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2:1 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.
2:2 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.
2:3 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.
2:4 And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a
 man hath will he give for his life.
2:5 But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he
 will curse thee to thy face.
2:6 And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, he is in thine hand; but save
 his life.
2:7 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.
2:8 And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down
 among the ashes.
2:9 Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? 
 curse God, and die.
2:10 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.
2:11 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.
2:12 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.
2:13 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.

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3:1 After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
3:2 And Job spake, and said,
3:3 Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was
 said, There is a man child conceived.
3:4 Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let
 the light shine upon it.
3:5 Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon
 it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
3:6 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.
3:7 Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.
3:8 Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their
 mourning.
3:9 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:
3:10 Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow
 from mine eyes.
3:11 Why died I not from the womb?  why did I not give up the ghost when
 I came out of the belly?
3:12 Why did the knees prevent me?  or why the breasts that I should suck?
3:13 For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: 
 then had I been at rest,
3:14 With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places
 for themselves;
3:15 Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
3:16 Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never
 saw light.
3:17 There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at
 rest.
3:18 There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the
 oppressor.
3:19 The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his
 master.
3:20 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the
 bitter in soul;
3:21 Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for
 hid treasures;
3:22 Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the
 grave?
3:23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath
 hedged in?
3:24 For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like
 the waters.
3:25 For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I
 was afraid of is come unto me.
3:26 I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet
 trouble came.

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4:1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
4:2 If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved?  but who can
 withhold himself from speaking?
4:3 Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak
 hands.
4:4 Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened
 the feeble knees.
4:5 But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and
 thou art troubled.
4:6 Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness
 of thy ways?
4:7 Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent?  or where
 were the righteous cut off?
4:8 Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap
 the same.
4:9 By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are
 they consumed.
4:10 The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the
 teeth of the young lions, are broken.
4:11 The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps
 are scattered abroad.
4:12 Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little
 thereof.
4:13 In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on
 men,
4:14 Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake.
4:15 Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up:
4:16 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,
4:17 Shall mortal man be more just than God?  shall a man be more pure than
 his maker?
4:18 Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with
 folly:
4:19 How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation
 is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
4:20 They are destroyed from morning to evening:  they perish for ever
 without any regarding it.
4:21 Doth not their excellency which is in them go away?  they die, even
 without wisdom.

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5:1 Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the
 saints wilt thou turn?
5:2 For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
5:3 I have seen the foolish taking root:  but suddenly I cursed his
 habitation.
5:4 His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate,
 neither is there any to deliver them.
5:5 Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the
 thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.
5:6 Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble
 spring out of the ground;
5:7 Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
5:8 I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:
5:9 Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without
 number:
5:10 Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:
5:11 To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be
 exalted to safety.
5:12 He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot
 perform their enterprise.
5:13 He taketh the wise in their own craftiness:  and the counsel of the
 froward is carried headlong.
5:14 They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in
 the night.
5:15 But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the
 hand of the mighty.
5:16 So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
5:17 Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth:  therefore despise not
 thou the chastening of the Almighty:
5:18 For he maketh sore, and bindeth up:  he woundeth, and his hands make
 whole.
5:19 He shall deliver thee in six troubles:  yea, in seven there shall no
 evil touch thee.
5:20 In famine he shall redeem thee from death:  and in war from the power
 of the sword.
5:21 Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue:  neither shalt thou
 be afraid of destruction when it cometh.
5:22 At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh:  neither shalt thou be
 afraid of the beasts of the earth.
5:23 For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field:  and the
 beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.
5:24 And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be in peace; and thou
 shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin.
5:25 Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine
 offspring as the grass of the earth.
5:26 Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn
 cometh in in his season.
5:27 Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou it
 for thy good.

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6:1 But Job answered and said,
6:2 Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the
 balances together!
6:3 For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea:  therefore my
 words are swallowed up.
6:4 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.
6:5 Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass?  or loweth the ox over his
 fodder?
6:6 Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt?  or is there any
 taste in the white of an egg?
6:7 The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.
6:8 Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing
 that I long for!
6:9 Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his
 hand, and cut me off!
6:10 Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: 
 let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.
6:11 What is my strength, that I should hope?  and what is mine end,
 that I should prolong my life?
6:12 Is my strength the strength of stones?  or is my flesh of brass?
6:13 Is not my help in me?  and is wisdom driven quite from me?
6:14 To him that is afflicted pity should be showed from his friend; but
 he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.
6:15 My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of
 brooks they pass away;
6:16 Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid:
6:17 What time they wax warm, they vanish:  when it is hot, they are
 consumed out of their place.
6:18 The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and
 perish.
6:19 The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.
6:20 They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and
 were ashamed.
6:21 For now ye are nothing; ye see my casting down, and are afraid.
6:22 Did I say, Bring unto me?  or, Give a reward for me of your substance?
6:23 Or, Deliver me from the enemy's hand?  or, Redeem me from the hand of
 the mighty?
6:24 Teach me, and I will hold my tongue:  and cause me to understand
 wherein I have erred.
6:25 How forcible are right words!  but what doth your arguing reprove?
6:26 Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is
 desperate, which are as wind?
6:27 Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.
6:28 Now therefore be content, look upon me; for it is evident unto you if
 I lie.
6:29 Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my
 righteousness is in it.
6:30 Is there iniquity in my tongue?  cannot my taste discern perverse
 things?

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7:1 Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth?  are not his days
 also like the days of an hireling?
7:2 As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh
 for the reward of his work:
7:3 So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are
 appointed to me.
7:4 When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone?  and
 I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.
7:5 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and
 become loathsome.
7:6 My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
7:7 O remember that my life is wind:  mine eye shall no more see good.
7:8 The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more:  thine eyes
 are upon me, and I am not.
7:9 As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away:  so he that goeth down to
 the grave shall come up no more.
7:10 He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him
 any more.
7:11 Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of
 my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
7:12 Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?
7:13 When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;
7:14 Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:
7:15 So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.
7:16 I loathe it; I would not live alway:  let me alone; for my days are
 vanity.
7:17 What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him?  and that thou
 shouldest set thine heart upon him?
7:18 And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every
 moment?
7:19 How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow
 down my spittle?
7:20 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?
7:21 And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine
 iniquity?  for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the
 morning, but I shall not be.

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8:1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
8:2 How long wilt thou speak these things?  and how long shall the words
 of thy mouth be like a strong wind?
8:3 Doth God pervert judgment?  or doth the Almighty pervert justice?
8:4 If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for
 their transgression;
8:5 If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the
 Almighty;
8:6 If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and
 make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
8:7 Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly
 increase.
8:8 For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the
 search of their fathers:
8:9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon
 earth are a shadow: )
8:10 Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of
 their heart?
8:11 Can the rush grow up without mire?  can the flag grow without water?
8:12 Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth
 before any other herb.
8:13 So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope
 shall perish:
8:14 Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider's web.
8:15 He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand:  he shall hold it
 fast, but it shall not endure.
8:16 He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his
 garden.
8:17 His roots are wrapped about the heap, and seeth the place of stones.
8:18 If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I
 have not seen thee.
8:19 Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others
 grow.
8:20 Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help
 the evil doers:
8:21 Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing.
8:22 They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place
 of the wicked shall come to nought.

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9:1 Then Job answered and said,
9:2 I know it is so of a truth:  but how should man be just with God?
9:3 If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.
9:4 He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength:  who hath hardened
 himself against him, and hath prospered?
9:5 Which removeth the mountains, and they know not:  which overturneth them
 in his anger.
9:6 Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof
 tremble.
9:7 Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars.
9:8 Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of
 the sea.
9:9 Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the
 south.
9:10 Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders without
 number.
9:11 Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not:  he passeth on also, but I
 perceive him not.
9:12 Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him?  who will say unto him,
 What doest thou?
9:13 If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under
 him.
9:14 How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason
 with him?
9:15 Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would
 make supplication to my judge.
9:16 If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that
 he had hearkened unto my voice.
9:17 For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without
 cause.
9:18 He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with
 bitterness.
9:19 If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong:  and if of judgment, who
 shall set me a time to plead?
9:20 If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me:  if I say, I
 am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.
9:21 Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul:  I would
 despise my life.
9:22 This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect
 and the wicked.
9:23 If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the
 innocent.
9:24 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?
9:25 Now my days are swifter than a post:  they flee away, they see no good.
9:26 They are passed away as the swift ships:  as the eagle that hasteth
 to the prey.
9:27 If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness,
 and comfort myself:
9:28 I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me
 innocent.
9:29 If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
9:30 If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
9:31 Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor
 me.
9:32 For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we
 should come together in judgment.
9:33 Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon
 us both.
9:34 Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me:
9:35 Then would I speak, and not fear him; but it is not so with me.

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10:1 My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I
 will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
10:2 I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; show me wherefore thou
 contendest with me.
10:3 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?
10:4 Hast thou eyes of flesh?  or seest thou as man seeth?
10:5 Are thy days as the days of man?  are thy years as man's days,
10:6 That thou inquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin?
10:7 Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver
 out of thine hand.
10:8 Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet
 thou dost destroy me.
10:9 Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt
 thou bring me into dust again?
10:10 Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?
10:11 Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with
 bones and sinews.
10:12 Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath
 preserved my spirit.
10:13 And these things hast thou hid in thine heart:  I know that this
 is with thee.
10:14 If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine
 iniquity.
10:15 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;
10:16 For it increaseth.  Thou huntest me as a fierce lion:  and again thou
 showest thyself marvellous upon me.
10:17 Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine
 indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.
10:18 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!
10:19 I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been
 carried from the womb to the grave.
10:20 Are not my days few?  cease then, and let me alone, that I may
 take comfort a little,
10:21 Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of
 darkness and the shadow of death;
10:22 A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death,
 without any order, and where the light is as darkness.

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11:1 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
11:2 Should not the multitude of words be answered?  and should a man full
 of talk be justified?
11:3 Should thy lies make men hold their peace?  and when thou mockest,
 shall no man make thee ashamed?
11:4 For thou hast said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine
 eyes.
11:5 But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against thee;
11:6 And that he would show thee the secrets of wisdom, that they are
 double to that which is!  Know therefore that God exacteth of thee less
 than thine iniquity deserveth.
11:7 Canst thou by searching find out God?  canst thou find out the Almighty
 unto perfection?
11:8 It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do?  deeper than hell; what
 canst thou know?
11:9 The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the
 sea.
11:10 If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder
 him?
11:11 For he knoweth vain men:  he seeth wickedness also; will he not then
 consider it?
11:12 For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's
 colt.
11:13 If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him;
11:14 If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not
 wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.
11:15 For then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; yea, thou shalt be
 stedfast, and shalt not fear:
11:16 Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters
 that pass away:
11:17 And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday; thou shalt shine
 forth, thou shalt be as the morning.
11:18 And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope; yea, thou shalt dig
 about thee, and thou shalt take thy rest in safety.
11:19 Also thou shalt lie down, and none shall make thee afraid; yea, many
 shall make suit unto thee.
11:20 But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and
 their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost.

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12:1 And Job answered and said,
12:2 No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.
12:3 But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: 
 yea, who knoweth not such things as these?
12:4 I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he
 answereth him:  the just upright man is laughed to scorn.
12:5 He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the
 thought of him that is at ease.
12:6 The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are
 secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.
12:7 But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the
 air, and they shall tell thee:
12:8 Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee:  and the fishes of the
 sea shall declare unto thee.
12:9 Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the LORD hath wrought
 this?
12:10 In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of
 all mankind.
12:11 Doth not the ear try words?  and the mouth taste his meat?
12:12 With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.
12:13 With him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and understanding.
12:14 Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again:  he shutteth
 up a man, and there can be no opening.
12:15 Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up:  also he sendeth
 them out, and they overturn the earth.
12:16 With him is strength and wisdom:  the deceived and the deceiver
 are his.
12:17 He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools.
12:18 He looseth the bond of kings, and girdeth their loins with a girdle.
12:19 He leadeth princes away spoiled, and overthroweth the mighty.
12:20 He removeth away the speech of the trusty, and taketh away the
 understanding of the aged.
12:21 He poureth contempt upon princes, and weakeneth the strength of the
 mighty.
12:22 He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light
 the shadow of death.
12:23 He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them:  he enlargeth the
 nations, and straiteneth them again.
12:24 He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and
 causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
12:25 They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger
 like a drunken man.

