Job 24
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Why are times not laid up by the Almighty? And why do not they that know him see his
days?
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There are that remove the landmarks; They violently take away flocks, and feed them.
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They drive away the ass of the fatherless; They take the widow`s ox for a pledge.
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They turn the needy out of the way: The poor of the earth all hide themselves.
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Behold, as wild asses in the desert They go forth to their work, seeking diligently
for food; The wilderness [yields] them bread for their children.
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They cut their provender in the field; And they glean the vintage of the wicked.
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They lie all night naked without clothing, And have no covering in the cold.
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They are wet with the showers of the mountains, And embrace the rock for want of a
shelter.
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There are that pluck the fatherless from the breast, And take a pledge of the poor;
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[So that] they go about naked without clothing, And being hungry they carry the sheaves.
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They make oil within the walls of these men; They tread [their] winepresses, and
suffer thirst.
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From out of the populous city men groan, And the soul of the wounded cries out:
Yet God regards not the folly.
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These are of them that rebel against the light; They know not its ways, Nor
abide in its paths.
14
The murderer rises with the light; He kills the poor and needy; And in the night he
is as a thief.
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The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, Saying, No eye shall see me:
And he disguises his face.
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In the dark they dig through houses: They shut themselves up in the day-time; They
know not the light.
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For the morning is to all of them as thick darkness; For they know the terrors of
the thick darkness.
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Swiftly they [pass away] upon the face of the waters; Their portion is cursed in the
earth: They turn not into the way of the vineyards.
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Drought and heat consume the snow waters: [So does] Sheol [those that] have sinned.
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The womb shall forget him; The worm shall feed sweetly on him; He shall be no more
remembered; And unrighteousness shall be broken as a tree.
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He devours the barren that bears not, And does not good to the widow.
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Yet [God] preserves the mighty by his power: He rises up that has no assurance of
life.
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[God] gives them to be in security, and they rest thereon; And his eyes are
upon their ways.
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They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone; Yea, they are brought low,
they are taken out of the way as all others, And are cut off as the tops of
the ears of grain.
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And if it be not so now, who will prove me a liar, And make my speech nothing worth?