{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/kjv/job/24","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T02:35:44.948Z"},"reference":{"translation":"KJV","book":"Job","bookSlug":"job","chapter":24,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":23,"nextChapter":25,"totalChapters":42,"totalVerses":25},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no man is sure of life."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?"}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 24 (KJV)","markdown":"[Job 24](https://primebible.com/kjv/job/24)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* KJV. https://primebible.com/kjv/job/24 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}