| Job 24:1 |
Why are times [of judgment] not stored up by the Almighty? / And why do those who know Him not see His days? |
| Job 24:2 |
Some remove landmarks; / They seize the flock and pasture [them.] |
| Job 24:3 |
They drive away the donkey of the fatherless / And take the widow's ox as a pledge. |
| Job 24:4 |
They turn the needy out of the way; / The poor of the land are made to hide together. |
| Job 24:5 |
Indeed, [like] wild asses in the desert, / They go forth to their work, / Diligently seeking some prey; / The wilderness [provides] them food for their children. |
| Job 24:6 |
In the field they harvest their fodder, / And they glean the vintage of the wicked. |
| Job 24:7 |
They spend the night naked, without clothing; / And have no covering in the cold. |
| Job 24:8 |
They are wet from the mountain showers, / And for lack of shelter they embrace the rock. |
| Job 24:9 |
Some pluck the fatherless from the breast, / And what the poor has on, as a pledge. |
| Job 24:10 |
They go about naked, without clothing; / And being hungry, they take up the sheaves. |
| Job 24:11 |
Between their walls they press out oil; / They tread the winepresses yet suffer thirst. |
| Job 24:12 |
From the city men groan, / And the soul of the wounded cries out; / Yet God does not regard the folly. |
| Job 24:13 |
These are among those who rebel against the light; / They are not acquainted with its ways, / Nor do they abide in its paths. |
| Job 24:14 |
The murderer rises at dawn; / He kills the poor and the needy; / And at night he is like a thief. |
| Job 24:15 |
The eye of the adulterer also watches for the twilight, / Saying, Not an eye will see me; / And he disguises his face. |
| Job 24:16 |
They dig through houses in the dark; / By day they shut themselves in: / They do not know the light. |
| Job 24:17 |
For morning is to all of them [like] the shadow of death, / Because they are acquainted with the terrors of the shadow of death. |
| Job 24:18 |
Swift are they upon the face of the waters; / Their portion is cursed in the earth; / There is none who turns toward the vineyards. |
| Job 24:19 |
Drought and heat snatch the snow water, / [As] Sheol [snatches] those who have sinned. |
| Job 24:20 |
The womb forgets him; / The worm finds him sweet; / He is remembered no more; / And wrongdoing is broken like a tree. |
| Job 24:21 |
He despoils the barren woman who does not bear, / And does no good for the widow. |
| Job 24:22 |
But [God] preserves the mighty by His power; / He arises, and no one is certain of life. |
| Job 24:23 |
He grants a man to be secure, and he rests [on it;] / And His eyes are upon their ways. |
| Job 24:24 |
They are exalted a little while, then they are no more; / And they are brought low; like all [others,] they are gathered in / And are cut off like the tops of the ears of grain. |
| Job 24:25 |
And if it is not so, then who will prove me a liar / And bring my words to nought? |