A. Job's First Monologue 27:1-28:28
Job 27:1
Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,Job 27:2
As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul;Job 27:3
All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;Job 27:4
My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.Job 27:5
God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me.Job 27:6
My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.Job 27:7
Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous.Job 27:8
For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?Job 27:9
Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him?Job 27:10
Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God?Job 27:11
I will teach you by the hand of God: that which is with the Almighty will I not conceal.Job 27:12
Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye thus altogether vain?Job 27:13
This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty.Job 27:14
If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.Job 27:15
Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep.Job 27:16
Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;Job 27:17
He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.Job 27:18
He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth that the keeper maketh.Job 27:19
The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he openeth his eyes, and he is not.Job 27:20
Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.Job 27:21
The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.Job 27:22
For God shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.Job 27:23
Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.Job 28:1
Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it.Job 28:2
Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone.Job 28:3
He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.Job 28:4
The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; even the waters forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.Job 28:5
As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.Job 28:6
The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold.Job 28:7
There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen:Job 28:8
The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.Job 28:9
He putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he overturneth the mountains by the roots.Job 28:10
He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing.Job 28:11
He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light.Job 28:12
But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding?Job 28:13
Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living.Job 28:14
The depth saith, It is not in me: and the sea saith, It is not with me.Job 28:15
It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.Job 28:16
It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.Job 28:17
The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold.Job 28:18
No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies.Job 28:19
The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold.Job 28:20
Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding?Job 28:21
Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air.Job 28:22
Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.Job 28:23
God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.Job 28:24
For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven;Job 28:25
To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.Job 28:26
When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:Job 28:27
Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out.Job 28:28
And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.