Job 24
1 Why doesn't the Almighty set a definite time to punish the wicked? Why don't those who follow him never see him act in judgment?
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 The wicked move boundary stones; they seize other people's flocks and move them to their own pastures.
Boundaries people reach flock[s] they seize and they have pastured [them].
3 They steal the orphan's donkey; they take the widow's ox as security for a debt.
[the] donkey of Fatherless ones they drive away they take as pledge [the] ox of a widow.
4 They push the poor out of their way; the destitute are forced to hide from them.
They thrust aside needy [people] from [the] path together they are made to hide themselves [the] poor [people] of [the] earth.
5 Like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor have to scavenge for their food, looking for anything to feed their children in the wasteland.
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 are forced to find what they can in other people's fields, to glean among the vineyards of the wicked.
In the field fodder its (they harvest *Q(K)*) and [the] vineyard of [the] wicked they glean.
7 They spend the night naked because they have no clothes; they have nothing to cover themselves against the cold.
Naked they spend [the] night because not clothing and there not [is] covering in the coldness.
8 They are soaked by the cold mountain storms, and huddle beside the rocks for shelter.
From [the] rain of [the] mountains they are wet and because not shelter they embrace [the] rock.
9 Fatherless children are snatched from their mother's breasts, taking the babies of the poor as security for a debt.
People tear away from [the] breast a fatherless one and on [the] poor they take pledges.
10 Because they have no clothes to wear they have to go naked, harvesting sheaves of grain while they themselves are hungry.
Naked they go about not clothing and hungry they carry a sheaf.
11 In the olive groves they work to produce oil, but do not taste it; they tread the winepress, but are thirsty.
Between rows their they press out oil wine-presses they tread and they were thirsty.
12 In the city the dying groan, and the wounded cry for help, but God ignores their prayers.
From [the] city men - they groan and [the] throat of [those] fatally wounded it cries for help and God not he puts offensiveness.
13 These are people who rebel against the light. They do not want to know its ways, or to stay 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 The murderer gets up at dawn to kill the poor and needy, and when night falls he becomes 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 adulterer waits for dusk, saying to himself, ‘No one will see me now,’ and 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 Thieves break into houses during the night and they sleep during the day. They don't even know what the light is like!
He digs into in darkness houses by day they seal up for themselves not they know light.
17 Total darkness is like light to them, for they are familiar with the night.
For together - [is] morning for them deep darkness for he is acquainted with [the] terrors of deep darkness.
18 Like bubbles on the surface of a river they are quickly carried away. The land they own is cursed by God. They don't enter their own 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 Just as heat and drought dry up snowmelt, so Sheol takes away 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 Even their mothers forget them, maggots feast on them, they are no longer remembered, and their wickedness becomes like a tree that is broken into pieces.
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 mistreat childless women and are mean to widows.
[he] feeds on A barren [woman] [who] not she gives birth and a widow not he does good to.
22 God prolongs the life of the wicked by his power; but when they arise, 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 supports them and gives them security, but he is always watching what they're doing.
He gives to him to security so he may support himself and eyes his [are] on ways their.
24 Though they may be illustrious for a while, soon they are gone. They are brought down like all others, cut off like the 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 isn't so, who can prove I'm a liar and there's nothing to what I say?”
And if not then who? will he prove a liar me and will he make? into nothing speech my.
