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 Almighty not to treasure time (and to know him *Q(K)*) not to see day 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.
border to overtake flock to plunder and to pasture
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.
donkey orphan to lead to pledge cattle 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.
to stretch needy from way: road unitedness to hide poor land: country/planet
5 The result is that poor people have to search for food in the desert like wild donkeys do.
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
6 The poor people harvest left-over grain in other people’s fields, and gather grapes from vineyards that belong to wicked men.
in/on/with land: country fodder his (to reap *Q(K)*) and vineyard wicked to glean
7 During the night they have nothing to cover their bodies, nothing to keep them warm.
naked to lodge from without clothing and nothing covering in/on/with cold
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 storm mountain: mount be moist and from without refuge to embrace 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.’
to plunder from breast orphan and upon afflicted to pledge
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 to go: went without clothing and hungry to lift: bear 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: among wall their to press wine to tread and to thirst
12 In the cities, people who are wounded and dying cry out [to God for help], but God does not heed their prayers.
from city man to groan and soul slain: wounded to cry and god not to set: put folly
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(masc.) to be in/on/with to rebel light not to recognize way: conduct his and not to dwell in/on/with path his
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/for light to arise: rise to murder to slay afflicted and needy and in/on/with night to be like/as 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 eye to commit adultery to keep: look at twilight to/for to say not to see me eye and secrecy face to set: make
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.
to dig in/on/with darkness house: home by day to seal to/for them not to 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 morning to/for them shadow for to recognize terror shadow
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.
swift he/she/it upon face: surface water to lighten portion their in/on/with land: country/planet not to turn way: road vineyard
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)
dryness also heat to plunder water snow hell: Sheol to sin (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.
to forget him womb be sweet him worm still not to remember and to break like/as 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.
to pasture barren not to beget and widow not be good
22 But God, by his power, gets rid of mighty/influential people. God acts and causes the wicked people to die.
and to draw mighty: strong in/on/with strength his to arise: rise and not be faithful in/on/with life
23 God allows them to think that they are secure and safe, but he is watching [MTY] them all the time.
to give: give to/for him to/for security and to lean and eye his upon way: conduct 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.
be exalted little and nothing he and to sink like/as all to gather [emph?] and like/as head ear to languish
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? to lie me and to set: accuse to/for not speech my
