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Job 24

The Bible in Basic English BBE

1 Why are times not stored up by the Ruler of all, and why do those who have knowledge of him not see his days?

2 The landmarks are changed by evil men, they violently take away flocks, together with their keepers.

3 They send away the ass of him who has no father, they take the widow's ox for debt.

4 The crushed are turned out of the way; all the poor of the earth go into a secret place together.

5 Like asses in the waste land they go out to their work, looking for food with care; from the waste land they get bread for their children.

6 They get mixed grain from the field, and they take away the late fruit from the vines of those who have wealth.

7 They take their rest at night without clothing, and have no cover in the cold.

8 They are wet with the rain of the mountains, and get into the cracks of the rock for cover.

9 The child without a father is forced from its mother's breast, and they take the young children of the poor for debt.

10 Others go about without clothing, and though they have no food, they get in the grain from the fields.

11 Between the lines of olive-trees they make oil; though they have no drink, they are crushing out the grapes.

12 From the town come sounds of pain from those who are near death, and the soul of the wounded is crying out for help; but God does not take note of their prayer.

13 Then there are those who are haters of the light, who have no knowledge of its ways, and do not go in them.

14 He who is purposing death gets up before day, so that he may put to death the poor and those in need.

15 And the man whose desire is for the wife of another is waiting for the evening, saying, No eye will see me; and he puts a cover on his face. And in the night the thief goes about;

16 In the dark he makes holes in the walls of houses: in the daytime they are shutting themselves up, they have no knowledge of the light.

17 For the middle of the night is as morning to them, they are not troubled by the fear of the dark.

18 They go quickly on the face of the waters; their heritage is cursed in the earth; the steps of the crusher of grapes are not turned to their vine-garden.

19 Snow waters become dry with the heat: so do sinners go down into the underworld.

20 The public place of his town has no more knowledge of him, and his name has gone from the memory of men: he is rooted up like a dead tree.

21 He is not kind to the widow, and he has no pity for her child.

22 But God by his power gives long life to the strong; he gets up again, though he has no hope of life.

23 He takes away his fear of danger and gives him support; and his eyes are on his ways.

24 For a short time they are lifted up; then they are gone; they are made low, they are pulled off like fruit, and like the heads of grain they are cut off.

25 And if it is not so, now, who will make it clear that my words are false, and that what I say is of no value?

Orthodox Jewish Bible OJB

1 4 Why are times [for judgment] from Shaddai not kept, and why do those who have da’as of him not see his yamim [days [of assize])?

2 Some move the boundary stones; they steal edar, and pasture them.

3 They drive away the chamor of the yetomim, they take the ox of the almanah for a pledge.

4 They thrust the needy out of the derech; the poor of the eretz needs hide themselves together.

5 Look, as wild donkeys in the midbar go they forth to their work; foraging for teref (nourishment); the wilderness yieldeth lechem for them and for their na’arim.

6 They reap every one his fodder in the sadeh, and they glean the kerem of the resha’im.

7 They spend the night arom (naked) without levush (clothing), they have no covering in the cold.

8 They are wet with the rain of the harim, and embrace the tzur for want of a shelter.

9 They pluck the yatom from the breast, and seize the oni for debt.

10 They cause him to go arom without levush, and they take away the omer (sheaf) from the hungry;

11 Which crush olives within their walls, and tread their winepresses, yet suffer thirst.

12 Men groan from out of the Ir, and the nefesh of the chalalim (wounded ones) crieth out, yet Eloah chargeth not tiflah (folly) to them.

13 They are of those that are moredei ohr (rebelling ones against the light); they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.

14 The rotzeach rising with the daylight killeth the oni and needy, and in the lailah is like a ganav.

15 The eye also of the no’ef is shomer, watching for the dusk’s twilight, saying, No eye shall see me, and puts something to hide his face.

16 In the choshech they dig through batim (houses); in the daytime they shut themselves in; they have no da’as of the ohr.

17 For the boker is to them even as the tzalmavet; they are friends with the terrors of tzalmavet.

18 Swiftly vanishing is he on the surface of the mayim; their chelek is cursed in ha’aretz; he turneth no more in the derech of the kramim (vineyards).

19 Drought and heat consume the snow waters; so doth Sheol those which have sinned.

20 The rechem (womb) shall forget him; the worm shall feast on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken like an etz.

21 He plundereth the barren that beareth not; and doeth not good to the almanah.

22 He drags away also the mighty with his ko’ach; he riseth up, and no man is sure of life.

23 Though it be given him to be in safety, and he be sustained, yet His eynayim are upon their ways.

24 They are exalted me’at (for a little while), then they are no more and are withered and snatched away like all others, and cut off like the tops of the ears of grain.

25 And if it be not so, who will charge me with lying, and make my milah (word) worth nothing? [T.N. Notice the question answered by Romans, Galatians, and Gn 15:6 as well as Chabakuk 2:4 is stated in Job 25:4 below; see Ephesians 2:8-9 and Ro 3:24,26, 28; 4:2; 5:1,9; Ga 2:16,17; 3:11, 24; 5:4; Ti 3:7; this the most important question raised in the Bible: it is for eternity]