Job 24:13-25

English Standard Version

¹³ “There are those who rebel ^(A)against the light,
    who are not acquainted with its ways,
    and do not stay in its paths.
¹⁴ The murderer rises before it is light,
    that he ^(B)may kill the poor and needy,
    and in the night he is like a thief.
¹⁵ The eye of the adulterer also waits for ^(C)the twilight,
    saying, ‘No ^(D)eye will see me’;
    and he veils his face.
¹⁶ In the dark they ^(E)dig through houses;
    by day they shut themselves up;
    they do not know the light.
¹⁷ For ^(F)deep darkness is morning to all of them;
    for they are friends with the terrors of deep darkness.

¹⁸ “You say, ^(G)‘Swift are they on the face of the waters;
    their portion is cursed in the land;
    no treader turns toward their vineyards.
¹⁹ Drought and heat snatch away the snow waters;
    so does ^(H)Sheol those who have sinned.
²⁰ The womb forgets them;
    the worm finds them sweet;
they are ^(I)no longer remembered,
    so wickedness is broken like ^(J)a tree.’

²¹ “They wrong the barren, childless woman,
    and do no good to the widow.
²² Yet God^[a] prolongs the life of the mighty by his power;
    they rise up when they despair of life.
²³ He gives them security, and they are supported,
    and his ^(K)eyes are upon their ways.
²⁴ They are exalted ^(L)a little while, and then ^(M)are gone;
    they are brought low and gathered up like all others;
    they are ^(N)cut off like the heads of grain.
²⁵ If it is ^(O)not so, who will prove me a liar
    and show that there is nothing in what I say?”