| 章 |
| 24:1 |
Why are not times treasured up with the Almighty? why do not they that know him see his days?
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| 24:2 |
They remove the landmarks; they violently take away the flocks and pasture them;
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| 24:3 |
They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge;
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| 24:4 |
They turn the needy out of the way: the afflicted of the land all hide themselves.
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| 24:5 |
Lo, [as] wild asses in the desert, they go forth to their work, seeking early for the prey: the wilderness [yieldeth] them food for [their] children.
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| 24:6 |
They reap in the field the fodder thereof, and they gather the vintage of the wicked;
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| 24:7 |
They pass the night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold;
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| 24:8 |
They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and for want of a shelter embrace the rock ...
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| 24:9 |
They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor:
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| 24:10 |
These go naked without clothing, and, hungry, they bear the sheaf;
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| 24:11 |
They press out oil within their walls, they tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.
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| 24:12 |
Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out; and +God imputeth not the impiety.
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| 24:13 |
There are those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
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| 24:14 |
The murderer riseth with the light, killeth the afflicted and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
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| 24:15 |
And the eye of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me; and he putteth a covering on [his] face.
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| 24:16 |
In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves in; they know not the light:
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| 24:17 |
For the morning is to them all [as] the shadow of death; for they are familiar with the terrors of the shadow of death.
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| 24:18 |
He is swift on the face of the waters; their portion is cursed on the earth: he turneth not unto the way of the vineyards.
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| 24:19 |
Drought and heat consume snow waters; so doth Sheol those that have sinned.
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| 24:20 |
The womb forgetteth him; the worm feedeth sweetly on him: he shall be no more remembered; and unrighteousness is broken as a tree, --
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| 24:21 |
He that despoileth the barren that beareth not, and doeth not good to the widow:
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| 24:22 |
He draweth also the mighty with his power; he riseth up, and no [man] is sure of life.
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| 24:23 |
[God] setteth him in safety, and he resteth thereon; but his eyes are upon their ways.
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| 24:24 |
They are exalted for a little, and are no more; they are laid low; like all [other] are they gathered, and are cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.
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| 24:25 |
If it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?
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