Job 24

Job 24

1“Why aren’t times laid up by the Almighty ?

Why don’t those who know him see his days ?

2There are people who remove the landmarks .

They violently take away flocks , and feed them .

3They drive away the donkey of the fatherless ,

and they take the widow’s ox for a pledge .

4They turn the needy out of the way .

The poor of the earth all hide themselves .

5Behold , as wild donkeys in the desert ,

they go out to their work , seeking diligently for food .

The wilderness yields them bread for their children .

6They cut their food in the field .

They glean the vineyard of the wicked .

7They lie all night naked without clothing ,

and have no covering in the cold .

8They are wet with the showers of the mountains ,

and embrace the rock for lack of a shelter .

9There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast ,

and take a pledge of the poor ,

10so that they go around naked without clothing .

Being hungry , they carry the sheaves .

11They make oil within the walls of these men.

They tread wine presses , and suffer thirst .

12From out of the populous city , men groan .

The soul of the wounded cries out ,

yet God doesn’t regard the folly .

13“These are of those who rebel against the light.

They don’t know its ways ,

nor stay in its paths .

14The murderer rises with the light.

He kills the poor and needy .

In the night he is like a thief .

15The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight ,

saying, ‘No eye will see me .’

He disguises his face .

16In the dark they dig through houses .

They shut themselves up in the daytime .

They don’t know the light.

17For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness ,

for they know the terrors of the thick darkness .

18“They are foam on the surface of the waters .

Their portion is cursed in the earth.

They don’t turn into the way of the vineyards .

19Drought and heat consume the snow waters ,

so does Sheol those who have sinned .

20The womb will forget him .

The worm will feed sweetly on him .

He will be no more remembered .

Unrighteousness will be broken as a tree .

21He devours the barren who don’t bear .

He shows no kindness to the widow.

22Yet God preserves the mighty by his power .

He rises up who has no assurance of life .

23God gives them security, and they rest in it .

His eyes are on their ways .

24They are exalted ; yet a little while , and they are gone.

Yes, they are brought low , they are taken out of the way as all others,

and are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain .

25If it isn’t so now , who will prove me a liar ,

and make my speech worth nothing ?”

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