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Job 24 (KJV)
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Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, Do they that know him not see his days?
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Some remove the landmarks; They violently take away flocks, and feed thereof .
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They drive away the ass of the fatherless, They take the widow's ox for a pledge.
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They turn the needy out of the way: The poor of the earth hide themselves together.
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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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They reap every one his corn in the field: And they gather the vintage of the wicked.
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They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, That they have no covering in the cold.
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They are wet with the showers of the mountains, And embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
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They pluck the fatherless from the breast, And take a pledge of the poor.
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They cause him to go naked without clothing, And they take away the sheaf from the hungry;
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Which make oil within their walls, And tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.
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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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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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The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, And in the night is as a thief.
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The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, Saying, No eye shall see me: And disguiseth his face.
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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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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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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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Drought and heat consume the snow waters: So doth the grave those which have sinned.
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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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He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: And doeth not good to the widow.
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He draweth also the mighty with his power: He riseth up, and no man is sure of life.
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Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; Yet his eyes are upon their ways.
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They are exalted for a little while, but are gone And brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other , And cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.
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And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, And make my speech nothing worth?
Scripture quotations are from the Holy Bible, King James Version (KJV).
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