne{1}But Job answered and said,


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{2}To whom dost thou attach thyself, or whom art thou going to assist?

\par }{\Q Is it not he that
{\ADD{has}} much strength, and
{\ADD{he}} who has a strong arm?


\par }{\Q \VS{3}To whom hast thou given counsel? is it not to him who has all wisdom?

\par }{\Q Whom wilt thou follow? is it not one who has the greatest power?


\par }{\Q \VS{4}To whom hast thou uttered words?

\par }{\Q And whose breath is it that has come forth from thee?


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{5}Shall giants be born

\par }{\Q From under the water and the inhabitants thereof?


\par }{\Q \VS{6}Hell is naked before him,

\par }{\Q And destruction has no covering.


\par }{\Q \VS{7}He stretches out the north wind upon nothing,

\par }{\Q And he upon nothing hangs the earth;


\par }{\Q \VS{8}Binding water in his clouds,

\par }{\Q And the cloud is not rent under it.


\par }{\Q \VS{9}He keeps back the face of his throne,

\par }{\Q Stretching out his cloud upon it.


\par }{\Q \VS{10}He has encompassed the face of the water by an appointed ordinance,

\par }{\Q Until the end of light and darkness.


\par }{\Q \VS{11}The pillars of heaven are prostrate

\par }{\Q And astonished at his rebuke.


\par }{\Q \VS{12}He has calmed the sea with
{\ADD{his}} might,

\par }{\Q And by
{\ADD{his}} wisdom the whale has been overthrown.


\par }{\Q \VS{13}And the barriers of heaven fear him,

\par }{\Q And by a command he has slain the apostate dragon.


\par }{\Q \VS{14}Behold, these are parts of his way;

\par }{\Q And we will hearken to him at the least intimation of his word:

\par }{\Q But the strength of his thunder who knows, when he shall employ
{\ADD{it}}?


\par }{\BB \par }


\PoetryChap{27}{\Q \VerseOne{1}And Job further continued and said in his parable,


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{2}{\ADD{As}} God lives, who has thus judged me;

\par }{\Q And the Almighty, who has embittered my soul;


\par }{\Q \VS{3}Verily, while my breath is yet in
{\ADD{me}},

\par }{\Q And the breath of God which remains to me is in my nostrils,


\par }{\Q \VS{4}My lips shall not speak evil words,

\par }{\Q Neither shall my soul meditate unrighteous thoughts.


\par }{\Q \VS{5}Far be it from me that I should justify you till I die;

\par }{\Q For I will not let go my innocence,


\par }{\Q \VS{6}But keeping fast to
{\ADD{my}} righteousness I will by no means let it go:

\par }{\Q For I am not conscious to myself of having done anything amiss.


\par }{\Q \VS{7}Nay rather, but let mine enemies be as the overthrow of the ungodly,

\par }{\Q And they that rise up against me, as the destruction of transgressors.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{8}For what is the hope of the ungodly, that he holds to it?

\par }{\Q Will he indeed trust in the Lord
{\ADD{and}} be saved?


\par }{\Q \VS{9}Will God hear his prayer?

\par }{\Q Or, when distress has come upon him,


\par }{\Q \VS{10}Has he any confidence before him?

\par }{\Q Or will
{\ADD{God}} hear him as he calls upon him?


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{11}Yet now I will tell you what is in the hand of the Lord:

\par }{\Q I will not lie concerning the things which are with the Almighty.


\par }{\Q \VS{12}Behold, ye all know that ye are adding vanity to vanity.


\par }{\Q \VS{13}This is the portion of an ungodly man from the Lord,

\par }{\Q And the possession of oppressors shall come upon them from the Almighty.


\par }{\Q \VS{14}And if their children be many, they shall be for slaughter:

\par }{\Q And if they grow up, they shall beg.


\par }{\Q \VS{15}And they that survive of him shall utterly perish,

\par }{\Q And no one shall pity their widows.


\par }{\Q \VS{16}Even if he should gather silver as earth,

\par }{\Q And prepare gold as clay;


\par }{\Q \VS{17}All these things shall the righteous gain,

\par }{\Q And the truehearted shall possess his wealth.


\par }{\Q \VS{18}And his house is gone like moths, and like a spider’s web.


\par }{\Q \VS{19}The rich man shall lie down, and shall not continue:

\par }{\Q He has opened his eyes, and he is not.


\par }{\Q \VS{20}Pains have come upon him as water,

\par }{\Q And darkness has carried him away by night.


\par }{\Q \VS{21}And a burning wind shall catch him, and he shall depart,

\par }{\Q And it shall utterly drive him out of his place.


\par }{\Q \VS{22}And
{\ADD{God}} shall cast
{\ADD{trouble}} upon him, and not spare:

\par }{\Q He would fain flee out of his hand.


\par }{\Q \VS{23}He shall cause
{\ADD{men}} to clap their hands against them,

\par }{\Q And shall hiss him out of his place.


\par }{\BB \par }


\PoetryChap{28}{\Q \VerseOne{1}For there is a place for the silver, whence it comes,

\par }{\Q And a place for the gold, whence it is refined.


\par }{\Q \VS{2}For iron comes out of the earth,

\par }{\Q And brass is hewn out like stone.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{3}He has set a bound to darkness,

\par }{\Q And he searches out every limit:

\par }{\Q A stone
{\ADD{is}} darkness, and the shadow of death.


\par }{\Q \VS{4}There is a cutting off of the torrent by reason of dust:

\par }{\Q So they that forget the right way are weakened; they are removed from
{\ADD{among}} men.


\par }{\Q \VS{5}{\ADD{As for}} the earth, out of it shall come bread:

\par }{\Q Under it has been turned up as it were fire.


\par }{\Q \VS{6}Her stones are the place of the sapphire:

\par }{\Q And
{\ADD{her}} dust
{\ADD{supplies}} man with gold.


\par }{\Q \VS{7}{\ADD{There is}} a path, the fowl has not known it,

\par }{\Q Neither has the eye of the vulture seen it:


\par }{\Q \VS{8}Neither have the sons of the proud trodden it,

\par }{\Q A lion has not passed upon it.


\par }{\Q \VS{9}He has stretched forth his hand on the sharp
{\ADD{rock}},

\par }{\Q And turned up mountains by the roots:


\par }{\Q \VS{10}And he has interrupted the whirlpools of rivers,

\par }{\Q And mine eye has seen every precious thing.


\par }{\Q \VS{11}And he has laid bare the depths of rivers,

\par }{\Q And has brought his power to light.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{12}But whence has wisdom been discovered?

\par }{\Q And what is the place of knowledge?


\par }{\Q \VS{13}A mortal has not known its way,

\par }{\Q Neither indeed has it been discovered among men.


\par }{\Q \VS{14}The depth said, It is not in me:

\par }{\Q And the sea said, It is not with me.


\par }{\Q \VS{15}One shall not give fine gold instead of it,

\par }{\Q Neither shall silver be weighed in exchange for it.


\par }{\Q \VS{16}Neither shall it be compared with gold of Ophir,

\par }{\Q With the precious onyx and sapphire.


\par }{\Q \VS{17}Gold and crystal shall not be equaled to it,

\par }{\Q Neither shall vessels of gold be its exchange.


\par }{\Q \VS{18}Coral and fine pearl shall not be mentioned:

\par }{\Q But do thou esteem wisdom above the most precious things.


\par }{\Q \VS{19}The topaz of Ethiopia shall not be equaled to it;

\par }{\Q It shall not be compared with pure gold.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{20}Whence then is wisdom found?

\par }{\Q And of what kind is the place of understanding?


\par }{\Q \VS{21}It has escaped the notice of every man,

\par }{\Q And has been hidden from the birds of the sky.


\par }{\Q \VS{22}Destruction and Death said,

\par }{\Q We have heard the report of it.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{23}God has well ordered the way of it,

\par }{\Q And he knows the place of it.


\par }{\Q \VS{24}For he surveys the whole
{\ADD{earth}} under heaven,

\par }{\Q Knowing the things in the earth:

\VS{25}all that he has made;

\par }{\Q The weight of the winds, the measures of the water.


\par }{\Q \VS{26}When he made
{\ADD{them}}, thus he saw and numbered them,

\par }{\Q And made a way for the pealing of the thunder.


\par }{\Q \VS{27}Then he saw it, and declared it:

\par }{\Q He prepared it
{\ADD{and}} traced it out.


\par }{\Q \VS{28}And he said to man, Behold, godliness is wisdom;

\par }{\Q And to abstain from evil is understanding.


\par }{\BB \par }


\PoetryChap{29}{\Q \VerseOne{1}And Job continued and said in his parable,


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{2}Oh that I were as in months past, wherein God preserved me!


\par }{\Q \VS{3}As when his lamp shone over my head;

\par }{\Q When by his light I walked through darkness.


\par }{\Q \VS{4}{\ADD{As}} when I steadfastly pursued my ways,

\par }{\Q When God took care of my house.


\par }{\Q \VS{5}When I was very fruitful,

\par }{\Q And my children were about me;


\par }{\Q \VS{6}When my ways were moistened with butter,

\par }{\Q And the mountains flowed for me with milk.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{7}When I went forth early in the city,

\par }{\Q And the seat was placed for me in the streets.


\par }{\Q \VS{8}The young men saw me, and hid themselves:

\par }{\Q And all the old men stood up.


\par }{\Q \VS{9}And the great men ceased speaking,

\par }{\Q And laid their finger on their mouth.


\par }{\Q \VS{10}And they that heard
{\ADD{me}} blessed me,

\par }{\Q And their tongue clove to their throat.


\par }{\Q \VS{11}For the ear heard, and blessed me;

\par }{\Q And the eye saw me, and turned aside.


\par }{\Q \VS{12}For I saved the poor out of the hand of the oppressor,

\par }{\Q And helped the fatherless who had no helper.


\par }{\Q \VS{13}Let the blessing of the perishing one come upon me;

\par }{\Q Yea, the mouth of the widow has blessed me.


\par }{\Q \VS{14}Also I put on righteousness,

\par }{\Q And clothed myself with judgment like a mantle.


\par }{\Q \VS{15}I was the eye of the blind,

\par }{\Q And the foot of the lame.


\par }{\Q \VS{16}I was the father of the helpless;

\par }{\Q And I searched out the cause which I knew not.


\par }{\Q \VS{17}And I broke the jaw teeth of the unrighteous;

\par }{\Q I plucked the spoil out of the midst of their teeth.


\par }{\Q \VS{18}And I said, My age shall continue as the stem of a palm tree;

\par }{\Q I shall live a long while.


\par }{\Q \VS{19}{\ADD{My}} root was spread out by the water,

\par }{\Q And the dew would lodge on my crop.


\par }{\Q \VS{20}My glory was fresh in me,

\par }{\Q And my bow prospered in his hand.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{21}{\ADD{Men}} heard me, and gave heed,

\par }{\Q And they were silent at my counsel.


\par }{\Q \VS{22}At my word they spoke not again,

\par }{\Q And they were very glad whenever I spoke to them.


\par }{\Q \VS{23}As the thirsty earth expecting the rain,

\par }{\Q So they
{\ADD{waited for}} my speech.


\par }{\Q \VS{24}Were I to laugh at them, they would not believe
{\ADD{it}};

\par }{\Q And the light of my face has not failed.


\par }{\Q \VS{25}I chose out their way, and sat chief,

\par }{\Q And dwelt as a king in the midst of warriors, as one comforting mourners.


\par }{\BB \par }


\PoetryChap{30}{\Q \VerseOne{1}But now the youngest have laughed me to scorn,

\par }{\Q Now they reprove me in
{\ADD{their}} turn,

\par }{\Q Whose fathers I set at nought;

\par }{\Q Whom I did not deem worthy
{\ADD{to be with}} my shepherd dogs.


\par }{\Q \VS{2}Yea, why had I the strength of their hands?

\par }{\Q For them the full term
{\ADD{of life}} was lost.


\par }{\Q \VS{3}{\ADD{One is}} childless in want and famine,

\par }{\Q {\ADD{Such as}} they that fled but lately the distress and misery of drought.


\par }{\Q \VS{4}Who compass the salt places on the sounding
{\ADD{shore}},

\par }{\Q Who had salt
{\ADD{herbs}} for their food,

\par }{\Q And were dishonorable and of no repute, in want of every good thing;

\par }{\Q Who also ate roots of trees by reason of great hunger.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{5}Thieves have risen up against me,


\par }{\Q \VS{6}Whose houses were the caves of the rocks,

\par }{\Q Who lived under the wild shrubs.


\par }{\Q \VS{7}They will cry out among the rustling
{\ADD{bushes}}.


\par }{\Q \VS{8}{\ADD{They are}} sons of fools and vile men,

\par }{\Q {\ADD{Whose}} name and glory
{\ADD{are}} quenched from off the earth.


\par }{\Q \VS{9}But now I am their music,

\par }{\Q And they have me for a byword.


\par }{\Q \VS{10}And they stood aloof and abhorred me,

\par }{\Q And spared not to spit in my face.


\par }{\Q \VS{11}For he has opened his quiver and afflicted me:

\par }{\Q They also have cast off the restraint of my presence.


\par }{\Q \VS{12}They have risen up against
{\ADD{me}} on the right hand of
{\ADD{their}} offspring;

\par }{\Q They have stretched out their foot, and directed against me the ways of their destruction.


\par }{\Q \VS{13}My paths are ruined;

\par }{\Q For they have stripped off my raiment:

\par }{\Q He has shot at me with his weapons.


\par }{\Q \VS{14}And he has pleaded against me as he will:

\par }{\Q I am overwhelmed with pains.


\par }{\Q \VS{15}My pains return upon
{\ADD{me}};

\par }{\Q My hope is gone like the wind,

\par }{\Q And my safety as a cloud.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{16}Even now my life shall be poured forth upon me;

\par }{\Q And days of anguish seize me.


\par }{\Q \VS{17}And by night my bones are confounded;

\par }{\Q And my sinews are relaxed.


\par }{\Q \VS{18}With great force
{\ADD{my disease}} has taken hold of my garment:

\par }{\Q It has compassed me as the collar of my coat.


\par }{\Q \VS{19}And thou hast counted me as clay;

\par }{\Q My portion is in dust and ashes.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{20}And I have cried to thee, but thou hearest me not:

\par }{\Q But they stood still, and observed me.


\par }{\Q \VS{21}They attacked me also without mercy:

\par }{\Q Thou hast scourged me with a strong hand.


\par }{\Q \VS{22}And thou hast put me to grief,

\par }{\Q And hast cast me away from safety.


\par }{\Q \VS{23}For I know that death will destroy me:

\par }{\Q For the earth is the house
{\ADD{appointed}} for every mortal.


\par }{\Q \VS{24}Oh then that I might lay hands upon myself,

\par }{\Q Or at least ask another, and he should do this for me.


\par }{\Q \VS{25}Yet I wept over every helpless man;

\par }{\Q I groaned when I saw a man in distress.


\par }{\Q \VS{26}But I, when I waited for good things,

\par }{\Q Behold, days of evils came the more upon me.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{27}My belly boiled, and would not cease:

\par }{\Q The days of poverty prevented me.


\par }{\Q \VS{28}I went mourning without restraint:

\par }{\Q And I have stood and cried out in the assembly.


\par }{\Q \VS{29}I am become a brother of monsters,

\par }{\Q And a companion of ostriches.


\par }{\Q \VS{30}And my skin has been greatly blackened,

\par }{\Q And my bones are burned with heat.


\par }{\Q \VS{31}My harp also has been turned into mourning,

\par }{\Q And my song into my weeping.


\par }{\BB \par }


\PoetryChap{31}{\Q \VerseOne{1}I made a covenant with mine eyes,

\par }{\Q And I will not think upon a virgin.


\par }{\Q \VS{2}Now what portion has God given from above?

\par }{\Q And is there an inheritance
{\ADD{given}} of the Mighty One from the highest?


\par }{\Q \VS{3}Alas! destruction to the unrighteous,

\par }{\Q And rejection to them that do iniquity.


\par }{\Q \VS{4}Will he not see my way,

\par }{\Q And number all my steps?


\par }{\Q \VS{5}But if I had gone with scorners,

\par }{\Q And if too my foot has hastened to deceit


\par }{\Q \VS{6}(For I am weighed in a just balance,

\par }{\Q And the Lord knows my innocence):


\par }{\Q \VS{7}If my foot has turned aside out of the way,

\par }{\Q Or if my heart has followed mine eye,

\par }{\Q And if too I have touched gifts with my hands;


\par }{\Q \VS{8}Then let me sow, and let others eat;

\par }{\Q And let me be uprooted on the earth.


\par }{\Q \VS{9}If my heart has gone forth after another man’s wife,

\par }{\Q And if I laid wait at her doors;


\par }{\Q \VS{10}Then let my wife also please another,

\par }{\Q And let my children be brought low.


\par }{\Q \VS{11}For the rage of anger is not to be controlled,

\par }{\Q {\ADD{In the case}} of defiling
{\ADD{another}} man’s wife.


\par }{\Q \VS{12}For it is a fire burning on every side,

\par }{\Q And whomsoever it attacks, it utterly destroys.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{13}And if too I despised the judgment of my servant or
{\ADD{my}} handmaid,

\par }{\Q When they pleaded with me;


\par }{\Q \VS{14}What then shall I do if the Lord should try me?

\par }{\Q And if also he should at all visit me, can I make an answer?


\par }{\Q \VS{15}Were not they too formed as I also was formed in the womb?

\par }{\Q Yea, we were formed in the same womb.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{16}But the helpless missed not whatever need they had,

\par }{\Q And I did not cause the eye of the widow to fail.


\par }{\Q \VS{17}And if too I ate my morsel alone,

\par }{\Q And did not impart
{\ADD{of it}} to the orphan


\par }{\Q \VS{18}(For I nourished
{\ADD{them}} as a father from my youth,

\par }{\Q And guided
{\ADD{them}} from my mother’s womb).


\par }{\Q \VS{19}And if too I overlooked the naked as he was perishing, and did not clothe him;


\par }{\Q \VS{20}And if the poor did not bless me,

\par }{\Q And their shoulders were
{\ADD{not}} warmed with the fleece of my lambs;


\par }{\Q \VS{21}If I lifted my hand against an orphan,

\par }{\Q Trusting that my strength was far superior
{\ADD{to his}}:


\par }{\Q \VS{22}Let then my shoulder start from the bladebone,

\par }{\Q And my arm be crushed off from the elbow.


\par }{\Q \VS{23}For the fear of the Lord constrained me,

\par }{\Q And I cannot bear up by reason of his burden.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{24}If I made gold my treasure,

\par }{\Q And if too I trusted the precious stone;


\par }{\Q \VS{25}And if too I rejoiced when my wealth was abundant,

\par }{\Q And if too I laid my hand on innumerable
{\ADD{treasures}}


\par }{\Q \VS{26}(Do we not see the shining sun eclipsed,

\par }{\Q And the moon waning? for they have not
{\ADD{power to continue}}):


\par }{\Q \VS{27}And if my heart was secretly deceived,

\par }{\Q And if I have laid my hand upon my mouth and kissed it:


\par }{\Q \VS{28}Let this also then be reckoned to me as the greatest iniquity:

\par }{\Q For I
{\ADD{should}} have lied against the Lord Most High.


\par }{\Q \VS{29}And if too I was glad at the fall of mine enemies,

\par }{\Q And my heart said, Aha!


\par }{\Q \VS{30}Let then mine ear hear my curse,

\par }{\Q And let me be a byword among my people in my affliction.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{31}And if too my handmaids have often said,

\par }{\Q Oh that we might be satisfied with his flesh

\par }{\Q (Whereas I was very kind:


\par }{\Q \VS{32}For the stranger did not lodge without,

\par }{\Q And my door was opened to everyone that came):


\par }{\Q \VS{33}Or if too having sinned unintentionally, I hid my sin


\par }{\Q \VS{34}(For I did not stand in awe of a great multitude, so as not to declare boldly before them):

\par }{\Q And if too I permitted a poor man to go out of my door with an empty bosom


\par }{\Q \VS{35}(Oh that I had a hearer),

\par }{\Q And if I had not feared the hand of the Lord;

\par }{\Q And
{\ADD{as to}} the written charge which I had against anyone,


\par }{\Q \VS{36}I would place
{\ADD{it}} as a chaplet on my shoulders, and read it.


\par }{\Q \VS{37}And if not, tearing it up I would return it,

\par }{\Q Having taken nothing from the debtor.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{38}If at any time the land groaned against me,

\par }{\Q And if its furrows mourned together;


\par }{\Q \VS{39}And if I ate its strength alone without price,

\par }{\Q And if too I grieved the heart of the owner of the soil, by taking
{\ADD{aught}} from
{\ADD{him}}:


\par }{\Q \VS{40}Then let the nettle come up to me instead of wheat,

\par }{\Q And a bramble instead of barley.

\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q And Job ceased speaking.


\par }{\BB \par }


\PoetryChap{32}{\Q \VerseOne{1}And his three friends also ceased any longer to answer Job:

\par }{\Q For Job was righteous before them.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{2}Then Elihu the son of Barachel, the Buzite,

\par }{\Q Of the kindred of Ram, of the country of Uz, was angered:

\par }{\Q And he was very angry with Job,

\par }{\Q Because he justified himself before the Lord.


\par }{\Q \VS{3}And he was also very angry with
{\ADD{his}} three friends,

\par }{\Q Because they were not able to return answers to Job,

\par }{\Q Yet set him down for an ungodly man.


\par }{\Q \VS{4}But Elihu had forborne to give an answer to Job,

\par }{\Q Because they were older than he.


\par }{\Q \VS{5}And Elihu saw that there was no answer

\par }{\Q In the mouth of the three men;

\par }{\Q And he was angered in his wrath.


\par }{\Q \VS{6}And Elihu the Buzite the son of Barachel answered and said,

\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q I am younger in age, and ye are elder;

\par }{\Q Wherefore I kept silence,

\par }{\Q Fearing to declare to you my own knowledge.


\par }{\Q \VS{7}And I said, It is not time that speaks,

\par }{\Q Though in many years
{\ADD{men}} know wisdom:


\par }{\Q \VS{8}But there is a spirit in mortals;

\par }{\Q And the inspiration of the Almighty is that which teaches.


\par }{\Q \VS{9}The long-lived are not wise
{\ADD{as such}};

\par }{\Q Neither do the aged know judgment.


\par }{\Q \VS{10}Wherefore I said, Hear me,

\par }{\Q And I will tell you what I know.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{11}Hearken to my words; for I will speak in your hearing,

\par }{\Q Until ye shall have tried
{\ADD{the matter}} with words:


\par }{\Q \VS{12}And I shall understand as far as you;

\par }{\Q And, behold, there was no one of you

\par }{\Q That answered Job his words in argument,


\par }{\Q \VS{13}Lest ye should say, We have found that we have added wisdom to the Lord.


\par }{\Q \VS{14}And ye have commissioned a man to speak such words.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{15}They were afraid, they answered no longer;

\par }{\Q They gave up their speaking.


\par }{\Q \VS{16}I waited (for I had not spoken),

\par }{\Q Because they stood still, they answered not.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{17}And Elihu continued and said,

\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q I will again speak,

\VS{18}for I am full of words,

\par }{\Q For the spirit of my belly destroys me.


\par }{\Q \VS{19}And my belly is as a skin of sweet wine bound up
{\ADD{and}} ready to burst;

\par }{\Q Or as a brazier’s laboring bellows.


\par }{\Q \VS{20}I will speak, that I may open my lips and relieve myself.


\par }{\Q \VS{21}For truly I will not be awed because of man,

\par }{\Q Nor indeed will I be confounded before a mortal.


\par }{\Q \VS{22}For I know not how to respect persons:

\par }{\Q And if otherwise, even the moths would eat me.


\par }{\BB \par }


\PoetryChap{33}{\Q \VerseOne{1}Howbeit hear, Job, my words,

\par }{\Q And hearken to my speech.


\par }{\Q \VS{2}For behold, I have opened my mouth,

\par }{\Q And my tongue has spoken.


\par }{\Q \VS{3}My heart
{\ADD{shall be found}} pure by
{\ADD{my}} words;

\par }{\Q And the understanding of my lips shall meditate purity.


\par }{\Q \VS{4}The Divine Spirit is that which formed me,

\par }{\Q And the breath of the Almighty that which teaches me.


\par }{\Q \VS{5}If thou canst, give me an answer:

\par }{\Q Wait therefore; stand against me, and I
{\ADD{will stand}} against thee.


\par }{\Q \VS{6}Thou art formed out of the clay as also I:

\par }{\Q We have been formed out of the same
{\ADD{substance}}.


\par }{\Q \VS{7}My fear shall not terrify thee,

\par }{\Q Neither shall my hand be heavy upon thee.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{8}But thou hast said in mine ears

\par }{\Q (I have heard the voice of thy words);

\par }{\Q Because thou sayest, I am pure, not having sinned;


\par }{\Q \VS{9}I am blameless, for I have not transgressed.


\par }{\Q \VS{10}Yet he has discovered a charge against me,

\par }{\Q And he has reckoned me as an adversary.


\par }{\Q \VS{11}And he has put my foot in the stocks,

\par }{\Q And has watched all my ways.


\par }{\Q \VS{12}For how sayest thou, I am righteous, yet he has not hearkened to me?

\par }{\Q For he that is above mortals is eternal.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{13}But thou sayest, Why has he not heard every word of my cause?


\par }{\Q \VS{14}For when the Lord speaks once,

\par }{\Q Or a second time,

\VS{15}{\ADD{sending}} a dream,

\par }{\Q Or in the meditation of the night

\par }{\Q (As when a dreadful alarm happens to fall upon men,

\par }{\Q In slumberings on the bed):


\par }{\Q \VS{16}Then opens he the understanding of men:

\par }{\Q He scares them with such fearful visions:


\par }{\Q \VS{17}To turn a man from unrighteousness,

\par }{\Q And he delivers his body from a fall.


\par }{\Q \VS{18}He spares also his soul from death,

\par }{\Q And
{\ADD{suffers}} him not to fall in war.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{19}And again, he chastens him with sickness on his bed,

\par }{\Q And the multitude of his bones is benumbed.


\par }{\Q \VS{20}And he shall not be able to take any food,

\par }{\Q Though his soul shall desire meat;


\par }{\Q \VS{21}Until his flesh shall be consumed,

\par }{\Q And he shall show his bones bare.


\par }{\Q \VS{22}His soul also draws nigh to death,

\par }{\Q And his life is in Hades.


\par }{\Q \VS{23}Though there should be a thousand messengers of death,

\par }{\Q Not one of them shall wound him:

\par }{\Q If he should purpose in his heart to turn to the Lord,

\par }{\Q And declare to man his fault,

\par }{\Q And show his folly;


\par }{\Q \VS{24}He will support him, that he should not perish,

\par }{\Q And will restore his body as
{\ADD{fresh}} plaster upon a wall;

\par }{\Q And he will fill his bones with marrow.


\par }{\Q \VS{25}And he will make his flesh tender as that of a babe,

\par }{\Q And he will restore him among men in
{\ADD{his}} full strength.


\par }{\Q \VS{26}And he shall pray to the Lord, and his prayer shall be accepted of him;

\par }{\Q He shall enter with a cheerful countenance, with a full expression
{\ADD{of praise}}:

\par }{\Q For he will render to men
{\ADD{their}} due.


\par }{\Q \VS{27}Even then a man shall blame himself, saying,

\par }{\Q What kind of things have I done? and he has not punished me according to the full amount of my sins.


\par }{\Q \VS{28}Deliver my soul, that it may not go to destruction,

\par }{\Q And my life shall see the light.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{29}Behold, all these things the Mighty One works

\par }{\Q In a threefold manner with a man.


\par }{\Q \VS{30}And he has delivered my soul from death,

\par }{\Q That my life may praise him in the light.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{31}Hearken, Job, and hear me:

\par }{\Q Be silent, and I will speak.


\par }{\Q \VS{32}If thou hast words, answer me:

\par }{\Q Speak, for I desire thee to be justified.


\par }{\Q \VS{33}If not, do thou hear me:

\par }{\Q Be silent, and I will teach thee.


\par }{\BB \par }


\PoetryChap{34}{\Q \VerseOne{1}And Elihu continued, and said,


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{2}Hear me, ye wise men;

\par }{\Q Hearken, ye that have knowledge.


\par }{\Q \VS{3}For the ear tries words,

\par }{\Q And the mouth tastes meat.


\par }{\Q \VS{4}Let us choose judgment to ourselves:

\par }{\Q Let us know among ourselves what is right.


\par }{\Q \VS{5}For Job has said, I am righteous:

\par }{\Q The Lord has removed my judgment.


\par }{\Q \VS{6}And he has erred in my judgment:

\par }{\Q My wound is severe without unrighteousness
{\ADD{of mine}}.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{7}What man is as Job,

\par }{\Q Drinking scorning like water?


\par }{\Q \VS{8}{\ADD{Saying}}, I have not sinned, nor committed ungodliness,

\par }{\Q Nor had fellowship with workers of iniquity,

\par }{\Q To go with the ungodly.


\par }{\Q \VS{9}For thou shouldest not say, There shall be no visitation of a man,

\par }{\Q Whereas
{\ADD{there is}} a visitation on him from the Lord.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{10}Wherefore hear me, ye that are wise in heart:

\par }{\Q Far be it from me to sin before the Lord,

\par }{\Q And to pervert righteousness before the Almighty.


\par }{\Q \VS{11}Yea, he renders to a man accordingly as each of them does,

\par }{\Q And in a man’s path he will find him.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{12}And thinkest thou that the Lord will do wrong,

\par }{\Q Or will the Almighty who made the earth wrest judgment?


\par }{\Q \VS{13}And who is he that made
{\ADD{the whole world}} under heaven,

\par }{\Q And all things therein?


\par }{\Q \VS{14}For if he would confine,

\par }{\Q And restrain his spirit with himself;


\par }{\Q \VS{15}All flesh would die together,

\par }{\Q And every mortal would return to the earth, whence also he was formed.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{16}Take heed lest he rebuke
{\ADD{thee}}:

\par }{\Q Hear this, hearken to the voice of words.


\par }{\Q \VS{17}Behold then the one that hates iniquities,

\par }{\Q And that destroys the wicked,

\par }{\Q Who is forever just.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{18}{\ADD{He is}} ungodly that says to a king, Thou art a transgressor,

\par }{\Q {\ADD{That says}} to princes, O most ungodly one.


\par }{\Q \VS{19}{\ADD{Such a one}} as would not reverence the face of an honorable man,

\par }{\Q Neither knows how to give honor to the great,

\par }{\Q So that their persons should be respected.


\par }{\Q \VS{20}But it shall turn out vanity to them, to cry and beseech a man;

\par }{\Q For they dealt unlawfully, the poor being turned aside
{\ADD{from their right}}.


\par }{\Q \VS{21}For he surveys the works of men,

\par }{\Q And nothing of what they do has escaped him.


\par }{\Q \VS{22}Neither shall there be a place for the workers of iniquity to hide themselves.


\par }{\Q \VS{23}For he will not lay upon a man more
{\ADD{than right}}.


\par }{\Q \VS{24}For the Lord looks down upon all men,

\par }{\Q Who comprehends unsearchable things,

\par }{\Q Glorious also and excellent things without number.


\par }{\Q \VS{25}Who discovers their works,

\par }{\Q And will bring night about
{\ADD{upon them}}, and they shall be brought low.


\par }{\Q \VS{26}And he quite destroys the ungodly,

\par }{\Q For they are seen before him.


\par }{\Q \VS{27}Because they turned aside from the law of God,

\par }{\Q And did not regard his ordinances,


\par }{\Q \VS{28}So as to bring before him the cry of the needy;

\par }{\Q For he will hear the cry of the poor.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{29}And he will give quiet, and who will condemn?

\par }{\Q And he will hide his face, and who shall see him?

\par }{\Q Whether
{\ADD{it be done}} against a nation, or against a man also:


\par }{\Q \VS{30}Causing a hypocrite to be king, because of the waywardness of the people.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{31}For
{\ADD{there is}} one that says to the Mighty One, I have received
{\ADD{blessings}}; I will not take a pledge:


\par }{\Q \VS{32}I will see apart from myself:

\par }{\Q Do thou show me if I have done unrighteousness;

\par }{\Q I will not do
{\ADD{so}} anymore.


\par }{\Q \VS{33}Will he take vengeance for it on thee,

\par }{\Q Whereas thou wilt put
{\ADD{it}} far
{\ADD{from thee}}?

\par }{\Q For thou shalt choose, and not I;

\par }{\Q And what thou knowest, speak thou.


\par }{\Q \VS{34}Because the wise in heart shall say this,

\par }{\Q And a wise man listens to my word.


\par }{\Q \VS{35}But Job has not spoken with understanding,

\par }{\Q His words are not
{\ADD{uttered}} with knowledge.


\par }{\Q \VS{36}Howbeit do thou learn, Job:

\par }{\Q No longer make answer as the foolish:


\par }{\Q \VS{37}That we add not to our sins:

\par }{\Q For iniquity will be reckoned against us,

\par }{\Q If
{\ADD{we}} speak many words before the Lord.


\par }{\BB \par }


\PoetryChap{35}{\Q \VerseOne{1}And Elihu resumed and said,


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{2}What is this that thou thinkest to be according to right?

\par }{\Q Who art thou that thou hast said, I am righteous before the Lord?


\par }{\Q \VS{4}I will answer thee,

\par }{\Q And thy three friends.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{5}Look up to the sky and see;

\par }{\Q And consider the clouds, how high
{\ADD{they are}} above thee.


\par }{\Q \VS{6}If thou hast sinned, what wilt thou do?

\par }{\Q And if too thou hast transgressed much, what canst thou perform?


\par }{\Q \VS{7}And suppose thou art righteous, what wilt thou give him?

\par }{\Q Or what shall he receive of thy hand?


\par }{\Q \VS{8}Thy ungodliness
{\ADD{may affect}} a man who is like to thee;

\par }{\Q Or thy righteousness a son of man.


\par }{\Q \VS{9}They that are oppressed of a multitude will be ready to cry out;

\par }{\Q They will call for help because of the arm of many.


\par }{\Q \VS{10}But none said, Where is God that made me,

\par }{\Q Who appoints the night watches;


\par }{\Q \VS{11}Who makes me to differ from the four-footed beasts of the earth,

\par }{\Q And from the birds of the sky?


\par }{\Q \VS{12}There they shall cry, and none shall hearken,

\par }{\Q Even because of the insolence of wicked men.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{13}For the Lord desires not to look on error,

\par }{\Q For he is the Almighty One.


\par }{\Q \VS{14}He beholds them that perform lawless deeds, and he will save me:

\par }{\Q And do thou plead before him, if thou canst praise him, as it is
{\ADD{possible}} even now.


\par }{\Q \VS{15}For he is not
{\ADD{now}} regarding his wrath,

\par }{\Q Nor has he noticed severely any trespass.


\par }{\Q \VS{16}Yet Job vainly opens his mouth,

\par }{\Q In ignorance he multiplies words.


\par }{\BB \par }


\PoetryChap{36}{\Q \VerseOne{1}And Elihu further continued, and said,


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{2}Wait for me yet a little while, that I may teach thee:

\par }{\Q For there is yet speech in me.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{3}Having fetched my knowledge from afar,

\par }{\Q And according to my works,


\par }{\Q \VS{4}I will speak just things truly,

\par }{\Q And thou shalt not unjustly receive unjust words.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{5}But know that the Lord will not cast off an innocent man:

\par }{\Q Being mighty in strength of wisdom,


\par }{\Q \VS{6}He will not by any means save alive the ungodly:

\par }{\Q And he will grant the judgment of the poor.


\par }{\Q \VS{7}He will not turn away his eyes from the righteous,

\par }{\Q But
{\ADD{they shall be}} with kings on the throne:

\par }{\Q And he will establish them in triumph, and they shall be exalted.


\par }{\Q \VS{8}But they that are bound in fetters

\par }{\Q Shall be holden in cords of poverty.


\par }{\Q \VS{9}And he shall recount to them their works,

\par }{\Q And their transgressions, for such will act with violence.


\par }{\Q \VS{10}But he will hearken to the righteous:

\par }{\Q And he has said that they shall turn from unrighteousness.


\par }{\Q \VS{11}If they should hear and serve
{\ADD{him}},

\par }{\Q They shall spend their days in prosperity,

\par }{\Q And their years in honor.


\par }{\Q \VS{12}But he preserves not the ungodly; because they are not willing to know the Lord,

\par }{\Q And because when reproved they were disobedient.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{13}And the hypocrites in heart will array wrath
{\ADD{against themselves}};

\par }{\Q They will not cry, because he has bound them.


\par }{\Q \VS{14}Therefore let their soul die in youth,

\par }{\Q And their life be wounded by messengers
{\ADD{of death}}.


\par }{\Q \VS{15}Because they afflicted the weak and helpless:

\par }{\Q And he will vindicate the judgment of the meek.


\par }{\Q \VS{16}And he has also enticed thee out of the mouth of the enemy:


\par }{\Q \VS{17}{\ADD{There is}} a deep gulf
{\ADD{and}} a rushing stream beneath it,

\par }{\Q And thy table came down full of fatness.

\par }{\Q Judgment shall not fail from the righteous;


\par }{\Q \VS{18}But there shall be wrath upon the ungodly,

\par }{\Q By reason of the ungodliness of the bribes which they received for iniquities.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{19}Let not
{\ADD{thy}} mind willingly turn thee aside

\par }{\Q From the petition of the feeble that are in distress.


\par }{\Q \VS{20}And draw not forth all the mighty
{\ADD{men}} by night,

\par }{\Q So that the people should go up instead of them.


\par }{\Q \VS{21}But take heed lest thou do that which is wrong:

\par }{\Q For of this thou hast made choice because of poverty.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{22}Behold, the Mighty One shall prevail by his strength:

\par }{\Q For who is powerful as he is?


\par }{\Q \VS{23}And who is he that examines his works?

\par }{\Q Or who can say, He has wrought injustice?


\par }{\Q \VS{24}Remember that his works are great

\par }{\Q {\ADD{Beyond}} those which men have attempted.


\par }{\Q \VS{25}Every man has seen in himself,

\par }{\Q How many mortals are wounded.


\par }{\Q \VS{26}Behold, the Mighty One is great, and we shall not know
{\ADD{him}}:

\par }{\Q The number of his years is even infinite.


\par }{\Q \VS{27}And the drops of rain are numbered by him,

\par }{\Q And shall be poured out in rain to form a cloud.


\par }{\Q \VS{28}The ancient
{\ADD{heavens}} shall flow,

\par }{\Q And the clouds overshadow innumerable mortals:


\par }{\Q \VS{28a}He has fixed a time to cattle,

\par }{\Q And they know the order of rest.


\par }{\Q \VS{28b}{\ADD{Yet}} by all these things thy understanding is not astonished,

\par }{\Q Neither is thy mind disturbed in
{\ADD{thy}} body.


\par }{\Q \VS{29}And though one should understand the outspreadings of the clouds,

\par }{\Q {\ADD{Or}} the measure of his tabernacle;


\par }{\Q \VS{30}Behold he will stretch his bow against him,

\par }{\Q And he covers the bottom of the sea.


\par }{\Q \VS{31}For by them he will judge the nations:

\par }{\Q He will give food to him that has strength.


\par }{\Q \VS{32}He has hidden the light in
{\ADD{his}} hands,

\par }{\Q And given charge concerning it to the interposing
{\ADD{cloud}}.


\par }{\Q \VS{33}The Lord will declare concerning this
{\ADD{to}} his friend:

\par }{\Q {\ADD{But there is}} a portion also for unrighteousness.


\par }{\BB \par }


\PoetryChap{37}{\Q \VerseOne{1}At this also my heart is troubled,

\par }{\Q And moved out of its place.


\par }{\Q \VS{2}Hear thou a report by the anger of the Lord’s wrath,

\par }{\Q And a discourse shall come out of his mouth.


\par }{\Q \VS{3}His dominion is under the whole heaven,

\par }{\Q And his light is at the extremities of the earth.


\par }{\Q \VS{4}After him shall be a cry with a
{\ADD{loud}} voice;

\par }{\Q He shall thunder with the voice of his excellency,

\par }{\Q Yet he shall not cause men to pass away, for one shall hear his voice.


\par }{\Q \VS{5}The Mighty One shall thunder wonderfully with his voice:

\par }{\Q For he has done great things which we knew not;


\par }{\Q \VS{6}Commanding the snow, Be thou upon the earth,

\par }{\Q And the stormy rain, and the storm of the showers of his might.


\par }{\Q \VS{7}He seals up the hand of every man,

\par }{\Q That every man may know his own weakness.


\par }{\Q \VS{8}And the wild beasts come in under the covert,

\par }{\Q And rest in
{\ADD{their}} lair.


\par }{\Q \VS{9}Troubles come on out of the secret chambers,

\par }{\Q And cold from the mountaintops.


\par }{\Q \VS{10}And from the breath of the Mighty One he will send frost;

\par }{\Q And he guides the water in whatever way he pleases.


\par }{\Q \VS{11}And
{\ADD{if}} a cloud obscures
{\ADD{what is}} precious
{\ADD{to him}},

\par }{\Q His light will disperse the cloud.


\par }{\Q \VS{12}And he will carry round the encircling
{\ADD{clouds}} by his governance, to
{\ADD{perform}} their works:

\par }{\Q Whatsoever he shall command them,


\par }{\Q \VS{13}This has been appointed by him on the earth,

\par }{\Q Whether for correction,
{\ADD{or}} for his land,

\par }{\Q Or if he shall find him
{\ADD{an object}} for mercy.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{14}Hearken to this, O Job: stand still,

\par }{\Q And be admonished of the power of the Lord.


\par }{\Q \VS{15}We know that God has disposed his works,

\par }{\Q Having made light out of darkness.


\par }{\Q \VS{16}And he knows the divisions of the clouds,

\par }{\Q And the signal overthrows of the ungodly.


\par }{\Q \VS{17}But thy robe is warm,

\par }{\Q And there is quiet upon the land.


\par }{\Q \VS{18}Wilt thou establish with him
{\ADD{foundations}} for the ancient
{\ADD{heavens?}}

\par }{\Q {\ADD{They are}} strong as a molten mirror.


\par }{\Q \VS{19}Wherefore teach me, what shall we say to him?

\par }{\Q And let us cease from saying much.


\par }{\Q \VS{20}Have I a book or a scribe by me,

\par }{\Q That I may stand and put man to silence?


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{21}But the light is not visible to all:

\par }{\Q It shines afar off in the heavens,

\par }{\Q As that which is from him in the clouds.


\par }{\Q \VS{22}From the north
{\ADD{come}} the clouds shining like gold:

\par }{\Q In these great are the glory and honor of the Almighty;


\par }{\Q \VS{23}And we do not find another his equal in strength:

\par }{\Q {\ADD{As for}} him that judges justly, dost thou not think that he listens?


\par }{\Q \VS{24}Wherefore men shall fear him;

\par }{\Q And the wise also in heart shall fear him.


\par }{\BB \par }


\PoetryChap{38}{\Q \VerseOne{1}And after Elihu had ceased from speaking, the Lord spoke to Job through the whirlwind and clouds,
{\ADD{saying}},


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{2}Who is this that hides counsel from me,

\par }{\Q And confines words in
{\ADD{his}} heart, and thinks to conceal
{\ADD{them}} from me?


\par }{\Q \VS{3}Gird thy loins like a man;

\par }{\Q And I will ask thee, and do thou answer me.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{4}Where wast thou when I founded the earth?

\par }{\Q Tell me now, if thou hast knowledge,


\par }{\Q \VS{5}Who set the measures of it, if thou knowest?

\par }{\Q Or who stretched a line upon it?


\par }{\Q \VS{6}On what are its rings fastened?

\par }{\Q And who is he that laid the cornerstone upon it?


\par }{\Q \VS{7}When the stars were made,

\par }{\Q All my angels praised me with a loud voice.


\par }{\Q \VS{8}And I shut up the sea with gates,

\par }{\Q When it rushed out, coming forth out of its mother’s womb.


\par }{\Q \VS{9}And I made a cloud its clothing,

\par }{\Q And swathed it in mist.


\par }{\Q \VS{10}And I set bounds to it,

\par }{\Q Surrounding it with bars and gates.


\par }{\Q \VS{11}And I said to it, Hitherto shalt thou come, but thou shalt not go beyond,

\par }{\Q But thy waves shall be confined within thee.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{12}Or did I order the morning light in thy time;

\par }{\Q And
{\ADD{did}} the morning star
{\ADD{then first}} see his appointed place;


\par }{\Q \VS{13}To lay hold of the extremities of the earth,

\par }{\Q To cast out the ungodly out of it?


\par }{\Q \VS{14}Or didst thou take clay of the ground, and form a living creature,

\par }{\Q And set it with the power of speech upon the earth?


\par }{\Q \VS{15}And hast thou removed light from the ungodly,

\par }{\Q And crushed the arm of the proud?


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{16}Or hast thou gone to the source of the sea,

\par }{\Q And walked in the tracks of the deep?


\par }{\Q \VS{17}And do the gates of death open to thee for fear;

\par }{\Q And did the porters of hell quake when they saw thee?


\par }{\Q \VS{18}And hast thou been instructed in the breadth of the
{\ADD{whole earth}} under heaven?

\par }{\Q Tell me now, what is the extent of it?


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{19}And in what kind of a land does the light dwell?

\par }{\Q And of what kind is the place of darkness?


\par }{\Q \VS{20}If thou couldest bring me to their
{\ADD{utmost}} boundaries,

\par }{\Q And if also thou knowest their paths;


\par }{\Q \VS{21}I know then that thou wert born at that time,

\par }{\Q And the number of thy years is great.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{22}But hast thou gone to the treasures of snow?

\par }{\Q And hast thou seen the treasures of hail?


\par }{\Q \VS{23}And is there a store
{\ADD{of them}},

\par }{\Q For thee against the time of
{\ADD{thine}} enemies,

\par }{\Q For the day of wars and battle?


\par }{\Q \VS{24}And whence proceeds the frost?

\par }{\Q Or
{\ADD{whence}} is the south wind dispersed over the
{\ADD{whole world}} under heaven?


\par }{\Q \VS{25}And who prepared a course for the violent rain,

\par }{\Q And a way for the thunders;


\par }{\Q \VS{26}To rain upon the land where
{\ADD{there is}} no man,

\par }{\Q The wilderness, where there is not a man in it;

\par }{\Q So as to feed the untrodden and uninhabited
{\ADD{land}},


\par }{\Q \VS{27}And cause it to send forth a crop of green herbs?


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{28}Who is the rain’s father?

\par }{\Q And who has generated the drops of dew?


\par }{\Q \VS{29}And out of whose womb comes the ice?

\par }{\Q And who has produced the frost in the sky,


\par }{\Q \VS{30}Which descends like flowing water? who has terrified the face of the ungodly?


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{31}And dost thou understand the band of Pleiades,

\par }{\Q And hast thou opened the barrier of Orion?


\par }{\Q \VS{32}Or wilt thou reveal Mazzaroth in his season,

\par }{\Q And the evening star with his rays? Wilt thou guide them?


\par }{\Q \VS{33}And knowest thou the changes of heaven,

\par }{\Q Or the events which take place together under heaven?


\par }{\Q \VS{34}And wilt thou call a cloud with thy voice,

\par }{\Q And will it obey thee with a violent shower of much rain?


\par }{\Q \VS{35}And wilt thou send lightnings, and they shall go?

\par }{\Q And shall they say to thee, What is
{\ADD{thy pleasure}}?


\par }{\Q \VS{36}And who has given to women skill in weaving,

\par }{\Q Or knowledge of embroidery?


\par }{\Q \VS{37}And who is he that numbers the clouds in wisdom,

\par }{\Q And has bowed the heaven
{\ADD{down}} to the earth?


\par }{\Q \VS{38}For it is spread out as dusty earth,

\par }{\Q And I have cemented it as one hewn stone to another.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{39}And wilt thou hunt a prey for the lions?

\par }{\Q And satisfy the desires of the serpents?


\par }{\Q \VS{40}For they fear in their lairs,

\par }{\Q And lying in wait couch in the woods.


\par }{\Q \VS{41}And who has prepared food for the raven?

\par }{\Q For its young ones wander and cry to the Lord,

\par }{\Q In search of food.


\par }{\BB \par }


\PoetryChap{39}{\Q \VerseOne{1}{\ADD{Say}} if thou knowest the time of the bringing forth of the wild goats of the rock,

\par }{\Q And
{\ADD{if}} thou hast marked the calving of the hinds:


\par }{\Q \VS{2}And
{\ADD{if}} thou hast numbered the full months of their being with young,

\par }{\Q And
{\ADD{if}} thou hast relieved their pangs:


\par }{\Q \VS{3}And hast reared their young without fear;

\par }{\Q And wilt thou loosen their pangs?


\par }{\Q \VS{4}Their young will break forth; they will be multiplied with offspring:

\par }{\Q {\ADD{Their young}} will go forth, and will not return to them.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{5}And who is he that sent forth the wild ass free?

\par }{\Q And who loosed his bands?


\par }{\Q \VS{6}Whereas I made his habitation the wilderness,

\par }{\Q And the salt land his coverts.


\par }{\Q \VS{7}He laughs to scorn the multitude of the city,

\par }{\Q And hears not the chiding of the tax gatherer.


\par }{\Q \VS{8}He will survey the mountains
{\ADD{as}} his pasture,

\par }{\Q And he seeks after every green thing.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{9}And will the unicorn be willing to serve thee,

\par }{\Q Or to lie down at thy manger?


\par }{\Q \VS{10}And wilt thou bind his yoke with thongs,

\par }{\Q Or will he plow furrows for thee in the plain?


\par }{\Q \VS{11}And dost thou trust him, because his strength is great?

\par }{\Q And wilt thou commit thy works to him?


\par }{\Q \VS{12}And wilt thou believe that he will return to thee thy seed,

\par }{\Q And bring
{\ADD{it}} in
{\ADD{to}} thy threshing floor?


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{13}The peacock has a beautiful wing:

\par }{\Q If the stork and the ostrich conceive,
{\ADD{it is worthy of notice}},


\par }{\Q \VS{14}For
{\ADD{the ostrich}} will leave her eggs in the ground,

\par }{\Q And warm them on the dust,


\par }{\Q \VS{15}And has forgotten that the foot will scatter them,

\par }{\Q And the wild beasts of the field trample them.


\par }{\Q \VS{16}She has hardened
{\ADD{herself}} against her young ones, as though
{\ADD{she bereaved}} not herself:

\par }{\Q She labors in vain without fear.


\par }{\Q \VS{17}For God has withholden wisdom from her,

\par }{\Q And not given her a portion in understanding.


\par }{\Q \VS{18}In her season she will lift herself on high;

\par }{\Q She will scorn the horse and his rider.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{19}Hast thou invested the horse with strength,

\par }{\Q And clothed his neck with terror?


\par }{\Q \VS{20}And hast thou clad him in perfect armor,

\par }{\Q And made his breast glorious with courage?


\par }{\Q \VS{21}He paws exulting in the plain,

\par }{\Q And goes forth in strength into the plain.


\par }{\Q \VS{22}He laughs to scorn a king as he meets him,

\par }{\Q And will by no means turn back from the sword.


\par }{\Q \VS{23}The bow and sword resound against him;

\par }{\Q And
{\ADD{his}} rage will swallow up the ground:


\par }{\Q \VS{24}And he will not believe until the trumpet sounds.


\par }{\Q \VS{25}And when the trumpet sounds, he says, Aha!

\par }{\Q And afar off he smells the war with prancing and neighing.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{26}And does the hawk remain steady by thy wisdom,

\par }{\Q Having spread out her wings unmoved, looking toward the region of the south?


\par }{\Q \VS{27}And does the eagle rise at thy command,

\par }{\Q And the vulture remain sitting over his nest,


\par }{\Q \VS{28}On a crag of a rock, and in a secret
{\ADD{place}}?


\par }{\Q \VS{29}Thence he seeks food,

\par }{\Q His eyes observe from far.


\par }{\Q \VS{30}And his young ones roll themselves in blood,

\par }{\Q And wherever the carcasses may be, immediately they are found.


\par }{\BB \par }


\PoetryChap{40}{\Q \VerseOne{1}And the Lord God answered Job and said,


\par }{\Q \VS{2}Will
{\ADD{anyone}} pervert judgment with the Mighty One?

\par }{\Q And he that reproves God, let him return it for answer.


\par }{\Q \VS{3}And Job answered and said to the Lord,


\par }{\Q \VS{4}Why do I yet plead? being rebuked even while reproving the Lord:

\par }{\Q Hearing such things, whereas I am nothing:

\par }{\Q And what shall I answer to these
{\ADD{arguments}}?

\par }{\Q I will lay my hand upon my mouth.


\par }{\Q \VS{5}I have spoken once; but I will not do so a second time.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{6}And the Lord yet again answered and spoke to Job out of the cloud,
{\ADD{saying}},


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{7}Nay, gird up now thy loins like a man;

\par }{\Q And I will ask thee, and do thou answer me.


\par }{\Q \VS{8}Do not set aside my judgment:

\par }{\Q And dost thou think that I have dealt with thee in any other way, than that thou mightest appear to be righteous?


\par }{\Q \VS{9}Hast thou an arm like the Lord’s?

\par }{\Q Or dost thou thunder with a voice like his?


\par }{\Q \VS{10}Assume now a lofty bearing and power;

\par }{\Q And clothe thyself with glory and honor.


\par }{\Q \VS{11}And send forth messengers with wrath;

\par }{\Q And lay low every haughty one.


\par }{\Q \VS{12}Bring down also the proud man;

\par }{\Q And consume at once the ungodly.


\par }{\Q \VS{13}And hide them together in the earth;

\par }{\Q And fill their faces with shame.


\par }{\Q \VS{14}{\ADD{Then}} will I confess that thy right hand can save
{\ADD{thee}}.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{15}But now look at the wild beasts with thee;

\par }{\Q They eat grass like oxen.


\par }{\Q \VS{16}Behold now, his strength is in his loins,

\par }{\Q And his force is in the navel of his belly.


\par }{\Q \VS{17}He sets up his tail like a cypress;

\par }{\Q And his nerves are wrapped together.


\par }{\Q \VS{18}His sides are sides of brass;

\par }{\Q And his backbone is
{\ADD{as}} cast iron.


\par }{\Q \VS{19}This is the chief of the creation of the Lord;

\par }{\Q Made to be played with by his angels.


\par }{\Q \VS{20}And when he has gone up to a steep mountain,

\par }{\Q He causes joy to the quadrupeds in the deep.


\par }{\Q \VS{21}He lies under trees of every kind,

\par }{\Q By the papyrus, and reed, and bulrush.


\par }{\Q \VS{22}And the great trees make a shadow over him with their branches,

\par }{\Q And
{\ADD{so do}} the bushes of the field.


\par }{\Q \VS{23}If there should be a flood, he will not perceive it;

\par }{\Q He trusts that Jordan will rush up into his mouth.


\par }{\Q \VS{24}{\ADD{Yet one}} shall take him in his sight;

\par }{\Q {\ADD{One}} shall catch
{\ADD{him}} with a cord, and pierce his nose.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{25}But wilt thou catch the serpent with a hook,

\par }{\Q And put a halter about his nose?


\par }{\Q \VS{26}Or wilt thou fasten a ring in his nostril,

\par }{\Q And bore his lip with a clasp?


\par }{\Q \VS{27}Will he address thee with a petition?

\par }{\Q Softly, with the voice of a suppliant?


\par }{\Q \VS{28}And will he make a covenant with thee?

\par }{\Q And wilt thou take him for a perpetual servant?


\par }{\Q \VS{29}And wilt thou play with him as with a bird?

\par }{\Q Or bind him as a sparrow for a child?


\par }{\Q \VS{30}And do the nations feed upon him,

\par }{\Q And the nations of the Phoenicians share him?


\par }{\Q \VS{31}And all the ships come together would not be able to bear the mere skin of his tail;

\par }{\Q Neither
{\ADD{shall they carry}} his head in fishing vessels.


