Job 24

Why, seeing ^atimes are not ^bhidden from the Almighty,

Do they that ^cknow him not see his ^ddays?

²Some remove the ^elandmarks;

They violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.

³They ^fdrive away the ass of the fatherless,

They ^gtake the widow’s ox for a pledge.

⁴They ^hturn the needy out of the way:

ⁱThe poor of the earth ^lhide themselves together.

⁵Behold, as ^mwild asses in the desert,

ⁿGo they forth to their work; ^orising betimes ^pfor 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 ^qare wet with the showers of the mountains,

And ^rembrace the rock for want of a shelter.

⁹They pluck the fatherless from the breast,

And ^gstake a pledge of the poor.

¹⁰They ^tcause him to go naked ^uwithout clothing,

And ^xthey take away the sheaf from the hungry;

^11xWhich make oil within their walls,

And ^ytread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.

¹²Men ^zgroan from out of the city,

And the soul of the ^zwounded crieth out:

Yet God layeth not ^afolly to them.

¹³They are of those ^bthat 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 ^cthe twilight,

^dSaying, No eye shall see me:

And disguiseth his face.

¹⁶In the dark they ^dddig through houses,

Which they had marked for themselves in the daytime:

^bThey know not the light.

¹⁷For ^ethe morning is to them even as ^fthe shadow of death:

If one know them, they are in the terrors of ^fthe shadow of death.

^18gHe is swift ^has the waters;

Their portion is cursed in the earth:

He beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.

¹⁹ⁱDrought and heat consume the ^ksnow 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 ^las a tree.

²¹He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not:

And doeth not good to the widow.

²²He draweth also the ^mmighty 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 ⁿhis eyes are upon their ways.

²⁴They are exalted ^ofor a little while, but are gone

And brought low, they are taken out of the way as all other,

And ^pcut off as the tops of ^qthe ears of corn.

^25rAnd if it be not so now, who will make me a liar,

And make my speech nothing worth?

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