Job 23:1–25:6
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Job 23:1–25:6 · Psalm 95 (MT: 96) · Proverbs 23:9 · Romans 15:1–24
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1Then Job answered and said,
1Then Job answered and said,
2Yea, I know that pleading is out of my reach; and his hand has been made heavy upon my groaning.
2Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.
3Who would then know that I might find him, and come to an end [of the matter]?
3Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!
4And I would plead my own cause , and he would fill my mouth with arguments.
4I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
5And I would know the remedies which he would speak to me, and I would perceive what he would tell me.
5I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.
6Though he should come on me in [his] great strength, then he would not threaten me;
6Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me.
7for truth and reproof are from him; and he would bring forth my judgment to an end.
7There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.
8For if I shall go first, and exist no longer, still what do I know [concerning] the latter end?
8Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:
9When he wrought on the left hand, then I observed [it] not: his right hand shall encompass me but I shall not see [it].
9On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him:
10For he knows already my way; and he has tried meas gold.
10But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
11And I will go forth according to his commandments, for I have kept his ways; and I shall not turn aside from his commandments,
11My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.
12neither shall I transgress; but I have hid his words in my bosom.
12Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
13And if too he has thus judged, who is he that has contradicted, for he has both willed [a thing] and done it.
13But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.
15Therefore am I troubled at him; and when I was reproved, I thought of him. Therefore let me take good heed before him: I will consider, and be afraid of him.
15Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.
16But the Lord has softened my heart , and the Almighty has troubled me.
16For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:
17For I knew not that darkness would come upon me, and thick darkness has covered [me] before my face.
17Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face.
1But why have the seasons been hidden from the Lord,
1Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?
2while the ungodly have passed over the bound, carrying off the flock with the shepherd?
2Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.
3They have led away the ass of the fatherless, and taken the widow's ox for a pledge.
3They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
4They have turned aside the weak from the right way: and the meek of the earth have hidden themselves together.
4They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
5And they have departed like asses in the field, having gone forth on my account according to their own order: his bread is sweet to [his] little ones.
5Behold, 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.
6They have reaped a field that was not their own before the time: the poor have laboured in the vineyards of the ungodly without pay and without food.
6They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.
7They have caused many naked to sleep without clothes, and they have taken away the covering of their body.
7They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.
8They are wet with the drops of the mountains: they have embraced the rock, because they had no shelter.
8They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
9They have snatched the fatherless from the breast, and have afflicted the outcast.
9They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
10And they have wrongfully caused [others] to sleep without clothing, and taken away the morsel of the hungry.
10They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;
11They have unrighteously laid wait in narrow places, and have not known the righteous way.
11Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.
12Who have cast forth [the] poor from the city and their own houses, and the soul of the children has groaned aloud.
12Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.
13Why then has he not visited these? forasmuch as they were upon the earth, and took no notice, and they knew not the way of righteousness, neither have they walked in their [appointed] paths?
13They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
14But having known their works, he delivered them into darkness: and in the night one will be as a thief:
14The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
15and the eye of the adulterer has watched [for] the darkness, saying, Eye shall not perceive me, and he puts a covering on his face.
15The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.
16In darkness he digs through houses: by day they conceal themselves securely: they know not the light.
16In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
17For the morning is to them all [as] the shadow of death, for [each] will be conscious of the terror of the shadow of death.
17For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.
18He is swift on the face of the water: let his portion be cursed on the earth; and let their plants be laid bare.
18He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.
19[Let them be] withered upon the earth; for they have plundered the sheaves of the fatherless.
19Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned.
20Then is his sin brought to remembrance, and he vanishes like a vapour of dew: but let what he has done be recompensed to him, and let every unrighteous one be crushed like rotten wood.
20The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.
21For he has not treated the barren woman well, and has had no pity on a feeble woman.
21He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.
22And in wrath he has overthrown the helpless: therefore when he has arisen, [a man] will not feel secure of his own life.
22He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no man is sure of life.
23When he has fallen sick, let him not hope to recover: but let him perish by disease.
23Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways.
24For his exaltation has hurt many; but he has withered as mallows in the heat, or as an ear of corn falling off of itself from the stalk.
24They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.
25But if not , who is he that says I speak falsely, and will make my words of no account?
25And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?
1Then Baldad the Sauchite answered and said,
1Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
2What beginning or fear is his—even he that makes all things in the highest?
2Dominion and fear are with him, he maketh peace in his high places.
3For let none think that there is a respite for robbers: and upon whom will there not come a snare from him?
3Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth not his light arise?
4For how shall a mortal be just before the Lord? or who that is born of a woman shall purify himself?
4How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
5If he gives an order to the moon, then it shines not; and the stars are not pure before him.
5Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight.
6But alas! man is corruption, and the son of mana worm.
6How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm?