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Eliphaz Speaks

1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:

2 Does a wise man answer with emptycounsel

or fill himselfwith the hot east wind?

3 Should he arguewith useless talk

or with words that serve no good purpose?

4 But you even undermine the fear of God

and hinder meditation before Him.

5 Your iniquityteaches you what to say,

and you choose the language of the crafty.

6 Your own mouth condemns you, not I;

your own lips testify against you.

7 Were you the first person ever born,

or were you brought forth before the hills?

8 Do you listen in on the council of God,

or have a monopoly on wisdom?

9 What do you know that we don’t?

What do you understand that is not clear to us?

10 Both the gray-haired and the elderly are with us,

men older than your father.

11 Are God’s consolations not enough for you,

even the words that deal gently with you?

12 Why has your heart misled you,

and why do your eyes flash

13 as you turn your angeragainst God

and allow such words to leave your mouth?

14 What is man, that he should be pure,

or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?

15 If God puts no trust in His holy ones

and the heavens are not pure in His sight,

16 how much less one who is revolting and corrupt,

who drinks injusticelike water?

17 Listen to me and I will inform you.

I will describe what I have seen,

18 what was declared by wise men

and was not suppressed by their ancestors,

19 the land was given to them alone

when no foreigner passed among them.

20 A wicked man writhes in pain all his days;

only a fewyears are reserved for the ruthless.

21 Dreadful sounds fill his ears;

when he is at peace, a robber attacks him.

22 He doesn’t believe he will return from darkness;

he is destined for the sword.

23 He wanders about for food, saying, “Where is it? ”

He knows the day of darkness is at hand.

24 Troubleand distress terrify him,

overwhelming him like a king prepared for battle.

25 For he has stretched out his handagainst God

and has arrogantly opposed the Almighty.

26 He rushes headlong at Him

with his thick, studded shields.

27 Though his face is covered with fat

and his waistline bulges with it,

28 he will dwell in ruined cities,

in abandoned houses destined to become piles of rubble.

29 He will no longer be rich; his wealth will not endure.

His possessionswill not increase in the land.

30 He will not escape from the darkness;

flames will wither his shoots,

and by the breath of God’s mouth, he will depart.

31 Let him not put trust in worthless things, being led astray,

for what he gets in exchange will prove worthless.

32 It will be accomplished before his time,

and his branch will not flourish.

33 He will be like a vine that drops its unripe grapes

and like an olive tree that sheds its blossoms.

34 For the company of the godlesswill have no children,

and fire will consume the tents of those who offer bribes.

35 They conceive troubleand give birth to evil;

their wombprepares deception.

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Job’s Reply to Eliphaz

1 Then Job answered:

2 I have heard many things like these.

You are all miserable comforters.

3 Is there no end to your emptywords?

What provokes you that you continue testifying?

4 If you were in my place I could also talk like you.

I could string words together against you

and shake my head at you.

5 Instead, I would encourage you with my mouth,

and the consolation from my lips would bring relief.

6 Even if I speak, my suffering is not relieved,

and if I hold back, what have I lost?

7 Surely Hehas now exhausted me.

You have devastated my entire family.

8 You have shriveled me up— it has become a witness;

My frailty rises up against me and testifies to my face.

9 His anger tears at me, and He harassesme.

He gnashes His teeth at me.

My enemy pierces me with His eyes.

10 They open their mouths against me

and strike my cheeks with contempt;

they join themselves together against me.

11 God hands me over to unjust men;

He throws me into the hands of the wicked.

12 I was at ease, but He shattered me;

He seized me by the scruff of the neck

and smashed me to pieces.

He set me up as His target;

13 His archerssurround me.

He pierces my kidneys without mercy

and pours my bile on the ground.

14 He breaks through my defenses again and again;

He charges at me like a warrior.

15 I have sewn sackcloth over my skin;

I have buried my strengthin the dust.

