< Job 24 >
1 Why, seeing times [are] not hid from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?
why? from Almighty not to treasure time (and to know him *Q(K)*) not to see day his
2 [Some] remove the landmarks: they violently take away flocks, and [their] feed.
border to overtake flock to plunder and to pasture
3 They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
donkey orphan to lead to pledge cattle widow
4 They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
to stretch needy from way: road unitedness to hide poor land: country/planet
5 Behold, [as] wild asses in the desert, they go forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness [yieldeth] food for them [and] for [their] children.
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 They reap [every one] his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.
in/on/with land: country fodder his (to reap *Q(K)*) and vineyard wicked to glean
7 They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that [they have] no covering in the cold.
naked to lodge from without clothing and nothing covering in/on/with cold
8 They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
from storm mountain: mount be moist and from without refuge to embrace rock
9 They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
to plunder from breast orphan and upon afflicted to pledge
10 They cause [him] to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf [from] the hungry;
naked to go: went without clothing and hungry to lift: bear sheaf
11 [Who] make oil within their walls, [and] tread [their] wine-presses, and suffer thirst.
between: among wall their to press wine to tread and to thirst
12 Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly [to them].
from city man to groan and soul slain: wounded to cry and god not to set: put folly
13 They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not its ways, nor abide in its paths.
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 The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
to/for light to arise: rise to murder to slay afflicted and needy and in/on/with night to be like/as thief
15 The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth [his] face.
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 In the dark they dig through houses, [which] they had marked for themselves in the day-time: they know not the light.
to dig in/on/with darkness house: home by day to seal to/for them not to know light
17 For the morning [is] to them even as the shades of death: if [one] knoweth [them], [they are in] the terrors of the shades of death.
for together morning to/for them shadow for to recognize terror shadow
18 He [is] swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the 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 Drouth and heat consume the snow-waters: [so doth] the grave [those who] have sinned. (Sheol )
dryness also heat to plunder water snow hell: Sheol to sin (Sheol )
20 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.
to forget him womb be sweet him worm still not to remember and to break like/as tree injustice
21 He oppresseth the barren [that] beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.
to pasture barren not to beget and widow not be good
22 He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no [man] is sure of life.
and to draw mighty: strong in/on/with strength his to arise: rise and not be faithful in/on/with life
23 [Though] it is given him [to be] in safety, on which he resteth; yet his eyes [are] upon their ways.
to give: give to/for him to/for security and to lean and eye his upon way: conduct their
24 They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all [others], and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.
be exalted little and nothing he and to sink like/as all to gather [emph?] and like/as head ear to languish
25 And if [it is] not [so] now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech of no worth?
and if not then who? to lie me and to set: accuse to/for not speech my