Old/New Testament
17 ¶ My breath is corrupt, my days are cut off, and the grave is ready for me.
2 Now there are only mockers with me, upon whose bitterness my eye continues to gaze.
3 Put up now, give me surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?
4 For with these, thou hast hid their heart from understanding; therefore, thou shalt not exalt them.
5 He that speaks flattery to his neighbour, even the eyes of his sons shall fail.
6 He has made me a byword of the peoples; and before them I have been as a tambourine.
7 My eyes are dim by reason of sorrow, and all my thoughts are as a shadow.
8 Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
9 The righteous shall hold on to his way, and he that has clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
10 ¶ But return all of you, and come now; for I shall not find one that is wise among you.
11 My days are past, my thoughts were broken off, even the purposes of my heart.
12 They changed the night into day; the light is short because of the darkness.
13 If I wait, Sheol is my house; I have made my bed in the darkness.
14 I have said to the pit, Thou art my father; to the worms, my mother, and my sister.
15 And where shall my hope be now? As for my hope, who shall see it?
16 They shall go down to the bars of Sheol, and together they shall rest in the dust.
18 ¶ Then Bildad, the Shuhite, answered and said,
2 How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? Understand, and afterwards we will speak.
3 Why are we counted as beasts? Are we vile in your sight?
4 O thou that dost tear thy soul in thine anger; shall the earth be forsaken because of thee and shall the rocks be removed out of their place?
5 ¶ The light of the wicked shall certainly be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.
6 The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his lamp shall be put out with him.
7 The steps of his strength shall be cut down, and his own counsel shall cast him down.
8 For a net shall be cast at his feet, and he shall walk upon a network.
9 The snare shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him.
10 The cord is hidden in the ground and a trap for him in the way.
11 ¶ Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and his own feet shall drive him away.
12 His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.
13 They shall devour the protection of his skin; the firstborn of death shall devour his members.
14 His confidence shall be rooted out of his tent, and he shall be brought to the king of terrors.
15 He shall dwell in his tent, as if it were not his; brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
16 His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above his branch shall be cut off.
17 His memory shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the streets.
18 He shall be driven from the light into the darkness and chased out of the world.
19 He shall have neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any to succeed him in his dwellings.
20 Those that come after him shall be dismayed at his day, as those that went before were overcome with fear.
21 Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that does not know God.
19 ¶ And Job replied and said,
2 How long will ye anguish my soul and break me in pieces with words?
3 These ten times ye have reproached me; are ye not ashamed to make yourselves strange to me?
4 And if indeed I have erred, my error shall remain with me.
5 If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me and reprove me of my reproach,
6 know now that God has overthrown me and has compassed me with his net.
7 Behold, I shall cry out that I have been wronged, and I shall not be heard; I shall cry aloud, and there shall be no judgment.
8 ¶ He has walled off my way and I shall not pass, and he has set darkness in my paths.
9 He has stripped me of my glory and taken the crown from my head.
10 He has pulled me up on every side, and I am dried up; he has caused my hope to pass like an uprooted tree.
11 He has kindled his wrath against me, and he counted me unto him as one of his enemies.
12 His troops came together and raised up their way over me and encamp round about my tent.
13 He has put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintances are verily estranged from me.
14 My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
15 Those that dwell in my house and my maids have counted me for a stranger; I was an alien in their sight.
16 I called my slave, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.
17 My spirit came to be strange to my wife, although I intreated her for the sons of my own body.
18 Even the young children despised me; as I arose, they spoke against me.
19 All my intimate friends abhorred me; and those whom I loved are turned against me.
20 My bones cleave to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
21 Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God has touched me.
22 Why do ye persecute me as God and are not satisfied with my flesh?
23 ¶ Oh, that my words were now written! Oh, that they were printed in a book!
24 That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
25 For I know that my redeemer lives and that he shall rise at the latter day over the dust;
26 and afterward from this, my stricken skin and from my own flesh, I must see God:
27 whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another, though my kidneys be consumed within me.
28 But ye should say, Why should we persecute him, seeing that the root of the matter is found in me?
29 Be ye afraid of the sword; for the wrath of the sword comes because of the iniquities, that ye may know there is a judgment.
10 ¶ There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of the company called the Italian,
2 a devout man and one that feared God with all his house, who gave many alms to the people and prayed to God always.
3 He saw in a vision evidently about the ninth hour of the day an angel of God coming in to him and saying unto him, Cornelius.
4 And when he looked on him, he was afraid and said, What is it, Lord? And he said unto him, Thy prayers and thine alms {lit. thine acts of mercy} are come up for a memorial before God.
5 And now send men to Joppa and call for one Simon, whose surname is Peter;
6 he lodges with one Simon a tanner, whose house is by the sea side; he shall tell thee what it behooves thee to do.
7 And when the angel who spoke unto Cornelius was departed, he called two of his household servants and a devout soldier of those that waited on him continually;
8 and when he had declared all these things unto them, he sent them to Joppa.
9 ¶ On the morrow, as they went on their journey and drew near unto the city, Peter went up upon the housetop to pray about the sixth hour;
10 and he became very hungry and would have eaten; but while they made ready, he fell into a rapture of understanding
11 and saw the heaven opened and a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners and let down to the earth,
12 in which were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth and wild beasts and reptiles and fowls of the air.
13 And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter, kill and eat.
14 But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean.
15 And the voice spoke unto him again the second time, That which God has cleansed, do not call common.
16 This was done three times, and the vessel was received up again into heaven.
17 Now while Peter doubted in himself what this vision which he had seen should mean, behold, the men who were sent from Cornelius had made enquiry for Simon’s house and stood before the gate
18 and called and asked whether Simon, who was surnamed Peter, were lodged there.
19 ¶ While Peter thought on the vision, the Spirit said unto him, Behold, three men seek thee.
20 Arise therefore and get thee down and go with them, doubting nothing; for I have sent them.
21 Then Peter went down to the men who were sent unto him from Cornelius and said, Behold, I am he whom ye seek; what is the cause for which ye are come?
22 And they said, Cornelius the centurion, a just man and one that fears God and of good report among all the nation of the Jews, was warned from God by a holy angel to send for thee into his house and to hear words of thee.
23 Then he called them in and lodged them. And on the morrow Peter went away with them, and certain brethren from Joppa accompanied him.
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