Job 24
aligned by seat — same row, same verse, whatever each bible numbers it
| v | JPS1917 |
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| 1 | Why are times not laid up by the Almighty? And why do not they that know Him see His days? |
| 2 | There are that remove the landmarks; They violently take away flocks, and feed them. |
| 3 | They drive away the ass of the fatherless, They take the widow’s ox for a pledge. |
| 4 | They turn the needy out of the way; The poor of the earth hide themselves together. |
| 5 | Behold, as wild asses in the wilderness They go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food; The desert yieldeth them bread for their children. |
| 6 | They cut his provender in the field; And they despoil the vineyard of the wicked. |
| 7 | They lie all night naked without clothing, And have no covering in the cold. |
| 8 | They are wet with the showers of the mountains, And embrace the rock for want of a shelter. |
| 9 | There are that pluck the fatherless from the breast, And take a pledge of the poor; |
| 10 | So that they go about naked without clothing, And being hungry they carry the sheaves; |
| 11 | They make oil within the rows of these men; They tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst. |
| 12 | From out of the populous city men groan, And the soul of the wounded crieth out; Yet God imputeth it not for unseemliness. |
| 13 | These are of them that rebel against the light; They know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof. |
| 14 | The murderer riseth with the light, to kill the poor and needy; And in the night he is as a thief. |
| 15 | The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, Saying: ‘No eye shall see me’; And he putteth a covering on his face. . |
| 16 | In the dark they dig through houses; They shut themselves up in the day-time; They know not the light. |
| 17 | For the shadow of death is to all of them as the morning; For they know the terrors of the shadow of death. |
| 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. |
| 19 | Drought and heat consume the snow waters; So doth the nether-world those that have sinned. |
| 20 | The womb forgetteth him; the worm feedeth sweetly on him; He shall be no more remembered; And unrighteousness is broken as a tree. |
| 21 | He devoureth the barren that beareth not; And doeth not good to the widow. |
| 22 | He draweth away the mighty also by his power; He riseth up, and he trusteth not his own life. |
| 23 | Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth, Yet His eyes are upon their ways. |
| 24 | They are exalted for a little while, and they are gone; Yea, they are brought low, they are gathered in as all others, And wither as the tops of the ears of corn. |
| 25 | And if it be not so now, who will prove me a liar, And make my speech nothing worth? |