Job, starting at chapter 25
{25:1} Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,
{25:2} "Dominion and fear are with him.
He makes peace in his high places.
{25:3} Can his armies be counted?
On whom does his light not arise?
{25:4} How then can man be just with God?
Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?
{25:5} Behold, even the moon has no brightness,
and the stars are not pure in his sight;
{25:6} How much less man, who is a worm,
the son of man, who is a worm!"
{26:1} Then Job answered,
{26:2} "How have you helped him who is without power!
How have you saved the arm that has no strength!
{26:3} How have you counseled him who has no wisdom,
and plentifully declared sound knowledge!
{26:4} To whom have you uttered words?
Whose spirit came forth from you?
{26:5} "Those who are deceased tremble,
those beneath the waters and all that live in them.
{26:6} [1>]Sheol[<1] is naked before God,
and [2>]Abaddon[<2] has no covering.
{26:7} He stretches out the north over empty space,
and hangs the earth on nothing.
{26:8} He binds up the waters in his thick clouds,
and the cloud is not burst under them.
{26:9} He encloses the face of his throne,
and spreads his cloud on it.
{26:10} He has described a boundary on the surface of the waters,
and to the confines of light and darkness.
{26:11} The pillars of heaven tremble
and are astonished at his rebuke.
{26:12} He stirs up the sea with his power,
and by his understanding he strikes through Rahab.
{26:13} By his Spirit the heavens are garnished.
His hand has pierced the swift serpent.
{26:14} Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways.
How small a whisper do we hear of him!
But the thunder of his power who can understand?"
{27:1} Job again took up his parable, and said,
{27:2} "As God lives, who has taken away my right,
the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter.
{27:3} (For the length of my life is still in me,
and the spirit of God is in my nostrils);
{27:4} surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness,
neither shall my tongue utter deceit.
{27:5} Far be it from me that I should justify you.
Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.
{27:6} I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go.
My heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.
{27:7} "Let my enemy be as the wicked.
Let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous.
{27:8} For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when
God takes away his life?
{27:9} Will God hear his cry when trouble comes on him?
{27:10} Will he delight himself in the Almighty,
and call on God at all times?
{27:11} I will teach you about the hand of God.
That which is with the Almighty will I not conceal.
{27:12} Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves;
why then have you become altogether vain?
{27:13} "This is the portion of a wicked man with God,
the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty.
{27:14} If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword.
His offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
{27:15} Those who remain of him shall be buried in death.
His widows shall make no lamentation.
{27:16} Though he heap up silver as the dust,
and prepare clothing as the clay;
{27:17} he may prepare it, but the just shall put it on,
and the innocent shall divide the silver.
{27:18} He builds his house as the moth,
as a booth which the watchman makes.
{27:19} He lies down rich, but he shall not do so again.
He opens his eyes, and he is not.
{27:20} Terrors overtake him like waters.
A storm steals him away in the night.
{27:21} The east wind carries him away, and he departs.
It sweeps him out of his place.
{27:22} For it hurls at him, and does not spare,
as he flees away from his hand.
{27:23} Men shall clap their hands at him,
and shall hiss him out of his place.
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Footnotes:
[1] {26:6} Sheol is the lower world or the grave.
[2] {26:6} Abaddon means Destroyer.
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