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\c 24
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\v 1 "Why does Almighty God not set a time when he will judge evil people?
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\q2 The people who obey God never seem to see him judge the evil people.
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\v 2 Some evil people remove the boundary markers of other people's land, in order to take their land;
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\q2 they seize other people's sheep and put them in their own pastures.
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\v 3 Some take away the donkeys that belong to orphans,
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\q2 and they take widows' oxen to guarantee that the widows will pay back the money that they loaned to those widows.
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\v 4 Some shove poor people off the road,
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\q2 and they force poor people to find places to hide from them.
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\v 5 The result is that poor people have to search for food in the desert plain
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\q2 like wild donkeys do.
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\v 6 The poor people harvest leftover grain in other people's fields,
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\q2 and gather leftover grapes from vineyards that belong to wicked men.
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\v 7 During the night they have nothing to cover their bodies,
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\q2 nothing to keep them warm.
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\v 8 When it rains in the mountains, they become very wet,
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\q2 so they huddle under the rock ledges to protect themselves from the rain.
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\v 9 Some evil men snatch poor, fatherless infants away from their mothers;
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\q2 they say 'I will return your babies to you when you repay the money that I lent to you.'
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\v 10 But the poor people walk around with no clothes on;
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\q2 they are hungry while they are working to carry other people's bundles of grain to the places where their grain will be threshed.
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\v 11 Poor people are hired by these wicked people to make olive oil for them;
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\q2 they tread on grapes to make juice for wine,
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\q2 but they are not allowed to drink any of it when they are thirsty.
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\v 12 In the cities, people who are wounded and dying cry out to God for help,
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\q2 but God ignores their prayers.
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\v 13 Some wicked people avoid the light because they do evil things in the dark;
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\q2 they do not walk on roads that are lit.
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\v 14 Murderers steal things during the night,
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\q2 and then they rise before dawn in order that they may go out again and kill poor and needy people.
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\v 15 Those who want to commit adultery wait for evening to come;
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\q2 they say, 'I do not want anyone to see me,' so they keep their faces covered.
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\v 16 It is during the night that robbers break into houses to steal things,
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\q2 but during the day they hide because they want to avoid being seen in the light.
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\v 17 All of those people want to do their evil deeds at night, not in the morning when it is light,
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\q2 because they are not afraid of the things that happen during the night that terrify others.
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\v 18 However, those wicked people will disappear very quickly,
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\q2 and God will curse the land that they owned;
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\q2 no one will go any longer to work in their vineyards.
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\v 19 Just as the snow melts away when it is hot and there is no rain,
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\q2 those who have sinned will disappear into the place where the dead people are.
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\v 20 Not even their mothers will remember them;
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\q2 wicked people will be destroyed like trees that are cut down,
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\q2 and maggots will eat their corpses.
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\v 21 The wicked mistreat women who have been unable to give birth to children who would have grown up to take care of them;
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\q2 the wicked they never help widows.
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\v 22 But God, by his power, gets rid of mighty people.
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\q2 He causes the wicked people to die.
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\v 23 God allows them to think that they are secure and safe,
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\q2 but he is watching them all the time.
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\v 24 They prosper for a little while,
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\q2 and then suddenly they are gone;
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\q2 God will make them die like all the other people;
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\q2 they will be like stalks of grain that the farmers have cut off.
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\v 25 If this is not true, is there anyone who will show that I am a liar
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\q2 and prove me wrong?"
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