18:024:001 Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they
that know him not see his days?
18:024:002 Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks,
and feed thereof.
18:024:003 They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the
widow's ox for a pledge.
18:024:004 They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide
themselves together.
18:024:005 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.
18:024:006 They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the
vintage of the wicked.
18:024:007 They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have
no covering in the cold.
18:024:008 They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace
the rock for want of a shelter.
18:024:009 They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge
of the poor.
18:024:010 They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take
away the sheaf from the hungry;
18:024:011 Which make oil within their walls, and tread their
winepresses, and suffer thirst.
18:024:012 Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded
crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.
18:024:013 They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not
the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
18:024:014 The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy,
and in the night is as a thief.
18:024:015 The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight,
saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.
18:024:016 In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for
themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
18:024:017 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.
18:024:018 He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the
earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.
18:024:019 Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave
those which have sinned.
18:024:020 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.
18:024:021 He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not
good to the widow.
18:024:022 He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and
no man is sure of life.
18:024:023 Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth;
yet his eyes are upon their ways.
18:024:024 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.
18:024:025 And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my
speech nothing worth?