Job 24
1 why? from Almighty not to treasure time (and to know him *Q(K)*) not to see day his
Why are not times [of punishment] treasured up by the Almighty, and why do his adorers not see his days [of retribution]?
2 border to overtake flock to plunder and to pasture
[The wicked] remove landmarks: they rob flocks, and feed them.
3 donkey orphan to lead to pledge cattle widow
They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take in pledge the widow's ox.
4 to stretch needy from way: road unitedness to hide poor land: country/planet
They chase the needy out of the highway: altogether hide themselves the poor of the earth.
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 wilderness go they forth to their work, rising betimes after [their] prey: the desert yieldeth food for them and for their young men.
6 in/on/with land: country fodder his (to reap *Q(K)*) and vineyard wicked to glean
In the field they reap their food; and in the vineyard of the wicked they gather the fruit.
7 naked to lodge from without clothing and nothing covering in/on/with cold
They cause [the poor] to spend the night naked, without clothing and without any covering in the cold.
8 from storm mountain: mount be moist and from without refuge to embrace rock
Through the sweeping rain of the mountains are they made wet, and for want of a shelter do they embrace the rock.
9 to plunder from breast orphan and upon afflicted to pledge
The others pluck from the breast the fatherless, and the garment of the poor they take in pledge.
10 naked to go: went without clothing and hungry to lift: bear sheaf
They cause him to go naked without clothing, and from the hungry they take away the sheaf:
11 between: among wall their to press wine to tread and to thirst
Within their walls do they make oil, they tread their wine-presses, and suffer thirst.
12 from city man to groan and soul slain: wounded to cry and god not to set: put folly
Out of a populous city is groaning heard, and the soul of the deadly wounded crieth out: yet God regardeth it not as an offence.
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
Yon men are of those that rebel against the light: they know not its ways, nor abide in its paths.
14 to/for light to arise: rise to murder to slay afflicted and needy and in/on/with night to be like/as thief
With the earliest light riseth the murderer, he slayeth the poor and needy, and in the night he becometh like the 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
And the eye of the adulterer watcheth for the twilight, saying, No eye will see me; and placeth a covering on his face.
16 to dig in/on/with darkness house: home by day to seal to/for them not to know light
They break into houses in the dark, in the daytime they lock themselves in: they know not the light.
17 for together morning to/for them shadow for to recognize terror shadow
For to all of these alike is the morning as the shadow of death; for they are familiar with 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
Swift are such men [to flee] on the face of the water; accursed is their field on the land; none of them turneth himself to the way, of the vineyards.
Drought and heat speedily consume the snow-waters: so doth the grave those who have sinned. (Sheol h7585)
20 to forget him womb be sweet him worm still not to remember and to break like/as tree injustice
The mother that bore such a one will forget him; the worm will feed sweetly on him; he will be no more remembered; and like a tree will wickedness be broken.
21 to pasture barren not to beget and widow not be good
He ill-treateth the barren that heareth not; and to the widow he acteth not well.
22 and to draw mighty: strong in/on/with strength his to arise: rise and not be faithful in/on/with life
But he also draweth down the mighty with his power: he riseth up, no one is sure of life.
23 to give: give to/for him to/for security and to lean and eye his upon way: conduct their
To such [God] granteth to be in safety, that he may find support; and His eyes are upon 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; in but a little while they are no more; and they are brought down low: like all others are they gathered in, and like the top of the ear of corn are they cut off.
25 and if not then who? to lie me and to set: accuse to/for not speech my
But if it be not so, who will prove me a liar, and render nought my word?
