Aug.
22
Job
24-26
Job
24:1 "Why aren't times laid up by the Almighty? Why don't those
who know him see his days?
Job
24:2 There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take
away flocks, and feed them.
Job
24:3 They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take the
widow's ox for a pledge.
Job
24:4 They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all
hide themselves.
Job
24:5 Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go forth to their
work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread
for their children.
Job
24:6 They cut their provender in the field. They glean the vineyard
of the wicked.
Job
24:7 They lie all night naked without clothing, and have no covering
in the cold.
Job
24:8 They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the
rock for lack of a shelter.
Job
24:9 There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and
take a pledge of the poor,
Job
24:10 So that they go around naked without clothing. Being hungry,
they carry the sheaves.
Job
24:11 They make oil within the walls of these men. They tread wine
presses, and suffer thirst.
Job
24:12 From out of the populous city, men groan. The soul of the
wounded cries out, yet God doesn't regard the folly.
Job
24:13 "These are of those who rebel against the light. They
don't know its ways, nor abide in its paths.
Job
24:14 The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and
needy. In the night he is like a thief.
Job
24:15 The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying,
'No eye shall see me.' He disguises his face.
Job
24:16 In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up
in the daytime. They don't know the light.
Job
24:17 For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, for
they know the terrors of the thick darkness.
Job
24:18 "They are foam on the surface of the waters. Their
portion is cursed in the earth. They don't turn into the way of the
vineyards.
Job
24:19 Drought and heat consume the snow waters, so does Sheol those
who have sinned.
Job
24:20 The womb shall forget him. The worm shall feed sweetly on him.
He shall be no more remembered. Unrighteousness shall be broken as a
tree.
Job
24:21 He devours the barren who don't bear. He shows no kindness to
the widow.
Job
24:22 Yet God preserves the mighty by his power. He rises up who has
no assurance of life.
Job
24:23 God gives them security, and they rest in it. His eyes are on
their ways.
Job
24:24 They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone. Yes,
they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as all others,
and are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.
Job
24:25 If it isn't so now, who will prove me a liar, and make my
speech worth nothing?"
Job
25:1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,
Job
25:2 "Dominion and fear are with him. He makes peace in his
high places.
Job
25:3 Can his armies be counted? On whom does his light not arise?
Job
25:4 How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of
a woman be clean?
Job
25:5 Behold, even the moon has no brightness, and the stars are not
pure in his sight;
Job
25:6 How much less man, who is a worm, the son of man, who is a
worm!"
Job
26:1 Then Job answered,
Job
26:2 "How have you helped him who is without power! How have
you saved the arm that has no strength!
Job
26:3 How have you counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully
declared sound knowledge!
Job
26:4 To whom have you uttered words? Whose spirit came forth from
you?
Job
26:5 "Those who are deceased tremble, those beneath the waters
and all that live in them.
Job
26:6 Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.
Job
26:7 He stretches out the north over empty space, and hangs the
earth on nothing.
Job
26:8 He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is
not burst under them.
Job
26:9 He encloses the face of his throne, and spreads his cloud on
it.
Job
26:10 He has described a boundary on the surface of the waters, and
to the confines of light and darkness.
Job
26:11 The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his
rebuke.
Job
26:12 He stirs up the sea with his power, and by his understanding
he strikes through Rahab.
Job
26:13 By his Spirit the heavens are garnished. His hand has pierced
the swift serpent.
Job
26:14 Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways. How small a
whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can
understand?"