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Job 24

25 aligned verses; 25 with wording or punctuation differences .

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Wherefore from the Mighty One Times have not been hidden, And those knowing Him have not seen His days .
“Why does the Almighty not reserve times for judgment? Why may those who know Him never see His days ?
The borders they reach, A drove they have taken violently away, Yea, they do evil .
Men move boundary stones; they pasture stolen flocks .
The ass of the fatherless they lead away, They take in pledge the ox of the widow,
They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widow’s ox in pledge.
They turn aside the needy from the way, Together have hid the poor of the earth .
They push the needy off the road and force all the poor of the land into hiding .
Lo , wild asses in a wilderness , They have gone out about their work , Seeking early for prey, A mixture for himself -- food for young ones .
Indeed , like wild donkeys in the desert , the poor go to work foraging for food ; the wasteland is food for their children .
In a field his provender they reap, And the vineyard of the wicked they glean .
They gather fodder in the fields and glean the vineyards of the wicked.
The naked they cause to lodge Without clothing. And there is no covering in the cold.
Without clothing, they spend the night naked ; they have no covering against the cold.
From the inundation of hills they are wet, And without a refuge -- have embraced a rock .
Drenched by mountain rains, they huddle against the rocks for want of shelter .
They take violently away From the breast the orphan, And on the poor they lay a pledge .
The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast ; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt .
Naked, they have gone without clothing, And hungry -- have taken away a sheaf .
Without clothing, they wander about naked. They carry the sheaves, but still go hungry.
Between their walls they make oil, Wine-presses they have trodden , and thirst .
They crush olives within their walls ; they tread the winepresses , but go thirsty .
Because of enmity men do groan, And the soul of pierced ones doth cry, And God doth not give praise .
From the city, men groan, and the souls of the wounded cry out , yet God charges no one with wrongdoing .
They have been among rebellious ones of light, They have not discerned His ways , Nor abode in His paths.
Then there are those who rebel against the light, not knowing its ways or staying on its paths.
At the light doth the murderer rise, He doth slay the poor and needy , And in the night he is as a thief.
When daylight is gone, the murderer rises to kill the poor and needy ; in the night he is like a thief.
And the eye of an adulterer Hath observed the twilight , Saying , ` No eye doth behold me .' And he putteth the face in secret .
The eye of the adulterer watches for twilight . Thinking , No eye will see me ,’ he covers his face.
He hath dug in the darkness -- houses; By day they shut themselves up , They have not known light.
In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves in , never to experience the light.
When together, morning `is' to them death shade , When he discerneth the terrors of death shade.
For to them, deep darkness is their morning; surely they are friends with the terrors of darkness!
Light he `is' on the face of the waters, Vilified is their portion in the earth , He turneth not the way of vineyards.
They are but foam on the surface of the water; their portion of the land is cursed , so that no one turns toward their vineyards.
Drought -- also heat -- consume snow -waters , Sheol ` those who ' have sinned.
As drought and heat consume the melting snow, so Sheol steals those who have sinned.
Forget him doth the womb , Sweeten `on' him doth the worm , No more is he remembered, And broken as a tree is wickedness .
The womb forgets them; the worm feeds on them; they are remembered no more . So injustice is like a broken tree.
Treating evil the barren `who' beareth not , And ` to ' the widow he doth no good,
They prey on the barren and childless , and show no kindness to the widow .
And hath drawn the mighty by his power, He riseth , and none believeth in life.
Yet by His power, God drags away the mighty; though rising up , they have no assurance of life.
He giveth to him confidence, and he is supported , And his eyes ` are ' on their ways.
He gives them a sense of security , but His eyes are on their ways.
High they were ` for ' a little , and they are not, And they have been brought low . As all ` others ' they are shut up, And as the head of an ear of corn cut off.
They are exalted for a moment , then they are gone; they are brought low and gathered up like all others ; they are cut off like heads of grain .
And if not now , who doth prove me a liar , And doth make of nothing my word ?
If this is not so , then who can prove me a liar and reduce my words to nothing ?

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