The King James Version of the Bible
Part 170
2257 words | Chapter 170
t he forsaketh the fear of the
Almighty.
6:15 My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream
of brooks they pass away; 6:16 Which are blackish by reason of the
ice, and wherein the snow is hid: 6:17 What time they wax warm, they
vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
6:18 The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and
perish.
6:19 The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for
them.
6:20 They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither,
and were ashamed.
6:21 For now ye are nothing; ye see my casting down, and are afraid.
6:22 Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of your
substance? 6:23 Or, Deliver me from the enemy’s hand? or, Redeem me
from the hand of the mighty? 6:24 Teach me, and I will hold my
tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
6:25 How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
6:26 Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is
desperate, which are as wind? 6:27 Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless,
and ye dig a pit for your friend.
6:28 Now therefore be content, look upon me; for it is evident unto
you if I lie.
6:29 Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my
righteousness is in it.
6:30 Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse
things? 7:1 Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not
his days also like the days of an hireling? 7:2 As a servant
earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the
reward of his work: 7:3 So am I made to possess months of vanity, and
wearisome nights are appointed to me.
7:4 When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone?
and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.
7:5 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is
broken, and become loathsome.
7:6 My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without
hope.
7:7 O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.
7:8 The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes
are upon me, and I am not.
7:9 As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down
to the grave shall come up no more.
7:10 He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place
know him any more.
7:11 Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the
anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
7:12 Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me? 7:13
When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my
complaints; 7:14 Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me
through visions: 7:15 So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death
rather than my life.
7:16 I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days
are vanity.
7:17 What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou
shouldest set thine heart upon him? 7:18 And that thou shouldest
visit him every morning, and try him every moment? 7:19 How long wilt
thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my
spittle? 7:20 I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou
preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so
that I am a burden to myself? 7:21 And why dost thou not pardon my
transgression, and take away my iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the
dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.
8:1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, 8:2 How long wilt thou
speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like
a strong wind? 8:3 Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty
pervert justice? 8:4 If thy children have sinned against him, and he
have cast them away for their transgression; 8:5 If thou wouldest seek
unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty; 8:6 If
thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and
make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
8:7 Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly
increase.
8:8 For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself
to the search of their fathers: 8:9 (For we are but of yesterday, and
know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:) 8:10 Shall
not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their
heart? 8:11 Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow
without water? 8:12 Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut
down, it withereth before any other herb.
8:13 So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite’s hope
shall perish: 8:14 Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall
be a spider’s web.
8:15 He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall
hold it fast, but it shall not endure.
8:16 He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his
garden.
8:17 His roots are wrapped about the heap, and seeth the place of
stones.
8:18 If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying,
I have not seen thee.
8:19 Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall
others grow.
8:20 Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he
help the evil doers: 8:21 Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and
thy lips with rejoicing.
8:22 They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling
place of the wicked shall come to nought.
9:1 Then Job answered and said, 9:2 I know it is so of a truth: but
how should man be just with God? 9:3 If he will contend with him, he
cannot answer him one of a thousand.
9:4 He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened
himself against him, and hath prospered? 9:5 Which removeth the
mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger.
9:6 Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof
tremble.
9:7 Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the
stars.
9:8 Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves
of the sea.
9:9 Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of
the south.
9:10 Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders
without number.
9:11 Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not: he passeth on also, but I
perceive him not.
9:12 Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto
him, What doest thou? 9:13 If God will not withdraw his anger, the
proud helpers do stoop under him.
9:14 How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to
reason with him? 9:15 Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not
answer, but I would make supplication to my judge.
9:16 If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe
that he had hearkened unto my voice.
9:17 For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds
without cause.
9:18 He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with
bitterness.
9:19 If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who
shall set me a time to plead? 9:20 If I justify myself, mine own
mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me
perverse.
9:21 Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would
despise my life.
9:22 This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect
and the wicked.
9:23 If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the
innocent.
9:24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the
faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he? 9:25 Now
my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
9:26 They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that
hasteth to the prey.
9:27 If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my
heaviness, and comfort myself: 9:28 I am afraid of all my sorrows, I
know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.
9:29 If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain? 9:30 If I wash myself
with snow water, and make my hands never so clean; 9:31 Yet shalt thou
plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.
9:32 For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we
should come together in judgment.
9:33 Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand
upon us both.
9:34 Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify
me: 9:35 Then would I speak, and not fear him; but it is not so with
me.
10:1 My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon
myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
10:2 I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou
contendest with me.
10:3 Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou
shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel
of the wicked? 10:4 Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man
seeth? 10:5 Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man’s
days, 10:6 That thou enquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest
after my sin? 10:7 Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is
none that can deliver out of thine hand.
10:8 Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about;
yet thou dost destroy me.
10:9 Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and
wilt thou bring me into dust again? 10:10 Hast thou not poured me out
as milk, and curdled me like cheese? 10:11 Thou hast clothed me with
skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews.
10:12 Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath
preserved my spirit.
10:13 And these things hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that this
is with thee.
10:14 If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from
mine iniquity.
10:15 If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I
not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine
affliction; 10:16 For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion:
and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.
10:17 Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine
indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.
10:18 Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh
that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me! 10:19 I should
have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from
the womb to the grave.
10:20 Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may
take comfort a little, 10:21 Before I go whence I shall not return,
even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; 10:22 A land of
darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any
order, and where the light is as darkness.
11:1 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said, 11:2 Should not
the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be
justified? 11:3 Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when
thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed? 11:4 For thou hast
said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes.
11:5 But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against thee; 11:6
And that he would shew thee the secrets of wisdom, that they are
double to that which is! Know therefore that God exacteth of thee less
than thine iniquity deserveth.
11:7 Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the
Almighty unto perfection? 11:8 It is as high as heaven; what canst
thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know? 11:9 The measure
thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
11:10 If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can
hinder him? 11:11 For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also;
will he not then consider it? 11:12 For vain men would be wise,
though man be born like a wild ass’s colt.
11:13 If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward
him; 11:14 If i
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