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 23:14
For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with 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 24:12
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 24:24
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 25:1
Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
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 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 26:5
Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.
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?
Job 27:2
As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul;
Job 27:3
All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;
Job 27:7
Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous.
Job 27:8
For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?
Job 27:10
Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God?
Job 27:11
I will teach you by the hand of God: that which is with the Almighty will I not conceal.
Job 27:13
This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty.
Job 27:14
If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
Job 27:16
Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;
Job 27:17
He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.
Job 27:18
He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth that the keeper maketh.
Job 27:19
The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he openeth his eyes, and he is not.
Job 27:20
Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.
Job 27:21
The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.
Job 28:1
Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it.
Job 28:2
Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone.
Job 28:3
He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.
Job 28:4
The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; even the waters forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.
Job 28:5
As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.
Job 28:6
The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold.
Job 28:7
There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen:
Job 28:8
The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.
Job 28:9
He putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he overturneth the mountains by the roots.
Job 28:10
He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing.
Job 28:11
He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light.
Job 28:12
But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding?
Job 28:13
Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living.
Job 28:14
The depth saith, It is not in me: and the sea saith, It is not with me.
Job 28:15
It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.
Job 28:16
It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
Job 28:17
The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold.
Job 28:18
No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies.
Job 28:19
The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold.
Job 28:20
Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding?
Job 28:21
Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air.
Job 28:22
Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.
Job 28:23
God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.
Job 28:24
For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven;
Job 28:25
To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.
Job 28:26
When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:
Job 28:28
And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the LORD, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.
Job 29:2
Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;
Job 29:4
As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle;
Job 29:5
When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me;
Job 29:6
When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;
Job 29:7
When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!
Job 29:8
The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up.
Job 29:9
The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.
Job 29:10
The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.
Job 29:11
When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me:
Job 29:12
Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
Job 29:13
The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Job 29:15
I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.
Job 29:16
I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
Job 29:17
And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
Job 29:18
Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.
Job 29:19
My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.
Job 29:23
And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.
Job 29:24
If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.
Job 29:25
I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.