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Job 24:1: Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?
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: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
Job 24:5: 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.
Job 24:6: They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.
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 showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
Job 24:9: They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
Job 24:10: They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;
Job 24:11: Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.
Job 24:12: Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.
Job 24:13: They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
Job 24:14: The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
Job 24:15: The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.
Job 24:16: In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.