24Job 24

1Times are not hid from the Almighty: but they that know him, know not his days.Select Job 24:1

2Some have removed landmarks, have taken away flocks by force, and fed them.Select Job 24:2

3They have driven away the ass of the fatherless, and have taken away the widow's ox for a pledge.Select Job 24:3

4They have overturned the way of the poor, and have oppressed together the meek of the earth.Select Job 24:4

5Others like wild asses in the desert go forth to their work: by watching for a prey they get bread for their children.Select Job 24:5

6They reap the field that is not their own, and gather the vintage of his vineyard whom by violence they have oppressed.Select Job 24:6

7They send men away naked, taking away their clothes who have no covering in the cold:Select Job 24:7

8Who are wet, with the showers of the mountains, and having no covering embrace the stones.Select Job 24:8

9They have violently robbed the fatherless, and stripped the poor common people.Select Job 24:9

10From the naked and them that go without clothing, and from the hungry they have taken away the ears of corn.Select Job 24:10

11They have taken their rest at noon among the stores of them, who after having trodden the winepresses suffer thirst.Select Job 24:11

12Out of the cities they have made men to groan, and the soul of the wounded hath cried out, and God doth not suffer it to pass unrevenged.Select Job 24:12

13They have been rebellious to the light, they have not known his ways, neither have they returned by his paths.Select Job 24:13

14The murderer riseth at the very break of day, he killeth the needy, and the poor man: but in the night he will be as a thief.Select Job 24:14

15The eye of the adulterer observeth darkness, saying: No eye shall see me: and he will cover his face.Select Job 24:15

16He diggeth through houses in the dark, as in the day they had appointed for themselves, and they have not known the light.Select Job 24:16

17If the morning suddenly appear, it is to them the shadow of death: and they walk in darkness as if it were in light.Select Job 24:17

18He is light upon the face of the water: cursed be his portion on the earth, let him not walk by the way of the vineyards.Select Job 24:18

19Let him pass from the snow waters to excessive heat, and his sin even to hell.Select Job 24:19

20Let mercy forget him: may worms be his sweetness: let him be remembered no more, but be broken in pieces as an unfruitful tree.Select Job 24:20

21For he hath fed the barren that beareth not, and to the widow he hath done no good.Select Job 24:21

22He hath pulled down the strong by his might: and when he standeth up, he shall not trust to his life.Select Job 24:22

23God hath given him place for penance, and he abuseth it unto pride: but his eyes are upon his ways.Select Job 24:23

24They are lifted up for a little while and shall not stand, and shall be brought down as all things, and shall be taken away, and as the tops of the ears of corn they shall be broken.Select Job 24:24

25And if it be not so, who can convince me that I have lied, and set my words before God?Select Job 24:25