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Job 24 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:1 - But why have the seasons been hidden from the Lord,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:2 - while the ungodly have passed over the bound, carrying off the flock with the shepherd?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:3 - They have led away the ass of the fatherless, and taken the widow's ox for a pledge.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:4 - They have turned aside the weak from the right way: and the meek of the earth have hidden themselves together.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:5 - And they have departed like asses in the field, having gone forth on my account according to their own order: his bread is sweet to his little ones.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:6 - They have reaped a field that was not their own before the time: the poor have laboured in the vineyards of the ungodly without pay and without food.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:7 - They have caused many naked to sleep without clothes, and they have taken away the covering of their body.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:8 - They are wet with the drops of the mountains: they have embraced the rock, because they had no shelter.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:9 - They have snatched the fatherless from the breast, and have afflicted the outcast.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:10 - And they have wrongfully caused others to sleep without clothing, and taken away the morsel of the hungry.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:11 - They have unrighteously laid wait in narrow places, and have not known the righteous way.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:12 - Who have cast forth the poor from the city and their own houses, and the soul of the children has groaned aloud.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:13 - Why then has he not visited these? forasmuch as they were upon the earth, and took no notice, and they knew not the way of righteousness, neither have they walked in their appointed paths?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:14 - But having known their works, he delivered them into darkness: and in the night one will be as a thief:
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:15 - and the eye of the adulterer has watched for the darkness, saying, Eye shall not perceive me, and he puts a covering on his face.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:16 - In darkness he digs through houses: by day they conceal themselves securely: they know not the light.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:17 - For the morning is to them all as the shadow of death, for each will be conscious of the terror of the shadow of death.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:18 - He is swift on the face of the water: let his portion be cursed on the earth; and let their plants be laid bare.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:19 - Let them be withered upon the earth; for they have plundered the sheaves of the fatherless.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:20 - Then is his sin brought to remembrance, and he vanishes like a vapour of dew: but let what he has done be recompensed to him, and let every unrighteous one be crushed like rotten wood.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:21 - For he has not treated the barren woman well, and has had no pity on a feeble woman.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:22 - And in wrath he has overthrown the helpless: therefore when he has arisen, a man will not feel secure of his own life.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:23 - When he has fallen sick, let him not hope to recover: but let him perish by disease.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:24 - For his exaltation has hurt many; but he has withered as mallows in the heat, or as an ear of corn falling off of itself from the stalk.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:25 - But if not, who is he that says I speak falsely, and will make my words of no account?
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Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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