And Job again took up his parable, and said,
As God liveth, who hath taken away my right,
And the Almighty, who hath {Hebrew: made my soul bitter.}vexed my soul:
{Or, All the while my breath is in me…nostrils; surely}(For my life is yet whole in me,
And the spirit of God is in my nostrils);
Surely my lips {Or, do}shall not speak uprighteousness,
Neither {Or, doth}shall my tongue utter deceit.
Far be it from me that I should justify you:
Till I die I will not put away mine integrity from me.
My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go:
My heart {Or, doth not reproach me for any of my days}shall not reproach me so long as I live.
Let mine enemy be as the wicked,
And let him that riseth up against me be as the unrighteous.
For what is the hope of the godless, {Or, when God cutteth him off, When he taketh &c.}though he get him gain,
When God taketh away his soul?
Will God hear his cry,
When trouble cometh upon him?
Will he delight himself in the Almighty,
And call upon God at all times?
I will teach you concerning the hand of God;
That which is with the Almighty will I not conceal.
Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it;
Why then are ye become altogether vain?
This is the portion of a wicked man with God,
And the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty:
If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword;
And his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
Those that remain of him shall be buried in death,
And his widows shall make no lamentation.
Though he heap up silver as the dust,
And prepare raiment as the clay;
He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on,
And the innocent shall divide the silver.
He buildeth his house as the moth,
And as a booth which the keeper maketh.
He lieth down rich, but he shall not be gathered to his fathers;
He openeth his eyes, and he is not.
Terrors overtake him like waters;
A tempest stealeth him away in the night.
The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth;
And it sweepeth him out of his place.
For God shall hurl at him, and not spare:
He would fain flee out of his hand.
Men shall clap their hands at him,
And shall hiss him out of his place.
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Oh that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol,That thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past,That thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!
If a man die, shall he live again?All the days of my warfare {Or, will…shall come}would I wait,Till my {Or, change}release should come.
Thou {Or, shall call, and I will &c.}wouldest call, and I would answer thee:Thou wouldest have a desire to the work of thy hands.
The sceptre shall not depart from Judah,Nor {Or, a lawgiver}the ruler's staff from between his feet, {Or, Til he come to Shiloh, having the obedience of the peoples Or, according to Syriac, Til he come whose it is &c.}Until Shiloh come:And unto him shall the obedience of the peoples be.
Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung:They that have seen him shall say, Where is he?
He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found:Yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
The eye which saw him shall see him no more;Neither shall his place any more behold him.
They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame;And the tent of the wicked shall be no more.
One dieth in his full strength,Being wholly at ease and quiet:
His pails are full of milk,And the marrow of his bones is moistened.
And another dieth in bitterness of soul,And never tasteth of good.
They lie down alike in the dust,And the worm covereth them.
and they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, which they have loved, and which they have served, and after which they have walked, and which they have sought, and which they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried, they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.
Before your pots can feel the thorns, {Or, Wrath shall take them away while living as with a whirlwind}He will take them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning alike.
But man dieth, and is laid low:Yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
That the evil man is {Or, spared in &c.}reserved to the day of calamity?That they are {Or, led away in &c.}led forth to the day of wrath?
whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing-floor; and he will gather his wheat into the garner, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.
How are they become a desolation in a moment!They are utterly consumed with terrors.
So man lieth down and riseth not:Till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake,Nor be roused out of their sleep.
For I know that thou wilt bring me to death,And {Or, the house of meeting for &c.}to the house appointed for all living.
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killeth the prophets, and stoneth them that are sent unto her! how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!
As a dream when one awaketh,So, O Lord, {Or, in the city}when thou awakest, thou wilt despise their image.
They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone; {Or, And when they are &c.}Yea, they are brought low, they are {Or, gather in}taken out of the way as all others,And are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.