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Job 24
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1“Why are lnot times of judgment mkept by the Almighty,

and why do those who know him never see his ndays?

2Some move olandmarks;

they seize flocks and pasture them.

3They drive away the donkey of the fatherless;

they ptake the widow's ox for a pledge.

4They qthrust the poor off the road;

the poor of the earth rall hide themselves.

5Behold, like wild donkeys in the desert

the poor1 sgo out to their toil, tseeking game;

the wasteland yields food for their children.

6They gather their2 fodder in the field,

and they glean the vineyard of the wicked man.

7They ulie all night naked, without clothing,

and have no covering in the cold.

8They are wet with the rain of the mountains

and vcling to the rock for lack of shelter.

9(There are those who snatch the fatherless child from the breast,

and they take a pledge against the poor.)

10They go about naked, without clothing;

hungry, they wcarry the sheaves;

11among the olive rows of the wicked3 they make oil;

they tread the winepresses, but suffer thirst.

12From out of the city the dying4 groan,

and the soul of xthe wounded cries for help;

yet God charges no one with ywrong.

13“There are those who rebel zagainst the light,

who are not acquainted with its ways,

and do not stay in its paths.

14The murderer rises before it is light,

that he amay kill the poor and needy,

and in the night he is like a thief.

15The eye of the adulterer also waits for bthe twilight,

saying, ‘No ceye will see me’;

and he veils his face.

16In the dark they ddig through houses;

by day they shut themselves up;

they do not know the light.

17For edeep darkness is morning to all of them;

for they are friends with the terrors of deep darkness.

18“You say, f‘Swift are they on the face of the waters;

their portion is cursed in the land;

no treader turns toward their vineyards.

19Drought and heat snatch away the snow waters;

so does gSheol those who have sinned.

20The womb forgets them;

the worm finds them sweet;

they are hno longer remembered,

so wickedness is broken like ia tree.’

21“They wrong the barren, childless woman,

and do no good to the widow.

22Yet God5 prolongs the life of the mighty by his power;

they rise up when they despair of life.

23He gives them security, and they are supported,

and his jeyes are upon their ways.

24They are exalted ka little while, and then lare gone;

they are brought low and gathered up like all others;

they are mcut off like the heads of grain.

25If it is nnot so, who will prove me a liar

and show that there is nothing in what I say?”

Footnotes

  • 1 24:5 Hebrew they
  • 2 24:6 Hebrew his
  • 3 24:11 Hebrew their olive rows
  • 4 24:12 Or the men
  • 5 24:22 Hebrew he
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