Monthly Archives: August 2017

1 Next Elifaz the Teimani replied: 2 “Can a human be of advantage to God? Can even the wisest benefit him? 3 DoesShaddaigain if you are righteous? Does he profit if you make your ways blameless? 4 “Is he rebuking you because you fear him? Is this why he enters into judgment with you? 5 […]

1 Then Iyov answered: 2 “Today too my complaint is bitter; my hand is weighed down because of my groaning. 3 I wish I knew where I could find him; then I would go to where he is. 4 I would state my case before him and fill my mouth with arguments. 5 I would […]

1 “Why are times not kept byShaddai? Why do those who know him not see his days? 2 There are those who move boundary markers; they carry off flocks and pasture them; 3 they drive away the orphan’s donkey; as collateral, they seize the widow’s ox. 4 They push the needy out of the way […]

1 Bildad the Shuchi said, 2 “Dominion and fear belong to him; he makes peace in his high places. 3 Can his armies be numbered? On whom does his light not shine? 4 How then can humans be righteous with God? How can those born of women be clean? 5 Why, before him even the […]

1 Then Iyov replied, 2 “What great help you bring to the powerless! what deliverance to the arm without strength! 3 Such wonderful advice for a man lacking wisdom! So much common sense you’ve expressed! 4 Who helped you to say these words? Whose spirit is it, coming forth from you? 5 “The ghosts of […]

1 Iyov continued his speech: 2 “I swear by the living God, who is denying me justice, and byShaddai, who deals with me so bitterly, 3 that as long my life remains in me and God’s breath is in my nostrils, 4 my lips will not speak unrighteousness, or my tongue utter deceit. 5 Far […]

1 “There are mines for silver and places where gold is refined; 2 iron is extracted from the earth, and copper is smelted from ore. 3 Miners conquer the darkness and dig as far in as they can, to the ore in gloom and deep darkness. 4 There where no one lives, they break open […]

1 Iyov went on speaking: 2 “I wish I were as in the old days, back in the times when God watched over me; 3 when his lamp shone over my head, and I walked through the dark by its light; 4 as I was when I was young, and God’s counsel graced my tent. […]

1 “But now those younger than I hold me in derision, men whose fathers I wouldn’t even have put with the dogs that guarded my sheep. 2 What use to me was the strength in their hands? All their vigor had left them. 3 Worn out by want and hunger, they gnaw the dry ground […]

1 “I made a covenant with my eyes not to let them lust after any girl. 2 “What share does God give from above? What is the heritage fromShaddaion high? 3 Isn’t it calamity to the unrighteous? disaster to those who do evil? 4 Doesn’t he see my ways and count all my steps? 5 […]