Job Chapter 24 (NIV)
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“Why does the Almighty not set times for judgment?Why must those who know him look in vain for such days?
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Men move boundary stones;they pasture flocks they have stolen.
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They drive away the orphan’s donkeyand take the widow’s ox in pledge.
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They thrust the needy from the pathand force all the poor of the land into hiding.
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Like wild donkeys in the desert,the poor go about their labor of foraging food;the wasteland provides food for their children.
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They gather fodder in the fieldsand glean in the vineyards of the wicked.
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Lacking clothes, they spend the night naked;they have nothing to cover themselves in the cold.
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They are drenched by mountain rainsand hug the rocks for lack of shelter.
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The fatherless child is snatched from the breast;the infant of the poor is seized for a debt.
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Lacking clothes, they go about naked;they carry the sheaves, but still go hungry.
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They crush olives among the terraces;they tread the winepresses, yet suffer thirst.
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The groans of the dying rise from the city,and the souls of the wounded cry out for help.But God charges no one with wrongdoing.
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“There are those who rebel against the light,who do not know its waysor stay in its paths.
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When daylight is gone, the murderer rises upand kills the poor and needy;in the night he steals forth like a thief.
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The eye of the adulterer watches for dusk;he thinks, ‘No eye will see me,’and he keeps his face concealed.
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In the dark, men break into houses,but by day they shut themselves in;they want nothing to do with the light.
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For all of them, deep darkness is their morning;they make friends with the terrors of darkness.
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“Yet they are foam on the surface of the water;their portion of the land is cursed,so that no one goes to the vineyards.
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As heat and drought snatch away the melted snow,so the grave snatches away those who have sinned.
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The womb forgets them,the worm feasts on them;evil men are no longer rememberedbut are broken like a tree.
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They prey on the barren and childless woman,and to the widow show no kindness.
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But God drags away the mighty by his power;though they become established, they have no assurance of life.
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He may let them rest in a feeling of security,but his eyes are on their ways.
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For a little while they are exalted, and then they are gone;they are brought low and gathered up like all others;they are cut off like heads of grain.
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“If this is not so, who can prove me falseand reduce my words to nothing?”
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