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Then Job answered and said,
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I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?
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If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.
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He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered?
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Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger.
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Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.
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Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars.
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Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea.
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Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.
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Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders without number.
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Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not: he passeth on also, but I perceive him not.
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Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What doest thou?
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If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him.
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How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him?
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Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge.
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If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.
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For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.
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He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.
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If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead?
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If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.
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Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
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This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
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If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.
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The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he?
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Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
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They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.
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If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:
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I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.
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If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
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If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
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Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.
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For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment.
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Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.
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Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me:
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Then would I speak, and not fear him; but it is not so with me.
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My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
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I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.
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Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?
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Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth?
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Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man's days,
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That thou enquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin?
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Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.
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Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.
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Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?
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Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?
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Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews.
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Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.
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And these things hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that this is with thee.
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If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.
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If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;
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For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.
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Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.
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Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!
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I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
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Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
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Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
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A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
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Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
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Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified?
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Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?
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For thou hast said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes.
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But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against thee;
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And that he would shew thee the secrets of wisdom, that they are double to that which is! Know therefore that God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth.
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Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection?
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It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know?
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The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
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If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him?
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For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also; will he not then consider it?
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For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt.
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If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him;
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If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.
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For then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; yea, thou shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear:
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Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away:
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And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday; thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning.
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And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope; yea, thou shalt dig about thee, and thou shalt take thy rest in safety.
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Also thou shalt lie down, and none shall make thee afraid; yea, many shall make suit unto thee.
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But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost.
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And Job answered and said,
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No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.
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But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these?
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I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn.
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He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.
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The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.
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But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee:
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Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.
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Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the LORD hath wrought this?
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In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.
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Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat?
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With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.
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With him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and understanding.
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Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.
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Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.
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With him is strength and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver are his.
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He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools.
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He looseth the bond of kings, and girdeth their loins with a girdle.
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He leadeth princes away spoiled, and overthroweth the mighty.
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He removeth away the speech of the trusty, and taketh away the understanding of the aged.
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He poureth contempt upon princes, and weakeneth the strength of the mighty.
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He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death.
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He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he enlargeth the nations, and straiteneth them again.
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He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
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They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.
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And again he entered into Capernaum after some days; and it was noised that he was in the house.
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And straightway many were gathered together, insomuch that there was no room to receive them, no, not so much as about the door: and he preached the word unto them.
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And they come unto him, bringing one sick of the palsy, which was borne of four.
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And when they could not come nigh unto him for the press, they uncovered the roof where he was: and when they had broken it up, they let down the bed wherein the sick of the palsy lay.
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When Jesus saw their faith, he said unto the sick of the palsy, Son, thy sins be forgiven thee.
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But there were certain of the scribes sitting there, and reasoning in their hearts,
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Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies? who can forgive sins but God only?
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And immediately when Jesus perceived in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, he said unto them, Why reason ye these things in your hearts?
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Whether is it easier to say to the sick of the palsy, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and take up thy bed, and walk?
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But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (he saith to the sick of the palsy,)
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I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy bed, and go thy way into thine house.
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And immediately he arose, took up the bed, and went forth before them all; insomuch that they were all amazed, and glorified God, saying, We never saw it on this fashion.
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And he went forth again by the sea side; and all the multitude resorted unto him, and he taught them.
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And as he passed by, he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the receipt of custom, and said unto him, Follow me. And he arose and followed him.
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And it came to pass, that, as Jesus sat at meat in his house, many publicans and sinners sat also together with Jesus and his disciples: for there were many, and they followed him.
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And when the scribes and Pharisees saw him eat with publicans and sinners, they said unto his disciples, How is it that he eateth and drinketh with publicans and sinners?
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When Jesus heard it, he saith unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
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And the disciples of John and of the Pharisees used to fast: and they come and say unto him, Why do the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast, but thy disciples fast not?
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And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bridechamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them? as long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.
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But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast in those days.
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No man also seweth a piece of new cloth on an old garment: else the new piece that filled it up taketh away from the old, and the rent is made worse.
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And no man putteth new wine into old bottles: else the new wine doth burst the bottles, and the wine is spilled, and the bottles will be marred: but new wine must be put into new bottles.
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And it came to pass, that he went through the corn fields on the sabbath day; and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears of corn.
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And the Pharisees said unto him, Behold, why do they on the sabbath day that which is not lawful?
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And he said unto them, Have ye never read what David did, when he had need, and was an hungred, he, and they that were with him?
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How he went into the house of God in the days of Abiathar the high priest, and did eat the shewbread, which is not lawful to eat but for the priests, and gave also to them which were with him?
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And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:
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Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.
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And he entered again into the synagogue; and there was a man there which had a withered hand.
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And they watched him, whether he would heal him on the sabbath day; that they might accuse him.
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And he saith unto the man which had the withered hand, Stand forth.
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And he saith unto them, Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath days, or to do evil? to save life, or to kill? But they held their peace.
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And when he had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts, he saith unto the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it out: and his hand was restored whole as the other.
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And the Pharisees went forth, and straightway took counsel with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.
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But Jesus withdrew himself with his disciples to the sea: and a great multitude from Galilee followed him, and from Judaea,
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And from Jerusalem, and from Idumaea, and from beyond Jordan; and they about Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, when they had heard what great things he did, came unto him.
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And he spake to his disciples, that a small ship should wait on him because of the multitude, lest they should throng him.
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For he had healed many; insomuch that they pressed upon him for to touch him, as many as had plagues.
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And unclean spirits, when they saw him, fell down before him, and cried, saying, Thou art the Son of God.
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And he straitly charged them that they should not make him known.
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And he goeth up into a mountain, and calleth unto him whom he would: and they came unto him.
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And he ordained twelve, that they should be with him, and that he might send them forth to preach,
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And to have power to heal sicknesses, and to cast out devils:
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And Simon he surnamed Peter;
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And James the son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James; and he surnamed them Boanerges, which is, The sons of thunder:
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And Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Canaanite,
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And Judas Iscariot, which also betrayed him: and they went into an house.
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And the multitude cometh together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread.
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And when his friends heard of it, they went out to lay hold on him: for they said, He is beside himself.
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And the scribes which came down from Jerusalem said, He hath Beelzebub, and by the prince of the devils casteth he out devils.
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And he called them unto him, and said unto them in parables, How can Satan cast out Satan?
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And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
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And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.
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And if Satan rise up against himself, and be divided, he cannot stand, but hath an end.
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No man can enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he will first bind the strong man; and then he will spoil his house.
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Verily I say unto you, All sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men, and blasphemies wherewith soever they shall blaspheme:
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But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation:
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Because they said, He hath an unclean spirit.
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There came then his brethren and his mother, and, standing without, sent unto him, calling him.
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And the multitude sat about him, and they said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren without seek for thee.
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And he answered them, saying, Who is my mother, or my brethren?
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And he looked round about on them which sat about him, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren!
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For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother.
