Job CHAPTER 28
Job 28:1
1 Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they
fine it.
Job 28:2
2 Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone.
Job 28:3
3 He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the
stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.
Job 28:4
4 The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; even the waters forgotten of
the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.
Job 28:5
5 As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it
were fire.
Job 28:6
6 The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold.
Job 28:7
7 There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath
not seen:
Job 28:8
8 The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.
Job 28:9
9 He putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he overturneth the mountains by
the roots.
Job 28:10
10 He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious
thing.
Job 28:11
11 He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and the thing that is hid
bringeth he forth to light.
Job 28:12
12 But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding?
Job 28:13
13 Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the
living.
Job 28:14
14 The depth saith, It is not in me: and the sea saith, It is not with me.
Job 28:15
15 It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the
price thereof.
Job 28:16
16 It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or
the sapphire.
Job 28:17
17 The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it shall
not be for jewels of fine gold.
Job 28:18
18 No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom
is above rubies.
Job 28:19
19 The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with
pure gold.
Job 28:20
20 Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding?
Job 28:21
21 Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the
fowls of the air.
Job 28:22
22 Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.
Job 28:23
23 God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.
Job 28:24
24 For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole
heaven;
Job 28:25
25 To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.
Job 28:26
26 When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the
thunder:
Job 28:27
27 Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it
out.
Job 28:28
28 And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and
to depart from evil is understanding.
CHAPTER 29
Job 29:1
1 Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,
Job 29:2
2 Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;
Job 29:3
3 When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked
through darkness;
Job 29:4
4 As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my
tabernacle;
Job 29:5
5 When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me;
Job 29:6
6 When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of
oil;
Job 29:7
7 When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in
the street!
Job 29:8
8 The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood
up.
Job 29:9
9 The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.
Job 29:10
10 The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of
their mouth.
Job 29:11
11 When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it
gave witness to me:
Job 29:12
12 Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that
had none to help him.
Job 29:13
13 The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused
the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Job 29:14
14 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and
a diadem.
Job 29:15
15 I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.
Job 29:16
16 I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched
out.
Job 29:17
17 And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his
teeth.
Job 29:18
18 Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the
sand.
Job 29:19
19 My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my
branch.
Job 29:20
20 My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.
Job 29:21
21 Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel.
Job 29:22
22 After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them.
Job 29:23
23 And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide
as for the latter rain.
Job 29:24
24 If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my
countenance they cast not down.
Job 29:25
25 I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as
one that comforteth the mourners.
CHAPTER 30
Job 30:1
1 But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I
would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.
Job 30:2
2 Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age
was perished?
Job 30:3
3 For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in
former time desolate and waste.
Job 30:4
4 Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.
Job 30:5
5 They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a
thief;)
Job 30:6
6 To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the
rocks.
Job 30:7
7 Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered
together.
Job 30:8
8 They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler
than the earth.
Job 30:9
9 And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
Job 30:10
10 They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.
Job 30:11
11 Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let
loose the bridle before me.
Job 30:12
12 Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise
up against me the ways of their destruction.
Job 30:13
13 They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.
Job 30:14
14 They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they
rolled themselves upon me.
Job 30:15
15 Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my
welfare passeth away as a cloud.
Job 30:16
16 And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken
hold upon me.
Job 30:17
17 My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no
rest.
Job 30:18
18 By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me
about as the collar of my coat.
Job 30:19
19 He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
Job 30:20
20 I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou
regardest me not.
Job 30:21
21 Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself
against me.
Job 30:22
22 Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and
dissolvest my substance.
Job 30:23
23 For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed
for all living.
Job 30:24
24 Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in
his destruction.
Job 30:25
25 Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for
the poor?
Job 30:26
26 When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for
light, there came darkness.
Job 30:27
27 My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.
Job 30:28
28 I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the
congregation.
Job 30:29
29 I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
Job 30:30
30 My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
Job 30:31
31 My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them
that weep.
CHAPTER 31
Job 31:1
1 I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?
Job 31:2
2 For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the
Almighty from on high?
Job 31:3
3 Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers
of iniquity?
Job 31:4
4 Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?
Job 31:5
5 If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;
Job 31:6
6 Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity.
Job 31:7
7 If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine
eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands;
Job 31:8
8 Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.
Job 31:9
9 If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my
neighbour's door;
Job 31:10
10 Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.
Job 31:11
11 For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by
the judges.
Job 31:12
12 For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all
mine increase.
Job 31:13
13 If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when
they contended with me;
Job 31:14
14 What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall
I answer him?
Job 31:15
15 Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us
in the womb?
Job 31:16
16 If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of
the widow to fail;
Job 31:17
17 Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten
thereof;
Job 31:18
18 (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I
have guided her from my mother's womb;)
Job 31:19
19 If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without
covering;
Job 31:20
20 If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the
fleece of my sheep;
Job 31:21
21 If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in
the gate:
Job 31:22
22 Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken
from the bone.
Job 31:23
23 For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his
highness I could not endure.
Job 31:24
24 If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my
confidence;
Job 31:25
25 If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had
gotten much;
Job 31:26
26 If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;
Job 31:27
27 And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand:
Job 31:28
28 This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have
denied the God that is above.
Job 31:29
29 If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up
myself when evil found him:
Job 31:30
30 Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.
Job 31:31
31 If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we
cannot be satisfied.
Job 31:32
32 The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the
traveller.
Job 31:33
33 If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my
bosom:
Job 31:34
34 Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me,
that I kept silence, and went not out of the door?
Job 31:35
35 Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would
answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.
Job 31:36
36 Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.
Job 31:37
37 I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go
near unto him.
Job 31:38
38 If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;
Job 31:39
39 If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the
owners thereof to lose their life:
Job 31:40
40 Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The
words of Job are ended.
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