24Job 24

CHAP. XXIIII. / 1 Wickednesse goeth often vnpunished. 17 There is a secret iudgement for the wicked.

1Why, seeing Times are not hidden from the Almightie, doe they, that know him not, see his dayes?Select Job 24:1

2Some remooue the land-markes; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.Select Job 24:2

3They driue away the asse of the fatherlesse, they take the widowes oxe for a pledge.Select Job 24:3

4They turne the needy out of the way: the poore of the earth hide themselues together.Select Job 24:4

5Behold, as wilde asses in the desart, goe they foorth to their worke, rising betimes for a pray: the wildernes yeeldeth food for them, and for their children.Select Job 24:5

6They reape euery one his corne in the fielde: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.Select Job 24:6

7They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they haue no couering in the cold.Select Job 24:7

8They are wet with the showres of the mountaines, and imbrace the rocke for want of a shelter.Select Job 24:8

9They plucke the fatherlesse from the brest, and take a pledge of the poore.Select Job 24:9

10They cause him to go naked without clothing: and they take away the sheafe from the hungry,Select Job 24:10

11Which make oyle within their walles, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.Select Job 24:11

12Men groane from out of the city, and the soule of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.Select Job 24:12

13They are of those that rebell against the light, they know not the wayes thereof, nor abide in the pathes thereof.Select Job 24:13

14The murderer rising with the light, killeth the poore and needy, and in the night is as a thiefe.Select Job 24:14

15The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.Select Job 24:15

16In the darke they digge through houses which they had marked for themselues in the day time: they know not the light.Select Job 24:16

17For the morning is to them euen as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrours of the shadow of death.Select Job 24:17

18Hee is swift as the waters, their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the Uineyards.Select Job 24:18

19Drought and heate consume the snow waters: so doeth the graue those which haue sinned.Select Job 24:19

20The wombe shall forget him, the worme shall feed sweetly on him, hee shall be no more remembred, and wickednes shalbe broken as a tree.Select Job 24:20

21He euill intreateth the barren, that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.Select Job 24:21

22He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth vp, and no man is sure of life.Select Job 24:22

23Though it be giuen him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes are vpon their wayes.Select Job 24:23

24They are exalted for a litle while, but are gone and brought low, they are taken out of the way as al other, and cut off as the tops of the eares of corne.Select Job 24:24

25And if it be not so now, who will make mee a liar, and make my speach nothing worth?Select Job 24:25