Job 6:25–29

¹⁰The preacher sought to find out acceptable words: and that which was written was upright, even words of truth.

¹¹The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd.

^10†The preacher sought to finde out acceptable words, and that which was written was vpright, euen wordes of trueth.

¹¹The wordes of the wise are as goads, and as nailes fastened by the masters of assemblies, which are giuen from one shepheard.

⁵O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.

⁵O that you would altogether hold your peace, & it should be your wisdome.

³Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?

⁴I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul’s stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.

⁵But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.

³Shall ^†vaine words haue an ende? or what emboldeneth thee, that thou answerest?

⁴I also could speake as yee doe: if your soule were in my soules stead, I could heape vp words against you, and shake mine head at you.

⁵ But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the mouing of my lips should asswage your griefe.

³⁴How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?

³⁴How then comfort ye me in vaine, seeing in your answeres there remaineth ^†falshood?

²⁵And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?

²⁵And if it be not so now, who will make mee a liar, and make my speach nothing worth?

³Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.

³Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled: because they had found no answere, and yet had condemned Iob.

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

⁴Thy words haue vpholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened ^†the feeble knees.

¹⁸There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.

^18*There is that speaketh like the pearcings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.

²¹The wise in heart shall be called prudent: and the sweetness of the lips increaseth learning.

²²Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it: but the instruction of fools is folly.

²³The heart of the wise teacheth his mouth, and addeth learning to his lips.

²⁴Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

²¹The wise in heart shall be called prudent; and the sweetnesse of the lips increaseth learning.

^22*Understanding is a well-spring of life vnto him that hath it: but the instruction of fooles is folly.

^23†The heart of the wise teacheth his mouth, and addeth learning to his lippes.

²⁴Pleasant words are as an honycombe, sweete to the soule, and health to the bones.

²¹Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

²¹Death and life are in the power of the tongue; and they that loue it shall eate the fruite thereof.

¹¹A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.

^11†A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of siluer.

²How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?

²How long wilt thou speake these things? and how long shall the wordes of thy mouth be like a strong wind?

¹⁴That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;

¹⁴That we hencefoorth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and caried about with euery winde of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftinesse, whereby they lye in waite to deceiue:

³⁷For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.

³⁷For by thy wordes thou shalt bee iustified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.

¹EPHRAIM feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he daily increaseth lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt.

¹¶ Ephraim feedeth on winde, and followeth after the East winde: hee daily increaseth lies and desolation, and they doe make a couenant with the Assyrians, and oyle is caried into Egypt.

¹MY soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

¹¶ My soule is ^‖weary of my life, I will leaue my complaint vpon my selfe; I will speake in the bitternesse of my soule.

¹⁰But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.

¹⁰But he said vnto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh; what? shall wee receiue good at the hand of God, and shall wee not receiue euill? In all this did not Iob sinne with his lippes.

³Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.

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

⁵Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

⁶As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.

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

⁸Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.

⁹Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:

¹⁰Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.

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

¹²Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?

¹³For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,

¹⁴With kings and counsellers of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;

¹⁵Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:

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

¹⁷There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.

¹⁸There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.

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

²⁰Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;

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

²²Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?

²³Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?

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

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

²⁶I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.

^3*Let the day perish, wherein I was borne, and the night in which it was said, There is a man-childe conceiued.

⁴Let that day bee darkenesse, let not God regard it from aboue, neither let the light shine vpon it.

⁵Let darkenes and the shadowe of death ^‖staine it, let a cloud dwell vpon it, ^‖let the blacknes of the day terrifie it.

⁶As for that night, let darkenesse seaze vpon it, ^‖let it not be ioyned vnto the dayes of the yeere, let it not come into the number of the moneths.

⁷Loe, let that night be solitarie, let no ioyfull voice come therein.

⁸Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise vp ^‖their mourning.

⁹Let the starres of the twilight thereof be darke, let it looke for light, but haue none, neither let it see^† the dawning of the day:

¹⁰Because it shut not vp the doores of my mothers wombe, nor hid sorrowe from mine eyes.

¹¹Why died I not from the wombe? why did I not giue vp the ghost when I came out of the bellie?

¹²Why did the knees preuent mee? or why the breasts, that I should sucke?

¹³For now should I haue lien still and beene quiet, I should haue slept; then had I bene at rest,

¹⁴With Kings and counsellers of the earth, which built desolate places for themselues,

¹⁵Or with Princes that had golde, who filled their houses with siluer:

¹⁶Or as an hidden vntimely birth, I had not bene; as infants which neuer saw light.

¹⁷There the wicked cease from troubling: and there the ^†wearie be at rest.

¹⁸ There the prisoners rest together, they heare not the voice of the oppressour.

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

²⁰Wherefore is light giuen to him that is in misery, and life vnto the bitter in soule?

²¹Which ^†long for death, but it commeth not, and dig for it more then for hid treasures:

²²Which reioice exceedingly, and are glad when they can finde the graue?

²³ Why is light giuen to a man, whose way is hid, ^*and whom God hath hedged in?

²⁴For my sighing commeth ^†before I eate, and my roarings are powred out like the waters.

²⁵For ^†the thing which I greatly feared is come vpon me, and that which I was afraid of, is come vnto me.

²⁶I was not in safetie, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet: yet trouble came.

³For the ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat.

⁴Let us choose to us judgment: let us know among ourselves what is good.

⁵For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment.

⁶Should I lie against my right? my wound is incurable without transgression.

⁷What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?

⁸Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men.

⁹For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.

