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Job 24
KJV
King James Version · 1611
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862
1Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?
1Wherefore from the Mighty One Times have not been hidden, And those knowing Him have not seen His days.
2Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.
2The borders they reach, A drove they have taken violently away, Yea, they do evil.
3They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
3The ass of the fatherless they lead away, They take in pledge the ox of the widow,
4They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
4They turn aside the needy from the way, Together have hid the poor of the earth.
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.
5Lo, wild asses in a wilderness, They have gone out about their work, Seeking early for prey, A mixture for himself--food for young ones.
6They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.
6In a field his provender they reap, And the vineyard of the wicked they glean.
7They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.
7The naked they cause to lodge Without clothing. And there is no covering in the cold.
8They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
8From the inundation of hills they are wet, And without a refuge--have embraced a rock.
9They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
9They take violently away From the breast the orphan, And on the poor they lay a pledge.
10They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;
10Naked, they have gone without clothing, And hungry--have taken away a sheaf.
11Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.
11Between their walls they make oil, Wine-presses they have trodden, and thirst.
12Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.
12Because of enmity men do groan, And the soul of pierced ones doth cry, And God doth not give praise.
13They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
13They have been among rebellious ones of light, They have not discerned His ways, Nor abode in His paths.
14The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
14At the light doth the murderer rise, He doth slay the poor and needy, And in the night he is as a thief.
15The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.
15And the eye of an adulterer Hath observed the twilight, Saying, `No eye doth behold me.' And he putteth the face in secret.
16In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
16He hath dug in the darkness--houses; By day they shut themselves up, They have not known 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.
17When together, morning <FI>is<Fi> to them death shade, When he discerneth the terrors of death shade.
18He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.
18Light he <FI>is<Fi> on the face of the waters, Vilified is their portion in the earth, He turneth not the way of vineyards.
19Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned.
19Drought--also heat--consume snow-waters, Sheol <FI>those who<Fi> have sinned.
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.
20Forget him doth the womb, Sweeten <FI>on<Fi> him doth the worm, No more is he remembered, And broken as a tree is wickedness.
21He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.
21Treating evil the barren <FI>who<Fi> beareth not, And <FI>to<Fi> the widow he doth no good,
22He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no man is sure of life.
22And hath drawn the mighty by his power, He riseth, and none believeth in life.
23Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways.
23He giveth to him confidence, and he is supported, And his eyes <FI>are<Fi> on their 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.
24High they were <FI>for<Fi> a little, and they are not, And they have been brought low. As all <FI>others<Fi> they are shut up, And as the head of an ear of corn cut off.