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Job Chapter 24

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Job’s friends return to his home, bringing gifts and urging him to accept their harsh words as divine punishment. They claim that God will remove his wealth and cause his family to suffer, showing that his suffering is a result of his own sin. The chapter highlights the danger of false friends and the need to trust God’s justice.

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(1) Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?
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Psalms 31:15Ecclesiastes 3:17Ecclesiastes 8:6Ecclesiastes 8:7Ecclesiastes 9:11Ecclesiastes 9:12Isaiah 60:22Daniel 2:21Luke 21:22Luke 21:23Luke 21:24Acts 1:7

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Ruth 1:21I Samuel 1:8I Chronicles 21:3Psalms 10:1

(2) Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.
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Deuteronomy 19:14Deuteronomy 27:17Proverbs 22:28Proverbs 23:10Hosea 5:10Job 1:15Job 1:17Job 5:5

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Ephesians 4:11Ezekiel 34:2II Samuel 17:9Matthew 13:8Matthew 13:23Mark 4:8

(3) They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
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Job 22:6Job 22:7Job 22:8Job 22:9Job 31:16Job 31:17Deuteronomy 24:6Deuteronomy 24:10Deuteronomy 24:11Deuteronomy 24:12Deuteronomy 24:13Deuteronomy 24:17

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Numbers 22:23Deuteronomy 24:17Exodus 21:28Exodus 21:35Exodus 21:36

(4) They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
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Job 24:14Job 31:16Psalms 109:16Proverbs 22:16Proverbs 30:14Isaiah 10:2Ezekiel 18:12Ezekiel 18:18Ezekiel 22:29Amos 2:7Amos 8:4Amos 8:5

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Isaiah 10:2Ezekiel 33:11Deuteronomy 15:11Psalms 35:10Psalms 72:13

(5) 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.
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Job 39:5Job 39:6Job 39:7Jeremiah 2:24Hosea 8:9Job 24:14Proverbs 4:16Hosea 7:6Micah 2:1Zephaniah 3:3John 18:28Acts 23:12

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Genesis 41:48Isaiah 34:14Jeremiah 50:39Judges 5:30

(6) They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.
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Deuteronomy 28:33Deuteronomy 28:51Judges 6:3Judges 6:4Judges 6:5Judges 6:6Micah 6:15

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Leviticus 19:9Genesis 23:17Exodus 9:19Exodus 9:25Exodus 22:5Exodus 22:6

(7) They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.
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Job 24:10Job 22:6Job 31:19Job 31:20Exodus 22:26Exodus 22:27Deuteronomy 24:11Deuteronomy 24:12Deuteronomy 24:13Isaiah 58:7Acts 9:31Genesis 31:40

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Exodus 39:34

(8) They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
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Song of Solomon 5:2Lamentations 4:5Hebrews 11:38

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Joshua 11:21Zechariah 6:1

(9) They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
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II Kings 4:1Nehemiah 5:5

(10) They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;
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Deuteronomy 24:19Amos 2:7Amos 2:8Amos 5:11Amos 5:12

(11) Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.
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Deuteronomy 25:4Jeremiah 22:13James 5:4

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I Kings 6:15Psalms 122:7Leviticus 7:12

(12) Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.
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Exodus 1:13Exodus 1:14Exodus 2:23Exodus 2:24Exodus 22:27Judges 10:16Psalms 12:5Ecclesiastes 4:1Isaiah 52:5Psalms 69:26Psalms 109:22Psalms 50:21

(13) They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
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Luke 12:47Luke 12:48John 3:19John 3:20John 9:39John 9:40John 9:41John 15:22John 15:23John 15:24Romans 1:32Romans 2:17

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Isaiah 30:26Isaiah 60:19Luke 11:36John 12:36Proverbs 3:17Jeremiah 18:15

(14) The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
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II Samuel 11:14II Samuel 11:15II Samuel 11:16II Samuel 11:17Psalms 10:8Psalms 10:9Psalms 10:10Micah 2:1Micah 2:2Ephesians 5:7Ephesians 5:8Ephesians 5:9

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Isaiah 30:26Genesis 1:16Exodus 13:21Exodus 14:20Isaiah 60:19Jeremiah 31:35

(15) The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.
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Exodus 20:14II Samuel 11:4II Samuel 11:5II Samuel 11:6II Samuel 11:7II Samuel 11:8II Samuel 11:9II Samuel 11:10II Samuel 11:11II Samuel 11:12II Samuel 11:13II Samuel 12:12

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Luke 6:42Deuteronomy 19:21Luke 11:34Exodus 21:24Exodus 21:26Leviticus 24:20

(16) In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
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Exodus 22:2Exodus 22:3Ezekiel 12:5Ezekiel 12:6Ezekiel 12:7Ezekiel 12:12Matthew 24:43Job 24:13Job 38:12Job 38:13John 3:20Ephesians 5:11

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Isaiah 30:26Luke 11:36Isaiah 60:19John 12:36Exodus 10:6Jeremiah 19:13

(17) 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.
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Job 3:5Psalms 73:18Psalms 73:19Jeremiah 2:26II Corinthians 5:10II Corinthians 5:11Revelation 6:16Revelation 6:17

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II Kings 20:10Amos 5:8

(18) He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.
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Psalms 58:7Psalms 73:18Psalms 73:19Psalms 73:20Isaiah 23:10Deuteronomy 28:16Deuteronomy 28:17Deuteronomy 28:18Deuteronomy 28:19Deuteronomy 28:20Psalms 69:22Proverbs 3:33

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Genesis 1:6Joshua 3:13Ezekiel 47:4Ezekiel 45:7

(19) Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned.
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Job 6:15Job 6:16Job 6:17Job 21:23Job 21:32Job 21:33Job 21:34Psalms 49:14Psalms 58:8Psalms 58:9Psalms 68:2Proverbs 14:32

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Genesis 1:6Joshua 3:13Jeremiah 17:8Ezekiel 47:4Psalms 49:14Zechariah 14:12

(20) 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.
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Job 17:14Job 19:26Proverbs 10:7Ecclesiastes 8:10Isaiah 26:14Job 14:7Job 14:8Job 14:9Job 14:10Job 18:16Job 18:17Daniel 4:14

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Jeremiah 44:9Isaiah 41:19Ezekiel 17:24Joel 1:12Isaiah 49:15Genesis 2:9

(21) He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.
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I Samuel 1:6I Samuel 1:7Job 24:3Job 29:13Job 31:16Job 31:17Job 31:18

(22) He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no man is sure of life.
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Esther 3:8Esther 3:9Esther 3:10Daniel 6:4Daniel 6:5Daniel 6:6Daniel 6:7Daniel 6:8Daniel 6:9John 19:12John 19:13John 19:14

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Daniel 8:24Ephesians 1:19

(23) Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways.
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Psalms 73:3Psalms 73:4Psalms 73:5Psalms 73:6Psalms 73:7Psalms 73:8Psalms 73:9Psalms 73:10Psalms 73:11Psalms 73:12Jeremiah 12:1Jeremiah 12:2

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Jeremiah 4:30I Corinthians 7:30II Corinthians 7:8

(24) 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.
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Job 20:5Psalms 37:10Psalms 37:35Psalms 37:36Psalms 73:19Psalms 92:7James 1:11James 5:1James 5:2James 5:3Job 8:22Isaiah 17:5

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Leviticus 2:14Proverbs 6:10Proverbs 24:33Deuteronomy 23:25Isaiah 17:5Matthew 12:1

(25) And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?
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Job 9:24Job 11:2Job 11:3Job 15:2

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