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18:001:001 There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.

18:001:002 And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters.

18:001:003 His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.

18:001:004 And his sons went and feasted in their houses, every one his day; and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.

18:001:005 And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.

18:001:006 Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them.

18:001:007 And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.

18:001:008 And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?

18:001:009 Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought?

18:001:010 Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.

18:001:011 But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.

18:001:012 And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD.

18:001:013 And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house:

18:001:014 And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them:

18:001:015 And the Sabeans fell upon them, and took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.

18:001:016 While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.

18:001:017 While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have carried them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.

18:001:018 While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house:

18:001:019 And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.

18:001:020 Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped,

18:001:021 And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.

18:001:022 In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly.

18:002:001 Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them to present himself before the LORD.

18:002:002 And the LORD said unto Satan, From whence comest thou? And Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.

18:002:003 And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? and still he holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause.

18:002:004 And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.

18:002:005 But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.

18:002:006 And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, he is in thine hand; but save his life.

18:002:007 So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.

18:002:008 And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.

18:002:009 Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die.

18:002:010 But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.

18:002:011 Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.

18:002:012 And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.

18:002:013 So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great.

18:003:001 After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.

18:003:002 And Job spake, and said,

18:003:003 Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.

18:003:004 Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.

18:003:005 Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

18:003:006 As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.

18:003:007 Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.

18:003:008 Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.

18:003:009 Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:

18:003:010 Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.

18:003:011 Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?

18:003:012 Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?

18:003:013 For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,

18:003:014 With kings and counsellors of the earth, which build desolate places for themselves;

18:003:015 Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:

18:003:016 Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.

18:003:017 There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.

18:003:018 There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.

18:003:019 The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.

18:003:020 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;

18:003:021 Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;

18:003:022 Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?

18:003:023 Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?

18:003:024 For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.

18:003:025 For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.

18:003:026 I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.

18:004:001 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,

18:004:002 If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking?

18:004:003 Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands.

18:004:004 Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.

18:004:005 But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.

18:004:006 Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?

18:004:007 Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?

18:004:008 Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.

18:004:009 By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.

18:004:010 The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.

18:004:011 The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad.

18:004:012 Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof.

18:004:013 In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men,

18:004:014 Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake.

18:004:015 Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up:

18:004:016 It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying,

18:004:017 Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?

18:004:018 Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly:

18:004:019 How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?

18:004:020 They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.

18:004:021 Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.

18:005:001 Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn?

18:005:002 For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.

18:005:003 I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.

18:005:004 His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.

18:005:005 Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.

18:005:006 Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;

18:005:007 Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

18:005:008 I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:

18:005:009 Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number:

18:005:010 Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:

18:005:011 To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.

18:005:012 He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.

18:005:013 He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.

18:005:014 They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope in the noonday as in the night.

18:005:015 But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.

18:005:016 So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.

18:005:017 Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:

18:005:018 For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.

18:005:019 He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.

18:005:020 In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword.

18:005:021 Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.

18:005:022 At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.

18:005:023 For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.

18:005:024 And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin.

18:005:025 Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.

18:005:026 Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.

18:005:027 Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou it for thy good.

18:006:001 But Job answered and said,

18:006:002 Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!

18:006:003 For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.

18:006:004 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.

18:006:005 Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?

18:006:006 Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?

18:006:007 The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.

18:006:008 Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!

18:006:009 Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

18:006:010 Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.

18:006:011 What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?

18:006:012 Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brass?

18:006:013 Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?

18:006:014 To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.

18:006:015 My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;

18:006:016 Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid:

18:006:017 What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

18:006:018 The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.

18:006:019 The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.

18:006:020 They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.

18:006:021 For now ye are nothing; ye see my casting down, and are afraid.

18:006:022 Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of your substance?

18:006:023 Or, Deliver me from the enemy's hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty?

18:006:024 Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.

18:006:025 How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?

18:006:026 Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?

18:006:027 Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.

18:006:028 Now therefore be content, look upon me; for it is evident unto you if I lie.

18:006:029 Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.

18:006:030 Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?

18:007:001 Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?

18:007:002 As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work:

18:007:003 So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.

18:007:004 When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.

18:007:005 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.

18:007:006 My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.

18:007:007 O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.

18:007:008 The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not.

18:007:009 As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.

18:007:010 He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.

18:007:011 Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

18:007:012 Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?

18:007:013 When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaints;

18:007:014 Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:

18:007:015 So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.

18:007:016 I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.

18:007:017 What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?

18:007:018 And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment?

18:007:019 How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?

18:007:020 I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?

18:007:021 And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.

18:008:001 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

18:008:002 How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?

18:008:003 Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?

18:008:004 If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;

18:008:005 If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;

18:008:006 If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.

18:008:007 Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.

18:008:008 For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:

18:008:009 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)

18:008:010 Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?

18:008:011 Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?

18:008:012 Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.

18:008:013 So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:

18:008:014 Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider's web.

18:008:015 He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.

18:008:016 He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.

18:008:017 His roots are wrapped about the heap, and seeth the place of stones.

18:008:018 If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee.

18:008:019 Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow.

18:008:020 Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evil doers:

18:008:021 Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing.

18:008:022 They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.

18:009:001 Then Job answered and said,

18:009:002 I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?

18:009:003 If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.

18:009:004 He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered?

18:009:005 Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger.

18:009:006 Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.

18:009:007 Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars.

18:009:008 Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea.

18:009:009 Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.

18:009:010 Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders without number.

18:009:011 Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not: he passeth on also, but I perceive him not.

18:009:012 Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What doest thou?

18:009:013 If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him.

18:009:014 How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him?

18:009:015 Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge.

18:009:016 If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.

18:009:017 For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.

18:009:018 He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.

18:009:019 If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead?

18:009:020 If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.

18:009:021 Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.

18:009:022 This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.

18:009:023 If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.

18:009:024 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he?

18:009:025 Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.

18:009:026 They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.

18:009:027 If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:

18:009:028 I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.

18:009:029 If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?

18:009:030 If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;

18:009:031 Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.

18:009:032 For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment.

18:009:033 Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.

18:009:034 Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me:

18:009:035 Then would I speak, and not fear him; but it is not so with me.

18:010:001 My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

18:010:002 I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.

18:010:003 Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?

18:010:004 Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth?

18:010:005 Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man's days,

18:010:006 That thou enquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin?

18:010:007 Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.

18:010:008 Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.

18:010:009 Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?

18:010:010 Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?

18:010:011 Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews.

18:010:012 Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.

18:010:013 And these things hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that this is with thee.

18:010:014 If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.

18:010:015 If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;

18:010:016 For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.

18:010:017 Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.

18:010:018 Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!

18:010:019 I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

18:010:020 Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

18:010:021 Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;

18:010:022 A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.

18:011:001 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,

18:011:002 Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified?

18:011:003 Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?