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# Job 24 (New King James Version)
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Job Complains of Violence on the Earth
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##### Chapter 24
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###### 1 "_Since_ times are not hidden from the Almighty,
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Why do those who know Him see not His days?
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###### 2 "_Some_ remove landmarks;
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They seize flocks violently and feed _on them;_
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###### 3 They drive away the donkey of the fatherless;
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They take the widow's ox as a pledge.
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###### 4 They push the needy off the road;
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All the poor of the land are forced to hide.
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###### 5 Indeed, _like_ wild donkeys in the desert,
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They go out to their work, searching for food.
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The wilderness _yields_ food for them _and_ for _their_ children.
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###### 6 They gather their fodder in the field
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And glean in the vineyard of the wicked.
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###### 7 They spend the night naked, without clothing,
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And have no covering in the cold.
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###### 8 They are wet with the showers of the mountains,
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And huddle around the rock for want of shelter.
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###### 9 "_Some_ snatch the fatherless from the breast,
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And take a pledge from the poor.
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###### 10 They cause _the poor_ to go naked, without clothing;
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And they take away the sheaves from the hungry.
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###### 11 They press out oil within their walls,
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And tread winepresses, yet suffer thirst.
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###### 12 The dying groan in the city,
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And the souls of the wounded cry out;
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Yet God does not charge _them_ with wrong.
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###### 13 "There are those who rebel against the light;
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They do not know its ways
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Nor abide in its paths.
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###### 14 The murderer rises with the light;
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He kills the poor and needy;
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And in the night he is like a thief.
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###### 15 The eye of the adulterer waits for the twilight,
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Saying, 'No eye will see me';
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And he disguises _his_ face.
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###### 16 In the dark they break into houses
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Which they marked for themselves in the daytime;
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They do not know the light.
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###### 17 For the morning is the same to them as the shadow of death;
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If _someone_ recognizes _them,_
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_They are in_ the terrors of the shadow of death.
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###### 18 "They _should be_ swift on the face of the waters,
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Their portion _should be_ cursed in the earth,
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_So that_ no _one would_ turn into the way of their vineyards.
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###### 19 As drought and heat consume the snow waters,
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_So_ the grave _consumes those who_ have sinned.
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###### 20 The womb _should_ forget him,
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The worm _should_ feed sweetly on him;
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He _should_ be remembered no more,
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And wickedness _should_ be broken like a tree.
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###### 21 For he preys on the barren _who_ do not bear,
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And does no good for the widow.
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###### 22 "But _God_ draws the mighty away with His power;
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He rises up, but no _man_ is sure of life.
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###### 23 He gives them security, and they rely _on it;_
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Yet His eyes _are_ on their ways.
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###### 24 They are exalted for a little while,
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Then they are gone.
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They are brought low;
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They are taken out of the way like all _others;_
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They dry out like the heads of grain.
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###### 25 "Now if _it is_ not _so,_ who will prove me a liar,
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And make my speech worth nothing?"
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