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