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Chapter 24
Job Geneva15 24:1  Howe should not the times be hid from the Almightie, seeing that they which knowe him, see not his dayes?
Job Geneva15 24:2  Some remoue the land marks, that rob the flockes and feede thereof.
Job Geneva15 24:3  They leade away the asse of the fatherles: and take the widowes oxe to pledge.
Job Geneva15 24:4  They make the poore to turne out of the way, so that the poore of the earth hide themselues together.
Job Geneva15 24:5  Behold, others as wilde asses in the wildernesse, goe forth to their businesse, and rise early for a praye: the wildernesse giueth him and his children foode.
Job Geneva15 24:6  They reape his prouision in the fielde, but they gather the late vintage of the wicked.
Job Geneva15 24:7  They cause the naked to lodge without garment, and without couering in the colde.
Job Geneva15 24:8  They are wet with the showres of the moutaines, and they imbrace the rocke for want of a couering.
Job Geneva15 24:9  They plucke the fatherles from the breast, and take the pledge of the poore.
Job Geneva15 24:10  They cause him to go naked without clothing, and take the glening from the hungrie.
Job Geneva15 24:11  They that make oyle betweene their walles, and treade their wine presses, suffer thirst.
Job Geneva15 24:12  Men cry out of the citie, and the soules of the slayne cry out: yet God doth not charge them with follie.
Job Geneva15 24:13  These are they, that abhorre the light: they know not the wayes thereof, nor continue in the paths thereof.
Job Geneva15 24:14  The murtherer riseth earely and killeth the poore and the needie: and in the night he is as a theefe.
Job Geneva15 24:15  The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, and sayth, None eye shall see me, and disguiseth his face.
Job Geneva15 24:16  They digge through houses in the darke, which they marked for themselues in the daye: they knowe not the light.
Job Geneva15 24:17  But the morning is euen to them as the shadow of death: if one knowe them, they are in the terrours of the shadowe of death.
Job Geneva15 24:18  He is swift vpon the waters: their portion shalbe cursed in the earth: he will not behold the way of the vineyardes.
Job Geneva15 24:19  As the dry ground and heate consume the snowe waters, so shall the graue the sinners.
Job Geneva15 24:20  The pitifull man shall forget him: the worme shall feele his sweetenes: he shalbe no more remembered, and the wicked shalbe broke like a tree.
Job Geneva15 24:21  He doth euil intreat ye barren, that doeth not beare, neither doeth he good to the widowe.
Job Geneva15 24:22  He draweth also the mighty by his power, and when he riseth vp, none is sure of life.
Job Geneva15 24:23  Though men giue him assurance to be in safetie, yet his eyes are vpon their wayes.
Job Geneva15 24:24  They are exalted for a litle, but they are gone, and are brought lowe as all others: they are destroyed, and cut off as the toppe of an eare of corne.
Job Geneva15 24:25  But if it be not so, where is he? or who wil proue me a lyer, and make my words of no value?