Part 9

18:010:006 That thou enquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin?

18:010:007 Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.

18:010:008 Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.

18:010:009 Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?

18:010:010 Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?

18:010:011 Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews.

18:010:012 Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.

18:010:013 And these things hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that this is with thee.

18:010:014 If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.

18:010:015 If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;

18:010:016 For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.

18:010:017 Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.

18:010:018 Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!

18:010:019 I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

18:010:020 Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

18:010:021 Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;

18:010:022 A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.

18:011:001 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,

18:011:002 Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified?

18:011:003 Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?

18:011:004 For thou hast said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes.

18:011:005 But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against thee;

18:011:006 And that he would shew thee the secrets of wisdom, that they are double to that which is! Know therefore that God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth.

18:011:007 Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection?

18:011:008 It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know?

18:011:009 The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.

18:011:010 If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him?

18:011:011 For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also; will he not then consider it?