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Job 24
World English Bible British Edition · Berean Standard Bible
“Why aren’t times laid up by the Almighty?
“Why does the Almighty not reserve times for judgment? Why may those who know Him never see His days?
There are people who remove the landmarks.
Men move boundary stones; they pasture stolen flocks.
They drive away the donkey of the fatherless,
They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widow’s ox in pledge.
They turn the needy out of the way.
They push the needy off the road and force all the poor of the land into hiding.
Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert,
Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go to work foraging for food; the wasteland is food for their children.
They cut their food in the field.
They gather fodder in the fields and glean the vineyards of the wicked.
They lie all night naked without clothing,
Without clothing, they spend the night naked; they have no covering against the cold.
They are wet with the showers of the mountains,
Drenched by mountain rains, they huddle against the rocks for want of shelter.
There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast,
The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.
so that they go around naked without clothing.
Without clothing, they wander about naked. They carry the sheaves, but still go hungry.
They make oil within the walls of these men.
They crush olives within their walls; they tread the winepresses, but go thirsty.
From out of the populous city, men groan.
From the city, men groan, and the souls of the wounded cry out, yet God charges no one with wrongdoing.
“These are of those who rebel against the light.
Then there are those who rebel against the light, not knowing its ways or staying on its paths.
The murderer rises with the light.
When daylight is gone, the murderer rises to kill the poor and needy; in the night he is like a thief.
The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight,
The eye of the adulterer watches for twilight. Thinking, ‘No eye will see me,’ he covers his face.
In the dark they dig through houses.
In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves in, never to experience the light.
For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness,
For to them, deep darkness is their morning; surely they are friends with the terrors of darkness!
“They are foam on the surface of the waters.
They are but foam on the surface of the water; their portion of the land is cursed, so that no one turns toward their vineyards.
Drought and heat consume the snow waters,
As drought and heat consume the melting snow, so Sheol steals those who have sinned.
The womb will forget him.
The womb forgets them; the worm feeds on them; they are remembered no more. So injustice is broken like a tree.
He devours the barren who don’t bear.
They prey on the barren and childless, and show no kindness to the widow.
Yet God preserves the mighty by his power.
Yet by His power, God drags away the mighty; though rising up, they have no assurance of life.
God gives them security, and they rest in it.
He gives them a sense of security, but His eyes are on their ways.
They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone.
They are exalted for a moment, then they are gone; they are brought low and gathered up like all others; they are cut off like heads of grain.
If it isn’t so now, who will prove me a liar,
If this is not so, then who can prove me a liar and reduce my words to nothing?”