Job 24

1 Times be not hid from Almighty God; soothly they that know him, know not his days.⋮

2 Other men have turned over the terms, or the boundary stones, of neighbours, they have taken away their flocks, and fed themselves.⋮

3 They have driven away the ass of fatherless children, and they took away the cow of a widow for a wed.⋮

4 They destroyed the way of poor men, and they oppressed together the mild men of the earth.⋮

5 Other men as wild asses in desert go out to their work; and they wake to take prey, and before make ready bread to their children.⋮

6 They cut down a field not theirs, and they gather the grapes of his vinery, whom they have oppressed by violence.⋮

7 They leave men naked, and take away their clothes, to the which men there is no covering in cold;⋮

8 which men the rains of mountains wet, and they have no covering, and they embrace stones.⋮

9 They did violence, and robbed fatherless and motherless children; and they spoiled, either robbed, the community of poor men.⋮

10 They took away ears of corn from naked men, and going without cloth, and from hungry men.⋮

11 They were hid in midday among the heaps of those men, that thirst, when the presses of grapes be trodden.⋮

12 They made men of cities to wail, and the souls of wounded men shall cry; and God suffereth it not to go away unpunished.⋮

13 They were rebel to light; they knew not the ways thereof, neither they turned again by the paths thereof.⋮

14 A manslayer riseth full early, and slayeth a needy man, and a poor man; and by night he shall be as a night thief.⋮

15 The eye of the adulterer keepeth darkness, and saith, An eye shall not see me; and he shall cover his face.⋮

16 They undermine houses in dark-nesses, as they said together to them-selves in the day; and they knew not light.⋮

17 If the morrowtide appeareth suddenly, they deem it the shadow of death; and so they go in darknesses, as in light.⋮

18 He is unstabler than the face of the water; his part in the earth be cursed, and go he not by the way of vineries or vines.⋮

19 Pass he to a full great heat from the waters of snows, and the sin of him till to hells or hell.⋮

20 Mercy forget him; his sweetness be for a worm; be he not in mind, but be he all-broken as an unfruitful tree.⋮

21 For he fed on the barren, and her that childeth not, and he did not well to the widow.⋮

22 He drew down strong men in his strength; and when he standeth in great state or prosperity, he shall not believe to his life.⋮

23 God gave to him a place of penance, and he misuseth that into pride; soothly the eyes of God be beholding in the ways of that man.⋮

24 They be raised up at a little while, and they shall not stand; and they shall be made low as all vile things, and they shall be taken away; and as the highnesses of ears of corn they shall be all-broken.⋮

25 That if it is not so, who may reprove me, that I lied, and have put forth follily my words before God?⋮