He is exorted been broken. CHAP. XXIII, XXIV. to repentance. and the arms of the fatherless have thou shalt say, There is lifting up; and he shall save the humble person. 30 He shall deliver the island of the innocent and it is delivered by the pureness of thy hands. 10 Therefore snares are round about thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee; 11 Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee. 12 Je not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are! 13 And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud? CHAP. XXIII. TzEven today is my complaint bitter my stroke is heavier than my 3 Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat! 14 Thick clouds are a covering to 41 would order my cause before him, that he seeth not; and he walk-him, and fill my mouth with argueth in the circuit of heaven. 15 Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden ? 16 Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overdown with a food; ments. 61 would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me. 6 Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put 17 Which said unto God, Depart|strength in me. from us: and what can the Almighty do for thein? 18 Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me. 19 The righteous see it,and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scoro. 20 Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the are consumeth. 21 Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee. 22 Receive, I pray thee, the law from bis mouth,and lay up his words in thy heart. 7 There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered forever from my judge. 8 Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but 1 cannot perceive him: 9 On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him; he hideth himself on the right band, that I cannot see him : 10 But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I sha!. come forth as gold. 11 My foot hath held his steps; his way have 1 kept, and not declined. 12 Neither have I gone back from the commandmant of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more taberna-than my necessary food. 23 If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy cles. 24 Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks. 25 Yea be Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou shalt have plenty of silver. 13 But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth. 14 For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me and many such things are with him. 15 Therefore am I troubled at his 26 For then shalt thou have thy de-presence: when I consider, I am afraid light in the Almighty, and shalt lift of him. up thy face unto God. 27 Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows. 28 Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: 16 For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me: 17 Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither bath he covered the darkness from my face. CHAP. XXIV. and the light shall shine upon thy WHY,seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty,do they that ways. 29 When men are cast down, then know him not see his days? 2 Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away Bocks, and feed thereof. 3 They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge. 4 They turn the needy out of the way; the poor of the earth hide themselve together. often impunished. 20 The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him: he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness snall be broken as a tree. 21 He evil-entreateth the barren that beareth not; and doeth not good to the widow, 22 He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no man is sure of life. 5 Behold,as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work, rising be- 23 Though it be given him to be in times for a prey; the wilderness yield-safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eth food for them and for their chil-eyes are upon their ways. dren. 6 They reap every one his corn in the field; and they gather the vintage of the wicked. 7 They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold. 8 They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter. 9 24 They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn. 25. And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth? CHAP. XXV. They pluck the fatherless from the Thite, and were, THEN answered Biidad the Shu said, breast, and take a pledge of the poor. 2 Dominion and fear are with him, 10 They cause him to go naked with-he maketh peace in his high places. out clothing, and they take away the 3 Is there any number of his armies? sheaf from the hungry: and upon whom doth not his light arise ? 11 Which make oil within their walls, and tread their wine-presses, and suffer thirst. 12 Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out yet God layeth not folly to them. 13 They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof. 14 The murderer rising with the in the night is as a thief. 4 How then can a man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman ? 5 Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight. 6 How much less, man, that is a worm; and the son of man, which is a worm? CHAP. XXVI. light killed the poor and needy, and BUT Job answered and said,, 2 How hast thou helped him that 15 The eye also of the adulterer is without power? how savest thou waiteth for the twilight, saying, No the arin that hath no strength ? eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face. 16 In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the day-time: they know not the light. 17 For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death; if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death. 18 He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards. 19 Drought and beat consume the snow waters; so doth the grave those which have sinned. 3 How hast thou counselled him tha: hath no wisdom? and how hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is? 4 To whom hast thou uttered words ? and whose spirit came from thee? 6 Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof. 6 Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering. 7 He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing. 8 He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is uot rent under them The knowledge CHAP. X1 VII, XXVIII. of natural things. 9 He holdeth back the face of his be buried in death: and his widows throne, and spreadeth his cloud upon shall not weep. it. 10 He bath compassed the waters with bounds until the day and night come to an end. 16 Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay; 17 He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver. 18 He buildeth his house as a motli, 11 The pillars of heaven tremble, and are astonished at his reprooi. 12 He divideth the sea with his pow-and as a booth that the keeper maketh. er, and by his understanding he smiteth through the proud. 13 By his Spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand bath formed the crooked serpent. 14 Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand? CHAP. XXVII. MOREOVER Job continued bis 2 As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment; and the Almigh ty, who bath vexed my soul: 3 All the while my breath is in me,and the spirit of God is in my nostrils; 4 My lips shall not speak wicked ness, nor my tongue utter deceit. 5 God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me. 6 My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live. 7 Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous. 19 The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he openeth his eyes, and he is not. 20 Terrors take hold on bim as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night. 