18:023:004 I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with
           arguments.

18:023:005 I would know the words which he would answer me, and
           understand what he would say unto me.

18:023:006 Will he plead against me with his great power?  No; but he
           would put strength in me.

18:023:007 There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be
           delivered for ever from my judge.

18:023:008 Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I
           cannot perceive him: 

18:023:009 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: 

18:023:010 But he knoweth the way that I take:  when he hath tried me, I
           shall come forth as gold.

18:023:011 My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not
           declined.

18:023:012 Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I
           have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary
           food.

18:023:013 But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul
           desireth, even that he doeth.

18:023:014 For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me:  and many
           such things are with him.

18:023:015 Therefore am I troubled at his presence:  when I consider, I am
           afraid of him.

18:023:016 For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me: 

18:023:017 Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he
           covered the darkness from my face.

18:024:001 Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they
           that know him not see his days?

18:024:002 Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks,
           and feed thereof.

18:024:003 They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the
           widow’s ox for a pledge.

18:024:004 They turn the needy out of the way:  the poor of the earth hide
           themselves together.

18:024:005 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.

18:024:006 They reap every one his corn in the field:  and they gather the
           vintage of the wicked.

18:024:007 They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have
           no covering in the cold.

18:024:008 They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace
           the rock for want of a shelter.

18:024:009 They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge
           of the poor.

18:024:010 They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take
           away the sheaf from the hungry;