Job 24
1 “Why does the Almighty not reserve times for judgment? Why may those who know Him never see His days?
why? from Almighty not to treasure time (and to know him *Q(K)*) not to see day his
2 Men move boundary stones; they pasture stolen flocks.
border to overtake flock to plunder and to pasture
3 They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widow’s ox in pledge.
donkey orphan to lead to pledge cattle widow
4 They push the needy off the road and force all the poor of the land into hiding.
to stretch needy from way: road unitedness to hide poor land: country/planet
5 Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go to work foraging for food; the wasteland is food for their children.
look! wild donkey in/on/with wilderness to come out: come in/on/with work their to seek to/for prey plain to/for him food to/for youth
6 They gather fodder in the fields and glean the vineyards of the wicked.
in/on/with land: country fodder his (to reap *Q(K)*) and vineyard wicked to glean
7 Without clothing, they spend the night naked; they have no covering against the cold.
naked to lodge from without clothing and nothing covering in/on/with cold
8 Drenched by mountain rains, they huddle against the rocks for want of shelter.
from storm mountain: mount be moist and from without refuge to embrace rock
9 The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.
to plunder from breast orphan and upon afflicted to pledge
10 Without clothing, they wander about naked. They carry the sheaves, but still go hungry.
naked to go: went without clothing and hungry to lift: bear sheaf
11 They crush olives within their walls; they tread the winepresses, but go thirsty.
between: among wall their to press wine to tread and to thirst
12 From the city, men groan, and the souls of the wounded cry out, yet God charges no one with wrongdoing.
from city man to groan and soul slain: wounded to cry and god not to set: put folly
13 Then there are those who rebel against the light, not knowing its ways or staying on its paths.
they(masc.) to be in/on/with to rebel light not to recognize way: conduct his and not to dwell in/on/with path his
14 When daylight is gone, the murderer rises to kill the poor and needy; in the night he is like a thief.
to/for light to arise: rise to murder to slay afflicted and needy and in/on/with night to be like/as thief
15 The eye of the adulterer watches for twilight. Thinking, ‘No eye will see me,’ he covers his face.
and eye to commit adultery to keep: look at twilight to/for to say not to see me eye and secrecy face to set: make
16 In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves in, never to experience the light.
to dig in/on/with darkness house: home by day to seal to/for them not to know light
17 For to them, deep darkness is their morning; surely they are friends with the terrors of darkness!
for together morning to/for them shadow for to recognize terror shadow
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.
swift he/she/it upon face: surface water to lighten portion their in/on/with land: country/planet not to turn way: road vineyard
19 As drought and heat consume the melting snow, so Sheol steals those who have sinned. (Sheol h7585)
dryness also heat to plunder water snow hell: Sheol to sin (Sheol h7585)
20 The womb forgets them; the worm feeds on them; they are remembered no more. So injustice is like a broken tree.
to forget him womb be sweet him worm still not to remember and to break like/as tree injustice
21 They prey on the barren and childless, and show no kindness to the widow.
to pasture barren not to beget and widow not be good
22 Yet by His power, God drags away the mighty; though rising up, they have no assurance of life.
and to draw mighty: strong in/on/with strength his to arise: rise and not be faithful in/on/with life
23 He gives them a sense of security, but His eyes are on their ways.
to give: give to/for him to/for security and to lean and eye his upon way: conduct 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.
be exalted little and nothing he and to sink like/as all to gather [emph?] and like/as head ear to languish
25 If this is not so, then who can prove me a liar and reduce my words to nothing?”
and if not then who? to lie me and to set: accuse to/for not speech my
