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# Chapter 24
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1 “Why are not times of judgment kept by the Almighty,
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and why do those who know him never see his days?
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2 Some move landmarks;
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they seize flocks and pasture them.
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3 They drive away the donkey of the fatherless;
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they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
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4 They thrust the poor off the road;
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the poor of the earth all hide themselves.
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5 Behold, like wild donkeys in the desert
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the poor go out to their toil, seeking game;
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the wasteland yields food for their children.
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6 They gather their fodder in the field,
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and they glean the vineyard of the wicked man.
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7 They lie all 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 rain of the mountains
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and cling to the rock for lack of shelter.
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9 (There are those who snatch the fatherless child from the breast,
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and they take a pledge against the poor.)
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10 They go about naked, without clothing;
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hungry, they carry the sheaves;
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11 among the olive rows of the wicked they make oil;
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they tread the winepresses, but suffer thirst.
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12 From out of the city the dying groan,
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and the soul of the wounded cries for help;
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yet God charges no one with wrong.
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13 “There are those who rebel against the light,
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who are not acquainted with its ways,
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and do not stay in its paths.
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14 The murderer rises before it is light,
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that he may kill 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 also waits for the twilight,
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saying, ‘No eye will see me’;
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and he veils his face.
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16 In the dark they dig through houses;
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by day they shut themselves up;
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they do not know the light.
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17 For deep darkness is morning to all of them;
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for they are friends with the terrors of deep darkness.
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18 “You say, ‘Swift are they on the face of the waters;
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their portion is cursed in the land;
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no treader turns toward their vineyards.
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19 Drought and heat snatch away the snow waters;
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so does Sheol those who have sinned.
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20 The womb forgets them;
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the worm finds them sweet;
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they are no longer remembered,
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so wickedness is broken like a tree.’
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21 “They wrong the barren, childless woman,
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and do no good to the widow.
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22 Yet God prolongs the life of the mighty by his power;
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they rise up when they despair of life.
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23 He gives them security, and they are supported,
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and his eyes are upon their ways.
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24 They are exalted a little while, and then are gone;
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they are brought low and gathered up like all others;
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they are cut off like the heads of grain.
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25 If it is not so, who will prove me a liar
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and show that there is nothing in what I say?” |