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24:1 Why are not times treasured up with the Almighty? why do not they that know him see his days? 24:2 They remove the landmarks; they violently take away the flocks and pasture them; 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 afflicted of the land all hide themselves. 24:5 Lo, [as] wild asses in the desert, they go forth to their work, seeking early for the prey: the wilderness [yieldeth] them food for [their] children. 24:6 They reap in the field the fodder thereof, and they gather the vintage of the wicked; 24:7 They pass the night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold; 24:8 They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and for want of a shelter embrace the rock ... 24:9 They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor: 24:10 These go naked without clothing, and, hungry, they bear the sheaf; 24:11 They press out oil within their walls, they tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst. 24:12 Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out; and +God imputeth not the impiety. 24:13 There are those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof. 24:14 The murderer riseth with the light, killeth the afflicted and needy, and in the night is as a thief. 24:15 And the eye of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me; and he putteth a covering on [his] face. 24:16 In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves in; they know not the light: 24:17 For the morning is to them all [as] the shadow of death; for they are familiar with the terrors of the shadow of death. 24:18 He is swift on the face of the waters; their portion is cursed on the earth: he turneth not unto the way of the vineyards. 24:19 Drought and heat consume snow waters; so doth Sheol those that have sinned. 24:20 The womb forgetteth him; the worm feedeth sweetly on him: he shall be no more remembered; and unrighteousness is broken as a tree, -- 24:21 He that despoileth 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 [God] setteth him in safety, and he resteth thereon; but his eyes are upon their ways. 24:24 They are exalted for a little, and are no more; they are laid low; like all [other] are they gathered, and are cut off as the tops of the ears of corn. 24:25 If it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?