Job 24

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1. 1Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do those who know him not see his days?
2. 2Some remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks and feed on them.
3. 3They drive away the donkey of the fatherless. They take the widow's ox for a pledge.
4. 4They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth hide themselves together.
5. 5Look, like wild donkeys in the desert, they go out to their work, rising early for prey. The wilderness yields food for them and for their children.
6. 6They reap, each one, his corn in the field, and they gather the vintage of the wicked.
7. 7They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.
8. 8They are wet with the showers of the mountains and embrace the rock for lack of a shelter.
9. 9They pluck the fatherless from the breast and take a pledge from the poor.
10. 10They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry.
11. 11They make oil within their walls and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.
12. 12Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded cries out, yet God does not charge them with folly.
13. 13They are of those who rebel against the light. They do not know its ways or stay in its paths.
14. 14The murderer rises with the light and kills the poor and needy, and in the night he is like a thief.
15. 15The eye of the adulterer also waits for the twilight, saying, 'No eye shall see me,' and he disguises his face.
16. 16In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime. They do not know the light.
17. 17For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death; if one knows them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.
18. 18He is swift on the waters. Their portion is cursed in the earth. He does not look toward the way of the vineyards.
19. 19As drought and heat consume the snow waters, so does the grave those who have sinned.
20. 20The womb shall forget him. The worm shall feed sweetly on him. He shall be remembered no more, and wickedness shall be broken like a tree.
21. 21He mistreats the barren that does not bear, and does no good to the widow.
22. 22He also draws the mighty with his power. He rises up, and no man is sure of life.
23. 23Though it be given him to be in safety, and he rests in it, yet his eyes are on their ways.
24. 24They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low. They are taken out of the way like all others, and cut off like the tops of the ears of grain.
25. 25And if it is not so now, who will make me a liar and make my speech worth nothing?