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24:1  “Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they 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 as a pledge.
24:4  They turn the needy out of the way; the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
24:5  Behold, as wild asses in the desert go they forth to their work, rising early for a prey; the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.
24:6  They reap every one his corn in the field, and they gather the vintage of the wicked.
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 showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
24:9  They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge from the poor.
24:10  They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry,
24:11  who make oil within their walls, and tread their wine presses, and suffer thirst.
24:12  Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out; yet God layeth not folly to them.
24:13  “They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
24:14  The murderer, rising with the light, killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
24:15  The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, ‘No eye shall see me,’ and disguiseth his face.
24:16  In the dark they dig through houses which they had marked for themselves in the daytime; they know not the light.
24:17  For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death; if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.
24:18  “He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed on the earth; he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.
24:19  Drought and heat consume the snow waters; so doth the grave those who have sinned.
24:20  The womb shall forget him, the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered, and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.
24:21  He evilly treateth the barren that beareth not, and doeth not good to the widow.
24:22  He draweth also the mighty with his power; he riseth up, and no man is sure of life.
24:23  Though it be given him to be in safety whereon he resteth, yet his eyes are upon their ways.
24:24  They are 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 ears of corn.
24:25  And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar and make my speech worth nothing?”