Job:24

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* Since times are not hidden from the Almighty , why do those who know Him not see His days ? * Some remove landmarks ; they seize flocks and feed on them ; * they drive away the donkey of the fatherless ; they take the widow ’s ox as a pledge . * They thrust away the needy out of the road ; the poor of the land have been forced into hiding together . * Indeed , like wild donkeys in the desert , they go out to their work , searching for food . The wilderness yields food for them and for their young . * They gather their fodder in the field and glean in the vineyard of the wicked . * They lodge the naked without clothing , with no covering against the cold . * They are wet with the showers of the mountains , and hug the rock for want of shelter . * They seize the fatherless from the breast , and take a pledge from the poor . * They cause them to go naked , without clothing ; and they take away the sheaves from the hungry . * They press out oil within their walls , and tread winepresses , but are thirsty . * Men groan from the city , and the souls of the wounded cry out ; yet God does not charge them with folly . * They rebel against the Light ; they have not recognized its ways nor stayed in its paths . * The murderer rises at daylight ; he kills the poor and needy ; and in the night he is like a thief . * The eye of the adulterer waits for the twilight , saying , No eye shall see me ; and puts a covering over his face . * In the dark they dig through into houses which they have marked for themselves by day ; they do not know the light . * For the morning is the same to them as deep darkness ; they know the terrors of deep darkness . * They are swift on the face of the waters ; their portion is cursed in the earth ; they do not turn into the way of the vineyards . * As drought and heat consume the snow waters , so Sheol consumes those who have sinned . * The womb shall forget him , the worm shall feed sweetly on him ; he shall be remembered no more , and injustice shall be broken like a tree . * He mistreats the barren who do not bear , and does no good to the widow . * He also draws the mighty away with his strength ; he rises up , but no one is sure of life . * He gives them security , and they trust in it ; yet His eyes are on their ways . * They are exalted for a little while , then they are gone . They are brought low ; they are all drawn together out of the way , and cut off like heads of grain . * And if it is not so , who will prove me a liar , and make my speech worth nothing ?

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