Job 24
24:1And why did the seasons not escape notice by the lord?
24:2And the impious passed over the border, seizing a flock with shepherd.
24:3And a beast of burden of orphans they took away, and oxen of widows for security.
24:4They turned aside the disabled from the just way; with one accord the gentle of the earth was hidden.
24:5And they resulted as if donkeys in the field going forth for me on their own action; their bread for the young is delicious.
24:6They harvested a field not being their own before its season; and the disabled worked the vineyards of the impious without pay and without eating.
24:7They rested many naked without clothes; and they removed clothing necessary for their life.
24:8From the mists of the mountains they are wetted; from protection not holding to them they covered themselves with rock.
24:9They seized the orphan from the breast, and they humbled the one falling off.
24:10And of naked ones they rested wrongfully, and of ones hungering they removed the morsel.
24:11In narrows they wrongly lie in wait; and the way of the just they knew not.
24:12The ones from the city and the ones of their own houses they cast out; and the soul of the infants moaned greatly.
24:13But why did he in overseeing these not act in their being upon the earth? and they did not recognize, and the way of righteousness they knew not, nor were gone by their short-cuts.
24:14But knowing their works he delivered them unto darkness; and night will be as a thief.
24:15And the eye of the adulterer watched for the darkness, saying, The eye will not think of me beforehand; and he put a concealment for his face.
24:16In darkness he dug through houses; by day they seal up themselves. they do not know the light.
24:17For with one accord to them in the morning is the shadow of death; for each shall realize the disturbances of the shadow of death.
24:18He is light upon the face of the water; may their portion be cursed upon the earth; [2may 4appear 1and 3their plants
24:196upon 7the earth 5dry]; for armfuls of orphans they seized by force.
24:20So then his sin is called to mind, and as fog of dew he vanishes; and may it be recompensed to him what he acted; and may every unjust one be destroyed equally as incurable rotten wood.
24:21For the sterile woman he did not do well, and on the helpless woman he did not show mercy.
24:22And in rage he overturned the disabled; accordingly in rising up, in no way shall he trust in his own life.
24:23In being infirm, let him not hope to be healed! but he shall fall in disease.
24:24For his arrogance afflicted many; but he withered as a mallow plant in sweltering heat, and as an ear of corn falling off from the stubble by itself.
24:25But if not, who is the one saying for me to speak falsely, and he renders my words as nothing?