And Job again took up his parable, and said,

2As God liveth, who hath taken away my right,

And the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul:

3(For my life is yet whole in me,

And the spirit of God is in my nostrils);

4Surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness,

Neither shall my tongue utter deceit.

5Far be it from me that I should justify you:

Till I die I will not put away mine integrity from me.

6My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go:

My heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.

7Let mine enemy be as the wicked,

And let him that riseth up against me be as the unrighteous.

8For what is the hope of the godless, though he get him gain,

When God taketh away his soul?

9Will God hear his cry,

When trouble cometh upon him?

10Will he delight himself in the Almighty,

And call upon God at all times?

11I will teach you concerning the hand of God;

That which is with the Almighty will I not conceal.

12Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it;

Why then are ye become altogether vain?

13This is the portion of a wicked man with God,

And the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty:

14If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword;

And his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

15Those that remain of him shall be buried in death,

And his widows shall make no lamentation.

16Though he heap up silver as the dust,

And prepare raiment as the clay;

17He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on,

And the innocent shall divide the silver.

18He buildeth his house as the moth,

And as a booth which the keeper maketh.

19He lieth down rich, but he shall not be gathered to his fathers;

He openeth his eyes, and he is not.

20Terrors overtake him like waters;

A tempest stealeth him away in the night.

21The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth;

And it sweepeth him out of his place.

22For God shall hurl at him, and not spare:

He would fain flee out of his hand.

23Men shall clap their hands at him,

And shall hiss him out of his place.

28 Surely there is a mine for silver,

And a place for gold which they refine.

2Iron is taken out of the earth,

And copper is molten out of the stone.

3Man setteth an end to darkness,

And searcheth out, to the furthest bound,

The stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.

4He breaketh open a shaft away from where men sojourn;

They are forgotten of the foot;

They hang afar from men, they swing to and fro.

5As for the earth, out of it cometh bread;

And underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.

6The stones thereof are the place of sapphires,

And it hath dust of gold.

7That path no bird of prey knoweth,

Neither hath the falcon’s eye seen it:

8The proud beasts have not trodden it,

Nor hath the fierce lion passed thereby.

9He putteth forth his hand upon the flinty rock;

He overturneth the mountains by the roots.

10He cutteth out channels among the rocks;

And his eye seeth every precious thing.

11He bindeth the streams that they trickle not;

And the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light.

12But where shall wisdom be found?

And where is the place of understanding?

13Man knoweth not the price thereof;

Neither is it found in the land of the living.

14The deep saith, It is not in me;

And the sea saith, It is not with me.

15It cannot be gotten for gold,

Neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.

16It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir,

With the precious onyx, or the sapphire.

17Gold and glass cannot equal it,

Neither shall it be exchanged for jewels of fine gold.

18No mention shall be made of coral or of crystal:

Yea, the price of wisdom is above rubies.

19The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it,

Neither shall it be valued with pure gold.

20Whence then cometh wisdom?

And where is the place of understanding?

21Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living,

And kept close from the birds of the heavens.

22Destruction and Death say,

We have heard a rumor thereof with our ears.

23God understandeth the way thereof,

And he knoweth the place thereof.

24For he looketh to the ends of the earth,

And seeth under the whole heaven;

25To make a weight for the wind:

Yea, he meteth out the waters by measure.

26When he made a decree for the rain,

And a way for the lightning of the thunder;

27Then did he see it, and declare it;

He established it, yea, and searched it out.

28And unto man he said,

Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom;

And to depart from evil is understanding.