Thematic Bible

Job 24:1

Why, seeing that times are not hidden from the Almighty, do those that know him not see his days?
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Job 24:2

Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks and feed thereof.

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; and all the poor of the earth hide themselves from them.

Job 24:5

Behold, as wild asses in the desert, they go forth to their work, rising early for a prey; the wilderness yields food for them and for their children.

Job 24:6

In the field they reap their fodder, and the wicked gather the vintage that is not theirs.

Job 24:7

They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.

Job 24:8

They are wet with the floods of the mountains and embrace the rock for want of a covering.

Job 24:9

They pluck the fatherless from the breast and take a pledge of the poor.

Job 24:10

They cause the naked to go without clothing, and they take away the sheaves from the hungry.

Job 24:11

They press oil within their walls and tread their winepresses and suffer thirst.

Job 24:12

Men groan from out of the city, and the souls of the dead cry out; yet God did not hinder them.

Job 24:13

They are among those that rebel against the light; they have never known its ways nor abided in its paths.

Job 24:14

The murderer rises with the light, kills the poor and the needy, and in the night is as a thief.

Job 24:15

The eye of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me; and disguises his face.

Job 24:16

In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime; they do not know the light.

Job 24:17

For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death; if they are known, the terrors of the shadow of death come over them.

Job 24:18

They are swift upon the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth; they never come by the way of the vineyards.

Job 24:19

Drought and heat consume the snow waters; so does Sheol consume those who have sinned.

Job 24:20

The Merciful One shall forget them; the worm shall feed sweetly on them; they shall never be remembered again; and iniquity shall be broken as a tree.

Job 24:21

He afflicted the barren woman that did not conceive and never did good unto the widow.

Job 24:22

He furthered the violent with his power; he did not lend to anyone in his life.

Job 24:23

If he gave credit to some to take them over, his eyes were upon their ways.

Job 24:24

They were exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all others and cut off as the tops of the heads of grain.

Job 24:25

And if it is not so now, who will make me a liar or reduce my speech to nothing?
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