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