Job 24:1
Why are not times treasured up with the Almighty? why do not they that know him see his days?
Job 24:2
They remove the landmarks; they violently take away the flocks and pasture them;
Job 24:3
They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge;
Job 24:4
They turn the needy out of the way: the afflicted of the land all hide themselves.
Job 24:5
Lo, as wild asses in the desert, they go forth to their work, seeking early for the prey: the wilderness yieldeth them food for their children.
Job 24:6
They reap in the field the fodder thereof, and they gather the vintage of the wicked;
Job 24:7
They pass the night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold;
Job 24:8
They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and for want of a shelter embrace the rock...
Job 24:9
They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor:
Job 24:10
These go naked without clothing, and, hungry, they bear the sheaf;
Job 24:11
They press out oil within their walls, they tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.
Job 24:12
Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out; and +God imputeth not the impiety.
Job 24:13
There are those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
Job 24:14
The murderer riseth with the light, killeth the afflicted and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
Job 24:15
And the eye of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me; and he putteth a covering on his face.
Job 24:16
In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves in; they know not the light:
Job 24:17
For the morning is to them all as the shadow of death; for they are familiar with the terrors of the shadow of death.
Job 24:18
He is swift on the face of the waters; their portion is cursed on the earth: he turneth not unto the way of the vineyards.
Job 24:19
Drought and heat consume snow waters; so doth Sheol those that have sinned.
Job 24:20
The womb forgetteth him; the worm feedeth sweetly on him: he shall be no more remembered; and unrighteousness is broken as a tree, --
Job 24:21
He that despoileth the barren that beareth not, and doeth not good to the widow:
Job 24:22
He draweth also the mighty with his power; he riseth up, and no man is sure of life.
Job 24:23
God setteth him in safety, and he resteth thereon; but his eyes are upon their ways.
Job 24:24
They are exalted for a little, and are no more; they are laid low; like all other are they gathered, and are cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.
Job 24:25
If it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?