Job 24 NKJV

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valign="top">New King James Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nkjv/kjv/job/24.shtml" style=color:#001320 title=Parallel Chapters> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"> <h3>Job Complains of Violence on the Earth</span></h3><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="chapter-2"><span class="text Job-24-1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/24-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>“<i>Since</i> times are not hidden from the Almighty,</span></span><br /><span class="text Job-24-1">Why do those who know Him see not His days?</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/24-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“<i>Some</i> remove landmarks;</span><br /><span class="text Job-24-2">They seize flocks violently and feed <i>on them;</i></span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/24-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>They drive away the donkey of the fatherless;</span><br /><span class="text Job-24-3">They take the widow’s ox as a pledge.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/24-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>They push the needy off the road;</span><br /><span class="text Job-24-4">All the poor of the land are forced to hide.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/24-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Indeed, <i>like</i> wild donkeys in the desert,</span><br /><span class="text Job-24-5">They go out to their work, searching for food.</span><br /><span class="text Job-24-5">The wilderness <i>yields</i> food for them <i>and</i> for <i>their</i> children.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/24-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>They gather their fodder in the field</span><br /><span class="text Job-24-6">And glean in the vineyard of the wicked.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/24-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>They spend the night naked, without clothing,</span><br /><span class="text Job-24-7">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>They are wet with the showers of the mountains,</span><br /><span class="text Job-24-8">And huddle around the rock for want of shelter.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/24-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>“<i>Some</i> snatch the fatherless from the breast,</span><br /><span class="text Job-24-9">And take a pledge from the poor.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/24-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>They cause <i>the poor</i> to go naked, without clothing;</span><br /><span class="text Job-24-10">And they take away the sheaves from the hungry.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/24-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>They press out oil within their walls,</span><br /><span class="text Job-24-11">And tread winepresses, yet suffer thirst.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/24-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>The dying groan in the city,</span><br /><span class="text Job-24-12">And the souls of the wounded cry out;</span><br /><span class="text Job-24-12">Yet God does not charge <i>them</i> with wrong.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/24-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>“There are those who rebel against the light;</span><br /><span class="text Job-24-13">They do not know its ways</span><br /><span class="text Job-24-13">Nor abide in its paths.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/24-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>The murderer rises with the light;</span><br /><span class="text Job-24-14">He kills the poor and needy;</span><br /><span class="text Job-24-14">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>The eye of the adulterer waits for the twilight,</span><br /><span class="text Job-24-15">Saying, ‘No eye will see me’;</span><br /><span class="text Job-24-15">And he <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[a]</a></span>disguises <i>his</i> face.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/24-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>In the dark they break into houses</span><br /><span class="text Job-24-16">Which they marked for themselves in the daytime;</span><br /><span class="text Job-24-16">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>For the morning is the same to them as the shadow of death;</span><br /><span class="text Job-24-17">If <i>someone</i> recognizes <i>them,</i></span><br /><span class="text Job-24-17"><i>They are in</i> the terrors of the shadow of death.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/24-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>“They <i>should be</i> swift on the face of the waters,</span><br /><span class="text Job-24-18">Their portion <i>should be</i> cursed in the earth,</span><br /><span class="text Job-24-18"><i>So that</i> no <i>one would</i> turn into the way of their vineyards.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/24-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>As drought and heat <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[b]</a></span>consume the snow waters,</span><br /><span class="text Job-24-19"><i>So</i> <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[c]</a></span>the grave <i>consumes those who</i> have sinned.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/24-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>The womb <i>should</i> forget him,</span><br /><span class="text Job-24-20">The worm <i>should</i> feed sweetly on him;</span><br /><span class="text Job-24-20">He <i>should</i> be remembered no more,</span><br /><span class="text Job-24-20">And wickedness <i>should</i> be broken like a tree.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/24-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>For he <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[d]</a></span>preys on the barren <i>who</i> do not bear,</span><br /><span class="text Job-24-21">And does no good for the widow.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/24-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>“But <i>God</i> draws the mighty away with His power;</span><br /><span class="text Job-24-22">He rises up, but no <i>man</i> is sure of life.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/24-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>He gives them security, and they rely <i>on it;</i></span><br /><span class="text Job-24-23">Yet His eyes <i>are</i> on their ways.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/24-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>They are exalted for a little while,</span><br /><span class="text Job-24-24">Then they are gone.</span><br /><span class="text Job-24-24">They are brought low;</span><br /><span class="text Job-24-24">They are <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[e]</a></span>taken out of the way like all <i>others;</i></span><br /><span class="text Job-24-24">They dry out like the heads of grain.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/24-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>“Now if <i>it is</i> not <i>so,</i> who will prove me a liar,</span><br /><span class="text Job-24-25">And make my speech worth nothing?”</span></p></div> <A name="footnotes"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes:</h4><ol><li id="fen-NKJV-13452a"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 24:15">Job 24:15</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>puts a covering on his face</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13456b"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 24:19">Job 24:19</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>seize</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13456c"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 24:19">Job 24:19</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>Sheol</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13458d"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 24:21">Job 24:21</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>feeds on</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13461e"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 24:24">Job 24:24</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>gathered up</i></span></li></ol></div> </span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. 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