Job 26-33 (Translated)
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Contents
Chapter 26
Verse | King James Version | Proposed Conservative Translation | Analysis |
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1 | But Job answered and said, | ||
2 | How hast thou helped him that is without power? how savest thou the arm that hath no strength? | ||
3 | How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom? and how hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is? | ||
4 | To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee? | ||
5 | Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof. | ||
6 | Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering. | ||
7 | He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing. | ||
8 | He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them. | ||
9 | He holdeth back the face of his throne, and spreadeth his cloud upon it. | ||
10 | He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end. | ||
11 | The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof. | ||
12 | He divideth the sea with his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through the proud. | ||
13 | By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent. | ||
14 | Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand? |
Chapter 27
Verse | King James Version | Proposed Conservative Translation | Analysis |
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1 | Moreover Job continued his parable, and said, | ||
2 | As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul; | ||
3 | All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils; | ||
4 | My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit. | ||
5 | God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me. | ||
6 | My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live. | ||
7 | Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous. | ||
8 | For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul? | ||
9 | Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him? | ||
10 | Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God? | ||
11 | I will teach you by the hand of God: that which is with the Almighty will I not conceal. | ||
12 | Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye thus altogether vain? | ||
13 | This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty. | ||
14 | If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread. | ||
15 | Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep. | ||
16 | Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay; | ||
17 | He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver. | ||
18 | He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth that the keeper maketh. | ||
19 | The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he openeth his eyes, and he is not. | ||
20 | Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night. | ||
21 | The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place. | ||
22 | For God shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand. | ||
23 | Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place. |
Chapter 28
Verse | King James Version | Proposed Conservative Translation | Analysis |
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1 | Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it. | ||
2 | Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone. | ||
3 | He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death. | ||
4 | The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; even the waters forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men. | ||
5 | As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire. | ||
6 | The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold. | ||
7 | There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen: | ||
8 | The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it. | ||
9 | He putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he overturneth the mountains by the roots. | ||
10 | He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing. | ||
11 | He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light. | ||
12 | But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding? | ||
13 | Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living. | ||
14 | The depth saith, It is not in me: and the sea saith, It is not with me. | ||
15 | It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof. | ||
16 | It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire. | ||
17 | The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold. | ||
18 | No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies. | ||
19 | The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold. | ||
20 | Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding? | ||
21 | Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air. | ||
22 | Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears. | ||
23 | God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof. | ||
24 | For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven; | ||
25 | To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure. | ||
26 | When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder: | ||
27 | Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out. | ||
28 | And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding. |
Chapter 29
Verse | King James Version | Proposed Conservative Translation | Analysis |
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1 | Moreover Job continued his parable, and said, | ||
2 | Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; | ||
3 | When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness; | ||
4 | As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle; | ||
5 | When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me; | ||
6 | When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil; | ||
7 | When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street! | ||
8 | The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up. | ||
9 | The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth. | ||
10 | The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth. | ||
11 | When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me: | ||
12 | Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. | ||
13 | The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. | ||
14 | I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem. | ||
15 | I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. | ||
16 | I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out. | ||
17 | And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth. | ||
18 | Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand. | ||
19 | My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch. | ||
20 | My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand. | ||
21 | Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel. | ||
22 | After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them. | ||
23 | And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain. | ||
24 | If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down. | ||
25 | I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners. |
Chapter 30
Verse | King James Version | Proposed Conservative Translation | Analysis |
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1 | But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock. | ||
2 | Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished? | ||
3 | For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste. | ||
4 | Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat. | ||
5 | They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;) | ||
6 | To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks. | ||
7 | Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together. | ||
8 | They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth. | ||
9 | And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword. | ||
10 | They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face. | ||
11 | Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me. | ||
12 | Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction. | ||
13 | They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper. | ||
14 | They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me. | ||
15 | Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud. | ||
16 | And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me. | ||
17 | My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest. | ||
18 | By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat. | ||
19 | He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes. | ||
20 | I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not. | ||
21 | Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me. | ||
22 | Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance. | ||
23 | For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living. | ||
24 | Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction. | ||
25 | Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor? | ||
26 | When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness. | ||
27 | My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me. | ||
28 | I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation. | ||
29 | I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls. | ||
30 | My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat. | ||
31 | My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep. |
Chapter 31
Verse | King James Version | Proposed Conservative Translation | Analysis |
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1 | I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid? | ||
2 | For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high? | ||
3 | Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity? | ||
4 | Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps? | ||
5 | If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit; | ||
6 | Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity. | ||
7 | If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands; | ||
8 | Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out. | ||
9 | If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour's door; | ||
10 | Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her. | ||
11 | For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges. | ||
12 | For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase. | ||
13 | If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me; | ||
14 | What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him? | ||
15 | Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb? | ||
16 | If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail; | ||
17 | Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof; | ||
18 | (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;) | ||
19 | If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering; | ||
20 | If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep; | ||
21 | If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate: | ||
22 | Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone. | ||
23 | For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure. | ||
24 | If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence; | ||
25 | If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much; | ||
26 | If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness; | ||
27 | And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand: | ||
28 | This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above. | ||
29 | If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him: | ||
30 | Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul. | ||
31 | If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied. | ||
32 | The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller. | ||
33 | If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom: | ||
34 | Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door? | ||
35 | Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book. | ||
36 | Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me. | ||
37 | I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him. | ||
38 | If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain; | ||
39 | If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life: | ||
40 | Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended. |
Chapter 32
Verse | King James Version | Proposed Conservative Translation | Analysis |
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1 | So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes. | ||
2 | Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram: against Job was his wrath kindled, because he justified himself rather than God. | ||
3 | Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job. | ||
4 | Now Elihu had waited till Job had spoken, because they were elder than he. | ||
5 | When Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, then his wrath was kindled. | ||
6 | And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am young, and ye are very old; wherefore I was afraid, and durst not shew you mine opinion. | ||
7 | I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom. | ||
8 | But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding. | ||
9 | Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment. | ||
10 | Therefore I said, Hearken to me; I also will shew mine opinion. | ||
11 | Behold, I waited for your words; I gave ear to your reasons, whilst ye searched out what to say. | ||
12 | Yea, I attended unto you, and, behold, there was none of you that convinced Job, or that answered his words: | ||
13 | Lest ye should say, We have found out wisdom: God thrusteth him down, not man. | ||
14 | Now he hath not directed his words against me: neither will I answer him with your speeches. | ||
15 | They were amazed, they answered no more: they left off speaking. | ||
16 | When I had waited, (for they spake not, but stood still, and answered no more;) | ||
17 | I said, I will answer also my part, I also will shew mine opinion. | ||
18 | For I am full of matter, the spirit within me constraineth me. | ||
19 | Behold, my belly is as wine which hath no vent; it is ready to burst like new bottles. | ||
20 | I will speak, that I may be refreshed: I will open my lips and answer. | ||
21 | Let me not, I pray you, accept any man's person, neither let me give flattering titles unto man. | ||
22 | For I know not to give flattering titles; in so doing my maker would soon take me away. |