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[1]Considering then that there is no time hyd from the almightie, how happeneth it that they which know him do not regarde his dayes |
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[2]For some men remoue the landemarkes, robbe men of their cattell, and feede of the same |
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[3]They driue away the asse of the fatherlesse, and take the wydowes oxe for a pledge |
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[4]They cause the poore to turne out of the way, so that the poore of the earth hyde them selues together |
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[5]Beholde, as wilde asses in the desert go they foorth to their worke, & ryse betimes to spoyle: Yea the very wildernesse ministreth foode for them & their children |
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[6]They reape the corne fielde that is not their owne, and let the vineyarde of the vngodly alone |
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[7]They cause the naked to lodge without garment, and without couering in the colde |
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[8]They are wet with the showres of the mountaynes, and embrace the rocke for want of a couering |
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[9]They plucke the fatherlesse from the brest, and take the pledge from the poore |
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[10]They let hym go naked without clothing, and haue taken away the sheafe of the hungrie |
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[11]The poore are fayne to labour in their oyle mylles, yea and to treade in their wyne presses, and yet to suffer thirst |
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[12]Men out of the citie crye vnto the Lord with sighing, the soules of the slayne also crye out, yet God regardeth not their complaynt |
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[13]Where as they are conuersaunt among them that abhorre the light, they know not his way, nor continue in his pathes |
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[14]The murtherer ryseth early and killeth the poore and needy, and in the night is as a thiefe |
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[15]The eye of the adulterer wayteth for the darkenesse, & sayth, There shall no eye see me: and disguiseth his face |
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[16]In the darke they digge through houses, whiche they marked for them selues in the day time: they knowe not the light |
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[17]The morning is to them euen as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrours of the shadowe of death |
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[18][The vngodly] is swyft vpon the water: their portion shalbe cursed in the earth, and he shall not beholde the way of the vineyardes |
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[19]As the drye grounde and heate consume the snowye waters: so shall the graue the sinners |
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[20]The pitifull man shall forget hym, he shalbe sweete to the wormes, he shalbe no more remembred, & his wickednesse shalbe broken as a tree |
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[21]He hath oppressed the barren that can not beare, and vnto the wydow hath he done no good |
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[22]He drue the mightie after hym with his power, and when he was gotten vp no man was sure of lyfe |
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[23]And though they gaue him to be in safetie, yet his eyes are vpon their wayes |
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[24]They are exalted for a litle, but [shortly] are gone, brought to pouertie, and taken out of the way, yea and vtterly pluckt of, as the eares of corne |
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[25]Is it not so? Who will then reproue me as a lyer, and say that my wordes are nothing worth? Bildad proueth that no man is cleane nor without sinne before God |