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Job|24:1|-|Why are times of judgment not stored up by the Almighty?And why do those who know Him not see His days?
Job|24:2|-|Some remove |a|landmarks;They seize the flock and pasture them.
Job|24:3|-|They drive away the donkey of the fatherlessAnd take the widow’s ox as a |a|pledge.
Job|24:4|-|They turn the needy out of the way;The poor of the land are made to hide together.
Job|24:5|-|Indeed, like wild asses in the desert,They go forth to their work,
Diligently seeking some prey;The wilderness provides them food for their children.
Job|24:6|-|In the field they harvest their fodder,And they glean the vintage of the wicked.
Job|24:7|-|They spend the night naked, without clothing;And have no covering in the cold.
Job|24:8|-|They are wet from the mountain showers,And for lack of shelter they embrace the rock.
Job|24:9|-|Some pluck the fatherless from the breast,And what the poor has on, as a |a|pledge.
Job|24:10|-|They go about naked, without clothing;And being hungry, they take up the sheaves.
Job|24:11|-|Between their walls they press out oil;They tread the winepresses yet suffer thirst.
Job|24:12|-|From the city men groan,And the soul of the wounded cries out;
Yet God does not regard the folly.
Job|24:13|-|These are among those who rebel against the light;They are not acquainted with its ways,
Nor do they abide in its paths.
Job|24:14|-|The murderer rises at dawn;He kills the poor and the needy;
And at night he is like a thief.
Job|24:15|-|The eye of the adulterer also watches for the twilight,Saying, Not an eye will see me;
And he disguises his face.
Job|24:16|-|They dig through houses in the dark;By day they shut themselves in:
They do not know the light.
Job|24:17|-|For morning is to all of them like the shadow of death,Because they are acquainted with the terrors of the shadow of death.
Job|24:18|-|Swift are they upon the face of the waters;Their portion is cursed in the earth;
There is none who turns toward the vineyards.
Job|24:19|-|Drought and heat snatch the snow water,As |a|Sheol snatches those who have sinned.
Job|24:20|-|The womb forgets him;The worm finds him sweet;
He is |a|remembered no more;And wrongdoing is broken like a tree.
Job|24:21|-|He despoils the barren woman who does not bear,And does no good for the widow.
Job|24:22|-|But God preserves the mighty by His power;He arises, and no one is certain of life.
Job|24:23|-|He grants |1|a man to be secure, and he rests on it;And His eyes are upon their ways.
Job|24:24|-|They are exalted a |a|little while, then they are no more;And they are brought low; like all others, they are gathered in
And are cut off like the tops of the ears of grain.
Job|24:25|-|And if it is not so, then who will prove me a liarAnd bring my words to nought?
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