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Read Job 24

World English Bible · 25 verses

¹ “Why aren’t times laid up by the Almighty? Why don’t those who know him see his days?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
² There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
³ They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁴ They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁵ Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go out to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread for their children.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁶ They cut their food in the field. They glean the vineyard of the wicked.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁷ They lie all night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁸ They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for lack of a shelter.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁹ There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁰ so that they go around naked without clothing. Being hungry, they carry the sheaves.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹¹ They make oil within the walls of these men. They tread wine presses, and suffer thirst.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹² From out of the populous city, men groan. The soul of the wounded cries out, yet God doesn’t regard the folly.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹³ “These are of those who rebel against the light. They don’t know its ways, nor stay in its paths.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁴ The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁵ The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, ‘No eye will see me.’ He disguises his face.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁶ In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don’t know the light.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁷ For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, for they know the terrors of the thick darkness.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁸ “They are foam on the surface of the waters. Their portion is cursed on the earth. They don’t turn into the way of the vineyards.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁹ Drought and heat consume the snow waters, so does Sheol those who have sinned.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²⁰ The womb will forget him. The worm will feed sweetly on him. He will be no more remembered. Unrighteousness will be broken as a tree.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²¹ He devours the barren who don’t bear. He shows no kindness to the widow.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²² Yet God preserves the mighty by his power. He rises up who has no assurance of life.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²³ God gives them security, and they rest in it. His eyes are on their ways.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²⁴ They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone. Yes, they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as all others, and are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²⁵ If it isn’t so now, who will prove me a liar, and make my speech worth nothing?”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.

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