Job 24
1 Why? from [the] Almighty not have they been stored up times (and [those who] know him *QK) not have they seen? days his.
“Why aren’t times laid up by the Almighty? Why don’t those who know him see his days?
2 Boundaries people reach flock[s] they seize and they have pastured [them].
There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them.
3 [the] donkey of Fatherless ones they drive away they take as pledge [the] ox of a widow.
They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
4 They thrust aside needy [people] from [the] path together they are made to hide themselves [the] poor [people] of [the] earth.
They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves.
5 There! wild donkeys - in the wilderness they go forth in work their seeking for food a desert plain to it food for the children.
Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go out to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread for their children.
6 In the field fodder its (they harvest *QK) and [the] vineyard of [the] wicked they glean.
They cut their food in the field. They glean the vineyard of the wicked.
7 Naked they spend [the] night because not clothing and there not [is] covering in the coldness.
They lie all night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.
8 From [the] rain of [the] mountains they are wet and because not shelter they embrace [the] rock.
They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for lack of a shelter.
9 People tear away from [the] breast a fatherless one and on [the] poor they take pledges.
There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,
10 Naked they go about not clothing and hungry they carry a sheaf.
so that they go around naked without clothing. Being hungry, they carry the sheaves.
11 Between rows their they press out oil wine-presses they tread and they were thirsty.
They make oil within the walls of these men. They tread wine presses, and suffer thirst.
12 From [the] city men - they groan and [the] throat of [those] fatally wounded it cries for help and God not he puts offensiveness.
From out of the populous city, men groan. The soul of the wounded cries out, yet God doesn’t regard the folly.
13 They - they are among [those who] rebel against [the] light not they pay regard to ways its and not they dwell in paths its.
“These are of those who rebel against the light. They don’t know its ways, nor stay in its paths.
14 To the light he rises a murderer he kills [the] poor and [the] needy and in the night he is like thief.
The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.
15 And [the] eye of an adulterer - it watches for twilight saying not it will observe me an eye and covering of face he puts.
The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, ‘No eye will see me.’ He disguises his face.
16 He digs into in darkness houses by day they seal up for themselves not they know light.
In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don’t know the light.
17 For together - [is] morning for them deep darkness for he is acquainted with [the] terrors of deep darkness.
For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, for they know the terrors of the thick darkness.
18 [is] swift He - on [the] surface of [the] waters it is cursed portion their in the land not anyone turns [the] direction of vineyards.
“They are foam on the surface of the waters. Their portion is cursed in the earth. They don’t turn into the way of the vineyards.
19 Drought also heat they snatch away [the] waters of snow Sheol [those who] they have sinned. (Sheol h7585)
Drought and heat consume the snow waters, so does Sheol those who have sinned. (Sheol h7585)
20 It forgets him [the] womb - it sucks on him maggot[s] again not he is remembered and it was broken like tree injustice.
The womb will forget him. The worm will feed sweetly on him. He will be no more remembered. Unrighteousness will be broken as a tree.
21 [he] feeds on A barren [woman] [who] not she gives birth and a widow not he does good to.
He devours the barren who don’t bear. He shows no kindness to the widow.
22 And he drags off mighty [ones] by power his he rises and not anyone trusts in life.
Yet God preserves the mighty by his power. He rises up who has no assurance of life.
23 He gives to him to security so he may support himself and eyes his [are] on ways their.
God gives them security, and they rest in it. His eyes are on their ways.
24 They are exalted a little - and there not [is] he and they are brought low like everyone they are contracted! and like a head of grain they wither.
They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone. Yes, they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as all others, and are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.
25 And if not then who? will he prove a liar me and will he make? into nothing speech my.
If it isn’t so now, who will prove me a liar, and make my speech worth nothing?”
