fearch you out? or as one | far from me: and let not man mocketh another, do ye mock him? 10 He will furely reprove you, if ye do fecretly accept perfons. II Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you? 12 Your remembrances are like unto afhes, your bodies to bodies of clay. 13 Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may fpeak, and let come on me what will. 14 Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand? 15 Though he flay me, yet will I truft in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him. 16 He alfo fhall be my falvation: for an hypocrite fhall not come before him. 17 Hear diligently my fpeech, and my declaration with your ears. 18 Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I fhall be justified. thy dread make me afraid. 22 Then call thou, and I will anfwer; or let me fpeak, and answer thou me. 23 How many are mine iniquities and fins? make me to know my tranfgreffion and my fin. 24 Wherefore hideft thou thy face, and holdeft me for thine enemy? 25 Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou purfue the dry stubble? 26 For thou writeft bitter things against me, and makest me to poffefs the iniquities of my youth. 27 Thou putteft my feet alfo in the ftocks, and lookeft narrowly unto all my paths; thou fetteft a print upon the heels of my feet. 28 And he, as a rotten thing, confumeth, as a garment that is moth-eaten. CHAP. XIV. MA 19 Who is he that will M plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I fhall give up the ghoft. 20 Only do not two things unto me then will I not hide myself from thee. 21. Withdraw thine hand AN that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. 2 He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth alfo as a fhadow, and continueth not.' 3 And doft thou open thine eyes upon fuch an one, and ment with thee? and bringeft me into judg-cret until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldeft appoint me a fet time, and remember me! 4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one. 5 Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou haft appointed his bounds that he cannot pass: 6 Turn from him that he may reft, till he shall accomplifh, as an hireling, his day. 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. 8 Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the ftock thereof die in the ground; 9 Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant. 10 But man dieth and wafteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghoft, and where is he? 14 If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come. 15 Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a defire to the work of thine hands. 16 For now thou numbereft my steps, doft thou not watch over my fin? 17 My tranfgreffion is fealed up in a bag, and thou feweft up mine iniquity. 18 And furely the mountain falling cometh to nought, and the rock is removed out of his place: 19 The waters wear the ftones; thou wafheft away the things which grow out of the duft of the earth: and thou deftroyeft the hope of man. 20 Thou prevaileft for. ever against him, and he paffeth; thou changest his II As the waters fail from the fea, and the flood decay-countenance, and fendest eth and drieth up: him away. 21 His fons come to ho 12 So man lieth down, and rifeth not till the hea-nour, and he knoweth it not; vens be no more, they fhall not awake, nor be railed out of their fleep...! 13 O that thou wouldeft hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me fe and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them. 22 But his flesh upon him fhall have pain, and his foul within him shall mourn. T 12 Why doth thine heart" HEN anfwered Eli-carry thee away? and what phaz the Temanite, do thine eyes wink at, and faid, 2 Should a wife man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind? 3 Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good? 4 Yea, thou cafteft off fear, and restraineft prayer before God. 13 That thou turneft thy fpirit against God, and letteft fuch words go out of thy mouth? 14 What is man, that he fhould be clean? and he, which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? 15 Behold, he putteth no truft in his faints, yea, the heavens are not clean in his 5 For thy mouth utter-fight. eth thine iniquity, and thou chooseft the tongue of the crafty. 6 Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips teftify against thee. 7 Art thou the first man that was born? or waft thou made before the hills? 8 Haft thou heard the fecret of God? and doft thou restrain wisdom to thyfelf? 9 What knoweft thou that we know not? what underftandeft thou which is not in us? IO With us are both the grey-headed and very aged men, much elder than thy father. 16 How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water? 17 I will fhew thee, hear me, and that which Í have feen, I will declare. 18 Which wife men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it; 19 Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no ftranger paffed among them. 20 The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppreffor. 21 A dreadful found is in his ears in profperity the destroyer fhall come upon him." II Are the confolations of 22 He believeth 'not that' God fmall with thee? is he fhall return out of darkthere any fecret thing with nefs, and he is waited for of the the fword. 23 He wandereth abroad for bread, faying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand. 24 Trouble and anguifh fhall make him afraid; they fhall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle. 25 For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and he ftrengtheneth himself against the Almighty. 26 He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick boffes of his bucklers: 27 Because he covereth 32 It fhall be accomplished before his time, and his branch fhall not be green. 33 He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and fhall cut off his flower as the olive. 34 For the congregation of hypocrites fhall be defolate, and fire fhall confume the tabernacles of bribery. 35 They conceive mifchief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit. CHAP. XVI. his face with his fatnefs, and THEN Job anfwered maketh collops of fat on his flanks. 28 And he dwelleth in defolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps. 29 He fhall not be rich, neither fhall his fubftance continue, neither fhall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth. 30 He fhall not depart out of darkness, the flame fhall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth fhall he go away. 31 Let not man that is deceived truft in vanity: for vanity fhall be his recompence. and faid, 2 I have heard many such things: miferable comforters are ye all. 3 Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest? 4 I alfo could fpeak as ye do: if your foul were in my foul's ftead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you. 5 But I would ftrengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should, affwage your grief. 6 Though I fpeak, my grief is not affwaged: and though I forbear, what am I eafed ? 7 ¶ But now he hath made me weary: thou haft S 2 made made defolate all my com pany. 8 And thou haft filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me and my leannefs rifing up in me, beareth witness to my face. 9 He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me; he gnafheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy fharpeneth his eyes upon me. 10 They have gaped upon me with their mouth, they have fmitten me upon the cheek reproachfully, they have gathered themselves together against me. II God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked. 12 I was at ease, but he hath broken me afunder: he hath alfo taken me by my neck, and fhaken me to pieces, and fet me up for his weeping, and on my eye-lids is the fhadow of death; 17 Not for any injuftice in my hands: alfo my prayer is pure. 18 O earth, cover. not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place. 19 Alfo now, behold, my witnefs is in heaven, and my. record is on high. 20 My friends fcorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God. 21 O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour! 22 When a few years are come, then I fhall go the way whence I fhall not re turn. |