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1 And Job again took up his adiscourse and said,
2 “Oh that I were as in months gone by,
As in the days when God awatched over me;
3 When aHis lamp shone over my head,
And bby His light I walked through darkness;
4 As I was in 1the prime of my days,
When the 2afriendship of God was over my tent;
5 When 1the Almighty was yet with me,
And my children were around me;
6 When my steps were bathed in abutter,
And the brock poured out for me streams of oil!
7 “When I went out to athe gate of the city,
When I 1took my seat in the square,
8 The young men saw me and hid themselves,
And the old men arose and stood.
9 “The princes astopped talking
And bput their hands on their mouths;
10 The voice of the nobles was 1ahushed,
And their btongue stuck to their palate.
11 “For when athe ear heard, it called me blessed,
And when the eye saw, it gave witness of me,
12 Because I delivered athe poor who cried for help,
And the borphan who had no helper.
13 “The blessing of the one aready to perish came upon me,
And I made the bwidow’s heart sing for joy.
14 “I aput on righteousness, and it clothed me;
My justice was like a robe and a turban.
15 “I was aeyes to the blind
And feet to the lame.
16 “I was a father to athe needy,
And I investigated the case which I did not know.
17 “I abroke the jaws of the wicked
And snatched the prey from his teeth.
18 “Then I 1thought, ‘I shall die 2in my nest,
And I shall multiply my days as the sand.
19 ‘My aroot is spread out to the waters,
And bdew lies all night on my branch.
20 ‘My glory is ever new with me,
And my abow is renewed in my hand.’
21 “To me athey listened and waited,
And kept silent for my counsel.
22 “After my words they did not aspeak again,
And bmy speech dropped on them.
23 “They waited for me as for the rain,
And opened their mouth as for the spring rain.
24 “I smiled on them when they did not believe,
And the light of my face they did not cast down.
25 “I chose a way for them and sat as achief,
And dwelt as a king among the troops,
As one who bcomforted the mourners.
Job’s Present State Is Humiliating
1 “But now those younger than I amock me,
Whose fathers I disdained to put with the dogs of my flock.
2 “Indeed, what good was the strength of their hands to me?
Vigor had perished from them.
3 “From want and famine they are gaunt
Who gnaw the dry ground by night in waste and desolation,
4 Who pluck 1mallow by the bushes,
And whose food is the root of the broom shrub.
5 “They are driven from the community;
They shout against them as against a thief,
6 So that they dwell in dreadful 1valleys,
In holes of the earth and of the rocks.
7 “Among the bushes they 1cry out;
Under the nettles they are gathered together.
8 “1Fools, even 2those without a name,
They were scourged from the land.
9 “And now I have become their 1ataunt,
I have even become a bbyword to them.
10 “They abhor me and stand aloof from me,
And they do not 1refrain from aspitting at my face.
11 “Because 1He has loosed 2His 3bowstring and aafflicted me,
They have cast off bthe bridle before me.
12 “On the right hand their 1brood arises;
They athrust aside my feet band build up against me their ways of destruction.
13 “They abreak up my path,
They profit 1from my destruction;
No one restrains them.
14 “As through a wide breach they come,
1Amid the tempest they roll on.
15 “aTerrors are turned against me;
They pursue my 1honor as the wind,
And my 2prosperity has passed away blike a cloud.
16 “And now amy soul is poured out 1within me;
Days of affliction have seized me.
17 “At night it pierces amy bones 1within me,
And my gnawing pains take no rest.
18 “By a great force my garment is adistorted;
It binds me about as the collar of my coat.
19 “He has cast me into the amire,
And I have become like dust and ashes.
20 “I acry out to You for help, but You do not answer me;
I stand up, and You turn Your attention against me.
21 “You have 1become cruel to me;
With the might of Your hand You apersecute me.
22 “You alift me up to the wind and cause me to ride;
And You dissolve me in a storm.
23 “For I know that You awill bring me to death
And to the bhouse of meeting for all living.
24 “Yet does not one in a heap of ruins stretch out his hand,
Or in his disaster therefore acry out for help?
25 “Have I not awept for the 1one whose life is hard?
Was not my soul grieved for bthe needy?
26 “When I aexpected good, then evil came;
When I waited for light, bthen darkness came.
27 “1I am seething awithin and cannot relax;
Days of affliction confront me.
28 “I go about 1amourning without comfort;
I stand up in the assembly and bcry out for help.
29 “I have become a brother to ajackals
And a companion of ostriches.
30 “My askin turns black 1on me,
And my bbones burn with 2fever.
31 “Therefore my aharp 1is turned to mourning,
And my flute to the sound of those who weep.
1 “I have made a covenant with my aeyes;
How then could I gaze at a virgin?
2 “And what is athe portion of God from above
Or the heritage of the Almighty from on high?
3 “Is it not acalamity to the unjust
And disaster to bthose who work iniquity?
4 “Does He not asee my ways
And bnumber all my steps?
5 “If I have awalked with falsehood,
And my foot has hastened after deceit,
6 Let Him aweigh me with 1accurate scales,
And let God know bmy integrity.
7 “If my step has aturned from the way,
Or my heart 1followed my eyes,
Or if any bspot has stuck to my hands,
8 Let me asow and another eat,
And let my 1bcrops be uprooted.
9 “If my heart has been aenticed by a woman,
Or I have lurked at my neighbor’s doorway,
10 May my wife agrind for another,
And let bothers 1kneel down over her.
11 “For that would be a alustful crime;
Moreover, it would be ban iniquity punishable by judges.
12 “For it would be afire that consumes to 1bAbaddon,
And would cuproot all my 2increase.
13 “If I have adespised the claim of my male or female slaves
When they filed a complaint against me,
14 What then could I do when God arises?
And when He calls me to account, what will I answer Him?
15 “Did not aHe who made me in the womb make him,
And the same one fashion us in the womb?
16 “If I have kept athe poor from their desire,
Or have caused the eyes of bthe widow to fail,
17 Or have aeaten my morsel alone,
And bthe orphan has not 1shared it
18 (But from my youth he grew up with me as with a father,
And from 1infancy I guided her),
19 If I have seen anyone perish afor lack of clothing,
Or that bthe needy had no covering,
20 If his loins have not 1thanked me,
And if he has not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep,
21 If I have lifted up my hand against athe orphan,
Because I saw 1I had support bin the gate,
22 Let my shoulder fall from the 1socket,
And my aarm be broken off 2at the elbow.
23 “For acalamity from God is a terror to me,
And because of bHis 1majesty I can do nothing.
24 “If I have put my confidence in agold,
And called fine gold my trust,
25 If I have agloated because my wealth was great,
And because my hand had secured so much;
26 If I have alooked at the 1sun when it shone
Or the moon going in splendor,
27 And my heart became secretly enticed,
And my hand 1threw a kiss from my mouth,
28 That too would have been aan iniquity calling for 1judgment,
For I would have bdenied God above.
29 “Have I arejoiced at the extinction of my enemy,
Or 1exulted when evil befell him?
30 “1No, aI have not 2allowed my mouth to sin
By asking for his life in ba curse.
31 “Have the men of my tent not said,
‘Who can 1find one who has not been asatisfied with his meat’?
32 “The alien has not lodged outside,
For I have opened my doors to the 1traveler.
33 “Have I acovered my transgressions like 1Adam,
By hiding my iniquity in my bosom,
34 Because I afeared the great multitude,
And the contempt of families terrified me,
And kept silent and did not go out of doors?
35 “Oh that I had one to hear me!
Behold, here is my 1signature;
aLet the Almighty answer me!
And the indictment which my badversary has written,
36 Surely I would carry it on my shoulder,
I would bind it to myself like a crown.
37 “I would declare to Him athe number of my steps;
Like ba prince I would approach Him.
38 “If my aland cries out against me,
And its furrows weep together;
39 If I have aeaten its 1fruit without money,
Or have bcaused 2its owners to lose their lives,
40 Let abriars 1grow instead of wheat,
And stinkweed instead of barley.”
The words of Job are ended.
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