Job 24:1–17
Why, seeing atimes are not bhidden from the Almighty,
Do they that cknow him not see his ddays?
2 Some remove the elandmarks;
They violently take away flocks, and ||feed thereof.
3 They fdrive away the ass of the fatherless,
They gtake the widow’s ox for a pledge.
4 They hturn the needy out of the way:
iThe poor of the earth lhide themselves together.
5 Behold, 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.
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 qare wet with the showers of the mountains,
And rembrace the rock for want of a shelter.
9 They pluck the fatherless from the breast,
And gstake a pledge of the poor.
10 They tcause him to go naked uwithout clothing,
And xthey take away the sheaf from the hungry;
11 xWhich make oil within their walls,
And ytread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.
12 Men zgroan from out of the city,
And the soul of the zwounded crieth out:
Yet God layeth not afolly to them.
13 They are of those bthat 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 cthe twilight,
dSaying, No eye shall see me:
And †disguiseth his face.
16 In the dark they dddig through houses,
Which they had marked for themselves in the daytime:
bThey know not the light.
17 For 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.