and shalt not sin.
18:005:025 Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.
18:005:026 Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
18:005:027 Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou it for thy good.
18:006:001 But Job answered and said,
18:006:002 Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
18:006:003 For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.
18:006:004 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.
18:006:005 Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?
18:006:006 Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
18:006:007 The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.
18:006:008 Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!
18:006:009 Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
18:006:010 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.
18:006:011 What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?
18:006:012 Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brass?
18:006:013 Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?
18:006:014 To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.
18:006:015 My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;
18:006:016 Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid:
18:006:017 What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
18:006:018 The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.
18:006:019 The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.
18:006:020 They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.
18:006:021 For now ye are nothing; ye see my casting down, and are afraid.
18:006:022 Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of your substance?
18:006:023 Or, Deliver me from the enemy's hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty?
18:006:024 Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
18:006:025 How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
18:006:026 Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?
18:006:027 Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.
18:006:028 Now therefore be content, look upon me; for it is evident unto you if I lie.
18:006:029 Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.
18:006:030 Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?
18:007:001 Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?
18:007:002 As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work:
18:007:003 So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
18:007:004 When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.
18:007:005 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.
18:007:006 My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
18:007:007 O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.
18:007:008 The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not.
18:007:009 As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.
18:007:010 He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
18:007:011 Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
18:007:012 Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?
18:007:013 When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaints;
18:007:014 Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:
18:007:015 So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.
18:007:016 I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.
18:007:017 What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?
18:007:018 And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment?
18:007:019 How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
18:007:020 I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?
18:007:021 And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.
18:008:001 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
18:008:002 How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?
18:008:003 Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?
18:008:004 If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;
18:008:005 If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;
18:008:006 If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation
