Job 24
1. Why, seeing times are not hidden * from the Almighty, do they that know * him not see * his days?
2. Some remove * the landmarks; they violently take away * flocks, and feed * thereof.
3. They drive away * the ass of the fatherless, they take * the widow's ox for a pledge * .
4. They turn * the needy out of the way: the poor * of the earth hide * themselves together.
5. Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth * to their work; rising betimes * for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.
6. They reap * every one his corn in the field: and they gather * the vintage of the wicked.
7. They cause the naked to lodge * without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.
8. They are wet * with the showers of the mountains, and embrace * the rock for want of a shelter.
9. They pluck * the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge * of the poor.
10. They cause him to go * naked without clothing, and they take away * the sheaf from the hungry;
11. Which make oil * within their walls, and tread * their winepresses,and suffer thirst * .
12. Men groan * from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out * : yet God layeth * not folly to them.
13. They are of those that rebel * against the light; they know * not the ways thereof, nor abide * in the paths thereof.
14. The murderer * rising * with the light killeth * the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
15. The eye also of the adulterer * waiteth * for the twilight, saying * , No eye shall see * me: and disguiseth * his face.
16. In the dark they dig through * houses, which they had marked * for themselves in the daytime: they know * not the light.
17. For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know * them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.
18. He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed * in the earth: he beholdeth * not the way of the vineyards.
19. Drought and heat consume * the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned * .
20. The womb shall forget * him; the worm shall feed sweetly * on him; he shall be no more remembered * ; and wickedness shall be broken * as a tree.
21. He evil entreateth * the barren that beareth * not: and doeth not good * to the widow.
22. He draweth * also the mighty with his power: he riseth up * , and no man is sure * of life.
23. Though it be given * him to be in safety, whereon he resteth * ; yet his eyes are upon their ways.
24. They are exalted * for a little while,but are gone and brought low * ; they are taken out * of the way as all other, and cut off * as the tops of the ears of corn.
25. And if it be not so now, who will make * me a liar * , and make * my speech nothing worth?
