Chapter 24
1 Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?
2 |Some| remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed |thereof|.
3 They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
4 They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
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.
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 are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
9 They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
10 They cause |him| to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf |from| the hungry;
11 |Which| make oil within their walls, |and| tread |their| winepresses, and suffer thirst.
12 Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly |to them|.
13 They are of those that 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 the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth |his| face.
16 In the dark they dig through houses, |which| they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
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.
18 He |is| swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.
19 Drought and heat consume the snow waters: |so doth| the grave |those which| have sinned.
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.
21 He evil entreateth the barren |that| beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.
22 He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no |man| is sure of life.
23 |Though| it be given him |to be| in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes |are| upon their ways.
24 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.
25 And if |it be| not |so| now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?
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