The King James Version of the Bible
Part 171
2193 words | Chapter 171
niquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not
wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.
11:15 For then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; yea, thou
shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear: 11:16 Because thou shalt forget
thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away: 11:17 And thine
age shall be clearer than the noonday: thou shalt shine forth, thou
shalt be as the morning.
11:18 And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope; yea, thou shalt
dig about thee, and thou shalt take thy rest in safety.
11:19 Also thou shalt lie down, and none shall make thee afraid; yea,
many shall make suit unto thee.
11:20 But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not
escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost.
12:1 And Job answered and said, 12:2 No doubt but ye are the people,
and wisdom shall die with you.
12:3 But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to
you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these? 12:4 I am as one
mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him:
the just upright man is laughed to scorn.
12:5 He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in
the thought of him that is at ease.
12:6 The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are
secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.
12:7 But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls
of the air, and they shall tell thee: 12:8 Or speak to the earth, and
it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto
thee.
12:9 Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the LORD hath
wrought this? 12:10 In whose hand is the soul of every living thing,
and the breath of all mankind.
12:11 Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat? 12:12
With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.
12:13 With him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and
understanding.
12:14 Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he
shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.
12:15 Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he
sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.
12:16 With him is strength and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver
are his.
12:17 He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and maketh the judges
fools.
12:18 He looseth the bond of kings, and girdeth their loins with a
girdle.
12:19 He leadeth princes away spoiled, and overthroweth the mighty.
12:20 He removeth away the speech of the trusty, and taketh away the
understanding of the aged.
12:21 He poureth contempt upon princes, and weakeneth the strength of
the mighty.
12:22 He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to
light the shadow of death.
12:23 He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he enlargeth the
nations, and straiteneth them again.
12:24 He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the
earth, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no
way.
12:25 They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to
stagger like a drunken man.
13:1 Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and
understood it.
13:2 What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto
you.
13:3 Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with
God.
13:4 But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
13:5 O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your
wisdom.
13:6 Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
13:7 Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?
13:8 Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God? 13:9 Is it
good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do
ye so mock him? 13:10 He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly
accept persons.
13:11 Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall
upon you? 13:12 Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to
bodies of clay.
13:13 Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on
me what will.
13:14 Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in
mine hand? 13:15 Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I
will maintain mine own ways before him.
13:16 He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come
before him.
13:17 Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.
13:18 Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be
justified.
13:19 Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue,
I shall give up the ghost.
13:20 Only do not two things unto me: then will I not hide myself from
thee.
13:21 Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me
afraid.
13:22 Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer
thou me.
13:23 How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my
transgression and my sin.
13:24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?
13:25 Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue
the dry stubble? 13:26 For thou writest bitter things against me, and
makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
13:27 Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly
unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.
13:28 And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth
eaten.
14:1 Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble.
14:2 He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as
a shadow, and continueth not.
14:3 And doth thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me
into judgment with thee? 14:4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an
unclean? not one.
14:5 Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with
thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass; 14:6 Turn
from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling,
his day.
14:7 For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will
sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.
14:8 Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock
thereof die in the ground; 14:9 Yet through the scent of water it will
bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
14:10 But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost,
and where is he? 14:11 As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood
decayeth and drieth up: 14:12 So man lieth down, and riseth not: till
the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of
their sleep.
14:13 O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest
keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me
a set time, and remember me! 14:14 If a man die, shall he live again?
all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
14:15 Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire
to the work of thine hands.
14:16 For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my
sin? 14:17 My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up
mine iniquity.
14:18 And surely the mountains falling cometh to nought, and the rock
is removed out of his place.
14:19 The waters wear the stones: thou washest away the things which
grow out of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of
man.
14:20 Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou
changest his countenance, and sendest him away.
14:21 His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are
brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.
14:22 But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him
shall mourn.
15:1 Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said, 15:2 Should a wise
man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind? 15:3
Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he
can do no good? 15:4 Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest
prayer before God.
15:5 For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the
tongue of the crafty.
15:6 Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips
testify against thee.
15:7 Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before
the hills? 15:8 Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou
restrain wisdom to thyself? 15:9 What knowest thou, that we know not?
what understandest thou, which is not in us? 15:10 With us are both
the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.
15:11 Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret
thing with thee? 15:12 Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what
do thy eyes wink at, 15:13 That thou turnest thy spirit against God,
and lettest such words go out of thy mouth? 15:14 What is man, that
he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be
righteous? 15:15 Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the
heavens are not clean in his sight.
15:16 How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh
iniquity like water? 15:17 I will shew thee, hear me; and that which
I have seen I will declare; 15:18 Which wise men have told from their
fathers, and have not hid it: 15:19 Unto whom alone the earth was
given, and no stranger passed among them.
15:20 The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number
of years is hidden to the oppressor.
15:21 A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer
shall come upon him.
15:22 He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is
waited for of the sword.
15:23 He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth
that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
15:24 Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail
against him, as a king ready to the battle.
15:25 For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth
himself against the Almighty.
15:26 He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of
his bucklers: 15:27 Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and
maketh collops of fat on his flanks.
15:28 And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man
inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.
15:29 He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue,
neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.
15:30 He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his
branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.
15:31 Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall
be his recompence.
15:32 It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall
not be green.
15:33 He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast
off his flower as the olive.
15:34 For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire
shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.
15:35 They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly
prepareth deceit.
16:1 Then Job answered and said, 16:2 I have heard many such things:
miserable comforters are ye all.
16:3 Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou
answerest? 16:4 I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my
soul’s stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head
at you.
16:5 But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my
lips should asswage your grief.
16:6 Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear,
what am I eased? 16:7 But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made
desolate all my company.
16:8 And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against
me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.
16:9 He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me
with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.
16:10 They have gaped upon me with their mou
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