16 My face has grown red with weeping,

and darknesscovers my eyes,

17 although my hands are free from violence

and my prayer is pure.

18 Earth, do not cover my blood;

may my cry for help find no resting place.

19 Even now my witness is in heaven,

and my advocate is in the heights!

20 My friends scoff at me

as I weep before God.

21 I wish that someone might arbitrate

between a man and God

just as a man pleads for his friend.

22 For only a few years will pass

before I go the way of no return.

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1 My spirit is broken.

My days are extinguished.

A graveyardawaits me.

2 Surely mockers surroundme

and my eyes must gaze at their rebellion.

3 Make arrangements! Put up security for me.

Who else will be my sponsor?

4 You have closed their minds to understanding,

therefore You will not honor them.

5 If a man informs on his friends for a price,

the eyes of his children will fail.

6 He has made me an object of scorn to the people;

I have become a man people spit at.

7 My eyes have grown dim from grief,

and my whole body has become but a shadow.

8 The upright are appalledat this,

and the innocent are roused against the godless.

9 Yet the righteous person will hold to his way,

and the one whose hands are cleanwill grow stronger.

10 But come back and try again, all of you.

I will not find a wise man among you.

11 My days have slipped by;

my plans have been ruined,

even the things dear to my heart.

12 They turned night into day

and made light seem near in the face of darkness.

13 If I await Sheol as my home,

spread out my bed in darkness,

14 and say to corruption: You are my father,

and to the maggot: My mother or my sister,

15 where then is my hope?

Who can see any hope for me?

16 Will it go down to the gates of Sheol,

or will we descend together to the dust?

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Bildad Speaks

1 Then Bildad the Shuhitereplied:

2 How long until you stop talking?

Show some sense, and then we can talk.

3 Why are we regarded as cattle,

as stupid in your sight?

4 You who tear yourself in anger—

should the earth be abandoned on your account,

or a rock be removed from its place?

5 Yes, the lightof the wickedis extinguished;

the flame of his fire does not glow.

6 The light in his tent grows dark,

and the lamp beside him is put out.

7 His powerful stride is shortened,

and his own schemes trip him up.

8 For his own feet lead him into a net,

and he strays into its mesh.

9 A trap catches him by the heel;

a noose seizes him.

10 A rope lies hidden for him on the ground,

and a snare waits for him along the path.

11 Terrors frighten him on every side

and harass him at every step.

12 His strength is depleted;

disaster lies ready for him to stumble.

13 Parts of his skin are eaten away;

death’s firstborn consumes his limbs.

14 He is ripped from the security of his tent

and marched away to the king of terrors.

15 Nothing he owned remains in his tent.

Burning sulfuris scattered over his home.

16 His roots below dry up,

and his branches above wither away.

17 All memoryof him perishes from the earth;

he has no name anywhere.

18 He is driven from light to darkness

and chased from the inhabited world.

19 He has no children or descendants among his people,

no survivor where he used to live.

20 Those in the west are appalledat his fate,

while those in the east tremble in horror.

21 Indeed, such is the dwelling of the unjust man,

and this is the place of the one who does not know God.

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Job’s Reply to Bildad

1 Then Job answered:

2 How long will you torment me

and crush me with words?

3 You have humiliated me ten times now,

and you mistreatme without shame.

4 Even if it is true that I have sinned,

my mistake concerns onlyme.

5 If you really want to appear superiorto me

and would use my disgrace as evidence against me,

6 then understand that it is God who has wronged me

and caught me in His net.

7 I cry out: “Violence!” but get no response;

I call for help, but there is no justice.

8 He has blockedmy way so that I cannot pass through;

He has veiled my paths with darkness.

9 He has stripped me of my honor

and removed the crown from my head.

10 He tears me down on every side so that I am ruined.

He uproots my hope like a tree.

11 His angerburns against me,

and He regards me as one of His enemies.

12 His troops advance together;

they construct a rampagainst me

and camparound my tent.

