Jubilee2000 - Job - 24

24:1  Why, seeing that times are not hidden from the Almighty, do those that know him not see his days?

24:2  [Some] remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks and feed [thereof].

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

24:4  They turn the needy out of the way; and all the poor of the earth hide themselves [from them].

24:5  Behold, [as] wild asses 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  In the field they reap their fodder, and the wicked gather the vintage [that is not theirs].

24:7  They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that [they have] no covering in the cold.

24:8  They are wet with the floods of the mountains and embrace the rock for want of a covering.

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

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

24:11  They press oil within their walls [and] tread [their] winepresses and suffer thirst.

24:12  Men groan from out of the city, and the souls of the dead cry out; yet God did not hinder [them].

24:13  They are among those that rebel against the light; they have never known its ways nor abided in its paths.

24:14  The murderer rises with the light, kills the poor and the needy, and in the night is as a thief.

24:15  The eye of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me; and disguises [his] face.

24:16  In the dark they dig through houses, [which] they had marked for themselves in the daytime; they do not know the light.

24:17  For the morning [is] to them even as the shadow of death; if they are known, the terrors of the shadow of death [come over them].

24:18  They are swift upon the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth; they never come by the way of the vineyards.

24:19  Drought and heat consume the snow waters; [so does] Sheol [consume those who] have sinned.

24:20  The Merciful One shall forget them; the worm shall feed sweetly on them; they shall never be remembered again; and iniquity shall be broken as a tree.

24:21  He afflicted the barren woman that did not conceive and never did good unto the widow.

24:22  He furthered the violent with his power; he did not lend to anyone in his life.

24:23  [If] he gave credit [to some] to take [them] over, his eyes [were] upon their ways.

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

24:25  And if [it is] not so now, who will make me a liar or reduce my speech to nothing?: