Then Job answered, and said: 2Are you then men alone, and shall wisdom die with you? 3I also have a heart as well as you: for who is ignorant of these things, which you know? 4He that is mocked by his friends as I, shall call upon God and he will hear him: for the simplicity of the just man is laughed to scorn. 5The lamp despised in the thoughts of the rich, is ready for the time appointed. 6The tabernacles of robbers abound, and they provoke God boldly; whereas it is he that hath given all into their hands: 7But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee: and the birds of the air, and they shall tell thee. 8Speak to the earth, and it shall answer thee: and the fishes of the sea shall tell. 9Who is ignorant that the hand of the Lord hath made all these things? 10In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the spirit of all flesh of man. 11Doth not the ear discern words, and the palate of him that eateth, the taste? 12In the ancient is wisdom, and in length of days prudence. 13With him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and understanding. 14If he pull down, there is no man that can build up: if he shut up a man, there is none that can open. 15If he withhold the waters, all things shall be dried up: and if he send them out, they shall overturn the earth. 16With him is strength and wisdom: he knoweth both the deceivers, and him that is deceived. 17He bringeth counsellors to a foolish end, and judges to insensibility. 18He looseth the belt of kings, and girdeth their loins with a cord. 19He leadeth away priests without glory, and overthroweth nobles. 20He changeth the speech of the true speakers, and taketh away the doctrine of the aged. 21He poureth contempt upon princes, and relieveth them that were oppressed. 22He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth up to light the shadow of death. 23He multiplieth nations, and destroyeth them, and restoreth them again after they were overthrown. 24He changeth the heart of the princes of the people of the earth, and deceiveth them that they walk in vain where there is no way. 25They shall grope as in the dark, and not in the light, and he shall make them stagger like men that are drunk. 1Behold my eye hath seen all these things, and my ear hath heard them, and I have understood them all. 2According to your knowledge I also know: neither am I inferior to you. 3But yet I will speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God. 4Having first shewn that you are forgers of lies, and maintainers of perverse opinions. 5And I wish you would hold your peace, that you might be thought to be wise men. 6Hear ye therefore my reproof, and attend to the judgment of my lips. 7Hath God any need of your lie, that you should speak deceitfully for him? 8Do you accept this person, and do you endeavour to judge for God? 9Or shall it please him, from whom nothing can be concealed? or shall he be deceived as a man, with your deceitful dealings? 10He shall reprove you, because in secret you accept his person. 11As soon as he shall move himself, he shall trouble you: and his dread shall fall upon you. 12Your remembrance shall be compared to ashes, and your necks shall be brought to clay. 13Hold your peace a little while, that I may speak whatsoever my mind shall suggest to me. 14Why do I tear my flesh with my teeth, and carry my soul in my hands? 15Although he should kill me, I will trust in him: but yet I will reprove my ways in his sight. 16And he shall be my saviour: for no hypocrite shall come before his presence. 17Hear ye my speech, and receive with your ears hidden truths. 18If I shall be judged, I know that I shall be found just. 19Who is he that will plead against me? let him come: why am I consumed holding my peace? 20Two things only do not to me, and then from thy face I shall not be hid: 21Withdraw thy hand far from me, and let not thy dread terrify me. 22Call me, and I will answer thee: or else I will speak, and do thou answer me. 23How many are my iniquities and sins? make me know my crimes and offenses. 24Why hidest thou thy face, and thinkest me thy enemy? 25Against a leaf, that is carried away with the wind, thou shewest thy power, and thou pursuest a dry straw. 26For thou writest bitter things against me, and wilt consume me for the sins of my youth. 27Thou hast put my feet in the stocks, and hast observed all my paths, and hast considered the steps of my feet: 28Who am to be consumed as rottenness, and as a garment that is motheaten. 1Man born of a woman, living for a short time, is filled with many miseries. 2Who cometh forth like a flower, and is destroyed, and fleeth as a shadow, and never continueth in the same state. 3And dost thou think it meet to open thy eyes upon such an one, and to bring him into judgment with thee? 4Who can make him clean that is conceived of unclean seed? is it not thou who only art? 5The days of man are short, and the number of his months is with thee: thou hast appointed his bounds which cannot be passed. 6Depart a little from him, that he may rest until his wished for day come, as that of the hireling. 7A tree hath hope: if it be cut, it growth green again, and the boughs thereof sprout. 8If its roots be old in the earth, and its stock be dead in the dust: 9At the scent of water, it shall spring, and bring forth leaves, as when it was first planted. 10But man when he shall be dead, and stripped and consumed, I pray you where is he? 11As if the waters should depart out of the sea, and an emptied river should be dried up; 12So man when he is fallen asleep shall not rise again; till the heavens be broken, he shall not awake, nor rise up out of his sleep. 13Who will grant me this, that thou mayst protect me in hell, and hide me till thy wrath pass, and appoint me a time when thou wilt remember me? 14Shall man that is dead, thinkest thou, live again? all the days in which I am now in warfare, I expect until my change come. 15Thou shalt call me, and I will answer thee: to the work of thy hands thou shalt reach out thy right hand. 16Thou indeed hast numbered my steps, but spare my sins. 17Thou hast sealed up my offences as it were in a bag, but hast cured my iniquity. 18A mountain falling cometh to nought, and a rock is removed out of its place. 19Waters wear away the stones, and with inundation the ground by little and little is washed away: so in like manner thou shalt destroy man. 20Thou hast strengthened him for a little while, that he may pass away for ever: thou shalt change his face, and shalt send him away. 21Whether his children come to honour or dishonour, he shall not understand. 22But yet his flesh, while he shall live, shall have pain, and his soul shall mourn over him.