Job 24:1-12

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 stones; they pasture flocks they have stolen.
3 They drive away the orphan’s donkey and take the widow’s ox in pledge.
4 They thrust the needy from the path and force all the poor of the land into hiding.
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 gather fodder in the fields and glean in the vineyards of the wicked.
7 Lacking clothes, they spend the night naked; they have nothing to cover themselves in the cold.
8 They are drenched by mountain rains and hug the rocks for lack of shelter.
9 The fatherless child is snatched from the breast; the infant of the poor is seized for a debt.
10 Lacking clothes, they go about naked; they carry the sheaves, but still go hungry.
11 They crush olives among the terraces[a] ; they tread the winepresses, yet suffer thirst.
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.

Cross References 29

  • 1. S Job 14:5
  • 2. S Job 9:23; 2 Peter 3:7; Jeremiah 46:10
  • 3. S Job 15:20; Acts 1:7
  • 4. S Deuteronomy 19:14; Deuteronomy 27:17; Proverbs 23:10
  • 5. Exodus 20:15; Deuteronomy 28:31
  • 6. S Job 6:27; S Job 22:9; Dt 24:6,10,12,17; Job 22:6
  • 7. Job 29:16; Job 31:19
  • 8. Job 29:12; Job 30:25; Psalms 12:5; Psalms 41:1; Psalms 82:3,4; Isaiah 11:4
  • 9. S Job 20:19; S Proverbs 28:12; Proverbs 28:28
  • 10. S Genesis 16:12
  • 11. Psalms 104:23
  • 12. Job 30:3
  • 13. S Job 6:5
  • 14. ver 18
  • 15. Ruth 2:22; S 1 Kings 21:19
  • 16. S Exodus 22:27; Job 22:6
  • 17. Daniel 4:25,33
  • 18. Lamentations 4:5
  • 19. S Judges 6:2
  • 20. S Deuteronomy 24:17
  • 21. Job 29:17
  • 22. Psalms 14:4; Proverbs 30:14; Isaiah 3:14; Isaiah 10:1-2; Ezekiel 18:12
  • 23. S Leviticus 25:47; S 2 Kings 4:1
  • 24. Deuteronomy 24:12-13
  • 25. S Leviticus 19:9
  • 26. Isaiah 5:2; Isaiah 16:10; Haggai 2:16
  • 27. Micah 6:15
  • 28. S Job 12:19; Job 30:28; Psalms 5:2; Psalms 22:24; Psalms 39:12; Psalms 119:147; Isaiah 30:19; Jeremiah 50:46; Jeremiah 51:52,54; Ezekiel 26:15; Revelation 6:10
  • 29. S Job 9:23

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
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