The address of Bildad. 15 So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life. 16 I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity. 17 What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him? 18 And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment? 19 How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle? 20 I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou Preserveri of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself? 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 Im shall not be. CHAPTER VIII. THEN answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, 2 How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind? 3 Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice? 4 If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression; 5 If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty; 6 If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous. 7 Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase. 8 For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers: 9 (For wer are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow :) 10 Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart? 11 Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water? 12 Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb. 13 So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope" shall perish: 14 Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider's web. 15 He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure. 16 He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden. 17 His roots are wrapped about the heap, and seeth the place of stones. 18 If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee. 19 Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others* grow. 20 Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he "help the evil doers; 21 Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing. T 22 They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought. CHAPTER IX. THEN Job answered and said, 2 I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God? 3 If he will contend with him, he can JOB, VIII. B. C. 1520. B bones. Is.40.22..28 g Ps. 80. 4. Mat. 14. 25. Am. 5. 8. and Cimah. Mi.7.18, 19. 1 John 1. 9. Ps. 103. 15. 2 Ch. 19. 7. Ps. 89. 14. Da. 9. 14. Ro. 3. 5, 6. 0 in the The reply of Job. not answer him one of a thousand. 4 He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered? 5 Which removeth the mountains, and they know not; which overturneth them in his anger; 6 Whichd shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble; 7 Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not, and sealeth up the stars; 8 Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea; 9 Which maketh & Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south; 10 Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders without number. 11 Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not: he passeth on also, but I perceive him not. 12 Behold, he taketh away, who can Shinder him? who will say unto him, What doest thou? 13 If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him. 14 How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him? 15 Whom, though I were_righteous, yet would I not answer, but? I would make supplication to my Judge. 16 If I had called, and he had answered me, yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice. 17 For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause. 18 He will not suffer me to take my chap.11.13. breath, but filleth me with bitterness. 19 If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead? 22. 23, &c. r Ps. 39. 5. K not. 81 Ch. 29. 15. t Eze. 21. 3. u Ps. 129. 6. Mat. 13. 20. v chap.11.20. 27.8. Pr. 10. 28. A house, Is. 59. 5, 6. ships of desire, or, ships of Ebeh. Mat. 7. 26. x Je. 2. 22. y Ps. 37. 36. v make me to be abhorred. z Mat. 3. 9. Ps. 94. 14. π take the ungodly by the hand. pone that should : 20 If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse. 21 Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life. 22 This is one thing, therefore I said it, Het destroyeth the perfect and the wicked." 23 If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent. 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? 25 Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good. 26 They are passed away as the "swift ships; as the eagle that hasteth to the prey. 27 If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself; 28 I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent. 29 If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain ? 30 If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean; 31 Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me. 32 For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment. 33 Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both. 34 Let him taked his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me; 35 Then would I speak, and not fear him: but xit is not so with me. Address of Zophar. JOB, XII. I B. C. 1520. leave my complaint upon myself; 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? 4 Hast thou eyes of flesh? ord seest thou as man seeth? 5 Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man's days, Ro. 8. 1. Y labour. c Re. 3. 7. Sor, make a d 1 Sa. 16. 7. 6 That thou inquirest after mine ini-e quity, and searchest? after my sin? 7 Thou knowest that I am not wick-n ed; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand. 8 Thine hands "have made me, and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me. 9 Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again ? 10 Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese? 11 Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews. 12 Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit. 13 And these things hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that this is with thee. 14 If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity, 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; 16 For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion; and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me. 17 Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me. 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! 19 I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave. 20 Are not my days few ?t cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little, 21 Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land" of darkness and the" shadow of death; 22 A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness. CHAPTER XI. It is upon about me. j Ps. 101. 3. arise above the noon- Is. 58. 8, 10. Ps. 45. 12. Job's reply. God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? 8 It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know? 9 The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea. 10 If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can Shinder him? 11 Fore he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also: will he not then consider it? 12 For 7 vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt. 13 If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him; 14 If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles. 15 For then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; yea, thou shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear: 16 Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away: 17 And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday; thou shalt shine' forth, thou shalt be as the morning. 18 And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope; yea, thou shalt dig about thee, and thou shalt take thy rest in safety. 19 Also thou shalt lie down, and none shall make thee afraid; yea, many shall V make suit unto thee. 20 But the eyes" of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as P the giving up of the ghost. n De. 28. 65. AND Job answered and said, CHAPTER XII. πflight shall from them. por, a puff q La. 3. 10. Hos.13.7,8. σ an heart. X with whom r chap. 3. 11. THEN answered Zophar the Naamath-or, life. ite, and said, Bflesh of man. 2 Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man fully palate. of talk be justified? 3 Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed? 4 For thou hast said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes. 5 But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against thee; 6 And that he would shew 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. 7 Canst thou by searching find out w Pr. 10. 19. of lips. y Pr. 8. 14. 0 ироп. a Eze. 14. 9. Is. 19. 13. 2 No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you. 3 But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, x who knoweth not such things as these? 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. 5 He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease. 6 The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly. 7 But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee: 8 Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee; and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee. 9 Who knoweth not in all these, that the hand of the LORD hath wrought this? 10 In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind. Il Doth not the ear try words? and the Y mouth taste his meat? 12 With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. 13 With him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsely and understanding. 14 Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again; he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening. 15 Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up; also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth. 16 With him is strength and wisdom: the deceived" and the deceiver are his. 17 He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools. Job's confidence in God. 18 He looseth the bond of kings, and girdeth their loins with a girdle. 19 He leadeth princes away spoiled, and overthroweth the mighty. 20 He removeth away the 7 speech of the trusty, and taketh away the understanding of the aged. 21 He poureth contempt upon princes, and weakeneth the strength of the mighty. 22 He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadows of death. 23 He increasethi the nations, and destroyeth them; he enlargeth the nations, and straiteneth them again. 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. 25 They groper in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man. CHAPTER XIII. Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it. 2 What ye know, the same do I know also; I am not inferior unto you. 3 Surely I would speak to the Almighty," and I desire to reason with God. 4 But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of not value. 5 O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom. 6 Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips. 7 Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him? 8 Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God? 9 Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him? 10 He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept" persons. 11 Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you? 12 Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay. 13 Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will. 14 Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand? 15 Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him; but I will maintain mine own ways before him. JOB, XIII. B. C. 1520. Is. 45. 1. b Ps. 25. 7. Of man's frailty and mortality. me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth." 27 Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and Blookest narrowly unto all Is. 3. 1..3. my paths; thou settest a print upon the chap.33.11.8 heels of my feet. Bobservest. y lip of the faithful. 8 roots. Da. 2.21,22. Sor, looseth the girdle of the strong. f1 Co. 4. 5. leadeth in. m Ps. 144. 3. will give. • Ps. 51.2, 10. Jno. 3. 6. P De. 28. 29. wander. 7 verse 14. He. 9. 27. u cease. 31.35. 28 And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten. CHAPTER XIV. MAN that is born of a woman, is nof few days, and full of trouble. 2 He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not. 3 Andm dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest" me into judgment with thee? 4 Who can bring a clean⚫ thing out of an unclean? not one. 5 Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he can not pass; 6 Turn from him, that he may "rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day. 7 For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. 8 Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground; 9 Yet through the scent of water it will chap.23.3. bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant. 10 But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he? 11 As the waters fail from the sea, and t chap. 16. 