The King James Version of the Bible
Part 173
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what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the
number of his months is cut off in the midst? 21:22 Shall any teach
God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high.
21:23 One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.
21:24 His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with
marrow.
21:25 And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never
eateth with pleasure.
21:26 They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover
them.
21:27 Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye
wrongfully imagine against me.
21:28 For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the
dwelling places of the wicked? 21:29 Have ye not asked them that go
by the way? and do ye not know their tokens, 21:30 That the wicked is
reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the
day of wrath.
21:31 Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him
what he hath done? 21:32 Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and
shall remain in the tomb.
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.
21:34 How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there
remaineth falsehood? 22:1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and
said, 22:2 Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be
profitable unto himself? 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? 22:4 Will he reprove thee for fear of thee? will he
enter with thee into judgment? 22:5 Is not thy wickedness great? and
thine iniquities infinite? 22:6 For thou hast taken a pledge from thy
brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
22:7 Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast
withholden bread from the hungry.
22:8 But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honourable
man dwelt in it.
22:9 Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless
have been broken.
22:10 Therefore snares are round about thee, and sudden fear troubleth
thee; 22:11 Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of
waters cover thee.
22:12 Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the
stars, how high they are! 22:13 And thou sayest, How doth God know?
can he judge through the dark cloud? 22:14 Thick clouds are a
covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of
heaven.
22:15 Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?
22:16 Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown
with a flood: 22:17 Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can
the Almighty do for them? 22:18 Yet he filled their houses with good
things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
22:19 The righteous see it, and are glad: and the innocent laugh them
to scorn.
22:20 Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them
the fire consumeth.
22:21 Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good
shall come unto thee.
22:22 Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his
words in thine heart.
22:23 If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou
shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.
22:24 Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as
the stones of the brooks.
22:25 Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou shalt have
plenty of silver.
22:26 For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt
lift up thy face unto God.
22:27 Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and
thou shalt pay thy vows.
22:28 Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto
thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.
22:29 When men are cast down, then thou shalt say, There is lifting
up; and he shall save the humble person.
22:30 He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered
by the pureness of thine hands.
23:1 Then Job answered and said, 23:2 Even to day is my complaint
bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.
23:3 Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to
his seat! 23:4 I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth
with arguments.
23:5 I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand
what he would say unto me.
23:6 Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would
put strength in me.
23:7 There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be
delivered for ever from my judge.
23:8 Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I
cannot perceive him: 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: 23:10 But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried
me, I shall come forth as gold.
23:11 My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not
declined.
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.
23:13 But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul
desireth, even that he doeth.
23:14 For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many
such things are with him.
23:15 Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am
afraid of him.
23:16 For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:
23:17 Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he
covered the darkness from my face.
24:1 Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that
know him not see his days? 24:2 Some remove the landmarks; they
violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.
24:3 They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow’s
ox for a pledge.
24:4 They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide
themselves together.
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.
24:6 They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the
vintage of the wicked.
24:7 They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no
covering in the cold.
24:8 They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the
rock for want of a shelter.
24:9 They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of
the poor.
24:10 They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away
the sheaf from the hungry; 24:11 Which make oil within their walls,
and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.
24:12 Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded
crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.
24:13 They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not
the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
24:14 The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy,
and in the night is as a thief.
24:15 The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying,
No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.
24:16 In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for
themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
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.
24:18 He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth:
he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.
24:19 Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave
those which have sinned.
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.
24:21 He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not
good to the widow.
24:22 He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no
man is sure of life.
24:23 Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet
his eyes are upon their ways.
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.
24:25 And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my
speech nothing worth? 25:1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and
said, 25:2 Dominion and fear are with him, he maketh peace in his high
places.
25:3 Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth not his
light arise? 25:4 How then can man be justified with God? or how can
he be clean that is born of a woman? 25:5 Behold even to the moon,
and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight.
25:6 How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a
worm? 26:1 But Job answered and said, 26:2 How hast thou helped him
that is without power? how savest thou the arm that hath no strength?
26:3 How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom? and how hast
thou plentifully declared the thing as it is? 26:4 To whom hast thou
uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee? 26:5 Dead things are
formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.
26:6 Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.
26:7 He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the
earth upon nothing.
26:8 He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is
not rent under them.
26:9 He holdeth back the face of his throne, and spreadeth his cloud
upon it.
26:10 He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and
night come to an end.
26:11 The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof.
26:12 He divideth the sea with his power, and by his understanding he
smiteth through the proud.
26:13 By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath
formed the crooked serpent.
26:14 Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is
heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand? 27:1
Moreover Job continued his parable, and said, 27:2 As God liveth, who
hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul;
27:3 All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my
nostrils; 27:4 My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter
deceit.
27:5 God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not
remove mine integrity from me.
27:6 My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart
shall not reproach me so long as I live.
27:7 Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me
as the unrighteous.
27:8 For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained,
when God taketh away his soul? 27:9 Will God hear his cry when
trouble cometh upon him? 27:10 Will he delight himself in the
Almighty? will he always call upon God? 27:11 I will teach you by the
hand of God: that which is with the Almighty will I not conceal.
27:12 Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye thus
altogether vain? 27:13 This is the portion of a wicked man with God,
and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the
Almighty.
27:14 If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his
offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
27:15 Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his
widows shall not weep.
27:16 Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the
clay; 27:17 He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the
innocent shall divide the silver.
27:18 He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth that the keeper
maketh.
27:19 The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he
openeth his eyes, and he is not.
27:20 Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away
in the night.
27:21 The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and a
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