Job 19Job 20Job 211 Corinthians 2Job 19
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And Job made answer and said,
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How long will you make my life bitter, crushing me with words?
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Ten times now you have made sport of me it gives you no sense of shame to do me wrong.
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And, truly, if I have been in error, the effect of my error is only on myself.
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If you make yourselves great against me, using my punishment as an argument against me,
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Be certain that it is God who has done me wrong, and has taken me in his net.
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Truly, I make an outcry against the violent man, but there is no answer: I give a cry for help, but no one takes up my cause.
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My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark.
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He has put off my glory from me, and taken the crown from my head.
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I am broken down by him on every side, and I am gone my hope is uprooted like a tree.
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His wrath is burning against me, and I am to him as one of his haters.
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His armies come on together, they make their road high against me, and put up their tents round mine.
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He has taken my brothers far away from me they have seen my fate and have become strange to me.
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My relations and my near friends have given me up, and those living in my house have put me out of their minds.
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I am strange to my women-servants, and seem to them as one from another country.
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At my cry my servant gives me no answer, and I have to make a prayer to him.
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My breath is strange to my wife, and I am disgusting to the offspring of my mother's body.
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Even young children have no respect for me when I get up their backs are turned on me.
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All the men of my circle keep away from me and those dear to me are turned against me.
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My bones are joined to my skin, and I have got away with my flesh in my teeth.
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Have pity on me, have pity on me, O my friends! for the hand of God is on me.
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Why are you cruel to me, like God, for ever saying evil against me?
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If only my words might be recorded! if they might be put in writing in a book!
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And with an iron pen and lead be cut into the rock for ever!
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But I am certain that he who will take up my cause is living, and that in time to come he will take his place on the dust
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And...without my flesh I will see God
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Whom I will see on my side, and not as one strange to me. My heart is broken with desire.
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If you say, How cruel we will be to him! because the root of sin is clearly in him:
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Be in fear of the sword, for the sword is the punishment for such things, so that you may be certain that there is a judge.
Job 20
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Then Zophar the Naamathite made answer and said,
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For this cause my thoughts are troubling me and driving me on.
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I have to give ear to arguments which put me to shame, and your answers to me are wind without wisdom.
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Have you knowledge of this from early times, when man was placed on the earth,
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That the pride of the sinner is short, and the joy of the evil-doer but for a minute?
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Though he is lifted up to the heavens, and his head goes up to the clouds
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Like the waste from his body he comes to an end for ever: those who have seen him say, Where is he?
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He is gone like a dream, and is not seen again he goes in flight like a vision of the night.
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The eye which saw him sees him no longer and his place has no more knowledge of him.
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His children are hoping that the poor will be kind to them, and his hands give back his wealth.
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His bones are full of young strength, but it will go down with him into the dust.
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Though evil-doing is sweet in his mouth, and he keeps it secretly under his tongue
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Though he takes care of it, and does not let it go, but keeps it still in his mouth
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His food becomes bitter in his stomach the poison of snakes is inside him.
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He takes down wealth as food, and sends it up again it is forced out of his stomach by God.
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He takes the poison of snakes into his mouth, the tongue of the snake is the cause of his death.
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Let him not see the rivers of oil, the streams of honey and milk.
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He is forced to give back the fruit of his work, and may not take it for food he has no joy in the profit of his trading.
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Because he has been cruel to the poor, turning away from them in their trouble because he has taken a house by force which he did not put up
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There is no peace for him in his wealth, and no salvation for him in those things in which he took delight.
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He had never enough for his desire for this cause his well-being will quickly come to an end.
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Even when his wealth is great, he is full of care, for the hand of everyone who is in trouble is turned against him.
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God gives him his desire, and sends the heat of his wrath on him, making it come down on him like rain.
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He may go in flight from the iron spear, but the arrow from the bow of brass will go through him
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He is pulling it out, and it comes out of his back and its shining point comes out of his side he is overcome by fears.
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All his wealth is stored up for the dark: a fire not made by man sends destruction on him, and on everything in his tent.
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The heavens make clear his sin, and the earth gives witness against him.
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The produce of his house is taken away into another country, like things given into the hands of others in the day of wrath.
