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Job 24:11-21

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11 Between the lines of olive-trees they make oil; though they have no drink, they are crushing out the grapes.
11 They crush olives among the terraces ; they tread the winepresses, yet suffer thirst.
12 From the town come sounds of pain from those who are near death, and the soul of the wounded is crying out for help; but God does not take note of their prayer.
12 The groans of the dying rise from the city, and the souls of the wounded cry out for help. But God charges no one with wrongdoing.
13 Then there are those who are haters of the light, who have no knowledge of its ways, and do not go in them.
13 “There are those who rebel against the light, who do not know its ways or stay in its paths.
14 He who is purposing death gets up before day, so that he may put to death the poor and those in need.
14 When daylight is gone, the murderer rises up, kills the poor and needy, and in the night steals forth like a thief.
15 And the man whose desire is for the wife of another is waiting for the evening, saying, No eye will see me; and he puts a cover on his face. And in the night the thief goes about;
15 The eye of the adulterer watches for dusk; he thinks, ‘No eye will see me,’ and he keeps his face concealed.
16 In the dark he makes holes in the walls of houses: in the daytime they are shutting themselves up, they have no knowledge of the light.
16 In the dark, thieves break into houses, but by day they shut themselves in; they want nothing to do with the light.
17 For the middle of the night is as morning to them, they are not troubled by the fear of the dark.
17 For all of them, midnight is their morning; they make friends with the terrors of darkness.
18 They go quickly on the face of the waters; their heritage is cursed in the earth; the steps of the crusher of grapes are not turned to their vine-garden.
18 “Yet they are foam on the surface of the water; their portion of the land is cursed, so that no one goes to the vineyards.
19 Snow waters become dry with the heat: so do sinners go down into the underworld.
19 As heat and drought snatch away the melted snow, so the grave snatches away those who have sinned.
20 The public place of his town has no more knowledge of him, and his name has gone from the memory of men: he is rooted up like a dead tree.
20 The womb forgets them, the worm feasts on them; the wicked are no longer remembered but are broken like a tree.
21 He is not kind to the widow, and he has no pity for her child.
21 They prey on the barren and childless woman, and to the widow they show no kindness.
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