23:10. But he knoweth my way, and has tried me as gold that passeth through the fire: 23:11. My foot hath followed his steps, I have kept his way, and have not declined from it. 23:12. I have not departed from the commandments of his lips, and the words of his mouth I have hid in my bosom. 23:13. For he is alone, and no man can turn away his thought: and whatsoever his soul hath desired, that hath he done. 23:14. And when he shall have fulfilled his will in me, many other like things are also at hand with him. 23:15. And therefore I am troubled at his presence, and when I consider him I am made pensive with fear. 23:16. God hath softened my heart, and the Almighty hath troubled me. 23:17. For I have not perished because of the darkness that hangs over me, neither hath the mist covered my face. Job Chapter 24 God's providence often suffers the wicked to go on a long time in their sins: but punisheth them in another life. 24:1. Times are not hid from the Almighty: but they that know him, know not his days. 24:2. Some have removed landmarks, have taken away flocks by force, and fed them. 24:3. They have driven away the ass of the fatherless, and have taken away the widow's ox for a pledge. 24:4. They have overturned the way of the poor, and have oppressed together the meek of the earth. 24:5. Others like wild asses in the desert go forth to their work: by watching for a prey they get bread for their children. 24:6. They reap the field that is not their own, and gather the vintage of his vineyard whom by violence they have oppressed. 24:7. They send men away naked, taking away their clothes who have no covering in the cold: 24:8. Who are wet, with the showers of the mountains, and having no covering embrace the stones. 24:9. They have violently robbed the fatherless, and stripped the poor common people. 24:10. From the naked and them that go without clothing, and from the hungry they have taken away the ears of corn. 24:11. They have taken their rest at noon among the stores of them, who after having trodden the winepresses suffer thirst. 24:12. Out of the cities they have made men to groan, and the soul of the wounded hath cried out, and God doth not suffer it to pass unrevenged. 24:13. They have been rebellious to the light, they have not known his ways, neither have they returned by his paths. 24:14. The murderer riseth at the very break of day, he killeth the needy, and the poor man: but in the night he will be as a thief. 24:15. The eye of the adulterer observeth darkness, saying: No eye shall see me: and he will cover his face. 24:16. He diggeth through houses in the dark, as in the day they had appointed for themselves, and they have not known the light. 24:17. If the morning suddenly appear, it is to them the shadow of death: and they walk in darkness as if it were in light. 24:18. He is light upon the face of the water: cursed be his portion on the earth, let him not walk by the way of the vineyards.