1 Then Job (Iyyov) answered יהוה, and said: 2 “I know that You canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from You. 3 ‘Who is He that hideth counsel without knowledge?’ Therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not. 4 Hear, I …
Category Archives: Job (Iyyov)
Job 14
1 Man 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 also as a shadow, and continueth not. 3 And dost You open Your eyes upon such a one, and bringest me into judgment with You? 4 …
Job 29
1 Moreover Job (Iyyov) continued his parable, and said: 2 “Oh that I was as in months past, as in the days when God (Eloah) preserved me; 3 When His candle shined upon my head, and when by His light I walked through darkness; 4 As I was in the days of my youth, when …
Job 5
1 Call now, if there be any that will answer you; and to which of the 31aholy ones (qedoshim) wilt you turn? 2 For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one. 3 I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation. 4 His children are far from …
Job 15
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 …
Job 3
1 After this opened Job (Iyyov) his mouth, and cursed his day. 2 And Job (Iyyov) spake, and said, 3 “Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, ‘There is a man child conceived.’ 4 Let that day be darkness; let not God (Eloah) regard it from …
Job 6
1 But Job (Iyyov) answered and said, 2 “Oh that my grief was throughly weighed, and my disaster laid in the balances together! 3 For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea; therefore my words are swallowed up. 4 For the arrows of the Almighty (Shaddai) are within me, the poison …
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 30
1 But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock. 2 Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished? 3 For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into …
Job 7
1 Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? Are not his days also like the days of a hireling? 2 As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as a hireling looketh for the reward of his work; 3 So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are …