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24:1  Why, seeing that times are not hidden from the Almighty, do those that know him not see his days?
24:2  Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks and feed thereof.
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; and all the poor of the earth hide themselves from them.
24:5  Behold, as wild asses in the desert, they go forth to their work, rising early for a prey; the wilderness yields food for them and for their children.
24:6  In the field they reap their fodder, and the wicked gather the vintage that is not theirs.
24:7  They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.
24:8  They are wet with the floods of the mountains and embrace the rock for want of a covering.
24:9  They pluck the fatherless from the breast and take a pledge of the poor.
24:10  They cause the naked to go without clothing, and they take away the sheaves from the hungry.
24:11  They press oil within their walls and tread their winepresses and suffer thirst.
24:12  Men groan from out of the city, and the souls of the dead cry out; yet God did not hinder them.
24:13  They are among those that rebel against the light; they have never known its ways nor abided in its paths.
24:14  The murderer rises with the light, kills the poor and the needy, and in the night is as a thief.
24:15  The eye of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me; and disguises his face.
24:16  In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime; they do not know the light.
24:17  For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death; if they are known, the terrors of the shadow of death come over them.
24:18  They are swift upon the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth; they never come by the way of the vineyards.
24:19  Drought and heat consume the snow waters; so does Sheol consume those who have sinned.
24:20  The Merciful One shall forget them; the worm shall feed sweetly on them; they shall never be remembered again; and iniquity shall be broken as a tree.
24:21  He afflicted the barren woman that did not conceive and never did good unto the widow.
24:22  He furthered the violent with his power; he did not lend to anyone in his life.
24:23  If he gave credit to some to take them over, his eyes were upon their ways.
24:24  They were exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all others and cut off as the tops of the heads of grain.
24:25  And if it is not so now, who will make me a liar or reduce my speech to nothing?