Job 24
1 “Why aren’t times laid up by the Almighty? Why don’t those who know him see his days?
why? from Almighty not to treasure time (and to know him *QK) not to see day his
2 There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them.
border to overtake flock to plunder and to pasture
3 They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
donkey orphan to lead to pledge cattle widow
4 They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves.
to stretch needy from way: road unitedness to hide poor land: country/planet
5 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.
look! wild donkey in/on/with wilderness to come out: come in/on/with work their to seek to/for prey plain to/for him food to/for youth
6 They cut their food in the field. They glean the vineyard of the wicked.
in/on/with land: country fodder his (to reap *QK) and vineyard wicked to glean
7 They lie all night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.
naked to lodge from without clothing and nothing covering in/on/with cold
8 They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for lack of a shelter.
from storm mountain: mount be moist and from without refuge to embrace rock
9 There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,
to plunder from breast orphan and upon afflicted to pledge
10 so that they go around naked without clothing. Being hungry, they carry the sheaves.
naked to go: went without clothing and hungry to lift: bear sheaf
11 They make oil within the walls of these men. They tread wine presses, and suffer thirst.
between: among wall their to press wine to tread and to thirst
12 From out of the populous city, men groan. The soul of the wounded cries out, yet God doesn’t regard the folly.
from city man to groan and soul slain: wounded to cry and god not to set: put folly
13 “These are of those who rebel against the light. They don’t know its ways, nor stay in its paths.
they(masc.) to be in/on/with to rebel light not to recognize way: conduct his and not to dwell in/on/with path his
14 The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.
to/for light to arise: rise to murder to slay afflicted and needy and in/on/with night to be like/as thief
15 The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, ‘No eye will see me.’ He disguises his face.
and eye to commit adultery to keep: look at twilight to/for to say not to see me eye and secrecy face to set: make
16 In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don’t know the light.
to dig in/on/with darkness house: home by day to seal to/for them not to know light
17 For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, for they know the terrors of the thick darkness.
for together morning to/for them shadow for to recognize terror shadow
18 “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.
swift he/she/it upon face: surface water to lighten portion their in/on/with land: country/planet not to turn way: road vineyard
dryness also heat to plunder water snow hell: Sheol to sin (Sheol h7585)
20 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.
to forget him womb be sweet him worm still not to remember and to break like/as tree injustice
21 He devours the barren who don’t bear. He shows no kindness to the widow.
to pasture barren not to beget and widow not be good
22 Yet God preserves the mighty by his power. He rises up who has no assurance of life.
and to draw mighty: strong in/on/with strength his to arise: rise and not be faithful in/on/with life
23 God gives them security, and they rest in it. His eyes are on their ways.
to give: give to/for him to/for security and to lean and eye his upon way: conduct their
24 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.
be exalted little and nothing he and to sink like/as all to gather [emph?] and like/as head ear to languish
25 If it isn’t so now, who will prove me a liar, and make my speech worth nothing?”
and if not then who? to lie me and to set: accuse to/for not speech my
