Parallel Bible results for "job 24:1-9"

Job 24:1-9

1 "Why doesn't the Almighty set aside times [for punishment]? Why don't those who are close to him see his days [of judgment]?

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 boundary markers. They steal flocks and tend them as shepherds.

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

3 They drive away the orphan's donkey. They take the widow's ox as security for a loan.

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

4 They force needy people off the road. All the poor people of the country go into hiding.

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, poor people go out to do their work, looking for food. The plains provide 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 harvest animal food in the field [to feed themselves]. They pick the leftover grapes in the wicked person's vineyard.

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

7 All night they lie naked without a covering from the cold.

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

8 They are drenched by the rainstorms in the mountains. They hug the rocks because they can't find shelter.

8 They are drenched by mountain rains and hug the rocks for lack of shelter.

9 "[People] snatch the [nursing] orphan from a breast and take a poor woman's baby as security for a loan.

9 The fatherless child is snatched from the breast; the infant of the poor is seized for a debt.