The King James Version of the Bible
Part 174
2281 words | Chapter 174
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storm hurleth him out of his place.
27:22 For God shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee
out of his hand.
27:23 Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his
place.
28:1 Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where
they fine it.
28:2 Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the
stone.
28:3 He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection:
the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.
28:4 The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; even the waters
forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.
28:5 As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned
up as it were fire.
28:6 The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of
gold.
28:7 There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture’s
eye hath not seen: 28:8 The lion’s whelps have not trodden it, nor the
fierce lion passed by it.
28:9 He putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he overturneth the
mountains by the roots.
28:10 He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every
precious thing.
28:11 He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and the thing that is
hid bringeth he forth to light.
28:12 But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of
understanding? 28:13 Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it
found in the land of the living.
28:14 The depth saith, It is not in me: and the sea saith, It is not
with me.
28:15 It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed
for the price thereof.
28:16 It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious
onyx, or the sapphire.
28:17 The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it
shall not be for jewels of fine gold.
28:18 No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price
of wisdom is above rubies.
28:19 The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be
valued with pure gold.
28:20 Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of
understanding? 28:21 Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living,
and kept close from the fowls of the air.
28:22 Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with
our ears.
28:23 God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place
thereof.
28:24 For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the
whole heaven; 28:25 To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth
the waters by measure.
28:26 When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning
of the thunder: 28:27 Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared
it, yea, and searched it out.
28:28 And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the LORD, that is
wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.
29:1 Moreover Job continued his parable, and said, 29:2 Oh that I were
as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; 29:3 When his
candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through
darkness; 29:4 As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of
God was upon my tabernacle; 29:5 When the Almighty was yet with me,
when my children were about me; 29:6 When I washed my steps with
butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil; 29:7 When I went out
to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!
29:8 The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and
stood up.
29:9 The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their
mouth.
29:10 The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the
roof of their mouth.
29:11 When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw
me, it gave witness to me: 29:12 Because I delivered the poor that
cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
29:13 The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I
caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.
29:14 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a
robe and a diadem.
29:15 I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.
29:16 I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I
searched out.
29:17 And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of
his teeth.
29:18 Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my
days as the sand.
29:19 My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night
upon my branch.
29:20 My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.
29:21 Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my
counsel.
29:22 After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon
them.
29:23 And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their
mouth wide as for the latter rain.
29:24 If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my
countenance they cast not down.
29:25 I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the
army, as one that comforteth the mourners.
30:1 But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose
fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.
30:2 Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom
old age was perished? 30:3 For want and famine they were solitary;
fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
30:4 Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their
meat.
30:5 They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as
after a thief;) 30:6 To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, in caves
of the earth, and in the rocks.
30:7 Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were
gathered together.
30:8 They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were
viler than the earth.
30:9 And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
30:10 They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in
my face.
30:11 Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also
let loose the bridle before me.
30:12 Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and
they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.
30:13 They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no
helper.
30:14 They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the
desolation they rolled themselves upon me.
30:15 Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and
my welfare passeth away as a cloud.
30:16 And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction
have taken hold upon me.
30:17 My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews
take no rest.
30:18 By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it
bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.
30:19 He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and
ashes.
30:20 I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou
regardest me not.
30:21 Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest
thyself against me.
30:22 Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it,
and dissolvest my substance.
30:23 For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house
appointed for all living.
30:24 Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though
they cry in his destruction.
30:25 Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul
grieved for the poor? 30:26 When I looked for good, then evil came
unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
30:27 My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction
prevented me.
30:28 I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the
congregation.
30:29 I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
30:30 My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
30:31 My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice
of them that weep.
31:1 I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a
maid? 31:2 For what portion of God is there from above? and what
inheritance of the Almighty from on high? 31:3 Is not destruction to
the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity? 31:4
Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps? 31:5 If I have
walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit; 31:6 Let me
be weighed in an even balance that God may know mine integrity.
31:7 If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked
after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands; 31:8 Then
let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.
31:9 If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid
wait at my neighbour’s door; 31:10 Then let my wife grind unto
another, and let others bow down upon her.
31:11 For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be
punished by the judges.
31:12 For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root
out all mine increase.
31:13 If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my
maidservant, when they contended with me; 31:14 What then shall I do
when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?
31:15 Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one
fashion us in the womb? 31:16 If I have withheld the poor from their
desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail; 31:17 Or have
eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten
thereof; 31:18 (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a
father, and I have guided her from my mother’s womb;) 31:19 If I have
seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;
31:20 If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with
the fleece of my sheep; 31:21 If I have lifted up my hand against the
fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate: 31:22 Then let mine arm
fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.
31:23 For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of
his highness I could not endure.
31:24 If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou
art my confidence; 31:25 If I rejoice because my wealth was great, and
because mine hand had gotten much; 31:26 If I beheld the sun when it
shined, or the moon walking in brightness; 31:27 And my heart hath
been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand: 31:28 This
also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have
denied the God that is above.
31:29 If I rejoice at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted
up myself when evil found him: 31:30 Neither have I suffered my mouth
to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.
31:31 If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his
flesh! we cannot be satisfied.
31:32 The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors
to the traveller.
31:33 If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity
in my bosom: 31:34 Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt
of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the
door? 31:35 Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the
Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.
31:36 Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown
to me.
31:37 I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince
would I go near unto him.
31:38 If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof
complain; 31:39 If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or
have caused the owners thereof to lose their life: 31:40 Let thistles
grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley.
The words of Job are ended.
32:1 So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous
in his own eyes.
32:2 Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the
Buzite, of the kindred of Ram: against Job was his wrath kindled,
because he justified himself rather than God.
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