Job 24
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1Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?1Why doesn't the Almighty reserve time for judgment? and why don't those who know him perceive his days?
2Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.2They move boundary stones, steal flocks, and pasture them.
3They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.3They drive away the orphan's donkey; they take the ox of the widow as security for a loan;
4They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.4They push the needy off the road, and force the poor of the land into hiding.
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.5"Look! Like wild donkeys in the wilderness, they work diligently as they seek wild game in the desert, food for them and their young ones.
6They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.6They reap fodder in the field and glean in the vineyard of the wicked.
7They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.7They spend the night naked, without clothing, with no covering against the cold.
8They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.8They are wet from mountain rains; without shelter, they cling to a rock.
9They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.9"The fatherless are torn from the breast; the poor are taken away as security for a loan.
10They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;10They wander around naked, without clothes; hungry, though they carry sheaves of grain.
11Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.11They press oil between the olive groves owned by the wicked; they suffer from thirst, even while treading the winepress.
12Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.12From the city, dying men groan aloud, and the wounded cries out for help, but God charges no one with wrong.
13They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.13"Then there are those who rebel against the light; they are not acquainted with its ways; and they don't stay on its course.
14The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.14The murderer rises at dawn to kill the poor and needy; at night, he is like a thief.
15The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.15The adulterer watches for twilight, saying, 'No eye is watching me' while he veils his face.
16In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.16They break into houses in the dark; during the day they remained sealed in. They don't know daylight.
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.17As a group, deep darkness is their morning time; fear that lives in darkness is their friend."
18He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.18"They remain only a short time on the water's surface; their inheritance will be cursed in the land; no one will work in their vineyards.
19Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned.19As drought and heat evaporate melting snow, that's what Sheol does with sinners.
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.20The womb will forget them. Maggots will find them to be a delicacy! They won't be remembered anymore, their iniquity will be cut to pieces like firewood.
21He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.21"They prey on the barren woman, and do no favors for widows.
22He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no man is sure of life.22God prolongs the life of the strong by his power, but they get up in the morning without purpose in life.
23Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways.23He gives them security and financial support, but he watches everything they do.
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.24They're exalted momentarily, but then they are gone; they are humbled, just like all the others. They are cut down like heads of corn.
25And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?25If this weren't so, who can prove that I'm a liar by showing that there's nothing to what I'm saying?"
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