return again, my righteousness is in it.
[30] Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse
things?
Job.7
[1] Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?
[2]
As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work:
[3]
So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
[4] When I lie
down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the
dawning of the day.
[5] My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become
loathsome.
[6] My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
[7] O remember
that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.
[8] The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me
no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not.
[9] As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he
that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.
[10] He shall return no more to his house, neither
shall his place know him any more.
[11] Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish
of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
[12] Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a
watch over me?
[13] When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;
[14] Then
thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:
[15] So that my soul chooseth strangling,
and death rather than my life.
[16] I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.
[17]
What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?
[18]
And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment?
[19] How long wilt thou not
depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
[20] I have sinned; what shall I do unto
thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to
myself?
[21] And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall
I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.
Job.8
[1] Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
[2] How long wilt thou speak these things? and how
long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?
[3] Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the
Almighty pervert justice?
[4] If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for
their transgression;
[5] If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;
[6]
If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness
prosperous.
[7] Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.
[8] For inquire,
I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:
[9] (For we are but of
yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)
[10] Shall not they teach
thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?
[11] Can the rush grow up without mire? can the
flag grow without water?
[12] Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any
other herb.
[13] So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:
[14] Whose
hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider's web.
[15] He shall lean upon his house, but
it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.
[16] He is green before the sun, and his
branch shooteth forth in his garden.
[17] His roots are wrapped about the heap, and seeth the place of
stones.
[18] If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee.
[19]
Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow.
[20] Behold, God will not cast
away a perfect man, neither will he help the evil doers:
[21] Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy
lips with rejoicing.
[22] They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the
wicked shall come to nought.
Job.9
[1] Then Job answered and said,
[2] I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?
[3] If
he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.
[4] He is wise in heart, and mighty in
strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered?
[5] Which removeth the mountains,
and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger.
[6] Which shaketh the earth out of her place,