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CHAPTER 23
Then Job answered and said,
2
Even to day
is
my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my
groaning.
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Oh that I knew where I might find him!
that
I might come
even
to his seat!
4
I would
order
my
cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
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I would know the words
which
he
would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.
6
Will he plead against me with
his
great power? No; but he would put
strength
in me.
7
There the righteous might dispute with him;
so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.
8
Behold, I go forward, but he
is
not
there;
and
backward, but I cannot perceive him:
9
On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold
him:
he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see
him:
10
But he knoweth the way that I
take:
when
he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
11
My foot hath held his steps, his way have
I kept, and not declined.
12
Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have
esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary
food.
13
But he
is
in one
mind,
and who
can turn him? and
what
his soul desireth, even
that
he doeth.
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For he performeth
the thing that is
appointed for me: and many such
things are
with him.
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Therefore am I troubled at his presence:
when I consider, I am afraid of him.
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For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth
me:
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Because I was not cut off before the darkness,
neither
hath he covered the darkness from
my face.
CHAPTER 24
Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?
2
Some
remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed
thereof.
3
They drive away
the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
4
They turn the needy out of the
way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
5
Behold,
as
wild asses in the desert, go they
forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness
yieldeth
food for them
and
for
their
children.
6
They reap
every one
his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.
7
They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that
they have
no covering in the cold.
8
They are
wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
9
They pluck
the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
10
They cause
him
to go naked without
clothing, and they take away the sheaf
from
the hungry;
11
Which
make oil within their walls,
and
tread
their
winepresses, and suffer thirst.
12
Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the
wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly
to them.
13
They are of those that rebel against the
light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
14
The murderer rising with
the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
15
The eye also of the adulterer
waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth
his
face.
16
In the dark they
dig through houses,
which
they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
17
For the morning
is
to them even as the shadow of death: if
one
know
them, they are in
the terrors
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