May 17 - Job 8-10
Job
1But Baldad the Suhite, responding, said2How long will you speak this way, so that the words of your mouth are like a changeable wind3Does God supplant judgment, or does the Almighty subvert that which is just4And if now your children have sinned against him, and he has dismissed them into the power of their iniquity5even so, you should arise early to God, so as to beseech the Almighty6If you approach with purity and honesty, he will quickly be attentive to you, and a peaceful life will repay your righteousness7so much so that, if your former things were small, your latter things would be multiplied greatly8For inquire of the earliest generation, and investigate diligently the history of the fathers9(of course, we are but of yesterday and are ignorant that our days on earth are like a shadow,10and they will teach you; they will speak with you and will offer you the eloquence of their hearts11Can the marsh plant live without moisture? Or can sedges grow without water12When it is still in flower, and has not been pulled up by hand, it withers before all other plants13Just so are the ways of all who forget God, and the hope of the hypocrite will perish14His frenzy will not please him, and his faith will be like a spider’s web15He will lean on his house, and it will not stand; he will prop it up, but it will not rise16He seems to have moisture before the sun arrives; and at sunrise, his sprout shoots forth17His roots will crowd together over a heap of stones, and among the stones he will remain18If someone is devoured right beside him, he will deny him and will say: "I do not know you.19For this is the benefit of his way, that others in turn may spring up from the earth20God will not discard the simple, nor will he extend his hand to the spiteful21even until your mouth is filled with laughter and your lips with rejoicing22Those who hate you, will be clothed with confusion, and the tabernacle of the impious will not continue
1And Job, responding, said2Truly, I know that it is so, and that man cannot be justified compared with God3If he chooses to contend with him, he is not able to respond to him once out of a thousand times4He is understanding in heart and mighty in strength; who has resisted him and yet had peace5He has moved mountains, and those whom he overthrew in his fury did not know it6He shakes the earth out of its place and its pillars tremble7He commands the sun and it does not rise, and he closes the stars as if under a seal8He alone extends the heavens, and he walks upon the waves of the sea9He fashions Arcturus, and Orion, and Hyades, and the interior of the south10He accomplishes great and incomprehensible and miraculous things, which cannot be numbered11If he approaches me, I will not see him; if he departs, I will not understand12If he suddenly should question, who will answer him? Or who can say, "Why did you do so?13God, whose wrath no one is able to resist, and under whom they bend who carry the world14what am I then, that I should answer him and exchange words with him15And if I now have any justice, I will not respond, but will beseech my judge16And if he should listen to me when I call, I would not believe that he had heard my voice17For he will crush me in a whirlwind and multiply my wounds, even without cause18He does not permit my spirit to rest, and he fills me with bitterness19If strength is sought, he is most strong; if equity in judgment, no one would dare to give testimony for me20If I wanted to justify myself, my own mouth will condemn me; if I would reveal my innocence, he would prove me depraved21And if I now became simple, my soul would be ignorant even of this, and my life would weary me22There is one thing that I have said: both the innocent and the impious he consumes23If he scourges, let him kill all at once, and not laugh at the punishment of the innocent24Since the earth has been given into the hand of the impious, he covers the face of its judges; for if it is not him, then who is it25My days have been swifter than a messenger; they have fled and have not seen goodness26They have passed by like ships carrying fruits, just like an eagle flying to food27If I say: "By no means will I speak this way." I change my face and I am tortured with sorrow28I have dreaded all my works, knowing that you did not spare the offender29Yet, if I am also just as impious, why have I labored in vain30If I had been washed with snow-like waters, and my hands were shining like the cleanest thing31yet you would plunge me in filth, and my own garments would abhor me32For even I would not answer a man who were like myself, nor one who could be heard with me equally in judgment33There is no one who could both prevail in argument and in placing his hand between the two34Let him take his staff away from me, and let not the fear of him terrify me35I will speak and I will not fear him, for in fearfulness I am not able to respond
1My soul is weary of my life. I will release my words against myself. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul2I will say to God: Do not be willing to condemn me. Reveal to me why you judge me this way3Does it seem good to you, if you find fault with me and oppress me, the work of your own hands, and assist the counsel of the impious4Do you have bodily eyes? Or, just as man sees, will you see5Are your days just like the days of man, and are your years as the times of humans6so that you would inquire about my iniquity and examine my sin7And you know that I have done nothing impious, yet there is no one who can deliver from your hand8Your hands have made me and formed me all around, and, in this way, do you suddenly throw me away9Remember, I ask you, that you have fashioned me like clay, and you will reduce me to dust10Have you not extracted me like milk and curdled me like cheese11You have clothed me with skin and flesh. You have put me together with bones and nerves12You have assigned to me life and mercy, and your visitation has preserved my spirit13Though you may conceal this in your heart, yet I know that you remember everything14If I have sinned, and you have spared me for an hour, why do you not endure me to be clean from my iniquity15And if I should be impious, woe to me, and if I should be just, I will not lift up my head, being drenched with affliction and misery16And because of pride, you will seize me like a lioness, and having returned, you torment me to an extraordinary degree17You renew your testimony against me, and you multiply your wrath against me, and these punishments make war within me18Why did you lead me out of the womb? If only I had been consumed, so that no eye would ever see me19I should have been as if I had not been: transferred from the womb to the tomb20Will not my few days be completed soon? Release me, therefore, so that I may lament my sorrows a little21before I depart and return no more to a land that is dark and covered with the fog of death22a land of misery and darkness, where the shadow of death, and nothing else but everlasting horror, dwells