Job
Chapter 24 · King James Version
1Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?
2Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed
thereof.
3They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
4They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
5Behold,
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.
6They reap
every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.
7They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that
they have
no covering in the cold.
8They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
9They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
10They cause
him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf
from the hungry;
11Which make oil within their walls,
and tread
their winepresses, and suffer thirst.
12Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly
to them.
13They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
14The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
15The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth
his face.
16In the dark they dig through houses,
which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
17For 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.
18He
is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.
19Drought and heat consume the snow waters:
so doth the grave
those which have sinned.
20The 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.
21He evil entreateth the barren that
beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.
22He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no
man is sure of life.
23Though it be given him
to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes
are upon their ways.
24They 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.
25And if
it be not
so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?
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