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Job 24
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Job 24 . 1
1 “Why does the Almighty not reserve times for judgment? Why may those who know Him never see His days?TOSKJob 24:1
Job 24 . 2
2 Men move boundary stones; they pasture stolen flocks.TOSKJob 24:2
Job 24 . 3
3 They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widow’s ox in pledge.TOSKJob 24:3
Job 24 . 4
4 They push the needy off the road and force all the poor of the land into hiding.TOSKJob 24:4
Job 24 . 5
5 Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go to work foraging for food; the wasteland is food for their children.TOSKJob 24:5
Job 24 . 6
6 They gather fodder in the fields and glean the vineyards of the wicked.TOSKJob 24:6
Job 24 . 7
7 Without clothing, they spend the night naked; they have no covering against the cold.TOSKJob 24:7
Job 24 . 8
8 Drenched by mountain rains, they huddle against the rocks for want of shelter.TOSKJob 24:8
Job 24 . 9
9 The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.TOSKJob 24:9
Job 24 . 10
10 Without clothing, they wander about naked. They carry the sheaves, but still go hungry.TOSKJob 24:10
Job 24 . 11
11 They crush olives within their walls; they tread the winepresses, but go thirsty.TOSKJob 24:11
Job 24 . 12
12 From the city, men groan, and the souls of the wounded cry out, yet God charges no one with wrongdoing.TOSKJob 24:12
Job 24 . 13
13 Then there are those who rebel against the light, not knowing its ways or staying on its paths.TOSKJob 24:13
Job 24 . 14
14 When daylight is gone, the murderer rises to kill the poor and needy; in the night he is like a thief.TOSKJob 24:14
Job 24 . 15
15 The eye of the adulterer watches for twilight. Thinking, ‘No eye will see me,’ he covers his face.TOSKJob 24:15
Job 24 . 16
16 In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves in, never to experience the light.TOSKJob 24:16
Job 24 . 17
17 For to them, deep darkness is their morning; surely they are friends with the terrors of darkness!TOSKJob 24:17
Job 24 . 18
18 They are but foam on the surface of the water; their portion of the land is cursed, so that no one turns toward their vineyards.TOSKJob 24:18
Job 24 . 19
19 As drought and heat consume the melting snow, so Sheol steals those who have sinned.TOSKJob 24:19
Job 24 . 20
20 The womb forgets them; the worm feeds on them; they are remembered no more. So injustice is like a broken tree.TOSKJob 24:20
Job 24 . 21
21 They prey on the barren and childless, and show no kindness to the widow.TOSKJob 24:21
Job 24 . 22
22 Yet by His power, God drags away the mighty; though rising up, they have no assurance of life.TOSKJob 24:22
Job 24 . 23
23 He gives them a sense of security, but His eyes are on their ways.TOSKJob 24:23
Job 24 . 24
24 They are exalted for a moment, then they are gone; they are brought low and gathered up like all others; they are cut off like heads of grain.TOSKJob 24:24
Job 24 . 25
25 If this is not so, then who can prove me a liar and reduce my words to nothing?”TOSKJob 24:25