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DASV: Job 1
1 There was a
man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job.
That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God and turned
away from evil.
2 He had seven
sons and three daughters.
3 He owned 7,000
sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, 500 female donkeys, and a large number
of servants. He was the greatest of all the people of the east.
4 His sons would
take turns holding a feast at their houses and they would send and invite their
three sisters to eat and drink with them.
5 When the days
of their feasting were completed, Job would send and sanctify them. He would
get up early in the morning, offer a burnt offering for each one of them. For
Job said, "It may be that my sons have sinned, and renounced God in their
hearts." This was Job's regular habit.
6 Now it came to
pass on the day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD,
that Satan also came with them.
7 The LORD asked
Satan, "Where have you come from?" Satan answered the LORD, "From
going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it."
8 The LORD asked
Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one like him on
the earth, a blameless and upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from
evil."
9 Then Satan
answered the LORD, "Does Job fear God for no reason?"
10 Have you not
made a hedge around him, his house, and all that he has, on every side? You have
blessed the work of his hands, and his livestock have increased in the land.
11 But reach out
your hand now, and strike all that he has, and he will curse you to your face."
12 The LORD said
to Satan, "All right, everything he has is in your power, only do not lay
a hand on Job himself." So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD.
13 One day, when Job's
sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in the house of their oldest
brother,
14 a messenger came
to Job, and announced, "The oxen were plowing, and the donkeys were
feeding beside them;
15 and the
Sabeans attacked and carried them away.
They have struck down the servants with the edge of the sword and I am
the only one who has escaped to tell you."
16 While he was still
speaking, another messenger came and announced, "The fire from God has
fallen from heaven, and has burned up the sheep and the servants, and consumed
them; I am the only one who escaped to tell you."
17 While he was still
speaking, another messenger came and announced, "The Chaldeans made three raiding
parties, and made a raid on the camels and made off with them, and have struck
down the servants with the edge of the sword, and I am the only one who has escaped
to tell you."
18 While he was still
speaking, another messenger came and announced, "Your sons and daughters
were eating and drinking wine in the house of the oldest brother;
19 a great wind swept
in from the desert, it struck the four corners of the house, and it collapsed on
the young men, and they are dead; and I am the only one who has escaped to tell
you."
20 Then Job got
up, and tore his robe, shaved his head and fell down on the ground and
worshipped.
21 He said, "Naked
I came from my mother's womb, and naked I will return there. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away. Blessed be the name of the LORD."
22 In all this
Job did not sin or charge God with wrongdoing.
DASV: Job 2
1 One day, when
the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, Satan also came with
them to present himself before the LORD.
2 The LORD asked
Satan, "Where have you come from?" Satan answered the LORD, "From
going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it."
3 The LORD asked
Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one like him in
the earth, a blameless and upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from
evil. He still holds onto his integrity,
although you incited me against him, to destroy him for no reason."
4 Satan answered
the LORD, "Skin for skin, a man will give all he has to save his own life.
5 But reach out
your hand now, and strike his flesh and bones, and he will curse you to your
face."
6 Then the LORD
said to Satan, "All right, he is in your hand, only spare his life."
7 So Satan went out from the presence of the
LORD, and struck Job with horrible boils from the sole of his foot to top of
his head.
8 He used a piece
of broken pottery to scrape himself with while he sat among the ashes.
9 Then his wife advised
him, "Do you still hold onto your integrity? Curse God and die."
10 But he replied,
"You are speaking like one of the foolish women would speak. Shall we
receive good at the hand of God and not bad?" In all this Job did not sin with
his lips.
11 Now when Job's
three friends, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the
Naamathite, heard of all this trouble that had come on him, they each came from
their homes and met together to come in order to comfort and sympathize with him.
12 When they saw
him in the distance, they did not recognize him. They wept aloud, tore their robes and sprinkled
dust into the air on their heads.
13 After that they
sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one said a
word to him, for they saw that his suffering was severe.
DASV: Job 3
1 After this, Job
opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth.
2 Job said:
3 "Let
the day perish on which I was born,
and the night it
was said, "A boy has been conceived."
4 Let that day be turned to darkness,
let God above not
seek for it,
nor
let the light shine on it.
5 Let darkness and the shadow of death
claim it for their own.
Let a dark cloud
settle over it;
let
blackness of the day terrify it.
6 As for that night, let thick darkness
seize upon it.
Let it not be
counted among the days of the year.
Let
it not come into the number of the months.
7 Let that night be childless.
Let no joyful sound
ring out in it.
8 Let those who curse days, curse that day,
those who are
ready to rouse Leviathan.
9 Let its stars of dawn be dark.
Let it wait
for daybreak, but find none,
nor
let it see the beams of the morning light,
10 because it did not shut the doors of my mother's
womb,
or hide
trouble from my eyes.
11 Why did I not die at birth?
Why did I not expire
as I came from my mother's womb?
12 Why did the knees receive me?
Why were there
breasts that I should nurse?
13 For now I would be lying down and quiet;
I would have
slept and been at rest
14 with kings and advisors of the earth,
who built
places for themselves that are now in ruins,
15 or with princes who had gold,
who filled
their palaces with silver.
16 Or why was I not buried like a stillborn
child,
as infants who
never have seen the light?
17 There the wicked cease from causing trouble;
and there the
weary are at rest.
18 There the prisoners are at ease together,
they no longer
hear the voice of the taskmaster.
19 The small and the great are there,
and the slave
is free from his master.
20 Why is light given to him who is in
misery,
and life to those
bitter in soul,
21 who long for death, but it does not
come,
and search for
it more than for hidden treasures;
22 who rejoice full of happiness,
and are glad,
when they can find the grave?
23 Why is light given to one whose way is
hidden,
and whom God
has hedged in with trouble?
24 For my sighing comes instead of my food,
and my
groanings are poured out like water.
25 For the thing I feared has come on me,
and that which
I was afraid of has overcome me.
26 I have no peace and quiet,
I have no rest,
only trouble has overtaken me."
DASV: Job 4
1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,
2 "If one ventures a word with you,
will you be grieved?
But who can keep
from speaking?
3 Look, you have instructed many,
and you have
strengthened the hands of the weak.
4 Your words have supported the one who
was falling,
and you have
made firm the feeble knees.
5 But now it comes to you, and you are
depressed,
it touches you,
and you are dismayed.
6 Is not your fear of God your confidence,
and the
integrity of your ways your hope?
7 Ponder this: who ever perished, being
innocent?
Or where were
the upright ever cut off?
8 It's just like what I have seen,
those who plow
iniquity,
and
sow trouble,
reap the same.
9 By the breath of God they perish,
and by the
blast of his anger they are consumed.
10 The roaring of the lion,
and the growling
of the fierce lion,
and the teeth of the young lions are
broken.
11 The strong lion perishes for lack of
prey,
and the lioness' cubs are scattered.
12 Now a word secretly came to me,
and my ear picked up a whisper of it.
13 In troubled thoughts from dreams in the
night,
when men fall into deep sleep,
14 fear and trembling came upon me,
which made all
my bones shake.
15 Then a spirit drifted past my face,
making the
hair of my flesh stand up.
16 It stood still, but I could not discern its
appearance,
its phantom
like form was before my eyes,
I
heard a whispering voice:
17 'Can a mortal be more righteous than
God?
Can a man be
more pure than his Maker?
18 If he puts no trust in his servants,
and if he
charges even his angels with error,
19 how much more those who dwell in houses
of clay,
whose
foundation is in the dust,
who
are crushed as easily as a moth!
20 Between morning and evening they are
destroyed,
they perish
forever without anyone even being aware it.
21 Is not their tent-cord pulled up?
They die, even
then without wisdom.'
DASV: Job 5
1 Call now. Is there anyone who will answer you?
To which of the holy ones will you turn?
2 For anger kills the foolish,
and jealousy slays the simple.
3 I have seen the fool taking root,
but suddenly I cursed his dwelling place.
4 His children are far from safety,
they are crushed in court at the gate,
and there is no one to deliver them.
5 The hungry eat up his harvest,
and they take it even from the thorns,
and the thirsty pant for their wealth.
6 For affliction does not just grow from
the dust,
nor does trouble sprout out of the ground;
7 but man is born for trouble,
as surely as sparks fly upward.
8 If I were you, I would seek God,
and would present my case to God.
9 He does great and unsearchable things,
marvelous things without number.
10 He gives rain on the earth,
and sends water on the fields.
11 He sets on high those who are lowly,
and those who mourn are lifted to safety.
12 He frustrates the schemes of the crafty,
so that their hands cannot accomplish their plans.
13 He traps the shrewd in their own
craftiness,
and the schemes of the cunning are brought to a quick demise.
14 They meet with darkness in the daytime,
and grope at noonday as if it were night.
15 But he rescues the needy from the sword
of their mouth,
even the poor from the hand of the mighty.
16 So the poor have hope,
and injustice shuts her mouth.
17 Blessed
is the one whom God corrects,
therefore do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.
18 For
while he wounds,
he
also bandages up;
He cuts to pieces,
but his hands also heal.
19 He will rescue you from six disasters,
yes, even in seven no evil will touch you.
20 In famine he will redeem you from death,
and in war from the power of the sword.
21 You will be hid from the scourge of the
tongue,
and you will not be afraid of violence when it comes.
22 You will laugh at destruction and famine,
and you will not be afraid of the beasts of the earth.
23 For you will have an agreement with the
stones of the field,
and the beasts of the field will be at peace with you.
24 You will know that your tent is safe.
You will inspect your sheepfold,
and there will be nothing missing.
25 You will realize that your descendants
will be many,
and your offspring like the grass of the earth.
26 You will come to your grave in a full
age,
like stacks of grain harvested in its season.
27 We have checked it out, and this is
true,
listen to it and apply it to yourself."
DASV: Job 6
1 Then Job
answered,
2 "O that my agony could be
weighed,
and all my misfortune
put on the scales!
3 It would be heavier than the sand of
the sea,
this is why my
words have been so rash.
4 For the arrows of the Almighty have
stuck in me,
my spirit
drinks their poison.
The terrors of
God are aligned against me.
5 Does the wild donkey bray when it has
grass?
Or does the ox
bellow when it has fodder?
6 Is tasteless food eaten without salt?
Or is there
any taste in the white of an egg?
7 My appetite refuses to touch them,
they are like
repulsive food to me.
8 O that I might have my request,
and that God
would grant what I long for:
9 that it would please God to crush me,
that he would
let loose his hand and cut me off!
10 This would be my comfort,
then I would
rejoice even in continual pain,
for I have not denied the words of the Holy
One.
11 What is my strength, that I should wait?
What is my
end, that I should prolong my life?
12 Is my strength like the strength of
stones?
Or is my flesh
made of bronze?
13 Am I not powerless to help myself,
and any
success driven from me?
14 He who withholds kindness from his
friend,
forsakes the
fear of the Almighty.
15 My brothers have been as unreliable as a
seasonal stream,
as torrential brooks
that flow away.
16 They are black because of ice,
and surging
with melting snow.
17 When it warms up, they vanish,
when it becomes
hot,
they disappear
from their place.
18 The caravans turn aside from their ways,
they go up
into the wasteland and perish.
19 The caravans of Tema look for streams,
the travelers of
Sheba search for them.
20 They were ashamed because they had hoped,
they came there,
but were disappointed.
21 For now you have proven to be of no help,
you see my calamity
and are afraid.
22 Did I ever say, 'Give me something?'
Or, 'Offer me a
bribe from your wealth?'
23 Or, 'Deliver me from the enemy's hand?'
Or, 'Ransom me
from the hand of the oppressors?'
24 Teach me, and I will be silent;
make me
understand where I have gone wrong.
25 How painful are honest words!
But what does your
reproof really prove?
26 Do you think you can reprove with mere words,
and treat the
words of one despairing as wind?
27 Yes, you would cast lots to sell an
orphan,
and even auction
off your friend.
28 But now have the decency to look at me,
for I will not
lie to your face.
29 Please turn, let there be no injustice,
turn back for
my righteousness is at stake.
30 Is there any injustice on my tongue?
Cannot my palate
discern evil?
DASV: Job 7
1 Is it not a difficult struggle for
humanity on earth?
Are not his
days like the days of a hired worker?
2 Like a slave who earnestly longs for the
shadow,
and like a
hired worker who looks for his wages;
3 so I am assigned to months of futility,
and nights of
misery are appointed to me.
4 When I lie down, I ask, 'When will I get
up?'
but the night creeps
on while I constantly toss and turn until dawn.
5 My flesh is clothed with maggots and dirt;
my skin breaks
open and festers.
6 My
days pass faster than a weaver's shuttle,
and come to an
end without hope.
7 Remember that my life is a mere breath,
my eyes will never
again see good.
8 The eye of one who sees me will see me
no more;
your eyes will
look for me, but I will be gone.
9 Just as the cloud dissipates and
vanishes,
so the one who
goes down to the grave will never come back.
10 He will no longer return to his house,
nor does his place
know him anymore.
11 Therefore
I will not restrain my mouth,
I will speak from
the anguish of my spirit,
I
will complain from the bitterness of my soul.
12 Am I a sea, or a sea monster,
that you put a
guard over me?
13 When I say, 'My bed will comfort me,
my couch will
ease my complaint,'
14 Then you frighten me with dreams,
and terrify me
with visions,
15 so that I would choose to be strangled,
and death
rather than live with these bones of mine.
16 I hate my life, I do not want to live forever,
leave me alone,
for my days are a mere breath.
17 What
is a human being that you make so much of him,
and that you pay
such close attention to him?
18 You visit him every morning,
and test him
every moment?
19 How long, will you not please look away
from me,
or leave me
alone long enough for me to swallow my spit?
20 If I have sinned, what have I done to you,
O watcher of men?
Why have you made
me your target?
Have
I become a burden to you?
21 Why do you not pardon my transgression,
and remove my
iniquity?
For now I will lie down in
the dust;
then you will diligently
search for me,
but
I will be gone."
DASV: Job 8
1 Then Bildad
the Shuhite responded,
2 "How much longer will you go on speaking
these things?
How long will the words of your mouth be like a howling wind?
3 Does God pervert justice?
Does the Almighty pervert what is right?
4 If your children have sinned against
him,
he delivered them over to the consequences of their sin.
5 If you would seek God,
and make your appeal to the Almighty;
6 if you were pure and upright,
surely now he would rouse himself for you,
and would restore your rightful home.
7 Though your beginning was small,
yet your latter days will be very great.
8 Inquire of previous generations,
and consider what their fathers have searched out.
9 For we were born only yesterday,
and know nothing,
because our days on earth are as fleeting as a shadow.
10 Will they not teach and tell you?
Will they not utter words from their deep understanding?
11 Can papyrus flourish where there is no
marsh?
Can reeds grow where there is no water?
12 While it is beginning to flower and not
ready for cutting,
it withers faster than any other
plant.
13 Such are the paths of all who forget God,
the hope of the godless perishes.
14 Their confidence will break as easily as
a thread,
whose trust is as insecure as a spider's web.
15 He leans on its house, but it does not
hold up,
he grabs hold of it, but it will not endure.
16 He is like a lush plant facing the sun,
his shoots sprout over his garden.
17 Its roots are penetrated down through
the stone pile,
it takes hold among the rocks.
18 If it is uprooted out of its place,
that place will disown it, saying, 'I have never seen you.'
19 Look, it rots by the side of its path,
then out of the earth others spring up.
20 God will not reject a blameless person,
or lend a supporting hand to evildoers.
21 He will yet fill your mouth with
laughter,
and your lips with joyful shouts.
22 Those who hate you will be clothed with
shame,
and the tent of the wicked will be no more."
DASV: Job 9
1 Then Job
answered,
2 "Obviously I know that this is so.
But how can a
person be just before God?
3 If someone wanted to contend with him,
he could not
answer him once in a thousand times.
4 He is wise in heart and mighty in
strength,
who has resisted
him and succeeded?
5 He moves mountains and they do not know
it,
when he
overturns them in his anger.
6 He shakes the earth out of its place,
and its
pillars tremble.
7 He commands the sun and it does not
rise,
and he seals
up the stars.
8 He alone stretches out the heavens,
and treads on
the wave crests of the sea.
9 He makes the Bear, Orion and the
Pleiades,
and the southern
constellations.
10 He does great things beyond finding out,
yes, marvelous
things without number.
11 He passes by me, but I cannot see him,
he moves on,
but I cannot perceive him.
12 If he snatches away, who can stop him?
Who can say to
him, 'What are you doing?'
13 God will not restrain his anger,
the helpers of
the sea monster Rahab bow beneath him.
14 How then can I answer him?
how can I
choose my words to argue with him?
15 Even though I am righteous, I could not
answer him,
I could only
plead to my judge for mercy.
16 If I could summon him and he would
answer me,
I do not
believe that he would listen to my voice.
17 For he crushes me with a tempest,
and multiplies
my wounds for no reason.
18 He will not let me catch my breath,
but fills me
with bitterness.
19 If it is a question of strength, he is
the strong one!
If it is a
matter of justice, who can summon him?
20 Though I am right, my own mouth would
condemn me.
Though I am
blameless, he would prove me perverse.
21 I am blameless.
It does not
matter to me.
I
despise my life.
22 It is all the same.
Therefore I
say,
'He
destroys the blameless and the wicked.'
23 If disaster results in sudden death,
he mocks the calamity
of the innocent.
24 The earth has been given into the hand
of the wicked,
yet he covers
the faces blinding its judges.
If
it is not he, then who is it?
25 Now my days are swifter than a runner,
they flee away
without seeing any good.
26 They glide by like papyrus boats,
as the eagle
swooping down on its prey.
27 If I say, 'I will forget my complaint,
I will put off
my sad face, and be of good cheer.'
28 I am afraid of all my sorrows,
I know you will
not hold me innocent.
29 I will be condemned.
Why then do I weary
myself in vain?
30 If I wash myself with soap,
and make my hands clean with lye,
31 yet you will plunge me into a slimy pit,
and my own
clothes will abhor me.
32 For he is not a human being like I am,
that I might
answer him,
that we could go to court against
each other.
33 There is no mediator between us,
who might lay
his hand on both of us,
34 who might take his rod away from me,
so that his
terror would not frighten me.
35 Then I would speak and not fear him,
but I am not able
to do it by myself.
DASV: Job 10
1 I loathe my life;
I will give unrestrained expression to my complaint.
I will speak from
the bitterness of my soul.
2 I will say to God,
Do not condemn
me.
Tell me what
charges you are bringing against me.
3 Does it seem good to you to oppress?
Should you
despise the work of your hands,
while
looking with favor on the schemes of the wicked?
4 Do you have eyes of flesh?
Or do you see like
human beings see?
5 Are your days like the days of a mortal,
or your years like
the years of a human,
6 that you should search for my
iniquity,
and seek for
my sin,
7 even though you know that I am not guilty,
and there is
no one who can deliver out of your hand?
8 Your
hands have formed and made me,
but now you totally
destroy me.
9 Remember that you have made me like
clay,
and will you turn
me back to dust again?
10 Have you not poured me out like milk,
and curdled me
like cheese?
11 You have clothed me with skin and flesh,
and knit me
together with bones and sinews.
12 You have granted me life and steadfast
love,
and your care
has preserved my spirit.
13 Yet these things you have hid in your
heart;
I know that
this was your purpose.
14 If I sin, then you will watch me,
and you will
not acquit me of my guilt.
15 If I am wicked, woe to me.
But if I am
righteous, yet I still cannot lift up my head.
I am filled with shame,
and gaze upon
my misery.
16 If my head were held high,
you would hunt
me like a lion,
and again unleash
your incredible power against me.
17 You bring your witnesses against me,
and escalate your
anger against me,
and
bring fresh troops against me.
18 Why
then did you bring me out of the womb?
I wish I had died
before any eye had seen me.
19 If only I had never existed;
carried right from
the womb to the grave.
20 Are not the days of my life few?
Stop it then, and
leave me alone,
that
I may find a little comfort,
21 before I go, never to return,
to the land of
darkness and shadowy gloom;
22 the land of absolute darkness,
like shadowy
gloom and chaos,
and
where even the light is like darkness."
DASV: Job 11
1 Then Zophar
the Naamathite responded,
2 "Should not this profusion of
words be answered?
Should one so full of talk be vindicated?
3 Should your empty babble reduce others
to silence?
When you mock, should no one make you ashamed?
4 For you claim, 'My teaching is pure,
I am clean in God’s eyes.'
5 But if only God would speak,
and open his lips against you,
6 and reveal to you the enigmas of
wisdom!
For true understanding has two sides.
Know therefore that God has already forgiven
some of your sin.
7 Can you by searching figure out the
mysteries of God?
Can you discover the limit of the Almighty?
8 It is higher than heaven, what can you
do?
It is deeper than Sheol, what do you know?
9 Its measure is longer than the earth,
and wider than the sea.
10 If he passes by, and imprisons,
then summons a court, who can stop him?
11 For he knows how deceptive humans are.
When he sees injustice, will he not consider it?
12 But a stupid person will gain
understanding,
when a wild donkey’s colt is born a human.
13 If
you would set your heart right,
stretch out your hands toward him.
14 If iniquity is in your hand, put it far
away,
and do not let injustice stay in your tents.
15 Surely then you will lift up your face
without blemish,
you will be secure and will not fear.
16 For you will forget your misery,
you will remember it as waters that have flowed by.
17 Your life will be brighter than the
noonday;
though there is darkness, it will break like the dawn.
18 You will be confident, because there is
hope;
you will be protected and lie down in safety.
19 You will lie down, and no one will make you
afraid;
many will seek your favor.
20 But the eyes of the wicked will fail,
the way of escape will elude them,
and their only hope is to breathe their last."
DASV: Job 12
1 Then Job
answered,
2 "No doubt you are the people,
and wisdom will die with you.
3 But I have understanding as well as
you;
I am not inferior to you.
Who does not know these things?
4 I
am a laughing-stock to my friends,
I, who called on God and he answered,
a just and blameless person, am a laughing-stock.
5 To those at ease there is contempt for
misfortune;
it is ready for them whose feet slip.
6 But the tents of robbers are at peace,
and those who provoke God are secure;
who bring their god in their hand.
7 But
ask the animals, and they will teach you;
the birds of the heavens, and they will tell you.
8 Speak to the earth, and it will instruct
you;
and the fish of the sea will declare to you.
9 Who among all these does not realize
that the hand of the LORD has done this?
10 In his hand is the life of every living
thing,
and the breath of every human being?
11 Does not the ear test words,
just as the tongue tastes its food?
12 Wisdom is found among aged,
and understanding comes with length of days.
13 With
God are wisdom and might;
to him belong counsel and understanding.
14 If he tears down, it cannot be rebuilt;
if he locks someone up, there is no release.
15 If he withholds the waters, they dry up;
if he releases them, they inundate the earth.
16 With him is strength and wisdom,
both the deceived and the deceiver are his.
17 He leads counselors away stripped,
and makes judges into fools.
18 He loosens the robe belts of kings,
and binds a loincloth around their waist.
19 He leads priests away stripped,
and overthrows the mighty.
20 He removes the speech of the trusted
advisers,
and takes away the discretion of the elders.
21 He pours contempt on princes,
and loosens the belt of the strong.
22 He discloses deep things out of the
darkness,
and brings the dark shadow to light.
23 He builds nations up, then destroys them.
He enlarges nations, then leads them away captive.
24 He takes away understanding from the leaders
of the earth,
and causes them to wander in a pathless wilderness.
25 They grope in the dark without light,
and he makes them stagger like a drunkard.
DASV: Job 13
1 Look, my eye has seen all this,
my ear has
heard and understood it.
2 What you know, I also know,
I am not
inferior to you.
3 But I want to speak to the Almighty,
and I desire
to argue my case with God.
4 As for you, you smear me with lies;
you are all worthless
physicians.
5 If only you would be totally silent,
that would be
your wisdom.
6 Listen now to my reasoning,
and pay
attention to the pleadings of my lips.
7 Will you speak falsely for God,
and speak
deceitfully for him?
8 Will you show partiality favoring him?
Will you argue
the case for God?
9 Will it turn out well when he examines
you?
Can you
deceive him as one would deceive a human being?
10 Surely he would rebuke you,
if you show
partiality in secret.
11 Will not his majesty terrify you,
and the dread of
him fall on you?
12 Your maxims are proverbs of ashes,
your defenses
are defenses of clay.
13 Be
quiet, let me speak;
then let come
on me what may.
14 Why would I put my flesh in my teeth,
and take my
life in my own hands?
15 Even if he kills me;
yet I will
hope in him.
Nevertheless I defend my
ways to his face.
16 This also will be my salvation,
for a godless
man would not come before him.
17 Listen carefully to my speech,
and let my declaration
be in your ears.
18 Look now, I have prepared my case;
I know that I
am right.
19 Who will contend with me?
For then I would
be silent and expire.
20 Only
grant me two things,
then I will
not hide myself from your face:
21 withdraw your hand far from me;
and do not let
your terror frighten me.
22 Then call and I will answer;
let me speak, then
you answer me.
23 How many are my iniquities and sins?
Make me
realize my transgression and my sin.
24 Why do you hide your face,
and count me as
your enemy?
25 Will you terrify a windblown leaf?
Will you chase
dry chaff?
26 For you write bitter things against me,
and make me
inherit the sins of my youth.
27 You put my feet in the stocks,
and scrutinize
all my paths;
you
brand the soles of my feet.
28 So
I waste away like something rotten,
like a moth-eaten
garment.
DASV: Job 14
1 Man, born of a woman,
lives only a few
days,
all
of which are full of trouble.
2 He sprouts like a flower, then withers;
and passes
like a shadow that does not last.
3 Do you fix your eyes on such a one,
and bring me
into judgment before you?
4 Who can bring something clean out of the
unclean?
No one!
5 Since his days are determined,
the number of
his months is known to you,
and
you have prescribed his limits that he cannot pass.
6 So look away from him and leave him
alone,
until he finishes
his day like a laborer.
7 For
there is hope for a tree,
if it is cut
down, that it will sprout again,
and
that its tender shoots will not stop growing.
8 Though its root grows old in the ground,
and its stump
dies in the dust;
9 yet at the scent of water it will bud,
and put forth
branches like a new plant.
10 But man dies and is laid low.
a human
expires and where is he?
11 As water evaporates from the sea,
and a river drains
and dries up;
12 so man lies down and does not rise again.
Until the
heavens are no more,
they
will not awake,
or
be roused out of their sleep.
13 Oh
that you would hide me in Sheol,
that you would
conceal me,
until
your wrath has passed,
that you would
appoint a set time for me,
and
then remember me!
14 If a man dies, will he live again?
All the days
of my struggle I will wait,
until
my renewal comes.
15 You would call, and I would answer you.
You would long
for the work of your hands.
16 Surely now you number my steps,
but then you would
not watch for my sin.
17 My offenses would be sealed up in a bag,
and you would
cover up my sin.
18 But
as the mountain falls and crumbles away,
and as the
rock is removed from its place;
19 as waters erode the stones,
and floods
wash away the soil of the earth;
so
you destroy human hope.
20 You overpower forever, and he passes
away;
you alter his
face, and send him away.
21 If his sons come to honor,
he does not know
about it;
and if they are brought low,
he does not perceive
it.
22 He feels only the pain of his own flesh,
and mourns
only for himself."
DASV: Job 15
1 Then Eliphaz
the Temanite replied,
2 "Should a wise man answer with such
blustery knowledge,
and bloat his
belly with the east wind?
3 Should he argue with unprofitable
talk,
or with words
that have no worth in them?
4 Are you doing away with the fear of
God,
and hindering
devotion before God.
5 For your sin informs your mouth,
and you choose
the tongue of the cunning.
6 Your own mouth condemns you, and not
I;
your own lips
testify against you.
7 Are
you the first person ever born?
Or were you
brought forth before the hills?
8 Have you listened in on the secret
counsel of God?
Do you limit
wisdom to yourself?
9 What do you know that we do not know?
What do you understand,
that we do not?
10 Both the gray-headed and the aged are on
our side,
those much older
than your father.
11 Are the consolations of God too small
for you,
even the word
that is gentle toward you?
12 Why does your heart carry you away?
Why do your
eyes flash,
13 when you turn your spirit against God,
and let such words
come out of your mouth?
14 What
is man, that he should be pure?
Or he who is
born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
15 He puts no trust in his holy ones;
even the
heavens are not pure in his sight,
16 how much less one who is abominable and
corrupt,
one who drinks
down evil like water.
17 I
will show you, listen to me;
what I have
seen I will declare,
18 what the wise have declared,
and not
concealed from their forefathers,
19 to whom alone the land was given,
when no foreigner
passed among them.
20 The wicked contorts with pain all his
days,
through the
number of years that were stored up for the ruthless.
21 A sound of terrors fill his ears;
while in
prosperity, the destroyer will attack him.
22 He does not believe that he will ever return
from darkness,
and he is destined
for the sword.
23 He wanders around for bread, begging, 'Where
is it?'
He knows that
the day of darkness is already at hand.
24 Distress and anguish terrify him;
they prevail
against him, like a king ready to attack,
25 because he stretches out his fist
against God,
and acts
arrogantly against the Almighty.
26 He runs at him defiantly,
with a thick,
strong shield;
27 because he has covered his face with fat,
and his waist
bulges with fat,
28 he dwelt in desolate cities,
in houses no one
inhabits,
which
are ready to become ruins.
29 He will not be rich, and his wealth will
not last,
nor will his
possessions spread over the earth.
30 He will not escape from darkness.
The flame will
dry up his branches,
and
he will be blown away by the breath of God's mouth.
31 Let
him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself;
for emptiness will
be his reward.
32 It will be paid in full before his time,
and his branch
will not flourish.
33 He will shake off his unripe grape like
the vine,
and will cast
off his blossom like the olive tree.
34 For the company of the godless will be
barren,
and fire will
consume the tents of bribery.
35 They conceive trouble,
and
bring forth evil,
and their heart prepares deceit."
DASV: Job 16
1 Then Job
answered,
2 "I have heard many such things,
all of you are
such miserable comforters.
3 Will windy words ever end?
Or what bothers
you that you keep arguing?
4 I also could speak like you do,
if you were in
my place.
I could heap up words
against you,
and shake my
head at you.
5 But I would strengthen you with my
mouth,
and comfort
from my lips would ease your pain.
6 Yet
when I speak, my pain is not relieved,
and if I quit
speaking, does the anguish leave me?
7 But now, O God, you have worn me down,
you have devastated
my whole family.
8 You have shriveled me up,
which itself is
a witness against me,
and my emaciated flesh rises
up against me,
it testifies against
my face.
9 God has torn me in his wrath, and
persecuted me;
he has gnashed his teeth at me;
my
enemy locks his eyes on me.
10 They have ridiculed me with their mouth;
they have slapped
me on the cheek in contempt,
they
have gathered themselves together against me.
11 God delivers me over to the ungodly,
and throws me
into the hands of the wicked.
12 I was at peace, but he has shattered me;
he has grabbed
me by the neck,
and
dashed me to pieces.
He has set me up as his
target.
13 His archers surround me;
he slits open my kidneys, without
mercy;
he pours out
my gall on the ground.
14 He smashes me again and again;
he charges at
me like a warrior.
15 I have sewed sackcloth on my skin,
and have buried
my horn in the dust.
16 My face is red from weeping,
and dark
shadows are on my eyelids;
17 although there is no violence in my
hands,
and my prayer
is pure.
18 O
earth, do not cover my blood,
and let my cry
find no place of rest.
19 Even now, my witness is in heaven,
and my
advocate is on high.
20 My friends mock me,
as my eye pours
out tears to God.
21 O that someone would argue the case of a
man with God,
as a person
pleads for his friend!
22 For when just a few years have passed,
I will go the
way from which I will never return.
DASV: Job 17
1 My spirit is broken,
my days are snuffed
out,
the
grave is ready for me.
2 Surely there are mockers with me,
and my eye is
fixed on their hostility.
3 Give
now a pledge for me with yourself.
Who is there
that will put up security for me?
4 Since you have closed their heart to understanding,
therefore do not
let them extol themselves.
5 Whoever turns his friends in for
personal gain,
the eyes of
his children will fail.
6 But he has made me a byword among the
people;
they spit in
my face.
7 My eye has grown dim from sorrow,
and my entire
shape is but a shadow.
8 The upright are appalled at this,
the innocent will
stir himself up against the godless.
9 Yet the righteous stays the course,
he who has
clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.
10 But
as for you all, come back here;
I cannot find
a single wise man among you.
11 My days are past,
my plans are ripped
up,
even
the desires of my heart.
12 They allege that night is day
they claim
that the light is near the darkness.
13 If I look for Sheol as my house,
if I make my bed
in the darkness,
14 if I have said to the Pit, 'You are my
father;'
to the worm, 'You
are my mother and my sister,'
15 where then is my hope?
As for my
hope, who can see it?
16 Will it go down to the bars of Sheol?
Will we
descend together into the dust?"
DASV: Job 18
1 Then Bildad
the Shuhite answered,
2 "How long until you stop the speeches?
Think clearly,
after that we will talk.
3 Why are we counted as cattle?
Why are we
stupid in your sight?
4 You tear yourself up in your anger,
should the
earth be abandoned for your sake?
Or
the rock be removed out of its place?
5 Surely,
the light of the wicked will be put out,
and the flame
of his fire will not shine.
6 The light in his tent will be dark,
and his lamp
above him will be put out.
7 Then his strong steps will be shortened,
and his own advice
will bring him down.
8 For his feet send him into a net,
and he walks
on into its mesh.
9 A trap grabs him by the heel,
and a snare snags
him.
10 A noose is hidden on the ground for him,
and a trap for
him on the path.
11 Terrors frighten him on every side,
and pursue his
every step.
12 Trouble is hungry for him,
and calamity is
ready for his stumbling.
13 It devours parts of his skin,
the firstborn
of death devours his limbs.
14 He is torn from his tent in which he
trusted,
he is brought
to the king of terrors.
15 Fire dwells in his tent,
sulfur is
scattered on his dwelling.
16 Below, his roots will be dried up,
above, his
branches wither.
17 The memory of him perishes from the
earth,
he will have
no reputation in the land.
18 He is driven from light into darkness,
and chased out
of the world.
19 He will not have offspring or descendants
among his people,
nor any survivor
where he used to live.
20 The people of the west are astonished at
his fate,
those from the
east are seized by horror.
21 Surely such are the dwellings of the evil,
such is the
place of him who does not know God."
DASV: Job 19
1 Then Job
answered,
2 "How long will you torment me,
and crush me
with words?
3 These ten times you have insulted me.
You are not
ashamed to attack me.
4 Even if I have erred,
my error should
remain only my concern.
5 If indeed you exalt yourselves against
me,
and use my
humiliation as an argument against me,
6 know now that it is God who has
wronged me,
and has closed
his net around me.
7 Though
I cry out, 'Violence,' no one answers,
I cry for
help, but there is no justice.
8 He has walled up my way so that I
cannot pass,
and has put darkness
over my paths.
9 He has stripped me of my honor,
and has taken
the crown from my head.
10 He has torn me down on every side, and I
am gone;
and he has
uprooted my hope like a tree.
11 He has also kindled his anger against
me,
and has counted
me as one of his enemies.
12 His troops have advanced together,
and have built
up a siege ramp against me,
and
have encamped surrounding my tent.
13 He
has remove my brothers far from me,
and my
acquaintances are absolutely estranged from me.
14 My relatives have failed me,
and my
familiar friends have forgotten me.
15 The guests in my house and my maids consider
me a stranger;
I have become an
alien in their eyes.
16 I call to my servant, but he does not
respond,
though I plead
to him with my mouth.
17 My breath is repulsive to my wife,
and I am
offensive to my own brothers.
18 Even young children despise me,
when I get up,
they speak against me.
19 All my closest friends abhor me,
and those whom
I loved have turned against me.
20 My bones stick to my skin and to my
flesh,
and I have
escaped by the skin of my teeth.
21 Have mercy on me, have mercy on me, my
friends;
for the hand
of God has struck me.
22 Why do you persecute me like God does?
Will you never
be satisfied with my flesh?
23 O
that my words were written down!
O that they
were inscribed on a scroll!
24 O that with an iron pen and lead
they would be engraved
in a rock forever!
25 But
as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives,
and that he
will stand upon the earth in the end.
26 Even after my skin has been destroyed,
yet in my
flesh I will see God.
27 I myself will see him with my own eyes,
and not another.
My heart is overwhelmed
by the thought.
28 If
you say, 'How will we persecute him!'
and 'The root
of the problem is his own fault.'
29 You should fear the sword yourselves,
for wrath
brings the punishments of the sword,
that
you may realize there is a judgment."
DASV: Job 20
1 Then Zophar
the Naamathite answered,
2 "Therefore my troubled thoughts cause
me to answer,
because of the
agitation that is within me.
3 I have heard the scolding that insults
me,
but then my understanding
prompts me to answer.
4 Do
you not know this from of old,
since people were
placed on earth,
5 that the triumph of the wicked is
short,
and the joy of
the godless lasts only a moment?
6 Even though his arrogance reaches up
to the heavens,
and his head touches
the clouds;
7 yet he will perish forever, like his
own excrement.
Those who have
seen him will say, 'Where is he?'
8 He will fly away like a dream, and not
be found,
he will be
chased away like a vision of the night.
9 The eye that saw him will see him no
more,
nor will his
place see any more of him.
10 His children will have to make
reparations to the poor,
and his own hands
must return his wealth.
11 His bones were full of youthful vigor,
but that vigor
will lie down with him in the dust.
12 Though
evil is sweet in his mouth,
and he hides
it under his tongue,
13 though he hangs onto it,
refusing to
let it go,
and
keeps it in his mouth;
14 yet his food turns sour in his stomach,
it becomes the
venom of snakes within him.
15 He has swallowed down riches,
and he will
vomit them up again;
God
will make him throw them up out his belly.
16 He will suck the poison of snakes,
the viper's fangs
will slay him.
17 He will no longer look on the rivers,
the flowing
streams of honey and butter.
18 He will have to repay the results of his
labor,
and will not
swallow it down;
the wealth he has acquired,
he will not be
able to enjoy.
19 For he has oppressed and forsaken the
poor;
he has seized
a house, he did not build.
20 Because
he was never satisfied,
he will not let
anything he delights in go.
21 There was nothing left that he has not
consumed;
therefore his
prosperity will not last.
22 In the fullness of his sufficiency he will
be in distress.
The hand of
everyone who is in suffering will come upon him.
23 When he is about to fill his belly,
God will send his
fierce wrath on him,
and
will rain his blows down on him.
24 When he tries to flee from the iron
weapon,
a bronze arrow
will pierce him through.
25 When he pulls it out and it comes out of
his body,
the glistening
point comes out of his liver,
terrors
come on him.
26 Complete darkness is laid up for his treasures,
an unfanned
fire will devour him.
It
will consume everything left in his tent.
27 The heavens will reveal his iniquity,
and the earth will
rise up against him.
28 A flood will carry off the possessions
of his house;
torrents will rip
it away in the day of God's wrath.
29 This is the fate of the wicked from God,
and the
heritage appointed to him by God."
DASV: Job 21
1 Then Job
answered,
2 "Listen carefully to my words;
and let this
be your comfort to me.
3 Bear with me, and I also will speak,
and after I
have spoken, mock on.
4 As
for me, is my complaint with humans?
Why should I
not be impatient?
5 Look at me and be appalled,
put your hand over
your mouth.
6 When I think about it, I am troubled,
and trembling
takes hold of my flesh.
7 Why do the wicked live,
become old and
grow powerful?
8 Their children are established in
their sight,
their
offspring before their eyes.
9 Their houses are safe, without fear,
and the rod of
God is not on them.
10 Their bull breeds without fail,
their cow
calves, and never miscarries.
11 They send out their little ones like a
flock,
and their
children dance.
12 They sing accompanied by the tambourine and
harp.
They rejoice to
the sound of the flute.
13 They spend their days in prosperity,
then go down
to the grave in peace.
14 They say to God, 'Leave us alone.
For we do not desire
to know your ways.
15 Who is the Almighty, that we should
serve him?
What benefit
is there if we should pray to him?'
16 But their prosperity is not of their own
making,
the counsel of
the wicked is far from me.
17 Yet
how often is the lamp of the wicked snuffed out?
How often does
disaster come on them?
How
often does God distribute pain to them in his anger?
18 How often are they like straw blown by
the wind,
like chaff
that the storm carries away?
19 You claim, 'God stores up a person's punishment
for his children.'
Rather, let
him recompense it to the person himself,
that
he may experience it himself.
20 Let his own eyes see his destruction,
let him drink
of the wrath of the Almighty.
21 For will he care about his house after
his death,
when the
number of his months is cut off?
22 Can
anyone dare to teach God knowledge,
seeing he
judges those who are on high?
23 One person dies in the prime of his
strength,
being totally
secure and at ease,
24 his body is well nourished,
and the marrow
of his bones is moist.
25 Another dies in bitterness of soul,
never having tasted
of good.
26 They both lie down in the dust,
and the worm
covers both of them.
27 Look,
I know what you are thinking,
the schemes by
which you would harm me.
28 For you say, 'Where is the house of the
prince?
Where is the
tent in which the wicked dwelt?'
29 Have you not questioned those who are on
the road?
Do you not accept
their testimony,
30 that the evil one is spared from the day
of disaster,
they are delivered
from the day of wrath?
31 Who denounces his behavior to his face?
Who will repay
him for what he has done?
32 Yet he will be carried to the grave,
men will keep
watch over their tomb.
33 The clods of the valley will be sweet to
him,
all people will
follow the procession after him,
as
those before him will be innumerable.
34 How
then will you comfort me with such futility?
Is there
nothing left in your answers but falsehood?"
DASV: Job 22
1 Then Eliphaz
the Temanite answered,
2 "Can a human be of benefit to
God?
Can even one
who is wise be of use to him.
3 Is it any pleasure to the Almighty,
that you are righteous?
Is it gain to
him, that you make your ways blameless?
4 Is
it because of your piety that he rebukes you,
and brings
judgment against you?
5 Is not your wickedness great?
Are not your iniquities
endless?
6 For you must have exacted pledges from
your brothers for no reason,
or stripped
the naked of their clothing.
7 You must have not given water to the
weary to drink,
or have withheld
bread from the hungry.
8 Even though you were a mighty man, possessing
land,
and an
honorable man living on it.
9 You must have sent widows away empty,
or crushed the
arms of the fatherless.
10 Therefore snares surround you,
and sudden
fear terrifies you.
11 That is why you cannot see in the darkness,
and why flood
waters cover you.
12 Is
not God in the heights of heaven?
See how high
the lofty stars are!
13 Yet you claim, 'What does God know?
Can he judge
through the thick darkness?
