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Job’s Reply (continued)
24:1 Why, seeing times are not hidden from the
Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?
24:2 Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away
flocks, and feed thereof.
24:3 They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take
the widow's ox for a pledge.
24:4 They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the
earth hide themselves together.
24:5 Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to
their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness
yieldeth food for them and for their children.
24:6 They reap every one his corn in the field: and they
gather the vintage of the wicked.
24:7 They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that
they have no covering in the cold.
24:8 They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and
embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
24:9 They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a
pledge of the poor.
24:10 They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they
take away the sheaf from the hungry;
24:11 Which make oil within their walls, and tread their
winepresses, and suffer thirst.
24:12 Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the
wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.
24:13 They are of those that rebel against the light; they
know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
24:14 The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor
and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
24:15 The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the
twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his
face.
24:16 In the dark they dig through houses, which they had
marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the
light.
24:17 For the morning is to them even as the shadow of
death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the
shadow of death.
24:18 He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in
the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.
24:19 Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the
grave those which have sinned.
24:20 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.
24:21 He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and
doeth not good to the widow.
24:22 He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth
up, and no man is sure of life.
24:23 Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he
resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways.
24:24 They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and
brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and
cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.
24:25 And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and
make my speech nothing worth? |
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Why Did God Permit Sin?
