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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">New Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/job/24.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Job Asks Why the Wicked Are Not Punished</p><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/24-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>“Why doesn’t the Almighty bring the wicked to judgment?</p><p class="line2">Why must the godly wait for him in vain?</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/24-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Evil people steal land by moving the boundary markers.</p><p class="line2">They steal livestock and put them in their own pastures.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/24-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>They take the orphan’s donkey</p><p class="line2">and demand the widow’s ox as security for a loan.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/24-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>The poor are pushed off the path;</p><p class="line2">the needy must hide together for safety.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/24-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Like wild donkeys in the wilderness,</p><p class="line2">the poor must spend all their time looking for food,</p><p class="line2">searching even in the desert for food for their children.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/24-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>They harvest a field they do not own,</p><p class="line2">and they glean in the vineyards of the wicked.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/24-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>All night they lie naked in the cold,</p><p class="line2">without clothing or covering.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/24-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>They are soaked by mountain showers,</p><p class="line2">and they huddle against the rocks for want of a home.</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/24-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>“The wicked snatch a widow’s child from her breast,</p><p class="line2">taking the baby as security for a loan.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/24-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>The poor must go about naked, without any clothing.</p><p class="line2">They harvest food for others while they themselves are starving.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/24-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>They press out olive oil without being allowed to taste it,</p><p class="line2">and they tread in the winepress as they suffer from thirst.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/24-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>The groans of the dying rise from the city,</p><p class="line2">and the wounded cry for help,</p><p class="line2">yet God ignores their moaning.</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/24-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>“Wicked people rebel against the light.</p><p class="line2">They refuse to acknowledge its ways</p><p class="line2">or stay in its paths.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/24-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>The murderer rises in the early dawn</p><p class="line2">to kill the poor and needy;</p><p class="line2">at night he is a thief.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/24-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>The adulterer waits for the twilight,</p><p class="line2">saying, ‘No one will see me then.’</p><p class="line2">He hides his face so no one will know him.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/24-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Thieves break into houses at night</p><p class="line2">and sleep in the daytime.</p><p class="line2">They are not acquainted with the light.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/24-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>The black night is their morning.</p><p class="line2">They ally themselves with the terrors of the darkness.</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/24-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>“But they disappear like foam down a river.</p><p class="line2">Everything they own is cursed,</p><p class="line2">and they are afraid to enter their own vineyards.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/24-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>The grave<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a> consumes sinners</p><p class="line2">just as drought and heat consume snow.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/24-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Their own mothers will forget them.</p><p class="line2">Maggots will find them sweet to eat.</p><p class="line1">No one will remember them.</p><p class="line2">Wicked people are broken like a tree in the storm.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/24-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>They cheat the woman who has no son to help her.</p><p class="line2">They refuse to help the needy widow.</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/24-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>“God, in his power, drags away the rich.</p><p class="line2">They may rise high, but they have no assurance of life.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/24-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>They may be allowed to live in security,</p><p class="line2">but God is always watching them.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/24-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And though they are great now,</p><p class="line2">in a moment they will be gone like all others,</p><p class="line2">cut off like heads of grain.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/24-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Can anyone claim otherwise?</p><p class="line2">Who can prove me wrong?”</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">24:19 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">Sheol.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, 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