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

Job 24:1

Job 24:1But why have the seasons been hidden from the Lord,

Job 24:2

Job 24:2while the ungodly have passed over the bound, carrying off the flock with the shepherd?

Job 24:3

Job 24:3They have led away the ass of the fatherless, and taken the widow's ox for a pledge.

Job 24:4

Job 24:4They have turned aside the weak from the right way: and the meek of the earth have hidden themselves together.

Job 24:5

Job 24:5And 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.

Job 24:6

Job 24:6They 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.

Job 24:7

Job 24:7They have caused many naked to sleep without clothes, and they have taken away the covering of their body.

Job 24:8

Job 24:8They are wet with the drops of the mountains: they have embraced the rock, because they had no shelter.

Job 24:9

Job 24:9They have snatched the fatherless from the breast, and have afflicted the outcast.

Job 24:10

Job 24:10And they have wrongfully caused others to sleep without clothing, and taken away the morsel of the hungry.

Job 24:11

Job 24:11They have unrighteously laid wait in narrow places, and have not known the righteous way.

Job 24:12

Job 24:12Who have cast forth the poor from the city and their own houses, and the soul of the children has groaned aloud.

Job 24:13

Job 24:13Why 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?

Job 24:14

Job 24:14But having known their works, he delivered them into darkness: and in the night one will be as a thief:

Job 24:15

Job 24:15and the eye of the adulterer has watched for the darkness, saying, Eye shall not perceive me, and he puts a covering on his face.

Job 24:16

Job 24:16In darkness he digs through houses: by day they conceal themselves securely: they know not the light.

Job 24:17

Job 24:17For the morning is to them all as the shadow of death, for each will be conscious of the terror of the shadow of death.

Job 24:18

Job 24:18He is swift on the face of the water: let his portion be cursed on the earth; and let their plants be laid bare.

Job 24:19

Job 24:19 Let them be withered upon the earth; for they have plundered the sheaves of the fatherless.

Job 24:20

Job 24:20Then 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.

Job 24:21

Job 24:21For he has not treated the barren woman well, and has had no pity on a feeble woman.

Job 24:22

Job 24:22And in wrath he has overthrown the helpless: therefore when he has arisen, a man will not feel secure of his own life.

Job 24:23

Job 24:23When he has fallen sick, let him not hope to recover: but let him perish by disease.

Job 24:24

Job 24:24For 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.

Job 24:25

Job 24:25But if not, who is he that says I speak falsely, and will make my words of no account?

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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