“Why aren’t times laid up by the Almighty? Act 1:7Ecc 3:172Pe 3:7-8Ecc 8:6-7Mat 24:38Psa 36:10Psa 73:16-191Ti 4:1
Why don’t those who know him see his days?
There are people who remove the landmarks. Deu 19:14Deu 27:17Pro 23:10Pro 22:28Hos 5:10Job 1:15Job 1:17Job 5:5
They violently take away flocks, and feed them.
They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, Deu 24:61Sa 12:3Deu 24:10-13Deu 24:17-21Job 22:6-9Job 31:16-17
and they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
They turn the needy out of the way. Pro 28:28Job 24:14Amo 2:7Ezk 22:29Amo 8:4-6Ezk 18:12Ezk 18:18Isa 10:2
The poor of the earth all hide themselves.
Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, Job 39:5-7Job 5:5Mic 2:1Psa 104:23Act 23:12Gen 16:12Gen 27:40Hos 7:6
they go out to their work, seeking diligently for food.
The wilderness yields them bread for their children.
They cut their food in the field. Mic 6:15Deu 28:33Deu 28:51Jdg 6:3-6
They glean the vineyard of the wicked.
They lie all night naked without clothing, Exo 22:26-27Job 22:6Deu 24:11-13Act 9:31Gen 31:40Isa 58:7Job 24:10Job 31:19-20
and have no covering in the cold.
They are wet with the showers of the mountains, Lam 4:5Heb 11:38Sng 5:2
and embrace the rock for lack of a shelter.
There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, Neh 5:52Ki 4:1
and take a pledge of the poor,
so that they go around naked without clothing. Amo 2:7-8Amo 5:11-12Deu 24:19
Being hungry, they carry the sheaves.
They make oil within the walls of these men. Jas 5:4Jer 22:13Deu 25:4
They tread wine presses, and suffer thirst.
From out of the populous city, men groan. Ecc 4:1Ecc 8:11-12Mal 2:17Mal 3:15Psa 50:21Rom 2:4-52Pe 3:15Exo 1:13-14
The soul of the wounded cries out,
yet God doesn’t regard the folly.
“These are of those who rebel against the light. Jhn 3:19-20Pro 4:19Jud 1:62Th 2:10-121Jn 2:192Pe 2:20-22Jhn 9:39-41Jas 4:17
They don’t know its ways,
nor stay in its paths.
The murderer rises with the light. 1Th 5:2Mic 2:1-2Psa 10:8-10Rev 3:32Sa 11:14-17Eph 5:7-11Luk 12:39
He kills the poor and needy.
In the night he is like a thief.
The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, Psa 10:11Pro 7:9-10Ezk 8:12Ezk 9:9Pro 6:32-35Psa 94:72Sa 11:4-132Sa 12:12
saying, ‘No eye will see me.’
He disguises his face.
In the dark they dig through houses. Jhn 3:20Eph 5:11-13Exo 22:2-3Ezk 12:12Ezk 12:5-7Job 24:13Job 38:12-13Mat 24:43
They shut themselves up in the daytime.
They don’t know the light.
For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, Job 3:52Co 5:10-11Jer 2:26Psa 73:18-19Rev 6:16-17
for they know the terrors of the thick darkness.
“They are foam on the surface of the waters. Deu 28:16-20Isa 23:10Job 22:16Job 9:26Mal 2:2Pro 3:33Psa 58:7Psa 69:22
Their portion is cursed on the earth.
They don’t turn into the way of the vineyards.
Drought and heat consume the snow waters, Psa 49:14Job 21:13Luk 16:22Pro 14:32Ecc 9:4-6Luk 12:20Psa 68:2Job 21:23
so does Sheol 1 those who have sinned.
The womb will forget him. Pro 10:7Dan 4:14Job 18:16-17Ecc 8:10Isa 26:14Job 14:7-10Job 17:14Job 19:26
The worm will feed sweetly on him.
He will be no more remembered.
Unrighteousness will be broken as a tree.
He devours the barren who don’t bear. 1Sa 1:6-7Job 22:9Job 29:13Job 24:3Job 31:16-18
He shows no kindness to the widow.
Yet God preserves the mighty by his power. Dan 6:4-9Est 3:8-10Jhn 19:12-16Rev 16:13-14Rev 17:2
He rises up who has no assurance of life.
God gives them security, and they rest in it. Pro 15:31Th 5:3Rev 2:23Amo 8:7Amo 9:2Ecc 5:8Ecc 8:11Hab 1:13
His eyes are on their ways.
They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone. Psa 37:10Jas 1:11Jas 5:1-3Psa 37:35-36Psa 92:7Isa 17:5-6Job 14:21Job 20:5
Yes, they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as all others,
and are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.
If it isn’t so now, who will prove me a liar, Job 9:24Job 11:2-3Job 27:4Job 6:28Job 15:2
and make my speech worth nothing?”