Job 24 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

Job Complains of Violence on the Earth

Job Complains of the Violence on the Earth

Job 24:1

Job 24:1“Since times are not hidden from the Almighty,
Why do those who know Him see not His days?

Job 24:2

Job 24:2“Some remove landmarks;
They seize flocks violently and feed on them;

Job 24:3

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

Job 24:4

Job 24:4They push the needy off the road;
All the poor of the land are forced to hide.

Job 24:5

Job 24:5Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert,
They go out to their work, searching for food.
The wilderness yields food for them and for their children.

Job 24:6

Job 24:6They gather their fodder in the field
And glean in the vineyard of the wicked.

Job 24:7

Job 24:7They spend the night naked, without clothing,
And have no covering in the cold.

Job 24:8

Job 24:8They are wet with the showers of the mountains,
And huddle around the rock for want of shelter.

Job 24:9

Job 24:9“Some snatch the fatherless from the breast,
And take a pledge from the poor.

Job 24:10

Job 24:10They cause the poor to go naked, without clothing;
And they take away the sheaves from the hungry.

Job 24:11

Job 24:11They press out oil within their walls,
And tread winepresses, yet suffer thirst.

Job 24:12

Job 24:12The dying groan in the city,
And the souls of the wounded cry out;
Yet God does not charge them with wrong.

Job 24:13

Job 24:13“There are those who rebel against the light;
They do not know its ways
Nor abide in its paths.

Job 24:14

Job 24:14The murderer rises with the light;
He kills the poor and needy;
And in the night he is like a thief.

Job 24:15

Job 24:15The eye of the adulterer waits for the twilight,
Saying, ‘No eye will see me’;
And he disguises his face.

Job 24:16

Job 24:16In the dark they break into houses
Which they marked for themselves in the daytime;
They do not know the light.

Job 24:17

Job 24:17For the morning is the same to them as the shadow of death;
If someone recognizes them,
They are in the terrors of the shadow of death.

Job 24:18

Job 24:18“They should be swift on the face of the waters,
Their portion should be cursed in the earth,
So that no one would turn into the way of their vineyards.

Job 24:19

Job 24:19As drought and heat consume the snow waters,
So the grave[fn] consumes those who have sinned.

Job 24:20

Job 24:20The womb should forget him,
The worm should feed sweetly on him;
He should be remembered no more,
And wickedness should be broken like a tree.

Job 24:21

Job 24:21For he preys on the barren who do not bear,
And does no good for the widow.

Job 24:22

Job 24:22“But God draws the mighty away with His power;
He rises up, but no man is sure of life.

Job 24:23

Job 24:23He gives them security, and they rely on it;
Yet His eyes are on their ways.

Job 24:24

Job 24:24They are exalted for a little while,
Then they are gone.
They are brought low;
They are taken out of the way like all others;
They dry out like the heads of grain.

Job 24:25

Job 24:25“Now if it is not so, who will prove me a liar,
And make my speech worth nothing?”

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