Job 16
- Then Job replied;
- "I have heard many things like these; miserable comfortersare you all!
- Will your long winded speeches never end? What ails you that you keep on arguing?
- I alsp could speak like you. if you were inmy place,I could make lfine speeches against you and shake my head at you
- Nut my mouth would encourage you; comfort from my lips would bring you relief
- "Yet if I speak, my pain is not relieved; and if I refrain it does not go away.
- Surely, O God, you have worn me out; you have devastated my entire household.
- You have bound me -and it has become a witness, my gauntness rises up and testifies against me.
- God assails me and tears me in his anger and gnashes his teeth at me; my opponent fastens on me his piercing eyes,
- Men open their mouths to jeer at me; they strike my cheek in scorn and unite together against me,
- God has turned me over to evil men and thrown me into the clutcher of the wicked.
- All was well with me, but he shattered me; he seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has made me his target;
- his archers surround me. Whithout pity, he pierees my kidneys and spills my gall on the ground
- Again anda gain he bursts upon me; he rushes at me like a warrior.
- "I have sewed sackcloth over my skin and buried my brow in the dust.
- My face is red with weeping, deep shadows ring my eyes;
- yet my hands have been free of violence and my prayer is pure,
- :O earth, do not cover my blood; may my cry never be laid to rest!
- Even now my witness is in heaven; my advocate is on high.
- My intercessor is my friend, as my eyes pour out tears to God
- on behalf of a man he pleads with God as a man pleads for his friend.
- "Only a few years will pass before I go on the journey of no return.
Job 17
- My spirit is broken. my days are cut short, the grave awaits me.
- Surely mockers surround me; my eyes must dwell on their hostility.
- "Give me, O God, the pledge you demand. Who else will put up security for me?
- You have closed their minds to understanding therefore you will nor let them triunph.
- If a mand enounces his friends for reward. the eyes of his children will fall.
- "God has made me a byword to everyone, a man in whose face people spit.
- My eyes have grown dim with grief; my whole frame is but a shadow
- Upright men are appalled at this, the innocent are aroused against the ungodly.
- Nevertheless, the righteous will hold to their ways. and those with dean hands will grow atronger
- "But come on, all of you, try against! I WILL NOT FIND A WISE MAN AMONG YOU.
- My days have passed, my plans are shattered, and so are the desires of my heart.
- These neb turn night into day; in the face of darkness theys ay,"Light is near,
- If rhe only home I hope for is theg rave, if I spread out my bed ind arkness,
- if I say to corruption, You are my father, and to the worn, My mother or MNy sister,
- where then is my hope? Who can see any hope for me?
- Will it go down to the gates of death? Will we descend together into the dust?
Job 18
- Then Bildad the Shuhite replied;
- "When will you end these speeches? Be sensible, and then we can talk.
- Why are we regarded as cattle and considered stupid in your sight?
- You who tear your self to pieces in your anger is the enarth to be abandoned for your sake? Or must the rocks be moved from their place?
- " The lamp of the wicked is snufied out; the flame of his fire stops burning.
- The light in his tent becomes dark; the lamp beside him goes out
- The vigor f his step is weakened; his own schemes throws him down.
- Hos feet thrust him into a net and he wianders into its mesh.
- A trap seizes him by the heel; a snare holds, him fast.
- A noose is hidden for him on the ground; a trap lies in his path.
- Terrors startle him on every side and doghis every step.
- Calamity is hungry for him; disaster is ready for him when he falls.
- It eats away parts of his skin; death's firstbirn decours his limbs
- He is torn from the security of his tent and marched off to the king of terros.
- Fire resides in his tent; burning sulfur is scattered over his dwelling
- His roots dry up below and his branches wither above
- The memory of him perishes from the earth; he has no name in the land
- He is driven from light into darkness and is banished from the world,
- He has no offspring or descendants among his people, no survivor where once he lived.
- Men of the west are appalled a his fate. men of the east are seized with horror
- Surely such is the dwelling of an evil man; such is the place of one who knows not God."
