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Scripture Context
Job 24:11 - Job 24:21
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.