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[Which] make oil within their walls, [and] tread [their] winepresses, and suffer thirst (24:11) Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly [to them] (24:12) They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof (24:13) The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief (24:14) The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth [his] face (24:15) In the dark they dig through houses, [which] they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light (24:16) 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 (24:17) He [is] swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards (24:18) Drought and heat consume the snow waters: [so doth] the grave [those which] have sinned (24:19) 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 (24:20) He evil entreateth the barren [that] beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow (24:21) He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no [man] is sure of life (24:22) [Though] it be given him [to be] in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes [are] upon their ways (24:23) 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 (24:24) And if [it be] not [so] now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?
(24:25)
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