Job24

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(Job 24:1) Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?
(Job 24:2) {Some} remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed {thereof}.
(Job 24:3) They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
(Job 24:4) They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
(Job 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.
(Job 24:6) They reap {every one} his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.
(Job 24:7) They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that {they have} no covering in the cold.
(Job 24:8) They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
(Job 24:9) They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
(Job 24:10) They cause {him} to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf {from} the hungry;
(Job 24:11) {Which} make oil within their walls, {and} tread {their} winepresses, and suffer thirst.
(Job 24:12) Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly {to them}.
(Job 24:13) They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
(Job 24:14) The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
(Job 24:15) The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth {his} face.
(Job 24:16) In the dark they dig through houses, {which} they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
(Job 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.
(Job 24:18) He {is} swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.
(Job 24:19) Drought and heat consume the snow waters: {so doth} the grave {those which} have sinned.
(Job 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.
(Job 24:21) He evil entreateth the barren {that} beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.
(Job 24:22) He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no {man} is sure of life.
(Job 24:23) {Though} it be given him {to be} in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes {are} upon their ways.
(Job 24:24) 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.
(Job 24:25) And if {it be} not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?
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