^3*For the eare trieth words, as the ^†mouth tasteth meate.

⁴Let vs chuse to vs iudgement: let vs know among our selues what is good.

⁵For Iob hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my iudgement.

⁶Should I lye against my right? ^†my wound is incurable without transgression.

⁷What man is like Iob, who drinketh vp scorning like water?

⁸Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquitie, and walketh with wicked men.

⁹For hee hath said, It profiteth a man nothing, that he should delight himselfe with God.

²Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?

²Who is this that darkneth counsell by words without knowledge?

³Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands.

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

³Beholde, Thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weake hands.

⁴Thy words haue vpholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened ^†the feeble knees.

⁵Once have I spoken; but I will not answer: yea, twice; but I will proceed no further.

⁵Once haue I spoken, but I will not answere: yea twise, but I will proceed no further.

⁸Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?

^8*Wilt thou also disanul my iudgement? Wilt thou condemne mee, that thou mayest be righteous?

³Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.

^3*Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore haue I vttered that I vnderstood not, things too wonderfull for me, which I knew not.

⁷¶ And it was so, that after the Lord had spoken these words unto Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.

⁷¶ And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words vnto Iob, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, & against thy two friends: for ye haue not spoken of mee the thing that is right, as my seruant Iob hath.

⁴For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.

^4*For the arrowes of the Almightie are within me, the poyson whereof drinketh vp my spirit: the terrors of God doe set themselues in aray against mee.

⁹Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

⁹Euen that it would please God to destroy mee, that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off.

³And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.

³And through couetousnesse shall they with fained words, make marchandise of you, whose iudgement now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbreth not.

²⁷Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

²⁷Pure religion and vndefiled before God and the Father, is this, to visit the fatherlesse and widowes in their affliction, and to keepe himselfe vnspotted from the world.

⁹Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

⁹Thou hast sent widowes away emptie, and the armes of the fatherlesse haue bene broken.

³They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.

³They driue away the asse of the fatherlesse, they take the widowes oxe for a pledge.

⁹They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.

⁹They plucke the fatherlesse from the brest, and take a pledge of the poore.

³And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.

³And they haue cast lots for my people, and haue giuen a boy for a harlot, and solde a girle for wine, that they might drinke.

¹⁰Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.

¹⁰Yet was she caried away, she went into captiuitie: her yong children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streetes: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chaines.

¹⁵He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.

^15†*He made a pit and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.

²²¶ Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.

²³If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry;

²⁴And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

²²¶ ^*Yee shall not afflict any widow, or fatherlesse child.

²³If thou afflict them in any wise, and they crie at all vnto mee, I will surely heare their crie.

²⁴And my wrath shall waxe hote, and I will kill you with the sword: and your wiues shall be widowes, and your children fatherlesse.

⁷In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.

^7‖In thee haue they set light by father and mother: in the middest of thee haue they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee haue they vexed the fatherlesse and the widow:

²⁰Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them.

²⁰Shall euill bee recompensed for good? for they haue digged a pit for my soule: remember that I stood before thee to speake good for them, and to turne away thy wrath from them.

²²Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.

²²Let a crie bee heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troupe suddenly vpon them, for they haue digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.

¹²Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.

¹²Because I deliuered the poore that cried, and the fatherlesse, and him that had none to helpe him.

¹⁷Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;

¹⁷Or haue eaten my morsell my selfe alone, and the fatherlesse hath not eaten thereof:

²¹If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:

²¹If I haue lift vp my hand against the fatherlesse, when I saw my helpe in the gate:

⁵And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the Lord of hosts.

^5‖And I will come neere to you to iudgement, and I will bee a swift witnesse against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppresse the hireling in his wages, the widowe, and the fatherlesse, and that turne aside the stranger from his right, and feare not me, saith the LORD of hosts.

¹⁰Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:

¹¹For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.

^10*‖Remoue not the old landmarke; and enter not into the fields of the fatherlesse.

^11*For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.

⁶They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves. Selah.

^6*They haue prepared a net for my steppes, my soule is bowed downe: they haue digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselues. Selah.

³Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.

^3†Defend the poore and fatherlesse: doe iustice to the afflicted and needie.

⁴But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.

⁴But ye are forgers of lies, yee are all Physicians of no value.

⁴My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.

⁴My lips shall not speake wickednesse, nor my tongue vtter deceit.

³My words shall be of the uprightness of my heart: and my lips shall utter knowledge clearly.

³My words shalbe of the vprightnesse of my heart: and my lippes shall vtter knowledge clearely.

³Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?

³Should thy ^‖lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?

⁴For truly my words shall not be false: he that is perfect in knowledge is with thee.

⁴For truely my words shall not be false: he that is perfect in knowledge, is with thee.

¹⁰But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.

¹⁰But as for you all, doe you returne, and come now, for I cannot find one wise man among you.

¹⁰But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

¹⁰But he knoweth ^†the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

⁴My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.

⁵God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me.

⁶My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.

⁴My lips shall not speake wickednesse, nor my tongue vtter deceit.

⁵God forbid that I should iustifie you: till I die, I will not remoue my integritie from me.

⁶My righteousnesse I hold fast, and will not let it goe: my heart shall not reproach me ^†so long as I liue.

⁵For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment.

⁵For Iob hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my iudgement.

⁶Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.

⁶Wherefore I abhorre my selfe, and repent in dust and ashes.

¹⁸Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.

¹⁸Then shall yee returne and discerne betweene the righteous and the wicked, betweene him that serueth God, and him that serueth him not.