Job alloweth God's perfections. tains, and they know not: which] overturneth them in his anger;

6 Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and d the pillars thereof tremble; 7 Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars;

8 e Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the twaves of the sea;

Arcturus,

9 Which maketh Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south;

10 g Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders without number.

11 h Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not: he passeth on also, but I perceive him not.

12 Behold, he taketh away, † who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What doest thou?

13 If God will not withdraw his anger, the † proud helpers do stoop under him.

14 How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him?

e Gen. 1. 6. Ps. 104. 2, 3.

+ Heb. Gen. 1. 16. heights. ch. 38. 31, &c. Amos 5.

8.

+ Heb. Ash,

Cesil, and
Cimah.

g ch. 5. 9.

Ps. 71. 15.

h ch. 23. 8,

9. & 35. 14. Is. 45. 9.

Jer. 18. 6. Rom. 9. 20.

Heb. who can turn him away? ch. 11. 10.

Is. 30. 7.

k ch. 26 12.

+ Hev. help

15 1 Whom, though I were righ-ers of pride, teous, yet would I not answer, but or, strength. I would make supplication to my judge.

16 If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.

17 For he breaketh me with a. tempest, and multiplieth my wounds m without cause.

18 He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.

19 If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong; and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead?

20 If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: If I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me

perverse.

21 Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.

22 This is one thing, therefore I said it, n He destroyeth the perfect

and the wicked.

23 If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.

1 ch. 10. 15.

m ch. 2. 3. & 34. 6.

10. Is. 45. 9.

Jer. 49. 19.
Rom. 9. 20.

ver. 19.
1 Sam. 2. 25.
t Heb. one

that should

argue. Or, umpire. ch. 13. 20, 21, 22. & 33. 7. Ps. 39. 10. + Heb. but I am not so

with myself.

He expostulateth with God freely water, and make my hands never so clean;

31 Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.

32 For x he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment.

33 y Neither is there † any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.

34 z Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me :

35 Then would I speak, and not fear him; † but it is not so with me.

CHAPTER X.

1 Job, taking liberty of complaint, expostulateth with God about his afflictions. 18 He complaineth of life, and craveth a little ease before death.

a1 Kin. 19. MY

4. ch. 7. 16. Jonah 4. 3,

Or, cut of while I live. b ch. 7. 11.

+ Heb. the labour of thy hands? Ps. 138. 8. Is. 64. 8. c 1 Sam. 16. 7.

+ Heb. It is upon thy knowledge. d Ps. 139. 1, 2.

e Ps. 119. 73. + Heb. took pains about

me.

f Gen. 2. 7. & 3. 19. Is.

64.8.

g Ps. 139. 14, 15, 16.

24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: o he coveretho 2 Sam. 15. the faces of the judges thereof; if 30. & 19. 4. not, where, and who is he?

25 Now Pmy days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they gee no good.

26 They are passed away as the swift ships: q as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.

Jer. 14. 4.

pch. 7. 6, 7.

h Ps. 139. 1.

i Is. 3. 11. k ch. 9. 12,

of desire.

Or, or

27 r if I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my hea-ships of viness, and comfort myself:

Ebeh. q Hab. 1. 8.

28 s I am afraid of all my sorrows, r ch. 7. 13. I know that thou t wilt not hold me s Ps. 119. innocent.

1 Ps. 25. 18.

m Is. 38. 13. Lam. 3. 10.

29 If I be wicked, why then la-t Ex. 20. 7. bour I in vain ?

120.

That is, thy plagues. Ruth 1. 21.

30 u IfI wash myself with snow-lu Jer. 2. 22.

a soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; b I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

2 I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.

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?

4 Hast thou eyes of flesh? or c seest thou as man seeth?

5 Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man's days,

6 That thou inquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my

sin?

7 td Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.

8 e Thine hands† have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.

9 Remember, I beseech thee, that f thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?

10 g Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese? 11 Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast † fenced me with bones and sinews.

12 Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.

13 And these things hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that this is with thee.

14 If I sin, then h thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.

15 If I be wicked, i wo unto me; k and if I be rightcous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore I see thou mine affliction;

16 For it increaseth. m Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.

17 Thou renewest || thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.

19 I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave. 20 Are not my days few ? P cease o See ch. 7. then, and q let me alone, that I take comfort a little,

may

6, 16. & 8. 9. Ps. 39. 5.

p Ps. 39. 13.

q ch. 7. 16, 19.

r Ps. 88. 12.

21 Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness, and the shadow of death; 22 A land of darkness, as darknesss Ps. 23. 4. itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.

Before CHRIST cir. 1520.

6. Ps. 3. 5.

Wicked men sometimes prosper. dig about thee, and thou shalt take thy rest in safety.

19 Also thou shalt lie down, and o Lev. 26. 5, none shall make thee afraid; yea, many shall make suit unto thee. 20 But p the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and a their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost.

