They don't know its ways, nor abide in its paths.
024:014 The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy.
In the night he is like a thief.
024:015 The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying,
'No eye shall see me.' He disguises his face.
024:016 In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up
in the daytime. They don't know the light.
024:017 For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness,
for they know the terrors of the thick darkness.
024:018 "They are foam on the surface of the waters. Their portion
is cursed in the earth. They don't turn into the way
of the vineyards.
024:019 Drought and heat consume the snow waters, so does Sheol
those who have sinned.
024:020 The womb shall forget him. The worm shall feed sweetly on him.
He shall be no more remembered. Unrighteousness shall be
broken as a tree.
024:021 He devours the barren who don't bear. He shows no kindness
to the widow.
024:022 Yet God preserves the mighty by his power. He rises up who has
no assurance of life.
024:023 God gives them security, and they rest in it. His eyes are
on their ways.
024:024 They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone.
Yes, they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as
all others, and are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.
024:025 If it isn't so now, who will prove me a liar, and make my
speech worth nothing?"
025:001 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,
025:002 "Dominion and fear are with him. He makes peace in his high places.
025:003 Can his armies be counted? On whom does his light not arise?
025:004 How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born
of a woman be clean?
025:005 Behold, even the moon has no brightness, and the stars are
not pure in his sight;
025:006 How much less man, who is a worm, the son of man, who is a worm!"
026:001 Then Job answered,
026:002 "How have you helped him who is without power! How have you
saved the arm that has no strength!
026:003 How have you counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully
declared sound knowledge!
026:004 To whom have you uttered words? Whose spirit came forth from you?
026:005 "Those who are deceased tremble, those beneath the waters
and all that live in them.
026:006 Sheol{Sheol is the lower world or the grave.} is naked before God,
and Abaddon{Abaddon means Destroyer.} has no covering.
026:007 He stretches out the north over empty space, and hangs
the earth on nothing.
026:008 He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud
is not burst under them.
026:009 He encloses the face of his throne, and spreads his cloud on it.
026:010 He has described a boundary on the surface of the waters,
and to the confines of light and darkness.
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