21. The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth; and as a storm, hurleth him out of his place. 22 For God shall cast upon him,and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand. 23 Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place. CHAP. XXVIII. URELY there is a vein for the sil ver, and a place for gold where they fine it. 2 Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is moltea out of the stone. 3. He settech an end to darkness,and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death. 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. As for the earth, out of it cometh S For what is the hope of the hypo-bread: and under it is turned up as it crite, though he hath gained, when were fire. God taketh away his soul? 6 The stones of it are the place of 9 Will God bear his cry when trou-sapphires. and it bath dust of gold. ble cometh upon him? 7 There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye bath not seen. 10 Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God? 11, I will teach you by the hand of God: that which is with the Alnigh ty will I not conceal. 12 Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye thus altogether vain ? 13 This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty. 8 The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it. 9 He putteth fortn his hand upon the rock; he overturnech the mountains by the roote. 10 He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing. 11 He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and the thing that is hio bringeth he forth to light. 14 If his children be multiplied, it 12 But where shall wisdom be found? is for the sword: and his offspring and where is the place of understand shall not be satisfied with bread. ing? 15 Those that remain of him shall; 13 Man knoweth not the price there of; neither is it found in the land of the living. 14 The depth saith, It is not in me; and the sea saith, It is not with me. former prosperity. 5 When the Almighty was yet with me,when my children were about me; 6 When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out 15 It cannot be gotton for gold, nei-rivers of oil; ther shall silver be weighed for the price thereof. 16 It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire. 17 The gold and the crystal cannot equal it; and the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold. 18 No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wis dom is above rubies. 19 The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold. 7 When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street: 8 The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up. 9 The princes refrained talking, and laid their band on their mouth. 10 The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the rool of their mouth. 11 When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness lo me: 20 Whence then cometh wisdom? 12 Because I delivered the poor that and where is the place of understand-cried, and the fatherless, and him that ing? had none to help him, 21 Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air. 22 Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our cars. 23 God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof. 24 For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven; 25 To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure. 26 When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder: 27 Then did he see it, and declarej it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out. 23 And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the LORD, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understand ing MOR CHAP. XXIX. 13 The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. 141 put on righteousness, and it clothI ed me, my judgment was as a robe and a diadem. 15 I was eyes to the blind, and feet was to the lame. 16 I was a father to the poor; and the cause which I knew not I searched out. 17 And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth. 18 Then I nest, and I as the sand. said, I shall die in my shall multiply my days 19 My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch. 20 My glory was fresh in me, and my [bow was renewed in my hand. 21 Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel. 22 After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon ́OREOVER Job continued his them. 20 that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved 23 And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain. 24 II laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down. 25 I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army as one that comforteth the mourn ers. } His prosperity CHAP. XXX. CHAP. XXX, XXXI. turned into calamity. fathers I would have disdained to have 2 Yea, whereto might the strength 3. For want and famine they were sol· itary; fleeing into the wildernese in former time desolate and waste. 22 Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance. 23 For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appoiù [ted for all living. 24 Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry 4 Who cut up mallows by the bush-in his destruction. es, and juniper roots for their meat. 25 Did not I weep for him that was 6 They were driven forth from among in trouble? was not my soul grieved men, (they cried after them as after for the poor ? a thief';) 26. When I looked for good, then evil 6 To dwell in the clefts of the val-came unto me; and when I waited leys, in caves of the earth, and in the for light, there came darkness. rocks. 27 My bowels boiled, and rested not; the days of affliction prevented me. 28 I went mourning without the sun; I stood up, and I cried in the congregation. 7 Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together. & They were children of fools, yea, children of base men; they were viler than the earth. 9 And now am I their song; yea, I am their by-word, 10 They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face. 11 Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let Loose the bridle before me. 12 Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction. 29 I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls. 30 My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat. 31 My harp also is turned to mouriing, and my organ into the voice of them that weep. I CHAP. XXXI. MADE a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think up on a maid? 2 For what portion of God is there 13 They mar my path, they set for- from above? and what inheritance of ward my calamity, they have no the Almighty from on high? helper. 3 Is not destruction to the wicked? 14 They came upon me as a wide and a strange punishment to the breaking in of waters: in the desola-workers of iniquity? tion they rolled themselves upon me. 15 Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind; and my welfare passeth away as a cloud. 16 And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me. 17 My bones are pierced in me in the night-season; and my sinews take no rest. 18 By the great force of my disease is my garment changed; it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat. 4 Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps? 5 If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath basted to deceit ; 6 Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity. 7 If my step hath turned out of the way, and my heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to my hands; 3 Then let me sow, and let another ent; yea, let my offspring be rooted out. 19 He hath cast me into the mire, est me not. 10 Then let my wife gried unto au |