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This is the reward of the evil man, and the heritage given to him by God.
Job 21
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Then Job made answer and said,
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Give attention with care to my words and let this be your comfort.
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Let me say what is in my mind, and after that, go on making sport of me.
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As for me, is my outcry against man? is it then to be wondered at if my spirit is troubled?
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Take note of me and be full of wonder, put your hand on your mouth.
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At the very thought of it my flesh is shaking with fear.
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Why is life given to the evil-doers? why do they become old and strong in power?
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Their children are ever with them, and their offspring before their eyes.
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Their houses are free from fear, and the rod of God does not come on them.
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Their ox is ready at all times to give seed their cow gives birth, without dropping her young.
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They send out their young ones like a flock, and their children have pleasure in the dance,
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They make songs to the instruments of music, and are glad at the sound of the pipe.
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Their days come to an end without trouble, and suddenly they go down to the underworld.
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Though they said to God, Go away from us, for we have no desire for the knowledge of your ways.
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What is the Ruler of all, that we may give him worship? and what profit is it to us to make prayer to him?
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Truly, is not their well-being in their power? (The purpose of the evil-doers is far from me.)
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How frequently is the light of the evil-doers put out, or does trouble come on them? how frequently does his wrath take them with cords?
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How frequently are they as dry stems before the wind, or as grass taken away by the storm-wind?
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You say, God keeps punishment stored up for his children. Let him send it on the man himself, so that he may have the punishment of it!
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Let his eyes see his trouble, and let him be full of the wrath of the Ruler of all!
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For what interest has he in his house after him, when the number of his months is ended?
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Is anyone able to give teaching to God? for he is the judge of those who are on high.
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One comes to his end in complete well-being, full of peace and quiet:
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His buckets are full of milk, and there is no loss of strength in his bones.
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And another comes to his end with a bitter soul, without ever tasting good.
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Together they go down to the dust, and are covered by the worm.
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See, I am conscious of your thoughts, and of your violent purposes against me
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For you say, Where is the house of the ruler, and where is the tent of the evil-doer?
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Have you not put the question to the travellers, and do you not take note of their experience?
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How the evil man goes free in the day of trouble, and has salvation in the day of wrath?
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Who will make his way clear to his face? and if he has done a thing, who gives him punishment for it?
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He is taken to his last resting-place, and keeps watch over it.
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The earth of the valley covering his bones is sweet to him, and all men come after him, as there were unnumbered before him.
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Why then do you give me comfort with words in which there is no profit, when you see that there is nothing in your answers but deceit?
1 Corinthians 2
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And when I came to you, my brothers, I did not come with wise words of knowledge, putting before you the secret of God.
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For I had made the decision to have knowledge of nothing among you but only of Jesus Christ on the cross.
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And I was with you without strength, in fear and in doubt.
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And in my preaching there were no honeyed words of wisdom, but I was dependent on the power of the Spirit to make it clear to you:
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So that your faith might be based not on man's wisdom but on the power of God.
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But still we have wisdom for those who are complete in knowledge, though not the wisdom of this world, and not of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nothing:
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But we give the news of the secret wisdom of God, which he had kept in store before the world came into existence, for our glory
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Of which not one of the rulers of this world had knowledge: for if they had, they would not have put the Lord of glory on the cross:
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But as it says in the holy Writings, Things which the eye saw not, and which had not come to the ears or into the heart of man, such things as God has made ready for those who have love for him.
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But God has given us the revelation of these things through his Spirit, for the Spirit makes search into all things, even the deep things of God.
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For who has knowledge of the things of a man but the spirit of the man which is in him? in the same way, no one has knowledge of the things of God but the Spirit of God.
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But we have not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which comes from God, so that we may have knowledge of the things which are freely given to us by God.
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And these are the things which we say, not in the language of man's wisdom, but in words given to us by the Spirit, judging the things of the spirit by the help of the Spirit.
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For the natural man is not able to take in the things of the Spirit of God: for they seem foolish to him, and he is not able to have knowledge of them, because such knowledge comes only through the Spirit.
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But he who has the Spirit, though judging all things, is himself judged by no one.
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For who has knowledge of the mind of the Lord, so as to be his teacher? But we have the mind of Christ.
