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24:1  Why doesn't God set a time for court? Why don't his people know where he can be found?
24:2  Sinners remove boundary markers and take care of sheep they have stolen.
24:3  They cheat orphans and widows by taking their donkeys and oxen.
24:4  The poor are trampled and forced to hide
24:5  in the desert, where they and their children must live like wild donkeys and search for food.
24:6  If they want grain or grapes, they must go to the property of these sinners.
24:7  They sleep naked in the cold, because they have no cover,
24:8  and during a storm their only shelters are caves among the rocky cliffs.
24:9  Children whose fathers have died are taken from their mothers as payment for a debt.
24:10  Then they are forced to work naked in the grain fields because they have no clothes, and they go hungry.
24:11  They crush olives to make oil and grapes to make wine— but still they go thirsty.
24:12  And along the city streets, the wounded and dying cry out, yet God does nothing.
24:13  Some rebel and refuse to follow the light.
24:14  Soon after sunset they murder the poor and the needy, and at night they steal.
24:15  Others wait for the dark, thinking they won't be seen if they sleep with the wife or husband of someone else.
24:16  Robbers hide during the day, then break in after dark because they reject the light.
24:17  They prefer night to day, since the terrors of the night are their friends.
24:18  Those sinners are filthy foam on the surface of the water. And so, their fields and vineyards will fall under a curse and won't produce.
24:19  Just as the heat of summer swallows the snow, the world of the dead swallows those who sin.
24:20  Forgotten here on earth, and with their power broken, they taste sweet to worms.
24:21  Sinners take advantage of widows and other helpless women.
24:22  But God's mighty strength destroys those in power. Even if they seem successful, they are doomed to fail.
24:23  God may let them feel secure, but they are never out of his sight.
24:24  Great for a while; gone forever! Sinners are mowed down like weeds, then they wither and die.
24:25  If I haven't spoken the truth, then prove me wrong.