1 Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said: 2 “Should a wise 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, you castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God (El). 5 For your …
Monthly Archives: July 2019
Job 16
1 Then Job (Iyyov) answered and said: 2 “I have heard many such thing; miserable comforters are you all! 3 Shall vain words have an end? Or what emboldeneth you that you answerest? 4 I also could speak as you do, if your soul were in my soul’s stead, I could heap up words against …
Job 17
1 My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me. 2 Are there not mockers with me? And doth not mine eye continues in their provocation? 3 Lay down now, put me in a surety with You; who is he that will strike hands with me? 4 For you have …
Job 18
1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said: 2 “How long will it be ere you make an end of words? Mark, and afterwards we will speak. 3 Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight? 4 He teareth himself in his anger; shall the earth be forsaken for you? And …
Job 19
1 Then Job (Iyyov) answered and said: 2 “How long will you vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words? 3 These ten times have you reproached me: you are not ashamed that you make yourselves strange to me. 4 And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself. …
Job 20
1 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said: 2 “Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste. 3 I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer. 4 Knowest you not this of old, since man was placed upon earth, …
Job 21
1 But Job (Iyyov) answered and said: 2 “Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations. 3 Bear with 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 was so, why should not my spirit be troubled? …
Job 22
1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said: 2 “Can a man be profitable unto God (El), as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself? 3 Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that you are righteous? Or is it gain to him, that you makest your ways perfect? 4 Will He reprove …
Job 23
1 Then Job (Iyyov) answered and said: 2 “Even today is my complaint bitter; 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 before Him, and fill my mouth with arguments. 5 I …
Job 24
1 Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know Him not see His days? 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 …