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Job 23:1-24:25 — Job's Reply to Eliphaz

Job.23.1-24.25

¹Then Job answered and said: ²Even today my complaint is bitter; His hand is heavy despite my groaning. ³Oh, that I knew where I might find Him, that I might come to His dwelling! ⁴I would lay out my case before Him, and fill my mouth with arguments. ⁵I would know the words with which He would answer me, and understand what He would say to me. ⁶Would He contend with me in the greatness of His power? No, He would surely pay attention to me. ⁷There an upright man could reason with Him, and I would be delivered forever from my Judge. ⁸Behold, I go east, but He is not there; and west, but I cannot perceive Him. ⁹When He works in the north, I cannot behold Him; when He turns to the south, I cannot see Him. ¹⁰But He knows the way that I take; when He has tested me, I will come forth as gold. ¹¹My foot has held fast to His steps; I have kept His way and have not turned aside. ¹²I have not departed from the commandment of His lips; I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my allotted portion. ¹³But He is unchangeable, and who can turn Him back? What His soul desires, He does. ¹⁴For He will complete what He has decreed for me, and many such things are in His mind. ¹⁵Therefore I am terrified at His presence; when I consider this, I am afraid of Him. ¹⁶God has made my heart faint; the Almighty has terrified me. ¹⁷Yet I am not silenced by the darkness, nor by the thick darkness that covers my face.

Chapter 24

¹Why are times for judgment not reserved by the Almighty? And why do those who know Him not see His days? ²People move boundary stones to steal land; they violently take away flocks and pasture them. ³They drive away the donkey of the fatherless; they take the widow's ox as a pledge for debt. ⁴They push the needy off the road; the poor of the land are forced to hide themselves together. ⁵Behold, like wild donkeys in the wilderness, the poor go out to their work, foraging diligently for food; the desert yields food for their children. ⁶They gather fodder in the field, and they glean the vineyard of the wicked. ⁷They spend the night naked, without clothing, and have no covering in the cold. ⁸They are drenched by the mountain rains, and they embrace the rock for lack of shelter. ⁹There are those who snatch the fatherless infant from the breast, and take a pledge from the poor. ¹⁰So the poor go about naked, without clothing; though hungry, they carry the sheaves. ¹¹They press out oil between the terrace walls of the wicked; they tread the winepresses, yet suffer thirst. ¹²From the city, dying men groan, and the souls of the wounded cry out for help; yet God charges no one with wrongdoing. ¹³There are those who rebel against the light; they do not know its ways, nor do they stay on its paths. ¹⁴At dawn the murderer rises to kill the poor and needy, and in the night he acts like a thief. ¹⁵The eye of the adulterer also waits for the twilight, saying, 'No eye will see me'; and he disguises his face. ¹⁶In the dark they dig through the walls of houses; by day they shut themselves in; they do not know the light. ¹⁷For deep darkness is morning to all of them; for they are friends with the terrors of deep darkness. ¹⁸They are swift on the surface of the waters; their portion in the land is cursed; no one turns toward their vineyards. ¹⁹As drought and heat consume the snow waters, so Sheol consumes those who have sinned. ²⁰The womb forgets them; the worm feeds sweetly on them; they are remembered no more. So injustice is broken like a tree. ²¹They prey on the barren woman who has no child, and show no kindness to the widow. ²²Yet God drags away the mighty by His power; though they rise up, they have no assurance of life. ²³He gives them security, and they are supported, but His eyes are upon their ways. ²⁴They are exalted for a little while, and then they are gone; they are brought low and gathered up like all others, and they are cut off like the heads of grain. ²⁵If it is not so , who will prove me a liar, and reduce my words to nothingness?

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4/11/2026

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