Job 36

1 With the multitude of them my garment is consumed, and they have girded me about, as with the collar of my coat. 2 I am compared to dirt, and am likened to embers and ashes. 3 I cry to thee, and thou hearest me not: I stand up, and thou dost not regard me. 4 Thou art changed to be cruel toward me, and in the hardness of thy hand thou art against me. 5 Thou hast lifted me up, and set me as it were upon the wind, and thou hast mightily dashed me. 6 I know that thou wilt deliver me to death, where a house is appointed for every one that liveth. 7 But yet thou stretchest not forth thy hand to their consumption: and if they shall fall down thou wilt save. 8 I wept heretofore for him that was afflicted, and my soul had compassion on the poor. 9 I expected good things, and evils are come upon me: I waited for light, and darkness broke out. 10 My inner parts have boiled without any rest, the days of affliction have prevented me. 11 I went mourning without indignation; I rose up, and cried in the crowd. 12 I was the brother of dragons, and companion of ostriches. 13 My skin is become black upon me, and my bones are dried up with heat. 14 My harp is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of those that weep. 16 I made a covenant with my eyes, that I would not so much as think upon a virgin. 17 For what part should God from above have in me, and what inheritance the Almighty from on high? 18 Is not destruction to the wicked, and aversion to them that work iniquity? 19 Doth not he consider my ways, and number all my steps? 20 If I have walked in vanity, and my foot hath made haste to deceit: 21 Let him weigh me in a just balance, and let God know my simplicity. 22 If my step hath turned out of the way, and if my heart hath followed my eyes, and if a spot hath cleaved to my hands: 23 Then let me sow and let another reap: and let my offspring be rooted out. 24 If my heart hath been deceived upon a woman, and if I have laid wait at my friend’s door: 25 Let my wife be the harlot of another, and let other men lie with her. 26 For this is a heinous crime, and a most grievous iniquity. 27 It is a fire that devoureth even to destruction, and rooteth up all things that spring. 28 If I have despised to abide judgment with my manservant, or my maidservant, when they had any controversy against me: 29 For what shall I do when God shall rise to judge? and when he shall examine, what shall I answer him? 30 Did not he that made me in the womb make him also: and did not one and the same form me in the womb? 31 If I have denied to the poor what they desired, and have made the eyes of the widow wait: 32 If I have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof: 33 (For from my infancy mercy grew up with me: and it came out with me from my mother’s womb:)