Job 24
24
1Why doesn't God set a time for judging,
a day of justice for those who serve him?
2People move boundary stones to get more land;
they steal sheep and put them with their own flocks.
3They take donkeys that belong to orphans,
and keep a widow's ox till she pays her debts.
4They prevent the poor from getting their rights
and force the needy to run and hide.
5So the poor, like wild donkeys,
search for food in the dry wilderness;
nowhere else can they find food for their children.
6They have to harvest fields they don't own,#24.6 fields they don't own: Having been cheated out of their own land, the poor are forced to work for others for very small pay.
and gather grapes in the vineyards of the wicked.
7At night they sleep with nothing to cover them,
nothing to keep them from the cold.
8They are drenched by the rain that falls on the mountains,
and they huddle beside the rocks for shelter.
9Evil people make slaves of fatherless infants
and take the children of the poor in payment for debts.
10But the poor must go out with no clothes to protect them;
they must go hungry while harvesting wheat.
11They press olives for oil, and grapes for wine,
but they themselves are thirsty.
12In the cities the wounded and dying cry out,
but God ignores their prayers.
13There are those who reject the light;
they don't understand it or go where it leads.
14At dawn the murderer gets up
and goes out to kill the poor,
and at night he steals.
15The adulterer waits for twilight to come;
he covers his face so that no one can see him.
16At night thieves break into houses,
but by day they hide and avoid the light.
17They fear the light of day,
but darkness holds no terror for them.
[Zophar]#24.18 heading Zophar is not named in the text, but this speech is usually assigned to him.
18The wicked are swept away by floods,
and the land they own is under God's curse;
they no longer go to work in their vineyards.
19As snow vanishes in heat and drought,
so sinners vanish from the land of the living.
20Not even their mothers remember them now;
they are eaten by worms and destroyed like fallen trees.
21That happens because they ill-treated widows
and showed no kindness to childless women.
22God, in his strength, destroys the mighty;
God acts — and the wicked die.
23God may let them live secure,
but keeps an eye on them all the time.
24For a while the wicked prosper,
but then they wither like weeds,
like ears of corn that have been cut off.
25Can anyone deny that this is so?
Can anyone prove that my words are not true?
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Good News Bible. Scripture taken from the Good News Bible (r) (Today's English Version Second Edition, UK/British Edition). Copyright © 1992 British & Foreign Bible Society. Used by permission.
Job 24
24
Futility of Injustice
1“Why are times not stored up by Shaddai? And why do those who know Him not see His days?
2Some remove the boundary-stones; they steal flocks and pasture them.
3They drive away the orphan’s donkey and take the widow’s ox as a pledge.
4They turn the needy off the path; they force the poor of the land into hiding.
5Behold, like wild donkeys in the desert, they go about their work, foraging prey in the desert as food for their children.
6They reap their fodder in the field and glean in the vineyard of the wicked.
7Without clothing they spend the night naked, without covering against the cold.
8They are drenched by mountain rains, and hug the rock for lack of shelter.
9The orphan is snatched from the breast; the infant of the poor is taken as a pledge.
10They wander about naked, without clothing and go hungry while they carry sheaves.
11They press oil between the terraces; they tread winepresses, but are thirsty.
12From the city men groan, and the souls of the wounded cry out; yet God charges no one with folly.
13These are those who rebel against the light, who do not recognize its ways or stay in its paths.
14The murderer rises with the light, kills the poor and needy, and in the night becomes a thief.
15The eye of the adulterer waits for twilight, thinking, ‘No eye will see me,’ and he disguises his face.
16When it is dark, they break into houses, but by day, they shut themselves in; they do not know the light.
17For to all of them, morning is as thick darkness; they are familiar with the terrors of thick darkness.
18“He is foam on the surface of water; their portion of the land is cursed; no one turns toward their vineyards.
19As heat and drought snatch away the melted snow, so Sheol, takes away those who have sinned.
20The womb forgets him, the worm feasts on him, no longer will he be remembered. But like a tree, wickedness is broken.
21He feeds on the barren and childless woman, and shows no kindness to the widow.
22But He drags off the mighty by His power; He raises up, yet no one has assurance of life.
23He allows him to rest in a sense of security, but His eyes are on their ways.
24They are exalted for a little while and then they are gone; they are brought low and gathered up like all others, they are like heads of grain they wither.
25Now if it is not so, who can prove me a liar, and reduce my speech to nothing?”
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