Or will he speak soft words unto thee?

28 Will he make a covenant with thee, That thou shouldest take him for a servant for ever?

29 Wilt thou play with him as with a bird?

Or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?

30 Will the bands of fishermen make a banquet of him?

Will they part him among the merchants?

31 Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons,

Or his head with fish-spears? 32Lay thy hand upon him;

Think upon the battle, thou wilt do so no more.

41 Behold, the hope of him is in vain;

Shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him?

"They are joined one to another; They stick together, that they cannot be sundered.

10 His sneezings flash forth light, And his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.

"Out of his mouth go burning torches, And sparks of fire leap forth. 12Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, As out of a seething pot and burning rushes.

13 His breath kindleth coals,

And a flame goeth out of his mouth. 14In his neck abideth strength,

And dismay danceth before him. 15The flakes of his flesh are joined together;

They are firm upon him; they cannot be moved.

16 His heart is as firm as a stone; Yea, firm as the nether millstone.

up;

Who then is able to stand before Me?

3Who hath given Me anything beforehand, that I should repay him?

Whatsoever is under the whole heaven is Mine.

4Would I keep silence concerning his boastings,

Or his proud talk, or his fair array of words?

"Who can uncover the face of his garment?

Who shall come within his double bridle?

"Who can open the doors of his face? Round about his teeth is terror. "His scales are his pride,

Shut up together as with a close seal.

mighty are afraid;

By reason of despair they are beside themselves.

18If one lay at him with the sword, it will not hold;

Nor the spear, the dart, nor the pointed shaft.

19He esteemeth iron as straw,

And brass as rotten wood. 20The arrow cannot make him flee; Slingstones are turned with him into stubble.

21Clubs are accounted as stubble; He laugheth at the rattling of the javelin.

Sharpest potsherds are under him; He spreadeth a threshing-sledge upon the mire.

23 He maketh the deep to boil like a pot;

He maketh the sea like a seething mixture.

I know that Thou canst do every thing,

And that no purpose can be with

holden from Thee.

Who is this that hideth counsel without knowledge?

Therefore have I uttered that which I understood not,

Things too wonderful for me, which I knew not. "Hear, I beseech Thee, and I will speak;

I will demand of Thee, and declare Thou unto me.

"I had heard of Thee by the hearing of the ear;

But now mine eye seeth Thee; "Wherefore I abhor my words, and repent,

Seeing I am dust and ashes.

up for yourselves a burnt-offering; and My servant Job shall pray for you; for him will I accept, that I do not unto you aught unseemly; for ye have not spoken of Me the thing that is right, as My servant Job hath.' So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as the LORD commanded them; and the LORD accepted Job. 10And the LORD changed the fortune of Job, when he prayed for his friends; and the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before. "Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house; and they bemoaned him, and comforted him concerning all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him; every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one a ring of gold. 12So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning; and he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand sheasses. 13 He had also seven sons and three daughters. 14And he called the name of the first, "Jemimah; and the name of the second, Keziah; and the name of the third, Kerenhappuch. 15And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job; and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren. 16And after this Job lived a hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations. So Job died, being old and full of days.

• That is, Horn of eye-paint.

2Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth

For thy love is better than wine. "Thine ointments have a goodly fragrance;

Thy name is as ointment poured forth;

Therefore do the maidens love thee. 4Draw me, we will run after thee; The king hath brought me into his chambers;

We will be glad and rejoice in thee, We will find thy love more fragrant than wine!

Sincerely do they love thee.
5'I am black, but comely,
O ye daughters of Jerusalem,
As the tents of Kedar,

As the curtains of Solomon.
"Look not upon me, that I am
swarthy,

That the sun hath tanned me;

My mother's sons were incensed against me,

They made me keeper of the vineyards;

But mine own vineyard have I not kept.'

"Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth,

Where thou feedest, where thou

makest thy flock to rest at noon; For why should I be as one that veileth herself Beside the flocks of thy companions?

If thou know not, O thou fairest among women,

Go thy way forth by the footsteps of the flock

And feed thy kids, beside the shepherds' tents.

"I have compared thee, O my love, To a steed in Pharaoh's chariots. 10Thy cheeks are comely with circlets, Thy neck with beads.

"We will make thee circlets of gold With studs of silver.

12 While the king sat at his table, My spikenard sent forth its fragrance.

13My beloved is unto me as a bag of myrrh,

That lieth betwixt my breasts. 14My beloved is unto me as a cluster of henna

In the vineyards of En-gedi.

15Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair;

Thine eyes are as doves.

16Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant;

Also our couch is leafy.

17The beams of our houses are cedars. And our panels are cypresses.

2 I am a rose of Sharon,

A lily of the valleys.

2As a lily among thorns,

So is my love among the daughters.

As an apple-tree among the trees of the wood,

So is my beloved among the sons. ́nder its shadow I delighted to sit, And its fruit was sweet to my taste. He hath brought me to the banqueting-house,

And his banner over me is love. Stay ye me with dainties, refresh me with apples;

For I am love-sick.'

Let his left hand be under my head,

And his right hand embrace me.

I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem,

By the gazelles, and by the hinds of the field,

That ye awaken not, nor stir up love,

140 my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock, in the covert of the cliff, Let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice;

For sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely.'

15 Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vineyards;

For our vineyards are in blossom.' 16 My beloved is mine, and I am his, That feedeth among the lilies. 17Until the day breathe, and the shadows flee away,

Turn, my beloved, and be thou like a gazelle or a young hart Upon the mountains of spices.

3 By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth;

I sought him, but I found him not. 2'I will rise now, and go about the city,

In the streets and in the broad ways, I will seek him whom my soul loveth.'

I sought him, but I found him not. "The watchmen that go about the city found me:

'Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?' 4Scarce had I passed from them, When I found him whom my soul loveth:

I held him, and would not let him go,

Until I had brought him into my mother's house,

And into the chamber of her that conceived me.

'I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem,

By the gazelles, and by the hinds of the field,

That ye awaken not, nor stir up love, Until it please.'

"Who is this that cometh up out of the wilderness

Like pillars of smoke,

Perfumed with myrrh and frankin

cense,

With all powders of the merchant? "Behold, it is the litter of Solomon; Threescore mighty men are about it, Of the mighty men of Israel. "They all handle the sword, And are expert in war;

Every man hath his sword upon his thigh,

Because of dread in the night. "King Solomon made himself a palanquin

Of the wood of Lebanon.

10 He made the pillars thereof of silver,

The top thereof of gold,
The seat of it of purple,

The inside thereof being inlaid with love,

From the daughters of Jerusalem. 11Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion, And gaze upon king Solomon, Even upon the crown wherewith his mother hath crowned him in the day of his espousals,

"Thy neck is like the tower of David Builded with turrets,

Whereon there hang a thousand shields,

All the armour of the mighty men. "Thy two breasts are like two fawns That are twins of a gazelle, Which feed among the lilies. "Until the day breathe, And the shadows flee away,

I will get me to the mountain of myrrh,

And to the hill of frankincense. "Thou art all fair, my love;

And there is no spot in thee. $Come with me from Lebanon, my bride,

With me from Lebanon;

Look from the top of Amana,
From the top of Senir and Hermon,
From the lions' dens,

From the mountains of the leopards. "Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my bride;

Thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes,

With one bead of thy necklace.

his heart.

4 Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair;

Thine eyes are as doves behind thy veil;

Thy hair is as a flock of goats,

That trail down from mount Gilead. "Thy teeth are like a flock of ewes all shaped alike,

Which are come up from the washing;

Whereof all are paired,

And none faileth among them.
Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet,
And thy mouth is comely;
Thy temples are like a pomegranate
split open
Behind thy veil.

bride!

How much better is thy love than wine!

And the smell of thine ointments than all manner of spices!

"Thy lips, O my bride, drop honeyHoney and milk are under thy tongue;

And the smell of thy garments is

like the smell of Lebanon. 12A garden shut up is my sister, my bride;

A spring shut up, a fountain sealed. 13Thy shoots are a park of pomegranates,

With precious fruits;

Henna with spikenard plants, 14Spikenard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon,