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