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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, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty , do they that know him not see his days ?
The borders they reach, A drove they have taken violently away , Yea , they do evil .
Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks , and feed thereof .
The ass of the fatherless they lead away , They take in pledge the ox of the widow,
They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
They turn aside the needy from the way , Together have hid the poor of the earth.
They turn the needy out of the way : the poor of the earth hide themselves together .
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 .
Behold , as wild asses in the desert , go they forth to their work ; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children .
In a field his provender they reap , And the vineyard of the wicked they glean .
They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.
The naked they cause to lodge Without clothing . And there is no covering in the cold.
They cause the naked to lodge without clothing , that they have no covering in the cold.
From the inundation of hills they are wet, And without a refuge -- have embraced a rock.
They are wet with the showers of the mountains , and embrace the rock for want of a shelter .
They take violently away From the breast the orphan , And on the poor they lay a pledge.
They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor .
Naked, they have gone without clothing, And hungry -- have taken away a sheaf .
They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;
Between their walls they make oil, Wine-presses they have trodden , and thirst.
Which make oil within their walls , and tread their winepresses , and suffer thirst.
Because of enmity men do groan, And the soul of pierced ones doth cry, And God doth not give praise .
Men groan from out of the city , and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them .
They have been among rebellious ones of light , They have not discerned His ways, Nor abode in His paths.
They are of those that rebel against the light ; they know not the ways thereof , nor abide in the paths thereof .
At the light doth the murderer rise, He doth slay the poor and needy, And in the night he is as a thief.
The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as 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 also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me : and disguiseth 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 , which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
When together, morning ` is ' to them death shade , When he discerneth the terrors of death shade .
For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death : if one know them , they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.
Light he ` is ' on the face of the waters , Vilified is their portion in the earth , He turneth not the way of vineyards.
He is swift as the waters ; their portion is cursed in the earth : he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.
Drought -- also heat -- consume snow - waters , Sheol ` those who' have sinned.
Drought and heat consume the snow waters : so doth the grave those which 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 shall forget him ; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered ; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.
Treating evil the barren `who' beareth not , And ` to ' the widow he doth no good,
He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not : and doeth not good to the widow .
And hath drawn the mighty by his power , He riseth, and none believeth in life.
He draweth also the mighty with his power : he riseth up , and no man is sure of life.
He giveth to him confidence , and he is supported, And his eyes ` are ' on their ways.
Though it be given him to be in safety , whereon he resteth; yet his eyes are upon 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 little while , but are gone and brought low ; they are taken out of the way as all other , and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.
And if not now, who doth prove me a liar, And doth make of nothing my word ?
And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth ?

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