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But Job answered and said,
Then Job answered:
How hast thou helped him that is without power? how savest thou the arm that hath no strength?
“How you have helped the powerless and saved the arm that is feeble!
How hast thou counseled him that hath no wisdom? and how hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is?
How you have counseled the unwise and provided fully sound insight!
To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee?
To whom have you uttered these words? And whose spirit spoke through you?
Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.
The dead tremble— those beneath the waters and those who dwell in them.
He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.
He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth upon nothing.
He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.
He wraps up the waters in His clouds, yet the clouds do not burst under their own weight.
He holdeth back the face of his throne, and spreadeth his cloud upon it.
He covers the face of the full moon, spreading over it His cloud.
He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.
He has inscribed a horizon on the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness.
The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof.
All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;
as long as my breath is still within me and the breath of God remains in my nostrils,
Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous.
May my enemy be like the wicked and my opponent like the unjust.
For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?
For what is the hope of the godless when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?
Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye thus altogether vain?
Surely all of you have seen it for yourselves. Why then do you keep up this empty talk?
If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
Though his sons are many, they are destined for the sword; and his offspring will never have enough food.
He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.
what he lays up, the righteous will wear, and his silver will be divided by the innocent.
The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he openeth his eyes, and he is not.
He lies down wealthy, but will do so no more; when he opens his eyes, all is gone.
The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.
The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.
Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it.
“Surely there is a mine for silver and a place where gold is refined.
He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.
Man puts an end to the darkness; he probes the farthest recesses for ore in deepest darkness.
The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; even the waters forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.
Far from human habitation he cuts a shaft in places forgotten by the foot of man. Far from men he dangles and sways.
As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.
Food may come from the earth, but from below it is transformed as by fire.
The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold.
Its rocks are the source of sapphires, containing flecks of gold.
He putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he overturneth the mountains by the roots.
The miner strikes the flint; he overturns mountains at their base.
He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light.
He stops up the sources of the streams to bring what is hidden to light.
But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding?
But where can wisdom be found, and where does understanding dwell?
Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living.
No man can know its value, nor 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.
The ocean depths say, ‘It is not in me,’ while the sea declares, ‘It is not with me.’
The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold.
Neither gold nor crystal can compare to it, nor jewels of fine gold be exchanged for it.
Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding?
From where then does wisdom come, and where does understanding dwell?
Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air.
It is hidden from the eyes of every living thing and concealed from the birds of the air.
God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.
But God understands its way, and He knows its place.
For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven;
For He looks to the ends of the earth and sees everything under the heavens.
To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.
When God fixed the weight of the wind and measured out the waters,
when He set a limit for the rain and a path for the thunderbolt,
And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.
And He said to man, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to turn away from evil is understanding.’”
Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;
“How I long for the months gone by, for the days when God watched over me,
As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle;
when I was in my prime, when the friendship of God rested on my tent,
When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;
when my steps were bathed in cream and the rock poured out for me streams of oil!
When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!
When I went out to the city gate and took my seat in the public square,
The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up.
the young men saw me and withdrew, and the old men rose to their feet.
When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me:
For those who heard me called me blessed, and those who saw me commended me,
The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.
The dying man blessed me, and I made the widow’s heart sing for joy.
I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
I was a father to the needy, and I took up the case of the stranger.
Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.
So I thought: ‘I will die in my nest and multiply my days as the sand.
After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them.
After my words, they spoke no more; my speech settled on them like dew.
And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.
They waited for me as for rain and drank in my words like spring showers.
I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.
I chose their course and presided as chief. So I dwelt as a king among his troops, as a comforter of the mourners.
To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.
so that they lived on the slopes of the wadis, among the rocks and in holes in the ground.
They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.
They advance as through a wide breach; through the ruins they keep rolling in.
Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.
Terrors are turned loose against me; they drive away my dignity as by the wind, and my prosperity has passed like a cloud.
And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
And now my soul is poured out within me; days of affliction grip me.
My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
Night pierces my bones, and my gnawing pains never rest.
He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
He throws me into the mud, and I have become like dust and ashes.
I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not.
I cry out to You for help, but You do not answer; when I stand up, You merely look at me.