every side, and shall drive him to his feet. [1] 12 His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side. 13 It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength. [2] 14 His confidence shall be rooted out of his tent, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors. 15 It shall dwell in his tent, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation. 16 His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off. 17 The remembrance of him shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street. 18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world. [3] 19 He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings. 20 They that come after him shall be appalled at his day, as they that went before were seized with horror. [4] [5] 21 Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.
CHAP. 19.
1 Job, complaining of his friends' cruelty, sheweth there is misery enough in him to feed their cruelty. 21, 28 He craveth pity. 25 He believeth the resurrection.
Then Job answered and said,
2 How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
3 These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me. [6]
4 And be it indeed that I have erred, my error remaineth with myself.
5 If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:
6 Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath surrounded me with his net.
7 Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment. [7]
8 He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
9 He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
10 He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and my hope hath he removed like a tree.
11 He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me to him as one of his enemies.
12 His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp around my tent.
13 He hath put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintance are verily estranged from me.
14 My kinsmen have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
15 They that dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
16 I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I entreated him with my mouth.
17 My breath is strange to my wife, though I make supplication to the children of my own body. [8]
18 Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spoke against me. [9]
19 All my close friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me. [10]
20 My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped with the skin of my teeth. [11]
21 Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
22 Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
23 O that my words were now written! O that they were printed in a book! [12]
24 That they were engraved with an iron pen in lead in the rock for ever!
25 For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:
26 And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: [13]
27 Whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me. [14] [15] [16]
28 But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me? [17]
29 Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.
CHAP. 20.
Zophar sheweth the state and portion of the wicked.
Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
2 Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste. [18]
3 I have heard the rebuke that reproaches me, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.
4 Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,
5 That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment? [19]
6 Though his excellency shall mount up to the heavens, and his head reach to the clouds; [20]
7 Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they who have seen him shall say, Where is he?
8 He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
9 The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.
10 His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods. [21]
11 His bones are
- ↑ drive: Heb. scatter
- ↑ strength: Heb. bars
- ↑ He...: Heb. They shall drive him
- ↑ went...: or, lived with him
- ↑ were...: Heb. laid hold on horror
- ↑ make...: or, harden yourselves against me
- ↑ wrong: or, violence
- ↑ mine...: Heb. my belly
- ↑ young...: or, the wicked
- ↑ my...: Heb. the men of my secret
- ↑ and to: or, as to
- ↑ Oh...: Heb. Who will give, etc
- ↑ And...: or, After I shall awake, though this body be destroyed, yet out of my flesh
- ↑ another: Heb. a stranger
- ↑ though...: or, my reins within me are consumed with earnest desire (for that day)
- ↑ within...: Heb. in my bosom
- ↑ seeing...: or, and what root of matter is found in me?
- ↑ I make...: Heb. my haste is in me
- ↑ short: Heb. from near
- ↑ clouds: Heb. cloud
- ↑ His children...: or, The poor shall oppress his children
