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How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?

How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?

But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honourable man dwelt in it.

Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are!

Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven.

Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.

For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God.

Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me.

But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.

Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.

They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.

They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.

They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.

The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.

In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.

In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.

For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.

He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.

Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways.

Dominion and fear are with him, he maketh peace in his high places.

Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight.

He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.

All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;

All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;

Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God?

Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep.

Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.

Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living.

The depth saith, It is not in me: and the sea saith, It is not with me.

Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;

Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;

As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle;

When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!

Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.

My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.

My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.

I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.

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.

Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?

For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.

To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.

To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.

To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.

They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.

They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.

They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.

My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.

My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.

Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.

Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?

I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.

Let me be weighed in an even balance that God may know mine integrity.

Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?

Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?

If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:

If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;

The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller.

If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:

So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

When Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, then his wrath was kindled.

But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding.

For I know not to give flattering titles; in so doing my maker would soon take me away.

Behold, now I have opened my mouth, my tongue hath spoken in my mouth.

If thou canst answer me, set thy words in order before me, stand up.

Behold, I am according to thy wish in God’s stead: I also am formed out of the clay.

Surely thou hast spoken in mine hearing, and I have heard the voice of thy words, saying,

I am clean without transgression, I am innocent; neither is there iniquity in me.

He putteth my feet in the stocks, he marketh all my paths.

Behold, in this thou art not just: I will answer thee, that God is greater than man.

In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;

In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;

In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;

Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men.

In a moment shall they die, and the people shall be troubled at midnight, and pass away: and the mighty shall be taken away without hand.

He shall break in pieces mighty men without number, and set others in their stead.

He shall break in pieces mighty men without number, and set others in their stead.

Therefore he knoweth their works, and he overturneth them in the night, so that they are destroyed.

He striketh them as wicked men in the open sight of others;

But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night;

Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust thou in him.

But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity:

But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity:

Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.

For truly my words shall not be false: he that is perfect in knowledge is with thee.

Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any: he is mighty in strength and wisdom.

And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction;

And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction;

If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.

If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.

But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he bindeth them.

They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean.

He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression.

He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression.

Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.

For by them judgeth he the people; he giveth meat in abundance.

Then the beasts go into dens, and remain in their places.

And it is turned round about by his counsels: that they may do whatsoever he commandeth them upon the face of the world in the earth.

Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him which is perfect in knowledge?

And now men see not the bright light which is in the clouds: but the wind passeth, and cleanseth them.

Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out: he is excellent in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice: he will not afflict.