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Job 24

King James Version (1769 Blayney revision, with Apocrypha) · Berean Standard Bible

24:1
Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?
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24:2
Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof (note: Or, feed them).
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24:3
They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
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24:4
They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
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24:5
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.
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24:6
They reap every one his corn (note: Heb. mingled corn, or dredge) in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked (note: Heb. the wicked gather the vintage).
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24:7
They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.
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24:8
They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
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24:9
They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
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24:10
They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;
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24:11
Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.
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24:12
Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.
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24:13
They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
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24:14
The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
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24:15
The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face (note: Heb. setteth his face in secret).
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24:16
In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
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24:17
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.
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24:18
He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.
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24:19
Drought and heat consume (note: Heb. violently take it) the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned.
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24:20
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.
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24:21
He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.
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24:22
He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no man is sure of life (note: Or, he trusteth not his own life).
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24:23
Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways.
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24:24
They are exalted for a little while, but are gone (note: Heb. are not) and brought low; they are taken out (note: Heb. closed up) of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.
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24:25
And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?
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