Gen. + hair and flesh quivered. 16 I arose, and perceived it not: I looked, and there was no form before my eyes: but I only heard a breath and a voice, saying, 17 What, shall a mortal be pure before the Lord? or a man be blameless in regard to his works? 18 Whereas + κατὰ, with he trusts not in his servants, and perceives perverseness in his angels. 19 But as for them that dwell in houses of clay, of whom we also are formed of the same clay, he smites them like a moth. 20 And from morning to evening they no longer exist: they have perished, because they cannot help themselves. 21 For he blows upon them, and they are withered: they have perished for lack of wisdom. 3 wise in their wisdom, and subverts the counsel of the crafty. 14 In the day darkness shall come upon them, and let them grope in the noon-day even as in the night: 15 and let them perish in war, and let the weak escape from the hand of the mighty. 16 And let the weak have hope, but the mouth of the unjust be stopped. 17 But blessed is the man whom the Lord has reproved; and reject not thou the chastening of the Almighty. 18 For he causes a man to be in pain, and restores him again: he smites, and his hands heal. 19 Six times he shall deliver thee out of distresses: and in the seventh harm shall not touch thee. 20 In famine he the iron. shall deliver thee from death: and in war he shall free thee from the 'power of the sword. 21 He shall +Gr. hand of 5. But call, if any one will hearken hide thee from the scourge to thee, or if thou shalt see any of the of the tongue: and thou shalt not be holy angels. 2 For wrath destroys the afraid of coming evils. 22 Thou shalt foolish one, and envy slays him that laugh at the unrighteous and the lawhas gone astray. And I have seen less: and thou shalt not be afraid of foolish ones taking root: but suddenly wild beasts. 23 For the wild beasts of their habitation was devoured. Let the field shall be at peace with thee. their children be far from safety, and 24 Then shalt thou know that thy house let them be crushed at the doors of shall be at peace and the * provision vile men, and let there be no deliverer. for thy tabernacle shall not for, order of. For what they have collected, the just fail. 25 And thou shalt + Gr. err. shall eat; but they shall not be deli- know that thy seed shall be abundant; vered out of calamities: let their and thy children shall be like the herbstrength be utterly exhausted. For age of the field. 26And thou shalt labour cannot by any means come out come to the grave like ripe corn reaped of the earth, nor shall trouble spring in its season, or as a heap of the cornout of the mountains: 7 yet man is floor collected in time. proper born to labour, and even so the vulture's hold, we have thus sought out these young seek the high places. Never-matters; these are what we have heard: theless I will beseech the Lord, and but do thou reflect with thyself, if thou will call upon the Lord, the sovereign hast done anything wrong. 9 8 6 of all; who does great things and untraceable, glorious things also, and marvellous, of which there is no number: 10 who gives rain upon the earth, sending water on the earth: "who exalts the lowly, and raises up them + See Prov. that are lost: 12 frustrating S. 5, and note. the counsels of the crafty, and their hands shall not perform the truth. 13 Who takes the 7. d. reach their aim. 26 27 Be 6. But Job answered and said, 20 that one would indeed weigh the wrath that is upon me, and take up my griefs in a balance together! And verily they would be heavier than the sand by the seashore: but, as it seems, my words are vain. 4 For the arrows of the Lord are in my body, whose violence drinks up my blood: when me. perly loud noise,' but here and in Joel 2. 20. it seems put for βρῶμος, stench.' turn' in Heb. ever I am going to speak, they pierce | have erred, tell me. 25 But as it seems, 5 What then? will the wild ass the words of a true man are vain, bray for nothing, if he is not seeking because I do not ask strength + Gr. for. food? or again, will the ox low at the of you. 26 Neither will your reproof manger, when he has fodder? 6 Shall cause me to cease by words, for neither bread be eaten without salt? or again, will I endure the sound of your speech. is there taste in empty words? For 27 Even because ye attack the fathermy wrath cannot cease; for I perceive less, and insult your friend. 28 But my food as the smell of a lion to be now, having looked upon your coun+Bpóμos, pro-loathsome. 8 For O that tenances, I will not lie. 29+ Sit down he would grant my desire, now, and let there not be Prob. 'reand my petition might come, unrighteousness; and unite confusion be and the Lord would grant again with the just. 30 For tween and my hope. 9 Let the Lord there is no injustice in my begin and wound me, but let him not tongue; and does not my throat mediutterly destroy me. 10 Let the grave tate understanding? be my city, upon the very walls of which I have leaped: I will not 'shrink + Gr. spare. from it; for I have not denied the holy words of my God. 11 For what is my strength, that I continue? what is my time, that my soul endures? 12 Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brass? 