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Job - ch 24 v 1 - 20
- Times are not hid from the Almighty: but they that know him, know not his days.
- Some have removed landmarks, have taken away flocks by force, and fed them.
- They have driven away the ass of the fatherless, and have taken away the widow's ox for a pledge.
- They have overturned the way of the poor, and have oppressed together the meek of the earth.
- Others like wild asses in the desert go forth to their work: by watching for a prey they get bread for their children.
- They reap the field that is not their own, and gather the vintage of his vineyard whom by violence they have oppressed.
- They send men away naked, taking away their clothes who have no covering in the cold:
- Who are wet, with the showers of the mountains, and having no covering embrace the stones.
- They have violently robbed the fatherless, and stripped the poor common people.
- From the naked and them that go without clothing, and from the hungry they have taken away the ears of corn.
- They have taken their rest at noon among the stores of them, who after having trodden the winepresses suffer thirst.
- Out of the cities they have made men to groan, and the soul of the wounded hath cried out, and God doth not suffer it to pass unrevenged.
- They have been rebellious to the light, they have not known his ways, neither have they returned by his paths.
- The murderer riseth at the very break of day, he killeth the needy, and the poor man: but in the night he will be as a thief.
- The eye of the adulterer observeth darkness, saying: No eye shall see me: and he will cover his face.
- He diggeth through houses in the dark, as in the day they had appointed for themselves, and they have not known the light.
- If the morning suddenly appear, it is to them the shadow of death: and they walk in darkness as if it were in light.
- He is light upon the face of the water: cursed be his portion on the earth, let him not walk by the way of the vineyards.
- Let him pass from the snow waters to excessive heat, and his sin even to hell.
- Let mercy forget him: may worms be his sweetness: let him be remembered no more, but be broken in pieces as an unfruitful tree.
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