Part 21

18:023:009 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:

18:023:010 But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

18:023:011 My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.

18:023:012 Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

18:023:013 But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.

18:023:014 For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him.

18:023:015 Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.

18:023:016 For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:

18:023:017 Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face.

18:024:001 Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?

18:024:002 Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.

18:024:003 They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.

18:024:004 They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.

18:024:005 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.

18:024:006 They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.

18:024:007 They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.

18:024:008 They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.

18:024:009 They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.

18:024:010 They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;

18:024:011 Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.

18:024:012 Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.

18:024:013 They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.

18:024:014 The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.

18:024:015 The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.

18:024:016 In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.

18:024:017 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.

18:024:018 He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.

18:024:019 Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned.