7¶So went Satan forth from the prefence of the Lord, and fmote Job with

him upon the ground feven days and feven nights, and none spake a word unto him:

fore boils from the fole of for they faw that his grief

his foot unto his crown.

8 And he took him a pot herd to scrape himself

was very great.

CHAP. III.

withal; and he fat down AFTER this opened

among the afhes.

9 Then faid his wife unto him, Doft thou still retain thine integrity? curfe God, and die.

Job his mouth, and

curfed his day.

2 And Job fpake, and said, 3 Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the 10 But he said unto her, night in which it was faid, Thou fpeakeft as one of the There is man child confoolish women fpeaketh :ceived. what? fhall we receive good at the hand of God, and fhall we not receive evil? in all this did not Job fin with his lips.

i1 Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him, and to comfort him.

4 Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light fhine upon it.

5 Let darkness and the fhadow of death ftain it; let a cloud dwell upon it, let the blackness of the day terrify it. 6 As for that night, let darkness feize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.

7 Lo, let that night be folitary, let no joyful voice come therein.

8 Let them curse it that curfe the day, who are ready to raife up their mourn

12 And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his man-ing. tle, and fprinkled duft upon their heads toward heaven.

13 So they fat down with

9 Let the ftars of the twilight thereof be dark; let. it look for light, but have R 2 none,

none, neither let it fee the dawning of the day.

10 Because it fhut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid forrow from

mine eyes.

11 Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?

12 Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breafts that I should fuck.

13 For now fhould I have lain ftill, and been quiet, I should have flept; then had I been at reft;

14 With kings and counfellors of the earth, which built defolate places for themselves;

in foul;

21 Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treafures;

22 Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave? 23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?

24 For my fighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.

25 For the thing which I greatly feared is come_upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.

26 I was not in safety, neither had I reft, neither was I quiet; yet trouble

15 Or with princes that had gold, who filled their came. houfes with filver:

16 Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been ; as infants which never faw light.

17 There the wicked ceafe from troubling; and there the weary be at reft;

18 There the prifoners reft together; they hear not the voice of the oppreffor.

19 The small and great are there and the fervant is free from his master.

20 Wherefore is light given to him that is in mitery; and life unto the bitter

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CHAP. IV.

HEN Eliphaz the
Temanite answered

and faid,

2 If we affay to commune with thee, will thou be griev ed? but who can withhold himself from speaking?

3 Behold, thou haft inftructed many, and thou hast ftrengthened the weak hands.

4 Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou haft ftrengthened the feeble knees.

5 But now it is come

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upon

upon thee, and thou fainteft; | could not difcern the form

it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.

6 Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways? 7 Remember, I pray thee, who ever perifhed being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?

8 Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and fow wickedness, reap the

fame.

thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was filence, and I heard a voice, Jaying,

17 Shall mortal man be more juft than God? fhall a man be more pure than his Maker ?

18 Behold, he put no truft in his fervants; and his angels he charged with folly:

19 How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whofe foundation is in the which are crushed be

fore the moth?

9 By the blaft of God they perish, and by the breath of his noftrils are they con-duft, fumed. 10 The roaring of the 20 They are destroyed lion, and the voice of the from morning to evening: fierce lion, and the teeth of they perish for ever without the young lions are broken. any regarding it. II The old lion perifheth for lack of prey, and the ftout lion's whelps are fcattered

abroad.

12 Now a thing was fecretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof.

13 In thoughts from the vifions of the night, when deep fleep falleth on men, 14 Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. 15 Then a fpirit paffed before my face; the hair of my flesh ftood up.

21 Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die even without wifdom.

15 It ftood ftill, but I from fafety, and they are

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crushed