akjv - Job:23-24

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

akjv@Job:23:2 @ Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.

akjv@Job:23:3 @ Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!

akjv@Job:23:4 @ I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.

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

akjv@Job:23:6 @ Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me.

akjv@Job:23:7 @ There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.

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

akjv@Job:23:9 @ 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:

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

akjv@Job:23:11 @ My foot has held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.

akjv@Job:23:12 @ Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

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

akjv@Job:23:14 @ For he performes the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him.

akjv@Job:23:15 @ Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.

akjv@Job:23:16 @ For God makes my heart soft, and the Almighty troubles me:

akjv@Job:23:17 @ Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither has he covered the darkness from my face.

akjv@Job:24:1 @ Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?

akjv@Job:24:2 @ Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.

akjv@Job:24:3 @ They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow' ox for a pledge.

akjv@Job:24:4 @ They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.

akjv@Job:24:5 @ 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.

akjv@Job:24:6 @ They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.

akjv@Job:24:7 @ They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.

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

akjv@Job:24:9 @ They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.

akjv@Job:24:10 @ They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;

akjv@Job:24:11 @ Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.

akjv@Job:24:12 @ Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded cries out: yet God lays not folly to them.

akjv@Job:24:13 @ They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.

akjv@Job:24:14 @ The murderer rising with the light kills the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.

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

akjv@Job:24:16 @ In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.

akjv@Job:24:17 @ 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.

akjv@Job:24:18 @ He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholds not the way of the vineyards.

akjv@Job:24:19 @ Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so does the grave those which have sinned.

akjv@Job:24:20 @ 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.

akjv@Job:24:21 @ He evil entreats the barren that bears not: and does not good to the widow.

akjv@Job:24:22 @ He draws also the mighty with his power: he rises up, and no man is sure of life.

akjv@Job:24:23 @ Though it be given him to be in safety, where on he rests; yet his eyes are on their ways.

akjv@Job:24:24 @ 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.

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

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