Job 24
Job Complains of God's
Indifference to Wickedness |
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Why, seeing times are not hidden from the
Almighty,
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do they that know him not see his
days? |
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Some remove the landmarks;
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they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof. |
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They drive away the ass of the
fatherless,
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they take the widow's ox for a
pledge. |
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They turn the needy out of the way:
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the poor of the earth hide themselves
together. |
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Behold, as wild asses in the
desert,
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go they forth to their work; |
rising betimes for a prey: |
the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children. |
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They reap every one his corn in
the field:
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and they gather the vintage of the
wicked. |
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They cause the naked to lodge without
clothing,
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that they have no covering in the
cold. |
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They are wet with the showers of the
mountains,
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and embrace the rock for want of a
shelter. |
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They pluck the fatherless from the
breast,
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and take a pledge of the
poor. |
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They cause him to go naked without
clothing,
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and they take away the sheaf from the
hungry; |
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which make oil within their
walls,
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and tread their winepresses, and
suffer
thirst. |
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Men groan from out of the city,
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and the soul of the wounded crieth out: |
yet God layeth not folly to them.
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They are of those that rebel against the
light;
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they know not the ways thereof, |
nor abide in the paths
thereof. |
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The murderer rising with the light
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killeth the poor and needy, |
and in the night is as a
thief. |
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The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for
the twilight,
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saying, No eye shall see me: |
and disguiseth his face. |
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In the dark they dig through houses,
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which they had marked for themselves in the
daytime: |
they know not the
light. |
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For the morning is to them even as
the shadow of death:
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if one know them, they are in the
terrors of the shadow of death.
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He is swift as the waters;
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their portion is cursed in the earth: |
he beholdeth not the way of the
vineyards. |
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Drought and heat consume the snow
waters:
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so doth the grave those which have
sinned. |
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The womb shall forget him;
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the worm shall feed sweetly on him; |
he shall be no more remembered; |
and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.
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He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not:
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and doeth not good to the
widow. |
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He draweth also the mighty with his
power:
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he riseth up, and no man is sure of
life. |
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Though it be given him to
be in safety, whereon he resteth;
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yet his eyes are upon their
ways. |
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They are exalted for a little while,
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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. |
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And if it be not so now,
who will make me a liar,
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and make my speech nothing
worth? |
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