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Why must those who know him look in vain for such days?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-1.htm">1</a>“Why are not times of judgment kept by the Almighty, and why do those who know him never see his days?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-1.htm">1</a>"Why are times not stored up by the Almighty, And why do those who know Him not see His days?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-1.htm">1</a>Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-1.htm">1</a>Why does the Almighty not reserve times for judgment? Why do those who know Him never see His days? </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-2.htm">2</a>There are those who move boundary stones; they pasture flocks they have stolen.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-2.htm">2</a>Some move landmarks; they seize flocks and pasture them.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-2.htm">2</a>"Some remove the landmarks; They seize and devour flocks.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-2.htm">2</a>Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-2.htm">2</a>The wicked displace boundary markers. They steal a flock and provide pasture for it. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-3.htm">3</a>They drive away the orphan's donkey and take the widow's ox in pledge.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-3.htm">3</a>They drive away the donkey of the fatherless; they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-3.htm">3</a>"They drive away the donkeys of the orphans; They take the widow's ox for a pledge.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-3.htm">3</a>They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-3.htm">3</a>They drive away the donkeys owned by the fatherless and take the widow's ox as collateral. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-4.htm">4</a>They thrust the needy from the path and force all the poor of the land into hiding.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-4.htm">4</a>They thrust the poor off the road; the poor of the earth all hide themselves.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-4.htm">4</a>"They push the needy aside from the road; The poor of the land are made to hide themselves altogether.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-4.htm">4</a>They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-4.htm">4</a>They push the needy off the road; the poor of the land are forced into hiding. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/niv/job/24.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NIV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/esv/job/24.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>ESV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/nasb/job/24.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NASB</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/kjv/job/24.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>KJV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/hcsb/job/24.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>HCSB</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-5.htm">5</a>Like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go about their labor of foraging food; the wasteland provides food for their children.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-5.htm">5</a>Behold, like wild donkeys in the desert the poor go out to their toil, seeking game; the wasteland yields food for their children.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-5.htm">5</a>"Behold, as wild donkeys in the wilderness They go forth seeking food in their activity, As bread for their children in the desert.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-5.htm">5</a>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.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-5.htm">5</a>Like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go out to their task of foraging for food; the wilderness provides nourishment for their children. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-6.htm">6</a>They gather fodder in the fields and glean in the vineyards of the wicked.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-6.htm">6</a>They gather their fodder in the field, and they glean the vineyard of the wicked man.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-6.htm">6</a>"They harvest their fodder in the field And glean the vineyard of the wicked.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-6.htm">6</a>They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-6.htm">6</a>They gather their fodder in the field and glean the vineyards of the wicked. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-7.htm">7</a>Lacking clothes, they spend the night naked; they have nothing to cover themselves in the cold.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-7.htm">7</a>They lie all night naked, without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-7.htm">7</a>"They spend the night naked, without clothing, And have no covering against the cold.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-7.htm">7</a>They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-7.htm">7</a>Without clothing, they spend the night naked, having no covering against the cold. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-8.htm">8</a>They are drenched by mountain rains and hug the rocks for lack of shelter.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-8.htm">8</a>They are wet with the rain of the mountains and cling to the rock for lack of shelter.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-8.htm">8</a>"They are wet with the mountain rains And hug the rock for want of a shelter.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-8.htm">8</a>They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-8.htm">8</a>Drenched by mountain rains, they huddle against the rocks, shelterless. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-9.htm">9</a>The fatherless child is snatched from the breast; the infant of the poor is seized for a debt.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-9.htm">9</a>(There are those who snatch the fatherless child from the breast, and they take a pledge against the poor.)</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-9.htm">9</a>"Others snatch the orphan from the breast, And against the poor they take a pledge.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-9.htm">9</a>They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-9.htm">9</a>The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized as collateral. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/niv/job/24.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NIV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/esv/job/24.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>ESV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/nasb/job/24.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NASB</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/kjv/job/24.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>KJV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/hcsb/job/24.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>HCSB</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-10.htm">10</a>Lacking clothes, they go about naked; they carry the sheaves, but still go hungry.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-10.htm">10</a>They go about naked, without clothing; hungry, they carry the sheaves;</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-10.htm">10</a>"They cause the poor to go about naked without clothing, And they take away the sheaves from the hungry.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-10.htm">10</a>They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-10.htm">10</a>Without clothing, they wander about naked. They carry sheaves but go hungry. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-11.htm">11</a>They crush olives among the terraces; they tread the winepresses, yet suffer thirst.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-11.htm">11</a>among the olive rows of the wicked they make oil; they tread the winepresses, but suffer thirst.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-11.htm">11</a>"Within the walls they produce oil; They tread wine presses but thirst.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-11.htm">11</a>Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-11.htm">11</a>They crush olives in their presses; they tread the winepresses, but go thirsty. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-12.htm">12</a>The groans of the dying rise from the city, and the souls of the wounded cry out for help. But God charges no one with wrongdoing.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-12.htm">12</a>From out of the city the dying groan, and the soul of the wounded cries for help; yet God charges no one with wrong.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-12.htm">12</a>"From the city men groan, And the souls of the wounded cry out; Yet God does not pay attention to folly.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-12.htm">12</a>Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-12.htm">12</a>From the city, men groan; the mortally wounded cry for help, yet God pays no attention to this crime. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-13.htm">13</a>"There are those who rebel against the light, who do not know its ways or stay in its paths.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-13.htm">13</a>“There are those who rebel against the light, who are not acquainted with its ways, and do not stay in its paths.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-13.htm">13</a>"Others have been with those who rebel against the light; They do not want to know its ways Nor abide in its paths.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-13.htm">13</a>They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-13.htm">13</a>The wicked are those who rebel against the light. They do not recognize its ways or stay on its paths. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-14.htm">14</a>When daylight is gone, the murderer rises up, kills the poor and needy, and in the night steals forth like a thief.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-14.htm">14</a>The murderer rises before it is light, that he may kill the poor and needy, and in the night he is like a thief.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-14.htm">14</a>"The murderer arises at dawn; He kills the poor and the needy, And at night he is as a thief.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-14.htm">14</a>The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-14.htm">14</a>The murderer rises at dawn to kill the poor and needy, and by night he becomes a thief. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/niv/job/24.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NIV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/esv/job/24.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>ESV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/nasb/job/24.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NASB</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/kjv/job/24.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>KJV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/hcsb/job/24.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>HCSB</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-15.htm">15</a>The eye of the adulterer watches for dusk; he thinks, 'No eye will see me,' and he keeps his face concealed.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-15.htm">15</a>The eye of the adulterer also waits for the twilight, saying, ‘No eye will see me’; and he veils his face.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-15.htm">15</a>"The eye of the adulterer waits for the twilight, Saying, 'No eye will see me.' And he disguises his face.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-15.htm">15</a>The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-15.htm">15</a>The adulterer's eye watches for twilight, thinking: No eye will see me; he covers his face. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-16.htm">16</a>In the dark, thieves break into houses, but by day they shut themselves in; they want nothing to do with the light.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-16.htm">16</a>In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves up; they do not know the light.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-16.htm">16</a>"In the dark they dig into houses, They shut themselves up by day; They do not know the light.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-16.htm">16</a>In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-16.htm">16</a>In the dark they break into houses; by day they lock themselves in, never experiencing the light. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-17.htm">17</a>For all of them, midnight is their morning; they make friends with the terrors of darkness.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-17.htm">17</a>For deep darkness is morning to all of them; for they are friends with the terrors of deep darkness.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-17.htm">17</a>"For the morning is the same to him as thick darkness, For he is familiar with the terrors of thick darkness.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-17.htm">17</a>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.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-17.htm">17</a>For the morning is like darkness to them. Surely they are familiar with the terrors of darkness! </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-18.htm">18</a>"Yet they are foam on the surface of the water; their portion of the land is cursed, so that no one goes to the vineyards.