January 10 – Job 22-26

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Job Chapters 22-26

Eliphaz Speaks: Job’s Wickedness Is Great
Job 22:1  Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
Job 22:2  Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself?
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?
Job 22:4  Will he reprove thee for fear of thee? will he enter with thee into judgment?
Job 22:5  Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite?
Job 22:6  For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
Job 22:7  Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.
Job 22:8  But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honourable man dwelt in it.
Job 22:9  Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
Job 22:10  Therefore snares are round about thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee;
Job 22:11  Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.
Job 22:12  Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are!
Job 22:13  And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?
Job 22:14  Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven.
Job 22:15  Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?
Job 22:16  Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:
Job 22:17  Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?
Job 22:18  Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
Job 22:19  The righteous see it, and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn.
Job 22:20  Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth.
Job 22:21  Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee.
Job 22:22  Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.
Job 22:23  If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.
Job 22:24  Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.
Job 22:25  Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou shalt have plenty of silver.
Job 22:26  For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God.
Job 22:27  Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.
Job 22:28  Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.
Job 22:29  When men are cast down, then thou shalt say, There is lifting up; and he shall save the humble person.
Job 22:30  He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands.

Job Replies: Where Is God?
Job 23:1  Then Job answered and said,
Job 23:2  Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.
Job 23:3  Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!
Job 23:4  I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
Job 23:5  I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.
Job 23:6  Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me.
Job 23:7  There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.
Job 23:8  Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:
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:
Job 23:10  But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Job 23:11  My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.
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.
Job 23:13  But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.
Job 23:14  For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him.
Job 23:15  Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.
Job 23:16  For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:
Job 23:17  Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face.

Job 24:1  Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?
Job 24:2  Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.
Job 24:3  They drive away the ass of the fatherless, 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 hide themselves together.
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.
Job 24:6  They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.
Job 24:7  They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.
Job 24:8  They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
Job 24:9  They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
Job 24:10  They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;
Job 24:11  Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.
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.
Job 24:13  They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
Job 24:14  The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
Job 24:15  The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.
Job 24:16  In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
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.
Job 24:18  He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.
Job 24:19  Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned.
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.
Job 24:21  He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.
Job 24:22  He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no man is sure of life.
Job 24:23  Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways.
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.
Job 24:25  And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?

Bildad Speaks: Man Cannot Be Righteous
Job 25:1  Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
Job 25:2  Dominion and fear are with him, he maketh peace in his high places.
Job 25:3  Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth not his light arise?
Job 25:4  How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
Job 25:5  Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight.
Job 25:6  How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm?

Job Replies: God’s Majesty Is Unsearchable
Job 26:1  But Job answered and said,
Job 26:2  How hast thou helped him that is without power? how savest thou the arm that hath no strength?
Job 26:3  How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom? and how hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is?
Job 26:4  To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee?
Job 26:5  Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.
Job 26:6  Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.
Job 26:7  He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.
Job 26:8  He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.
Job 26:9  He holdeth back the face of his throne, and spreadeth his cloud upon it.
Job 26:10  He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.
Job 26:11  The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof.
Job 26:12  He divideth the sea with his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through the proud.
Job 26:13  By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent.
Job 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?

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