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

m near.

n cried, or, called

Jo.2.6.

10 But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you. 11 My days are past, my purposes are bro-pc.3.17..19. ken 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 my 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?

a c.13.14.

b his soul. © Pr.24.20. dor, lamp. e Pr. 1.30.. 32.

20 They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before r were affrighted.

21 Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.

8

CHAPTER XIX.

1 Job, complaining of his friends' cruelty, showeth there is misery enough in him to feed their cruelty. 21, 28 He craveth pity. 23 He believeth the resurrection. HEN Job answered and said,

THE

2 How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?

b

3 These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.

4 And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.

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5 If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:

6 Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.

d

f Pr.5.22. 29.6.

hidden.

i scatter. J bars.

k Pr.10.28.

16 They shall go down to the bars of the 11.5.24. pit, when our rest together is in the dust.

CHAPTER XVIII.

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

THEN answered Bildad the Shuhite,and said,

2

words? mark, and afterwards we will speak. 3 Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?

4 Heteareth himself 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 shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine. 6 The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him. 7 The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down. 8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.

f

9 The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him.

10 The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.

m P8.34.16. n They shall drive

him.

o Is.14.22.

p Pa.37.13. q or, lived with him.

r laid hold on horror.

B 2 Th.1.8. a Ge.31.7.

bor, harden

your-
selves
against

me.

© P&.38. 16. d or, vislence.

e La.2.5,6. f P.38.11. g my belly. h or, the wicked.

i The men of my secret.

J Pa. 102.5.

I who will give.

11 Terrors shall make him afraid on every P. 69.26. side, and shall drive him to his feet. 12 His strength shall be hunger-bitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side. 13 It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the first-born of death shall devour his strength.

14 His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.

15 It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.

16 His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.

e

10 He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and my hope hath he removed like a tree.

11 He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.

12 His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.

13 He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.

14 Mykinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.

15 They that dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.

16 I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I entreated him with my mouth. 17 My breath is strange to my wife, though I entreated for the children's sake of my own body.

h

be destroyed, yet out of

my Besh

shall I see God.

1Co.15.53 1Jn.3.2

pa stranger.

qor, my reins

are con sumed with ear nest desire for that day.

r in my bosom.

e or, and what root of matter

is found

in me.

earth:

26 m And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see " God: 27 Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.

28 But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?

CHAPTER XX.

Zophar showeth the state and portion of the wicked.

THEN answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,

2 Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.

3I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth

me to answer.

4 Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,

B. C. 1520.

t Ps.58.10, 11.

Job shows cause for his grief. and his goods shall flow away in the day of

his wrath.

29 This is the portion of a wicked man from amy haste God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.

is in me.

b from near. c Mat.7.21.

d Is. 14.13,14 e cloud.

f1 Ki.14.10. P.73.20.

h or, The poor shall op press his

children.

shall

8 He shall fly away as a dream, and not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.

9 The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.

10 His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods. 11 His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust. 12 Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue; 13 Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:

14 Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.

15 He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.

16 He shall suck the poison m of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.

17 He shall not see the rivers, the "floods, the brooks of honey and butter.

18 That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein.

19 Because he hath Poppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away a house which he builded not;

J c. 13.26. k c.15.16.

1 in the midst of his palate.

m Ro.3.13

n or,

streaming brooks.

o the substance of

his ex-
change.

p crushed.
q know.

r or, be

none left for his meal.

■ Ec.5.13,14 tor, troublesome.

u Ps.78.30, 31.

V Ps.73.19.

2 Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.

3 Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.

4 As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled ?

5 Mark b me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.

6 Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.

7 Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?

8 Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes. 9 Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.

10 Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf. 11 They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.

12 They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.

f

13 They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.

14 Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of Mat312 thy ways.

w Ps.21.9.

x of his deCree from.

a shortened.

15 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit i should we have, if we pray unto him?

16 Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

17 How oft is the candle of the wicked put b look unto out? and how oft cometh their destruction upon them? God distributeth sorrows in his

c c.40.4.

h Ex.5.2

j P&.1.1.

k or, lamp,

away.

mi. e. the punish

his

ment of
iniquity.

n Ex. 20.5. Eze. 18.14.

o Ro.11.34.

fection, Or, in the strength

of his perfection.

pails.

r tent of the tabe nacles.

28 The increase of his house shall depart,

s wraths.

cut off in the midst ?

22 Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high.

23 One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.

24 His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow..

25 And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure. 26 They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.

27 Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me. 28 For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?

29 Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens, 30 That the wicked is reserved to the day o destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.

b

as

2 Can a man be profitable unto God, e that is wise may be profitable unto himself? 3 Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or is it gain to him, that thou makest thy ways perfect?

4 Will he reprove thee for fear of thee? will he enter with thee into judgment?

5 Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite?

6 For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

7 Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast witholden bread from the hungry.

d

B. C. 1520. t graves.

u watch in the heap.

v He 9.27.

W c.16.2 x trans

gression.

a Ps. 16.2.

b or, if he may be profitable, doth his good

success

depend
thereon.

the naked.

29 When men are cast down, then thou shalt say, There is lifting up; and he shall save the humble a person.

30 He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thy hands.

CHAPTER XXIII.

1 Job longeth to appear before God, 6 in confidence of his mercy. 8 God, who is invisible, observeth our ways. 11 Job's innocency. 13 God's decree is immutable.

THEN Job answered and said,

b

2 Even to day is my complaint bitter :

e clothes of my stroke is heavier than my groaning. 3 Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat! 4 I would order my cause

d man of arm.

eminent

or,accepted for countenance.

18.8.10

P&.11.6. g head.

hor, what

i Ps. 10.11. 73.11.

or,a flood

was

poured upon their foundation. Ge.7.10, &c.

2 Pe.25

I or, to. m Ac.14.15 ..17.

h

13 And thou sayest, How i doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?

14 Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven.

15 Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden ?

16 Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:

17 Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them? 18 Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

19 The righteous see it, and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn.

o or, their excellency. pi. e. God.

1275

Phi. 4.7.

r Pa. 119.11.

fill my mouth with arguments.

before him, and

5 I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.

e

6 Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me.

7 There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.

8 Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him: 9 On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him:

10 But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold. 11 My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.

12 Neither have I gone back from the comHo.141.2 mandment of his lips; I have esteemed 12T2.19 the words of his mouth more than my } necessary k *food.

u or, on the dust. v or, gold.

13 But he is in one mind, and who can turn w silver of him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.

strength.

x Pa.66.17.. 20.

y Mat.21.22

z him that hoth low eyes.

a 1 Pe.5.5. bor, the

innocent shall de liver the istand. Ge. 18.26. a Ps.77.2.9.

b hand.
e Is.26.8.
Je. 14.7.

2 Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof. 3 They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.

4 They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together. 5 Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.

6 They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked. 7 They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.

8 They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want e La.4.5. of a shelter

Judgment for the wicked.

A. M. 2484.

9 They pluck the fatherless from the breast, [. 1620. and take a pledge of the poor.

10 They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;

11 Which make oil within their walls, and tread their wine-presses, and suffer thirst. 12 Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.

13 They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.

14 The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.

15 The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me : and disguiseth his face.

f Pa. 10.8..11

g Pr. 7.8,9.

h setteth his face in

secret.

i Ja.3.20.

P.73.18, violently

take.

Pr.10.7

Is.26.14.

m or, he trusteth not his own life.

n Pr.5.21..

23.

P37.35,

36.

a Da.4.3,34. Jude 25.

16 In the dark they dig through houses, which closed up. they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.

17 For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.

18 He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.

19 Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned.

20 The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more I remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.

Job protests his sincerity.

5 Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.

6 Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.

7 He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.

8 He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them. 9 He holdeth back the face of his throne, and spreadeth his cloud upon it.

10 He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.

11 The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof.

k

12 He divideth the sea with his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through the proud.

m

n

14 Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand? CHAPTER XXVII.

1 Job protesteth his sincerity. 8 The hypocrite is without hope. 11 The blessings which the wicked have are turned into corses

MOREOVER Job* continued his parable,

and said,

2 As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul;

с

3 All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;

4 My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.

d

5 God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me. 6 My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.

f

o 1 Co. 13.9, 12.

a added to take up.

11 I will teach you by the hand of God: that which is with the Almighty will I not conceal 12 Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it,

3 Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth not his light arise?

b

4 How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?

5 Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight. 6 How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm.

CHAPTER XXVI.

bitter.

Ru.1.20.

1 Job, reproving the uncharitable spirit of Bildad, 5 acknowledgeth the power of God Mat. 16.99

to be infinite and onsearchable.

OUT Job answered and said,

BUT

h Pr. 1.28.

i Mat.13.21.

2 How hast thou helped him that is without power? how savest thou the arm that, being hath no strength?

3 How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom? and how hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is?

4 To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee?

b

k De.28.41.

2K 107,8

Ho.9.13.

1 Ps. 73.61.

m Ec. 2.26.

n Lu. 16.22, 23.

13 This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty.

14 If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

15 Those that remain of him shall be buried in death and his widows shall not weep. 16 Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;

17 He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.

18 He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth that the keeper maketh.