Job 24
24
1Why does the Almighty not reserve times for judgment?#Ec 9:12; Is 2:12; Ac 1:7
Why do those who know him never see his days?
2The wicked displace boundary markers.
They steal a flock and provide pasture for it.
3They drive away the donkeys owned by the fatherless#Dt 27:19; Jb 22:9; 31:21
and take the widow’s ox as collateral.
4They push the needy off the road;
the poor of the land are forced into hiding.#Jdg 5:6; Pr 28:28; Am 2:7
5Like wild donkeys in the wilderness,
the poor go out to their task of foraging for food;
the desert provides nourishment for their children.
6They gather their fodder in the field
and glean the vineyards of the wicked.
7Without clothing, they spend the night naked,
having no covering against the cold.#Ex 22:26–27; Dt 24:12–13; Jb 22:6
8Drenched by mountain rains,
they huddle against#24:8 Lit they embrace the rocks, shelterless.
9The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast;
the nursing child of the poor is seized as collateral.#24:9 Text emended; MT reads breast; they seize collateral against the poor
10Without clothing, they wander about naked.
They carry sheaves but go hungry.#Dt 24:19; 2Tm 2:6; Jms 5:4
11They crush olives in their presses;#24:11 Lit olives between their rows
they tread the winepresses, but go thirsty.
12From the city, men#24:12 One Hb ms, Syr read the dying groan;
the mortally wounded cry for help,
yet God pays no attention to this crime.#Jb 1:22; Ps 69:26
13The wicked are those who rebel against the light.
They do not recognize its ways
or stay on its paths.
14The murderer rises at dawn
to kill the poor and needy,
and by night he becomes a thief.
15The adulterer’s eye watches for twilight,
thinking, “No eye will see me,”
and he covers his face.
16In the dark they break#24:16 Lit dig into houses;
by day they lock themselves in,#24:16 Lit they seal for themselves
never experiencing the light.
17For the morning is like darkness to them.
Surely they are familiar with the terrors of darkness!
18They float#24:18 Lit are insignificant on the surface of the water.
Their section of the land is cursed,
so that they never go to their vineyards.
19As dry ground and heat snatch away the melted snow,
so Sheol#Jb 7:9; Ps 9:17; Pr 27:20 steals those who have sinned.
20The womb forgets them;
worms feed on them;
they are remembered#Jb 18:17; Pr 10:7; Jr 11:19 no more.
So injustice is broken like a tree.
21They prey on#24:21 LXX, Tg read They harm the childless woman who is unable to conceive,
and do not deal kindly with the widow.
22Yet God drags away#24:22 Or God prolongs the life of the mighty by his power;
when he rises up, they have no assurance of life.
23He gives them a sense of security, so they can rely on it,#Jb 11:18; Ps 4:8; Pr 3:24
but his eyes#Ps 11:4; Pr 15:3; Jr 16:17 watch over their ways.
24They are exalted for a moment, then gone;
they are brought low and shrivel up like everything else.#24:24 LXX reads like a mallow plant in the heat
They wither like heads of grain.#Jb 14:21; Ps 37:10; 106:43
25If this is not true, then who can prove me a liar#Jb 6:28; 27:4; 34:6
and show that my speech is worthless?
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Job 24
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.
3 They drive away the donkey of the fatherless,
and they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
4 They turn the needy out of the way.
The poor of the earth all hide themselves.
5 Behold, 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.
7 They 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,
10 so that they go around naked without clothing.
Being hungry, they carry the sheaves.
11 They make oil within the walls of these men.
They tread wine presses, and suffer thirst.
12 From 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.
14 The murderer rises with the light.
He kills the poor and needy.
In the night he is like a thief.
15 The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight,
saying, ‘No eye will see me.’
He disguises his face.
16 In the dark they dig through houses.
They shut themselves up in the daytime.
They don’t know the light.
17 For 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.
19 Drought and heat consume the snow waters,
so does Sheol#24:19 Sheol is the place of the dead. those who have sinned.
20 The womb will forget him.
The worm will feed sweetly on him.
He will be no more remembered.
Unrighteousness will be broken as a tree.
21 He devours the barren who don’t bear.
He shows no kindness to the widow.
22 Yet God preserves the mighty by his power.
He rises up who has no assurance of life.
23 God gives them security, and they rest in it.
His eyes are on their ways.
24 They 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.
25 If it isn’t so now, who will prove me a liar,
and make my speech worth nothing?”
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