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Job 24 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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Job Complains of Violence on the Earth
Job Complains of the Violence on the Earth

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:1 - “Since times are not hidden from the Almighty,
Why do those who know Him see not His days?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 24:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:2 - “Some remove landmarks;
They seize flocks violently and feed on them;

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 24:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:3 - They drive away the donkey of the fatherless;
They take the widow’s ox as a pledge.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 24:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:4 - They push the needy off the road;
All the poor of the land are forced to hide.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 24:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:5 - Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert,
They go out to their work, searching for food.
The wilderness yields food for them and for their children.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 24:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:6 - They gather their fodder in the field
And glean in the vineyard of the wicked.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 24:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:7 - They spend the night naked, without clothing,
And have no covering in the cold.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 24:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:8 - They are wet with the showers of the mountains,
And huddle around the rock for want of shelter.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 24:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:9 - “Some snatch the fatherless from the breast,
And take a pledge from the poor.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 24:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:10 - They cause the poor to go naked, without clothing;
And they take away the sheaves from the hungry.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 24:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:11 - They press out oil within their walls,
And tread winepresses, yet suffer thirst.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 24:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:12 - The dying groan in the city,
And the souls of the wounded cry out;
Yet God does not charge them with wrong.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 24:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:13 - “There are those who rebel against the light;
They do not know its ways
Nor abide in its paths.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 24:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:14 - The murderer rises with the light;
He kills the poor and needy;
And in the night he is like a thief.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 24:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:15 - The eye of the adulterer waits for the twilight,
Saying, ‘No eye will see me’;
And he disguises his face.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 24:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:16 - In the dark they break into houses
Which they marked for themselves in the daytime;
They do not know the light.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 24:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:17 - For the morning is the same to them as the shadow of death;
If someone recognizes them,
They are in the terrors of the shadow of death.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 24:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:18 - “They should be swift on the face of the waters,
Their portion should be cursed in the earth,
So that no one would turn into the way of their vineyards.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 24:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:19 - As drought and heat consume the snow waters,
So the grave[fn] consumes those who have sinned.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 24:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:20 - The womb should forget him,
The worm should feed sweetly on him;
He should be remembered no more,
And wickedness should be broken like a tree.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 24:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:21 - For he preys on the barren who do not bear,
And does no good for the widow.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 24:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:22 - “But God draws the mighty away with His power;
He rises up, but no man is sure of life.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 24:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:23 - He gives them security, and they rely on it;
Yet His eyes are on their ways.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 24:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:24 - They are exalted for a little while,
Then they are gone.
They are brought low;
They are taken out of the way like all others;
They dry out like the heads of grain.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 24:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:25 - “Now if it is not so, who will prove me a liar,
And make my speech worth nothing?”
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New King James Version, © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.

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Job Chapter 24 — Additional Translations:

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