13 Or have I not trusted in him? but help is far from me. 14 Mercy has rejected me; and the visitation of the Lord has disregarded me. 15 My nearest relations have not regarded me; they have passed me by like a failing brook, or like a wave. 16 They who tain-torrent. used to reverence me, now have come against me like snow or + Or, moun + scil. χιών, but Alex. 1 3 2 + See πειρα τήριον, Gen. ruption of 7. Is not the life of man upon earth a state of trial? and his existence as that of a hire- 49. 19. ling by the day? Or as a servant that fears his master, and one who has grasped a shadow? or as a hireling waiting for his pay? So have I also endured months of vanity, and nights of pain have been appointed me. 4 Whenever I lie down, I say, When will it be day? and whenever I rise up, again I say when will it be evening? and I am full of pains from evening to morning. And my body is covered Gr. the corwith 'loathsome worms; and worms. I waste away, scraping off clods of dust 6 congealed ice. 17 When it from my eruption. And my life is τακείς. has melted at the approach lighter than a word, and has perished of heat, is not known what it was. in vain hope. 7 Remember then that 18 Thus I also have been deserted of all; my life is breath, and mine eye shall and I am ruined, and become an out- not yet again see good. The eye of Or, homeless. cast. 19 Behold the him that sees me shall not see me of the Thamanites, ye that mark the paths of the Sabæans. 20 They too that trust in cities and riches shall See ope- come to shame. 21 But λήσουσι, Prov. ye 14.9. also have come to me without pity; so that beholding my wound ye are afraid. 22 What? have I made any demand of you? or do I ask for strength from you, 23 to deliver me from enemies, or to rescue me from the hand of the mighty ones? 24 Teach ye me, and I will be silent: if in anything I ways 9 8 again: thine eyes are upon me, and I Alex. 'God.' It ther Job knew pent, that thou hast set a watch over for our life upon the earth is a shame? 13 I said that my bed should dow:) 10 shall not these teach thee, comfort me, and I would privately and report to thee, and bring out words counsel with myself on my couch. from their heart? 11 Does the rush 14 Thou scarest me with dreams, and flourish without water, or shall the flag dost terrify me with visions. 15+ Thou grow up without moisture? 12 When *Probably the wilt separate life from my it is yet on the root, and though it has LXX. falsely spirit; and yet keep my not been cut down, does not any herb bones from death. 16 For I wither before it has received moisture? shall not live for ever, that I should 13 Thus then shall be the end of all that patiently endure: depart from me, for forget the Lord: for the Heb. and my life is vain. 17 For what is man, hope of the ungodly shall may be questhat thou hast magnified him? or that perish. 14 For his house tioned whethou givest heed to him? 18 Wilt thou shall be without inhabitants, God as Jehovisit him till the morning, and judge and his tent shall prove a Ex. 6. 3. him till the time of rest? 19 How long spider's web. 15 If he should prop up dost thou not let me alone, nor let me his house, it shall not stand: and when go, until I shall swallow down my he has taken hold of it, it shall not respittle? 20 If I have sinned, what shall main. 16 For it is moist under the sun, I be able to do, O thou that and his branch shall come forth out of probably understandest the mind of his dung-heap. 17 He lies or, corrupread as some men? why hast thou made down upon a gathering of tion. me as thine accuser, and why stones, and shall live in the midst of am I a burden to thee? flints. 18 If God should destroy him, acting early in 21 Why hast thou not for- his place shall deny him. Hast thou the morning. gotten my iniquity, and not seen such things? 19 That such is purged my sin? but now I shall de- the overthrow of the ungodly? and part to the earth; and in the morn-out of the earth another Alex. ao, 20 For the Lord shall cause + Heb. 'sleep,' שוב part of + Gr. rising, or, otherwise ing, I am no more. 4 + + 8. Then Baldad the Sauchite answered, and said, 2 How long wilt thou speak these things, how long shall the breath of thy mouth be abundant in words? 3 Will the Lord be unjust when he judges; or will he that has Gr. disturb made all things pervert the just thing. justice? If thy sons have sinned before him, he has cast them away because of their transgression. But be thou early in prayer to the Lord Almighty. If thou art pure and true, he will hearken to thy supplication, and he will restore to thee the habitation of righteousness. Though then thy beginning should be small, yet thy end should be unspeakably great. For ask of the former generation, and search diligently among the race of + Gr. not. our fathers: (for we are of yesterday, and know nothing; 8 + 7 + vah. Comp. + 9. Then Job answered and said, 2 I know of a truth that it is so: for how shall a mortal man be just before the Lord? For if he would enter into judgment with him, God + Or, he. would not hearken to him, so that he should answer to one of his charges of a thousand. For he is wise in mind, and mighty, and great: who has hardened himself against him and endured? Who wears out the mountains, and men know it not: who overturns 4 + See note Gen. 1. 21. + Gr. if then he will. + them in anger. 6 Who shakes the - 'not.' 26 their path left by ships? or is there one of the flying eagle as it seeks its prey? 27 And if I should say, I will forget to speak, I will bow down my face and groan; 28 I quake in all my limbs, for I know that thou wilt not leave me alone as innocent. 29 But since I am ungodly, why have I not died? 30 For if I should wash myself with snow, and purge myself with pure hands, 31 thou hadst thoroughly plunged me in filth, and my garment +Gr. hast. had abhorred me. 32 For thou art not man like me, with whom I could contend, that we might come together to judgment. 33 Would that he our mediator were present and a reprover and one who should hear the cause between both. 34 Let him remove his rod from me, and let not his fear terrify me: 35 so shall I not be afraid, but I will speak: for I am not thus conscious of guilt. 3 + will pour him: I Alex. myself. And I 2 Or is 10. Weary in my soul, I my words with groans upon will speak being straitened in the bitterness of my soul. will say to the Lord, Do not teach me to be impious; and wherefore hast thou thus judged me? Is it good before thee if I be unrighteous? for thou hast disowned the work of thy hands, and attended to the counsel of the ungodly. Or dost thou see as a mortal sees? or wilt thou look as a man sees? thy life human, or thy years the years of a man. 6 That thou hast inquired into mine iniquity, and searched out my sins? For thou knowest that I have not committed iniquity: but who is he that can deliver out of thy hands? Thy hands have formed me and made me; afterwards thou didst change thy mind, and smite me. Remember that thou hast made me as clay, and thou dost turn me again to earth. 10 Hast thou not poured me out like milk, and curdled me like cheese? "And thou didst clothe me with skin and flesh, and frame me with bones and sinews. 8 9 18 17 13 + Gr. floats, prieties. 12 And thou didst bestow upon me life | made? Heaven is high; and what and mercy, and thy oversight has pre- wilt thou do? and there are deeper + Or, life. served my spirit. 13 Having things than those in hell; what dost these things in thyself, I know that thou know? 9 Or longer than the thou canst do all things, for nothing measure of the earth, or the breadth is impossible with thee. 14 And if I of the sea. 10 And if he should overshould sin, thou watchest me; and thou throw all things, who will say to him, hast not cleared me from iniquity. 15 Or What hast thou done? For he if I should be ungodly, woe is me: and knows the works of transgressors; and if I should be righteous, I cannot lift when he sees wickedness, he will not myself up, for I am full of dishonour. overlook it. 12 But man + Gr. impro16 For I am hunted like a lion for vainly buoys himself up slaughter; for again thou hast changed with words; and a mortal or, swims. born of woman is like an ass of the desert. 3 For if thou hast made thine heart pure, and liftest up thine hands towards him; 14 if there is any iniquity in thy hands, put it far from thee, and let not unrighteousness lodge in thy habitation. 15 For thus shall thy Gr. diairy. countenance shine again, as pure water; and thou shalt divest thyself of uncleanness, and shalt not fear. 16 And thou shalt forget trouble, as a wave that has passed by; and thou shalt not be scared. 17 And thy prayer shall be as the morning star, and life shall arise to thee as from the noon-day. 18 And thou shalt be confident, because thou hast hope; and peace shall dawn to thee from out of anxiety and care. 19 For thou shalt be at ease, and there shall be no one to fight against thee; and many shall charge, and make supplication to thee. 20 But safety shall fail them; for their hope is destruction, and the eyes of the ungodly shall waste away. and art terribly destroying me; renewing against me my torture: and thou hast dealt with me in great anger, and thou hast brought 'trials upon me. + See chap. Why then didst thou 7. 1, note. bring me out of the womb? and why did I not die, and no eye see me, 19 and I become as if I had not been? for why was I not carried from the womb to the grave? 20 Is not the + Gr. life of time of my life short? suffer me to rest a little, 21 before I go whence I shall not return, to a land of darkness and gloominess; 22 to a land of perpetual darkness, where there is no light, neither can any one see the life of mortals. my time. 11. Then Sophar the Minaan answered and said, 2 He that speaks much, +Gr.shall. *should also hear on the other side: or does the fluent speaker think himself to be righteous? blessed is the short-lived offspring of woman. 3 Be not a speaker of many words; for is there none to answer thee? 4 For say not, I am pure in my works, and 12. And Job answered and said, blameless before him. 5 But O that 2 So then ye alone are men, and wisthe Lord would speak to thee, and dom shall die with you? But I also open his lips with thee! Then shall have a heart as well as you. For a he declare to thee the power of wis-righteous and blameless man has bedom; for it shall be double of that come a subject for mockery. For it which is with thee: and then shalt had been ordained that he should fall thou know, that a just recompense of thy sins has come to thee from the Lord. Wilt thou find out the traces of the Lord? or hast thou come to the end of that which the Almighty has 3 4 under others at the ap- + Or, for. pointed time, and that his houses should be spoiled by transgressors: let not however any one trust that, being evil, he shall be held guiltless, even as |