Job 24
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Job 24
Job Complains of Violence on the Earth
1 #
Ps 31.15; Jer 46.10 “Why are times not kept by the Almighty,#24.1 Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai
and why do those who know him never see his days?
2 #
Deut 19.14; 27.17; 28.31 The wicked#24.2 Gk: Heb they remove landmarks;
they seize flocks and pasture them.
3 #
Ex 22.26; Deut 24.6, 10, 12, 17; Job 22.6 They drive away the donkey of the orphan;
they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
4 #
Deut 24.14; Prov 28.28 They thrust the needy off the road;
the poor of the earth all hide themselves.
5 #
Job 39.5–8; Ps 104.23 Like wild asses in the desert
they go out to their toil,
scavenging in the wasteland
food for their young.
6They reap in a field not their own,
and they glean in the vineyard of the wicked.
7 #
Ex 22.26; Job 22.6 They lie all night naked, without clothing,
and have no covering in the cold.
8 #
Lam 4.5
They are wet with the rain of the mountains
and cling to the rock for want of shelter.
9 #
Deut 24.17
“There are those who snatch the orphan child from the breast
and take as a pledge the infant of the poor.
10They go about naked, without clothing;
though hungry, they carry the sheaves;
11between their terraces#24.11 Meaning of Heb uncertain they press out oil;
they tread the winepresses but suffer thirst.
12 #
Job 9.23, 24; Jer 51.52; Ezek 26.15 From the city the dying groan,
and the throat of the wounded cries for help;
yet God pays no attention to their prayer.
13 #
Isa 5.20; Jn 3.19 “There are those who rebel against the light,
who are not acquainted with its ways
and do not stay in its paths.
14 #
Ps 10.8; Mic 2.1 The murderer rises at dusk
to kill the poor and needy
and in the night is like a thief.
15 #
Ps 10.11; Prov 7.9 The eye of the adulterer also waits for the twilight,
saying, ‘No eye will see me,’
and he disguises his face.
16 #
Ex 22.2
In the dark they dig through houses;
by day they shut themselves up;
they do not know the light.
17 #
Ps 91.5
For deep darkness is morning to all of them;
for they are friends with the terrors of deep darkness.
18 #
Job 9.26; Ps 90.5 “Swift are they on the face of the waters;
their portion in the land is cursed;
no treader turns toward their vineyards.
19 #
Job 6.16, 17; 21.13 Drought and heat snatch away the snow waters;
so does Sheol those who have sinned.
20 #
Ps 31.12; Prov 10.7 The womb forgets them;
the worm finds them sweet;
they are no longer remembered,
so wickedness is broken like a tree.
21 #
Job 22.9
“They harm#24.21 Gk Tg: Heb feed on or associate with the childless woman
and do no good to the widow.
22 #
Deut 28.66
Yet God#24.22 Heb he prolongs the life of the mighty by his power;
they rise up when they despair of life.
23 #
Job 11.11; 12.6 He gives them security, and they are supported;
his eyes are upon their ways.
24 #
Job 14.21; Ps 37.10; Isa 17.5 They are exalted a little while and then are gone;
they wither and fade like the mallow;#24.24 Gk: Heb like all others
they are cut off like the heads of grain.
25If it is not so, who will prove me a liar
and show that there is nothing in what I say?”
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Job 24
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Job 24
Job Complains of Violence on the Earth
1 #
Ps 31.15; Jer 46.10 “Why are times not kept by the Almighty,#24.1 Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai
and why do those who know him never see his days?
2 #
Deut 19.14; 27.17; 28.31 The wicked#24.2 Gk: Heb they remove landmarks;
they seize flocks and pasture them.
3 #
Ex 22.26; Deut 24.6, 10, 12, 17; Job 22.6 They drive away the donkey of the orphan;
they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
4 #
Deut 24.14; Prov 28.28 They thrust the needy off the road;
the poor of the earth all hide themselves.
5 #
Job 39.5–8; Ps 104.23 Like wild asses in the desert
they go out to their toil,
scavenging in the wasteland
food for their young.
6They reap in a field not their own,
and they glean in the vineyard of the wicked.
7 #
Ex 22.26; Job 22.6 They lie all night naked, without clothing,
and have no covering in the cold.
8 #
Lam 4.5
They are wet with the rain of the mountains
and cling to the rock for want of shelter.
9 #
Deut 24.17
“There are those who snatch the orphan child from the breast
and take as a pledge the infant of the poor.
10They go about naked, without clothing;
though hungry, they carry the sheaves;
11between their terraces#24.11 Meaning of Heb uncertain they press out oil;
they tread the winepresses but suffer thirst.
12 #
Job 9.23, 24; Jer 51.52; Ezek 26.15 From the city the dying groan,
and the throat of the wounded cries for help;
yet God pays no attention to their prayer.
13 #
Isa 5.20; Jn 3.19 “There are those who rebel against the light,
who are not acquainted with its ways
and do not stay in its paths.
14 #
Ps 10.8; Mic 2.1 The murderer rises at dusk
to kill the poor and needy
and in the night is like a thief.
15 #
Ps 10.11; Prov 7.9 The eye of the adulterer also waits for the twilight,
saying, ‘No eye will see me,’
and he disguises his face.
16 #
Ex 22.2
In the dark they dig through houses;
by day they shut themselves up;
they do not know the light.
17 #
Ps 91.5
For deep darkness is morning to all of them;
for they are friends with the terrors of deep darkness.
18 #
Job 9.26; Ps 90.5 “Swift are they on the face of the waters;
their portion in the land is cursed;
no treader turns toward their vineyards.
19 #
Job 6.16, 17; 21.13 Drought and heat snatch away the snow waters;
so does Sheol those who have sinned.
20 #
Ps 31.12; Prov 10.7 The womb forgets them;
the worm finds them sweet;
they are no longer remembered,
so wickedness is broken like a tree.
21 #
Job 22.9
“They harm#24.21 Gk Tg: Heb feed on or associate with the childless woman
and do no good to the widow.
22 #
Deut 28.66
Yet God#24.22 Heb he prolongs the life of the mighty by his power;
they rise up when they despair of life.
23 #
Job 11.11; 12.6 He gives them security, and they are supported;
his eyes are upon their ways.
24 #
Job 14.21; Ps 37.10; Isa 17.5 They are exalted a little while and then are gone;
they wither and fade like the mallow;#24.24 Gk: Heb like all others
they are cut off like the heads of grain.
25If it is not so, who will prove me a liar
and show that there is nothing in what I say?”
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