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23.11 :My foot hath held fast to His steps,
 * His way have I kept, and turned not aside.
 * I have not gone back from the commandment of His lips;
 * I have treasured up the words of His mouth more than my necessary food.


 * But He is at one with Himself, and who can turn Him?
 * And what His soul desireth, even that He doeth.
 * For He will perform that which is appointed for me;
 * And many such things are with Him.
 * Therefore am I affrighted at His presence;
 * When I consider, I am afraid of Him.
 * Yea, God hath made my heart faint,
 * And the Almighty hath affrighted me;
 * Because I was not cut off before the darkness,
 * Neither did He cover the thick darkness from my face.


 * Why are times not laid up by the Almighty?
 * And why do not they that know Him see His days?
 * There are that remove the landmarks;
 * They violently take away flocks, and feed them.
 * They drive away the ass of the fatherless,
 * They take the widow's ox for a pledge.
 * They turn the needy out of the way;
 * The poor of the earth hide themselves together.
 * Behold, as wild asses in the wilderness
 * They go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food;
 * The desert yieldeth them bread for their children.
 * They cut his provender in the field;
 * And they despoil the vineyard of the wicked.
 * They lie all night naked without clothing,
 * And have no covering in the cold.
 * They are wet with the showers of the mountains,
 * And embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
 * There are that pluck the fatherless from the breast,
 * And take a pledge of the poor;
 * So that they go about naked without clothing,
 * And being hungry they carry the sheaves;
 * They make oil within the rows of these men;
 * They tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.
 * From out of the populous city men groan,
 * And the soul of the wounded crieth out;
 * Yet God imputeth it not for unseemliness.


 * These are of them that rebel against the light;
 * They know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
 * The murderer riseth with the light, to kill the poor and needy;
 * And in the night he is as a thief.
 * The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight,
 * Saying: 'No eye shall see me';
 * And he putteth a covering on his face. In the dark they dig through houses;
 * They shut themselves up in the day-time;
 * They know not the light.