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# Job 24
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1. “Why are not times of judgment kept by the Almighty, and why do those who know him never see his days?
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2. Some move landmarks; they seize flocks and pasture them.
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3. They drive away the donkey of the fatherless; they take the widows ox for a pledge.
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4. They thrust the poor off the road; the poor of the earth all hide themselves.
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5. Behold, like wild donkeys in the desert the poor go out to their toil, seeking game; the wasteland yields food for their children.
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6. They gather their fodder in the field, and they glean the vineyard of the wicked man.
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7. They lie all night naked, without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.
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8. They are wet with the rain of the mountains and cling to the rock for lack of shelter.
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9. (There are those who snatch the fatherless child from the breast, and they take a pledge against the poor.)
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10. They go about naked, without clothing; hungry, they carry the sheaves;
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11. among the olive rows of the wicked they make oil; they tread the winepresses, but suffer thirst.
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12. From out of the city the dying groan, and the soul of the wounded cries for help; yet God charges no one with wrong.
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13. “There are those who rebel against the light, who are not acquainted with its ways, and do not stay in its paths.
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14. The murderer rises before it is light, that he may kill the poor and needy, and in the night he is like a thief.
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15. The eye of the adulterer also waits for the twilight, saying, No eye will see me; and he veils his face.
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16. In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves up; they do not know the light.
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17. For deep darkness is morning to all of them; for they are friends with the terrors of deep darkness.
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18. “You say, Swift are they on the face of the waters; their portion is cursed in the land; no treader turns toward their vineyards.
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19. Drought and heat snatch away the snow waters; so does Sheol those who have sinned.
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20. The womb forgets them; the worm finds them sweet; they are no longer remembered, so wickedness is broken like a tree.
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21. “They wrong the barren, childless woman, and do no good to the widow.
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22. Yet God prolongs the life of the mighty by his power; they rise up when they despair of life.
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23. He gives them security, and they are supported, and his eyes are upon their ways.
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24. They are exalted a little while, and then are gone; they are brought low and gathered up like all others; they are cut off like the heads of grain.
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25. If it is not so, who will prove me a liar and show that there is nothing in what I say?”
(ESV)