< Job 24 >
1 why? from Almighty not to treasure time (and to know him *Q(K)*) not to see day his
Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?
2 border to overtake flock to plunder and to pasture
Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.
3 donkey orphan to lead to pledge cattle widow
They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
4 to stretch needy from way: road unitedness to hide poor land: country/planet
They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
5 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
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.
6 in/on/with land: country fodder his (to reap *Q(K)*) and vineyard wicked to glean
They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.
7 naked to lodge from without clothing and nothing covering in/on/with cold
They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.
8 from storm mountain: mount be moist and from without refuge to embrace rock
They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
9 to plunder from breast orphan and upon afflicted to pledge
They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
10 naked to go: went without clothing and hungry to lift: bear sheaf
They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;
11 between: among wall their to press wine to tread and to thirst
Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.
12 from city man to groan and soul slain: wounded to cry and god not to set: put folly
Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded cries out: yet God lays not folly to them.
13 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
They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
14 to/for light to arise: rise to murder to slay afflicted and needy and in/on/with night to be like/as thief
The murderer rising with the light kills the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
15 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
The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguises his face.
16 to dig in/on/with darkness house: home by day to seal to/for them not to know light
In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
17 for together morning to/for them shadow for to recognize terror shadow
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.
18 swift he/she/it upon face: surface water to lighten portion their in/on/with land: country/planet not to turn way: road vineyard
He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholds not the way of the vineyards.
19 dryness also heat to plunder water snow hell: Sheol to sin (Sheol )
Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so does the grave those which have sinned. (Sheol )
20 to forget him womb be sweet him worm still not to remember and to break like/as 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 to pasture barren not to beget and widow not be good
He evil entreats the barren that bears not: and does not good to the widow.
22 and to draw mighty: strong in/on/with strength his to arise: rise and not be faithful in/on/with life
He draws also the mighty with his power: he rises up, and no man is sure of life.
23 to give: give to/for him to/for security and to lean and eye his upon way: conduct their
Though it be given him to be in safety, where on he rests; yet his eyes are on their ways.
24 be exalted little and nothing he and to sink like/as all to gather [emph?] and like/as head ear to languish
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.
25 and if not then who? to lie me and to set: accuse to/for not speech my
And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?