Job Chapter 24

• Job 24:1
  Job.
• Job 24:2
  “Why aren’t times laid up by the Almighty? Why don’t those who know him see his days?
• Job 24:3
  There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them.
• Job 24:4
  They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
• Job 24:5
  They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves.
• Job 24:6
  Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go out to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread for their children.
• Job 24:7
  They cut their food in the field. They glean the vineyard of the wicked.
• Job 24:8
  They lie all night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.
• Job 24:9
  They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for lack of a shelter.
• Job 24:10
  There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,
• Job 24:11
  so that they go around naked without clothing. Being hungry, they carry the sheaves.
• Job 24:12
  They make oil within the walls of these men. They tread wine presses, and suffer thirst.
• Job 24:13
  From out of the populous city, men groan. The soul of the wounded cries out, yet God doesn’t regard the folly.
• Job 24:14
  “These are of those who rebel against the light. They don’t know its ways, nor stay in its paths.
• Job 24:15
  The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.
• Job 24:16
  The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, ‘No eye will see me.’ He disguises his face.
• Job 24:17
  In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don’t know the light.
• Job 24:18
  For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, for they know the terrors of the thick darkness.
• Job 24:19
  “They are foam on the surface of the waters. Their portion is cursed in the earth. They don’t turn into the way of the vineyards.
• Job 24:20
  Drought and heat consume the snow waters, so does Sheol those who have sinned.
• Job 24:21
  The womb will forget him. The worm will feed sweetly on him. He will be no more remembered. Unrighteousness will be broken as a tree.
• Job 24:22
  He devours the barren who don’t bear. He shows no kindness to the widow.
• Job 24:23
  Yet God preserves the mighty by his power. He rises up who has no assurance of life.
• Job 24:24
  God gives them security, and they rest in it. His eyes are on their ways.
• Job 24:25
  They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone. Yes, they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as all others, and are cut off as th...
• Job 24:26
  If it isn’t so now, who will prove me a liar, and make my speech worth nothing?”