דָּבַר

When I had waited,(for they spake not, but stood still, and answered no more;)

I will speak, that I may be refreshed: I will open my lips and answer.

Behold, now I have opened my mouth, my tongue hath spoken in my mouth.

For God speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not.

Mark well, O Job, hearken unto me: hold thy peace, and I will speak.

If thou hast any thing to say, answer me: speak, for I desire to justify thee.

Should it be according to thy mind? he will recompense it, whether thou refuse, or whether thou choose; and not I: therefore speak what thou knowest.

Job hath spoken without knowledge, and his words were without wisdom.

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

Once have I spoken; but I will not answer: yea, twice; but I will proceed no further.

Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto thee?

Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.

And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.

Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job.

So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as the LORD commanded them: the LORD also accepted Job.

Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.

Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.

They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.

The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:

He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.

They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, the servant of the LORD, who spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the day that the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul: And he said, I will love thee, O LORD, my strength.

It is God that avengeth me, and subdueth the people under me.

Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts.