Job 24 :: American Standard Version (ASV)

Job Says God Seems to Ignore Wrongs

Job 24:1

Why are times not laid up by the Almighty?

And why do not they that know him see his days?

Job 24:2

There are that remove the landmarks;

They violently take away flocks, and feed them.

Job 24:3

They drive away the ass of the fatherless;

They take the widow’s ox for a pledge.

Job 24:4

They turn the needy out of the way:

The poor of the earth all hide themselves.

Job 24:5

Behold, as wild asses in the desert

They go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food;

The wilderness yieldeth them bread for their children.

Job 24:6

They cut their provender in the field;

And they glean the vintage of the wicked.

Job 24:7

They lie all night naked without clothing,

And have no covering in the cold.

Job 24:8

They are wet with the showers of the mountains,

And embrace the rock for want of a shelter.

Job 24:9

There are that pluck the fatherless from the breast,

And take a pledge of the poor;

Job 24:10

So that they go about naked without clothing,

And being hungry they carry the sheaves.

Job 24:11

They make oil within the walls of these men;

They tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.

Job 24:12

From out of the populous city men groan,

And the soul of the wounded crieth out:

Yet God regardeth not the folly.

Job 24:13

These are of them that rebel against the light;

They know not the ways thereof,

Nor abide in the paths thereof.

Job 24:14

The murderer riseth with the light;

He killeth the poor and needy;

And in the night he is as a thief.

Job 24:15

The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight,

Saying, No eye shall see me:

And he disguiseth his face.

Job 24:16

In the dark they dig through houses:

They shut themselves up in the day-time;

They know not the light.

Job 24:17

For the morning is to all of them as thick darkness;

For they know the terrors of the thick darkness.

Job 24:18

Swiftly they pass away upon the face of the waters;

Their portion is cursed in the earth:

They turn not into the way of the vineyards.

Job 24:19

Drought and heat consume the snow waters:

So doth Sheol those that have sinned.

Job 24:20

The womb shall forget him;

The worm shall feed sweetly on him;

He shall be no more remembered;

And unrighteousness shall be broken as a tree.

Job 24:21

He devoureth the barren that beareth not,

And doeth not good to the widow.

Job 24:22

Yet God preserveth the mighty by his power:

He riseth up that hath no assurance of life.

Job 24:23

God giveth them to be in security, and they rest thereon;

And his eyes are upon their ways.

Job 24:24

They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone;

Yea, they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as all others,

And are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.

Job 24:25

And if it be not so now, who will prove me a liar,

And make my speech nothing worth?

Thomas Nelson & Sons first published the American Standard Version in 1901. This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

Job 24 :: American Standard Version (ASV)

Job Says God Seems to Ignore Wrongs

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