Job Chapter 24
24:1 | Why, seeing ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
24:2 | [Some] remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed [thereof]. |
24:3 | They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow' ox for a pledge. |
24:4 | They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the ![]() |
24:5 | Behold, [as] wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness [yieldeth] ![]() |
24:6 | They reap [every one] his ![]() |
24:7 | They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that [they have] no covering in the cold. |
24:8 | They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter. |
24:9 | They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor. |
24:10 | They cause [him] to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf [from] the hungry; |
24:11 | [Which] make oil within their walls, [and] tread [their] winepresses, and suffer thirst. |
24:12 | Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly [to them]. |
24:13 | They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof. |
24:14 | The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief. |
24:15 | The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall ![]() |
24:16 | In the dark they dig through ![]() |
24:17 | For the morning [is] to them even as the shadow of ![]() ![]() |
24:18 | He [is] swift as the ![]() ![]() |
24:19 | Drought and heat consume the snow ![]() |
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. |
24:21 | He ![]() |
24:22 | He draweth also the mighty with his ![]() |
24:23 | [Though] it be given him [to be] in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes [are] upon their ways. |
24:24 | 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 ![]() |
24:25 | And if [it be] not [so] now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth? |