THE BOOKE OF Iob. Chapter 24

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CHAP. XXIV.

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?

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

⁹They plucke the fatherlesse from the brest, and take a pledge of the poore.

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

¹¹Which make oyle within their walles, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.²⁴

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

Original 1611 KJV Sidenote References for Job Chapter 24

² Deut.19. 14. and 27. 17. , Or, feed them.
⁶ Hebr mingled corne, or dredge. , Hebr. the wicked gather the vintage.
¹⁵ Hebr setteth his face in secret.
¹⁹ Hebr. violently take it.
²² Or. hee trusteth not his owne life.
²⁴ Hebr. are not. , Hebr. closed vp.

* Some content courtesy of Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania

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