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24 Why are times [for judgment] from Shaddai not kept, and why do those who have da’as of him not see his yamim [days [of assize])?
2 Some move the boundary stones; they steal edar, and pasture them.
3 They drive away the chamor of the yetomim, they take the ox of the almanah for a pledge.
4 They thrust the needy out of the derech; the poor of the eretz needs hide themselves together.
5 Look, as wild donkeys in the midbar go they forth to their work; foraging for teref (nourishment); the wilderness yieldeth lechem for them and for their na’arim.
6 They reap every one his fodder in the sadeh, and they glean the kerem of the resha’im.
7 They spend the night arom (naked) without levush (clothing), they have no covering in the cold.
8 They are wet with the rain of the harim, and embrace the tzur for want of a shelter.
9 They pluck the yatom from the breast, and seize the oni for debt.
10 They cause him to go arom without levush, and they take away the omer (sheaf) from the hungry;
11 Which crush olives within their walls, and tread their winepresses, yet suffer thirst.
12 Men groan from out of the Ir, and the nefesh of the chalalim (wounded ones) crieth out, yet Eloah chargeth not tiflah (folly) to them.
13 They are of those that are moredei ohr (rebelling ones against the light); they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
14 The rotzeach rising with the daylight killeth the oni and needy, and in the lailah is like a ganav.
15 The eye also of the no’ef is shomer, watching for the dusk’s twilight, saying, No eye shall see me, and puts something to hide his face.
16 In the choshech they dig through batim (houses); in the daytime they shut themselves in; they have no da’as of the ohr.
17 For the boker is to them even as the tzalmavet; they are friends with the terrors of tzalmavet.
18 Swiftly vanishing is he on the surface of the mayim; their chelek is cursed in ha’aretz; he turneth no more in the derech of the kramim (vineyards).
19 Drought and heat consume the snow waters; so doth Sheol those which have sinned.
20 The rechem (womb) shall forget him; the worm shall feast on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken like an etz.
21 He plundereth the barren that beareth not; and doeth not good to the almanah.
22 He drags away also the mighty with his ko’ach; he riseth up, and no man is sure of life.
23 Though it be given him to be in safety, and he be sustained, yet His eynayim are upon their ways.
24 They are exalted me’at (for a little while), then they are no more and are withered and snatched away like all others, and cut off like the tops of the ears of grain.
25 And if it be not so, who will charge me with lying, and make my milah (word) worth nothing? [T.N. Notice the question answered by Romans, Galatians, and Gn 15:6 as well as Chabakuk 2:4 is stated in Job 25:4 below; see Ephesians 2:8-9 and Ro 3:24,26, 28; 4:2; 5:1,9; Ga 2:16,17; 3:11, 24; 5:4; Ti 3:7; this the most important question raised in the Bible: it is for eternity]
25 Then answered Bildad the Shuchi, and said,
2 Dominion and pachad are with Him, oseh shalom bimromav.
3 Is there any number of His armies? And upon whom doth not His ohr arise?
4 Mah yitzdak Enosh im El (how then can man be justified, set right, with G-d?) Or how can he be clean that is born of isha?
5 If even the yarei’ach shineth not, yea, the kokhavim are not pure in His sight,
6 How much less enosh, that is a maggot? And the ben adam, which is a tola’at (worm)?
26 But Iyov answered and said,
2 How hast thou helped him that is without ko’ach? How savest thou the zero’a that hath no oz (strength)?
3 How hast thou counseled him that hath no chochmah? And how hast thou plentifully declared the tushiyyah (efficient wisdom)?
4 To whom hast thou uttered words? And whose neshamah came from thee?
5 Dead things tremble from under the mayim, and the inhabitants thereof.
6 Sheol is naked before Him, and Avaddon hath no cover.
7 He stretcheth out the Tzafon over the tohu, and hangeth eretz upon nothing.
8 He bindeth up the mayim in His thick clouds; and the anan doeth not burst under them.
9 He covers the face of [His] kisse, and spreadeth His anan upon it.
10 He hath circled the horizon on the face of the mayim for a boundary between ohr and choshech.
11 The ammudim of Shomayim tremble and are aghast at His rebuke.
12 He divideth the yam with His ko’ach, and by His understanding He struck down Rahav.
13 By His Ruach He hath made fair Shomayim; His yad hath pierced the fleeing nachash.
14 Lo, these are but the ketzot of His ways, but how faint the davar we hear of Him. And the thunder of His gevurah who can understand?
