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The Book of Job.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.

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[1]	WHY 1 are times not laid up by the Almighty? And why do not they that know him see his days?
[2]	There are that remove the landmarks; They violently take away flocks, and feed them.
[3]	They drive away the ass of the fatherless; They take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
[4]	They turn the needy out of the way: The poor 2 of the earth all hide themselves.
[5]	Behold, as wild asses in the dessert They go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food; 3 The wilderness yieldeth them bread for their children.
[6]	They cut their 4 provender in the field; And they glean the vintage of the wicked.
[7]	They lie all night naked without clothing, And have no covering in the cold.
[8]	They are wet with the showers of the mountains, And embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
[9]	There are that pluck the fatherless from the breast, And take 5 a pledge of the poor;
[10]	So that they go about naked without clothing, And being hungry they carry the sheaves.
[11]	They make oil within the walls of these men; They tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.
[12]	From out of the populous 6 city men groan, And the soul of the wounded crieth out: Yet God regardeth not the folly.

[13]	These are of them that rebel against the light; They know not the ways thereof, Nor abide in the paths thereof.
[14]	The murderer riseth with the light; He killeth the poor and needy; And in the night he is as a thief.
[15]	The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, Saying, No eye shall see me: And he disguiseth 7 his face.
[16]	In the dark they dig through houses: They 8 shut themselves up in the day-time; They know not the light.
[17]	For the 9 morning is to all of them as thick darkness; For they know the terrors of the thick darkness.

[18]	Swiftly 10 they pass away upon the face of the waters; Their portion is cursed in the earth: They turn not into the way of the vineyards.
[19]	Drought and heat consume 11 the snow waters: So doth Sheol those that have sinned.
[20]	The womb shall forget him; The worm shall feed sweetly on him; He shall be no more remembered; And unrighteousness shall be broken as 12 a tree.
[21]	He devoureth the barren that beareth not, And doeth not good to the widow.
[22]	Yet God preserveth the mighty by his power: He riseth up that hath no assurance of life.
[23]	God giveth them to be in security, and they rest thereon; And 13 his eyes are upon their ways.
[24]	They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone; Yea, 14 they are brought low, they are taken 15 out of the way as all others, And are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.
[25]	And if it be not so now, who will prove me a liar, And make my speech nothing worth?

Note 1. Or, Why is it, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, that they who know him see not his days? [back]

Note 2. Or, meek. [back]

Note 3. Heb. prey. [back]

Note 4. Or, his. [back]

Note 5. Or, take in pledge that which is on the poor. [back]

Note 6. Heb. city of men. [back]

Note 7. Or, putteth a covering on his face. [back]

Note 8. Or, Which they had marked for themselves. [back]

Note 9. Or, thick darkness is to all of them as the morning; For they &c. [back]

Note 10. Or, Ye say, Swiftly &c.Heb. Swift is he &c. [back]

Note 11. Heb. violently take away. [back]

Note 12. Or, as a tree; even he that devoureth &c. [back]

Note 13. Or, But. [back]

Note 14. Or, And when they are &c. [back]

Note 15. Or, gathered in. [back]

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