13 He has removed my brothers from me;

my acquaintances have abandoned me.

14 My relatives stop coming by,

and my close friends have forgotten me.

15 My house guestsand female servants regard me as a stranger;

I am a foreigner in their sight.

16 I call for my servant, but he does not answer,

even if I beg him with my own mouth.

17 My breath is offensive to my wife,

and my own familyfinds me repulsive.

18 Even young boys scorn me.

When I stand up, they mock me.

19 All of my best friendsdespise me,

and those I love have turned against me.

20 My skin and my flesh cling to my bones;

I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

21 Have mercy on me, my friends,have mercy,

for God’s handhas struck me.

22 Why do you persecute me as God does?

Will you never get enough of my flesh?

23 I wish that my words were written down,

that they were recorded on a scroll

24 or were inscribed in stone forever

by an iron stylus and lead!

25 But I know my living Redeemer,

and He will stand on the dustat last.

26 Even after my skin has been destroyed,

yet I will see God inmy flesh.

27 I will see Him myself;

my eyes will look at Him, and not as a stranger.

My heart longswithin me.

28 If you say, “How will we pursue him,

since the root of the problem lies with him? ”

29 then be afraid of the sword,

because wrath brings punishment by the sword,

so that you may know there is a judgment.

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Zophar Speaks

1 Then Zophar the Naamathitereplied:

2 This is why my unsettling thoughts compel me to answer,

because I am upset!

3 I have heard a rebuke that insults me,

and my understandingmakes me reply.

4 Don’t you know that ever since antiquity,

from the time man was placed on earth,

5 the joy of the wicked has been brief

and the happiness of the godless has lasted only a moment?

6 Though his arrogance reaches heaven,

and his head touches the clouds,

7 he will vanish forever like his own dung.

Those who knowhim will ask, “Where is he? ”

8 He will fly away like a dream and never be found;

he will be chased away like a vision in the night.

9 The eye that saw him will see him no more,

and his household will no longer see him.

10 His children will beg fromthe poor,

for his own hands must give back his wealth.

11 His bones may be full of youthful vigor,

but will lie down with him in the grave.

12 Though evil tastes sweet in his mouth

and he conceals it under his tongue,

13 though he cherishes it and will not let it go

but keeps it in his mouth,

14 yet the food in his stomach turns

into cobras’ venom inside him.

15 He swallows wealth but must vomit it up;

God will force it from his stomach.

16 He will suck the poison of cobras;

a viper’s fangswill kill him.

17 He will not enjoy the streams,

the rivers flowing with honey and cream.

18 He must return the fruit of his labor without consuming it;

he doesn’t enjoy the profits from his trading.

19 For he oppressed and abandoned the poor;

he seized a house he did not build.

20 Because his appetite is never satisfied,

he does not let anything he desires escape.

21 Nothing is left for him to consume;

therefore, his prosperity will not last.

22 At the height of his successdistress will come to him;

the full weight of miserywill crush him.

23 When he fills his stomach,

God will send His burning anger against him,

rainingit down on him while he is eating.

24 If he flees from an iron weapon,

an arrow from a bronze bow will pierce him.

25 He pulls it out of his back,

the flashing tip out of his liver.

Terrors come over him.

26 Total darkness is reserved for his treasures.

A fire unfanned by human hands will consumehim;

it will feed on what is left in his tent.

27 The heavens will expose his iniquity,

and the earth will rise up against him.

28 The possessions in his house will be removed,

flowing away on the day of God’s anger.

29 This is the wicked man’s lotfrom God,

the inheritance God ordained for him.

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Job’s Reply to Zophar

1 Then Job answered:

2 Pay close attention to my words;

let this be the consolation you offer.

3 Bear with me while I speak;

then after I have spoken, you may continue mocking.

4 As for me, is my complaintagainst a man?

Then why shouldn’t I be impatient?

5 Look at me and shudder;

put your hand over your mouth.

6 When I think about it, I am terrified

and my body tremblesin horror.

