Part 20

18:022:011 Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.

18:022:012 Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are!

18:022:013 And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?

18:022:014 Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven.

18:022:015 Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?

18:022:016 Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:

18:022:017 Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?

18:022:018 Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

18:022:019 The righteous see it, and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn.

18:022:020 Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth.

18:022:021 Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee.

18:022:022 Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.

18:022:023 If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.

18:022:024 Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.

18:022:025 Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou shalt have plenty of silver.

18:022:026 For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God.

18:022:027 Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.

18:022:028 Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.

18:022:029 When men are cast down, then thou shalt say, There is lifting up; and he shall save the humble person.

18:022:030 He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands.

18:023:001 Then Job answered and said,

18:023:002 Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.

18:023:003 Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!

18:023:004 I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.

18:023:005 I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.

18:023:006 Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me.

18:023:007 There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.

18:023:008 Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him: