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
3:11. Why did I not die in the womb? why did I not perish when I came
out of the belly?
3:12. Why received upon the knees? why suckled at the breasts?
3:13. For now I should have been asleep and still, and should have rest
in my sleep:
3:14. With kings and consuls of the earth, who build themselves
solitudes:
3:15. Or with princes, that possess gold, and fill their houses with
silver:
3:16. Or as a hidden untimely birth, I should not be; or as they that,
being conceived, have not seen the light.
3:17. There the wicked cease from tumult, and there the wearied in
strength are at rest.
3:18. And they sometime bound together without disquiet, have not heard
the voice of the oppressor.
3:19. The small and great are there, and the servant is free from his
master.
3:20. Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life to them that
are in bitterness of soul?
3:21. That look for death, and it cometh not, as they that dig for a
treasure:
3:22. And they rejoice exceedingly when they have found the grave?
3:23. To a man whose way is hidden, and God hath surrounded him with
darkness?
3:24. Before I eat I sigh: and as overflowing waters, so is my roaring:
3:25. For the fear which I feared, hath come upon me: and that which I
was afraid of, hath befallen me.
3:26. Have I not dissembled? have I not kept silence? have I not been
quiet? and indignation is come upon me.
Job Chapter 4
4:1. Then Eliphaz, the Themanite, answered, and said:
4:2. If we begin to speak to thee, perhaps thou wilt take it ill; but
who can withhold the words he hath conceived?
4:3. Behold thou hast taught many, and thou hast strengthened the weary
hands:
4:4. Thy words have confirmed them that were staggering, and thou hast
strengthened the trembling knees:
4:5. But now the scourge is come upon thee, and thou faintest: It hath
touched thee, and thou art troubled.
4:6. Where is thy fear, thy fortitude, thy patience, and the perfection
of thy ways?
4:7. Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished being innocent? or when
were the just destroyed?
4:8. On the contrary, I have seen those who work iniquity, and sow
sorrows, and reap them,
4:9. Perishing by the blast of God, and consumed by the spirit of his
wrath.
4:10. The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the lioness, and the
teeth of the whelps of lions, are broken:
4:11. The tiger hath perished for want of prey, and the young lions are
scattered abroad.
4:12. Now there was a word spoken to me in private, and my ears by
stealth, as it were, received the veins of its whisper.
4:13. In the horror of a vision by night, when deep sleep is wont to
hold men,
4:14. Fear seized upon me, and trembling, and all my bones were
affrighted:
4:15. And when a spirit passed before me, the hair of my flesh stood up.
4:16. There stood one whose countenance I knew not, an image before my
eyes, and I heard the voice, as it were, of a gentle wind.
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