Job 24
24
Job Says God Seems to Ignore Wrongs
1“Why does the Almighty not set seasons for judgment?
Why do those who know Him not see His days [for punishment of the wicked]? [Acts 1:7]
2“Some remove the landmarks;
They [violently] seize and pasture flocks [appropriating land and flocks openly].
3“They drive away the donkeys of the orphans;
They take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
4“They crowd the needy off the road;
The poor of the land all hide themselves.
5“Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert,
The poor go to their work, diligently seeking food;
As bread for their children in the desert.
6“They harvest their fodder in a field [that is not their own],
And glean the vineyard of the wicked.
7“They spend the night naked, without clothing,
And have no covering against the cold.
8“They are wet from the rain of the mountains
And cling to the rock for lack of shelter.
9“Others snatch the fatherless [infants] from the breast [to sell or make them slaves],
And against the poor they take a pledge [of clothing].
10“They cause the poor to go about naked without clothing,
And they take away the sheaves [of grain] from the hungry.
11“Within the walls [of the wicked] the poor make [olive] oil;
They tread [the grapes in] the wine presses, but thirst.
12“From the [populous and crowded] city men groan,
And the souls of the wounded cry out for help;
Yet God [seemingly] does not pay attention to the wrong [done to them].
13¶“Others have been with those who rebel against the light;
They do not want to know its ways
Nor stay in its paths.
14“The murderer rises at dawn;
He kills the poor and the needy,
And at night he becomes a thief.
15“The eye of the adulterer waits for the twilight,
Saying, ‘No eye will see me,’
And he covers his face.
16“In the dark they dig into [the penetrable walls of] houses;
They shut themselves up by day;
They do not know the light [of day].
17“For the morning is the same to him as the thick darkness [of midnight];
For he is familiar with the terrors of thick darkness.
18¶“They are insignificant on the surface of the water;
Their portion is cursed on the earth;
They do not turn toward the vineyards.
19“Drought and heat consume the snow waters;
So does Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead) [consume] those who have sinned.
20“A mother will forget him;
The worm feeds on him until he is no longer remembered.
And wickedness will be broken like a tree [which cannot be restored]. [Prov 10:7]
21“He preys on the barren (childless) woman
And does no good for the widow.
22“Yet God draws away the mighty by His power;
He rises, but no one has assurance of life.
23“God gives them security, and they are supported;
And His eyes are on their ways.
24“They are exalted for a little while, and then they are gone;
Moreover, they are brought low and like everything [they are] gathered up and taken out of the way;
Even like the heads of grain they are cut off.
25“And if this is not so, who can prove me a liar
And make my speech worthless?”
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Iyov (Job) 24
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1“Why are times not kept by Shaddai?
Why do those who know him not see his days?
2There are those who move boundary markers;
they carry off flocks and pasture them;
3they drive away the orphan’s donkey;
as collateral, they seize the widow’s ox.
4They push the needy out of the way —
the poor of the land are forced into hiding;
5like wild donkeys in the wilderness,
they have to go out and scavenge food,
[hoping that] the desert
will provide food for their children.
6They must reap in fields that are not their own
and gather late grapes in the vineyards of the wicked.
7They pass the night without clothing, naked,
uncovered in the cold,
8wet with mountain rain,
and hugging the rock for lack of shelter.
9“There are those who pluck orphans from the breast
and [those who] take [the clothes of] the poor in pledge,
10so that they go about stripped, unclothed;
they go hungry, as they carry sheaves [of grain];
11between these men’s rows [of olives], they make oil;
treading their winepresses, they suffer thirst.
12Men are groaning in the city,
the mortally wounded are crying for help,
yet God finds nothing amiss!
13“There are those who rebel against the light —
they don’t know its ways or stay in its paths.
14The murderer rises with the light
to kill the poor and needy;
while at night he is like a thief.
15The eye of the adulterer too waits for twilight;
he thinks, ‘No eye will see me’;
but [to be sure], he covers his face.
16When it’s dark, they break into houses;
in the daytime, they stay out of sight.
[None of them] know the light.
17For to all of them deep darkness is like morning,
for the terrors of deep darkness are familiar to them.
18“May they be scum on the surface of the water,
may their share of land be cursed,
may no one turn on the way of their vineyards,
19may drought and heat steal away their snow water
and Sh’ol those who have sinned.
20May the womb forget them,
may worms find them sweet,
may they no longer be remembered —
thus may iniquity be snapped like a stick.
21They devour childless women
and give no help to widows.
22“Yet God keeps pulling the mighty along —
they get up, even when not trusting their own lives.
23However, even if God lets them rest in safety,
his eyes are on their ways.
24They are exalted for a little while;
and then they are gone,
brought low, gathered in like all others,
shriveled up like ears of grain.
25“And even if it isn’t so now,
still no one can prove me a liar
and show that my words are worthless.”
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