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darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face.

CHAP. 24.

1 Wickedness goeth often unpunished. 17 There is a secret judgment for the wicked.


Why, seeing times are not hid from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days? 2 Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and their feed. [1] 3 They drive away the donkey 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 donkeys in the desert, they go forth to their work; rising early for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children. 6 They reap every one his grain in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked. [2] [3] 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 Who 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 its ways, nor abide in its paths. 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. [4] 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 knoweth them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.
18 He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards. 19 Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those who have sinned. [5] 20 The 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. 21 He wrongeth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow. 22 He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no man is sure of life. [6] 23 Though it is given him to be in safety, on which he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways. 24 They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all others, and cut off as the tops of the heads of grain. [7] [8] 25 And if it is not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech of no worth?

CHAP. 25.

Bildad sheweth that man cannot be justified before God.


Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, 2 Dominion and fear are with him, he maketh peace in his high places. 3 Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth not his light arise? 4 How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman? 5 Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; and the stars are not pure in his sight. 6 How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, who is a worm?

CHAP. 26.

1 Job, reproving the uncharitable spirit of Bildad, 5 acknowledgeth the power of God to be infinite and unsearchable.


But Job answered and said, 2 How hast thou helped him that is without power? how savest thou the arm that hath no strength? 3 How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom? and how hast thou abundantly declared the thing as it is? 4 To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee?
5 Dead things are formed from under the waters, and its inhabitants. [9] 6 Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering. 7 He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing. 8 He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not torn under them. 9 He holdeth back the face of his throne, and spreadeth his cloud upon it. 10 He hath surrounded the waters with a border, until the day and night come to an end. [10] 11 The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof. 12 He divideth the sea by his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through the proud. [11] 13 By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent. 14 Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?

CHAP. 27.

1 Job protesteth his sincerety. 8 The hypocrite is without hope. 11 The blessings which the wicked have are turned into curses.


Moreover Job continued his parable, and said, [12] 2 As God liveth, who hath taken away

  1. feed...: or, feed them
  2. corn: Heb. mingled corn, or, dredge
  3. they gather...: Heb. the wicked gather the vintage
  4. disguiseth...: Heb. setteth his face in secret
  5. consume: Heb. violently take
  6. no...: or, he trusteth not his own life
  7. are gone: Heb. are not
  8. taken...: Heb. closed up
  9. and the...: or, with the inhabitants
  10. until...: Heb. until the end of light with darkness
  11. the proud: Heb. pride
  12. continued: Heb. added to take up