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Job 24
Lexham English Bible

Job’s Eighth Speech, Continued

24 “Why are not times kept by Shaddai,
and why do not those who know him see his days?
2 They[a] remove border stones;
they seize flocks, and they pasture them.
3 They drive away the donkey of orphans;
they take the widow’s ox as a pledge.
4 They thrust the poor off the road;
the needy of the earth hide themselves together.[b]
5 “Look, like wild donkeys in the desert
they[c] go out to their labor as searchers for the prey;
the wilderness is[d] their[e] food for the young.
6 They reap their[f] fodder in the field,
and they glean in the vineyard of the wicked.
7 They spend the night naked, without[g] clothing,
and they have no garment in the cold.
8 They are wet from the rainstorm of the mountains,[h]
and they cling to the rock without[i] refuge.
9 “They[j] snatch the orphan from the breast,
and they take a pledge against the needy.[k]
10 They[l] go about naked, without clothing,
and hungry, they carry the sheaves.[m]
11 Between their terraces they press out oil;
they tread the presses, but[n] they are thirsty.
12 From the city people groan,
and the throat[o] of the wounded cries for help;
yet[p] God does not regard it as unseemly.[q]
13 “Those are among the ones rebelling against the light;
they do not recognize his ways,
and they do not stay in his paths.
14 At dusk[r] the murderer rises;
he kills the needy and the poor,
and in the night he is like a[s] thief.
15 And the eye of the adulterer waits for dusk,
saying, ‘No eye will see me,’[t]
and he places a covering on his face.
16 He digs through houses in the darkness;
by day they shut themselves in—
they do not know the light
17 because morning likewise is to them deep darkness;
indeed, they know about the terrors of deep darkness.
18 “He himself[u] is swift on the water’s surface;
their portion is cursed in the land.
No one turns toward the path of their vineyards.[v]
19 Drought and heat snatch away the snow waters,
like Sheol snatches away those[w] who have sinned.
20 The womb forgets him.
The maggot feasts on him until he is no longer remembered,
and wickedness is broken like a[x] tree.
21 He feeds on the barren, who does not have a child,
and does no good to the widow.
22 Yet[y] he[z] carries off the tyrants by his strength;
if he rises up, then[aa] he[ab] cannot be certain of life.[ac]
23 He[ad] gives security to him, and he is[ae] supported,
but[af] his eyes are upon their ways.
24 They are exalted a little while, then[ag] they are gone.[ah]
And they are brought low; they are cut off like all others,
and like the heads of grain they wither away.
25 “And if it is not so, then who can prove me a liar
and reduce my word to nothing?”

Footnotes

  1. Job 24:2 Or “Some” (NASU, ESV) or “Men” (NIV, NET)
  2. Job 24:4 Or “altogether”
  3. Job 24:5 That is, the poor
  4. Job 24:5 Or “provides”
  5. Job 24:5 Hebrew “for their”
  6. Job 24:6 Hebrew “his”
  7. Job 24:7 Literally “from not”
  8. Job 24:8 Or “from the mountain rainstorm”
  9. Job 24:8 Literally “from not”
  10. Job 24:9 That is, those who oppress the poor
  11. Job 24:9 Or “And they take the child of the needy as a pledge”
  12. Job 24:10 That is, the poor
  13. Job 24:10 Or “and they carry the sheaves though hungry”
  14. Job 24:11 Hebrew “and”
  15. Job 24:12 Or “soul,” or “inner self”
  16. Job 24:12 Hebrew “and”
  17. Job 24:12 Literally “he puts offensiveness”
  18. Job 24:14 Literally “At the light”
  19. Job 24:14 Or “the”
  20. Job 24:15 Literally “‘An eye will not see me’”
  21. Job 24:18 Emphatic personal pronoun
  22. Job 24:18 Literally “He does not turn toward the path of the vineyard”
  23. Job 24:19 Or “they/them”
  24. Job 24:20 Or “the”
  25. Job 24:22 Hebrew “And”
  26. Job 24:22 The probable antecedent is God
  27. Job 24:22 Hebrew “and”
  28. Job 24:22 The antecedent of the singular here probably changes to the wicked person
  29. Job 24:22 Hebrew “the life”
  30. Job 24:23 The probable antecedent is God
  31. Job 24:23 Or “they are”
  32. Job 24:23 Hebrew “and”
  33. Job 24:24 Literally “and”
  34. Job 24:24 Literally “he is not”
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Job 24
Holman Christian Standard Bible

24 Why does the Almighty not reserve times for judgment?(A)
Why do those who know Him never see His days?
2 The wicked displace boundary markers.
They steal a flock and provide pasture for it.
3 They drive away the donkeys owned by the fatherless(B)
and take the widow’s ox as collateral.
4 They push the needy off the road;
the poor of the land are forced into hiding.(C)
5 Like wild donkeys in the desert,
the poor go out to their task of foraging for food;
the wilderness provides nourishment for their children.
6 They gather their fodder in the field
and glean the vineyards of the wicked.
7 Without clothing, they spend the night naked,
having no covering against the cold.(D)
8 Drenched by mountain rains,
they huddle against[a] the rocks, shelterless.
9 The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast;
the nursing child of the poor is seized as collateral.[b]
10 Without clothing, they wander about naked.
They carry sheaves but go hungry.(E)
11 They crush olives in their presses;[c]
they tread the winepresses, but go thirsty.
12 From the city, men[d] groan;
the mortally wounded cry for help,
yet God pays no attention to this crime.(F)

13 The wicked are those who rebel against the light.
They do not recognize its ways
or stay on its paths.
14 The murderer rises at dawn
to kill the poor and needy,
and by night he becomes a thief.
15 The adulterer’s eye watches for twilight,
thinking: No eye will see me;
he covers his face.
16 In the dark they break[e] into houses;
by day they lock themselves in,[f]
never experiencing the light.
17 For the morning is like darkness to them.
Surely they are familiar with the terrors of darkness!

18 They float[g] on the surface of the water.
Their section of the land is cursed,
so that they never go to their vineyards.
19 As dry ground and heat snatch away the melted snow,
so Sheol(G) steals those who have sinned.
20 The womb forgets them;
worms feed on them;
they are remembered(H) no more.
So injustice is broken like a tree.
21 They prey on[h] the childless woman who is unable to conceive,
and do not deal kindly with the widow.
22 Yet God drags away[i] the mighty by His power;
when He rises up, they have no assurance of life.
23 He gives them a sense of security, so they can rely on it,(I)
but His eyes(J) watch over their ways.
24 They are exalted for a moment, then they are gone;
they are brought low and shrivel up like everything else.[j]
They wither like heads of grain.(K)

25 If this is not true, then who can prove me a liar(L)
and show that my speech is worthless?

Footnotes

  1. Job 24:8 Lit they embrace
  2. Job 24:9 Text emended; MT reads breast; they seize collateral against the poor
  3. Job 24:11 Lit olives between their rows
  4. Job 24:12 One Hb ms, Syr read the dying
  5. Job 24:16 Lit dig
  6. Job 24:16 Lit they seal for themselves
  7. Job 24:18 Lit are insignificant
  8. Job 24:21 LXX, Tg read They harm
  9. Job 24:22 Or God prolongs [the life of]
  10. Job 24:24 LXX reads like a mallow plant in the heat
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