The Book of Job

24: 1Why are times not laid up by the Almighty?

 And why do not they that know him see his days?

 ^24:2There are that remove the landmarks;

 They violently take away flocks, and feed them.

 ^24:3They drive away the ass of the fatherless;

 They take the widow's ox for a pledge.

 ^24:4They turn the needy out of the way:

 The poor of the earth all hide themselves.

 ^24:5Behold, as wild asses in the desert

 They go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food;

 The wilderness yieldeth them bread for their children.

 ^24:6They cut their provender in the field;

 And they glean the vintage of the wicked.

 ^24:7They lie all night naked without clothing,

 And have no covering in the cold.

 ^24:8They are wet with the showers of the mountains,

 And embrace the rock for want of a shelter.

 ^24:9There are that pluck the fatherless from the breast,

 And take a pledge of the poor;

 ^24:10So that they go about naked without clothing,

 And being hungry they carry the sheaves.

 ^24:11They make oil within the walls of these men;

 They tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.

 ^24:12From out of the populous city men groan,

 And the soul of the wounded crieth out:

 Yet God regardeth not the folly.
 
 

 ^24:13These are of them that rebel against the light;

 They know not the ways thereof,

 Nor abide in the paths thereof.

 ^24:14The murderer riseth with the light;

 He killeth the poor and needy;

 And in the night he is as a thief.

 ^24:15The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight,

 Saying, No eye shall see me:

 And he disguiseth his face.

 ^24:16In the dark they dig through houses:

 They shut themselves up in the day-time;

 They know not the light.

 ^24:17For the morning is to all of them as thick darkness;

 For they know the terrors of the thick darkness.
 
 

 ^24:18Swiftly they pass away upon the face of the waters;

 Their portion is cursed in the earth:

 They turn not into the way of the vineyards.

 ^24:19Drought and heat consume the snow waters:

 So doth Sheol those that have sinned.

 ^24:20The womb shall forget him;

 The worm shall feed sweetly on him;

 He shall be no more remembered;

 And unrighteousness shall be broken as a tree.

 ^24:21He devoureth the barren that beareth not,

 And doeth not good to the widow.

 ^24:22Yet God preserveth the mighty by his power:

 He riseth up that hath no assurance of life.

 ^24:23God giveth them to be in security, and they rest thereon;

 And his eyes are upon their ways.

 ^24:24They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone;

 Yea, they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as all others,

 And are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.

 ^24:25And if it be not so now, who will prove me a liar,

 And make my speech nothing worth?