Job 24

Job Chapter 24 ESV

1Job sheweth that wicked men often go unpunished, and die as all other men.
1 “Why are 1not times of judgment 2kept by the Almighty, and why do those who know him never see his 3days?
2 Some move 1landmarks; they seize flocks and pasture them.
3 They drive away the donkey of the fatherless; they 1take the widow's ox for a pledge.
4 They 1thrust the poor off the road; the poor of the earth 2all hide themselves.
5 Behold, like wild donkeys in the desert the poora 1go out to their toil, 2seeking game; the wasteland yields food for their children.
6 They gather theira fodder in the field, and they glean the vineyard of the wicked man.
7 They 1lie all night naked, without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.
8 They are wet with the rain of the mountains and 1cling to the rock for lack of shelter.
9 (There are those who snatch the fatherless child from the breast, and they take a pledge against the poor.)
10 They go about naked, without clothing; hungry, they 1carry the sheaves;
11 among the olive rows of the wickeda they make oil; they tread the winepresses, but suffer thirst.
12 From out of the city the dyinga groan, and the soul of 1the wounded cries for help; yet God charges no one with 2wrong.
13 “There are those who rebel 1against the light, who are not acquainted with its ways, and do not stay in its paths.
14 The murderer rises before it is light, that he 1may kill the poor and needy, and in the night he is like a thief.
15 The eye of the adulterer also waits for 1the twilight, saying, ‘No 2eye will see me’; and he veils his face.
16 In the dark they 1dig through houses; by day they shut themselves up; they do not know the light.
17 For 1deep darkness is morning to all of them; for they are friends with the terrors of deep darkness.
18 “You say, 1‘Swift are they on the face of the waters; their portion is cursed in the land; no treader turns toward their vineyards.
19 Drought and heat snatch away the snow waters; so does 1Sheol those who have sinned.
20 The womb forgets them; the worm finds them sweet; they are 1no longer remembered, so wickedness is broken like 2a tree.’
21 “They wrong the barren, childless woman, and do no good to the widow.
22 Yet Goda prolongs the life of the mighty by his power; they rise up when they despair of life.
23 He gives them security, and they are supported, and his 1eyes are upon their ways.
24 They are exalted 1a little while, and then 2are gone; they are brought low and gathered up like all others; they are 3cut off like the heads of grain.
25 If it is 1not so, who will prove me a liar and show that there is nothing in what I say?”
Job 24

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