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| Job 24:1 | Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days? | Why are times not stored up by the Ruler of all, and why do those who have knowledge of him not see his days? |
| Job 24:2 | Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof. | The landmarks are changed by evil men, they violently take away flocks, together with their keepers. |
| Job 24:3 | They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge. | They send away the ass of him who has no father, they take the widow's ox for debt. |
| Job 24:4 | They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together. | The crushed are turned out of the way; all the poor of the earth go into a secret place together. |
| Job 24:5 | Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children. | Like asses in the waste land they go out to their work, looking for food with care; from the waste land they get bread for their children. |
| Job 24:6 | They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked. | They get mixed grain from the field, and they take away the late fruit from the vines of those who have wealth. |
| Job 24:7 | They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold. | They take their rest at night without clothing, and have no cover in the cold. |
| Job 24:8 | They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter. | They are wet with the rain of the mountains, and get into the cracks of the rock for cover. |
| Job 24:9 | They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor. | The child without a father is forced from its mother's breast, and they take the young children of the poor for debt. |
| Job 24:10 | They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry; | Others go about without clothing, and though they have no food, they get in the grain from the fields. |
| Job 24:11 | Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst. | Between the lines of olive-trees they make oil; though they have no drink, they are crushing out the grapes. |
| Job 24:12 | Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them. | From the town come sounds of pain from those who are near death, and the soul of the wounded is crying out for help; but God does not take note of their prayer. |
| Job 24:13 | They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof. | Then there are those who are haters of the light, who have no knowledge of its ways, and do not go in them. |
| Job 24:14 | The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief. | He who is purposing death gets up before day, so that he may put to death the poor and those in need. |
| Job 24:15 | The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face. | And the man whose desire is for the wife of another is waiting for the evening, saying, No eye will see me; and he puts a cover on his face. And in the night the thief goes about; |
| Job 24:16 | In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light. | In the dark he makes holes in the walls of houses: in the daytime they are shutting themselves up, they have no knowledge of the light. |
| Job 24:17 | For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death. | For the middle of the night is as morning to them, they are not troubled by the fear of the dark. |
| Job 24:18 | He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards. | They go quickly on the face of the waters; their heritage is cursed in the earth; the steps of the crusher of grapes are not turned to their vine-garden. |
| Job 24:19 | Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned. | Snow waters become dry with the heat: so do sinners go down into the underworld. |
| Job 24:20 | The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree. | The public place of his town has no more knowledge of him, and his name has gone from the memory of men: he is rooted up like a dead tree. |
| Job 24:21 | He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow. | He is not kind to the widow, and he has no pity for her child. |
| Job 24:22 | He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no man is sure of life. | But God by his power gives long life to the strong; he gets up again, though he has no hope of life. |
| Job 24:23 | Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways. | He takes away his fear of danger and gives him support; and his eyes are on his ways. |
| Job 24:24 | They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn. | For a short time they are lifted up; then they are gone; they are made low, they are pulled off like fruit, and like the heads of grain they are cut off. |
| Job 24:25 | And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth? | And if it is not so, now, who will make it clear that my words are false, and that what I say is of no value? |
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