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Job 21

Then Job answered and said: “Keep listening to my words, and let this be your comfort. Look at me and be appalled, and lay your hand over your mouth. Their bull breeds without fail; their cow calves and does not miscarry. What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit do we get if we pray to him?’ For what do they care for their houses after them, when the number of their months is cut off? Another dies in bitterness of soul, never having tasted of prosperity. For you say, ‘Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?’ When he is carried to the grave, watch is kept over his tomb. How then will you comfort me with empty nothings? There is nothing left of your answers but falsehood.”

Job 22

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said: “Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself. Is it for your fear of him that he reproves you and enters into judgment with you? You have given no water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry. Therefore snares are all around you, and sudden terror overwhelms you, But you say, ‘What does God know? Can he judge through the deep darkness? Thick clouds veil him, so that he does not see, and he walks on the vault of heaven.’ They were snatched away before their time; their foundation was washed away. Yet he filled their houses with good things— but the counsel of the wicked is far from me. “Agree with God, and be at peace; thereby good will come to you. then the Almighty will be your gold and your precious silver. He delivers even the one who is not innocent, who will be delivered through the cleanness of your hands.”

Job 23

Then Job answered and said: “Today also my complaint is bitter; my hand is heavy on account of my groaning. I would lay my case before him and fill my mouth with arguments. Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power? No; he would pay attention to me. on the left hand when he is working, I do not behold him; he turns to the right hand, but I do not see him. For he will complete what he appoints for me, and many such things are in his mind. yet I am not silenced because of the darkness, nor because thick darkness covers my face.

Job 24

“Why are not times of judgment kept by the Almighty, and why do those who know him never see his days? They thrust the poor off the road; the poor of the earth all hide themselves. They gather their fodder in the field, and they glean the vineyard of the wicked man. They are wet with the rain of the mountains and cling to the rock for lack of shelter. From out of the city the dying groan, and the soul of the wounded cries for help; yet God charges no one with wrong. The eye of the adulterer also waits for the twilight, saying, ‘No eye will see me’; and he veils his face. “You say, ‘Swift are they on the face of the waters; their portion is cursed in the land; no treader turns toward their vineyards. He gives them security, and they are supported, and his eyes are upon their ways. If it is not so, who will prove me a liar and show that there is nothing in what I say?”

Job 25

Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said: “Dominion and fear are with God; he makes peace in his high heaven. How then can man be in the right before God? How can he who is born of woman be pure? how much less man, who is a maggot, and the son of man, who is a worm!”

Job 26

Then Job answered and said: “How you have helped him who has no power! How you have saved the arm that has no strength! How you have counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge! Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering. He stretches out the north over the void and hangs the earth on nothing. He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not split open under them. By his wind the heavens were made fair; his hand pierced the fleeing serpent. Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways, and how small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?”

Job 27

And Job again took up his discourse, and said: “As God lives, who has taken away my right, and the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter, as long as my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils, “Let my enemy be as the wicked, and let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous. For what is the hope of the godless when God cuts him off, when God takes away his life? Will God hear his cry when distress comes upon him? “This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage that oppressors receive from the Almighty: If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword, and his descendants have not enough bread. Though he heap up silver like dust, and pile up clothing like clay, The east wind lifts him up and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.

Job 28

“Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold that they refine. Iron is taken out of the earth, and copper is smelted from the ore. He opens shafts in a valley away from where anyone lives; they are forgotten by travelers; they hang in the air, far away from mankind; they swing to and fro. The proud beasts have not trodden it; the lion has not passed over it. “But where shall wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding? No mention shall be made of coral or of crystal; the price of wisdom is above pearls. Abaddon and Death say, ‘We have heard a rumor of it with our ears.’ when he made a decree for the rain and a way for the lightning of the thunder, And he said to man, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to turn away from evil is understanding.’

Job 29

And Job again took up his discourse, and said: “Oh, that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me, when his lamp shone upon my head, and by his light I walked through darkness, when the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were all around me, the voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth. The blessing of him who was about to perish came upon me, and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy. I was a father to the needy, and I searched out the cause of him whom I did not know. “Men listened to me and waited and kept silence for my counsel. I smiled on them when they had no confidence, and the light of my face they did not cast down. I chose their way and sat as chief, and I lived like a king among his troops, like one who comforts mourners.

Job 30

“But now they laugh at me, men who are younger than I, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock. What could I gain from the strength of their hands, men whose vigor is gone? In the gullies of the torrents they must dwell, in holes of the earth and of the rocks. Among the bushes they bray; under the nettles they huddle together. Because God has loosed my cord and humbled me, they have cast off restraint in my presence. On my right hand the rabble rise; they push away my feet; they cast up against me their ways of destruction. Terrors are turned upon me; my honor is pursued as by the wind, and my prosperity has passed away like a cloud. The night racks my bones, and the pain that gnaws me takes no rest. You have turned cruel to me; with the might of your hand you persecute me. But when I hoped for good, evil came, and when I waited for light, darkness came. I am a brother of jackals and a companion of ostriches.