욥23~24 내 연구 노트 · 구약

^23:1 Then Job answered and said,

^23:2 Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.

^23:3 Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!

^23:4 I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.

^23:5 I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.

^23:6 Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me.

^23:7 There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.

^23:8 Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:

^23:9 On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him:

^23:10 But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

^23:11 My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.

^23:12 Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food .

^23:13 But he is in one mind , and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.

^23:14 For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him.

^23:15 Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.

^23:16 For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:

^23:17 Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face.

^24:1 Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?

^24:2 Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof .

^24:3 They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.

^24:4 They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.

^24:5 Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.

^24:6 They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.

^24:7 They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.

^24:8 They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.

^24:9 They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.

^24:10 They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;

^24:11 Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.

^24:12 Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them .

^24:13 They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.

^24:14 The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.

^24:15 The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.

^24:16 In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.

^24:17 For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.

^24:18 He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.

^24:19 Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned.

^24:20 The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.

^24:21 He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.

^24:22 He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no man is sure of life.

^24:23 Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways.