my words before God?
Job Chapter 25
God's providence often suffers the wicked to go on a long time in their
sins: but punisheth them in another life.
25:1. Times are not hid from the Almighty: but they that know him, know
not his days.
25:2. Some have removed landmarks, have taken away flocks by force, and
fed them.
25:3. They have driven away the ass of the fatherless, and have taken
away the widow's ox for a pledge.
25:4. They have overturned the way of the poor, and have oppressed
together the meek of the earth.
25:5. Others like wild asses in the desert go forth to their work: by
watching for a prey they get bread for their children.
25:6. They reap the field that is not their own, and gather the vintage
of his vineyard whom by violence they have oppressed.
25:7. They send men away naked, taking away their clothes who have no
covering in the cold:
25:8. Who are wet, with the showers of the mountains, and having no
covering embrace the stones.
25:9. They have violently robbed the fatherless, and stripped the poor
common people.
25:10. From the naked and them that go without clothing, and from the
hungry they have taken away the ears of corn.
25:11. They have taken their rest at noon among the stores of them, who
after having trodden the winepresses suffer thirst.
25:12. 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.
25:13. They have been rebellious to the light, they have not known his
ways, neither have they returned by his paths.
25:14. 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.
25:15. The eye of the adulterer observeth darkness, saying: No eye shall
see me: and he will cover his face.
25:16. He diggeth through houses in the dark, as in the day they had
appointed for themselves, and they have not known the light.
25:17. If the morning suddenly appear, it is to them the shadow of
death: and they walk in darkness as if it were in light.
25:18. 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.
25:19. Let him pass from the snow waters to excessive heat, and his sin
even to hell.
25:20. Let mercy forget him: may worms be his sweetness: let him be
remembered no more, but be broken in pieces as an unfruitful tree.
25:21. For he
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