Job 4:12–5:7

¹²Now there was a word spoken to me in private, and my ears by stealth, as it were, received the veins of its whisper.

¹³In the horror of a vision by night, when deep sleep is wont to hold men,

¹⁴Fear seized upon me, and trembling, and all my bones were affrighted:

¹⁵And when a spirit passed before me, the hair of my flesh stood up.

¹⁶There stood one whose countenance I knew not, an image before my eyes, and I heard the voice, as it were, of a gentle wind.

¹⁷Shall man be justified in comparison of God, or shall a man be more pure than his maker?

¹⁸Behold, they that serve him are not steadfast, and in his angels he found wickedness:

¹⁹How much more shall they that dwell in houses of clay, who have an earthly foundation, be consumed as with the moth?

²⁰From morning till evening they shall be cut down: and because no one understandeth, they shall perish for ever.

²¹And they that shall be left, shall be taken away from them: they shall die, and not in wisdom.

Chapter 5

Call now, if there be any that will answer thee, and turn to some of the saints.

²Anger indeed killeth the foolish, and envy slayeth the little one.

³I have seen a fool with a strong root, and I cursed his beauty immediately.

⁴His children shall be far from safety, and shall be destroyed in the gate, and there shall be none to deliver them.

⁵Whose harvest the hungry shall eat, and the armed man shall take him by violence, and the thirsty shall drink up his riches.

⁶Nothing upon earth is done without a cause, and sorrow doth not spring out of the ground.

⁷Man is born to labour, and the bird to fly.