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Job, Chapters 16-31

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16:0

16:1

16:2

см.:Иов.21:34;

16:3

16:4

16:5

16:6

16:7

см.:Иов.10:17;

16:8

16:9

16:10

16:11

16:12

см.:Пс.101:14;Втор.32:23;

16:13

16:14

16:15

16:16

см.:Иов.17:7;Пс.6:7-8;

16:17

см.:1Тим.2:8;

16:18

16:19

16:20

16:21

16:22

см.:Нав.23:14;Иов.7:21;Иов.10:21;

Chapter 31

31:1

см.:Быт.34:1-2;Сир.9:5;Мф.5:28;

31:2

31:3

31:4

см.:Иов.23:10;Иов.34:21;Пс.138:3;

31:5

31:6

31:7

см.:Пс.7:4;

31:8

см.:Лев.26:16;Втор.28:30:38;

31:9

см.:Иов.24:15;

31:10

см.:Втор.28:30;

31:11

см.:Быт.38:24;Лев.20:10;

31:12

см.:Ис.47:14;

31:13

см.:Еф.6:9;Кол.4:1;

31:14

31:15

31:16

см.:1Ин.3:17;Иак.2:15-16;

31:17

см.:Лк.14:13;

31:18

см.:Иов.29:16;Сир.4:10;

см.:Ис.58:7;

см.:Втор.24:13;

см.:Ис.58:4;

см.:Зах.11:17;

см.:Быт.50:19;

см.:Пс.61:11;Мк.10:24;

31:25

31:26

см.:Втор.4:19;Иез.8:16;

31:27

см.:3Цар.19:18;

31:28

см.:Тит.1:16;

31:29

см.:Притч.24:17;

31:30

31:31

31:32

см.:Быт.19:2;Рим.12:13;Евр.13:2;

31:33

см.:Быт.3:8;Ос.6:7;

31:34

31:35

31:36

31:37

31:38

31:39

см.:Иак.5:11;

31:40

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Job Reaffirms His Innocence

Then Job answered:

“I have heard many such things; miserable comforters are you all.

Have windy words no limit? Or what provokes you that you keep on talking?

I also could talk as you do, if you were in my place; I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you.

I could encourage you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips would assuage your pain.

“If I speak, my pain is not assuaged, and if I forbear, how much of it leaves me?

Surely now God has worn me out; he has made desolate all my company.

And he has shriveled me up, which is a witness against me; my leanness has risen up against me, and it testifies to my face.

He has torn me in his wrath, and hated me; he has gnashed his teeth at me; my adversary sharpens his eyes against me.

They have gaped at me with their mouths; they have struck me insolently on the cheek; they mass themselves together against me.

God gives me up to the ungodly, and casts me into the hands of the wicked.

I was at ease, and he broke me in two; he seized me by the neck and dashed me to pieces; he set me up as his target;

his archers surround me. He slashes open my kidneys, and shows no mercy; he pours out my gall on the ground.

He bursts upon me again and again; he rushes at me like a warrior.

I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and have laid my strength in the dust.

My face is red with weeping, and deep darkness is on my eyelids,

though there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.

“O earth, do not cover my blood; let my outcry find no resting place.

Even now, in fact, my witness is in heaven, and he that vouches for me is on high.

My friends scorn me; my eye pours out tears to God,

that he would maintain the right of a mortal with God, as one does for a neighbor.

For when a few years have come, I shall go the way from which I shall not return.

“I have made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I look upon a virgin?

What would be my portion from God above, and my heritage from the Almighty on high?

Does not calamity befall the unrighteous, and disaster the workers of iniquity?

Does he not see my ways, and number all my steps?

“If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot has hurried to deceit—

let me be weighed in a just balance, and let God know my integrity!—

if my step has turned aside from the way, and my heart has followed my eyes, and if any spot has clung to my hands;

then let me sow, and another eat; and let what grows for me be rooted out.

“If my heart has been enticed by a woman, and I have lain in wait at my neighbor's door;

then let my wife grind for another, and let other men kneel over her.

For that would be a heinous crime; that would be a criminal offense;

for that would be a fire consuming down to Abaddon, and it would burn to the root all my harvest.

“If I have rejected the cause of my male or female slaves, when they brought a complaint against me;

what then shall I do when God rises up? When he makes inquiry, what shall I answer him?

Did not he who made me in the womb make them? And did not one fashion us in the womb?

“If I have withheld anything that the poor desired, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

or have eaten my morsel alone, and the orphan has not eaten from it—

for from my youth I reared the orphan like a father, and from my mother's womb I guided the widow —

if I have seen anyone perish for lack of clothing, or a poor person without covering,

whose loins have not blessed me, and who was not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

if I have raised my hand against the orphan, because I saw I had supporters at the gate;

then let my shoulder blade fall from my shoulder, and let my arm be broken from its socket.

For I was in terror of calamity from God, and I could not have faced his majesty.

“If I have made gold my trust, or called fine gold my confidence;

if I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, or because my hand had gotten much;

if I have looked at the sun when it shone, or the moon moving in splendor,

and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my mouth has kissed my hand;

this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges, for I should have been false to God above.

“If I have rejoiced at the ruin of those who hated me, or exulted when evil overtook them—

I have not let my mouth sin by asking for their lives with a curse—

if those of my tent ever said, ‘O that we might be sated with his flesh!’ —

the stranger has not lodged in the street; I have opened my doors to the traveler—

if I have concealed my transgressions as others do, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom,

because I stood in great fear of the multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and did not go out of doors—

Oh, that I had one to hear me! (Here is my signature! let the Almighty answer me!) Oh, that I had the indictment written by my adversary!

Surely I would carry it on my shoulder; I would bind it on me like a crown;

I would give him an account of all my steps; like a prince I would approach him.

“If my land has cried out against me, and its furrows have wept together;

if I have eaten its yield without payment, and caused the death of its owners;

let thorns grow instead of wheat, and foul weeds instead of barley.” The words of Job are ended.