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Job 24 :: New English Translation (NET)

Job 24:1

Job 24:1"Why are times not appointed by the Almighty? Why do those who know him not see his days?

Job 24:2

Job 24:2Men move boundary stones; they seize the flock and pasture them.

Job 24:3

Job 24:3They drive away the orphan's donkey; they take the widow's ox as a pledge.

Job 24:4

Job 24:4They turn the needy from the pathway, and the poor of the land hide themselves together.

Job 24:5

Job 24:5Like wild donkeys in the desert they go out to their labor, seeking diligently for food; the wasteland provides food for them and for their children.

Job 24:6

Job 24:6They reap fodder in the field, and glean in the vineyard of the wicked.

Job 24:7

Job 24:7They spend the night naked because they lack clothing; they have no covering against the cold.

Job 24:8

Job 24:8They are soaked by mountain rains and huddle in the rocks because they lack shelter.

Job 24:9

Job 24:9The fatherless child is snatched from the breast, the infant of the poor is taken as a pledge.

Job 24:10

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

Job 24:11

Job 24:11They press out the olive oil between the rows of olive trees; they tread the winepresses while they are thirsty.

Job 24:12

Job 24:12From the city the dying groan, and the wounded cry out for help, but God charges no one with wrongdoing.

Job 24:13

Job 24:13There are those who rebel against the light; they do not know its ways and they do not stay on its paths.

Job 24:14

Job 24:14Before daybreak the murderer rises up; he kills the poor and the needy; in the night he is like a thief.

Job 24:15

Job 24:15And the eye of the adulterer watches for the twilight, thinking, 'No eye can see me,' and covers his face with a mask.

Job 24:16

Job 24:16In the dark the robber breaks into houses, but by day they shut themselves in; they do not know the light.

Job 24:17

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

Job 24:18

Job 24:18"You say, 'He is foam on the face of the waters; their portion of the land is cursed so that no one goes to their vineyard.

Job 24:19

Job 24:19The drought as well as the heat carry away the melted snow; so the grave takes away those who have sinned.

Job 24:20

Job 24:20The womb forgets him, the worm feasts on him, no longer will he be remembered. Like a tree, wickedness will be broken down.

Job 24:21

Job 24:21He preys on the barren and childless woman, and does not treat the widow well.

Job 24:22

Job 24:22But God drags off the mighty by his power; when God rises up against him, he has no faith in his life.

Job 24:23

Job 24:23God may let them rest in a feeling of security, but he is constantly watching all their ways.

Job 24:24

Job 24:24They are exalted for a little while, and then they are gone, they are brought low like all others, and gathered in, and like a head of grain they are cut off.'

Job 24:25

Job 24:25"If this is not so, who can prove me a liar and reduce my words to nothing?"
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