If
I
have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;
Let me
be weighed in an even balance that God may know mine integrity.
If my step hath turned out
of the way, and - mine heart -walked after - mine eyes, and if any blot
hath cleaved to - mine hands; - Then let me sow,
and let an-other eat; - yea,-
let my
offspring be rooted out.
They
hunt
- our steps, that we
cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days -are -fulfilled; for our end
is come.
Our
persecutors - are
swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in
the wilderness.
*****
And the Lord God
formed man of the dust of the ground, and
breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; an-d
man became a living soul.
*****
The breath
of our nostrils, the anointed
of the Lord, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under
his shadow - we shall live among the heathen.
*****
There
was a man in the land of Uz, whose na-me w-as Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one
that feared God, and eschewed evil.
Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that
dwellest in the land of Uz; the cup also shall pass . . .
And
No-ah began
to be an husbandman,
and
he planted a vineyard:
And
he drank of the wine,
and was drunken;
and
he w-as un- covered within h-is tent.
*****
.
. . through unto
thee: thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked.
If
mine heart have been deceived by a wo-rk-man, or if I have laid wait at my
neighbour's door; Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her. For this is an heinous crime;
yea, it is an inequity to be punished by the judges.
For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine
increase. - If I did
despise the cause of my man-servant
or of my maid-servant, when they contended with me;
What
then
shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth,
what shall I
answer him?
. . .
pitch
To
erect or establish; set up: pitched a tent; pitch camp. 4. To set firmly;
implant; embed: pitched stakes in the ground. 5. To set at a specified downward
slant: pitched the roof at a steep angle. 6.
To set at a particular level, degree, or quality:
Make thee an
ark
of god-prophet; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it
with-in -and with-out - with pitch.
breadth
1. Abbr. b. The measure or dimension from side
to side; width. 2. A piece usually produced in a standard width: a breadth of
canvas. 3. Wide range or scope: breadth
of knowledge. Tolerance; broadmindedness: a jurist of great breadth and wisdom.
4. An effect of unified, encompassing vision in an artistic composition.
And
this is the fashion
which thou shalt make it of:
The length of the ark shall be - three hundred - breadth,
the breadth of it
. . . Did no-t
he that - made me - in the womb
- make him? and did not one - fashion us - in the womb?
If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the
eyes of the widow to fail; Or
have eaten my morsel - myself
alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof; (For from my youth he was brought up with me,
as with a father, and I have
guided her – from - my mother's womb;)
If
I
have seen any perish for want of
clothing, or any poor without
covering;
If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with
the fleece of my sheep;
If I
have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:
This is now bone
of my bones, and flesh of my flesh:
Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and
mine arm be broken from the bone. For destruction from God was a
terror to me,
and by reason of his highness
I
could not endure.
If
I
have made gold - my
hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;
If
I
rejoiced because my wealth - was great,
and because mine hand had gotten much;
If
I
beheld the sun when it
shined, or the moon walking in
brightness;
And my heart
hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my
hand:
This
also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge:
for I
should
have denied the God that is above.
If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or
lifted up myself when evil found him: Neither have I suffered my
mouth to
sin by wishing a curse to his soul.
If
the men of my tabernacle
said not, Oh
that we had of his flesh!
we cannot be satisfied. The stranger
did not lodge in the street:
And
there came two angels to Sodom at even;
and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to
meet them; and he bowed him-self
with his face to-ward the ground;
And
he said, Behold now, my
lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house,
and tarry all night, and
wash your feet, and ye
shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we
will abide in the
street all night.
but
I
opened my
doors to the traveller. If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine inequity in my
bosom: Did I fear a great multitude, or
did the contempt of families terrify me,
that I kept
silence, and went not out of the door?
Oh
that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the
Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a
book. Surely I would take it upon my
shoulder, and bind it as
a crown to me. I would declare unto
him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near
unto him. If my land
cry against me, or that the furrows
likewise thereof complain;
If I
have eaten the fruits thereof with-out money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life: Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle
instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.
So
these three men ceased to answer Job, because he
was righteous in his
own eyes.
ISamuel