| 24 | Job | ||
| 1 | "Why are not times of judgment kept by the Almighty, and why do those who know him never see his days? | ||
| 2 | Men remove landmarks; they seize flocks and pasture them. | ||
| 3 | They drive away the ass of the fatherless; they take the widow's ox for a pledge. | ||
| 4 | They thrust the poor off the road; the poor of the earth all hide themselves. | ||
| 5 | Behold, like wild asses in the desert they go forth to their toil, seeking prey in the wilderness as food for their children. | ||
| 6 | They gather their fodder in the field and they glean the vineyard of the wicked man. | ||
| 7 | They lie all night naked, without clothing, and have no covering in the cold. | ||
| 8 | They are wet with the rain of the mountains, and cling to the rock for want of shelter. | ||
| 9 | (There are those who snatch the fatherless child from the breast, and take in pledge the infant of the poor.) | ||
| 10 | They go about naked, without clothing; hungry, they carry the sheaves; | ||
| 11 | among the olive rows of the wicked they make oil; they tread the wine presses, but suffer thirst. | ||
| 12 | From out of the city the dying groan, and the soul of the wounded cries for help; yet God pays no attention to their prayer. | ||
| 13 | "There are those who rebel against the light, who are not acquainted with its ways, and do not stay in its paths. | ||
| 14 | The murderer rises in the dark, that he may kill the poor and needy; and in the night he is as a thief. | ||
| 15 | The eye of the adulterer also waits for the twilight, saying, 'No eye will see me'; and he disguises his face. | ||
| 16 | In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves up; they do not know the light. | ||
| 17 | For deep darkness is morning to all of them; for they are friends with the terrors of deep darkness. | ||
| 18 | "You say, "They are swiftly carried away upon the face of the waters; their portion is cursed in the land; no treader turns toward their vineyards. | [Zophar] Jb.24.18-25 | |
| 19 | Drought and heat snatch away the snow waters; so does Sheol those who have sinned. | ||
| 20 | The squares of the town forget them; their name is no longer remembered; so wickedness is broken like a tree.' | ||
| 21 | "They feed on the barren childless woman, and do no good to the widow. | ||
| 22 | Yet God prolongs the life of the mighty by his power; they rise up when they despair of life. | ||
| 23 | He gives them security, and they are supported; and his eyes are upon their ways. | ||
| 24 | They are exalted a little while, and then are gone; they wither and fade like the mallow; they are cut off like the heads of grain. | ||
| 25 | If it is not so, who will prove me a lier, and show that there is nothing in what I say?" | ||
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