Bible-Reading.comJob 13
1Lo, all -- hath mine eye seen, Heard hath mine ear, and it attendeth to it.
2According to your knowledge I have known -- also I. I am not fallen more than you.
3Yet I for the Mighty One do speak, And to argue for God I delight.
4And yet, ye are forgers of falsehood, Physicians of nought -- all of you,
5O that ye would keep perfectly silent, And it would be to you for wisdom.
6Hear, I pray you, my argument, And to the pleadings of my lips attend,
7For God do ye speak perverseness? And for Him do ye speak deceit?
8His face do ye accept, if for God ye strive?
9Is it good that He doth search you, If, as one mocketh at a man, ye mock at Him?
10He doth surely reprove you, if in secret ye accept faces.
11Doth not His excellency terrify you? And His dread fall upon you?
12Your remembrances are similes of ashes, For high places of clay your heights.
13Keep silent from me, and I speak, And pass over me doth what?
14Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth? And my soul put in my hand?
15Lo, He doth slay me -- I wait not! Only, my ways unto His face I argue.
16Also -- He is to me for salvation, For the profane cometh not before Him.
17Hear ye diligently my word, And my declaration with your ears.
18Lo, I pray you, I have set in order the cause, I have known that I am righteous.
19Who is he that doth strive with me? For now I keep silent and gasp.
20Only two things, O God, do with me: Then from Thy face I am not hidden.
21Thy hand put far off from me, And Thy terror let not terrify me.
22And call Thou, and I -- I answer, Or -- I speak, and answer Thou me.
23How many iniquities and sins have I? My transgression and my sin let me know.
24Why dost Thou hide Thy face? And reckonest me for an enemy to Thee?
25A leaf driven away dost Thou terrify? And the dry stubble dost Thou pursue?
26For Thou writest against me bitter things, And causest me to possess iniquities of my youth:
27And puttest in the stocks my feet, And observest all my paths, On the roots of my feet Thou settest a print,
28And he, as a rotten thing, weareth away, As a garment hath a moth consumed him.
Job 14
1Man, born of woman! Of few days, and full of trouble!
2As a flower he hath gone forth, and is cut off, And he fleeth as a shadow and standeth not.
3Also -- on this Thou hast opened Thine eyes, And dost bring me into judgment with Thee.
4Who giveth a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
5If determined are his days, The number of his months are with Thee, His limit Thou hast made, And he passeth not over;
6Look away from off him that he may cease, Till he enjoy as an hireling his day.
7For there is of a tree hope, if it be cut down, That again it doth change, That its tender branch doth not cease.
8If its root becometh old in the earth, And its stem doth die in the dust,
9From the fragrance of water it doth flourish, And hath made a crop as a plant.
10And a man dieth, and becometh weak, And man expireth, and where is he?
11Waters have gone away from a sea, And a river becometh waste and dry.
12And man hath lain down, and riseth not, Till the wearing out of the heavens they awake not, Nor are roused from their sleep.
13O that in Sheol Thou wouldst conceal me, Hide me till the turning of Thine anger, Set for me a limit, and remember me.
14If a man dieth -- doth he revive? All days of my warfare I wait, till my change come.
15Thou dost call, and I -- I answer Thee; To the work of Thy hands Thou hast desire.
16But now, my steps Thou numberest, Thou dost not watch over my sin.
17Sealed up in a bag is my transgression, And Thou sewest up mine iniquity.
18And yet, a falling mountain wasteth away, And a rock is removed from its place.
19Stones have waters worn away, Their outpourings wash away the dust of earth, And the hope of man Thou hast destroyed.
20Thou prevailest over him for ever, and he goeth, He is changing his countenance, And Thou sendest him away.
21Honoured are his sons, and he knoweth not; And they are little, and he attendeth not to them.
22Only -- his flesh for him is pained, And his soul for him doth mourn.'
Job 15
1And Eliphaz the Temanite answereth and saith: --
2Doth a wise man answer with vain knowledge? And fill with an east wind his belly?
3To reason with a word not useful? And speeches -- no profit in them?
4Yea, thou dost make reverence void, And dost diminish meditation before God.
5For thy mouth teacheth thine iniquity, And thou chooseth the tongue of the subtile.
6Thy mouth declareth thee wicked, and not I, And thy lips testify against thee.
7The first man art thou born? And before the heights wast thou formed?
8Of the secret counsel of God dost thou hear? And withdrawest thou unto thee wisdom?
9What hast thou known, and we know not? Understandest thou -- and it is not with us?
10Both the gray-headed And the very aged are among us -- Greater than thy father in days.
11Too few for thee are the comforts of God? And a gentle word is with thee,
12What -- doth thine heart take thee away? And what -- are thine eyes high?
13For thou turnest against God thy spirit? And hast brought out words from thy mouth:
14What is man that he is pure, And that he is righteous, one born of woman?
15Lo, in His holy ones He putteth no credence, And the heavens have not been pure in His eyes.
16Also -- surely abominable and filthy Is man drinking as water perverseness.
17I shew thee -- hearken to me -- And this I have seen and declare:
18Which the wise declare -- And have not hid -- from their fathers.
19To them alone was the land given, And a stranger passed not over into their midst:
20‘All days of the wicked he is paining himself, And few years have been laid up for the terrible one.
21A fearful voice is in his ears, In peace doth a destroyer come to him.
22He believeth not to return from darkness, And watched is he for the sword.
23He is wandering for bread -- ‘Where is it?' He hath known that ready at his hand Is a day of darkness.
24Terrify him do adversity and distress, They prevail over him As a king ready for a boaster.
25For he stretched out against God his hand, And against the Mighty he maketh himself mighty.
26He runneth unto Him with a neck, With thick bosses of his shields.
27For he hath covered his face with his fat, And maketh vigour over his confidence.
28And he inhabiteth cities cut off, houses not dwelt in, That have been ready to become heaps.
29He is not rich, nor doth his wealth rise, Nor doth he stretch out on earth their continuance.
30He turneth not aside from darkness, His tender branch doth a flame dry up, And he turneth aside at the breath of His mouth!
31Let him not put credence in vanity, He hath been deceived, For vanity is his recompence.
32Not in his day is it completed, And his bending branch is not green.
33He shaketh off as a vine his unripe fruit, And casteth off as an olive his blossom.
34For the company of the profane is gloomy, And fire hath consumed tents of bribery.
35To conceive misery, and to bear iniquity, Even their heart doth prepare deceit.