Job 19
- Then Job replied
- "How long will you torment me and crush me with work?
- Ten times now you have reproached me, shamelessly you attack me.
- If it is true that I have gone astray, my error remains my concern alone.
- If indeed you would exa;t yourselves above me and use my humilation against me
- then know that God has wronged me and drawn his net around me.
- "Though I cry, I;ve beeb wronged! I get no response; though I call for help , there is no justice
- He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; he has shrounded my paths in darkness
- He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head,
- He tears me down on every side till I am gone; he uproots my hope like a tree.
- His anger burns against me; he counts me among the enemies.
- His troops advance in force; they uild a siege ramp against me and encamp around my tent.
- "He has aliented my brothers from me; my acquaintance are compltely estranged from me
- My kinsmen have gone away, my friends have forgotten me
- My guests and my maidservants count me a stranger; they look upon me as an allien
- summon my servant, but he does not answer, though I beg him with my own mouth.
- My breath is offensive to my wife; I am loathsome to my own brothers.
- Even the litter boys scorn me; whe I appear, they ridicule me.
- All my intimate friends detest me; those I love have turned against me
- I am nothing but skin and bones; I have escaped with only the skin of my teenth.
- "Have pity on me, my frineds, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me.
- Why do you pirsue me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh?
- "Oh , that my words were recorded, that they were written on a scroll
- that they were inscibed with anb iron tool on lead, or engraved in rock forever!
- I know that my Redeemer lives, and that in the end he will stand uponm the earth.
- And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God.
- I myself will see him with my own eyes- I ,AND NOT ANOTHER .hOW MY HEART YEARNS WITHIN ME!
- "iF YOU SAY, hOW WE WILL HOUND HIM, SINCE THE ROOT OF THE TROUBLE LIES IN HIM.
- you should fear the sword yourselves; for wrath will bring punishment by the sword, and then you will know that there is judgment."
Job 20
- Then Zophar the Naamathite replied;
- "My troubled thoughts prompt me to answer because I am greatly disturbed,
- I hear a rebuke that dishonors me, and my understanding inspires me to reply,
- "Surely you know how it has been from of old, ever since man was placed on the earth,
- that the mirth of the wickled is brief, the joy of the godless lasts but a moment.
- Though his pride reaches to the heavens and his head touches the clouds,
- he will perisjh forever, like his own dung, those who have seen him will say, Where is he?"
- Like a dream he flies away, no more to be found, banished like a vision of the night.
- The eye that saw him will not see him again; his place will look on him no more
- His children must make amends to the poor, his own hands must give back his weath.
- The youthful vigor that fills his bones will lie with him in the dust.
- "Though evil is sweet in his mouth and he hides it under his tongue,
- though he cannot bear to let it go and keeps it in his mouth,
- yet his food will turn sour in his stomach; it will become the venorn of serpents within him.
- He will spit out the riches he swallowed; God will make his stomach vomit them up.
- He will suck the poison of serpents, the fangs of an adder will kill him.
- He will not enjoy the streams, the rivers flowing with honey and cream
- What he toiled for he must give back uneaten, he will not enjoy the profit from his trading
- For he has oppressed the poor and left them distitute; he has seized houses he did not build.
- "Surely he will have no respite from his craving; he cannot save himself by his treasure.
- Nothing is left for him devour. his prosperity will not endure.
- In the midst of his plenty. distress will overtake him; the full force of misery will come upon him.
- When he has filled his belly, God will vent his burning anger against him and rain down his blows upon him
- Though he flees from an iron weapon. a bronze tipped arrow pierces him.
- He pulls it out of his back, the gleaming point out of his liver. Terrors will come over him;
- total darkness ;ies in wait for his treasures. A fire unfanned will consume him and devour what is left in his tent.
- The heavens will expose his guilt; the earth will rise up against him.
- Aflood will carry off his house. rushing waters on the day of God's wrath.
- Such is the fate God allots the wicked, the herritage appointed for them by God."
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