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13:1 Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood
 it.
13:2 What ye know, the same do I know also:  I am not inferior unto you.
13:3 Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
13:4 But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
13:5 O that ye would altogether hold your peace!  and it should be your
 wisdom.
13:6 Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
13:7 Will ye speak wickedly for God?  and talk deceitfully for him?
13:8 Will ye accept his person?  will ye contend for God?
13:9 Is it good that he should search you out?  or as one man mocketh
 another, do ye so mock him?
13:10 He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.
13:11 Shall not his excellency make you afraid?  and his dread fall upon
 you?
13:12 Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of
 clay.
13:13 Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me
 what will.
13:14 Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine
 hand?
13:15 Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him:  but I will maintain mine
 own ways before him.
13:16 He also shall be my salvation:  for an hypocrite shall not come
 before him.
13:17 Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.
13:18 Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be
 justified.
13:19 Who is he that will plead with me?  for now, if I hold my tongue,
 I shall give up the ghost.
13:20 Only do not two things unto me:  then will I not hide myself from
 thee.
13:21 Withdraw thine hand far from me:  and let not thy dread make me
 afraid.
13:22 Then call thou, and I will answer:  or let me speak, and answer thou
 me.
13:23 How many are mine iniquities and sins?  make me to know my
 transgression and my sin.
13:24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?
13:25 Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro?  and wilt thou pursue the
 dry stubble?
13:26 For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess
 the iniquities of my youth.
13:27 Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all
 my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.
13:28 And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.

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14:1 Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
14:2 He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down:  he fleeth also as a
 shadow, and continueth not.
14:3 And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into
 judgment with thee?
14:4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean?  not one.
14:5 Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with
 thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
14:6 Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an
 hireling, his day.
14:7 For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout
 again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.
14:8 Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die
 in the ground;
14:9 Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs
 like a plant.
14:10 But man dieth, and wasteth away:  yea, man giveth up the ghost, and
 where is he?
14:11 As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth
 up:
14:12 So man lieth down, and riseth not:  till the heavens be no more,
 they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
14:13 O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me
 secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time,
 and remember me!
14:14 If a man die, shall he live again?  all the days of my appointed
 time will I wait, till my change come.
14:15 Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee:  thou wilt have a desire to
 the work of thine hands.
14:16 For now thou numberest my steps:  dost thou not watch over my sin?
14:17 My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine
 iniquity.
14:18 And surely the mountain falling cometh to nought, and the rock is
 removed out of his place.
14:19 The waters wear the stones:  thou washest away the things which grow
 out of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man.
14:20 Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth:  thou changest
 his countenance, and sendest him away.
14:21 His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought
 low, but he perceiveth it not of them.
14:22 But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall
 mourn.

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15:1 Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,
15:2 Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the
 east wind?
15:3 Should he reason with unprofitable talk?  or with speeches wherewith he
 can do no good?
15:4 Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.
15:5 For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of
 the crafty.
15:6 Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I:  yea, thine own lips
 testify against thee.
15:7 Art thou the first man that was born?  or wast thou made before the
 hills?
15:8 Hast thou heard the secret of God?  and dost thou restrain wisdom to
 thyself?
15:9 What knowest thou, that we know not?  what understandest thou, which
 is not in us?
15:10 With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than
 thy father.
15:11 Are the consolations of God small with thee?  is there any secret
 thing with thee?
15:12 Why doth thine heart carry thee away?  and what do thy eyes wink at,
15:13 That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go
 out of thy mouth?
15:14 What is man, that he should be clean?  and he which is born of a
 woman, that he should be righteous?
15:15 Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not
 clean in his sight.
15:16 How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity
 like water?
15:17 I will show thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will
 declare;
15:18 Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:
15:19 Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among
 them.
15:20 The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of
 years is hidden to the oppressor.
15:21 A dreadful sound is in his ears:  in prosperity the destroyer shall
 come upon him.
15:22 He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is
 waited for of the sword.
15:23 He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it?  he knoweth
 that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
15:24 Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against
 him, as a king ready to the battle.
15:25 For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself
 against the Almighty.
15:26 He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of
 his bucklers:
15:27 Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of
 fat on his flanks.
15:28 And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man
 inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.
15:29 He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither
 shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.
15:30 He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his
 branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.
15:31 Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity:  for vanity shall be his
 recompense.
15:32 It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be
 green.
15:33 He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off
 his flower as the olive.
15:34 For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall
 consume the tabernacles of bribery.
15:35 They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly
 prepareth deceit.

