Job 24 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

Job Says God Seems to Ignore Wrongs

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 24:2Men remove landmarks; they seize flocks and pasture them.

Job 24:3

Job 24:3They drive away the ass 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 asses in the desert they go forth to their toil, seeking prey in the wilderness as food for their children.

Job 24:6

Job 24:6They gather their 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 want of shelter.

Job 24:9

Job 24:9(There are those who snatch the fatherless child from the breast, and take in pledge the infant of 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 they make oil; they tread the wine presses, but suffer thirst.

Job 24:12

Job 24:12From out of the city the dying groan, and the soul of the wounded cries for help; yet God pays no attention to their prayer.

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 in the dark, that he may kill the poor and needy; and in the night he is as 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 disguises 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, "They are swiftly carried away upon 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 squares of the town forget them; their name is no longer remembered; so wickedness is broken like a tree.'

Job 24:21

Job 24:21"They feed on the barren childless woman, and do no good to the widow.

Job 24:22

Job 24:22Yet God 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 wither and fade like the mallow; 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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Job 24 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

Job Says God Seems to Ignore Wrongs

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