Job 21-24

Chapter 21

But Job answered and said, 2 Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations. 3 Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on. 4 As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled? 5 Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth. 6 Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling takes hold on my flesh.

7 Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power? 8 Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes. 9 Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them. 10 Their bull genders, and fails not; their cow calves, and casts not her calf. 11 They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance. 12 They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ. 13 They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave. 14 Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of Thy ways. 15 What is the Almighty, that we should serve Him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto Him? 16 Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

17 How often is the candle of the wicked put out! and how often comes their destruction upon them! God distributes sorrows in His anger. 18 They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carries away. 19 God lays up his iniquity for his children: He rewards him, and he shall know it. 20 His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty. 21 For what pleasure has he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?

22 Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing He judges those that are high. 23 One dies in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet. 24 His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow. 25 And another dies in the bitterness of his soul, and never eats with pleasure. 26 They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.

27 Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me. 28 For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked? 29 Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens, 30 That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath. 31 Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he has done? 32 Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb. 33 The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him. 34 How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remains falsehood?

Chapter 22

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said, 2 Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself? 3 Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou are righteous? or is it gain to Him, that thou make thy ways perfect? 4 Will He reprove thee for fear of thee? will He enter with thee into judgment?

5 Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite? 6 For thou have taken a pledge from thy brother for naught, and stripped the naked of their clothing. 7 Thou have not given water to the weary to drink, and thou have withheld bread from the hungry. 8 But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honorable man dwelt in it. 9 Thou have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken. 10 Therefore snares are round about thee, and sudden fear troubles thee; 11 Or darkness, that thou can not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.

12 Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are! 13 And thou say, How does God know? can He judge through the dark cloud? 14 Thick clouds are a covering to Him, that He sees not; and He walks in the circuit of heaven.

15 Have thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden? 16 Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood: 17 Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them? 18 Yet He filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me. 19 The righteous see it, and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn. 20 Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumes.

21 Acquaint now thyself with Him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee. 22 Receive, I pray thee, the law from His mouth, and lay up His words in thine heart. 23 If thou return to the Almighty, thou shall be built up, thou shall put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles. 24 Then shall thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks. 25 Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defense, and thou shall have plenty of silver. 26 For then shall thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shall lift up thy face unto God. 27 Thou shall make thy prayer unto him, and He shall hear thee, and thou shall pay thy vows. 28 Thou shall also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways. 29 When men are cast down, then thou shall say, There is lifting up; and He shall save the humble person. 30 He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands.

Chapter 23

Then Job answered and said, 2 Even today is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning. 3 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. 5 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 forever 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 does work, but I cannot behold Him: He hides Himself on the right hand, that I cannot see Him: 10 But He knows the way that I take: when He has tried me, I shall come forth as gold. 11 My foot has 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 desires, even that He does. 14 For He performs the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with Him. 15 Therefore am I troubled at His presence: when I consider, I am afraid of Him. 16 For God makes my heart soft, and the Almighty troubles me: 17 Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither has 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 yields 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 cries out: yet God lays 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 kills the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief. 15 The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguises 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 of the shadow of death. 18 He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholds not the way of the vineyards. 19 Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so does the grave those which have sinned. 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 evil entreats the barren that bears not: and does not good to the widow. 22 He draws also the mighty with his power: he rises up, and no man is sure of life. 23 Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he rests; 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 other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn. 25 And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?

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