\par }{\Q \VS{32}But thou shalt lay thy hand upon him
{\ADD{once}},

\par }{\Q Remembering the war that is waged by his mouth;

\par }{\Q And let it not be done anymore.


\par }{\BB \par }


\PoetryChap{41}{\Q \VerseOne{1}Hast thou not seen him?

\par }{\Q And hast thou not wondered at the things said
{\ADD{of him}}?


\par }{\Q \VS{2}Dost thou not fear because preparation has been made by me?

\par }{\Q For who is there that resists me?


\par }{\Q \VS{3}Or who will resist me, and abide,

\par }{\Q Since the whole
{\ADD{world}} under heaven is mine?


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{4}I will not be silent because of him:

\par }{\Q Though because of his power
{\ADD{one}} shall pity his antagonist.


\par }{\Q \VS{5}Who will open the face of his garment?

\par }{\Q And who can enter within the fold of his breastplate?


\par }{\Q \VS{6}Who will open the doors of his face?

\par }{\Q Terror is round about his teeth.


\par }{\Q \VS{7}His innards are
{\ADD{as}} brazen plates,

\par }{\Q And the texture of his
{\ADD{skin}} as an emery stone.


\par }{\Q \VS{8}One
{\ADD{part}} cleaves fast to another,

\par }{\Q And the air cannot come between them.


\par }{\Q \VS{9}They will remain united each to the other:

\par }{\Q They are closely joined, and cannot be separated.


\par }{\Q \VS{10}At his sneezing a light shines,

\par }{\Q And his eyes are
{\ADD{as}} the appearance of the morning star.


\par }{\Q \VS{11}Out of his mouth proceed as it were burning lamps,

\par }{\Q And as it were hearths of fire are cast abroad.


\par }{\Q \VS{12}Out of his nostrils proceeds smoke of a furnace

\par }{\Q Burning with fire of coals.


\par }{\Q \VS{13}His breath is
{\ADD{as}} live coals,

\par }{\Q And a flame goes out of his mouth.


\par }{\Q \VS{14}And power is lodged in his neck,

\par }{\Q Before him destruction runs.


\par }{\Q \VS{15}The flesh also of his body is joined together:

\par }{\Q {\ADD{If one}} pours
{\ADD{violence}} upon him, he shall not be moved.


\par }{\Q \VS{16}His heart is firm as a stone,

\par }{\Q And it stands like an unyielding anvil.


\par }{\Q \VS{17}And when he turns,
{\ADD{he is}} a terror to the four-footed wild beasts

\par }{\Q Which leap upon the earth.


\par }{\Q \VS{18}If spears should come against him,
{\ADD{men}} will effect nothing,

\par }{\Q {\ADD{Either with}} the spear or the breastplate.


\par }{\Q \VS{19}For he considers iron as chaff,

\par }{\Q And brass as rotten wood.


\par }{\Q \VS{20}The bow of brass shall not wound him,

\par }{\Q He deems a slinger as grass.


\par }{\Q \VS{21}Mauls are counted as stubble;

\par }{\Q And he laughs to scorn the waving of the firebrand.


\par }{\Q \VS{22}His lair is
{\ADD{formed of}} sharp points;

\par }{\Q And all the gold of the sea under him is as an immense
{\ADD{quantity of}} clay.


\par }{\Q \VS{23}He makes the deep boil like a brazen caldron;

\par }{\Q And he regards the sea as a pot of ointment,


\par }{\Q \VS{24}And the lowest part of the deep as a captive:

\par }{\Q He reckons the deep as
{\ADD{his}} range.


\par }{\Q \VS{25}There is nothing upon the earth like to him,

\par }{\Q Formed to be sported with by my angels.


\par }{\Q \VS{26}He beholds every high thing:

\par }{\Q And he is king of all that are in the waters.


\par }{\BB \par }


\PoetryChap{42}{\Q \VerseOne{1}Then Job answered and said to the Lord,


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{2}I know that thou canst do all things,

\par }{\Q And nothing is impossible with thee.


\par }{\Q \VS{3}For who is he that hides counsel from thee?

\par }{\Q Or who keeps back his words, and thinks to hide them from thee?

\par }{\Q And who will tell me what I knew not,

\par }{\Q Great and wonderful things which I understood not?


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{4}But hear me, O Lord, that I also may speak:

\par }{\Q And I will ask thee, and do thou teach me.


\par }{\Q \VS{5}I have heard the report of thee by the ear before;

\par }{\Q But now mine eye has seen thee.


\par }{\Q \VS{6}Wherefore I have counted myself vile, and have fainted:

\par }{\Q And I esteem myself dust and ashes.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{7}And it came to pass after the Lord had spoken all these words to Job,
{\ADD{that}} the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite,

\par }{\Q Thou hast sinned, and thy two friends:

\par }{\Q For ye have not said anything true before me,

\par }{\Q As my servant Job
{\ADD{has}}.


\par }{\Q \VS{8}Now then take seven bullocks, and seven rams,

\par }{\Q And go to my servant Job,

\par }{\Q And he shall offer a burnt offering for you.

\par }{\Q And my servant Job shall pray for you,

\par }{\Q For I will only accept him:

\par }{\Q For but for his sake, I would have destroyed you,

\par }{\Q For ye have not spoken the truth against my servant Job.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{9}So Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Minaean,

\par }{\Q Went and did as the Lord commanded them:

\par }{\Q And he pardoned their sin for the sake of Job.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{10}And the Lord prospered Job:

\par }{\Q And when he prayed also for his friends, he forgave them
{\ADD{their}} sin:

\par }{\Q And the Lord gave Job twice as much, even the double of what he had before.


\par }{\Q \VS{11}And all his brethren and his sisters heard

\par }{\Q All that had happened to him,

\par }{\Q And they came to him,

\par }{\Q And
{\ADD{so did}} all that had known him from the first:

\par }{\Q And they ate and drank with him, and comforted him,

\par }{\Q And wondered at all that the Lord had brought upon him:

\par }{\Q And each one gave him a lamb, and four drachma’s weight of gold, even of unstamped
{\ADD{gold}}.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{12}And the Lord blessed the latter end of Job,
{\ADD{more}} than the beginning:

\par }{\Q And his cattle were fourteen thousand sheep,

\par }{\Q Six thousand camels,

\par }{\Q A thousand yoke of oxen,

\par }{\Q A thousand she-asses of the pastures.


\par }{\Q \VS{13}And there were born to him seven sons and three daughters.


\par }{\Q \VS{14}And he called the first, Day,

\par }{\Q And the second, Keziah,

\par }{\Q And the third, Amalthaea’s horn.


\par }{\Q \VS{15}And there were not found in comparison with the daughters of Job, fairer
{\ADD{women}} than they in all the world:

\par }{\Q And their father gave them an inheritance among their brethren.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{16}And Job lived after
{\ADD{his}} affliction a hundred and seventy years:

\par }{\Q And all the years he lived were two hundred and forty:

\par }{\Q And Job saw his sons and his sons’ sons, the fourth generation.


\par }{\Q \VS{17}And Job died, an old man and full of days:


\par }{\Q \VS{17a}And it is written that he will rise again with those whom the Lord raises up.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{17b}This man is described in the Syriac book

\par }{\Q {\ADD{As}} living in the land of Uz, on the borders of Edom and Arabia:

\par }{\Q And his name before was Jobab;


\par }{\Q \VS{17c}And having taken an Arabian wife, he begot a son whose name was Ennon.

\par }{\Q And he himself was the son of his father Zerah, one of the sons of Esau, and of his mother Bosorrha,

\par }{\Q So that he was the fifth from Abraham.


\par }{\Q \VS{17d}And these were the kings who reigned in Edom, which country he also ruled over:

\par }{\Q First, Bela, the son of Beor, and the name of his city was Dinhabah:

\par }{\Q But after Bela, Jobab, who is called Job:

\par }{\Q And after him Husham, who was governor out of the country of Teman:

\par }{\Q And after him Hadad, the son of Bedad, who destroyed Midian in the plain of Moab; and the name of his city was Getthaim.


\par }{\Q \VS{17e}And
{\ADD{his}} friends who came to him were

\par }{\Q Eliphaz, of the children of Esau, king of the Temanites,

\par }{\Q Bildad sovereign of the Shuhites,

\par }{\Q Zophar king of the Naamathites.


\par }