27 Moreover Iyov continued his mashal, and said,
2 As El liveth, Who hath taken away my mishpat, and Shaddai, Who hath saddened my nefesh;
3 All the while my neshamah is in me, and the ruach of Eloah is in my nostrils,
4 My lips shall not speak falsehood, nor my leshon utter deceit.
5 Far be it from me I should justify you; till I die I will not remove mine tom (integrity) from me.
6 My tzedakah I hold fast, and will not let it go; my lev shall not reproach for any of my days.
7 Let mine enemy be as the rasha (evildoer), and he that riseth up against me as unrighteous.
8 For what is the tikveh of the chanef, when He cutteth off, when Eloah taketh away, his nefesh?
9 Will El hear his cry when tzarah cometh upon him?
10 Will he delight himself in Shaddai? Will he always call upon Eloah?
11 I will teach you concerning the yad El; that which is with Shaddai will I not conceal.
12 Hen (behold), all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye thus altogether vain?
13 This is the chelek (lot) of the adam rasha with El and the nachalah of oppressors, which they shall receive from Shaddai.
14 If his banim be multiplied, it is for the cherev, and his offspring shall not have lechem enough.
15 Those that survive him shall be buried in mavet, and his almanot shall not weep.
16 Though he heap up kesef as the aphar, and pile up raiment as the clay,
17 He may prepare it, but the tzaddik shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the kesef.
18 He buildeth his bais as a moth, and as a sukkah that the watchman maketh.
19 The oisher (rich man) shall lie down, but he shall do so no more; he openeth his eyes, and he is not.
20 Terrors take hold on him as a flood, a tempest stealeth him away in the lailah.
21 The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth as a storm hurleth him forth from his makom.
22 For it will hurl against him, without sparing; he desperately flees from its yad.
23 Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him away from his makom.
28 Surely there is a mine for the kesef, and a makom for zahav where they refine it.
2 Barzel (iron) is taken out of aphar, and nechoshet is smelted out of the even (stone, ore).
3 He setteth a ketz to choshech, and searcheth out all extremities, the even (ore) of darkness and tzalmavet.
4 He cuts out a shaft down far from the inhabitant; forgotten of the regel, they dangle, suspended, away from enosh.
5 As for eretz, out of it cometh lechem, and under it is transformed as by eish.
6 The stones of it are the makom of the sapphire, and it hath ore of zahav.
7 There is a hidden path of which no bird of prey has da’as, and which the falcon’s eye hath not seen.
8 The proud beasts have not trodden it, nor the shachal (lion’s cub) passed over it.
9 He [the miner] putteth forth his yad upon the rock; he upturneth the mountains by the shoresh.
10 He cutteth out channels through the tzurot (rocks), and his eye seeth every precious thing.
11 He dams up the streams from flowing, and the thing that is hidden bringeth he forth to ohr.
12 But where shall chochmah be found? And where is the makom binah?
13 Enosh knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the Eretz HaChayyim.
14 The tehom (abyss) saith, It is not in me; and the yam saith, It is not with me.
15 It cannot be gotten in exchange for fine gold, neither shall kesef be weighed for the price thereof.
16 It cannot be valued with the fine gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
17 The zahav and the crystal cannot equal it, and the exchange of it shall not be for the jewel of gold.
18 Nor shall mention be made of coral or crystal, for the price of chochmah is above pearls.
19 The chrysolite of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with tahor gold.
20 From where then cometh chochmah? And where is the makom binah?
21 Seeing it is hidden from the eyes of kol chai, and concealed from the oph HaShomayim.
22 Abaddon and Mavet say, We have heard a rumor thereof with our ears.
23 Elohim understandeth the way to it, and He knoweth the makom thereof.
24 For He looketh to the ketzot ha’aretz, and seeth all under Shomayim.
25 The weight He appointed for the ruach, and He weigheth the mayim by measure.
26 When He made a decree for the matar, and a derech for the lightning of the thunder,
27 Az (then) did He see it, and declare it; He prepared it, yea, and searched it out.
28 And unto adam He said, See, the Yirat Adonoi, that is chochmah, and to depart from rah is binah.
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