14 Thick clouds are his veil, so that he does
not see;
while he walks
on the vault of heaven.'
15 Will you keep the old path
that wicked
men have trod?
16 Who were snatched away before their
time,
whose
foundation was swept away by a flood,
17 Who said to God, 'Leave us alone."
And, 'What can
the Almighty really do to us?'
18 Yet he has filled their houses with good
things,
but the
counsel of the wicked is far from me.
19 The righteous see their destruction and
are glad;
the innocent
laugh at them saying,
20 'Surely our enemies are cut off,
and what was
left of them was consumed by fire.'
21 Yield
to God, and be at peace,
this is how good
will come to you.
22 Accept instruction from his mouth,
and store up
his words in your heart.
23 If you return to the Almighty, you will
be built up,
if you remove
injustice far from your tents.
24 If you throw your gold to the dust,
and gold of Ophir
to the stones of the streams,
25 then the Almighty will be your gold,
and be your precious
silver.
26 Surely then you will delight yourself in
the Almighty,
and lift up your
face to God.
27 You will pray to him, and he will hear you,
and you will fulfill
your vows.
28 You will decide on something, and it will
happen for you;
and light will
shine on your ways.
29 When they are cast down, you will say, 'Lift
up;'
then he will
rescue the downcast.
30 He will deliver even one who is not
innocent,
he will be
delivered because of the cleanness of your hands."
DASV: Job 23
1 Then Job
answered,
2 "Even today my complaint is
bitter,
his hand is
heavy despite my groaning.
3 If I only knew where I might find him!
Then I might
come to his place of dwelling!
4 I would present my case before him,
and fill my
mouth with arguments.
5 I would anticipate the words he would use
to answer me,
and understand
what he would say to me.
6 Would he contend with me with his
great power?
No, he himself
would pay attention to me.
7 There the upright would reason with
him,
and I would be
delivered forever from my judge.
8 I
go east, but he is not there,
and west, but
I cannot discover him;
9 on the north, when he works, I cannot gaze
on him,
when he turns
to the south, I cannot see him.
10 But he knows the way that I take,
when he has tested me,
I will
come forth like gold.
11 My foot has stayed close to his steps,
his way I have
kept, and not turned aside.
12 I have not departed from the command of
his lips,
I have
treasured the words of his mouth
more
than my daily food.
13 But
once he makes his mind up,
who can get him to
change?
and whatever he desires,
that's exactly
what he does.
14 For he performs whatever he has
prescribed against me,
and many such
things are with him.
15 That is why I am terrified at his
presence,
when I think
about it, I am afraid of him.
16 For God has made my heart faint,
the Almighty
has terrified me.
17 Yet I have not been silenced by the
darkness,
nor by the
thick darkness that covers my face.
DASV: Job 24
1 Why are judgment times not set up by
the Almighty?
Why do they who know him never see these days?
2 Some remove the boundary markers.
They steal and
pasture flocks.
3 They drive away the orphan's donkey.
They take the
widow's ox as security on a loan.
4 They push the needy off the path.
The poor of
the earth all hide themselves.
5 Like wild donkeys in the desert they
go out to their toil,
scavenging for
food for their young in the wilderness.
6 They reap in a field not their own,
and they glean
the vineyard of the wicked.
7 All night they lie naked without
clothing,
and have no
covering from the cold.
8 They are soaked with the mountain showers,
and huddle by
a rock because of the lack of shelter.
9 There are those who pluck the orphan
baby from the breast,
and take the
infant of the poor for security on a loan.
10 So they go about naked, without
clothing,
though they
carry sheaves,
they
themselves go hungry.
11 They make oil between the terrace walls.
They tread the
winepresses,
while
they suffer thirst.
12 From the city the dying groan,
and the
wounded cry out,
yet
God charges no one with wrong.
13 These
are those who rebel against the light;
they do not know
its ways,
nor
stay on its paths.
14 The murderer rises before daybreak;
he kills the
poor and needy;
and
in the night he is like a thief.
15 The eye also of the adulterer waits for
twilight,
Saying, 'No
eye will see me.'
and
he disguises his face.
16 In the dark they break into houses.
They shut
themselves up in the day.
They
do not know the light.
17 For the deep darkness is like the
morning to all of them;
for they are
friends with the terrors of the deep darkness.
18 They
are like foam swiftly disappearing from the surface of the water.
Their portion is
cursed in the earth.
so
that no one enters the vineyards.
19 Just as the drought and heat consumes
the snow waters,
so the grave consumes
those who have sinned.
20 The womb will forget him.
The worm will
feed sweetly on him.
He
will not be remembered anymore;
and
unrighteousness will be broken like a tree.
21 He devours the childless woman,
and does no
good to the widow.
22 But God drags off the mighty by his
power,
He arises high
but has no assurance of life.
23 God allows them security, and they rest
in it;
but his eyes
are on their ways.
24 They are exalted only for a little
while, and are gone;
they are
brought low and gathered up like everyone else,
and are cut
off like the heads of grain.
25 If
this is not so, who could prove I am lying,
and make my
speech worthless?"
DASV: Job 25
1 Then Bildad
the Shuhite answered,
2 "Dominion and awesomeness belong
to God;
he makes peace
on his high places.
3 Can anyone number his armies?
Or on whom does
his light not rise?
4 How then can a human be righteous before
God?
Or how can one
born of a woman be clean?
5 Even the moon is not bright,
and the stars
are not pure in his sight,
6 how much less man, who is a maggot,
and the son of
man, who is a worm!"
DASV: Job 26
1 Then Job
answered,
2 "How you have helped one who is
powerless!
How you have saved
the arm that has no strength!
3 How you have counseled one who has no
wisdom!
What brilliant
insight you have offered!
4 With whose help have you declared
these sayings?
Whose inspiration
breathed out from you?
5 They who are deceased tremble,
those beneath
the waters and its inhabitants.
6 The underworld is naked before God,
and the place
of destruction has no covering.
7 He stretches out the northern skies
over empty space,
and hangs the
earth on nothing.
8 He binds up the waters in his thick
cloud,
and the clouds
do not burst open under them.
9 He conceals the face of the full moon,
and spreads
his clouds over it.
10 He has drawn the horizon on the face of
the waters,
at the
boundary between light and darkness.
11 The pillars of the heavens tremble
and are
astonished at his rebuke.
12 He stills the sea by his power,
and by his
understanding he strikes down Rahab.
13 By his breath the heavens are cleared,
his hand has
pierced the fleeing serpent.
14 These are but the outskirts of his ways.
How faint a
whisper do we hear of him!
But
the thunder of his power who can understand?"
DASV: Job 27
1 Job continued his
wisdom saying,
2 "As God lives, who has taken away
my rights,
and the
Almighty, who has soured my soul,
3 for while my breath is still in me,
and the spirit
of God is in my nostrils,
4 my lips will not speak evil,
nor will my
tongue utter deceit.
5 I will never admit that all of you are
right,
until I die I
will never abandon my integrity.
6 I hold fast to my righteousness, and will
never let it go,
my heart will
not condemn me for as long as I live.
7 Let my enemy be like the wicked,
and let my
adversary be like the unrighteous.
8 For
what is the hope of the godless when he is cut off,
when God takes
away his life?
9 Will God hear his cry,
when trouble
comes on him?
10 Will he delight himself in the Almighty?
Will he call
on God at all times?
11 I will teach you concerning the hand of
God,
what is
happening with the Almighty,
I will
not conceal.
12 But you yourselves have seen it,
why then do
you continue all this meaningless blather?
13 This
is the portion of the wicked man with God,
and the inheritance
the oppressors will receive from the Almighty:
14 If his children are multiplied, it is
for the sword;
and his
offspring will not have enough food to eat.
15 Those who survive it, the plague will
bury,
and his widows
will not grieve.
16 Though he heap up silver like the dust,
and pile up clothes
like mounds of clay;
17 He may pile it up, but the righteous will
wear it,
and the
innocent will divide the silver.
18 He builds his house fragile like the
moth's,
and like a
booth made by the watchman.
19 He lies down rich, but he will do so no
more;
he opens his
eyes, and it is gone.
20 Terrors overwhelm him like waters;
a whirlwind carries
him away in the night.
21 The east wind carries him away, and he
departs;
it hurls him
out of his place.
22 For it will sweep down on him, with no
mercy,
he attempts to
flee out of its power.
23 It will clap its hands at him in mockery,
and will hiss at
him from its place.
DASV: Job 28
1 Surely there is a mine for silver,
and a place where
they refine gold.
2 Iron is taken out of the earth,
and copper is smelted
from stone.
3 Man puts an end to darkness,
and searches
out, to the farthest regions for ore in deep darkness.
4 He sinks a shaft far from where men inhabit;
they are
forgotten by travelers;
far
from others they dangle back and forth.
5 As for the earth, out of it comes
bread;
but underneath,
it is turned up as by fire.
6 Its stones are the place of sapphires,
and its dust
contains gold.
7 No bird of prey knows that path,
nor has the
falcon's eye ever seen it.
8 The proud beasts have not walked there,
nor has the
fierce lion passed by there.
9 He puts forth his hand to work on the
flinty rock;
he overturns
the mountains by their base.
10 He cuts out tunnels through the rocks;
and his eye
sees every precious thing.
11 He has searched the sources of streams;
and the hidden
things he brings out to the light.
12 But
where can wisdom be found?
Where is the
place of understanding?
13 Humans do not know its value;
nor is it
found in the land of the living.
14 The deep says, 'It is not in me';
and the sea says,
'It is not with me.'
15 It cannot be gotten for gold,
nor can its
price be weighed out in silver.
16 It cannot be valued by the gold of
Ophir,
with precious
onyx or sapphire.
17 Gold and glass cannot equal it,
nor can it be
exchanged for jewels of fine gold.
18 No mention can be made of coral or
crystal,
for the price
of wisdom is above rubies.
19 The topaz of Ethiopia cannot not equal
it,
nor can it be
valued with pure gold.
20 Where
then does wisdom come from?
Where is the
place of understanding?
21 It is hidden from the eyes of all
living,
and concealed
from the birds of the air.
22 Destruction and Death say,
'We have heard
a rumor about it with our ears.'
23 God understands the way to it,
and he knows its
place.
24 For he looks to the ends of the earth,
and sees everything
under the heavens.
25 He gave wind its pressure,
and measured
out how much rain should fall.
26 He made the law for the rain,
and made a
path for the thunderbolt.
27 Then he saw wisdom, and assessed it;
he established it, and carefully scrutinized it.
28 Then he said to humans,
'The fear of
the Lord, that is wisdom,
and
to turn away from evil is understanding.'"
DASV: Job 29
1 Job continued
his wisdom saying,
2 "O how I wish it were as in the
months now passed,
in the days
when God watched over me,
3 when his lamp shined upon my head,
and by his
light I walked through darkness;
4 in the days when I was in my prime,
when the
friendship of God was upon my tent;
5 when the Almighty was still with me,
and my
children were gathered around me;
6 when my steps were bathed with butter,
and the rock
poured out streams of olive oil for me.
7 When I went out to the city gate,
when I took my
seat in the town square,
8 the young would see me and step aside,
and the aged would
respectfully rise and stand;
9 the princes would stop talking,
and lay their
hand over their mouths;
10 the voices of the nobles were hushed,
and their
tongue stuck to the roof of their mouths.
11 For when an ear heard me, it blessed me;
and when the
eye saw me, it approved of me,
12 because I delivered the poor that cried
out,
the orphan too,
who had no one to help.
13 The one ready to perish, blessed me;
and I caused
the widow's heart to sing for joy.
14 I put on righteousness, and it clothed
me,
my justice was
like a robe and a turban.
15 I was eyes for the blind,
and feet for
the lame.
16 I was a father to the needy,
and I searched
out the cause of the stranger.
17 I broke the fangs of the unrighteous,
and plucked
the prey out of his teeth.
18 Then
I said, 'I will die in my nest,
and I will
multiply my days as the sand,
19 my root will reach to the waters,
and the dew will
lie on my branches all night long;
20 my glory will be fresh in me,
and my bow ever
new in my hand'.
21 People
listened to me,
and silently waited
for my advice.
22 After my words, they did not talk back;
and my speech refreshingly
dropped on them like dew.
23 They waited for me as for the rain;
they opened
their mouth as for the spring rain.
24 I smiled on them, and they could hardly
believe it;
and the light
of my countenance they did not cast down.
25 I chose their way for them, and sat as
their chief,
I lived like a
king surround by his army,
like
one who comforts mourners.
DASV: Job 30
1 But now those who are younger than I am
mock me,
whose fathers
I would have hated to put with my sheep dogs.
2 What use is the strength of their
hands to me?
Men whose
strength is gone.
3 They are gaunt from want and hunger;
they gnaw the
dry ground,
waste
and desolate in the night.
4 They pluck herbs by the bushes in the
salt marshes;
and the roots
of the broom tree are their food.
5 They are driven out of the community;
people shout
at them as they would a thief;
6 so that they have to live in dreadful valleys,
in holes in
the ground and in the rocks.
7 Among the bushes they bray;
under the
nettles they huddle together.
8 Sons of fools, children of base men;
they are driven
out of the land by whips.
9 Now
I am become their song of jest,
I am a byword
to them.
10 They abhor me and keep their distance
from me,
they do not
hesitate to spit in my face.
11 For God has loosed my bowstring and
afflicted me;
they have cast
off all restraint in my presence.
12 At my right hand the rabble rises;
they knock my
feet out from under me,
and
build siege ramps against me.
13 They break up my path,
they promote
my calamity,
without
anyone's assistance.
14 As through a wide breach they come,
amid the crash
they roll on in.
15 Terrors are turned upon me;
my honor is
blown away as by the wind,
and
my welfare has passed away like a cloud.
16 And
now my soul is poured out within me;
days of
affliction have grabbed a hold of me.
17 At night my bones are racked with pain,
and the pains that
gnaw at me never rest.
18 Forcefully God grabs my garment;
he binds me like
the collar of my coat.
19 He has thrown me into the mud,
and I am
become like dust and ashes.
20 I
cry out to you, but you do not answer me,
I stand up,
and you simply gaze at me.
21 You cruelly turn on me;
with the might
of your hand you persecute me.
22 You pick me up on the wind,
you cause me
to ride on it;
and
you toss me around in the storm.
23 For I know that you will bring me to
death,
and to the
house appointed for all living.
24 Surely
even one who stretches out his hand against the needy,
in his
calamity he cries for help.
25 Did not I weep for those who were in
trouble?
Was I not
grieved by the needy?
26 But when I expected good, then evil
came;
and when I
waited for light, darkness came.
27 My heart is troubled and in endless
turmoil;
days of
affliction torment me.
28 I go about darkened but not by the sun,
I stand up in
the assembly, and cry for help.
29 I am a brother to jackals,
and a
companion to owls.
30 My skin turns black, and falls off me,
and my bones
burn with fever.
31 Therefore my harp has turned to a lament,
and my pipe to
the sound of weeping.
DASV:
Job 31
1 I made a covenant with my eyes.
How then could
I lustfully look at a virgin?
2 For what is one's portion from God
above,
and one's inheritance
from the Almighty on high?
3 Is it not calamity for the
unrighteous,
and disaster for
the workers of iniquity?
4 Does he not see my ways,
and count all
my steps?
5 If
I have walked in falsehood,
and my foot has
hastened to deceit,
6 let him weigh me on a just scale,
that God may
know that I am blameless.
7 If my step has strayed from the way,
and my heart
walked after my eyes,
and
if any spot has clung to my hands,
8 then let me sow, and another eat my
crops;
let the
produce of my field be uprooted.
9 If
my heart has been seduced by a woman,
and I have stalked
my neighbor's door;
10 then let my wife grind another man's
grain,
and let others
have sex with her.
11 That would be a heinous crime,
it would be a
sin punishable by the judges.
12 For it is a fire that consumes down to
Destruction,
and would uproot
everything that is mine.
13 If
I have refused justice for my male or female servants,
when they brought
a complaint against me;
14 then what will I do when God rises to
judge me?
When he intervenes,
how will I answer him?
15 Did not he who made me in the womb also make
him?
Did not this one
fashion both of us in the womb?
16 If I have withheld anything the poor desired,
or have caused
the hopeful eyes of the widow to fail,
17 or have stingily eaten my morsel alone,
or did not share
it with orphans--
18 from my youth I raised the orphan like I
was his father,
and from my
mother's womb I have guided the widow.
19 If I have seen anyone perish for lack of
clothing,
or the needy
having no coat;
20 if his loins have not blessed me,
and if he has not
warmed himself with a fleece from my sheep;
21 if I have lifted up my hand against the orphan,
because I saw I
had support in court at the gate,
22 then let my shoulder blade fall from my
shoulder,
and my arm be broken
from its socket.
23 For calamity from God was a terror to
me,
and by reason
of his majesty I could never do that.
24 If
I have put my confidence in gold,
and have said
to the fine gold, 'You are my security,'
25 if I have rejoiced because my wealth was
great,
or because my
hand had acquired much;
26 if I have looked at the sun when it shone,
or the moon moving
in its splendor,
27 and my heart had been secretly enticed,
and my hand
threw them a kiss from my mouth,
28 then this also would be iniquity to be
punished by the judges;
for I would
have been false to God above.
29 If I have rejoiced at the destruction of
one who hated me,
or celebrated
when calamity overtook him,--
30 I have never allowed by mouth to sin,
by asking for his
life with a curse--
31 if those of my tent have not said,
'Who can find
one who has not been filled with his meat?'--
32 But a sojourner has never lodged in the
street;
I have opened
my doors to the traveler--
33 if, like others, I have covered my
transgressions,
by hiding my
iniquity in my bosom,
34 because I feared the crowd,
and the
contempt of families terrified me,
so that I kept silent,
and would not
outdoors --
35 O
that I had one to listen to my case!
Look, here is
my signature,
let
the Almighty answer me.
O that I had the
indictment of my adversary written down!
36 Surely I would display it proudly on my
shoulder;
I would wear
it like a crown.
37 I would declare to him every one of my
steps;
like a prince I
would come before him.
38 If
my land cried out against me,
and its furrows
wept together,
39 if I have eaten its fruits without paying,
or caused its
owners to lose their lives,
40 then let thistles grow instead of wheat,
and weeds
instead of barley."
The words of Job are ended.
DASV: Job 32
1 So these three
men ceased answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
2 Then Elihu the
son of Barakel the Buzite, of the family of Ram became furious with Job. He was angry because Job justified himself
rather than God.
3 He was also upset
with his three friends, because they were unable to refute Job, and yet had
condemned him.
4 Now Elihu had
waited to speak to Job, because they were older than he was.
5 But when Elihu
saw that there was no answer in the mouths of these three men, his anger was
kindled.
6 So Elihu the
son of Barakel the Buzite answered,
"I am young in years, and
you are aged;
that is why I was timid and afraid to
tell you my opinion.
7 I said, 'Days should speak,
and many years ought to teach wisdom.'
8 But there is a spirit in man,
and the breath of the Almighty gives them understanding.
9 It is not those with great age who alone
are wise,
nor only the aged who understand justice.
10 Therefore
I say, 'Listen to me,
I also will tell you what I know.'
11 Look, I waited for your words,
I listened for your rationale,
while you groped for what to say.
12 I paid attention to you,
not one of you refuted Job,
or answered his words.
13 Do
not tell me, 'We have found wisdom;
God will blow him away, not
man.'
14 For he has not directed his words
against me,
nor will I answer him with your speeches.
15 They are baffled with no answer;
they don’t have a word to say.
16 Must I continue to wait, since they are
done speaking,
since they stand there with no answer?
17 I also will answer with a piece of my
mind,
I also will declare my opinion.
18 For
I am full of words;
the spirit within me compels
me.
19 Look, my insides are like wine that has no vent;
like new wine-skins ready to burst.
20 I will speak, so that I may find relief;
I will open my lips and answer.
21 I will not show partiality to anyone,
nor will I flatter anybody.
22 For I do not know how to give flattering
titles;
else my Maker would soon take me away.
DASV: Job 33
1 But now, Job, listen to my speech;
pay attention to all my words.
2 Look, I have opened my mouth;
the tongue of my mouth has spoken.
3 My words come from the uprightness of
my heart;
and that which my lips know they speak sincerely.
4 The Spirit of God has made me,
and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
5 Answer me, if you can;
arrange your arguments before me and take your stand.
6 Look, I am the same as you are before
God,
I too am
formed out of the clay.
7 So no fear of me should terrify you,
nor should
pressure from me be heavy on you.
8 Surely
you have spoken in my hearing,
and I have
heard the sound of your word, saying
9 'I am clean, without transgression;
I am innocent,
there is no iniquity in me.
10 God finds occasions to go against me,
He counts me as
his enemy.
11 He puts my feet in the stocks,
He watches all
my paths.'
12 But
I will answer you: in this you are not right,
for God is
greater than man.
13 Why do you contend against him,
that he will
not answer any of a man's words?
14 For God speaks once,
then twice, though
no one realizes it.
15 In a dream, in a vision of the night,
when deep
sleep falls on people,
while
slumbering on their beds,
16 then he opens the ears of men,
and terrifies them
with warnings,
17 that he may turn a person from his deeds,
and keep him
from pride.
18 He keeps back his soul from the pit,
and his life
from crossing over Death's River.
19 He is chastened with pain on his bed,
and with
continual strife in his bones,
20 so that his life detests bread,
and his appetite
choice food.
21 His flesh wastes away from sight;
and his bones
that were unseen, now stick out.
