brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;
18:006:016 Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid:
18:006:017 What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
18:006:018 The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.
18:006:019 The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.
18:006:020 They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.
18:006:021 For now ye are nothing; ye see my casting down, and are afraid.
18:006:022 Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of your substance?
18:006:023 Or, Deliver me from the enemy's hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty?
18:006:024 Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
18:006:025 How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
18:006:026 Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?
18:006:027 Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.
18:006:028 Now therefore be content, look upon me; for it is evident unto you if I lie.
18:006:029 Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.
18:006:030 Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?
18:007:001 Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?
18:007:002 As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work:
18:007:003 So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
18:007:004 When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.
18:007:005 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.
18:007:006 My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
18:007:007 O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.
18:007:008 The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not.
18:007:009 As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.
18:007:010 He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
18:007:011 Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
18:007:012 Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?
18:007:013 When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaints;
18:007:014 Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:
18:007:015 So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.
18:007:016 I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.
18:007:017 What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?
18:007:018 And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment?
18:007:019 How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
18:007:020 I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?
18:007:021 And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.
18:008:001 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
18:008:002 How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?
18:008:003 Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?
18:008:004 If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;
18:008:005 If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;
18:008:006 If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
18:008:007 Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.
18:008:008 For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:
18:008:009 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)
18:008:010 Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?
18:008:011 Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?
18:008:012 Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.
18:008:013 So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:
18:008:014 Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider's web.
18:008:015 He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.
18:008:016 He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.
18:008:017 His roots are wrapped about the heap, and seeth the place of stones.
18:008:018 If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee.
18:008:019 Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow.
18:008:020 Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evil doers:
18:008:021 Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing.
18:008:022 They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.
18:009:001 Then Job answered and said,
18:009:002 I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?
18:009:003 If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.
18:009:004 He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered?
18:009:005 Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger.
18:009:006 Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.
18:009:007 Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars.
18:009:008 Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea.
18:009:009 Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.
18:009:010 Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders without number.
18:009:011 Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not: he passeth on also, but I perceive him not.
18:009:012 Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What doest thou?
18:009:013 If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him.
18:009:014 How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words