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Job 24

The Complete Jewish Bible CJB

1 "Why are times not kept by Shaddai? Why do those who know him not see his days?

2 There are those who move boundary markers; they carry off flocks and pasture them;

3 they drive away the orphan's donkey; as collateral, they seize the widow's ox.

4 They push the needy out of the way -the poor of the land are forced 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.

6 They must reap in fields that are not their own and gather late grapes in the vineyards of the wicked.

7 They pass the night without clothing, naked, uncovered in the cold,

8 wet with mountain rain, and hugging the rock 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,

10 so that they go about stripped, unclothed; they go hungry, as they carry sheaves [of grain];

11 between these men's rows [of olives], they make oil; treading their winepresses, they suffer thirst.

12 Men are groaning in the city, the mortally wounded are crying for help, yet God finds nothing amiss!

13 "There are those who rebel against the light -they don't 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.

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.

16 When it's dark, they break into houses; in the daytime, they stay out of sight. [None of them] know the light.

17 For to all of them deep darkness is like morning, for the terrors of deep darkness are familiar to them.

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,

19 may drought and heat steal away their snow water and Sh'ol 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.

21 They devour childless women and give no help to widows.

22 "Yet God keeps pulling the mighty along -they get up, even when not trusting their own lives.

23 However, even if God lets them rest in safety, 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.

25 "And even if it isn't so now, still no one can prove me a liar and show that my words are worthless."

New Living Translation NLT

1 “Why doesn’t the Almighty bring the wicked to judgment? Why must the godly wait for him in vain?

2 Evil people steal land by moving the boundary markers. They steal livestock and put them in their own pastures.

3 They take the orphan’s donkey and demand the widow’s ox as security for a loan.

4 The poor are pushed off the path; the needy must hide together for safety.

5 Like wild donkeys in the wilderness, the poor must spend all their time looking for food, searching even in the desert for food for their children.

6 They harvest a field they do not own, and they glean in the vineyards of the wicked.

7 All night they lie naked in the cold, without clothing or covering.

8 They are soaked by mountain showers, and they huddle against the rocks for want of a home.

9 “The wicked snatch a widow’s child from her breast, taking the baby as security for a loan.

10 The poor must go about naked, without any clothing. They harvest food for others while they themselves are starving.

11 They press out olive oil without being allowed to taste it, and they tread in the winepress as they suffer from thirst.

12 The groans of the dying rise from the city, and the wounded cry for help, yet God ignores their moaning.

13 “Wicked people rebel against the light. They refuse to acknowledge its ways or stay in its paths.

14 The murderer rises in the early dawn to kill the poor and needy; at night he is a thief.

15 The adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, ‘No one will see me then.’ He hides his face so no one will know him.

16 Thieves break into houses at night and sleep in the daytime. They are not acquainted with the light.

17 The black night is their morning. They ally themselves with the terrors of the darkness.

18 “But they disappear like foam down a river. Everything they own is cursed, and they are afraid to enter their own vineyards.

19 The grave consumes sinners just as drought and heat consume snow.

20 Their own mothers will forget them. Maggots will find them sweet to eat. No one will remember them. Wicked people are broken like a tree in the storm.

21 They cheat the woman who has no son to help her. They refuse to help the needy widow.

22 “God, in his power, drags away the rich. They may rise high, but they have no assurance of life.

23 They may be allowed to live in security, but God is always watching them.

24 And though they are great now, in a moment they will be gone like all others, cut off like heads of grain.

25 Can anyone claim otherwise? Who can prove me wrong?”