Job 21

1 Then Job responded by saying: 2 I beseech you to hear my words and to do penance. 3 Permit me, and I will speak, and afterwards, if you see fit, you can laugh at my words. 4 Is my dispute against man, so that I would have no reason to be discouraged? 5 Listen […]

Job 22

1 Then Eliphaz the Themanite responded by saying: 2 Can man be compared with God, even if he were perfect in knowledge? 3 What advantage is it to God, if you were just? Or what do you provide for him, if your way should be immaculate? 4 Will he reprove you and take you to […]

Job 23

1 Then Job answered by saying: 2 Now again my conversation is in bitterness, and the force of my scourging weighs more heavily on me because of my mourning. 3 Who will grant me that I might know and find him, and that I may approach even to his throne? 4 I would place judgment […]

Job 24

1 The times are not hidden from the Almighty; even those who know him, do not know his days. 2 Some have crossed the boundaries, plundered the flocks, and given them pasture. 3 They have driven away the donkey of orphans, and have taken the cow from the widow as collateral. 4 They have undermined […]

Job 25

1 Then Baldad the Suhite answered by saying: 2 Power and terror are with him that makes a pact with those in high places. 3 Is there any limit to the number of his soldiers or to the number of those over whom his light rises? 4 Is it right for man to compare himself […]

Job 26

1 Then Job responded by saying: 2 Whose assistant are you? Is he weak-minded? And do you sustain the arm of him that is not strong? 3 To whom have you given advice? Perhaps it is to him that has no wisdom or prudence that you have revealed your many ideas. 4 Who is it […]

Job 27

1 Job also added to this, using figures of speech, and he said: 2 As God lives, who has taken away my judgment, and the Almighty, who has led my soul to bitterness, 3 as long as my breath remains in me and the breath of God remains in my nostrils, 4 my lips will […]

Job 28

1 Silver has its fissures where it is first found, and gold has a place where it is melted. 2 Iron is taken from the earth, and ore, unbound by heat, is turned into brass. 3 He has established a time for darkness, and he has settled on an end for all things, as well […]

Job 29

1 Job also added to this, using figures of speech, and he said: 2 Who will grant to me that I might be as I was in former months, according to the days when God kept watch over me? 3 At that time, his lamp shined over my head, and by his light, I walked […]

Job 30

1 But now, those younger in years scorn me, whose fathers I would not have seen fit to place with the dogs of my flock, 2 the strength of whose hands was nothing to me, and they were considered unworthy of life itself. 3 They were barren from poverty and hunger; they gnawed in solitude, […]