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
- ↑ feed...: or, feed them
- ↑ corn: Heb. mingled corn, or, dredge
- ↑ they gather...: Heb. the wicked gather the vintage
- ↑ disguiseth...: Heb. setteth his face in secret
- ↑ consume: Heb. violently take
- ↑ no...: or, he trusteth not his own life
- ↑ are gone: Heb. are not
- ↑ taken...: Heb. closed up
- ↑ and the...: or, with the inhabitants
- ↑ until...: Heb. until the end of light with darkness
- ↑ the proud: Heb. pride
- ↑ continued: Heb. added to take up
