en_RV1895 - Job 24 - Ozzuu Bible

¹ Why are times not laid up by the Almighty? and why do not they which know him see his days?

² There are that remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed them.

³ They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.

⁴ They turn the needy out of the way: The poor of the earth hide themselves together.

⁵ Behold, as wild asses in the desert they go forth to their work, seeking diligently for meat; the wilderness yieldeth them food for their children.

⁶ They cut their provender in the field; and they glean the vintage of the wicked.

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

⁸ They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.

⁹ There are that pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor:

¹⁰ So that they go about naked without clothing, and being an-hungred they carry the sheaves;

¹¹ They make oil within the walls of these men; they tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.

¹² From out of the populous city men groan, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: Yet God imputeth it not for folly

¹³ These are of them that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.

¹⁴ The murderer riseth with the light, he killeth the poor and needy; and in the night he is as a thief.

¹⁵ The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: And he disguiseth his face.

¹⁶ In the dark they dig through houses: They shut themselves up in the daytime; they know not the light.

¹⁷ For the morning is to all of them as the shadow of death; For they know the terrors of the shadow of death

¹⁸ He is swift upon the face of the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: He turneth not by the way of the vineyards.

¹⁹ Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth Sheol those which have sinned.

²⁰ The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered: And unrighteousness shall be broken as a tree.

²¹ He devoureth the barren that beareth not; and doeth not good to the widow.

²² He draweth away the mighty also by his power: He riseth up, and no man is sure of life.

²³ God giveth them to be in security, and they rest thereon; and his eyes are upon their ways.

²⁴ They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone; yea, they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as all other, and are cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.

²⁵ And if it be not so now, who will prove me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?