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\c 24
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\v 1 Why are times for judging wicked people not set by the Almighty?
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\q Why do not those who are faithful to God see his days of judgment come?
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\q
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\v 2 There are wicked people who remove boundary markers;
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\q there are wicked people who take away flocks by force and put them in their own pastures.
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\q
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\v 3 They drive away the donkey of those without fathers;
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\q they take the widow's ox as security.
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\q
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\v 4 They force needy people out of their path;
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\q poor people of the earth all hide themselves from them.
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\q
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\v 5 See, these poor people go out to their work
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\q like wild donkeys in the wilderness, looking carefully for food;
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\q perhaps the Arabah will provide them food for their children.
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\q
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\v 6 Poor people reap in the night in other people's fields;
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\q they glean grapes from the harvest of those wicked people.
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\q
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\v 7 They lie naked all night without clothing;
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\q they have no covering in the cold.
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\q
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\v 8 They are wet with the showers of the mountains;
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\q they lie next to large rocks because they have no shelter.
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\q
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\v 9 There are wicked people who pluck orphans from their mothers' breast,
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\q and wicked people who take children as security from poor people.
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\q
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\v 10 But the poor people go about naked without clothing;
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\q although they go hungry, they carry others' sheaves of grain.
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\q
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\v 11 The poor people make oil within the walls of those wicked men;
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\q they tread the wicked men's winepresses, but they themselves suffer thirst.
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\v 12 In the city people groan;
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\q the wounded people cry out,
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\q but God pays no attention to their prayers.
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\v 13 Some of these wicked people rebel against the light;
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\q they know not its ways,
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\q nor do they stay in its paths.
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\q
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\v 14 Before daylight the murderer rises
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\q and he kills poor and needy people;
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\q in the night he is like a thief.
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\q
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\v 15 Also, the eye of the adulterer waits for the twilight;
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\q he says, 'No eye will see me.'
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\q He disguises his face.
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\q
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\v 16 In the darkness wicked people dig into houses;
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\q but they shut themselves up in the daytime;
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\q they do not care for the light.
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\q
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\v 17 For all of them, thick darkness is like the morning;
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\q for they are friends with the terrors of thick darkness.
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\q
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\v 18 Swiftly they pass away, however, like foam on the surface of the waters;
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\q their portion of the land is cursed;
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\q no one goes to work in their vineyards.
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\q
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\v 19 As drought and heat melt away the snow into waters,
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\q so Sheol takes away those who have sinned.
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\q
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\v 20 The womb that bore him will forget him;
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\q the worm will feed sweetly on him;
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\q he will be remembered no more;
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\q in this way, wickedness will be broken like a tree.
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\q
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\v 21 The wicked one devours the barren women who have not borne children;
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\q he does no good to the widow.
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\v 22 Yet God drags away the mighty people by his power;
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\q he rises up and does not strengthen them in life.
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\v 23 God allows them to think they are secure, and they are happy about that,
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\q but his eyes are on their ways.
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\v 24 These people are exalted; still, in only a little while, they will be gone;
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\q indeed, they will be brought low; they will be gathered up like all the others;
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\q they will be cut off like the tops of ears of grain.
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\q
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\v 25 If it is not so, who can prove me to be a liar;
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\q who can make my speech worth nothing?"
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