4.
Job's knowledge concerning God in His dealings with all kinds of men
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Job 24
:1
24:1
Why are times
of judgment not stored up by the Almighty?
And why do those who know Him not see His days?
Job 24
:2
24:2
Some remove
alandmarks;
They seize the flock and pasture
them.
Job 24
:3
24:3
They drive away the donkey of the fatherless
And take the widow’s ox as a
apledge.
Job 24
:4
24:4
They turn the needy out of the way;
The poor of the land are made to hide together.
Job 24
:5
24:5
Indeed,
like wild asses in the desert,
They go forth to their work,
Diligently seeking some prey;
The wilderness
provides them food for their children.
Job 24
:6
24:6
In the field they harvest their fodder,
And they glean the vintage of the wicked.
Job 24
:7
24:7
They spend the night naked, without clothing;
And have no covering in the cold.
Job 24
:8
24:8
They are wet from the mountain showers,
And for lack of shelter they embrace the rock.
Job 24
:9
24:9
Some pluck the fatherless from the breast,
And what the poor has on, as a
apledge.
Job 24
:10
24:10
They go about naked, without clothing;
And being hungry, they take up the sheaves.
Job 24
:11
24:11
Between their walls they press out oil;
They tread the winepresses yet suffer thirst.
Job 24
:12
24:12
From the city men groan,
And the soul of the wounded cries out;
Yet God does not regard the folly.
Job 24
:13
24:13
These are among those who rebel against the light;
They are not acquainted with its ways,
Nor do they abide in its paths.
Job 24
:14
24:14
The murderer rises at dawn;
He kills the poor and the needy;
And at night he is like a thief.
Job 24
:15
24:15
The eye of the adulterer also watches for the twilight,
Saying, Not an eye will see me;
And he disguises his face.
Job 24
:16
24:16
They dig through houses in the dark;
By day they shut themselves in:
They do not know the light.
Job 24
:17
24:17
For morning is to all of them
like the shadow of death,
Because they are acquainted with the terrors of the shadow of death.
Job 24
:18
24:18
Swift are they upon the face of the waters;
Their portion is cursed in the earth;
There is none who turns toward the vineyards.
Job 24
:19
24:19
Drought and heat snatch the snow water,
As aSheol snatches those who have sinned.
Job 24
:20
24:20
The womb forgets him;
The worm finds him sweet;
He is
aremembered no more;
And wrongdoing is broken like a tree.
Job 24
:21
24:21
He despoils the barren woman who does not bear,
And does no good for the widow.
Job 24
:22
24:22
But God preserves the mighty by His power;
He arises, and no one is certain of life.
Job 24
:23
24:23
He grants
1a man to be secure, and he rests
on it;
And His eyes are upon their ways.
Job 24
:24
24:24
They are exalted a
alittle while, then they are no more;
And they are brought low; like all
others, they are gathered in
And are cut off like the tops of the ears of grain.
Job 24
:25
24:25
And if it is not so, then who will prove me a liar
And bring my words to nought?
