Job 24
1 “(Why does Almighty [God] not set a time when he will judge [evil people]?/I do not understand why Almighty [God does] not set a time when he will judge [evil people].) [RHQ] Those who know him never [RHQ] see him do that!
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 evil people] remove the markers of boundaries of [other people’s] land, [in order to steal their land]; they seize/steal [other people’s] sheep and put them in their own pastures.
Boundaries people reach flock[s] they seize and they have pastured [them].
3 [Some] (take away/steal) the donkeys that belong to orphans, and they take widow’s oxen to guarantee that the widows will pay back the money that they loaned to those widows.
[the] donkey of Fatherless ones they drive away they take as pledge [the] ox of a widow.
4 [Some] shove poor people off the road (OR, prevent poor people from (obtaining their rights/being treated justly)), and they force poor people to find places 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 The result is that poor people have to search for food in the desert like wild donkeys do.
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 The poor people harvest left-over grain in other people’s fields, and gather grapes from vineyards that belong to wicked men.
In the field fodder its (they harvest *Q(K)*) and [the] vineyard of [the] wicked they glean.
7 During the night they have nothing to cover their bodies, nothing to keep them warm.
Naked they spend [the] night because not clothing and there not [is] covering in the coldness.
8 When it rains on the mountains, the poor people become very wet, so they huddle under the rock ledges to be protected [from the rain].
From [the] rain of [the] mountains they are wet and because not shelter they embrace [the] rock.
9 [Some evil men] snatch infants away from their widowed mothers [SYN], and they say ‘I will return your babies to you when you repay the money that I lent to you.’
People tear away from [the] breast a fatherless one and on [the] poor they take pledges.
10 But the poor people walk around with no clothes on; they are hungry while they are working to carry [other people’s] bundles of grain [to the places where their grain will be threshed].
Naked they go about not clothing and hungry they carry a sheaf.
11 Poor people press olives to make [olive] oil; they tread on grapes [to make juice for wine], but [they are not allowed to drink any of it when] they become thirsty.
Between rows their they press out oil wine-presses they tread and they were thirsty.
12 In the cities, people who are wounded and dying cry out [to God for help], but God does not heed 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 Some wicked people avoid the light [because they do evil things in the dark]; they do not walk on roads that are lighted.
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 Murderers steal things during the night, and then they arise before dawn in order that they may [go out again and] kill needy [DOU] people.
To the light he rises a murderer he kills [the] poor and [the] needy and in the night he is like thief.
15 Those who want to commit adultery wait for twilight/evening; they say ‘I do not want anyone to see me,’ so they keep their faces covered.
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 It is during the night that robbers break into houses [to steal things], but during the day they hide because they want to avoid [being seen in] the light.
He digs into in darkness houses by day they seal up for themselves not they know light.
17 All of those [people] want to do their evil things at night, not in the morning [when it is light], because they are not afraid of [the things that happen during the] night that terrify others.”
For together - [is] morning for them deep darkness for he is acquainted with [the] terrors of deep darkness.
18 “[But it is wicked people] who are swept/carried away by floods, and God curses the land that they own, and no one goes to work in their 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 like the snow melts away when it is hot and there is no rain, those who have sinned disappear into the place where dead people are. (Sheol h7585)
Drought also heat they snatch away [the] waters of snow Sheol [those who] they have sinned. (Sheol h7585)
20 Not even their mothers remember them now; wicked people are destroyed like trees that are cut down, and maggots eat their corpses.
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 women who have been unable to give birth to children and women who no longer have children [to take care of them], and they never do good things for widows.
[he] feeds on A barren [woman] [who] not she gives birth and a widow not he does good to.
22 But God, by his power, gets rid of mighty/influential people. God acts and causes the wicked people to die.
And he drags off mighty [ones] by power his he rises and not anyone trusts in life.
23 God allows them to think that they are secure and safe, but he is watching [MTY] them all the time.
He gives to him to security so he may support himself and eyes his [are] on ways their.
24 They prosper for a little while, and then [suddenly] they are gone; they disappear like weeds wither and die; they are like [SIM] stalks of grain that have been cut off.
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 is not true, is there [RHQ] anyone who will show that I am a liar and prove that what I have said is not true?”
And if not then who? will he prove a liar me and will he make? into nothing speech my.
