33But now, Job, listen to my words; pay attention to everything I say. 2I am about to open my mouth; my words are on the tip of my tongue. 3My words come from an upright heart; my lips sincerely speak what I know. 4The Spirit of God has made me; the...
32So these three men stopped answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes. 2But Elihu son of Barakel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, became very angry with Job for justifying himself rather than God. 3He was also angry with the three fri...
31I made a covenant with my eyes not to look lustfully at a girl. 2For what is man's lot from God above, his heritage from the Almighty on high? 3Is it not ruin for the wicked, disaster for those who do wrong? 4Does he not see my ways and count my ev...
30But now they mock me, men younger than I, whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs. 2Of what use was the strength of their hands to me, since their vigor had gone from them? 3Haggard from want and hunger, they roamed the parch...
29Job continued his discourse: 2How I long for the months gone by, for the days when God watched over me, 3when his lamp shone upon my head and by his light I walked through darkness! 4Oh, for the days when I was in my prime, when God's intimate frie...
28There is a mine for silver and a place where gold is refined. 2Iron is taken from the earth, and copper is smelted from ore. 3Man puts an end to the darkness; he searches the farthest recesses for ore in the blackest darkness. 4Far from where peopl...
27And Job continued his discourse: 2As surely as God lives, who has denied me justice, the Almighty, who has made me taste bitterness of soul, 3as long as I have life within me, the breath of God in my nostrils, 4my lips will not speak wickedness, a...
26Then Job replied: 2How you have helped the powerless! How you have saved the arm that is feeble! 3What advice you have offered to one without wisdom! And what great insight you have displayed! 4Who has helped you utter these words? And whose spirit...
25Then Bildad the Shuhite replied: 2Dominion and awe belong to God; he establishes order in the heights of heaven. 3Can his forces be numbered? Upon whom does his light not rise? 4How then can a man be righteous before God? How can one born of woman...
24Why does the Almighty not set times for judgment? Why must those who know him look in vain for such days? 2Men move boundary stones; they pasture flocks they have stolen. 3They drive away the orphan's donkey and take the widow's ox in pledge. 4They...
