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Job 24

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1 "Why are times not kept by Shaddai? Why do those who know him not see his days?
1 “Why does the Almighty not set times for judgment? Why must those who know him look in vain for such days?
2 There are those who move boundary markers; they carry off flocks and pasture them;
2 There are those who move boundary stones; they pasture flocks they have stolen.
3 they drive away the orphan's donkey; as collateral, they seize the widow's ox.
3 They drive away the orphan’s donkey and take the widow’s ox in pledge.
4 They push the needy out of the way -the poor of the land are forced into hiding;
4 They thrust the needy from the path and force all the poor of the land into hiding.
5 like wild donkeys in the wilderness, they have to go out and scavenge food, [hoping that] the desert will provide food for their children.
5 Like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go about their labor of foraging food; the wasteland provides food for their children.
6 They must reap in fields that are not their own and gather late grapes in the vineyards of the wicked.
6 They gather fodder in the fields and glean in the vineyards of the wicked.
7 They pass the night without clothing, naked, uncovered in the cold,
7 Lacking clothes, they spend the night naked; they have nothing to cover themselves in the cold.
8 wet with mountain rain, and hugging the rock for lack of shelter.
8 They are drenched by mountain rains and hug the rocks for lack of shelter.
9 "There are those who pluck orphans from the breast and [those who] take [the clothes of] the poor in pledge,
9 The fatherless child is snatched from the breast; the infant of the poor is seized for a debt.
10 so that they go about stripped, unclothed; they go hungry, as they carry sheaves [of grain];
10 Lacking clothes, they go about naked; they carry the sheaves, but still go hungry.
11 between these men's rows [of olives], they make oil; treading their winepresses, they suffer thirst.
11 They crush olives among the terraces ; they tread the winepresses, yet suffer thirst.
12 Men are groaning in the city, the mortally wounded are crying for help, yet God finds nothing amiss!
12 The groans of the dying rise from the city, and the souls of the wounded cry out for help. But God charges no one with wrongdoing.
13 "There are those who rebel against the light -they don't know its ways or stay in its paths.
13 “There are those who rebel against the light, who do not know its ways or stay in its paths.
14 The murderer rises with the light to kill the poor and needy; while at night he is like a thief.
14 When daylight is gone, the murderer rises up, kills the poor and needy, and in the night steals forth like a thief.
15 The eye of the adulterer too waits for twilight; he thinks, 'No eye will see me'; but [to be sure], he covers his face.
15 The eye of the adulterer watches for dusk; he thinks, ‘No eye will see me,’ and he keeps his face concealed.
16 When it's dark, they break into houses; in the daytime, they stay out of sight. [None of them] know the light.
16 In the dark, thieves break into houses, but by day they shut themselves in; they want nothing to do with the light.
17 For to all of them deep darkness is like morning, for the terrors of deep darkness are familiar to them.
17 For all of them, midnight is their morning; they make friends with the terrors of darkness.
18 "May they be scum on the surface of the water, may their share of land be cursed, may no one turn on the way of their vineyards,
18 “Yet they are foam on the surface of the water; their portion of the land is cursed, so that no one goes to the vineyards.
19 may drought and heat steal away their snow water and Sh'ol those who have sinned.
19 As heat and drought snatch away the melted snow, so the grave snatches away those who have sinned.
20 May the womb forget them, may worms find them sweet, may they no longer be remembered -thus may iniquity be snapped like a stick.
20 The womb forgets them, the worm feasts on them; the wicked are no longer remembered but are broken like a tree.
21 They devour childless women and give no help to widows.
21 They prey on the barren and childless woman, and to the widow they show no kindness.
22 "Yet God keeps pulling the mighty along -they get up, even when not trusting their own lives.
22 But God drags away the mighty by his power; though they become established, they have no assurance of life.
23 However, even if God lets them rest in safety, his eyes are on their ways.
23 He may let them rest in a feeling of security, but his eyes are on their ways.
24 They are exalted for a little while; and then they are gone, brought low, gathered in like all others, shriveled up like ears of grain.
24 For a little while they are exalted, and then they are gone; they are brought low and gathered up like all others; they are cut off like heads of grain.
25 "And even if it isn't so now, still no one can prove me a liar and show that my words are worthless."
25 “If this is not so, who can prove me false and reduce my words to nothing?”
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