13 “‘Do not defraud or rob(A) your neighbor.(B)

“‘Do not hold back the wages of a hired worker(C) overnight.(D)

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13 Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob him: the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.

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10 Lacking clothes, they go about naked;(A)
    they carry the sheaves,(B) but still go hungry.
11 They crush olives among the terraces[a];
    they tread the winepresses,(C) yet suffer thirst.(D)
12 The groans of the dying rise from the city,
    and the souls of the wounded cry out for help.(E)
    But God charges no one with wrongdoing.(F)

13 “There are those who rebel against the light,(G)
    who do not know its ways
    or stay in its paths.(H)
14 When daylight is gone, the murderer rises up,
    kills(I) the poor and needy,(J)
    and in the night steals forth like a thief.(K)
15 The eye of the adulterer(L) watches for dusk;(M)
    he thinks, ‘No eye will see me,’(N)
    and he keeps his face concealed.
16 In the dark, thieves break into houses,(O)
    but by day they shut themselves in;
    they want nothing to do with the light.(P)
17 For all of them, midnight is their morning;
    they make friends with the terrors(Q) of darkness.(R)

18 “Yet they are foam(S) on the surface of the water;(T)
    their portion of the land is cursed,(U)
    so that no one goes to the vineyards.(V)
19 As heat and drought snatch away the melted snow,(W)
    so the grave(X) snatches away those who have sinned.
20 The womb forgets them,
    the worm(Y) feasts on them;(Z)
the wicked are no longer remembered(AA)
    but are broken like a tree.(AB)
21 They prey on the barren and childless woman,
    and to the widow they show no kindness.(AC)
22 But God drags away the mighty by his power;(AD)
    though they become established,(AE) they have no assurance of life.(AF)
23 He may let them rest in a feeling of security,(AG)
    but his eyes(AH) are on their ways.(AI)
24 For a little while they are exalted, and then they are gone;(AJ)
    they are brought low and gathered up like all others;(AK)
    they are cut off like heads of grain.(AL)

25 “If this is not so, who can prove me false
    and reduce my words to nothing?”(AM)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 24:11 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.

10 They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;

11 Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.

12 Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.

13 They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.

14 The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.

15 The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.

16 In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.

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.

18 He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.

19 Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned.

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.

21 He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.

22 He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no man is sure of life.

23 Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways.

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.

25 And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?

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13 “Woe(A) to him who builds(B) his palace by unrighteousness,
    his upper rooms by injustice,
making his own people work for nothing,
    not paying(C) them for their labor.

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13 Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; that useth his neighbour's service without wages, and giveth him not for his work;

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“So I will come to put you on trial. I will be quick to testify against sorcerers,(A) adulterers(B) and perjurers,(C) against those who defraud laborers of their wages,(D) who oppress the widows(E) and the fatherless, and deprive the foreigners(F) among you of justice, but do not fear(G) me,” says the Lord Almighty.

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And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the Lord of hosts.

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