22 His soul draws near to the pit,
and his life
to those who bring death.
23 If
there is an angel by his side,
one mediator
among a thousand,
to
declare to a person that he is right;
24 then God will be gracious to him, and say,
'Rescue him
from going down to the pit,
I
have found a ransom.'
25 Then his flesh will be fresher than a
child's;
he will return
to the days of his youth.
26 He will pray to God, and he will be
favorable to him,
he will see God's
face with joy,
and
God will repay him for his righteousness.
27 He will sing before men, and say,
'I have
sinned, and perverted that which was right,
and
it was not repaid to me.
28 He has redeemed my soul from going into
the pit,
and my life will
see the light.'
29 Indeed
God does all these things,
twice, three
times, with a person,
30 to bring back his soul from the pit,
that he may see
the light of the living.
31 Pay
attention, Job, listen to me,
be silent, and
I will speak.
32 If you have anything to say, answer me;
speak, for I want
to justify you.
33 If not, listen to me;
be silent, and
I will teach you wisdom."
DASV: Job 34
1 Then Elihu continued,
2 "Hear my words, you wise men,
and give ear
to me, you who have knowledge.
3 For the ear tests words,
as the palate
tastes food.
4 Let us choose what is right,
let us figure
out together what is good.
5 For
Job has said, 'I am innocent,
and God has
taken away my right.
6 In spite of my being right, I am considered
a liar;
my wound is
incurable, though I am without transgression.'
7 What man is like Job,
who drinks up
scoffing like water?
8 Who travels in the company of evildoers,
and walks with
wicked men.
9 For he has said, 'It profits a man
nothing
that he should
delight himself in God.'
10 Therefore
listen to me, you who have understanding,
far be it from
God, that he should do wickedness,
and
the Almighty, that he should do wrong.
11 For he will repay a person for their
deeds,
and each one
will find consequences resulting from their way.
12 Surely, God will not act wickedly,
and the
Almighty will not pervert justice.
13 Who entrusted him with governance over
the earth?
Who put him
over whole world?
14 If he would set his heart on it,
if he would
ever gather to himself his spirit and his breath;
15 all flesh would perish together,
and humans would
turn back to dust.
16 If
you have understanding, listen to this,
hear what I
say.
17 Could one who hates justice really govern?
Will you
condemn the One who is righteous and mighty?
18 Who says even to a king, 'You are
worthless,'
and to nobles,
'You are wicked.'
19 He shows no favoritism to princes,
nor does he
respect the rich more than the poor;
for
they all are the work of his hands.
20 In a moment they die, even at midnight;
the people are
shaken and pass away,
and
the mighty are taken away without a human hand.
21 For
his eyes are on the ways of a man,
and he sees a
person's each and every step.
22 There is no darkness or deep darkness,
where the evildoers
can hide themselves.
23 For he has no need to further consider anyone,
that one need come
before God in judgment.
24 He shatters the mighty without making an
investigation,
and sets up others
in their place.
25 So he knows their works;
and he
overturns them in the night and they are crushed.
26 He strikes them for their wickedness
in full view
of others,
27 because they turned away from following
him,
and had no respect
for any of his ways.
28 So they caused the cry of the poor to
come to him,
and he hears
the cry of the needy.
29 But if he stays silent, who then can
condemn him?
When he hides
his face, who then can see him,
whether
it is by a nation or an individual?
30 He stops the godless man from reigning,
those who
ensnare the people.
31 For
has anyone said to God,
'I have endured
punishment, but I will offend no more;
32 teach me what I cannot see;
if I have done
evil, I will do it no more'?
33 Will he repay you on your terms,
even when you have
rejected this?
For you must choose, and
not I,
therefore tell
me what you know.
34 Men of understanding say to me,
every wise man
that hears me says,
35 'Job speaks without knowledge,
and his words
are without wisdom.
36 Job should be tested to the limit,
because of his
answering like wicked men.
37 For he adds rebellion to his sin;
he claps his
hands dismissing us,
and
multiplies his words against God.'"
DASV: Job 35
1 Then Elihu
answered,
2 "Do you think it is right when
you say,
'I am right
before God'?
3 That you should say, 'How does it
benefit me,
what profit do
I get from not sinning?'
4 I will answer you,
and your friends
with you.
5 Look up to the heavens and see;
and look at
the skies, which are higher than you.
6 If you have sinned, how does that
impact God?
If your
transgressions are multiplied, what does that do to him?
7 If you are righteous, what do you give
him?
What does he receive
from your hand?
8 Your wickedness affects only someone
like yourself;
and your righteousness,
only other human beings.
9 Because of the multitude of
oppressions people cry out;
they cry for
help because of the oppressing arm of the mighty.
10 But no one demands,
'Where is God
my Maker,
who
gives songs in the night,
11 who teaches us
more than the beasts of the earth,
and
makes us wiser than the birds of the air?'
12 Then they cry out, but no one answers,
because of the
pride of evil people.
13 Surely it is an empty accusation, 'God
will not hear,
neither does the
Almighty really care.'
14 How much less when you claim that you do
not see him,
your case is
before him, and you are waiting for him!
15 And you continue, 'he does not punish in
his anger,
and does not
deal with great transgression.'
16 This is how Job opens his mouth in absurdity,
he multiplies
words without knowledge."
DASV: Job 36
1 Elihu continued
and said,
2 "Be a little more patient with me,
and I will show you,
for I have
something further to say on God's behalf.
3 I will bring my knowledge from far
away,
and will
ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
4 For truly my words are not false,
one who is
perfect in knowledge is with you.
5 God is mighty, and does not despise anyone,
he is mighty
with resoluteness of heart.
6 He does not preserve the life of the
wicked,
but gives justice
to the afflicted.
7 He does not take his eyes off the
righteous,
but he seats
them on the throne with kings
and
exalts them forever.
8 If they are bound in chains,
and caught in
the cords of affliction;
9 then he exposes to them what they have
done,
and their
transgressions that they arrogantly committed.
10 He opens their ears to instruction,
and commands
that they must turn from evil.
11 If they listen and serve him,
they will
spend their days in prosperity,
and their years in pleasantness.
12 But if they refuse to listen,
they will
perish by the sword,
and die without knowledge.
13 The
godless in heart maintain anger,
they do not cry
for help when he chains them.
14 They die in their youth,
and their life
ends among the male shrine prostitutes.
15 He delivers the afflicted by means of their
affliction,
and opens
their ear by their suffering.
16 He has allured you away from distress into
a wide open place,
where there are
no restrictions;
and that which
is set on your table is delicious food.
17 But you are obsessed about the judgment
of the wicked,
while judgment
and justice have taken hold of you.
18 Be careful you are not seduced by
wealth,
or let the size
of the bribe turn you aside.
19 Did your wealth keep you from distress,
even with all your
mighty effort?
20 Do not long for the night,
when people
are cut off from their place.
21 Be careful, do not turn to evil,
for because of
this you have been tested by affliction.
22 Look,
God is exalted in his power,
who is a
teacher like him?
23 Who has prescribed his way for him?
Who can say to
him, 'You have done wrong'?
24 Remember to admire his work,
that which people
sing praise about.
25 Everyone has seen it;
humanity
watches from far off.
26 Certainly, God is great, and we do not know
him,
the number of
his years is unsearchable.
27 For
he draws up the drops of water,
which then distills
into rain from its mist,
28 which the skies pour down
and
drop abundantly on humanity.
29 Yes, can anyone understand the
spreadings of the clouds,
the
thunderings of his pavilion?
30 Look at how he scatters his lightning
around him,
and he covers
the depths of the sea.
31 For by these he judges the peoples;
he gives food
in abundance.
32 He covers his hands with the lightning,
and orders it to
strike its target.
33 His thunder proclaims the approaching
storm,
even the
cattle concerning its coming.
DASV:
Job 37
1 At this my heart also trembles,
and leaps out
of its place.
2 Listen, listen to the thunder of his
voice,
and the rumbling
that goes out of his mouth.
3 He lets it loose under the entire
heaven,
and his
lightning flashes to the ends of the earth.
4 After it his voice roars;
he thunders
with the voice of his majesty;
and does not restrain
the lightning when his voice is heard.
5 God thunders marvelously with his
voice;
he does great
things that we cannot fathom.
6 For he says to the snow, 'Fall on the
earth';
likewise to
the rain shower,
the
showers of his mighty rain.
7 He forces everyone's hand to stop
working,
that all people
whom he has made may know it.
8 Then the animals hide in their lairs,
and remain in
their dens.
9 The storm blasts out of its chamber,
and cold from
the penetrating winds.
10 By the breath of God ice is given;
and the expanse
of waters frozen.
11 He loads the thick cloud with moisture;
he scatters
his lightning from clouds.
12 The clouds swirl round and round at his direction,
to do whatever
he commands them to
on
the face of the entire inhabitable world.
13 He brings it on to punish people,
or to the benefit
of his land,
or to display his steadfast love.
14 Listen
to this, Job.
Stand still
and consider the wonderful works of God.
15 Do you know how God directs them,
and causes the
lightning of his cloud to shine?
16 Do you know how he balances the clouds,
the wondrous
works of him who is perfect in knowledge?
17 You whose garments are warm,
when there is
a lull in the earth because of the south wind,
18 can you stretch out the sky with him,
which is as
hard as a molten metal mirror?
19 Teach
us what we should say to him;
for we cannot arrange
our case because of darkness.
20 Should he be told that I want to speak?
Or did anyone
ever wish to be swallowed up?
21 Now nobody can look at the sun, which is
bright in the skies;
but the wind
passes and clears the clouds away.
22 Out of the north comes golden splendor,
around God is
brilliant majesty.
23 We cannot discover the Almighty, he is great
in power,
in justice and
great righteousness, he does not oppress.
24 That is why people fear him,
he is not
impressed with any who are wise of heart."
DASV: Job 38
1 Then the LORD answered
Job out of the whirlwind,
2 "Who is this that darkens counsel,
with words
without knowledge?
3 Gird up now your loins preparing for
action like a man;
for I will question
you, and you answer me.
4 Where
were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?
Tell me, if you
have understanding.
5 Who determined its measurements? Surely
you know!
Who stretched
the measuring line across it?
6 Onto what were its foundations sunk,
or who laid its
cornerstone,
7 when the morning stars sang together,
and all the
sons of God shouted for joy?
8 Who
shut up the sea with doors,
when it burst forth
from the womb;
9 when I made clouds its garment,
and thick
darkness its swaddling band,
10 and prescribed its bounds,
and set its
locks and doors,
11 when I said, 'You may come this far, but
no further;
and here shall
your proud waves be stayed'?
12 Have
you commanded the morning since your days began,
and caused the
dawn to know its place,
13 that it might take hold of the ends of
the earth,
and shake the
wicked out of it?
14 It is molded like clay under a seal;
and its
brilliant colors like a dyed garment.
15 Light is withheld from the wicked,
and their arm
lifted for violence is broken.
16 Have
you entered into the springs of the sea?
Have you
walked in the recesses of the deep?
17 Have the gates of death been revealed to
you?
Have you seen
the gates of deep darkness?
18 Have you comprehended the vastness of
the earth?
Tell me, if you
have any clue.
19 Which
way is it to the place where light dwells?
and where is
the abode of darkness,
20 that you may take each to its boundaries,
and that you may
discern the paths to its home?
21 Certainly you know, for you were born
before them,
and the number
of your days is so great!
22 Have
you entered the storehouses of the snow,
or have you
seen the storehouses of the hail,
23 that I have reserved for the time of
trouble,
for the day of
battle and war?
24 What is the way to the place light is
dispersed,
or the east
wind scattered upon the earth?
25 Who has dug out a channel for the flooding
rains,
or the way for
the thunderbolt;
26 to cause it to rain on a land where no one
is,
on the
wilderness where there is no human being,
27 to satisfy the waste and desolate ground,
and to cause
the tender grass to spring up?
28 Does the rain have a father?
Who has fathered
the drops of dew?
29 Out of whose womb did the ice come?
Who gives
birth to the frost of heaven?
30 The waters become as hard as rock,
and the face
of the deep is frozen.
31 Can
you bind the chains of the Pleiades,
or loose the cords
of Orion?
32 Can you lead forth the constellations in
their season,
or guide the
Bear with her cubs?
33 Do you know the laws of the heavens?
Can you
establish their dominion over the earth?
34 Can
you lift up your voice to the clouds,
so that flood
waters cover you?
35 Can you send out lightning bolts,
so that they come and
say to you, 'Here we are'?
36 Who has put wisdom into the heart,
or given
understanding to the mind?
37 Who can number the clouds by wisdom,
or tilt over the
waterskins of heaven,
38 when the dust solidifies into a mass,
and the clumps
of dirt stick together?
39 Can
you hunt the prey for the lioness,
or satisfy the
appetite of the young lions,
40 when they crouch in their dens,
or lie in wait
in the thicket?
41 Who provides for the raven its prey,
when its young
ones cry out to God,
and
wander around for lack of food?
DASV: Job 39
1 Do you know when the mountain goats give
birth?
Have you seen
when the wild deer births her fawns?
2 Can you number the months they carry
their young to term?
Do you know the
time when they give birth?
3 They crouch, they bring forth their
young,
they deliver
their offspring.
4 Their young ones grow strong,
they grow up
in the open field;
they go out,
and do not return.
5 Who
has freed the wild donkey?
Who unleashed
the ropes of the wild donkey?
6 I have appointed the wilderness for
its home,
and the salt
land for his dwelling place?
7 It scorns the tumult of the town,
it does not hear
the shouts of the driver.
8 It ranges the mountains as its
pasture,
and searches for
anything that is green.
9 Will
the wild ox be willing to serve you?
Will it spend
the night in your stall?
10 Can you bind the wild ox to the furrow
with a rope?
Will it plow
the valleys after you?
11 Can you trust him because his strength
is great?
Will you leave
it to do your labor?
12 Can you rely on it to bring home your
grain,
and gather the
grain to your threshing floor?
13 The
wings of the ostrich flap with joy;
but its
pinions and plumage is no comparison to the stork's.
14 For she leaves her eggs on the ground,
and warms them
in the dust,
15 then forgets that a foot may crush them,
or that the
wild beast may trample them.
16 She treats her young abusively, as if
they were not hers,
though her
labor is in vain, she does not care.
17 For God has deprived her of wisdom,
and did not grant
her understanding.
18 But whenever she springs up to run,
she laughs at
the horse and its rider.
19 Have
you given the horse its might?
Have you
clothed his neck with a flowing mane?
20 Have you made it leap like a locust?
His majestic
snorting is terrifying.
21 It paws in the valley, and rejoices in its
strength.
It charges out
to meet the weapons.
22 It laughs at fear, and is not dismayed;
nor does it
turn back from the sword.
23 The quiver rattles against it,
the flashing
spear and javelin.
24 It swallows the ground with fierceness
and rage;
it cannot
stand still when the trumpet blows.
25 At the sound of the trumpet it snorts, 'Aha!'
It smells the
battle in the distance,
the
thunder of the captains and the battle cries.
26 Is
it by your wisdom that the hawk soars,
and spreads its
wings toward the south?
27 Is it at your command that the eagle
mounts up,
and makes its
nest on high?
28 It lives on the cliff and lodges there,
and on the
rocky crag is its stronghold.
29 From there it spies out its prey,
its eyes see
it from a distance.
30 Its young ones consume blood,
and where the
slain are, there it is."
DASV: Job 40
1 Then the LORD answered Job,
2 "Will a faultfinder contend with
the Almighty?
Let the one
who accuses God give him an answer."
3 Then Job
answered the LORD,
4 "Look, I am absolutely unworthy.
How can I
answer you?
I lay my hand over
my mouth.
5 Once have I spoken, and I will not
answer;
twice, but I
will proceed no further."
6 Then the LORD
answered Job out of the whirlwind,
7 "Gird up now your loins preparing
for action like a man;
for I will question
you, and you answer me.
8 Will
you even discredit my justice?
Will you
condemn me so that you may be justified?
9 Do you have an arm as strong as God?
Can you
thunder with a voice like his?
10 Dress yourself with majesty and dignity;
and clothe
yourself with glory and splendor.
11 Pour out your overflowing anger;
and look on
every one who is proud, and bring him down.
12 Look on every one who is proud, and
humble him,
trample down
the wicked where they stand.
13 Hide them in the dust together,
imprison them
in the hidden world.
14 Then I also will acknowledge you,
that your own
right hand can save you.
15 Look
at Behemoth, which I made just as I made you.
It eats grass
as an ox.
16 Look at how its strength is in its
loins,
and its force
is in the muscles of its belly.
17 It moves its tail like a cedar,
the sinews of its
thighs are knit together.
18 Its bones are tubes of bronze;
its limbs are
like bars of iron.
19 It is a prime example of the works of
God,
only its Maker
can approach it with his sword.
20 For the mountains offer it food,
where all the wild
animals of the field play.
21 It lies under the lotus trees,
hidden in the
reeds and the swamp.
22 The lotus trees cover it with their
shade;
the willows by
the brook surround it.
23 If a river turns turbulent, it is not
alarmed;
it is
confident, though the Jordan River surges against its mouth.
24 Can any capture it when it is watching,
or pierce its
nose after trapping it?
DASV: Job 41
1 Can you pull up Leviathan with a fishhook,
or tie down its
tongue with a cord?
2 Can you put a rope in its nose,
or pierce its
jaw with a hook?
3 Will it make pleas to you for mercy,
or will it
speak soft words to you?
4 Will it make a covenant with you,
that you
should accept it as your slave forever?
5 Will you play with him like a bird,
or will you put
it on a leash for your girls?
6 Will the traders bargain for it?
Will they split
it up among the merchants?
7 Can you fill its skin with harpoons,
or its head
with fishing spears?
8 If you lay your hand on it,
you will remember
the battle,
and never do it again.
9 Any hope of capturing it is bogus,
will not one attempting
it be overwhelmed
even
at the sight of it?
10 No one is so fierce that he dares to
disturb it.
Who then is able
to stand before me?
11 Who has first given something to me,
that I am
obligated to repay?
Everything under heaven is
mine.
12 I
will not keep silent concerning his limbs,
or his mighty
strength,
or
his impressive frame.
13 Who can strip off his outer garment?
Who can pierce
its double coat of armor?
14 Who can pry open the doors of its mouth?
All around its
teeth is terror.
15 Its back is made of rows of shields,
sealed,
tightly closed together.
16 Each one is so close to the other,
that no air
can come between them.
17 They are joined to one another;
they stick
together, so that they cannot be pried apart.
18 When it sneezes, it flashes forth light,
and its eyes
are like the crack of dawn.
19 Flames go out of its mouth,
and sparks of
fire shoot out.
20 Smoke is exhaled from its nostrils,
as from a
boiling pot and burning rushes.
21 Its breath kindles coals,
and a flame comes
out of its mouth.
22 Strength lodges in its neck,
and terror advances
before it.
23 The folds of its flesh are joined
together,
they are firm
on it and cannot be moved.
24 His heart is as hard as a rock,
hard as a lower
millstone.
25 When it raises itself up, the mighty are
terrified,
when it
thrashes around, they withdraw.
26 If one strikes it with the sword, it has
no impact,
nor do the
spear, dart or javelin.
27 It considers iron like straw,
and bronze like
rotten wood.
28 The arrow cannot make him flee,
Slingstones bounce
off like worthless chaff.
29 Clubs are considered to be straw,
it laughs at
the rattling of the javelin.
30 Its undersides are like sharp potsherds,
it leaves a
trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.
31 It makes the deep to bubble like a boiling
pot,
it makes the
sea like a pot of ointment.
32 It makes a shining wake after him,
one would
think the deep had white hair.
33 There is nothing on earth like it,
a creature with
no fear.
34 It looks down on everything that is haughty,
it is king
over all the proud.
DASV: Job 42
1 Then Job
answered the LORD,
2 "I know that you can do all
things,
and that no
purpose of yours can be thwarted.
3 You asked, 'Who is this that hides
counsel without knowledge?'
Therefore I have
uttered matters that I did not understand,
things
too wonderful for me of which I knew nothing.
4 You said, 'Listen, and I will speak;
I will question
you,
and
you will answer me.'
5 I had heard of you by the hearing of
the ear;
but now my eye
sees you.
6 Therefore I despise myself,
and repent in
dust and ashes."
7 After the LORD
had spoken these words to Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "My anger
burns against you, and against your two friends, because you have not spoken about
me what is right, as my servant Job has.
8 Now therefore,
take seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job and offer up a burnt
offering for yourselves. My servant Job will
pray for you, for I will accept his prayer that I not deal with you according
to your folly, because you have not spoken about me what is right, as my
servant Job has."
9 So Eliphaz the
Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did what the
LORD commanded them, and the LORD accepted Job's prayer.
10 Then the LORD turned Job's fortunes when he
prayed for his friends, and the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.
11 Then all his
brothers, sisters and all who had known him before came to him and ate bread
with him in his house. They comforted and
consoled him concerning all the tragedy that the LORD had brought on him. Each
of them gave him a piece of money and a gold ring.
12 So the LORD blessed the latter part of Job's
life more than the beginning. He had 14,000
sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen
and 1,000 female donkeys.
13 He also had
seven sons and three daughters.
14 He called the
name of the first Jemimah, and the second Keziah, and the third, Keren-happuch.
15 In all the
land there were no women found so beautiful as the daughters of Job. Their father gave them an inheritance along
with their brothers.
16 After this Job
lived a 140 years; and saw his children, and his children's children, to four
generations.
17 So Job died, old and full of days.