Job 24
24
1#Ac 1:7 “Since times of judgment are not kept by the Almighty,
why do they who know Him not see His days?
2#Dt 19:14; 27:17 Some remove the landmarks;
they violently take away flocks and feed on them.
3#Dt 24:6 They drive away the donkey of the orphan;
they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
4#Pr 28:28; Job 24:14 They turn away the needy;
the poor of the earth are forced to hide.
5#Job 39:5–7; Ps 104:23 Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert,
they go out to their work, rising early for a prey.
The wilderness yields food for them and for their children.
6They gather their fodder in the field,
and they glean in the vineyard of the wicked.
7#Ex 22:26–27; Job 22:6 They cause the naked to lodge without clothing,
and they have no covering in the cold.
8#La 4:5 They are wet with the showers of the mountains
and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
9They snatch the fatherless from the breast
and take a pledge from the poor.
10They cause him to go naked without clothing,
and they take away the sheaf from the hungry.
11They press out oil within their walls
and tread their winepresses, yet suffer thirst.
12Men groan from outside the city,
and the soul of the wounded cries out;
yet God does not charge them with wrong.
13#Jn 3:19–20 “They are those who rebel against the light;
they do not know its ways
nor abide in its paths.
14The murderer, rising with the light, kills the poor and needy,
and in the night he is like a thief.
15#Ps 10:11 Also the eye of the adulterer waits for the twilight,
saying, ‘No eye will see me’;
and he disguises his face.
16#Jn 3:20 In the dark they break into houses,
which they had marked for themselves in the daytime;
they do not know the light.
17#Job 3:5 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.
18“He is swift as the waters.
Their portion is cursed in the earth.
They do not turn toward the way of the vineyards.
19#Job 21:13 Drought and heat consume the snow waters;
so the grave consumes those who have sinned.
20#Pr 10:7; Da 4:14 The womb will forget him;
the worm will feed sweetly on him;
he will be remembered no more,
and wickedness will be broken like a tree.
21He preys on the barren who do not bear,
and does no good for the widow.
22But God draws the mighty away with His power;
He rises up, and no man is sure of life.
23#Pr 15:3 He gives them security, and they rely onit;
yet His eyes are on their ways.
24#Ps 37:10 They are exalted for a little while but are gone and brought low;
they are taken out of the way like all others
and cut off as the tops of the grain.
25#Job 9:24 “If it is not so, who will prove me a liar
and make my speech worth nothing?”
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Job 24
24
Job Complains of God's Indifference to Wickedness
1Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty,
do they that know him not see his days?
2 Some remove the landmarks;
they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.
3They drive away the ass of the fatherless,
they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
4They turn the needy out of the way:
the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
5Behold, as wild asses in the desert,
go they forth to their work;
rising betimes for a prey:
the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.
6They reap every one his corn in the field:
and they gather the vintage of the wicked.
7They cause the naked to lodge without clothing,
that they have no covering in the cold.
8They are wet with the showers of the mountains,
and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
9They pluck the fatherless from the breast,
and take a pledge of the poor.
10They cause him to go naked without clothing,
and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;
11 which make oil within their walls,
and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.
12Men groan from out of the city,
and the soul of the wounded crieth out:
yet God layeth not folly to them.
13They are of those that rebel against the light;
they know not the ways thereof,
nor abide in the paths thereof.
14The murderer rising with the light
killeth the poor and needy,
and in the night is as a thief.
15The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight,
saying, No eye shall see me:
and disguiseth his face.
16In the dark they dig through houses,
which they had marked for themselves in the daytime:
they know not the light.
17For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death:
if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.
18He is swift as the waters;
their portion is cursed in the earth:
he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.
19Drought and heat consume the snow waters:
so doth the grave those which have sinned.
20The womb shall forget him;
the worm shall feed sweetly on him;
he shall be no more remembered;
and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.
21He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not:
and doeth not good to the widow.
22He draweth also the mighty with his power:
he riseth up, and no man is sure of life.
23 Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth;
yet his eyes are upon their ways.
24They are exalted for a little while,
but are gone and brought low;
they are taken out of the way as all other,
and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.
25And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar,
and make my speech nothing worth?
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