Job 24
1 Why are not times treasured up with the Almighty? why do not they that know him see his days?
Wherefore, since from the Almighty times are not hid, have, his knowing ones, no vision of his days?
2 They remove the landmarks; they violently take away the flocks and pasture them;
Boundaries, men move back, flocks, they seize and consume;
3 They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge;
The ass of the fatherless, they drive off, they take in pledge the ox of the widow;
4 They turn the needy out of the way: the afflicted of the land all hide themselves.
They turn aside the needy out of the way, at once, are the humbled of the land made to hide themselves.
5 Lo, [as] wild asses in the desert, they go forth to their work, seeking early for the prey: the wilderness [yieldeth] them food for [their] children.
Lo! [as] wild asses in the wilderness, they go forth with their work, eager seekers for prey, the waste plain, yieldeth them food for their young;
6 They reap in the field the fodder thereof, and they gather the vintage of the wicked;
In the field—a man’s fodder, they cut down, and, the vineyard of the lawless, they strip of its late berries;
7 They pass the night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold;
Ill-clad, they are left to lodge without clothing, and have no covering in the cold;
8 They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and for want of a shelter embrace the rock...
With the sweeping rain of the mountains, are they wet, and, through having no shelter, they embrace a rock.
9 They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor:
Men tear, from the breast, the fatherless, and, over the poor, they take a pledge;
10 These go naked without clothing, and, hungry, they bear the sheaf;
Naked, they go about without clothing, and, famished, they carry the sheaves;
11 They press out oil within their walls, they tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.
Between their walls, are they exposed to the sun, Wine-presses, they tread, and yet are thirsty;
12 Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out; and God imputeth not the impiety.
Out of the city—out of the houses, they make outcry. and, the soul of the wounded, calleth for help, and, GOD, doth not regard it as foolish.
13 There are those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
They, have become rebels against the light, —they are not acquainted with the ways thereof, neither abide they in the paths thereof.
14 The murderer riseth with the light, killeth the afflicted and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
With the light, riseth the murderer, He slayeth the poor and needy, And, in the night, he becometh like a thief.
15 And the eye of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me; and he putteth a covering on [his] face.
And, the eye of the adulterer, watcheth for the evening twilight, saying, Not an eye will see me! A covering for the face, he putteth on;
16 In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves in; they know not the light:
He breaketh, in the dark, into houses, —By day, they lock themselves in, They know not the light;
17 For the morning is to them all [as] the shadow of death; for they are familiar with the terrors of the shadow of death.
For, in the case of all such, morning to them is the death-shade, For, to be recognised, is a death-shade terror.
18 He is swift on the face of the waters; their portion is cursed on the earth: he turneth not unto the way of the vineyards.
Swift is he on the face of the waters, Speedily vanished their share in the land, He turneth not to the way of the vineyards.
Drought and heat, steal away snow water, Hades, them who have sinned. (Sheol h7585)
20 The womb forgetteth him; the worm feedeth sweetly on him: he shall be no more remembered; and unrighteousness is broken as a tree, —
Maternal love shall forget him, the worm shall find him sweet, No more shall he be remembered, but perversity shall be shivered like a tree.
21 He that despoileth the barren that beareth not, and doeth not good to the widow:
He oppresseth the barren who beareth not, and, to the widow, he doeth not good;
22 He draweth also the mighty with his power; he riseth up, and no [man] is sure of life.
Yea he draggeth along the mighty by his strength, He riseth up, and none hath assurance of life;
23 [God] setteth him in safety, and he resteth thereon; but his eyes are upon their ways.
It is given him to be secure, and confident, yet, his eyes, are upon their ways.
24 They are exalted for a little, and are no more; they are laid low; like all [other] are they gathered, and are cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.
They are exalted a little, and are not, Yea having been laid low, like all men, are they gathered, Even as the top of an ear of corn, do they hang down.
25 If it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?
But, if not, who then can convict me of falsehood? or make of no account my words?
