< Job 24 >

1 Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not 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 Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.
Boundaries people reach flock[s] they seize and they have pastured [them].
3 They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
[the] donkey of Fatherless ones they drive away they take as pledge [the] ox of a widow.
4 They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
They thrust aside needy [people] from [the] path together they are made to hide themselves [the] poor [people] of [the] earth.
5 Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yields food for them and 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 reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.
In the field fodder its (they harvest *Q(K)*) and [the] vineyard of [the] wicked they glean.
7 They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.
Naked they spend [the] night because not clothing and there not [is] covering in the coldness.
8 They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
From [the] rain of [the] mountains they are wet and because not shelter they embrace [the] rock.
9 They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
People tear away from [the] breast a fatherless one and on [the] poor they take pledges.
10 They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;
Naked they go about not clothing and hungry they carry a sheaf.
11 Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.
Between rows their they press out oil wine-presses they tread and they were thirsty.
12 Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded cries out: yet God lays not folly to them.
From [the] city men - they groan and [the] throat of [those] fatally wounded it cries for help and God not he puts offensiveness.
13 They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
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 rising with the light kills the poor and needy, and in the night is as 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 also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguises 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, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
He digs into in darkness houses by day they seal up for themselves not they know light.
17 For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.
For together - [is] morning for them deep darkness for he is acquainted with [the] terrors of deep darkness.
18 He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholds not the way of the 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 Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so does the grave those which 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 shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a 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 He evil entreats the barren that bears not: and does not good to the widow.
[he] feeds on A barren [woman] [who] not she gives birth and a widow not he does good to.
22 He draws also the mighty with his power: he rises up, and no man is sure of life.
And he drags off mighty [ones] by power his he rises and not anyone trusts in life.
23 Though it be given him to be in safety, where on he rests; yet 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 little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.
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 And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?
And if not then who? will he prove a liar me and will he make? into nothing speech my.

< Job 24 >