Bible-Reading.comJob 11
1And Zophar the Naamathite answered and said,
2Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man of much talk be justified?
3Should thy fictions make men hold their peace? and shouldest thou mock, and no one make thee ashamed?
4For thou sayest, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes.
5But oh that +God would speak, and open his lips against thee;
6And that he would shew thee the secrets of wisdom, how that they are the double of what is realised; and know that +God passeth by much of thine iniquity!
7Canst thou by searching find out +God? canst thou find out the Almighty to perfection?
8It is as the heights of heaven; what wilt thou do? deeper than Sheol; what canst thou know?
9The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
10If he pass by, and shut up, and call to judgment, who can hinder him?
11For he knoweth vain men, and seeth wickedness when man doth not consider it;
12Yet a senseless man will make bold, though man be born like the foal of a wild ass.
13If thou prepare thy heart and stretch out thy hands toward him,
14If thou put far away the iniquity which is in thy hand, and let not wrong dwell in thy tents;
15Surely then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot, and thou shalt be stedfast and shalt not fear:
16For thou shalt forget misery; as waters that are passed away shalt thou remember it;
17And life shall arise brighter than noonday; though thou be enshrouded in darkness, thou shalt be as the morning,
18And thou shalt have confidence, because there shall be hope; and having searched about thee, thou shalt take rest in safety.
19Yea, thou shalt lie down, and none shall make thee afraid; and many shall seek thy favour.
20But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and all refuge shall vanish from them, and their hope shall be the breathing out of life.
Job 12
1And Job answered and said,
2Truly ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you!
3I also have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you; and who knoweth not such things as these?
4I am to be one that is a derision to his friend, I who call upon +God, and whom he will answer: a derision is the just upright man.
5He that is ready to stumble with the foot is a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.
6The tents of desolators are in peace, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand +God bringeth.
7But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowl of the heavens, and they shall tell thee;
8Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee; and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.
9Who knoweth not in all these, that the hand of Jehovah hath wrought this?
10In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the spirit of all flesh of man.
11Doth not the ear try words, as the palate tasteth food?
12With the aged is wisdom, and in length of days understanding.
13With him is wisdom and might; he hath counsel and understanding.
14Behold, he breaketh down, and it is not built again; he shutteth up a man, and there is no opening.
15Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up; and he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.
16With him is strength and effectual knowledge; the deceived and the deceiver are his.
17He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and judges maketh he fools;
18He weakeneth the government of kings, and bindeth their loins with a fetter;
19He leadeth priests away spoiled, and overthroweth the mighty;
20He depriveth of speech the trusty, and taketh away the judgment of the elders;
21He poureth contempt upon nobles, and slackeneth the girdle of the mighty;
22He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out into light the shadow of death;
23He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them; he spreadeth out the nations, and bringeth them in;
24He taketh away the understanding of the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a pathless waste.
25They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunkard.