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24:1  Why are times not laid up by the Almighty? and why do not they which know him see his days?
24:2  There are that remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed them.
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: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
24:5  Behold, as wild asses in the desert they go forth to their work, seeking diligently for meat; the wilderness yieldeth them food for their children.
24:6  They cut their provender in the field; and they glean the vintage of the wicked.
24:7  They lie all night naked without clothing, and 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  There are that pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor:
24:10  So that they go about naked without clothing, and being an-hungred they carry the sheaves;
24:11  They make oil within the walls of these men; they tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.
24:12  From out of the populous city men groan, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God imputeth it not for folly.
24:13  These are of them that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
24:14  The murderer riseth with the light, he killeth the poor and needy; and in the night he is as a thief.
24:15  The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and he disguiseth his face.
24:16  In the dark they dig through houses: they shut themselves up in the daytime; they know not the light.
24:17  For the morning is to all of them as the shadow of death; for they know the terrors of the shadow of death.
24:18  He is swift upon the face of the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he turneth not by the way of the vineyards.
24:19  Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth Sheol those which have sinned.
24:20  The 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.
24:21  He devoureth the barren that beareth not; and doeth not good to the widow.
24:22  He draweth away the mighty also by his power: he riseth up, and no man is sure of life.
24:23  God giveth them to be in security, and they rest thereon; and his eyes are upon their ways.
24:24  They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone; yea, they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as all other, and are cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.
24:25  And if it be not so now, who will prove me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?