up, thou fhalt put away ini- I might find him! that I quity far from thy taber nacles. 24 Then fhalt thou lay up gold as duft, and the gold of Ophir as the ftones of the brooks. 25 Yea, the Almighty fhall be thy defence, and thou fhalt have plenty of filver. 26 For then fhalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and fhalt lift up thy face unto God. 27 Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he fhall hear thee, and thou fhalt pay thy vows.. might come even to his feat! 4 I would order my caufe before him, and fill my mouth with arguments. 5 I would know the words which he would anfwer me, and understand what he would fay unto me. 6 Will he plead againft me with his great power? No; but he would put ftrength in me. 7 There the righteous might difpute with him; so fhould I be delivered for ever from my judge. 8 Behold, I go forward, but he is not there: and backward, but I cannot per 28 Thou fhalt alfo decree a thing, and it fhall be eftablifhed unto thee: and theceive him : light fhall fhine upon thy ways. 9 On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot 29 When men are caft behold him he hideth himdown, then thou fhalt fay, felf on the right hand, that There is lifting up; and heI cannot see him: fhall fave the humble perfon. 10 But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I fhall come forth as gold. 11 My foot hath held his fteps, his way have I kept, and not declined. 12 Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have efteemed the words of his mouth more than my neceflary food. 13 But he is in one mind, and and who can turn him? and what his foul defireth, even that he doeth. 14 For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many fuch things are with him. yieldeth food for them and for their children. 6 They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked. 7 They caufe the naked 15 Therefore am I trou-to lodge without clothing, bled at his prefence: when that they have no covering in I confider, I am afraid of the cold. him. 16 For God maketh my heart foft, and the Almighty troubleth me: 17 Because I was not cut off before the darkness; neither hath he covered the darknefs from my face. CHAP. XXIV. W are not hidden from HY, feeing times the Almighty, do they that know him not fee his days? | 2 Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof. 3 They drive away the afs of the fatherlefs, they take the widow's ox for a pledge. 4 They turn the needy out of the way the poor of the earth hide themselves together. 8 They are wet with the fhowers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a fhelter. 9 They pluck the fatherlefs from the breaft, and take a pledge of the poor. 10 They caufe him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the fheaf from the hungry. II Which make oil within their walls, and tread their wine-preffes, and fuffer thirst. 12 Men groan from out of the city, and the foul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them. 13 They are of those that rebel against the light: they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof. 14 The murderer rifing with the light, killeth the 5 Behold, as wild affes in poor and needy, and in the the defert, go they forth tonight is as a thief. their work, rifing betimes 15 The eye alfo of the for a prey: the wilderness adulterer waiteth for the twi + light, light, faying, No eye fhall fee me: and disguiseth his face. 16 In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the day-time they know not the light. 17 For the morning is to them even as the fhadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the fhadow of death. 18 He is swift as the waters; their portion is curfed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards. 19 Drought and heat confume the fnow-waters: f doth the grave thofe which have finned. 20 The womb fhall forget him, the worm fhall feed fweetly on him: he fhall be no more remembered: and wickedness fhall be broken as a tree. 4 How then can man be juftified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman? 5 Behold even to the moon, and it fhineth not; yea, the ftars are not pure in his 21 He evil entreateth the fight: barren that beareth not, and 6 How much less man, doeth not good to the wi-that is a worm; and the dow. fon of man, which is a 22 He draweth alfo the worm. mighty with his power: he rifeth and no man is fure up, of life. 23 Though it be given B him to be in fafety, whereon he refteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways. 24 They are exalted for CHAP. XXVI. 2 How haft thou helped him that is without power? how faveit thou the arm that hath no strength? 3 How haft thou counfelled him that hath no wifdom? and how haft thou plentifully declared the thing as it is? 4 To whom haft thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee? 5 Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof. 6 Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering. 7 He ftretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing. 14 Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand? M faid, CHAP. XXVII. Oreover, Job continued his parable, and 2 As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who hath vexed my foul; 3 All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my noftrils; 4 My lips fhall not speak 8 He bindeth up the wa-wickedness, nor my tongue ters in his thick clouds ; utter deceit. and the cloud is not rent under them. 9 He holdeth back the face of his throne, and spreadeth his cloud upon it. 10 He hath compaffed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end. I The pillars of heaven tremble, and are astonished at his reproof. 12 He divideth the fea with his power, and by his understanding he finiteth through the proud. 13 By his fpirit he hath garnished the heavens: his hand hath formed the crooked ferpent. 5 God forbid that I should justify you: till I die, I will not remove mine integrity from me. 6 My righteousness I hold faft, and will not let it go; my heart fhall not reproach me fo long as I live. 7 Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that rifeth up against me as the unrighteous. 8 For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his foul? 9 Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him? 10 Will he delight himfelf felf in the Almighty? will 21 The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a ftorm hurleth him out of his place. 22 For God fhall caft upon him, and not fpare: he would 12 Behold, all ye your-fain flee out of his hand. felves have seen it; why then are ye thus altogether vain? 13 This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppreffors which they shall receive of the Almighty. 14 If his children be multiplied, it is for the fword: and his offspring fhall not be fatisfied with bread. 15 Thofe that remain of him fhall be buried in death; and his widows fhall not weep. 23 Men fhall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place. CHAP. XXVIII. URELY there is a vein for the filver, and a for gold where they place 2 Iron is taken out of the earth, and brafs is molten out of the ftone. 3 He fetteth an end to darknefs, and fearcheth out all perfection: the ftones of darkness, and the fhadow of 16 Though he heap up filver as the duft, and pre-death. pare raiment as the clay: 17 He may prepare it, but the juft fhall put it on, and the innocent fhall divide the filver. 18 He buildeth his houfe as a moth, and as a booth that the keeper maketh. 19 The rich man thall lie down, but he shall not be gathered he openeth his eyes, and he is not. 20 Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempeft ftealeth him away in the night. 4 The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; even the waters forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men. 5 As for the earth, out of it cometh bread; and under it is turned up as it were fire. 6 The ftones of it are the place of fapphires: and it hath duft of gold. 7 There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not feen: |