American Standard Version of 1901
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Surely then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot;Yea, thou shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear:
For thou shalt forget thy misery;Thou shalt remember it as waters that are passed away,
And thy life shall {Or, rise above}be clearer than the noonday;Though there be darkness, it shall be as the morning.
And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope;Yea, thou shalt search about thee, and shalt take thy rest in safety.
Also thou shalt lie down, and none shall make thee afraid;Yea, many shall make suit unto thee.
But the eyes of the wicked shall fail,And {Hebrew: refuge is perished from them.}they shall have no way to flee;And their hope shall be the giving up of the ghost.
As one that taketh off a garment in cold weather, and as vinegar upon soda,So is he that singeth songs to a heavy heart.
If I be wicked, woe unto me;And if I be righteous, yet shall I not lift up my head;Being filled with ignominy,And looking upon mine affliction.
And if my head exalt itself, thou huntest me as a lion;And again thou showest thyself marvellous upon me.
But the path of the righteous is as the dawning light,That shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
The land dark as {Hebrew: thick darkness.}midnight,The land of the shadow of death, without any order,And where the light is as {Hebrew: thick darkness.}midnight.
and if thou {Or, bestow on the hungry that which thy soul desireth}draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul: then shall thy light rise in darkness, and thine obscurity be as the noonday;
but it shall be one day which is known unto Jehovah; not day, and not night; but it shall come to pass, that at evening time there shall be light.
Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold, out of all the languages of the nations, they shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.
So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as Jehovah commanded them: and Jehovah accepted Job.
I had heard of thee by the hearing of the ear;But now mine eye seeth thee: