Job 24
1 “Why aren’t times laid up by the Almighty? Why don’t those who know him see his days?
“Waaqni Waan Hunda Dandaʼu sun maaliif yeroo murtii hin murteessine? Warri isa beekan maaliif akkasumaan guyyoota isaa hin argine?
2 There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them.
Namoonni dhagaa daarii ni dhiibu; bushaayee hataniis ni bobbaasu.
3 They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
Isaan harree ijoollee abbaa hin qabnee ooffatanii deemu; sangaa haadha hiyyeessaa qabdii fudhatu.
4 They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves.
Rakkataa karaa irraa balleessu; hiyyeeyyiin biyyaa hundis isaan jalaa dhokatu.
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.
Hiyyeeyyiin akkuma harree diidaa kan gammoojjii keessaa nyaata barbaacha asii fi achi jooru; gammoojjii sana keessaas ijoollee isaaniitiif nyaata kenna.
6 They cut their food in the field. They glean the vineyard of the wicked.
Isaan dirree irratti okaa walitti qabatu; iddoo dhaabaa wayinii nama hamaa irraas qarmii funaannatu.
7 They lie all night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.
Uffata dhabanii halkan qullaa bulu; waan dhaamocha keessatti uffatan tokko illee hin qaban.
8 They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for lack of a shelter.
Isaan bokkaa tulluutiin tortoraniiru; waan itti daʼatan illee dhabanii kattaa hammatu.
9 There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,
Mucaan abbaa hin qabne harma irraa butameera; daaʼimni hiyyeessaa qabdii kennameera.
10 so that they go around naked without clothing. Being hungry, they carry the sheaves.
Isaan uffata dhabanii qullaa deemu; bissii baatu; garuu ni beelaʼu.
11 They make oil within the walls of these men. They tread wine presses, and suffer thirst.
Isaan dhagaa gidduutti zayitii ejersaa baasu; wayinii cuunfu; garuu ni dheebotu.
12 From out of the populous city, men groan. The soul of the wounded cries out, yet God doesn’t regard the folly.
Aaduun warra duʼuutti jiranii magaalaa keessaa ni dhagaʼama; lubbuun warra madaaʼaniis gargaarsa barbaacha iyyiti. Waaqni garuu balleessaa tokko iyyuu isaanitti hin lakkaaʼu.
13 “These are of those who rebel against the light. They don’t know its ways, nor stay in its paths.
“Warri ifatti fincilan kanneen daandii isaa hin beekne yookaan daandii ifaa irra hin jiraanne jiru.
14 The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.
Yommuu aduun dhiitu, namni nama ajjeesu ni kaʼa; innis hiyyeeyyii fi rakkattoota ni ajjeesa; halkan immoo akkuma hattuu taʼa.
15 The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, ‘No eye will see me.’ He disguises his face.
Iji ejjaan dimimmisa eeggata; innis, ‘Iji na argu hin jirtu’ jedha; fuula isaas ni dhokfata.
16 In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don’t know the light.
Namoonni dukkana keessa mana cabsanii seenu; guyyaa garuu ofitti cufanii oolu; isaan ifa hin beekan.
17 For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, for they know the terrors of the thick darkness.
Hunda isaaniitiif, dukkanni guddaan barii isaanii ti; isaan sodaa dukkana guddaatti michoomu.
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.
“Taʼus isaan hoomacha bishaan gubbaa ti; akka namni tokko iyyuu gara iddoo dhaabaa wayinii hin dhaqneef, qoodni lafa isaanii abaarameera.
Akkuma hoʼii fi hoongeen cabbii baqee xuuxee fixu, awwaalli namoota cubbuu hojjetan ni butata. (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.
Gadameessi isaan irraanfata; raammoonnis itti duuddee isaan nyaatti; namoonni hamoon akkuma mukaa ni caccabu; siʼachis hin yaadataman.
21 He devours the barren who don’t bear. He shows no kindness to the widow.
Isaan dubartii dhabduu ni saamu; haadha hiyyeessaatiif illee garaa hin laafan.
22 Yet God preserves the mighty by his power. He rises up who has no assurance of life.
Waaqni garuu humna isaatiin jajjaboota alatti harkisa; isaan ol kaʼu; garuu wabii jireenyaa hin qaban.
23 God gives them security, and they rest in it. His eyes are on their ways.
Inni akka isaan waan nagaan jiraatan seʼaniif ittuma dhiisuu dandaʼa; iji isaa garuu karaa isaanii ni toʼata.
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.
Isaan yeroo xinnoof mataa ol qabatu; ergasii immoo ni badu; gad deebifamaniis akkuma warra kaanii walitti qabamu; akkuma mataa midhaaniis ni muramu.
25 If it isn’t so now, who will prove me a liar, and make my speech worth nothing?”
“Yoo kun akkas taʼuu baate eenyutu sobduu na godhee dubbii koo busheessa?”
