Job 24 - American Standard Version 2015

¹ Why are times not laid up by the Almighty?\par\tab And why do not they that know him see his days?

² There are that remove the landmarks;\par\tab They violently take away flocks, and feed them.

³ They drive away the ass of the fatherless;\par\tab They take the widow's ox for a pledge.

⁴ They turn the needy out of the way:\par\tab The poor of the earth all hide themselves.

⁵ Behold, as wild asses in the desert\par\tab They go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food;\par\tab The wilderness {\i yieldeth} them bread for their children.

⁶ They cut their provender in the field;\par\tab And they glean the vintage of the wicked.

⁷ They lie all night naked without clothing,\par\tab And have no covering in the cold.

⁸ They are wet with the showers of the mountains,\par\tab And embrace the rock for want of a shelter.

⁹ There are that pluck the fatherless from the breast,\par\tab And take a pledge of the poor;

¹⁰ {\i So that} they go about naked without clothing,\par\tab And being hungry they carry the sheaves.

¹¹ They make oil within the walls of these men;\par\tab They tread {\i their} winepresses, and suffer thirst.

¹² From out of the populous city men groan,\par\tab And the soul of the wounded crieth out:\par\tab Yet God regardeth not the folly.\par

¹³ These are of them that rebel against the light;\par\tab They know not the ways thereof,\par\tab Nor abide in the paths thereof.

¹⁴ The murderer riseth with the light;\par\tab He killeth the poor and needy;\par\tab And in the night he is as a thief.

¹⁵ The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight,\par\tab Saying, No eye shall see me:\par\tab And he disguiseth his face.

¹⁶ In the dark they dig through houses:\par\tab They shut themselves up in the day-time;\par\tab They know not the light.

¹⁷ For the morning is to all of them as thick darkness;\par\tab For they know the terrors of the thick darkness.\par

¹⁸ Swiftly they {\i pass away} upon the face of the waters;\par\tab Their portion is cursed in the earth:\par\tab They turn not into the way of the vineyards.

¹⁹ Drought and heat consume the snow waters:\par\tab {\i So doth} Sheol {\i those that} have sinned.

²⁰ The womb shall forget him;\par\tab The worm shall feed sweetly on him;\par\tab He shall be no more remembered;\par\tab And unrighteousness shall be broken as a tree.

²¹ He devoureth the barren that beareth not,\par\tab And doeth not good to the widow.

²² Yet {\i God} preserveth the mighty by his power:\par\tab He riseth up that hath no assurance of life.

²³ {\i God} giveth them to be in security, and they rest thereon;\par\tab And his eyes are upon their ways.

²⁴ They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone;\par\tab Yea, they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as all others,\par\tab And are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.

²⁵ And if it be not so now, who will prove me a liar,\par\tab And make my speech nothing worth?\par