14 If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my
change come.
15 Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands.
16 For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?
17 My transgression issealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.
18 And surely the mountain falling cometh to nought, and the rock is removed out of his place.
19 The waters wear the stones: thou washest away the things which grow outof the dust of
the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man.
20 Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou changest his countenance, and
sendest him away.
21 His sons come to honour, and he knoweth itnot; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth
itnot of them.
22 But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.
1 Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,
2 Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
3 Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?
4 Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.
5 For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
6 Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.
7 Artthou the first man thatwas born? or wast thou made before the hills?
8 Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?
9 What knowest thou, that we know not? whatunderstandest thou, which isnot in us?
10 With us areboth the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.
11 Arethe consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee?
12 Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,
13 That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest suchwords go out of thy mouth?
14 What isman, that he should be clean? and he which isborn of a woman, that he should be
righteous?
15 Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
16 How much more abominable and filthy isman, which drinketh iniquity like water?
17 I will shew thee, hear me; and that whichI have seen I will declare;
18 Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:
19 Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.
20 The wicked man travaileth with pain all hisdays, and the number of years is hidden to the
oppressor.
21 A dreadful sound isin his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
22 He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.
23 He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is
ready at his hand.
24 Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to
the battle.
25 For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.
26 He runneth upon him, evenon hisneck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:
27 Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on hisflanks.
28 And he dwelleth in desolate cities, andin houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready
to become heaps.
29 He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the
perfection thereof upon the earth.
30 He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of
his mouth shall he go away.
31 Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.
32 It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.
33 He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.
34 For the congregation of hypocrites shall bedesolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles
of bribery.
35 They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.
1 Then Job answered and said,
2 I have heard many such things: miserable comforters areye all.
3 Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
4 I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against
you, and shake mine head at you.
5 ButI would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your
grief.
6 Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and thoughI forbear, what am I eased?
7 But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.
8 And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, whichis a witness against me: and my leanness rising
up in me beareth witness to my face.
9 He teareth mein his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy
sharpeneth his eyes upon me.
10 They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek
reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.
11 God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.
12 I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken meby my neck, and shaken
me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.
13 His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he
poureth out my gall upon the ground.
14 He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.
15 I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.
16 My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids isthe shadow of death;
17 Not for anyinjustice in mine hands: also my prayer ispure.
18 O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.
19 Also now, behold, my witness isin heaven, and my record ison high.
20 My friends scorn me: butmine eye poureth out tearsunto God.
21 O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadethfor his neighbour!
22 When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whenceI shall not return.
1 My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are readyfor me.
2 Are therenot mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?
3 Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who ishe thatwill strike hands with me?
4 For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.
5 He that speaketh flattery to hisfriends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
6 He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
7 Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members areas a shadow.
8 Upright menshall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the
hypocrite.
9 The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and
stronger.
10 But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find onewise manamong you.
11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, eventhe thoughts of my heart.
12 They change the night into day: the light isshort because of darkness.
13 If I wait, the grave ismine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
14 I have said to corruption, Thou artmy father: to the worm, Thou artmy mother, and my
sister.
15 And where isnow my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
16 They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when ourrest together isin the dust.
1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
2 How long will it be ereye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.
3 Wherefore are we counted as beasts, andreputed vile in your sight?
4 He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be
removed out of his place?
5 Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.
6 The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.
7 The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.
8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.
9 The gin shall take himby the heel, andthe robber shall prevail against him.
10 The snare islaid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.
11 Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.
12 His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall beready at his side.
13 It shall devour the strength of his skin: eventhe firstborn of death shall devour his
strength.
14 His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of
terrors.
15 It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it isnone of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon
his habitation.
16 His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.
17 His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.
18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
19 He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.
20 They that come after himshall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were
affrighted.
21 Surely such arethe dwellings of the wicked, and this isthe place of him thatknoweth not
God.
1 Then Job answered and said,
2 How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
3 These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed thatye make yourselves strange
to me.
4 And be it indeed thatI have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.
5 If indeed ye will magnify yourselvesagainst me, and plead against me my reproach:
6 Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.
7 Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there isno judgment.
8 He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
9 He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown frommy head.
10 He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a
tree.
11 He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one ofhis
enemies.
12 His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my