2. the flood decayeth and drieth up: $ Is. 1. 18. Mi. 6. 2, &c. u Pr. 17. 28. Am. 5. 13. v is weaken 12 So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not ed, or, cut awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. off. 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! 10 2 Co. 4. 2. * ch.32.21,22. y Ps. 102. 26. Is. 51. 6. 2 Pe.3.10,11 Re. 20. 11. z Ga. 6. 7. & Be silent e Pr. 5. 21. for Ps. 23. 4. 16 He also shall be my salvation; an hypocrite shall not come before him. 17 Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears. 18 Behold now, I have ordered my cause I know that I shall be justified. 19 Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost. 20 Only do not two things unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee. 21 Withdrawk thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid. 22 Then call' thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me. 23 How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to knowm my transgression and my sin. 54. Pr. 14. 32. π prove, or, argue. Is. 33. 14. pfadeth. g Ps. 27. 1. overflowest. i Is. 50. 8. Ro.8.33,34. * Ps. 39. 10. chap. 38. 3. m chap.34.32. Jno.16. 8, 9. n Ps. 102. 2. knowledge of wind. o La. 2. 5. p Is. 42. 3. 24 Wherefore hidest" thou thy face, and 41 Ti. 6. 4, 5. holdest me for thine enemy?° Χ makest void. 25 Wilt thou break? a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?or, speech. 26 For thou writest bitter things against 14 If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my changed come. 15 Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: : thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands. 16 Fore now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin? 17 My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity. 18 And surely the mountain falling P cometh to nought, and the rock is removed out of his place. 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. 20 Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away. 21 His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them. 22 But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn. CHAPTER XV. THEN answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said, 2 Should a wise man utter & vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind? 3 Should he reason with unprofitable talk ? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good? 4 Yea, thou x castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God. Eliphaz reproveth Job. 5 For thy mouth Buttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty. 6 Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I; yea, thine own lips testify against thee. 7 Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills? JOB, XVII. B. C. 1520. Bteacheth. yor, trouble some. a Lu. 19. 22. b chap. 13. 4. 8 words of wind, chap. 15. 2. c Ps. 90. 2. Pr. 8. 25. 1 Co. 2. 11. e Ps. 22. 7. 8 Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself? 9 What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us? 10 With us are both the grayheaded and a Ro. 11. 34. very aged men, much elder than thy father. 11 Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee? 12 Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at, 13 That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth? 14 What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? 15 Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens" are not clean in his sight: 16 How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh" iniquity like water? 17 I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare; 18 Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it: 19 Unto whom" alone the earth was given, and no stranger" passed among them. 20 The wicked man travaileth w with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor. 21A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him. 22 He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword. 23 He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand. 24 Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle. 25 For he stretcheth out his hand a fchap. 13. 2. 9 ch. 32. 6..9. h Pr. 27. 9. goeth from me? i Mal. 3. 13. I Ps. 14. 3. 1 John 1. 8, m ch.10.16,17. n chap. 25. 5. chap. 13.24. p La. 3. 30. η Ps. 53.3. chap. 20.12. Pr. 19. 28. 8 Ps. 35. 15. t ch. 1. 15, 17. shut me up. " De. 32. 8. v Joel 3. 17. Ec. 9. 3. y Ps. 90. 12. z Le. 26. 36. a 1 Th. 5. 3. b Ps. 42. 7. c chap.30.19. d Ps.44.17..21 e Ps.66.18,19. Is. 27. 4. κ in the high places, Eph. 1. 3. Job bemoans his calamities. CHAPTER XVI. THEN Job answered and said, 2 I have heard many such things: Y miserable comforters are ye all. 3 Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest? 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 shakee mine head at you. 5 But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief. 6 Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged; and though I forbear, what Sam I eased? 7 But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company. 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. 9 He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy' sharpeneth his eyes upon me. 10 They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten? me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me. 11 God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked. 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. 13 His archers compass me round about; he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground. 14 He breaketh me with breach upon breach; he runneth upon me like a giant. 15 I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust. 16 My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death; 17 Notd for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure. 18 O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place. 19 Also now, behold, my witness is in gainst God, and strengtheneth himself chap. 9. 4. heaven, and my record is * on high. against the Almighty. A are my scorners. h Ro. 9. 20. i Ps.73.7, &c. 26 He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers; 27 Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fator, friend. on his flanks. 28 And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps. 29 He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth. 30 He shall not depart out of darkness: the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away. 31 Let not him that is deceived trustm in vanity; for vanity shall be his recompence. 