Job - Chapter 24 | American Standard Version

  • 1. Why are times not laid up by the Almighty? And why do not they that know him see his days?
  • 2. There are that remove the landmarks; They violently take away flocks, and feed them.
  • 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 all hide themselves.
  • 5. Behold, as wild asses in the desert They go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food; The wilderness {cf15i yieldeth} them bread for their children.
  • 6. They cut their provender in the field; And they glean the vintage of the wicked.
  • 7. They lie all night naked without clothing, And 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. There are that pluck the fatherless from the breast, And take a pledge of the poor;
  • 10. {cf15i So that} they go about naked without clothing, And being hungry they carry the sheaves.
  • 11. They make oil within the walls of these men; They tread {cf15i their} winepresses, and suffer thirst.
  • 12. From out of the populous city men groan, And the soul of the wounded crieth out: Yet God regardeth not the folly.
  • 13. These are of them that rebel against the light; They know not the ways thereof, Nor abide in the paths thereof.
  • 14. The murderer riseth with the light; He killeth the poor and needy; And in the night he is as a thief.
  • 15. The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, Saying, No eye shall see me: And he disguiseth his face.
  • 16. In the dark they dig through houses: They shut themselves up in the day-time; They know not the light.
  • 17. For the morning is to all of them as thick darkness; For they know the terrors of the thick darkness.
  • 18. Swiftly they {cf15i pass away} upon the face of the waters; Their portion is cursed in the earth: They turn not into the way of the vineyards.
  • 19. Drought and heat consume the snow waters: {cf15i So doth} Sheol {cf15i those that} have sinned.
  • 20. The womb shall forget him; The worm shall feed sweetly on him; He shall be no more remembered; And unrighteousness shall be broken as a tree.
  • 21. He devoureth the barren that beareth not, And doeth not good to the widow.
  • 22. Yet {cf15i God} preserveth the mighty by his power: He riseth up that hath no assurance of life.
  • 23. {cf15i God} giveth them to be in security, and they rest thereon; And his eyes are upon their ways.
  • 24. They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone; Yea, they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as all others, And are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.
  • 25. And if it be not so now, who will prove me a liar, And make my speech nothing worth?
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