Job 24:1-25 - Job's Eighth Speech, Continued
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Why do those who know Him never see His days?
They steal a flock and provide pasture for it.
and take the widow’s ox as collateral.
the poor of the land are forced into hiding.
the poor go out to their task of foraging for food;
the wilderness provides nourishment for their children.
and glean the vineyards of the wicked.
having no covering against the cold.
they huddle against
the nursing child of the poor is seized as collateral.
They carry sheaves but go hungry.
they tread the winepresses, but go thirsty.
the mortally wounded cry for help,
yet God pays no attention to this crime.
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They do not recognize its ways
or stay on its paths.
to kill the poor and needy,
and by night he becomes a thief.
thinking: No eye will see me;
he covers his face.
by day they lock themselves in,
never experiencing the light.
Surely they are familiar with the terrors of darkness!
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Their section of the land is cursed,
so that they never go to their vineyards.
so Sheol
worms feed on them;
they are remembered
So injustice is broken like a tree.
and do not deal kindly with the widow.
when He rises up, they have no assurance of life.
but His eyes
they are brought low and shrivel up like everything else.
They wither like heads of grain.
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and show that my speech is worthless?