Job:23-24

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* And answered and said : * Even today my complaint is bitter ; my hand is heavy over my groaning . * Oh that I knew where I might find Him , I would come into His seat ; * I would order my cause before Him , and I would fill my mouth with arguments . * I would know the words He would answer me , and understand what He would say to me . * Would He plead against me with greatness of strength ? No , surely He would put it in me . * There the righteous might reason with Him ; and I would be forever delivered from my Judge . * Behold , I go forward , but He is not there ; and backward , but I do not see Him ; * to the left where He works , but I cannot see ; He turns to the right , but I do not see Him . * But He knows the way with me . When I am tried , I shall come forth as gold . * My foot has held fast in His steps ; I have kept His way and have not turned ; * nor have I departed from the command of His lips ; I treasured the words of His mouth more than my portion . * But He is in one mind , and who can turn Him ? Yea , His soul desires , and He does it . * For He fulfilled my lot , and many like these are with Him . * On account of this I am troubled from His presence ; I consider , and am in dread of Him . * For God makes my heart weak , and the Almighty troubles me . * In this I was not cut off by darkness ; yea , He covered the thick darkness from my face . * Why since times are not hidden from the Almighty , even those knowing Him do not see His days ? * They move the landmarks ; they seize and pasture flocks ; * If they drive away the ass of orphans ; they take the widow 's ox for a pledge ; * They turn the needy out of the way ; the poor of the earth have hidden together . * Behold , like wild asses in the desert , they go out in their work , seeking early for prey ; the desert yields food for him for their young . * They reap his fodder in the field , and they glean the wicked 's vineyard . * They lodge naked ones without clothing , and give no cover against the cold . * They are wet with the showers of hills , and embrace the rock for lack of shelter . * They seize the orphan from the breast , and lay a pledge on the poor . * They make them go without clothing , and hungry they lift up the sheaves . * They press out oil between their walls ; they tread winepresses , but are thirsty . * Men groan from out of the city , and the soul of the wounded cries for help ; yet God does not charge unseemliness . * They are among rebellers against light ; they do not recognize His ways , nor do they stay in His paths . * The murderer rising with the light kills the poor and needy , and in the night he is a thief . * And the adulterer 's eye keeps watch for twilight , saying , No eye will see me ; and he puts a covering on his face . * In the dark he digs through houses ; they shut themselves up by day ; they do not know the light . * For alike are morning and the shadow of death to them ; for he knows the terrors of death shadow . * He is swift on the waters ; their part is cursed in the earth ; he does not face the way of the vineyards . * Drought and heat eat up the snow waters ; Sheol those who have sinned . * The womb shall forget him ; the worm shall suck on him ; he shall be remembered no more ; and injustice shall be broken like a tree . * He ill treats the barren that bear not , and does no good to the widow . * He also draws the mighty with his strength ; He rises up , and no one is sure of life . * He gives security to him , and he leans on it ; yet His eyes are on their ways . * They are lifted up for a little while , but they are not ; and they are brought low ; they are gathered in like all others , and wither like the heads of ears of grain . * And if not , then who will prove me a liar , and make my speech into nothing ? * And Bildad the Shuhite answered and said :

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