acv - Job:23-24

acv@Job:23:1 @ Then Job answered and said,

acv@Job:23:2 @ Even today my complaint is rebellious. My stroke is heavier than my groaning.

acv@Job:23:3 @ O that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even to his seat!

acv@Job:23:4 @ I would set my case in order before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.

acv@Job:23:5 @ I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say to me.

acv@Job:23:6 @ Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power? No, but he would give heed to me.

acv@Job:23:7 @ There the upright might reason with him. So I should be delivered forever from my judge.

acv@Job:23:8 @ Behold, I go forward, but he is not [there], and backward, but I cannot perceive him,

acv@Job:23:9 @ on the left hand, when he works, but I cannot behold him. He hides himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him.

acv@Job:23:10 @ But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

acv@Job:23:11 @ My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way, and not turned aside.

acv@Job:23:12 @ I have not gone back from the commandment of his lips, I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

acv@Job:23:13 @ But he is in one [mind], and who can turn him? And what his soul desires, even that he does.

acv@Job:23:14 @ For he performs that which is appointed for me. And many such things are with him.

acv@Job:23:15 @ Therefore I am terrified at his presence. When I consider, I am afraid of him.

acv@Job:23:16 @ For God has made my heart faint, and the Almighty has terrified me,

acv@Job:23:17 @ because I was not cut off before the darkness, nor did he cover the thick darkness from my face.

acv@Job:24:1 @ Why are times not laid up by the Almighty? And why do those who know him not see his days?

acv@Job:24:2 @ There are [men] who remove the landmarks. They take away flocks violently, and feed them.

acv@Job:24:3 @ They drive away the donkey of the fatherless. They take the widow's ox for a pledge.

acv@Job:24:4 @ They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves.

acv@Job:24:5 @ Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness [yields] them bread for their sons.

acv@Job:24:6 @ They cut their provender in the field, and they glean the vintage of the wicked.

acv@Job:24:7 @ They lie all night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.

acv@Job:24:8 @ They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.

acv@Job:24:9 @ There are [men] who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,

acv@Job:24:10 @ [so that] they go about naked without clothing, and being hungry they carry the sheaves.

acv@Job:24:11 @ They make oil within the walls of these men. They tread [their] winepresses, and suffer thirst.

acv@Job:24:12 @ From out of the populous city men groan, and the soul of the wounded cries out. Yet God does not regard the folly.

acv@Job:24:13 @ These are of those who rebel against the light. They do not know the ways of it, nor abide in the paths of it.

acv@Job:24:14 @ The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. And in the night he is as a thief.

acv@Job:24:15 @ The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me. And he disguises his face.

acv@Job:24:16 @ In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They do not know the light.

acv@Job:24:17 @ For the morning is to all of them as thick darkness. For they know the terrors of the thick darkness.

acv@Job:24:18 @ Swiftly they [pass away] upon the face of the waters. Their portion is cursed in the earth. They do not turn into the way of the vineyards.

acv@Job:24:19 @ Drought and heat consume the snow waters, [and] Sheol [those who] have sinned.

acv@Job:24:20 @ The womb shall forget him. The worm shall feed sweetly on him. He shall be no more remembered. And unrighteousness shall be broken as a tree.

acv@Job:24:21 @ He devours the barren who do not bear, and does no good to the widow.

acv@Job:24:22 @ Yet [God] preserves the mighty by his power. He rises up who has no assurance of life.

acv@Job:24:23 @ [God] gives them to be in security, and they rest in it. And his eyes are upon their ways.

acv@Job:24:24 @ They are exalted. Yet a little while, and they are gone. Yea, they are brought low. They are taken out of the way as all others, and are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.

acv@Job:24:25 @ And if it be not so now, who will prove me a liar, and make my speech worth nothing?

acv@Job:25:1 @ Then Bildad the Shuhite answered, and said,