ASV - Job Chapter 24 to 27

24 Job 24

¹Why are times not laid up by the Almighty? And why do not they that know him see his days? ²There are that remove the landmarks; They violently take away flocks, and feed them. ³They drive away the ass of the fatherless; They take the widow's ox for a pledge. ⁴They turn the needy out of the way: The poor of the earth all hide themselves. ⁵Behold, as wild asses in the desert They go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food; The wilderness yieldeth them bread for their children. ⁶They cut their provender in the field; And they glean the vintage of the wicked. ⁷They lie all night naked without clothing, And have no covering in the cold. ⁸They are wet with the showers of the mountains, And embrace the rock for want of a shelter. ⁹There are that pluck the fatherless from the breast, And take a pledge of the poor; ¹⁰So that they go about naked without clothing, And being hungry they carry the sheaves. ¹¹They make oil within the walls of these men; They tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst. ¹²From out of the populous city men groan, And the soul of the wounded crieth out: Yet God regardeth not the folly. ¹³These are of them that rebel against the light; They know not the ways thereof, Nor abide in the paths thereof. ¹⁴The murderer riseth with the light; He killeth the poor and needy; And in the night he is as a thief. ¹⁵The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, Saying, No eye shall see me: And he disguiseth his face. ¹⁶In the dark they dig through houses: They shut themselves up in the day-time; They know not the light. ¹⁷For the morning is to all of them as thick darkness; For they know the terrors of the thick darkness. ¹⁸Swiftly they pass away upon the face of the waters; Their portion is cursed in the earth: They turn not into the way of the vineyards. ¹⁹Drought and heat consume the snow waters: So doth Sheol those that have sinned. ²⁰The womb shall forget him; The worm shall feed sweetly on him; He shall be no more remembered; And unrighteousness shall be broken as a tree. ²¹He devoureth the barren that beareth not, And doeth not good to the widow. ²²Yet God preserveth the mighty by his power: He riseth up that hath no assurance of life. ²³God giveth them to be in security, and they rest thereon; And his eyes are upon their ways. ²⁴They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone; Yea, 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. ²⁵And if it be not so now, who will prove me a liar, And make my speech nothing worth?

25 Job 25

¹Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, ²Dominion and fear are with him; He maketh peace in his high places. ³Is there any number of his armies? And upon whom doth not his light arise? ⁴How then can man be just with God? Or how can he be clean that is born of a woman? ⁵Behold, even the moon hath no brightness, And the stars are not pure in his sight: ⁶How much less man, that is a worm! And the son of man, that is a worm!

26 Job 26

¹Then Job answered and said, ²How hast thou helped him that is without power! How hast thou saved the arm that hath no strength! ³How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom, And plentifully declared sound knowledge! ⁴To whom hast thou uttered words? And whose spirit came forth from thee? ⁵They that are deceased tremble Beneath the waters and the inhabitants thereof. ⁶Sheol is naked before God, And Abaddon hath no covering. ⁷He stretcheth out the north over empty space, And hangeth the earth upon nothing. ⁸He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; And the cloud is not rent under them. ⁹He incloseth the face of his throne, And spreadeth his cloud upon it. ¹⁰He hath described a boundary upon the face of the waters, Unto the confines of light and darkness. ¹¹The pillars of heaven tremble And are astonished at his rebuke. ¹²He stirreth up the sea with his power, And by his understanding he smiteth through Rahab. ¹³By his Spirit the heavens are garnished; His hand hath pierced the swift serpent. ¹⁴Lo, these are but the outskirts of his ways: And how small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?

27 Job 27

¹And Job again took up his parable, and said, ²As God liveth, who hath taken away my right, And the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul: ³(For my life is yet whole in me, And the spirit of God is in my nostrils); ⁴Surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, Neither shall my tongue utter deceit. ⁵Far be it from me that I should justify you: Till I die I will not put away mine integrity from me. ⁶My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: My heart shall not reproach me so long as I live. ⁷Let mine enemy be as the wicked, And let him that riseth up against me be as the unrighteous. ⁸For what is the hope of the godless, though he get him gain, When God taketh away his soul? ⁹Will God hear his cry, When trouble cometh upon him? ¹⁰Will he delight himself in the Almighty, And call upon God at all times? ¹¹I will teach you concerning the hand of God; That which is with the Almighty will I not conceal. ¹²Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; Why then are ye become altogether vain? ¹³This is the portion of a wicked man with God, And the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty: ¹⁴If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword; And his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread. ¹⁵Those that remain of him shall be buried in death, And his widows shall make no lamentation. ¹⁶Though he heap up silver as the dust, And prepare raiment as the clay; ¹⁷He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, And the innocent shall divide the silver. ¹⁸He buildeth his house as the moth, And as a booth which the keeper maketh. ¹⁹He lieth down rich, but he shall not be gathered to his fathers; He openeth his eyes, and he is not. ²⁰Terrors overtake him like waters; A tempest stealeth him away in the night. ²¹The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth; And it sweepeth him out of his place. ²²For God shall hurl at him, and not spare: He would fain flee out of his hand. ²³Men shall clap their hands at him, And shall hiss him out of his place.