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and they knowing him saw not his days.<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/24-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>They will remove the bound; they will strip off the flock, and they will feed.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/24-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>They will lead away the ass of the orphans, and they will take for pledge, the widow's ox.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/24-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>They will turn the needy from the Way: the poor of the earth hid themselves together.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/24-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Behold, wild asses in the desert will go forth in their work, seeking for prey: the sterile region bread for him, and for the young.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/24-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>In the field they will harvest his meslin, and they will glean the vintage of the unjust one.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/24-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>They will cause the naked to lodge without clothing, and no covering in the cold.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/24-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>They will be wet from the pouring rains of the mountains, and they embraced the rock from no shelter.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/24-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>They will strip the orphan from the breast, and take a pledge for the poor.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/24-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>They caused the naked to go without clothing, and from the hungry they took away the sheaf;<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/24-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Between their walls they will press out oil; they trod their wine-presses, and they will thirst.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/24-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>From the city men will groan, and the soul of the wounded will cry out: and God will not set folly.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/24-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>They were among the rebels of light; they knew not his ways, and they dwelt not in his beaten paths.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/24-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>The murderer will rise by light; he will kill the poor and needy; and in the night he will be as a thief.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/24-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And the eye of the adulterer watched the twilight, saying, Eye shall not perceive me: and secretly he will set the face.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/24-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>To break through houses in darkness in the day they shut up for themselves: they knew not light.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/24-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>For the morning altogether to them the shadow of death: if it shall be known, the terrors of the shadow of death.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/24-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>He is swift upon the face of the waters; their portion will be cursed in the earth: he will not see the way of the vineyards.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/24-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Dryness, also heat, will strip the snow waters: hades him sinning.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/24-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>The womb shall forget him; the worm sucked him; he shall be no more remembered: and iniquity shall be broken as a tree.<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/24-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>He did evil to the barren; she will not bear: and he will not do good to the widow.<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/24-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And he drew the mighty in his power: he will rise up and none shall be sure in living.<p> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/24-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>It will he given to him for confidence, and he will rest upon: and his eyes upon their ways.<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/24-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>They were lifted up a little while, and they are not, and they were brought low; as all they will be drawn together, and as the head of an ear of grain they shall be cut off.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/job/24-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And if not now, who will cause me to lie, and set my words for nought?<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally From The Original Tongues by Julia E. 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