Job 24 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

Job 24:1

Job 24:1“Why are not times of judgment kept by the Almighty,
and why do those who know him never see his days?

Job 24:2

Job 24:2Some move landmarks;
they seize flocks and pasture them.

Job 24:3

Job 24:3They drive away the donkey of the fatherless;
they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.

Job 24:4

Job 24:4They thrust the poor off the road;
the poor of the earth all hide themselves.

Job 24:5

Job 24:5Behold, like wild donkeys in the desert
the poor[fn] go out to their toil, seeking game;
the wasteland yields food for their children.

Job 24:6

Job 24:6They gather their[fn] fodder in the field,
and they glean the vineyard of the wicked man.

Job 24:7

Job 24:7They lie all night naked, without clothing,
and have no covering in the cold.

Job 24:8

Job 24:8They are wet with the rain of the mountains
and cling to the rock for lack of shelter.

Job 24:9

Job 24:9(There are those who snatch the fatherless child from the breast,
and they take a pledge against the poor.)

Job 24:10

Job 24:10They go about naked, without clothing;
hungry, they carry the sheaves;

Job 24:11

Job 24:11among the olive rows of the wicked[fn] they make oil;
they tread the winepresses, but suffer thirst.

Job 24:12

Job 24:12From out of the city the dying[fn] groan,
and the soul of the wounded cries for help;
yet God charges no one with wrong.

Job 24:13

Job 24:13“There are those who rebel against the light,
who are not acquainted with its ways,
and do not stay in its paths.

Job 24:14

Job 24:14The murderer rises before it is light,
that he may kill the poor and needy,
and in the night he is like a thief.

Job 24:15

Job 24:15The eye of the adulterer also waits for the twilight,
saying, ‘No eye will see me’;
and he veils his face.

Job 24:16

Job 24:16In the dark they dig through houses;
by day they shut themselves up;
they do not know the light.

Job 24:17

Job 24:17For deep darkness is morning to all of them;
for they are friends with the terrors of deep darkness.

Job 24:18

Job 24:18“You say, ‘Swift are they on the face of the waters;
their portion is cursed in the land;
no treader turns toward their vineyards.

Job 24:19

Job 24:19Drought and heat snatch away the snow waters;
so does Sheol those who have sinned.

Job 24:20

Job 24:20The womb forgets them;
the worm finds them sweet;
they are no longer remembered,
so wickedness is broken like a tree.’

Job 24:21

Job 24:21“They wrong the barren, childless woman,
and do no good to the widow.

Job 24:22

Job 24:22Yet God[fn] prolongs the life of the mighty by his power;
they rise up when they despair of life.

Job 24:23

Job 24:23He gives them security, and they are supported,
and his eyes are upon their ways.

Job 24:24

Job 24:24They are exalted a little while, and then are gone;
they are brought low and gathered up like all others;
they are cut off like the heads of grain.

Job 24:25

Job 24:25If it is not so, who will prove me a liar
and show that there is nothing in what I say?”

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ESV Footnotes

(24:5)

Hebrew they

(24:6)

Hebrew his

(24:11)

Hebrew their olive rows

(24:12)

Or the men

(24:22)

Hebrew he

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