Parallel Bible results for "job 24:1-7"

Job 24:1-7

1 Why doesn't God set a time for judging, a day of justice for those who serve him?

1 “Why does the Almighty not set times for judgment? Why must those who know him look in vain for such days?

2 People move property lines to get more land; they steal sheep and put them with their own flocks.

2 There are those who move boundary stones; they pasture flocks they have stolen.

3 They take donkeys that belong to orphans, and keep a widow's ox till she pays her debts.

3 They drive away the orphan’s donkey and take the widow’s ox in pledge.

4 They prevent the poor from getting their rights and force the needy to run and hide.

4 They thrust the needy from the path and force all the poor of the land into hiding.

5 So the poor, like wild donkeys, search for food in the dry wilderness; nowhere else can they find 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 have to harvest fields they don't own, and gather grapes in vineyards of the wicked.

6 They gather fodder in the fields and glean in the vineyards of the wicked.

7 At night they sleep with nothing to cover them, nothing to keep them from the cold.

7 Lacking clothes, they spend the night naked; they have nothing to cover themselves in the cold.