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The Book of Job, Chapter 24, Verse 2

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1
Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?
King James Version
[Some] remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed [thereof].
American Standard Version
There are that remove the landmarks; They violently take away flocks, and feed them.
New English Translation
Men move boundary stones; they seize the flock and pasture them.
World English Bible
There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them.
3
They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
4
They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
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.
6
They reap [every one] his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.
7
They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that [they have] no covering in the cold.
8
They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
9
They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
10
They cause [him] to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf [from] the hungry;
11
[Which] make oil within their walls, [and] tread [their] winepresses, and suffer thirst.
12
Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly [to them].