rotherham - Job:23-24

rotherham@Job:23:1 @ Then responded Job, and said:

rotherham@Job:23:2 @ Even to-day, is my complaint rebellion? His hand, is heavier than my groaning.

rotherham@Job:23:3 @ Oh that I knew where I might find him! I would come even unto his dwelling-place;

rotherham@Job:23:4 @ I would set out, before him, a plea, and, my mouth, would I fill with arguments;

rotherham@Job:23:5 @ I would note the words wherewith he would respond to me, and would mark what he would say to me.

rotherham@Job:23:6 @ Would he, with fulness of might, contend with me? Nay, surely, he, would give heed to me!

rotherham@Job:23:7 @ There an upright man, might reason with him, so should I deliver myself completely from my judge.

rotherham@Job:23:8 @ Behold! eastward, I go, but he is not there, and, westward, but I perceive him not;

rotherham@Job:23:9 @ On the north, where he worketh, but I get no vision, He hideth himself on the south that I cannot see him.

rotherham@Job:23:10 @ But, he, knoweth the way that I choose, Having tried me, as gold, I shall come forth.

rotherham@Job:23:11 @ Of his steps, my foot taketh hold, His way, have I kept, and not swerved;

rotherham@Job:23:12 @ The command of his lips, and would not go back, and, in my bosom, have I treasured the words of his lips.

rotherham@Job:23:13 @ But, he, is one, and who can turn him? What his soul desired, he hath done.

rotherham@Job:23:14 @ Surely he will accomplish what is decreed for me, and, many such things, hath he in store.

rotherham@Job:23:15 @ For this cause, from his presence, am I driven in fear, I diligently consider and am kept back from him in dread:

rotherham@Job:23:16 @ Yea, GOD, hath made timid my heart, and, the Almighty, hath put me in terror.

rotherham@Job:23:17 @ Because I was not cut off before the darkness, nor, before my face, did the gloom form a shroud.

rotherham@Job:24:1 @ Wherefore, since from the Almighty times are not hid, have, his knowing ones, no vision of his days?

rotherham@Job:24:2 @ Boundaries, men move back, flocks, they seize and consume;

rotherham@Job:24:3 @ The ass of the fatherless, they drive off, they take in pledge the ox of the widow;

rotherham@Job:24:4 @ They turn aside the needy out of the way, at once, are the humbled of the land made to hide themselves.

rotherham@Job:24:5 @ Lo! wild asses in the wilderness, they go forth with their work, eager seekers for prey, the waste plain, yieldeth them food for their young;

rotherham@Job:24:6 @ In the field-a mans fodder, they cut down, and, the vineyard of the lawless, they strip of its late berries;

rotherham@Job:24:7 @ Ill-clad, they are left to lodge without clothing, and have no covering in the cold;

rotherham@Job:24:8 @ With the sweeping rain of the mountains, are they wet, and, through having no shelter, they embrace a rock.

rotherham@Job:24:9 @ Men tear, from the breast, the fatherless, and, over the poor, they take a pledge;

rotherham@Job:24:10 @ Naked, they go about without clothing, and, famished, they carry the sheaves;

rotherham@Job:24:11 @ Between their walls, are they exposed to the sun, Wine-presses, they tread, and yet are thirsty;

rotherham@Job:24:12 @ Out of the cityout of the houses, they make outcry. and, the soul of the wounded, calleth for help, and, GOD, doth not regard it as foolish.

rotherham@Job:24:13 @ They, have become rebels against the light, they are not acquainted with the ways thereof, neither abide they in the paths thereof.

rotherham@Job:24:14 @ With the light, riseth the murderer, He slayeth the poor and needy, And, in the night, he becometh like a thief.

rotherham@Job:24:15 @ And, the eye of the adulterer, watcheth for the evening twilight, saying, Not an eye will see me! A covering for the face, he putteth on;

rotherham@Job:24:16 @ He breaketh, in the dark, into houses, By day, they lock themselves in, They know not the light;

rotherham@Job:24:17 @ For, in the case of all such, morning to them is the death-shade, For, to be recognised, is a death-shade terror.

rotherham@Job:24:18 @ Swift is he on the face of the waters, Speedily vanished their share in the land, He turneth not to the way of the vineyards.

rotherham@Job:24:19 @ Drought and heat, steal away snow water, Hades, them who have sinned.

rotherham@Job:24:20 @ Maternal love shall forget him, the worm shall find him sweet, No more shall he be remembered, but perversity shall be shivered like a tree.

rotherham@Job:24:21 @ He oppresseth the barren who beareth not, and, to the widow, he doeth not good;

rotherham@Job:24:22 @ Yea he draggeth along the mighty by his strength, He riseth up, and none hath assurance of life;

rotherham@Job:24:23 @ It is given him to be secure, and confident, yet, his eyes, are upon their ways.

rotherham@Job:24:24 @ They are exalted a little, and are not, Yea having been laid low, like all men, are they gathered, Even as the top of an ear of corn, do they hang down.

rotherham@Job:24:25 @ But, if not, who then can convict me of falsehood? or make of no account my words?

rotherham@Job:25:1 @ Then responded Bildad the Shuhite, and said: