22:10. Therefore art thou surrounded with shares, and sudden fear troubleth thee.
22:11. And didst thou think that thou shouldst not see darkness, and that thou shouldst not be covered with the violence of overflowing waters?
22:12. Dost not thou think that G.o.d is higher than heaven, and is elevated above the height of the stars?
22:13. And thou sayst: What doth G.o.d know? and he judgeth as it were through a mist.
22:14. The clouds are his covert, and he doth not consider our things, and he walketh about the poles of heaven.
22:15. Dost thou desire to keep the path of ages, which wicked men have trodden?
22:16. Who were taken away before their time, and a flood hath overthrown their foundation.
22:17. Who said to G.o.d: Depart from us: and looked upon the Almighty as if he could do nothing:
22:18. Whereas he had filled their houses with good things: whose way of thinking be far from me.
22:19. The just shall see, and shall rejoice, and the innocent shall laugh them to scorn.
22:20. Is not their exaltation cut down, and hath not fire devoured the remnants of them?
22:21. Submit thyself then to him, and be at peace: and thereby thou shalt have the best fruits.
22:22. Receive the law of his mouth, and lay up his words in thy heart.
22:23. If thou wilt return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, and shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacle.
22:24. He shall give for earth flint, and for flint torrents of gold.
22:25. And the Almighty shall be against thy enemies, and silver shall be heaped together for thee.
22:26. Then shalt thou abound in delights in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face to G.o.d.
22:27. Thou shalt pray to him, and he will hear thee, and thou shalt pay vows.
22:28. Thou shalt decree a thing, and it shall come to thee, and light shall shine in thy ways.
22:29. For he that hath been humbled, shall be in glory: and he that shall bow down his eyes, he shall be saved.
22:30. The innocent shall be saved, and he shall be saved by the cleanness of his hands.
Job Chapter 23
Job wishes to be tried at G.o.d"s tribunal.
23:1. Then Job answered, and said:
23:2. Now also my words are in bitterness, and the hand of my scourge is more grievous than my mourning.
23:3. Who will grant me that I might know and find him, and come even to his throne?
23:4. I would set judgment before him, and would fill my mouth with complaints.
23:5. That I might know the words that he would answer me, and understand what he would say to me.
23:6. I would not that he should contend with me with much strength, nor overwhelm me with the weight of his greatness.
23:7. Let him propose equity against me, and let my judgment come to victory.
23:8. But if I go to the east, he appeareth not; if to the west, I shall not understand him.
23:9. If to the left hand, what shall I do? I shall not take hold on him: if I turn myself to the right hand, I shall not see him.
23:10. But he knoweth my way, and has tried me as gold that pa.s.seth 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. G.o.d 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
G.o.d"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 a.s.s 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 a.s.ses 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.