Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee that [I have] yet to speak on God's behalf.

For truly my words [shall] not [be] false: he that is perfect in knowledge [is] with thee.

He preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth right to the poor.

And if [they be] bound in fetters, [and] be holden in cords of affliction

He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity.

But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.

They die in youth, and their life [is] among the unclean.

Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait [into] a broad place, where [there is] no straitness and that which should be set on thy table [should be] full of fatness.

Because [there is] wrath, [beware] lest he take thee away with [his] stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.

Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.

Behold, God exalteth by his power: who teacheth like him?

Remember that thou magnify his work, which men behold.

Behold, God [is] great, and we know [him] not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.

Which the clouds do drop [and] distil upon man abundantly.

Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the bottom of the sea.

With clouds he covereth the light and commandeth it [not to shine] by [the cloud] that cometh betwixt.

Hear attentively the noise of his voice, and the sound [that] goeth out of his mouth.

After it a voice roareth: he thundereth with the voice of his excellency and he will not stay them when his voice is heard.

For he saith to the snow, Be thou [on] the earth likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength.

Then the beasts go into dens, and remain in their places.

By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the waters is straitened.

And it is turned round about by his counsels: that they may do whatsoever he commandeth them upon the face of the world in the earth.

Hearken unto this, O Job: stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God.

Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him which is perfect in knowledge?

Hast thou with him spread out the sky, [which is] strong, [and] as a molten looking glass?

Shall it be told him that I speak? if a man speak, surely he shall be swallowed up.

Fair weather cometh out of the north: with God [is] terrible majesty.

Men do therefore fear him: he respecteth not any [that are] wise of heart.

Who [is] this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?

Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.

Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof

Or [who] shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, [as if] it had issued out of the womb?

And brake up for it my decreed [place], and set bars and doors,

Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days [and] caused the dayspring to know his place

It is turned as clay [to] the seal and they stand as a garment.

Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the depth?

Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if thou knowest it all.

That thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof, and that thou shouldest know the paths [to] the house thereof?

Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail,

By what way is the light parted, [which] scattereth the east wind upon the earth?

To cause it to rain on the earth, [where] no man [is on] the wilderness, wherein [there is] no man

Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew?

The waters are hid as [with] a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.

Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?

Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee?

Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? or who hath given understanding to the heart?

When the dust groweth into hardness, and the clods cleave fast together?

When they couch in [their] dens, [and] abide in the covert to lie in wait?

Canst thou number the months [that] they fulfil? or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?

Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn they go forth, and return not unto them.

Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.

The range of the mountains [is] his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.

Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee?

Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring home thy seed, and gather [it into] thy barn?

Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust,

She is hardened against her young ones, as though [they were] not hers: her labour is in vain without fear

What time she lifteth up herself on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider.

Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? the glory of his nostrils [is] terrible.

He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted neither turneth he back from the sword.

He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage: neither believeth he that [it is] the sound of the trumpet.

Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom, [and] stretch her wings toward the south?

She dwelleth and abideth on the rock, upon the crag of the rock, and the strong place.

Her young ones also suck up blood: and where the slain [are], there [is] she.

Nevertheless, [to avoid] fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.

But I speak this by permission, [and] not of commandment.

I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.

And unto the married I command, [yet] not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from [her] husband:

But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean but now are they holy.

For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save [thy] husband? or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save [thy] wife?

Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised.

Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called.

For he that is called in the Lord, [being] a servant, is the Lord's freeman: likewise also he that is called, [being] free, is Christ's servant.

Brethren, let every man, wherein he is called, therein abide with God.

I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, [I say], that [it is] good for a man so to be.

But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.

And they that weep, as though they wept not and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not and they that buy, as though they possessed not

But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:

There is difference [also] between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please [her] husband.

But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of [her] age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry.

So then he that giveth [her] in marriage doeth well but he that giveth [her] not in marriage doeth better.

But she is happier if she so abide, after my judgment: and I think also that I have the Spirit of God.