AFV2020 - Job - 24

24:1  "Since times are not laid up by the Almighty, why do those who know Him not see His days?

24:2  They remove the landmarks; they seize flocks and feed on them.

24:3  They drive away the donkey of the fatherless; they take the widow's ox for a pledge.

24:4  They turn the needy out of the way; the poor of the earth hide themselves together.

24:5  Behold, like wild donkeys in the desert, they go forth to their work, rising early for a prey. The wilderness yields food for them and for their children.

24:6  They reap his fodder in the field; and they glean the vineyard of the wicked.

24:7  They lodge the naked without clothing, and they have no covering in the cold.

24:8  They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for lack of shelter.

24:9  They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge from the poor.

24:10  They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaves from the hungry.

24:11  They press out oil among the olive rows; and they tread their winepresses, and still suffer thirst.

24:12  Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded cries out for help; yet God does not charge foolishness to them.

24:13  They are of those who rebel against the light; they know not His ways, nor stay in His paths.

24:14  The murderer rising with the dawn kills the poor and needy, and in the night he is as a thief.

24:15  And the eye of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, 'No eye will see me;' and he disguises his face.

24:16  In the dark they dig through houses, they shut themselves up in the daytime; they do not know the light.

24:17  For the morning is to them as the shadow of death; for they know the terrors of the shadow of death.

24:18  He is swift upon the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth; he turns not by the way of the vineyards.

24:19  Drought and heat eat up the snow waters; so does the grave those who have sinned.

24:20  The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be remembered no more; and wickedness shall be broken like a tree.

24:21  He ill-treats the women who bear no children; and does not do good for the widow.

24:22  He drags away the mighty with his power; he rises up, and no one is sure of life.

24:23  He gives them security, and they are supported; yet His eyes are on their ways.

24:24  They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all others, and are cut off like the heads of grain.

24:25  And if it is not so, who will make me a liar, and make my speech worth nothing?"