Job 24
1 Why? from [the] Almighty not have they been stored up times (and [those who] know him *Q(K)*) not have they seen? days his.
Why, seeing times [are] not hid from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?
2 Boundaries people reach flock[s] they seize and they have pastured [them].
[Some] remove the landmarks: they violently take away flocks, and [their] feed.
3 [the] donkey of Fatherless ones they drive away they take as pledge [the] ox of a widow.
They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
4 They thrust aside needy [people] from [the] path together they are made to hide themselves [the] poor [people] of [the] earth.
They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
5 There! wild donkeys - in the wilderness they go forth in work their seeking for food a desert plain to it food for the children.
Behold, [as] wild asses in the desert, they go forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness [yieldeth] food for them [and] for [their] children.
6 In the field fodder its (they harvest *Q(K)*) and [the] vineyard of [the] wicked they glean.
They reap [every one] his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.
7 Naked they spend [the] night because not clothing and there not [is] covering in the coldness.
They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that [they have] no covering in the cold.
8 From [the] rain of [the] mountains they are wet and because not shelter they embrace [the] rock.
They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
9 People tear away from [the] breast a fatherless one and on [the] poor they take pledges.
They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
10 Naked they go about not clothing and hungry they carry a sheaf.
They cause [him] to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf [from] the hungry;
11 Between rows their they press out oil wine-presses they tread and they were thirsty.
[Who] make oil within their walls, [and] tread [their] wine-presses, and suffer thirst.
12 From [the] city men - they groan and [the] throat of [those] fatally wounded it cries for help and God not he puts offensiveness.
Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly [to them].
13 They - they are among [those who] rebel against [the] light not they pay regard to ways its and not they dwell in paths its.
They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not its ways, nor abide in its paths.
14 To the light he rises a murderer he kills [the] poor and [the] needy and in the night he is like thief.
The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
15 And [the] eye of an adulterer - it watches for twilight saying not it will observe me an eye and covering of face he puts.
The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth [his] face.
16 He digs into in darkness houses by day they seal up for themselves not they know light.
In the dark they dig through houses, [which] they had marked for themselves in the day-time: they know not the light.
17 For together - [is] morning for them deep darkness for he is acquainted with [the] terrors of deep darkness.
For the morning [is] to them even as the shades of death: if [one] knoweth [them], [they are in] the terrors of the shades of death.
18 [is] swift He - on [the] surface of [the] waters it is cursed portion their in the land not anyone turns [the] direction of vineyards.
He [is] swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.
19 Drought also heat they snatch away [the] waters of snow Sheol [those who] they have sinned. (Sheol h7585)
Drouth and heat consume the snow-waters: [so doth] the grave [those who] have sinned. (Sheol h7585)
20 It forgets him [the] womb - it sucks on him maggot[s] again not he is remembered and it was broken like tree injustice.
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.
21 [he] feeds on A barren [woman] [who] not she gives birth and a widow not he does good to.
He oppresseth the barren [that] beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.
22 And he drags off mighty [ones] by power his he rises and not anyone trusts in life.
He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no [man] is sure of life.
23 He gives to him to security so he may support himself and eyes his [are] on ways their.
[Though] it is given him [to be] in safety, on which he resteth; yet his eyes [are] upon their ways.
24 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.
They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all [others], and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.
25 And if not then who? will he prove a liar me and will he make? into nothing speech my.
And if [it is] not [so] now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech of no worth?
