And God said,
Let the earth
bring forth grass, the herb
yielding seed,
and
the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind,
whose seed is in itself, upon the earth:
and
it was so.
***
And
the earth brought forth
grass,
and
herb yielding seed after his kind,
and
the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself,
after his kind:
and
God saw
that
it was good.
And
the evening
and
the morning were the third
day.
**
.
. .
God created the heaven –and the earth.
***
So
God created man in his own image,
in the image of God - created he him;
male and female created he them.
***
*
And
God called the light Day,
*
And
on the seventh day God ended his work
which he had made; and he rested - on the seventh day from all
- his work which he had made.
***
And
God blessed the seventh day,
and
sanctified it:
because
that in it
he had rested from all his work which God created
- and made.
***
And
the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground,
and
breathed into his
nostrils the breath of life;
and
man became a living soul.
And
the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden;
and
there he put
the man whom he had
formed.
***
The children of Shem; Elam,
and
Asshur,
and
Arphaxad,
and
Lud,
and
Aram.
And
the children of Aram;
Uz,
***
There
was a man in the
land of
Uz, whose name was Job;
and
that man was perfect
and
upright,
and
one that feared God,
and
eschewed d-evil.
And
there were
born unto him seven
sons and three daughters.
His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels,
and five hundred yoke of oxen, and
five hundred she asses, and a
very great
household;
so that
this man was the greatest of all the men
of the east.
And
his sons went and feasted in their houses,
. . .
**
For God doth
know that in the day ye
eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and d-evil.
**
For God,
said she,
hath appointed me another seed
instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.
*
and
he was not;
for God took him.
*
For
yet
seven days,
and
I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and
forty nights; and every living substance that I
have made will I destroy from off the face
of
the earth.
**
every
one his day; and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.
And
it was so,
when
the days of their feasting were gone about,
that
Job sent
and sanctified
them,
and rose
up early in the morning, and offered - burnt offerings according to the number of them all:
for Job
said,
It
may
be that my sons
have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts.
Thus
did Job continually.
***
when
the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them,
the same
became
mighty men which
were of old, men of renown.
***
And
God created
great
whales,
and
every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought
forth abundantly,
after their kind,
and
every winged
fowl - after his kind:
and
God saw
that
it was good.
And
God blessed
them,
saying,
Be
fruitful,
and multiply,
and
fill the waters
in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
***
And
Noah began
to
be an husbandman,
and he
planted a
vineyard:
And
he drank of the wine, and was drunken;
and
he was uncovered
within his tent.
***
And
Cush begat Nim-rod:
he
began
to be a mighty one in the earth.
He
was
a mighty hunter before the Lord:
wherefore
it is said,
Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before
the Lord.
**
Howl,
O gate;
cry,
O
city;
thou, whole
Palestina, art dissolved:
for
there shall come from the north a smoke, and none shall be alone in his appointed times.
What
shall one
then
answer the messengers
of
the nation?
That the Lord hath founded Zion,
and
the poor of his people
shall trust in it.
****
And
there came
a messenger unto Job,
and
said,
The oxen
were plowing,
and
the asses feeding beside them:
And
the Sabeans fell upon them,
and
took them
away;
yea,
they
have slain the servants with the edge
of
the sword;
and
- I only am - escaped alone to tell thee.
**
Your country is desolate,
your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown
by strangers.
*
While
he was yet speaking,
there came also an-other,
and
said,
The fire of God is fallen from heaven,
and
hath burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them;
and
- I only am - escaped alone to tell thee.
**
They
shall not labour in
vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed
of the Lord,
and
their offspring with
them.
And
it shall come to pass, that before they
call,
I will answer;
and
while they are yet
speaking,
I will
hear.
**
Behold
the land
of
the Chaldeans;
this people was
not, till
the Assyrian founded it
for them that dwell in the wilderness:
they
set
up the towers thereof, they raised up the palaces thereof; and he
brought
it to ruin.
*
Come down,
and
sit in
the dust,
O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on
the ground:
there
is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans:
for
thou shalt no more be called tender - and delicate.
**
While
he was yet speaking, there came also another,
and
said,
The Chaldeans made out three bands,
and fell upon the camels,
(Wealth) and have carried them away,
yea,
and
slain the servants with the edge of the sword;
and
- I only am - escaped alone to tell thee.
*
And
Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both
their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father;
and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.
*
And the flood
was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark,
and it was lift up above the earth.
And the waters
prevailed,
and were increased greatly
upon the earth;
and
the ark
went
upon the face of the waters.
And
the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth;
and
all the high hills,
that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail;
and
the mountains were covered.
And
all flesh died - that
moved upon the earth,
both
of fowl,
and
of cattle,
and
of beast,
and
of every creeping thing that
creepeth upon the earth,
and
every man:
*
Unto Shem
also, the father of all the children of
Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder,
even to him were
children born.
The children
of
Shem; . . .
And the children of Aram; Uz, . . . .
*
But the Lord
sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea,
so that the ship was like to be broken.
*
While
he was yet
speaking, there came also another,
and
said,
Thy
sons
and thy
daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house:
And,
behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness,
and smote the four corners of the house, and
it fell upon the young men,
and
they are dead;
and
I only am escaped alone to tell
thee.
Then Job arose,
and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and
worshipped,
And said, Naked came I out of my
mother's womb, and naked shall I
return thither:
the Lord
gave,
and
the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.
In
all this Job sinned not, nor charged
God foolishly.
**
After
this opened
Job - his
mouth,-
and
cursed his day.
*
And
Job spake,
and
said,
Let
the day
perish
wherein I was born,
and
the night in which it was said,
There is a man child conceived. Let that day be darkness;
let
not
God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
Let
darkness and the shadow of death stain
it;
let
a cloud dwell upon it;
let
the blackness
of the day terrify it.
As for that night,
let
darkness seize upon it;
let
it not
be joined unto the days of the year,
let
it not
come into the number of the months.
Lo,
let
that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.
Let
them curse it that
curse the day,
who are ready to raise up their mourning.
Let
the stars
of
the twilight thereof be dark;
let
it look for light,
but
have none;
neither
let it see the dawning of the day:
Because
it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb,
nor hid sorrow
from
mine eyes.
Why
died I not from the womb?
why
did
I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
Why
did
the knees
prevent me? (From kneeling down) or
why the breasts that I should
suck?
For
now should
I have lain still and
been quiet,
I
should have slept:
then
had
I been at rest,
With
kings and
counsellors of the earth, which built
desolate places for themselves;
Or
with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with
silver: Or as an hidden untimely birth I
had not been; as
infants which
never saw light.
There
the wicked cease from troubling;
and
there the
weary be
at rest.
There
the prisoners rest together;
they
hear not the voice of the oppressor.
The small and great are
there; and the servant is free from his master.
Wherefore
is light given to him that is
in misery,
and
life unto the bitter in
soul; Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for
it more than for hid treasures; Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
Why
is light given to a man whose way is
hid,
and
whom God
hath hedged in?
For
my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
For
the thing which I greatly
feared is come upon me,
and
that which I was
afraid of is come unto me.
I
was not in safety, neither
had
I rest, neither was I quiet;
yet trouble came.
Oh
that my grief were
throughly weighed,
and
my calamity laid in
the balances together!
For
now it would
be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.
For
the arrows of the Almighty
are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit:
the terrors
of
God do set themselves in array against
me.
Doth
the wild
ass
bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over
his fodder?
Can
that which
is unsavoury be eaten without salt?
or is there any taste in the white
of
an egg? The things that my soul
refused to touch are as my sorrowful
meat. Oh
that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the
thing that I long for!
Even
that
it would please God
to destroy me;
that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
Then
should
I yet
have
comfort;
yea,
I
would harden myself
in sorrow:
let
him not spare;
for
I
have not concealed the words
of the Holy One.
What
is
my strength, that I should hope?
and
what is mine end, that I
should
prolong my life?
Is
my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh
of brass?
Is
not my help in me?
and
is wisdom
driven quite from me?
To
him that is afflicted pity should
be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of
the Almighty.
My
brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook,
and
as the stream of brooks they pass
away;
Which
are
blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid:
What
time
they wax warm, they vanish:
when it
is
hot,
they
are consumed out of their place.
The paths of their way are turned aside;
they go to nothing, and perish.
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