Job 24
1 Why are times for judging wicked people not set by the Almighty? Why do not those who are faithful to God see his days of judgment come?
Howe should not the times be hid from the Almightie, seeing that they which knowe him, see not his dayes?
2 There are wicked people who remove boundary markers; there are wicked people who take away flocks by force and put them in their own pastures.
Some remoue the land marks, that rob the flockes and feede thereof.
3 They drive away the donkey of those without fathers; they take the widow's ox as security.
They leade away the asse of the fatherles: and take the widowes oxe to pledge.
4 They force needy people out of their path; poor people of the earth all hide themselves from them.
They make the poore to turne out of the way, so that the poore of the earth hide themselues together.
5 See, these poor people go out to their work like wild donkeys in the wilderness, looking carefully for food; perhaps the Arabah will provide them food for their children.
Behold, others as wilde asses in the wildernesse, goe forth to their businesse, and rise early for a praye: the wildernesse giueth him and his children foode.
6 Poor people reap in the night in other people's fields; they glean grapes from the harvest of those wicked people.
They reape his prouision in the fielde, but they gather the late vintage of the wicked.
7 They lie naked all night without clothing; they have no covering in the cold.
They cause the naked to lodge without garment, and without couering in the colde.
8 They are wet with the showers of the mountains; they lie next to large rocks because they have no shelter.
They are wet with the showres of the moutaines, and they imbrace the rocke for want of a couering.
9 There are wicked people who pluck orphans from their mothers' breast, and wicked people who take children as security from poor people.
They plucke the fatherles from the breast, and take the pledge of the poore.
10 But the poor people go about naked without clothing; although they go hungry, they carry bundles of grain belonging to other people.
They cause him to go naked without clothing, and take the glening from the hungrie.
11 The poor people make oil within the walls of those wicked men; they tread the wicked men's winepresses, but they themselves suffer thirst.
They that make oyle betweene their walles, and treade their wine presses, suffer thirst.
12 From out of the city the dying groan, and the throat of the wounded cries out for help. But God does not ascribe blame
Men cry out of the citie, and the soules of the slayne cry out: yet God doth not charge them with follie.
13 Some of these wicked people rebel against the light; they know not its ways, nor do they stay in its paths.
These are they, that abhorre the light: they know not the wayes thereof, nor continue in the paths thereof.
14 Before daylight the murderer rises and he kills poor and needy people; in the night he is like a thief.
The murtherer riseth earely and killeth the poore and the needie: and in the night he is as a theefe.
15 Also, the eye of the adulterer waits for the twilight; he says, 'No eye will see me.' He disguises his face.
The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, and sayth, None eye shall see me, and disguiseth his face.
16 In the darkness wicked people dig into houses; but they shut themselves up in the daytime; they do not care for the light.
They digge through houses in the darke, which they marked for themselues in the daye: they knowe not the light.
17 For all of them, thick darkness is like the morning; for they are friends with the terrors of thick darkness.
But the morning is euen to them as the shadow of death: if one knowe them, they are in the terrours of the shadowe of death.
18 Swiftly they pass away, however, like foam on the surface of the waters; their portion of the land is cursed; no one goes to work in their vineyards.
He is swift vpon the waters: their portion shalbe cursed in the earth: he will not behold the way of the vineyardes.
19 As drought and heat melt away the snow into waters, so Sheol takes away those who have sinned. (Sheol h7585)
As the dry ground and heate consume the snowe waters, so shall the graue the sinners. (Sheol h7585)
20 The womb that bore him will forget him; the worm will feed sweetly on him; he will be remembered no more; in this way, wickedness will be broken like a tree.
The pitifull man shall forget him: the worme shall feele his sweetenes: he shalbe no more remembered, and the wicked shalbe broke like a tree.
21 The wicked one devours the barren women who have not borne children; he does no good to the widow.
He doth euil intreat ye barren, that doeth not beare, neither doeth he good to the widowe.
22 Yet God drags away the mighty people by his power; he rises up and does not strengthen them in life.
He draweth also the mighty by his power, and when he riseth vp, none is sure of life.
23 God allows them to think they are secure, and they are happy about that, but his eyes are on their ways.
Though men giue him assurance to be in safetie, yet his eyes are vpon their wayes.
24 These people are exalted; still, in only a little while, they will be gone; indeed, they will be brought low; they will be gathered up like all the others; they will be cut off like the tops of ears of grain.
They are exalted for a litle, but they are gone, and are brought lowe as all others: they are destroyed, and cut off as the toppe of an eare of corne.
25 If it is not so, who can prove me to be a liar; who can make my speech worth nothing?”
But if it be not so, where is he? or who wil proue me a lyer, and make my words of no value?