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-18.htm">18</a>“You say, ‘Swift are they on the face of the waters; their portion is cursed in the land; no treader turns toward their vineyards.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-18.htm">18</a>"They are insignificant on the surface of the water; Their portion is cursed on the earth. They do not turn toward the vineyards.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-18.htm">18</a>He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-18.htm">18</a>They float on the surface of the water. Their section of the land is cursed, so that they never go to their vineyards. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-19.htm">19</a>As heat and drought snatch away the melted snow, so the grave snatches away those who have sinned.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-19.htm">19</a>Drought and heat snatch away the snow waters; so does Sheol those who have sinned.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-19.htm">19</a>"Drought and heat consume the snow waters, So does Sheol those who have sinned.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-19.htm">19</a>Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-19.htm">19</a>As dry ground and heat snatch away the melted snow, so Sheol steals those who have sinned. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/niv/job/24.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NIV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/esv/job/24.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>ESV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/nasb/job/24.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NASB</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/kjv/job/24.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>KJV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/hcsb/job/24.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>HCSB</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-20.htm">20</a>The womb forgets them, the worm feasts on them; the wicked are no longer remembered but are broken like a tree.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-20.htm">20</a>The womb forgets them; the worm finds them sweet; they are no longer remembered, so wickedness is broken like a tree.’</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-20.htm">20</a>"A mother will forget him; The worm feeds sweetly till he is no longer remembered. And wickedness will be broken like a tree.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-20.htm">20</a>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.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-20.htm">20</a>The womb forgets them; worms feed on them; they are remembered no more. So injustice is broken like a tree. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-21.htm">21</a>They prey on the barren and childless woman, and to the widow they show no kindness.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-21.htm">21</a>“They wrong the barren, childless woman, and do no good to the widow.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-21.htm">21</a>"He wrongs the barren woman And does no good for the widow.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-21.htm">21</a>He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-21.htm">21</a>They prey on the childless woman who is unable to conceive, and do not deal kindly with the widow. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-22.htm">22</a>But God drags away the mighty by his power; though they become established, they have no assurance of life.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-22.htm">22</a>Yet God prolongs the life of the mighty by his power; they rise up when they despair of life.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-22.htm">22</a>"But He drags off the valiant by His power; He rises, but no one has assurance of life.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-22.htm">22</a>He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no man is sure of life.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-22.htm">22</a>Yet God drags away the mighty by His power; when He rises up, they have no assurance of life. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-23.htm">23</a>He may let them rest in a feeling of security, but his eyes are on their ways.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-23.htm">23</a>He gives them security, and they are supported, and his eyes are upon their ways.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-23.htm">23</a>"He provides them with security, and they are supported; And His eyes are on their ways.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-23.htm">23</a>Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-23.htm">23</a>He gives them a sense of security, so they can rely on it, but His eyes watch over their ways. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-24.htm">24</a>For a little while they are exalted, and then they are gone; they are brought low and gathered up like all others; they are cut off like heads of grain.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-24.htm">24</a>They are exalted a little while, and then are gone; they are brought low and gathered up like all others; they are cut off like the heads of grain.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-24.htm">24</a>"They are exalted a little while, then they are gone; Moreover, they are brought low and like everything gathered up; Even like the heads of grain they are cut off.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-24.htm">24</a>They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-24.htm">24</a>They are exalted for a moment, then they are gone; they are brought low and shrivel up like everything else. They wither like heads of grain. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-25.htm">25</a>"If this is not so, who can prove me false and reduce my words to nothing?"</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-25.htm">25</a>If it is not so, who will prove me a liar and show that there is nothing in what I say?”</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-25.htm">25</a>"Now if it is not so, who can prove me a liar, And make my speech worthless?"</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-25.htm">25</a>And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/24-25.htm">25</a>If this is not true, then who can prove me a liar and show that my speech is worthless? </td></tr></table><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"> THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com" target="_top">Biblica®</a>. 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