kjv - Job:21-24

kjv@Job:21:1 @ But Job answered and said,

kjv@Job:21:2 @ Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.

kjv@Job:21:3 @ Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.

kjv@Job:21:4 @ As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?

kjv@Job:21:5 @ Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.

kjv@Job:21:6 @ Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.

kjv@Job:21:7 @ Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?

kjv@Job:21:8 @ Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.

kjv@Job:21:9 @ Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.

kjv@Job:21:10 @ Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.

kjv@Job:21:11 @ They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.

kjv@Job:21:12 @ They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.

kjv@Job:21:13 @ They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.

kjv@Job:21:14 @ Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.

kjv@Job:21:15 @ What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?

kjv@Job:21:16 @ Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

kjv@Job:21:17 @ How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.

kjv@Job:21:18 @ They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.

kjv@Job:21:19 @ God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.

kjv@Job:21:20 @ His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

kjv@Job:21:21 @ For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?

kjv@Job:21:22 @ Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high.

kjv@Job:21:23 @ One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.

kjv@Job:21:24 @ His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow.

kjv@Job:21:25 @ And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.

kjv@Job:21:26 @ They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.

kjv@Job:21:27 @ Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.

kjv@Job:21:28 @ For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?

kjv@Job:21:29 @ Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens,

kjv@Job:21:30 @ That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.

kjv@Job:21:31 @ Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?

kjv@Job:21:32 @ Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.

kjv@Job:21:33 @ The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.

kjv@Job:21:34 @ How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?

kjv@Job:22:1 @ Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,

kjv@Job:22:2 @ Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself?

kjv@Job:22:3 @ Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or is it gain to him, that thou makest thy ways perfect?

kjv@Job:22:4 @ Will he reprove thee for fear of thee? will he enter with thee into judgment?

kjv@Job:22:5 @ Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite?

kjv@Job:22:6 @ For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

kjv@Job:22:7 @ Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.

kjv@Job:22:8 @ But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honourable man dwelt in it.

kjv@Job:22:9 @ Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

kjv@Job:22:10 @ Therefore snares are round about thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee;

kjv@Job:22:11 @ Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.

kjv@Job:22:12 @ Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are!

kjv@Job:22:13 @ And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?

kjv@Job:22:14 @ Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven.

kjv@Job:22:15 @ Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?

kjv@Job:22:16 @ Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:

kjv@Job:22:17 @ Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?

kjv@Job:22:18 @ Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

kjv@Job:22:19 @ The righteous see it, and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn.

kjv@Job:22:20 @ Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth.

kjv@Job:22:21 @ Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee.

kjv@Job:22:22 @ Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.

kjv@Job:22:23 @ If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.

kjv@Job:22:24 @ Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.

kjv@Job:22:25 @ Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou shalt have plenty of silver.

kjv@Job:22:26 @ For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God.

kjv@Job:22:27 @ Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.

kjv@Job:22:28 @ Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.

kjv@Job:22:29 @ When men are cast down, then thou shalt say, There is lifting up; and he shall save the humble person.

kjv@Job:22:30 @ He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

kjv@Job:23:9 @ On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him:

kjv@Job:23:10 @ But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

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

kjv@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.

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

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

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

kjv@Job:23:16 @ For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:

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

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

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

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

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

kjv@Job:24:5 @ Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.

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

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

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

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

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

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

kjv@Job:24:12 @ Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.

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

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

kjv@Job:24:15 @ The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.

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

kjv@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.

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

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

kjv@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.

kjv@Job:24:21 @ He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.

kjv@Job:24:22 @ He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no man is sure of life.

kjv@Job:24:23 @ Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways.

kjv@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.

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

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