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Job 24
KJV
King James Version · 1611
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949
1Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?
1Why are times not stored up by the Ruler of all, and why do those who have knowledge of him not see his days?
2Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.
2The landmarks are changed by evil men, they violently take away flocks, together with their keepers.
3They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
3They send away the ass of him who has no father, they take the widow's ox for debt.
4They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
4The crushed are turned out of the way; all the poor of the earth go into a secret place together.
5Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.
5Like asses in the waste land they go out to their work, looking for food with care; from the waste land they get bread for their children.
6They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.
6They get mixed grain from the field, and they take away the late fruit from the vines of those who have wealth.
7They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.
7They take their rest at night without clothing, and have no cover in the cold.
8They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
8They are wet with the rain of the mountains, and get into the cracks of the rock for cover.
9They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
9The child without a father is forced from its mother's breast, and they take the young children of the poor for debt.
10They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;
10Others go about without clothing, and though they have no food, they get in the grain from the fields.
11Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.
11Between the lines of olive-trees they make oil; though they have no drink, they are crushing out the grapes.
12Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.
12From the town come sounds of pain from those who are near death, and the soul of the wounded is crying out for help; but God does not take note of their prayer.
13They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
13Then there are those who are haters of the light, who have no knowledge of its ways, and do not go in them.
14The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
14He who is purposing death gets up before day, so that he may put to death the poor and those in need.
15The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.
15And the man whose desire is for the wife of another is waiting for the evening, saying, No eye will see me; and he puts a cover on his face. And in the night the thief goes about;
16In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
16In the dark he makes holes in the walls of houses: in the daytime they are shutting themselves up, they have no knowledge of the light.
17For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.
17For the middle of the night is as morning to them, they are not troubled by the fear of the dark.
18He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.
18They go quickly on the face of the waters; their heritage is cursed in the earth; the steps of the crusher of grapes are not turned to their vine-garden.
19Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned.
19Snow waters become dry with the heat: so do sinners go down into the underworld.
20The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.
20The public place of his town has no more knowledge of him, and his name has gone from the memory of men: he is rooted up like a dead tree.
21He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.
21He is not kind to the widow, and he has no pity for her child.
22He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no man is sure of life.
22But God by his power gives long life to the strong; he gets up again, though he has no hope of life.
23Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways.
23He takes away his fear of danger and gives him support; and his eyes are on his ways.
24They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.
24For a short time they are lifted up; then they are gone; they are made low, they are pulled off like fruit, and like the heads of grain they are cut off.