Job 6:29

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Answer, I beseech you, without contention: and speaking that which is just, judge ye.

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Wherefore be you all converted, and come: and I shall not find among you any wise man.

And you shall return, and shall see the difference between the just and the wicked: and between him that serveth God, and him that serveth him not.

Therefore I reprehend myself, and do penance in dust and ashes.

For Job hath said: I am just, and God hath overthrown my judgment.

But he knoweth my way, and has tried me as gold that passeth through the fire.

And if I be wicked, woe unto me: and if just, I shall not lift up my head, being filled with affliction and misery.

He that is mocked by his friends as I, shall call upon God: and he will hear him. For the simplicity of the just man is laughed to scorn.

If I shall be judged, I know that I shall be found just.

At least now, understand that God hath not afflicted me with an equal judgment, and compassed me with his scourges.

Then Job answered the Lord, and said: