Job 24
1 “Why aren’t times laid up by the Almighty? Why don’t those who know him see his days?
Howe should not the times be hid from the Almightie, seeing that they which knowe him, see not his dayes?
2 There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them.
Some remoue the land marks, that rob the flockes and feede thereof.
3 They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
They leade away the asse of the fatherles: and take the widowes oxe to pledge.
4 They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves.
They make the poore to turne out of the way, so that the poore of the earth hide themselues together.
5 Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go out to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread 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 They cut their food in the field. They glean the vineyard of the wicked.
They reape his prouision in the fielde, but they gather the late vintage of the wicked.
7 They lie all night naked without clothing, and 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, and embrace the rock for lack of a shelter.
They are wet with the showres of the moutaines, and they imbrace the rocke for want of a couering.
9 There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,
They plucke the fatherles from the breast, and take the pledge of the poore.
10 so that they go around naked without clothing. Being hungry, they carry the sheaves.
They cause him to go naked without clothing, and take the glening from the hungrie.
11 They make oil within the walls of these men. They tread wine presses, and suffer thirst.
They that make oyle betweene their walles, and treade their wine presses, suffer thirst.
12 From out of the populous city, men groan. The soul of the wounded cries out, yet God doesn’t regard the folly.
Men cry out of the citie, and the soules of the slayne cry out: yet God doth not charge them with follie.
13 “These are of those who rebel against the light. They don’t know its ways, nor stay in its paths.
These are they, that abhorre the light: they know not the wayes thereof, nor continue in the paths thereof.
14 The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. 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 The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, ‘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 dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don’t know the light.
They digge through houses in the darke, which they marked for themselues in the daye: they knowe not the light.
17 For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, for they know the terrors of the 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 “They are foam on the surface of the waters. Their portion is cursed in the earth. They don’t turn into the way of the vineyards.
He is swift vpon the waters: their portion shalbe cursed in the earth: he will not behold the way of the vineyardes.
As the dry ground and heate consume the snowe waters, so shall the graue the sinners. (Sheol h7585)
20 The womb will forget him. The worm will feed sweetly on him. He will be no more remembered. Unrighteousness will be broken as 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 He devours the barren who don’t bear. He shows no kindness to the widow.
He doth euil intreat ye barren, that doeth not beare, neither doeth he good to the widowe.
22 Yet God preserves the mighty by his power. He rises up who has no assurance of life.
He draweth also the mighty by his power, and when he riseth vp, none is sure of life.
23 God gives them security, and they rest in it. His eyes are on their ways.
Though men giue him assurance to be in safetie, yet his eyes are vpon their wayes.
24 They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone. Yes, they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as all others, and are cut off as the tops of the 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 isn’t so now, who will prove me a liar, and 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?
