Monthly Archives: August 2017

1 Then Job, answering, said: 2 Are you, therefore, alone among men, and will wisdom die with you? 3 And I have a heart just as you also do, and I am not inferior to you. For who is ignorant of these things, which you know? 4 He who is mocked by his friends as […]

1 Behold, my eye has seen all these things, and my ear has heard, and I have understood each one. 2 In conformity with your knowledge, I also know. I am not inferior to you. 3 Yet I speak this way to the Almighty, and I desire to argue with God, 4 having first shown […]

1 Man, born of woman, living for a short time, is filled with many miseries. 2 He comes forth like a flower, and is crushed, and he flees, as if a shadow, and never remains in the same state. 3 And do you consider it fitting to look down with your eyes on someone in […]

1 But Eliphaz the Themanite, answering, said: 2 Will a wise man answer as if he were speaking wind, and will he fill his stomach with fire? 3 You rebuke with words he who is not equal to you, and you speak what is not expedient for you, 4 to such an extent that, within […]

1 Then Job, answering, said: 2 I have often heard such things; you are all aggravating comforters. 3 Will there be no end to windy words? Or is it at all a burden to you, if you speak? 4 I, too, can speak like you; and I also wish that your soul favored my soul. […]

1 My spirit will be wasted, my days will be shortened, and only the grave will left for me. 2 I have not sinned, yet my eye remains in bitterness. 3 Free me, O Lord, and set me beside you, and let the hand of anyone you wish fight against me. 4 You have set […]

1 But Baldad the Suhite responded by saying: 2 How long will you throw around words? Understand first, and then let us speak. 3 Why have we been treated like mules, as if we were unworthy before you? 4 You, who ruins your own soul in your fury, will the earth be forsaken because of […]

1 But Job answered by saying: 2 How long will you afflict my soul and wear me down with words? 3 So, ten times you confound me and are not ashamed to oppress me. 4 Now, of course, if I have been ignorant, my ignorance will be with me. 5 But you have risen up […]

1 Then Zophar the Naamathite answered by saying: 2 In response, various thoughts succeed one another in me, and my mind moves quickly through different ideas. 3 The teaching you use to admonish me, I will hear, and the spirit of my understanding will respond for me. 4 This, I know, is from the beginning, […]

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 […]