Book of Job - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 830

10-18 ]OB.

12-3

18 S0 why did You bring from the womb? Oh I would I had died, and none seen, As th0’ I had never had life, And had gone from the womb to the gravel zo Are not my days fading and few? Oh! leave me a moment of rest, 21 Ere I go, whence I never return, To the land of the black shadowed gloom, To the land where the brightness is black, 22 Like the shadow of death, Where there are no columns of light, And whose glitter is black ! Eb: Simi Qhhrzss uf Euplyar. 11 Zophar the Namethite, however; replied, and said I0 IX I2

»x6 18 Your number of words answer not.-- No man is made right by his lips ; For your chatter, should men become still, And your sneering should no one resent P My conduct was- spotless, And I have been pure in Your sight I ' How I wish GOD would grant you a word,-· And against you would open His lips! And teach you the Wisdom Unseen, For His Knowledge and power are wide, It would teach you Gon pardons your faults. Can you End out GOD by research, Though intently you seek the Most High ? Mount to heaven l Yet what can you do? Explore then the Grave.——What is found ? He extends beyond limits of earth, And further than stretches the sea; lf He turns, and decides, and proclaims, Who then can resist to His will ? For He knows when a mortal is vile ; Sees his vice-—that himself does not know. But man has a heart that is dull, Man is born but a wild ass’s colt. Yet if you will order your heart,

And spread out your hands before Him, If you throw out your faults from your grasp, Nor let wickedness dwell in your tent, You can lift up your face without shame, You then can be hold, and not fear; Your sufferings will then be forgot, Or remembered like streams that are passed r And your lifetime arise to its noon, For your life will break out into dawn, Bringing comfort, because there is hope, And be shamed for your trust in the false, And rest, and have nothing to fear, And many will seek for your face; But the eyes of the wicked will fail, And to them shall no refuge remain, For their hope is,—their very last breath l @32 ®i;irh Kzplg of 3nh. 12 ]ob, however, answered: No doubt but that you are the men, And that wisdom will die with yourselves ! But I have a mind like your own, 830