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Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?
24:2
 
Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.
24:3
 
They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
24:4
 
They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
24:5
 
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.
24:6
 
They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.
24:7
 
They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.
24:8
 
They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
24:9
 
They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
24:10
 
They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;
24:11
 
Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.
24:12
 
Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.
24:13
 
They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
24:14
 
The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
24:15
 
The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.
24:16
 
In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
24:17
 
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.
24:18
 
He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.
24:19
 
Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned.
24:20
 
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.
24:21
 
He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.
24:22
 
He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no man is sure of life.
24:23
 
Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways.
24:24
 
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.
24:25
 
And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?

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John Wesley's Notes
Explanation posted by John Wesley on 2007-01-01 00:00:00
Job shews that open sinners are often prosperous, ver. 1-12. That secret sinners often pass undiscovered, ver. 13-18. That God punishes such by secret judgments, and reserves them for future judgment, ver. 19-25.
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