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.