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Job 24
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Chapter 24
1
Why has not Shaddai his own store of times, and why do his faithful never see his Days?[*a]
2
The wicked move boundary-marks away, they carry off flock and shepherd.
3
Some drive away the orphan’s donkey, and take the widow’s ox for a security.
4
Beggars, now, avoid the roads, and all the poor of the land must go into hiding.
5
Like wild donkeys in the desert, they go out, driven by the hunger of their children, to seek food on the barren steppes.
6
They must do the harvesting in the scoundrel’s field, they must do the picking in the vineyards of the wicked.
10
They go about naked, lacking clothes, and starving while they carry the sheaves.
11
They have no stones for pressing oil, they tread the winepresses, yet they are parched with thirst.
7
They spend the night naked, lacking clothes, with no covering against the cold.
8
Mountain rainstorms cut them through, shelterless, they hug the rocks.
9
Fatherless children are robbed of their lands, and poor men have their cloaks seized as security.
12
From the towns come the groans of the dying and the gasp of wounded men crying for help. Yet God remains deaf to their appeal!
13
Others of them hate the light, know nothing of its ways, avoid its paths.
14
When all is dark the murderer leaves his bed to kill the poor and needy. All night long prowls the thief,
24:16a breaking into houses while the darkness lasts.
15
The eye of the adulterer watches for twilight, ‘No one will see me’ he mutters as he masks his face.
24:16b In the daytime they go into hiding, these folk who have no love for the light.
17
For all of them, morning is their darkest hour, because they know its terrors.
25
Is this not so? Who can prove me a liar or show that my words have no substance?
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