Thematic Bible
Job 24:1 (show verse)
"Why are not times of judgment kept by the Almighty, and why do those who know him never see his days?
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Job 24:2 (show verse)
Some move landmarks; they seize flocks and pasture them.
Job 24:3 (show verse)
They drive away the donkey of the fatherless; they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
Job 24:4 (show verse)
They thrust the poor off the road; the poor of the earth all hide themselves.
Job 24:5 (show verse)
Behold, like wild donkeys in the desert the poorgo out to their toil, seeking game; the wasteland yields food for their children.
Job 24:6 (show verse)
They gather their fodder in the field, and they glean the vineyard of the wicked man.
Job 24:7 (show verse)
They lie all night naked, without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.
Job 24:8 (show verse)
They are wet with the rain of the mountains and cling to the rock for lack of shelter.
Job 24:9 (show verse)
(There are those who snatch the fatherless child from the breast, and they take a pledge against the poor.)
Job 24:10 (show verse)
They go about naked, without clothing; hungry, they carry the sheaves;
Job 24:11 (show verse)
among the olive rows of the wicked they make oil; they tread the winepresses, but suffer thirst.
Job 24:12 (show verse)
From out of the city the dying groan, and the soul of the wounded cries for help; yet God charges no one with wrong.
Job 24:13 (show verse)
"There are those who rebel against the light, who are not acquainted with its ways, and do not stay in its paths.
Job 24:14 (show verse)
The murderer rises before it is light, that he may kill the poor and needy, and in the night he is like a thief.
Job 24:15 (show verse)
The eye of the adulterer also waits for the twilight, saying, 'No eye will see me'; and he veils his face.
Job 24:16 (show verse)
In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves up; they do not know the light.
Job 24:17 (show verse)
For deep darkness is morning to all of them; for they are friends with the terrors of deep darkness.
Job 24:18 (show verse)
"You say, 'Swift are they on the face of the waters; their portion is cursed in the land; no treader turns toward their vineyards.
Job 24:19 (show verse)
Drought and heat snatch away the snow waters; so does Sheol those who have sinned.
Job 24:20 (show verse)
The womb forgets them; the worm finds them sweet; they are no longer remembered, so wickedness is broken like a tree.'
Job 24:21 (show verse)
"They wrong the barren, childless woman, and do no good to the widow.
Job 24:22 (show verse)
Yet God prolongs the life of the mighty by his power; they rise up when they despair of life.
Job 24:23 (show verse)
He gives them security, and they are supported, and his eyes are upon their ways.
Job 24:24 (show verse)
They are exalted a little while, and then are gone; they are brought low and gathered up like all others; they are cut off like the heads of grain.
Job 24:25 (show verse)
If it is not so, who will prove me a liar and show that there is nothing in what I say?"
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