Job Chapter[BR] 24

1 Why are times not laid up by the Almighty? and why do not they which know him see his days?

2 There are that remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed them.

3 They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow�s ox for a pledge.

4 They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.

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5 Behold, as wild asses in the desert they go forth to their work, seeking diligently for meat; the wilderness cf15i yieldeth them food for their children.

6 They cut their provender in the field; and they glean the vintage of the wicked.

7 They lie all night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.

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8 They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.

9 There are that pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor:

10 cf15i So that they go about naked without clothing, and being an�hungred they carry the sheaves;

11 They make oil within the walls of these men; they tread cf15i their winepresses, and suffer thirst.

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12 From out of the populous city men groan, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God imputeth it not for folly.

13 These are of them that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.

14 The murderer riseth with the light, he killeth the poor and needy; and in the night he is as a thief.

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15 The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and he disguiseth his face.

16 In the dark they dig through houses: they shut themselves up in the daytime; they know not the light.

17 For the morning is to all of them as the shadow of death; for they know the terrors of the shadow of death.

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18 He is swift upon the face of the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he turneth not by the way of the vineyards.

19 Drought and heat consume the snow waters: cf15i so doth Sheol cf15i those which have sinned.

20 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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21 He devoureth the barren that beareth not; and doeth not good to the widow.

22 He draweth away the mighty also by his power: he riseth up, and no man is sure of life.

23 cf15i God giveth them to be in security, and they rest thereon; and his eyes are upon their ways.

24 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 other, and are cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.

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25 And if it be not so now, who will prove me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?