Job:23-24
rsv@Job:23:1 @ Then Job answered:
rsv@Job:23:2 @ "Today also my complaint is bitter, his hand is heavy in spite of my groaning.
rsv@Job:23:3 @ Oh, that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even to his seat!
rsv@Job:23:4 @ I would lay my case before him and fill my mouth with arguments.
rsv@Job:23:5 @ I would learn what he would answer me, and understand what he would say to me.
rsv@Job:23:6 @ Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power? No; he would give heed to me.
rsv@Job:23:7 @ There an upright man could reason with him, and I should be acquitted for ever by my judge.
rsv@Job:23:8 @ "Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him;
rsv@Job:23:9 @ on the left hand I seek him, but I cannot behold him; I turn to the right hand, but I cannot see him.
rsv@Job:23:10 @ But he knows the way that I take; when he has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
rsv@Job:23:11 @ My foot has held fast to his steps; I have kept his way and have not turned aside.
rsv@Job:23:12 @ I have not departed from the commandment of his lips; I have treasured in my bosom the words of his mouth.
rsv@Job:23:13 @ But he is unchangeable and who can turn him? What he desires, that he does.
rsv@Job:23:14 @ For he will complete what he appoints for me; and many such things are in his mind.
rsv@Job:23:15 @ Therefore I am terrified at his presence; when I consider, I am in dread of him.
rsv@Job:23:16 @ God has made my heart faint; the Almighty has terrified me;
rsv@Job:23:17 @ for I am hemmed in by darkness, and thick darkness covers my face.
rsv@Job:24:1 @ "Why are not times of judgment kept by the Almighty, and why do those who know him never see his days?
rsv@Job:24:2 @ Men remove landmarks; they seize flocks and pasture them.
rsv@Job:24:3 @ They drive away the ass of the fatherless; they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
rsv@Job:24:4 @ They thrust the poor off the road; the poor of the earth all hide themselves.
rsv@Job:24:5 @ Behold, like wild asses in the desert they go forth to their toil, seeking prey in the wilderness as food for their children.
rsv@Job:24:6 @ They gather their fodder in the field and they glean the vineyard of the wicked man.
rsv@Job:24:7 @ They lie all night naked, without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.
rsv@Job:24:8 @ They are wet with the rain of the mountains, and cling to the rock for want of shelter.
rsv@Job:24:9 @ (There are those who snatch the fatherless child from the breast, and take in pledge the infant of the poor.)
rsv@Job:24:10 @ They go about naked, without clothing; hungry, they carry the sheaves;
rsv@Job:24:11 @ among the olive rows of the wicked they make oil; they tread the wine presses, but suffer thirst.
rsv@Job:24:12 @ From out of the city the dying groan, and the soul of the wounded cries for help; yet God pays no attention to their prayer.
rsv@Job:24:13 @ "There are those who rebel against the light, who are not acquainted with its ways, and do not stay in its paths.
rsv@Job:24:14 @ The murderer rises in the dark, that he may kill the poor and needy; and in the night he is as a thief.
rsv@Job:24:15 @ The eye of the adulterer also waits for the twilight, saying, `No eye will see me'; and he disguises his face.
rsv@Job:24:16 @ In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves up; they do not know the light.
rsv@Job:24:17 @ For deep darkness is morning to all of them; for they are friends with the terrors of deep darkness.
rsv@Job:24:18 @ "You say, "They are swiftly carried away upon the face of the waters; their portion is cursed in the land; no treader turns toward their vineyards.
rsv@Job:24:19 @ Drought and heat snatch away the snow waters; so does Sheol those who have sinned.
rsv@Job:24:20 @ The squares of the town forget them; their name is no longer remembered; so wickedness is broken like a tree.'
rsv@Job:24:21 @ "They feed on the barren childless woman, and do no good to the widow.
rsv@Job:24:22 @ Yet God prolongs the life of the mighty by his power; they rise up when they despair of life.
rsv@Job:24:23 @ He gives them security, and they are supported; and his eyes are upon their ways.
rsv@Job:24:24 @ They are exalted a little while, and then are gone; they wither and fade like the mallow; they are cut off like the heads of grain.
rsv@Job:24:25 @ If it is not so, who will prove me a liar, and show that there is nothing in what I say?"
rsv@Job:25:1 @ Then Bildad the Shuhite answered:
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