Job 13-16

Chapter 13

Lo, mine eye has seen all this, mine ear has heard and understood it. 2 What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you. 3 Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God. 4 But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value. 5 O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.

6 Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips. 7 Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for Him? 8 Will ye accept His person? will ye contend for God? 9 Is it good that He should search you out? or as one man mocks another, do ye so mock Him? 10 He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons. 11 Shall not His excellency make you afraid? and His dread fall upon you? 12 Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.

13 Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will. 14 Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand? 15 Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him: but I will maintain mine own ways before Him. 16 He also shall be my salvation: for a hypocrite shall not come before Him.

17 Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears. 18 Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified. 19 Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost. 20 Only do not two things unto me: then will I not hide myself from Thee. 21 Withdraw Thine hand far from me: and let not Thy dread make me afraid. 22 Then call Thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer Thou me. 23 How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin. 24 Wherefore hide Thou Thy face, and hold me for Thine enemy? 25 Will Thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and will Thou pursue the dry stubble? 26 For Thou write bitter things against me, and make me to possess the iniquities of my youth. 27 Thou put my feet also in the stocks, and look narrowly unto all my paths; Thou set a print upon the heels of my feet. 28 And he, as a rotten thing, consumes, as a garment that is moth eaten.

Chapter 14

Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. 2 He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down: he flees also as a shadow, and continues not. 3 And do Thou open Thine eyes upon such an one, and bring me into judgment with Thee? 4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one. 5 Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with Thee, Thou have appointed his bounds that he cannot pass; 6 Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day. 7 For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. 8 Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground; 9 Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant. 10 But man dies, and wastes away: yea, man gives up the ghost, and where is he? 11 As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decays and dries up: 12 So man lies down, and rises not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.

13 O that Thou would hide me in the grave, that Thou would keep me secret, until Thy wrath be past, that Thou would appoint me a set time, and remember me! 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 shall call, and I will answer Thee: Thou will have a desire to the work of Thine hands. 16 For now Thou number my steps: do Thou not watch over my sin? 17 My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and Thou sew up mine iniquity. 18 And surely the mountain falling comes to naught, and the rock is removed out of his place. 19 The waters wear the stones: Thou wash away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and Thou destroy the hope of man. 20 Thou prevail forever against him, and he passes: Thou change his countenance, and send him away. 21 His sons come to honor, and he knows it not; and they are brought low, but he perceives it not of them. 22 But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.

Chapter 15

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 cast off fear, and restrain prayer before God. 5 For thy mouth utters thine iniquity, and thou choose the tongue of the crafty. 6 Thine own mouth condemns thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.

7 Are thou the first man that was born? or were thou made before the hills? 8 Have thou heard the secret of God? and do thou restrain wisdom to thyself? 9 What know thou, that we know not? what understand thou, which is not in us? 10 With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father. 11 Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee? 12 Why does thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at, 13 That thou turn thy spirit against God, and let such words go out of thy mouth?

14 What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? 15 Behold, He puts no trust in His saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in His sight. 16 How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinks iniquity like water?

17 I will show thee, hear me; and that which I 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 travails with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor. 21 A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him. 22 He believes not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword. 23 He wanders abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knows 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 stretches out his hand against God, and strengthens himself against the Almighty. 26 He runs upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers: 27 Because he covers his face with his fatness, and makes collops of fat on his flanks. 28 And he dwells in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabits, 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 recompense. 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 be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery. 35 They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepares deceit.

Chapter 16

Then Job answered and said, 2 I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all. 3 Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldens thee that thou answer? 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 But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should assuage your grief. 6 Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased? 7 But now He has made me weary: Thou have made desolate all my company. 8 And Thou have filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me bears witness to my face.

9 He tears me in His wrath, who hates me: he gnashes upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpens 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 has delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked. 12 I was at ease, but He has broken me asunder: He has also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for His mark. 13 His archers compass me round about, He cleaves my reins asunder, and does not spare; He pours out my gall upon the ground. 14 He breaks me with breach upon breach, He runs 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 is the shadow of death; 17 Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.

18 O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place. 19 Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high. 20 My friends scorn me: but mine eye pours out tears unto God. 21 O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleads for his neighbor! 22 When a few years are come, then I shall go the way where I shall not return.

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