32 It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green. 33 He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive. 34 For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery. 35 They conceive mischief, and bring forth x vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit. v years of number. Ec. 12. 5. Tor, spirit is spent. 1 Ps. 88. 3, 4. p lodge. m Is. 59. 4. n Pr. 6. 1. 20 My friends scorn me; but mine eye poureth out tears unto God. 21 O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his μ neighbour! 22 When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return. CHAPTER XVII. My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves' are ready for me. 2 Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye Pcontinue in their provocation? 3 Lay down now, put me in a surety oor, cut off. with thee; who is he that will strike hands" with me? o Ps. 55. 23. r Ps. 12. 3. chap. 27. 8. Is. 33. 14. Tor, before them. * Am.5.11,12. or, thoughts. Hos. 10. 13. Ga. 6. 7, 8. x or, iniquity. 4 For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them. 5 He that speaketh flattery? to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail. 6 He hath made me also a byword of the people, and aforetime I was as a tabret. 7 Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow. 8 Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up him The address of Bildad. self against the hypocrite. 9 The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and B stronger. JOB, XVIII. 10 But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you. d 11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart. 12 They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness. 13 If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness. B. C. 1520. a Ps. 84.7,11. c Ps. 38. 16. d Pr. 16. 9. 19. 21. y or, violence. possessions. Snear. called. 14 I have said to corruption, Thoun cried, or, art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister. 15 And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it? 16 They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rests together is in the dust. CHAPTER XVIII. THEN answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, 2 How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak. 3 Wherefore are we counted as beasts and reputed vile in your sight? 4 He teareth himself in his anger; shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place? 5 Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine. 6 The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him. 7 The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own' counsel shall cast him down. 8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare. 9 The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him. 10 The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way. P 11 Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall p drive him to his feet. 12 His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side. 13 It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength. 14 His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle; and it shall bring him to the king of terrors. 15 It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation. 16 His roots" shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off. 17 His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street. 18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world. e La. 2. 5, 6. Jon. 2. 6. g ch.3.17..19. O his soul. iPs. 38. 11. * Pr. 24. 20. xor, lamp. m Pr. 5. 22. μ or, the v the men of n Ps. 102. 5. Je. 20. 3, 4. p scatter. Ps. 69. 26. T Who will give. 7 Pr. 10. 28. or, after I 81 Co. 15. 53. t Ps. 34. 16. 1 John 3. 2. day. nor 19 He shall neither have son nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings. 20 They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted. 21 Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not* God. CHAPTER XIX. THEN Job answered and said, 2 How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words ? 3 These tena times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me. bosom. Is. 14. 22. or, and what root of matter in me. Ps. 37. 13. with him. Job's belief in the Redeemer. 4 And be it indeed that I have erred: mine error remaineth with myself. 5 If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach; 6 Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net. 7 Behold, I cry out of Ywrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment. 8 He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths. 9 He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head. 10 He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone and mine hope hath he removed like a tree. 11 He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies. 12 His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle. 13 He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me. 14 My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me. 15 They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight. 16 I called my servant, and he gave me no answer: I entreated him with my mouth. 17 My breath is strange to my wife, though I entreated for the children's sake of mine own body. 18 Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me. 19 All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me. 20 My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth. 21 Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me. 22 Why do ye persecuter me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh? 23 Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book! 24 That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever! 25 For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: 26 And though, after my skin, worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: 27 Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not x another; though my reins be consumed y within me. 28 But should say, Why persecute ye we him? seeing the root of the matter is found in me. 29 Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment. CHAPTER XX. Ps.58.10,11. THEN answered Zophar the Naamathlaid hold ite, and said, on horror. : 2 Th. 1. 8, O my haste is in me. 2 Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste. 3 I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer. 4 Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth, 5 That the triumphing of the wicked is |