Book 18 Job Chapter 024
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| 024:001 | Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?   |
| 024:002 | Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.   |
| 024:003 | They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.   |
| 024:004 | They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.   |
| 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.   |
| 024:006 | They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.   |
| 024:007 | They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.   |
| 024:008 | They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.   |
| 024:009 | They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.   |
| 024:010 | They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;   |
| 024:011 | Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.   |
| 024:012 | Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.   |
| 024:013 | They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.   |
| 024:014 | The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.   |
| 024:015 | The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.   |
| 024:016 | In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.   |
| 024:017 | 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.   |
| 024:018 | He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.   |
| 024:019 | Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned.   |
| 024:020 | 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.   |
| 024:021 | He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.   |
| 024:022 | He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no man is sure of life.   |
| 024:023 | Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways.   |
| 024:024 | 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.   |
| 024:025 | And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth? |