13 Lo, mine eye hath seen all this,

Mine ear hath heard and understood it.

2  What ye know, the same do I know also:

aI am not inferior unto you.

3  bSurely I would speak to the Almighty,

And I desire to creason with God.

4  But ye are dforgers of lies,

eYe are all physicians fof no value.

5  O that ye would altogether ghold your peace!

And it should be your wisdom.

6  Hear now my hreasoning,

And hearken to the pleadings of my lips.

7  Will ye speak iwickedly for God?

And talk ideceitfully for him?

8  Will ye kaccept his person?

Will ye lcontend for God?

9  mIs it good that he should nsearch you out?

Or as one man omocketh another, do ye so mock him?

10  He will surely creprove you,

If ye do secretly kaccept persons.

11  Shall not his pexcellency make you afraid?

And his dread fall upon you?

12  Your qremembrances are rlike unto sashes,

Your bodies to bodies of clay.

13  †Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak,

And let tcome on me uwhat will.

14  Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth,

And xput my life in mine hand?

15  yThough he slay me, yet will I ztrust in him:

But I will †maintain mine own ways abefore him.

16  He also shall be my salvation:

For an hypocrite shall not come before him.

17  aaHear diligently my speech,

And my bdeclaration with your ears.

18  Behold now, I have cordered my cause;

I know that I shall be justified.

19  dWho is he that will plead with me?

For now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.

20  Only do not two things unto me:

Then ewill I not hide myself from thee.

21  fWithdraw thine hand far from me:

And flet not thy dread make me afraid.

22  gThen call thou, and I will answer:

Or let me speak, and hanswer thou me.

23  How many are mine iniquities and sins?

Make ime to know my transgression and my sin.

24  jWherefore hidest thou thy face,

And kholdest me for thine enemy?

25  Wilt thou break la leaf driven to and fro?

And wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?

26  For thou mwritest bitter things against me,

And makest me to possess nthe iniquities of my youth.

27  oThou puttest my feet also in the stocks,

And †lookest narrowly unto all my paths;

Thou psettest a print upon the †heels of my feet.

28  And he, as a qrotten thing, consumeth,

As a garment that is rmoth eaten.

14 Man that is aborn of a woman

Is †of few days, and bfull of trouble.

2  He cometh forth like ca flower, and dis cut down:

He fleeth also as ea shadow, and continueth not.

3  And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one,

And fbringest me into judgment with thee?

4  †Who can gbring a clean thing out of an unclean?

hNot one.

5  Seeing his days are determined,

The number of his months are with thee,

Thou hast appointed his ubounds that he cannot pass;

6  iTurn from him, that he may †rest,

Till he shall jaccomplish, kas an hireling, his day.

7  For there is hope of a tree,

If it be cut down, kkthat it will lsprout again,

And that the mtender branch thereof will not cease.

8  Though the root thereof wax old in the earth,

And the nstock thereof die in the ground;

9  Yet through the scent of water it will bud,

And bring forth oboughs like a plant.

10  pBut man dieth, and †wasteth away:

Yea, man giveth up the ghost, and qwhere is he?

11  As qqthe waters fail from the sea,

qqAnd the flood decayeth and drieth up:

12  So man lieth down, and riseth not:

rTill the heavens be no more, they shall not awake,

Nor be raised out of their sleep.

13  O that thou wouldest shide me in the grave,

That thou wouldest skeep me secret, tuntil thy wrath be past,

That thou wouldest appoint me ua set time, and remember me!

14  wIf a man die, shall he live again?

All the days of my xappointed time ywill I wait,

Till my zchange come.

15  aThou shalt call, and I will answer thee:

Thou wilt have a desire to bthe work of thine hands.

16  For now thou cnumberest my steps:

Dost thou not dwatch over my sin?

17  My transgression is esealed up in a bag,

And thou fsewest up mine iniquity.

18  And surely the mountain falling †cometh to nought,

And gthe rock is removed out of his place.

19  The waters hwear the stones:

Thou †washest away ithe things which grow out of the dust of the earth;

And thou destroyest the hope of man.

20  Thou kprevailest lfor ever against him, and mhe passeth:

Thou changest his countenance, and nsendest him away.

21  His sons ocome to honour, and phe knoweth it not;

And they oare brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.

22  But his flesh upon him shall have pain,

And his soul within him shall mourn.

15 Then answered aEliphaz the Temanite, and said,

2  Should ba wise man utter †vain knowledge,

And fill his cbelly with dthe east wind?

3  Should he reason with ddunprofitable talk?

Or with speeches wherewith he ecan do no good?

4  Yea, †thou castest off ffear,

And restrainest ||prayer before God.

5  For thy mouth †uttereth thine iniquity,

And thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.

6  gThine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I:

Yea, thine own lips htestify against thee.

7  Art thou the first man that was born?

Or iwast thou made jbefore the hills?

8  Hast thou heard kthe secret of God?

And dost thou lrestrain wisdom to thyself?

9  mWhat knowest thou, that we know not?

What understandest thou, which is not in us?

10  nWith us are both the grayheaded and overy aged men,

Much elder than thy father.

11  Are the consolations of God small with thee?

Is there any secret thing with thee?

12  Why doth thine heart carry thee away?

And what do thy eyes wink at,

13  That thou turnest thy pspirit against God,

And lettest such words go out of thy mouth?

14  qWhat is man, that he should be clean?

And he which is rborn of a woman, that he should be righteous?

15  sBehold, he putteth no trust in his tsaints;

Yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.

16  uHow much more abominable and xfilthy

Is man, ywhich drinketh iniquity like water?

17  I will shew thee, hear me;

And that which I have seen I will declare;

18  Which wise men have ztold

aFrom their fathers, and zhave not hid it:

19  Unto whom alone the earth was given,

And bno stranger passed among them.

20  The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days,

And the number of years cis hidden to the doppressor.

21  †A dreadful sound is in his ears:

eIn prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.

22  He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness,

And he is waited for of the sword.

23  He fwandereth abroad for bread, gsaying, Where is it?

He knoweth that the day of darkness his ready at his hand.

24  Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid;

They shall iprevail against him, jas a king ready to the battle.

25  For he stretcheth out his hand against God,

And strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.

26  He krunneth upon him, even lon his neck,

Upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:

27  Because he mcovereth his face with his fatness,

And maketh collops of fat on his flanks.

28  And he dwelleth in desolate cities,

And in houses which no man inhabiteth,

Which are ready to become heaps.

29  He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue,

Neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.

30  He shall not depart out of darkness;

The flame shall dry up his nbranches,

And oby the breath of his mouth shall he go away.

31  Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity:

For vanity shall be his recompence.

32  It shall be ||accomplished pbefore his time,

And his qbranch shall not be green.

33  He shall rshake off his sunripe grape as the vine,

And shall cast off his sflower as the olive.

34  For tthe congregation of hypocrites shall be udesolate,

And fire shall consume the wtabernacles of bribery.

35  xThey conceive ymischief, and bring forth y||vanity,

And their zbelly prepareth deceit.