book_id: JOB

book: Job

text: But Job answered and said,


text: Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.


text: Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.


text: As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?


text: Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.


text: Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.


text: Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?


text: Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.


text: Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.


text: Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.


text: They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.


text: They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.


text: They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.


text: Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.


text: What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?


text: Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.


text: How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.


text: They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.


text: God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.


text: His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.


text: For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?


text: Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high.


text: One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.


text: His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow.


text: And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.


text: They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.


text: Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.


text: For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?


text: Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens,


text: That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.


text: Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?


text: Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.


text: The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.


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