Sermons citing Job 24

^24:3 They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widow’s ox in pledge.

^24:4 They push the needy off the road and force all the poor of the land into hiding.

^24:5 Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go to work foraging for food; the wasteland is food for their children.

^24:6 They gather fodder in the fields and glean the vineyards of the wicked.

^24:7 Without clothing, they spend the night naked; they have no covering against the cold.

^24:8 Drenched by mountain rains, they huddle against the rocks for want of shelter.

^24:9 The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.

^24:10 Without clothing, they wander about naked. They carry the sheaves, but still go hungry.

^24:11 They crush olives within their walls; they tread the winepresses, but go thirsty.

^24:12 From the city, men groan, and the souls of the wounded cry out, yet God charges no one with wrongdoing.

^24:13 Then there are those who rebel against the light, not knowing its ways or staying on its paths.

^24:14 When daylight is gone, the murderer rises to kill the poor and needy; in the night he is like a thief.

^24:15 The eye of the adulterer watches for twilight. Thinking, ‘No eye will see me,’ he covers his face.

^24:16 In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves in, never to experience the light.

^24:17 For to them, deep darkness is their morning; surely they are friends with the terrors of darkness!

^24:18 They are but foam on the surface of the water; their portion of the land is cursed, so that no one turns toward their vineyards.

^24:19 As drought and heat consume the melting snow, so Sheol steals those who have sinned.

^24:20 The womb forgets them; the worm feeds on them; they are remembered no more. So injustice is broken like a tree.

^24:21 They prey on the barren and childless, and show no kindness to the widow.

^24:22 Yet by His power, God drags away the mighty; though rising up, they have no assurance of life.

^24:23 He gives them a sense of security, but His eyes are on their ways.

^24:24 They are exalted for a moment, then they are gone; they are brought low and gathered up like all others; they are cut off like heads of grain.

^24:25 If this is not so, then who can prove me a liar and reduce my words to nothing?”