Noah Webster Bible

Job 23

The Book of Job

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Chapter 24

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  Why, seeing times are not hid from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?  

 

 

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  Some remove the landmarks: they violently take away flocks, and their feed.  

 

 

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  They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.  

 

 

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  They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.  

 

 

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  Behold, as wild asses in the desert, they go forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.  

 

 

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  They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.  

 

 

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  They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.  

 

 

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  They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.  

 

 

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  They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.  

 

 

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10


 

  They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;  

 

 

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  Who make oil within their walls, and tread their wine-presses, and suffer thirst.  

 

 

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12


 

  Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.  

 

 

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  They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not its ways, nor abide in its paths.  

 

 

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  The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.  

 

 

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  The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.  

 

 

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  In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the day-time: they know not the light.  

 

 

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  For the morning is to them even as the shades of death: if one knoweth them, they are in the terrors of the shades of death.  

 

 

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  He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.  

 

 

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  Drouth and heat consume the snow-waters: so doth the grave those who have sinned.  

 

 

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20


 

  The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.  

 

 

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  He oppresseth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.  

 

 

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  He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no man is sure of life.  

 

 

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  Though it is given him to be in safety, on which he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways.  

 

 

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  They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all others, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.  

 

 

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  And if it is not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech of no worth?  

 

 

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Job 25

 

 

 

 

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