The Book of Job 24

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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 ⚑

King James Version (1769) with Apocrypha · Crosswire Bible Society / eBible.org (standard text of 1769) · Public Domain

Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · public domain