Job 24
1 “Why does the Almighty not reserve times for judgment? Why may those who know Him never see His days?
Why? from [the] Almighty not have they been stored up times (and [those who] know him *Q(K)*) not have they seen? days his.
2 Men move boundary stones; they pasture stolen flocks.
Boundaries people reach flock[s] they seize and they have pastured [them].
3 They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widow’s ox in pledge.
[the] donkey of Fatherless ones they drive away they take as pledge [the] ox of a widow.
4 They push the needy off the road and force all the poor of the land into hiding.
They thrust aside needy [people] from [the] path together they are made to hide themselves [the] poor [people] of [the] earth.
5 Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go to work foraging for food; the wasteland is food for their children.
There! wild donkeys - in the wilderness they go forth in work their seeking for food a desert plain to it food for the children.
6 They gather fodder in the fields and glean the vineyards of the wicked.
In the field fodder its (they harvest *Q(K)*) and [the] vineyard of [the] wicked they glean.
7 Without clothing, they spend the night naked; they have no covering against the cold.
Naked they spend [the] night because not clothing and there not [is] covering in the coldness.
8 Drenched by mountain rains, they huddle against the rocks for want of shelter.
From [the] rain of [the] mountains they are wet and because not shelter they embrace [the] rock.
9 The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.
People tear away from [the] breast a fatherless one and on [the] poor they take pledges.
10 Without clothing, they wander about naked. They carry the sheaves, but still go hungry.
Naked they go about not clothing and hungry they carry a sheaf.
11 They crush olives within their walls; they tread the winepresses, but go thirsty.
Between rows their they press out oil wine-presses they tread and they were thirsty.
12 From the city, men groan, and the souls of the wounded cry out, yet God charges no one with wrongdoing.
From [the] city men - they groan and [the] throat of [those] fatally wounded it cries for help and God not he puts offensiveness.
13 Then there are those who rebel against the light, not knowing its ways or staying on its paths.
They - they are among [those who] rebel against [the] light not they pay regard to ways its and not they dwell in paths its.
14 When daylight is gone, the murderer rises to kill the poor and needy; in the night he is like a thief.
To the light he rises a murderer he kills [the] poor and [the] needy and in the night he is like thief.
15 The eye of the adulterer watches for twilight. Thinking, ‘No eye will see me,’ he covers his face.
And [the] eye of an adulterer - it watches for twilight saying not it will observe me an eye and covering of face he puts.
16 In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves in, never to experience the light.
He digs into in darkness houses by day they seal up for themselves not they know light.
17 For to them, deep darkness is their morning; surely they are friends with the terrors of darkness!
For together - [is] morning for them deep darkness for he is acquainted with [the] terrors of deep darkness.
18 They are but foam on the surface of the water; their portion of the land is cursed, so that no one turns toward their vineyards.
[is] swift He - on [the] surface of [the] waters it is cursed portion their in the land not anyone turns [the] direction of vineyards.
19 As drought and heat consume the melting snow, so Sheol steals those who have sinned. (Sheol h7585)
Drought also heat they snatch away [the] waters of snow Sheol [those who] they have sinned. (Sheol h7585)
20 The womb forgets them; the worm feeds on them; they are remembered no more. So injustice is like a broken tree.
It forgets him [the] womb - it sucks on him maggot[s] again not he is remembered and it was broken like tree injustice.
21 They prey on the barren and childless, and show no kindness to the widow.
[he] feeds on A barren [woman] [who] not she gives birth and a widow not he does good to.
22 Yet by His power, God drags away the mighty; though rising up, they have no assurance of life.
And he drags off mighty [ones] by power his he rises and not anyone trusts in life.
23 He gives them a sense of security, but His eyes are on their ways.
He gives to him to security so he may support himself and eyes his [are] on ways their.
24 They are exalted for a moment, then they are gone; they are brought low and gathered up like all others; they are cut off like heads of grain.
They are exalted a little - and there not [is] he and they are brought low like everyone they are contracted! and like a head of grain they wither.
25 If this is not so, then who can prove me a liar and reduce my words to nothing?”
And if not then who? will he prove a liar me and will he make? into nothing speech my.