& 4. 8. Prov. 3. 24.

t Heb. entreat thy face, Ps. 45.

12.

man of

3 Should thy lies make men

Or, de

and when thou

vices.

man make thee

hold their peace mockest, shall no

ashamed?

& 10. 7.

4 For a thou hast said, My doc-a ch. 6. 10. trine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes.

5 But Oh that God would speak, and open his lips against thee;

6 And that he would shew thee the secrets of wisdom, that they are double to that which is ! Know therefore that b'God exacteth of b Ezra 9. 13.) thee less than thine iniquity deserveth.

7 c Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection?

8 It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know?

9 The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.

10 d If he fcut off, and shut up, or gather together, then † who can hinder him?

11 For e he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also; will he not then consider it?

12 For fvain man would be wise, though man be born like wild ass's colt.

& 17. 2, 6.

CHAPTER XII.

1 Job maintaineth himself against his friends that reprove him. 7 He ac knowledgeth the general doctrine of God's omnipotency.

AND Job answered and said,

2 No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.

3 But a I have † understanding as well as you; † I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these?

4 bI am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn.

5 He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the

b ch. 16. 10. thought of him that is at ease. 6 The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God c Ps. 91. 15. bringeth abundantly.

7 But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee:

8 Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee; and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.

9 Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the LORD hath wrought this?

10 In whose hand is the || soul of every living thing, and the breath of tall mankind.

11 g Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat?

12 h With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.

13 | With him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and understanding.

14 Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he 1shutteth † up a man, and there can be no opening.

15 Behold, he m withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he n sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.

16 With him is strength and wisdom the deceived and the de ceiver are his.

17 He leadeth counsellors away fools. spoiled, and P maketh the judges

18 He looseth the bond of kings, and girdeth their loins with a girdle. 19 He leadeth princes away spoiled, and overthroweth the mighty.

20 q He removeth away the speech of the trusty, and taketh away the understanding of the aged.

21 r He poureth contempt upon the girdle of princes, and weakeneth the the strong. strength of the mighty.

6 Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.

7 e Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him? 8 Will ye accept his person ? will ye contend for God?

9 Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?

10 He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.

11 Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you ?

12 Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies

of clay.

28.

13 Hold your peace, let met Heb. Be alone, that I may speak, and let silent from come on me what will.

14 Wherefore f do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?

15 h Though he slay me, yet will trust in him but I will † maintain mine own ways before him.

16 He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.

17 Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears. 18 Behold, now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.

me.

f ch. 18. 4. g 1 Sam. 28. 21. Ps. 119. 109. h Ps. 23. 4.

Prov. 14. 32.

i ch. 27. 5.

Heb. prove, or, argue.

19k Who is he that will plead k ch. 33. 6. with me? for now, if I hold my Is. 50. 8. tongue, I shall give up the ghost.

20 1 Only do not two things unto 1 ch. 9. 34. me: then will I not hide myself & 33. 7. from thee.

21 mWithdraw thine hand far fromm Ps. 39. me: and let not thy dread make

me afraid.

22 Then call thou, and I will an

rch. 33. 11.

+ Heb. observest.

Heb. roots.

r Ieb. short o days.

a ch. 5. 7. Eccles. 2.23. b ch. 8. 9.

Ps. 90. 5, 6,

9. & 102. 11.

The shortness and trouble of life. swer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.

23 How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and any sin.

24 n Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?

25 p Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?

26 For thou writest bitter things against me, and q makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.

27 r 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.

28 And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth

eaten.

2 b He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.

3 And c'dost thou open thine eyes & 103. 15. & upon such an one, and d bringest me into judgment with thee?

144. 4. Is.

40. 6. Jam. 1. 10, 11. &

4. 14. 1 Pet.

1. 24.

c Ps. 144. 3. + Heb. Who will give?

d Ps. 143. 2.

e Gen. 5. 3.
Ps. 51. 5.
John 3. 6.
Rom. 5. 12.
Eph. 2. 3.

f ch. 7. 1.
g ch. 7. 16,
19. & 10. 20.
Ps. 39. 13.

Heb. cease.

h ch. 7. 1. i ver. 14.

+ Heb. is weakened, or, cut off.

4f Who e can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.

5 fSeeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;

6 g Turn from him, that he may trest, till he shall accomplish, has an hireling, his day.

7 For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, i 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 stock 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 † wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?

11 As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:

12 So man lieth down, and riseth' not: k till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.

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 If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time I will I wait, m till my change come.

15 Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands.

16 o For now thou numberest my

18 And surely the mountain falling cometh to nought, and the + Heb. rock is removed out of his place.

fadeth.

19 The waters wear the stones: thou washest away the things + Heb. overwhich grow out of the dust of the flowest. earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man.

20 Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.

21 His sons come to honour, and q he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.

22 But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.

19 Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed

among them.

20 The wicked man travaileth m Ps. 90. 12. with pain all his days, m and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.

+ Heb. A sound of fears.

In 1 Thess. 5.

3.

o Ps. 59. 15. & 109. 10.

2 Should a wise man utter † vain Heb. knowledge, and fill his belly with knowledge the east wind?

3 Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches

wherewith he can do no good?

of wind.

q ch. 17. 10

22.

r ch. 4. 9.

b Ps. 90. 2. Prov. 8. 25.

s Is. 59. 4.

Or, cut off. tch. 22. 16.

d ch. 13. 2.

Ps. 55. 23.

c Rom. 11. 34. 1 Cor. 2. 11.

10 e With us are both the gray-e ch. 32. 6, headed and very aged men, much 7.

elder than thy father.

11 Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee?

12 Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thine eyes wink at,

13 That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words

go out of thy mouth?

11 Ps. 7. 14. Is. 59. 4.

Hos. 10. 13.

Or, iniquity.

teous?

15 g Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.

16h How much more abominable and filthy is man, i which drinketh iniquity like water?

17 I will shew thee, hear me and that which I have seen, I will declare;

Ps. 14. 3. Prov. 20. 9.

10.

24 Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall pre vail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

25 For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.

26 He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:

27 q Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his flanks.

28 And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.

29 He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.

30 He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and r by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.

31 Let not him that is deceived strust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompense.

32 It shall be accomplished t be|| fore his time, and his branch shall not be green.

33 He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.

34 For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.

35 They conceive mischief, and bring forth || vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.

CHAPTER XVI.

1 Job reproveth his friends of unmercifulness. 1 He sheweth the pitifulness of his case. 17 He maintaineth his innocency. THEN Job answered and said,

2 I have heard many such things: a miserable comforters are all.

Job appealeth from men to God. of my lips should assuage your grief.

6 Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?

7 But now he hath made me weary thou hast made desolate all my company.

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.

9c He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; dmine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me, 10 They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they fhave smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.

11 God hf hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.

Before CHRIST

cir. 1520.

Heb. what

goeth from me?

c ch. 10. 16, 17.

d ch. 13. 24. e Ps. 22. 13. fLam. 3. 30. Mic. 5. 1. g Ps. 35. 15.

h ch. 1. 15, 17,

+ Heb. hath shut me up.

12 I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and iset me up for i ch. 7. 20. his mark.

13 His archers compass me round about; he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.

14 He braketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me 'ike a giant.

15 I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and k defiled my horn in k ch. 30. 19. the dust.

16 My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;

17 Not for any injustice in mine hands also my prayer is pure.

18 O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.

19 Also now, behold, m my witness is in heaven, and my record is t on high.

20 My friends † scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.

Ps. 7. 5.

1 ch. 27. 9. Ps. 66. 18,

19.

m Rom. 1.9. + Heb. in the high places.

+ Heb. are my scorners.

+ Heb. cried, or, called.

i ch. 18. 13. k ch. 3. 17, 18, 19.

a Ps. 73. 22.

b ch. 13. 14.

Heb. his

soul.

c Prov. 13. 9.

The calamities of the wicked. friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.

6 He hath made me also da byword of the people: and aforetime I was as a tabret.

7 e Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my mem

bers are as a shadow.

8 Upright men shall be astonished at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.

9 The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath f clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.

10 But as for you all, g do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.

11 h My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.

12 They change the night into day: the light is short because of

darkness.

13 If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.

14 I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.

15 And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?

16 They shall go down i to the bars of the pit, when our krest together is in the dust.

CHAPTER XVIII.

1 Bildad reproveth Job of presumption and impatience. 5 The calamities of the wicked.

THEN answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

2 How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.

3 Wherefore are we counted a as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?

4 b He teareth thimself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?

5 Yea, the light of the wicked & 20. 20. & shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.

21 O that one might plead for an man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!

22 When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I

shall not return.

CHAPTER XVII.

1 Job appealeth from men to God. 6 The unmerciful dealing of men with the afflicted may astonish, but not discourage the righteous. 11 His hope is not in life, but in death.

Is. 45. 9. Rom. 9. 20.

of number.

o Eccles. 12.

5.

e ch. 5. 13.

fch. 22. 10.

6 The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, d and his | candle shall be put out with him.

7 The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and e his own counsel shall cast him down.

8 For fhe is cast into a net by Ps. 9. 15. & his own feet, and he walketh upon

35. 8.

g ch. 5. 5.

+ Heb. hidden.

h ch. 15. 21. & 20. 25. Jer. 6. 25. & 20. 3. & 46. 5. & 49. 29. + Heb.

thou not exalt them.

5 He that speaketh flattery to his

i ch. 15. 23.

+ Heb. bars.