|
|
| [1]Then Job answered and said: |
[No book] |
| [2]I have heard many such things; sorry comforters are ye all. |
[No book] |
| [3]Shall windy words have an end? Or what provoketh thee that thou answerest? |
[No book] |
| [4]I also could speak as ye do; if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you. |
[No book] |
| [5]I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips would assuage your grief. |
[No book] |
| [6]Though I speak, my pain is not assuaged; and though I forbear, what am I eased? |
[No book] |
| [7]But now He hath made me weary; Thou hast made desolate all my company. |
[No book] |
| [8]And Thou hast shrivelled me up, which is a witness against me; and my leanness riseth up against me, it testifieth to my face. |
[No book] |
| [9]He hath torn me in His wrath, and hated me; He hath gnashed upon me with His teeth; mine adversar sharpeneth his eyes upon me. |
[No book] |
| [10]They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek scornfully; they gather themselves together against me. |
[No book] |
| [11]God delivereth me to the ungodly, and casteth me into the hands of the wicked. |
[No book] |
| [12]I was at ease, and He broke me asunder; yea, He hath taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces; He hath also set me up for His mark. |
[No book] |
| [13]His archers compass me round about, He cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; He poureth out my gall upon the ground. |
[No book] |
| [14]He breaketh me with breach upon breach; He runneth upon me like a giant. |
[No book] |
| [15]I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and have laid my horn in the dust. |
[No book] |
| [16]My face reddened with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death; |
[No book] |
| [17]Although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure. |
[No book] |
| [18]O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have resting-place. |
[No book] |
| [19]Even now, behold, my Witness is in heaven, and He that testifieth of me is on high. |
[No book] |
| [20]Mine inward thoughts are my intercessors, mine eye poureth out tears unto God; |
[No book] |
| [21]That He would set aright a man contending with God, as a son of man setteth aright his neighbour! |
[No book] |
| [22]For the years that are few are coming on, and I shall go the way whence I shall not return. |
[No book] |