The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 20: Job: The Challoner Revision — John Shaqi
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 20: Job: The Challoner Revision
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The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 20: Job: The Challoner Revision
Bible. Job
2:3. And the Lord said to Satan: Hast thou considered my servant, Job,
that there is none like him in the earth, a man simple and upright, and
fearing God, and avoiding evil, and still keeping his innocence? But
thou hast moved me against him, that I should afflict him without cause.
2:4. And Satan answered, and said: Skin for skin; and all that a man
hath, he will give for his life:
2:5. But put forth thy hand, and touch his bone and his flesh, and then
thou shalt see that he will bless thee to thy face.
2:6. And the Lord said to Satan: Behold, he is in thy hand, but yet save
his life.
2:7. So Satan went forth from the presence of the Lord, and struck Job
with a very grievous ulcer, from the sole of the foot even to the top of
his head:
2:8. And he took a potsherd and scraped the corrupt matter, sitting on a
dunghill.
2:9. And his wife said to him: Dost thou still continue in thy
simplicity? bless God and die.
2:10. And he said to her: Thou hast spoken like one of the foolish
women: If we have received good things at the hand of God, why should we
not receive evil? In all these things Job did not sin with his lips.
2:11. Now when Job's three friends heard all the evil that had befallen
him, they came every one from his own place, Eliphaz, the Themanite, and
Baldad, the Suhite, and Sophar, the Naamathite. For they had made an
appointment to come together and visit him, and comfort him.
2:12. And when they had lifted up their eyes afar off, they knew him
not, and crying out, they wept, and rending their garments, they
sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.
2:13. And they sat with him on the ground seven day and seven nights and
no man spoke to him a word: for they saw that his grief was very great.
Job Chapter 3
3:1. After this, Job opened his mouth, and cursed his day,
Cursed his day... Job cursed the day of his birth, not by way of wishing
evil to any thing of God's creation; but only to express in a stronger
manner his sense of human miseries in general, and of his own calamities
in particular.
3:2. And he said:
3:3. Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it
was said: A man child is conceived.
3:4. Let that day be turned into darkness, let not God regard it from
above, and let not the light shine upon it.
3:5. Let darkness, and the shadow of death, cover it, let a mist
overspread it, and let it be wrapped up in bitterness.
3:6. Let a darksome whirlwind seize upon that night, let it not be
counted in the days of the year, nor numbered in the months.
3:7. Let that night be solitary, and not worthy of praise.
3:8. Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to raise up a
leviathan:
3:9. Let the stars be darkened with the mist thereof: let it expect
light, and not see it, nor the rising of the dawning of the day:
3:10. Because it shut not up the doors of the womb that bore me, nor
took away evils from my eyes.
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