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Job 24

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1 "Since times are not hidden from the Almighty, Why do those who know Him see not 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 "Some remove landmarks; They seize flocks violently and feed on them;
2 There are those who move boundary stones; they pasture flocks they have stolen.
3 They drive away the donkey of the fatherless; They take the widow's ox as a pledge.
3 They drive away the orphan’s donkey and take the widow’s ox in pledge.
4 They push the needy off the road; All the poor of the land are forced to hide.
4 They thrust the needy from the path and force all the poor of the land into hiding.
5 Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert, They go out to their work, searching for food. The wilderness yields food for them and 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 gather their fodder in the field And glean in the vineyard of the wicked.
6 They gather fodder in the fields and glean in the vineyards of the wicked.
7 They spend the night naked, without clothing, And have no covering in the cold.
7 Lacking clothes, they spend the night naked; they have nothing to cover themselves in the cold.
8 They are wet with the showers of the mountains, And huddle around the rock for want of shelter.
8 They are drenched by mountain rains and hug the rocks for lack of shelter.
9 "Some snatch the fatherless from the breast, And take a pledge from the poor.
9 The fatherless child is snatched from the breast; the infant of the poor is seized for a debt.
10 They cause the poor to go naked, without clothing; And they take away the sheaves from the hungry.
10 Lacking clothes, they go about naked; they carry the sheaves, but still go hungry.
11 They press out oil within their walls, And tread winepresses, yet suffer thirst.
11 They crush olives among the terraces ; they tread the winepresses, yet suffer thirst.
12 The dying groan in the city, And the souls of the wounded cry out; Yet God does not charge them with wrong.
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 do not know its ways Nor abide 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; He kills the poor and needy; And in the 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 waits for the twilight, Saying, 'No eye will see me'; And he disguises 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 In the dark they break into houses Which they marked for themselves in the daytime; They do not 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 the morning is the same to them as the shadow of death; If someone recognizes them, They are in the terrors of the shadow of death.
17 For all of them, midnight is their morning; they make friends with the terrors of darkness.
18 "They should be swift on the face of the waters, Their portion should be cursed in the earth, So that no one would turn into 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 As drought and heat consume the snow waters, So the grave consumes those who have sinned.
19 As heat and drought snatch away the melted snow, so the grave snatches away those who have sinned.
20 The womb should forget him, The worm should feed sweetly on him; He should be remembered no more, And wickedness should be broken like a tree.
20 The womb forgets them, the worm feasts on them; the wicked are no longer remembered but are broken like a tree.
21 For he preys on the barren who do not bear, And does no good for the widow.
21 They prey on the barren and childless woman, and to the widow they show no kindness.
22 "But God draws the mighty away with His power; He rises up, but no man is sure of life.
22 But God drags away the mighty by his power; though they become established, they have no assurance of life.
23 He gives them security, and they rely on it; Yet 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, Then they are gone. They are brought low; They are taken out of the way like all others; They dry out like the heads 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 "Now if it is not so, who will prove me a liar, And make my speech worth nothing?"
25 “If this is not so, who can prove me false and reduce my words to nothing?”
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