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16:1 Then Job answered and said,
16:2 I have heard many such things:  miserable comforters are ye all.
16:3 Shall vain words have an end?  or what emboldeneth thee that thou
 answerest?
16:4 I also could speak as ye do:  if your soul were in my soul's stead, I
 could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.
16:5 But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips
 should asswage your grief.
16:6 Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged:  and though I forbear, what
 am I eased?
16:7 But now he hath made me weary:  thou hast made desolate all my company.
16:8 And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against
 me:  and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.
16:9 He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me:  he gnasheth upon me with
 his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.
16:10 They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon
 the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.
16:11 God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the
 hands of the wicked.
16:12 I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder:  he hath also taken me
 by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.
16:13 His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and
 doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.
16:14 He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a
 giant.
16:15 I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.
16:16 My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of
 death;
16:17 Not for any injustice in mine hands:  also my prayer is pure.
16:18 O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.
16:19 Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on
 high.
16:20 My friends scorn me:  but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
16:21 O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his
 neighbour!
16:22 When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall
 not return.

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17:1 My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for
 me.
17:2 Are there not mockers with me?  and doth not mine eye continue in
 their provocation?
17:3 Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will
 strike hands with me?
17:4 For thou hast hid their heart from understanding:  therefore shalt thou
 not exalt them.
17:5 He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his
 children shall fail.
17:6 He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a
 tabret.
17:7 Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a
 shadow.
17:8 Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up
 himself against the hypocrite.
17:9 The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands
 shall be stronger and stronger.
17:10 But as for you all, do ye return, and come now:  for I cannot find
 one wise man among you.
17:11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of
 my heart.
17:12 They change the night into day:  the light is short because of
 darkness.
17:13 If I wait, the grave is mine house:  I have made my bed in the
 darkness.
17:14 I have said to corruption, Thou art my father:  to the worm, Thou
 art my mother, and my sister.
17:15 And where is now my hope?  as for my hope, who shall see it?
17:16 They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together
 is in the dust.

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18:1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
18:2 How long will it be ere ye make an end of words?  mark, and
 afterwards we will speak.
18:3 Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?
18:4 He teareth himself in his anger:  shall the earth be forsaken for thee?
  and shall the rock be removed out of his place?
18:5 Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his
 fire shall not shine.
18:6 The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put
 out with him.
18:7 The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel
 shall cast him down.
18:8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.
18:9 The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail
 against him.
18:10 The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the
 way.
18:11 Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to
 his feet.
18:12 His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready
 at his side.
18:13 It shall devour the strength of his skin:  even the firstborn of
 death shall devour his strength.
18:14 His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall
 bring him to the king of terrors.
18:15 It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: 
 brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
18:16 His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut
 off.
18:17 His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name
 in the street.
18:18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the
 world.
18:19 He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any
 remaining in his dwellings.
18:20 They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that
 went before were affrighted.
18:21 Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place
 of him that knoweth not God.

