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Job 24 📜 📕 ↷
Job: Judgment for the Wicked
1 TIMES are not hid from the Omnipotent: but they that know him, know not his days.📜💬📚
2 Some have transferred bounds, spoiled flocks, & fed them.📜💬📚
3 They have driven away the ass of pupils, and have taken away the widow's oxe for a pledge.📜💬📚
4 They have subverted the way of the poor, and have oppressed together the meek of the earth.📜💬📚
5 Others as wild asses in the desert go forth to their work: watching to the prey, do prepare bread for their children.📜💬📚
6 They reap the field that is not theirs, and gather the grapes of his vineyard, whom by violence they have oppressed.📜💬📚
7 They send men away naked taking away their cloths, which have no covering in the cold.📜💬📚
8 Whom the showers of the mountains do wash, & not having a covert, they embrace stones.📜💬📚
9 They did violence spoiling the pupils, & the common poor people they spoiled.📜💬📚
10 From the naked & them that go without clothing, and the hungry they have taken away the ears of corn.📜💬📚
11 They have rested the noontide among their heaps, which having trodden the wine presses are a thirst.📜💬📚
12 Out of the cities they have made men to mourn, and the soul of the wounded hath cried, & God doth not suffer it to pass unrevenged:📜💬📚
13 They have been rebellious to the light, they have not known his ways, neither did they return by his paths.📜💬📚
14 At the very break of day the murderer riseth, he killeth the needy, and the poor man: but by night he will be as a thief.📜💬📚
15 The eye of the adulterer observeth darkness, saying: Eye shall not see me: and he will cover his face.📜💬📚
16 He diggeth through houses in the dark, as in the day they had appointed with themselves, and they have not known the light.📜💬📚
17 If suddenly the morning shall appear, they think it the shadow of death: and they walk so in darkness as it were in light.📜💬📚
18 He is light above the face of the water: cursed be his portion in the earth, neither walk he by the way of the vineyards.📜💬📚
19 Let him pass from snow waters to exceeding heat, and his sin even unto hell.📜💬📚
20 Let mercy forget him: worms his sweetness: be he not in remembrance, but be he broken in pieces as an unfruitful tree.📜💬📚
21 For he hath fed the barren, and her that beareth not, and to the widow he hath not done good.📜💬📚
22 He hath pulled down the strong in his strength and when he shall stand, he will not credit his life.📜💬📚
23 God hath given him place for penance, and he abuseth it unto pride: but his eyes be upon his ways.📜💬📚
24 They are elevated for a little, and shall not stand, and shall be humbled as all things, and shall be taken away, and as the tops of the ears of corn they shall be broken.📜💬📚
25 And if it be not so, who can reprove me that I have lied, and set my words before God?📜💬📚
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