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title="Job 23">◄</a> Job 24 <a href="../job/25.htm" title="Job 25">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/job/24.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/24-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“Why are not times of judgment kept by the Almighty,</span><br /><span class="indent">and why do those who know him never see his days?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/24-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Some move landmarks;</span><br /><span class="indent">they seize flocks and pasture them.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/24-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">They drive away the donkey of the fatherless;</span><br /><span class="indent">they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/24-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">They thrust the poor off the road;</span><br /><span class="indent">the poor of the earth all hide themselves.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/24-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Behold, like wild donkeys in the desert</span><br /><span class="indent">the poor<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew they">a</a></sup></span> go out to their toil, seeking game;</span><br /><span class="indent">the wasteland yields food for their children.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/24-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">They gather their<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew his">b</a></sup></span> fodder in the field,</span><br /><span class="indent">and they glean the vineyard of the wicked man.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/24-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">They lie all night naked, without clothing,</span><br /><span class="indent">and have no covering in the cold.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/24-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">They are wet with the rain of the mountains</span><br /><span class="indent">and cling to the rock for lack of shelter.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/24-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">(There are those who snatch the fatherless child from the breast,</span><br /><span class="indent">and they take a pledge against the poor.)</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/24-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">They go about naked, without clothing;</span><br /><span class="indent">hungry, they carry the sheaves;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/24-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">among the olive rows of the wicked<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew their olive rows">c</a></sup></span> they make oil;</span><br /><span class="indent">they tread the winepresses, but suffer thirst.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/24-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">From out of the city the dying<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or the men">d</a></sup></span> groan,</span><br /><span class="indent">and the soul of the wounded cries for help;</span><br /><span class="indent">yet God charges no one with wrong.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/24-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“There are those who rebel against the light,</span><br /><span class="indent">who are not acquainted with its ways,</span><br /><span class="indent">and do not stay in its paths.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/24-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">The murderer rises before it is light,</span><br /><span class="indent">that he may kill the poor and needy,</span><br /><span class="indent">and in the night he is like a thief.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/24-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">The eye of the adulterer also waits for the twilight,</span><br /><span class="indent">saying, ‘No eye will see me’;</span><br /><span class="indent">and he veils his face.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/24-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">In the dark they dig through houses;</span><br /><span class="indent">by day they shut themselves up;</span><br /><span class="indent">they do not know the light.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/24-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">For deep darkness is morning to all of them;</span><br /><span class="indent">for they are friends with the terrors of deep darkness.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/24-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“You say, ‘Swift are they on the face of the waters;</span><br /><span class="indent">their portion is cursed in the land;</span><br /><span class="indent">no treader turns toward their vineyards.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/24-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Drought and heat snatch away the snow waters;</span><br /><span class="indent">so does Sheol those who have sinned.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/24-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">The womb forgets them;</span><br /><span class="indent">the worm finds them sweet;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">they are no longer remembered,</span><br /><span class="indent">so wickedness is broken like a tree.’</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/24-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“They wrong the barren, childless woman,</span><br /><span class="indent">and do no good to the widow.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/24-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Yet God<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew he">e</a></sup></span> prolongs the life of the mighty by his power;</span><br /><span class="indent">they rise up when they despair of life.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/24-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">He gives them security, and they are supported,</span><br /><span class="indent">and his eyes are upon their ways.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/24-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">They are exalted a little while, and then are gone;</span><br /><span class="indent">they are brought low and gathered up like all others;</span><br /><span class="indent">they are cut off like the heads of grain.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/24-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">If it is not so, who will prove me a liar</span><br /><span class="indent">and show that there is nothing in what I say?”</span></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">5</span> Hebrew <i>they</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">6</span> Hebrew <i>his</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">11</span> Hebrew <i>their olive rows</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">12</span> Or <i>the men</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">e</span> <span class="fnverse">22</span> Hebrew <i>he</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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