Job 5-8

Chapter 5

Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints will thou turn? 2 For wrath kills the foolish man, and envy slays the silly one. 3 I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation. 4 His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them. 5 Whose harvest the hungry eats up, and takes it even out of the thorns, and the robber swallows up their substance. 6 Although affliction comes not forth of the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground; 7 Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

8 I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause: 9 Which does great things and unsearchable; marvelous things without number: 10 Who gives rain upon the earth, and sends waters upon the fields: 11 To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety. 12 He disappoints the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise. 13 He takes the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong. 14 They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night. 15 But He saves the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty. 16 So the poor has hope, and iniquity stops her mouth.

17 Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty: 18 For He makes sore, and binds up: He wounds, and His hands make whole. 19 He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee. 20 In famine He shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword. 21 Thou shall be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shall thou be afraid of destruction when it comes. 22 At destruction and famine thou shall laugh: neither shall thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth. 23 For thou shall be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee. 24 And thou shall know that thy tabernacle shall be in peace; and thou shall visit thy habitation, and shall not sin. 25 Thou shall know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth. 26 Thou shall come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn comes in in his season. 27 Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou it for thy good.

Chapter 6

But Job answered and said, 2 Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! 3 For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up. 4 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinks up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me. 5 Does the wild ass bray when he has grass? or lows the ox over his fodder? 6 Can that which is unsavory be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg? 7 The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.

8 Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for! 9 Even that it would please God to destroy me; that He would let loose His hand, and cut me off! 10 Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let Him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One. 11 What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life? 12 Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brass? 13 Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?

14 To him that is afflicted pity should be showed from his friend; but he forsakes the fear of the Almighty. 15 My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away; 16 Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid: 17 What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place. 18 The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish. 19 The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them. 20 They were confounded because they had hoped; they came there, and were ashamed. 21 For now ye are nothing; ye see my casting down, and are afraid. 22 Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of your substance? 23 Or, Deliver me from the enemy’s hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty? 24 Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred. 25 How forcible are right words! but what does your arguing reprove? 26 Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind? 27 Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend. 28 Now therefore be content, look upon me; for it is evident unto you if I lie. 29 Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it. 30 Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?

Chapter 7

Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling? 2 As a servant earnestly desires the shadow, and as a hireling looks for the reward of his work: 3 So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me. 4 When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day. 5 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome. 6 My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope. 7 O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good. 8 The eye of him that has seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not. 9 As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away: so he that goes down to the grave shall come up no more. 10 He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.

11 Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. 12 Am I a sea, or a whale, that Thou set a watch over me? 13 When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint; 14 Then Thou scare me with dreams, and terrify me through visions: 15 So that my soul chooses strangling, and death rather than my life. 16 I loathe it; I would not live always: let me alone; for my days are vanity. 17 What is man, that Thou should magnify him? and that Thou should set Thine heart upon him? 18 And that Thou should visit him every morning, and try him every moment? 19 How long will Thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle? 20 I have sinned; what shall I do unto Thee, O Thou preserver of men? why have Thou set me as a mark against Thee, so that I am a burden to myself? 21 And why do Thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and Thou shall seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.

Chapter 8

Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, 2 How long will thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind? 3 Does God pervert judgment? or does the Almighty pervert justice? 4 If thy children have sinned against Him, and He have cast them away for their transgression; 5 If thou would seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty; 6 If thou were pure and upright; surely now He would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous. 7 Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.

8 For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers: 9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:) 10 Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart? 11 Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water? 12 While it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withers before any other herb. 13 So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite’s hope shall perish: 14 Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider’s web. 15 He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure. 16 He is green before the sun, and his branch shoots forth in his garden. 17 His roots are wrapped about the heap, and sees the place of stones. 18 If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee. 19 Behold, this is the joy of His way, and out of the earth shall others grow. 20 Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will He help the evil doers: 21 Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing. 22 They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to naught.

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