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19:1 Then Job answered and said,
19:2 How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
19:3 These ten times have ye reproached me:  ye are not ashamed that ye
 make yourselves strange to me.
19:4 And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.
19:5 If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me
 my reproach:
19:6 Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his
 net.
19:7 Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard:  I cry aloud, but
 there is no judgment.
19:8 He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness
 in my paths.
19:9 He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
19:10 He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone:  and mine hope hath
 he removed like a tree.
19:11 He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him
 as one of his enemies.
19:12 His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and
 encamp round about my tabernacle.
19:13 He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily
 estranged from me.
19:14 My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
19:15 They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: 
 I am an alien in their sight.
19:16 I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I entreated him with
 my mouth.
19:17 My breath is strange to my wife, though I entreated for the children's
 sake of mine own body.
19:18 Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.
19:19 All my inward friends abhorred me:  and they whom I loved are turned
 against me.
19:20 My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the
 skin of my teeth.
19:21 Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of
 God hath touched me.
19:22 Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
19:23 Oh that my words were now written!  oh that they were printed in a
 book!
19:24 That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
19:25 For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the
 latter day upon the earth:
19:26 And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my
 flesh shall I see God:
19:27 Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not
 another; though my reins be consumed within me.
19:28 But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter
 is found in me?
19:29 Be ye afraid of the sword:  for wrath bringeth the punishments of
 the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.

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20:1 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
20:2 Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make
 haste.
20:3 I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my
 understanding causeth me to answer.
20:4 Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,
20:5 That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the
 hypocrite but for a moment?
20:6 Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto
 the clouds;
20:7 Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung:  they which have seen
 him shall say, Where is he?
20:8 He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found:  yea, he shall be
 chased away as a vision of the night.
20:9 The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his
 place any more behold him.
20:10 His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall
 restore their goods.
20:11 His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down
 with him in the dust.
20:12 Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his
 tongue;
20:13 Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his
 mouth:
20:14 Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps
 within him.
20:15 He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again:  God
 shall cast them out of his belly.
20:16 He shall suck the poison of asps:  the viper's tongue shall slay him.
20:17 He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and
 butter.
20:18 That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow
 it down:  according to his substance shall the restitution be, and
 he shall not rejoice therein.
20:19 Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he
 hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;
20:20 Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of
 that which he desired.
20:21 There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for
 his goods.
20:22 In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits:  every hand
 of the wicked shall come upon him.
20:23 When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his
 wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating.
20:24 He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall
 strike him through.
20:25 It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword
 cometh out of his gall:  terrors are upon him.
20:26 All darkness shall be hid in his secret places:  a fire not blown
 shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.
20:27 The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up
 against him.
20:28 The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow
 away in the day of his wrath.
20:29 This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage
 appointed unto him by God.

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21:1 But Job answered and said,
21:2 Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.
21:3 Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.
21:4 As for me, is my complaint to man?  and if it were so, why should
 not my spirit be troubled?
21:5 Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.
21:6 Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my
 flesh.
21:7 Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
21:8 Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring
 before their eyes.
21:9 Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon
 them.
21:10 Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth
 not her calf.
21:11 They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children
 dance.
21:12 They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.
21:13 They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.
21:14 Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the
 knowledge of thy ways.
21:15 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him?  and what profit
 should we have, if we pray unto him?
21:16 Lo, their good is not in their hand:  the counsel of the wicked is
 far from me.
21:17 How oft is the candle of the wicked put out!  and how oft cometh
 their destruction upon them!  God distributeth sorrows in his anger.
21:18 They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm
 carrieth away.
21:19 God layeth up his iniquity for his children:  he rewardeth him, and he
 shall know it.
21:20 His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of
 the Almighty.
21:21 For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of
 his months is cut off in the midst?
21:22 Shall any teach God knowledge?  seeing he judgeth those that are
 high.
21:23 One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.
21:24 His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow.
21:25 And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with
 pleasure.
21:26 They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.
21:27 Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully
 imagine against me.
21:28 For ye say, Where is the house of the prince?  and where are the
 dwelling places of the wicked?
21:29 Have ye not asked them that go by the way?  and do ye not know their
 tokens,
21:30 That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction?  they shall be
 brought forth to the day of wrath.
21:31 Who shall declare his way to his face?  and who shall repay him what
 he hath done?
21:32 Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.
21:33 The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall
 draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.
21:34 How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth
 falsehood?