7 Why do the wicked continue to live,

growing old and becoming powerful?

8 Their children are established while they are still alive,

and their descendants, before their eyes.

9 Their homes are secure and free of fear;

no rod from God strikes them.

10 Their bulls breed without fail;

their cows calve and do not miscarry.

11 They let their little ones run around like lambs;

their children skip about,

12 singing to the tambourine and lyre

and rejoicing at the sound of the flute.

13 They spendtheir days in prosperity

and go down to Sheol in peace.

14 Yet they say to God: “Leave us alone!

We don’t want to know Your ways.

15 Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him,

and what will we gain by pleading with Him? ”

16 But their prosperity is not of their own doing.

The counsel of the wicked is far from me!

17 How often is the lampof the wicked put out?

Does disastercome on them?

Does He apportion destruction in His anger?

18 Are they like straw before the wind,

like chaffa storm sweeps away?

19 God reserves a person’s punishment for his children.

Let God repay the person himself, so that he may know it.

20 Let his own eyes see his demise;

let him drink from the Almighty’s wrath!

21 For what does he care about his family once he is dead,

when the number of his months has run out?

22 Can anyone teach God knowledge,

since He judges the exalted ones?

23 One person dies in excellent health,

completely secureand at ease.

24 His body iswell fed,

and his bones are full of marrow.

25 Yet another person dies with a bittersoul,

having never tasted prosperity.

26 But they both lie in the dust,

and worms cover them.

27 I know your thoughts very well,

the schemes you would wrong me with.

28 For you say, “Where now is the nobleman’s house? ”

and “Where are the tentsthe wicked lived in? ”

29 Have you never consulted those who travel the roads?

Don’t you accept their reports?

30 Indeed, the evil man is spared from the day of disaster,

rescued from the day of wrath.

31 Who would denounce his behavior to his face?

Who would repayhim for what he has done?

32 He is carried to the grave,

and someone keeps watch over his tomb.

33 The dirt on his grave issweet to him.

Everyone follows behind him,

and those who go before him are without number.

34 So how can you offer me such futile comfort?

Your answers are deceptive.

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Eliphaz Speaks

1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:

2 Can a man be of any use to God?

Can even a wise man be of use to Him?

3 Does it delight the Almighty if you are righteous?

Does He profit if you perfect your behavior?

4 Does He correct you and take you to court

because of your piety?

5 Isn’t your wickedness abundant

and aren’t your iniquities endless?

6 For you took collateralfrom your brothers without cause,

stripping off their clothes and leaving them naked.

7 You gave no water to the thirsty

and withheld food from the famished,

8 while the land belonged to a powerful man

and an influential man lived on it.

9 You sent widows away empty-handed,

and the strength of the fatherlesswascrushed.

10 Therefore snares surround you,

and sudden dread terrifiesyou,

11 or darkness, so you cannot see,

and a flood of water covers you.

12 Isn’t God as high as the heavens?

And look at the highest stars — how lofty they are!

13 Yet you say: “What does God know?

Can He judge through thick darkness?

14 Cloudsveil Him so that He cannot see,

as He walks on the circle of the sky.”

15 Will you continue on the ancient path

that wicked men have walked?

16 They were snatched away before their time,

and their foundationswere washed away by a river.

17 They were the ones who said to God, “Leave us alone! ”

and “What can the Almighty do to us? ”

18 But it was He who filled their houses with good things.

The counsel of the wicked is far from me!

19 The righteous see this and rejoice;

the innocent mock them, saying,

20 “Surely our opponents are destroyed,

and fire has consumed what they left behind.”

21 Come to terms with God and be at peace;

in this waygood will come to you.

22 Receive instruction from His mouth,

and place His sayingsin your heart.

23 If you returnto the Almighty, you will be renewed.

If you banish injustice from your tent

24 and consign your gold to the dust,

the gold of Ophirto the stones in the wadis,

25 the Almighty will be your gold

and your finest silver.

26 Then you will delightin the Almighty

and lift up your face to God.

27 You will pray to Him, and He will hear you,

and you will fulfill your vows.

28 When you make a decision, it will be carried out,

and light will shine on your ways.

29 When others are humiliated and you say, “Lift them up,”

God will save the humble.

30 He will even rescue the guilty one,

who will be rescued by the purity of your hands.

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Job’s Reply to Eliphaz

1 Then Job answered:

2 Today also my complaint is bitter.

Hishand is heavy despite my groaning.

3 If only I knew how to find Him,

so that I could go to His throne.

4 I would plead my case before Him

and fill my mouth with arguments.

5 I would learn howHe would answer me;

and understand what He would say to me.

6 Would He prosecuteme forcefully?

No, He will certainly pay attention to me.

7 Then an upright man could reasonwith Him,

and I would escape from my Judgeforever.

8 If I go east, He is not there,

and if I go west, I cannot perceive Him.

9 When He is at work to the north, I cannot see Him;

when He turns south, I cannot find Him.

10 Yet He knows the way I have taken;

when He has tested me,I will emerge as pure gold.

11 My feet have followed in His tracks;

I have kept to His wayand not turned aside.

12 I have not departed from the commands of His lips;

I have treasuredthe wordsof His mouth

more than my daily food.

13 But He is unchangeable; who can oppose Him?

He does what He desires.

14 He will certainly accomplish what He has decreed for me,

and He has many more things like these in mind.

15 Therefore I am terrifiedin His presence;

when I consider this, I am afraid of Him.

16 God has made my heart faint;

the Almighty has terrified me.

17 Yet I am not destroyedby the darkness,

by the thick darkness that covers my face.

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1 Why does the Almighty not reserve times for judgment?

Why do those who know Him never see His days?

2 The wicked displace boundary markers.

They steal a flock and provide pasture for it.

3 They drive away the donkeys owned by the fatherless

and take the widow’s ox as collateral.

4 They push the needy off the road;

the poor of the land are forced into hiding.

5 Like wild donkeys in the desert,

the poor go out to their task of foraging for food;

the wilderness provides nourishment for their children.

6 They gather their fodder in the field

and glean the vineyards of the wicked.

7 Without clothing, they spend the night naked,

having no covering against the cold.

8 Drenched by mountain rains,

they huddle againstthe rocks, shelterless.

9 The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast;

the nursing child of the poor is seized as collateral.

10 Without clothing, they wander about naked.

They carry sheaves but go hungry.

11 They crush olives in their presses;

they tread the winepresses, but go thirsty.

12 From the city, mengroan;

the mortally wounded cry for help,

yet God pays no attention to this crime.

13 The wicked are those who rebel against the light.

They do not recognize its ways

or stay on its paths.

14 The murderer rises at dawn

to kill the poor and needy,

and by night he becomes a thief.

15 The adulterer’s eye watches for twilight,

thinking: No eye will see me;

he covers his face.

16 In the dark they breakinto houses;

by day they lock themselves in,

never experiencing the light.

17 For the morning is like darkness to them.

Surely they are familiar with the terrors of darkness!

18 They floaton the surface of the water.

Their section of the land is cursed,

so that they never go to their vineyards.

19 As dry ground and heat snatch away the melted snow,

so Sheolsteals those who have sinned.

20 The womb forgets them;

worms feed on them;

they are rememberedno more.

So injustice is broken like a tree.

21 They prey onthe childless woman who is unable to conceive,

and do not deal kindly with the widow.

22 Yet God drags awaythe mighty by His power;

when He rises up, they have no assurance of life.

23 He gives them a sense of security, so they can rely on it,

but His eyeswatch over their ways.

24 They are exalted for a moment, then they are gone;

they are brought low and shrivel up like everything else.

They wither like heads of grain.

25 If this is not true, then who can prove me a liar

and show that my speech is worthless?

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