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Job 24
Het Boek
Job 24
Het Boek
Jobs protest
24 ‘Waarom opent God de rechtszitting niet om naar mijn verweer te luisteren? Waarom moeten zij die Hem kennen, zonder resultaat op Hem wachten?
2 Er worden grenspalen verschoven, schaapskudden gestolen en geweid
3 en zelfs de ezel van de wezen wordt weggehaald. De arme weduwe moet de enige os die zij bezit inleveren om een lening te kunnen krijgen.
4 De hulpbehoevenden worden opzijgeschopt, zij mogen de weg niet versperren. Alle armen van het land worden in een hoek gedrukt.
5 Net als de wilde ezels in de woestijn moeten de armen al hun tijd gebruiken om genoeg voedsel te bemachtigen. Zij worden de woestijn ingestuurd om voedsel te zoeken voor hun kinderen.
6 Zij eten wat in het wild groeit en zoeken zelfs in de wijngaarden van de goddelozen naar achtergebleven druiven.
7 ʼs Nachts liggen zij buiten in de kou zonder kleren of dekens om zich te verwarmen.
8 Zij raken doorweekt door de stortregens die vanaf de bergen komen en bij gebrek aan een behoorlijk onderdak drukken zij zich tegen de rotswand aan.
9 De goddelozen rukken vaderloze kinderen van hun moeders borst weg en nemen het kind van een arme als onderpand mee tot deze zijn schuld heeft afbetaald.
10 Daarom moeten zij naakt, zonder enig kledingstuk, ronddwalen en worden zij gedwongen korenschoven te sjouwen terwijl zij zelf honger lijden.
11 Zij moeten olijfolie persen tussen de stenen en druiven treden in de wijnpers, terwijl ze bijna neervallen van de dorst.
12 Het gekreun van de stervenden stijgt op uit de stad en de gewonden schreeuwen om hulp, maar God schenkt geen aandacht aan het onrecht dat hun wordt aangedaan.
13 De goddelozen komen in opstand tegen het licht en begrijpen niets van oprechtheid en goedheid.
14,15 Als het daglicht voorbij is, gaan de moordenaars op pad om de arme en hulpbehoevenden te doden en zich ʼs nachts bezig te houden met diefstal. De overspelige man wacht tot het donker wordt, want hij denkt “dan ziet niemand me” en hij verbergt zijn gezicht.
16 Inbrekers gaan er ʼs nachts op uit om hun werk te doen en overdag sluiten zij zich op, zij houden niet van daglicht.
17 Voor al deze misdadigers is de donkere nacht als de morgen. Ze zijn vertrouwd met de verschrikkelijke dingen die in het donker gebeuren.
18 Maar wat verdwijnen zij snel van de aardbodem! Het land dat zij bezitten, is vervloekt. Het is afgelopen met hun kwade praktijken in de wijngaarden.
19 De dood verteert zondaars, zoals hitte en droogte de sneeuw laten verdwijnen.
20 Zelfs de moeder van de zondaar zal hem vergeten. Hij is een welkome maaltijd voor de wormen en niemand zal nog aan hem denken. Want de goddeloze wordt gebroken als een boom door een storm.
21 Zij hebben namelijk kinderloze en onvruchtbare vrouwen slecht behandeld. Zij weigeren hulpbehoevende weduwen te helpen.
22 God overweldigt de machtigen en de goddelozen door zijn kracht, en al staan ze weer op, ze zijn hun leven niet meer zeker.
23 En ook wanneer Hij hen met rust laat en zij zich veilig voelen, houdt Hij hun scherp in de gaten.
24 Maar ook al staan zij nu in hoog aanzien, toch zullen zij net als alle anderen in een oogwenk verdwijnen, afgesneden als de halmen van het koren.
25 Is er iemand die mij mijn ongelijk kan bewijzen? Wie kan aantonen dat ik een leugenaar ben en er volkomen naast zit?’
Job 24
New International Version
Job 24
New International Version
24 “Why does the Almighty not set times(A) for judgment?(B)
Why must those who know him look in vain for such days?(C)
2 There are those who move boundary stones;(D)
they pasture flocks they have stolen.(E)
3 They drive away the orphan’s donkey
and take the widow’s ox in pledge.(F)
4 They thrust the needy(G) from the path
and force all the poor(H) of the land into hiding.(I)
5 Like wild donkeys(J) in the desert,
the poor go about their labor(K) of foraging food;
the wasteland(L) provides food for their children.
6 They gather fodder(M) in the fields
and glean in the vineyards(N) of the wicked.(O)
7 Lacking clothes, they spend the night naked;
they have nothing to cover themselves in the cold.(P)
8 They are drenched(Q) by mountain rains
and hug(R) the rocks for lack of shelter.(S)
9 The fatherless(T) child is snatched(U) from the breast;
the infant of the poor is seized(V) for a debt.(W)
10 Lacking clothes, they go about naked;(X)
they carry the sheaves,(Y) but still go hungry.
11 They crush olives among the terraces[a];
they tread the winepresses,(Z) yet suffer thirst.(AA)
12 The groans of the dying rise from the city,
and the souls of the wounded cry out for help.(AB)
But God charges no one with wrongdoing.(AC)
13 “There are those who rebel against the light,(AD)
who do not know its ways
or stay in its paths.(AE)
14 When daylight is gone, the murderer rises up,
kills(AF) the poor and needy,(AG)
and in the night steals forth like a thief.(AH)
15 The eye of the adulterer(AI) watches for dusk;(AJ)
he thinks, ‘No eye will see me,’(AK)
and he keeps his face concealed.
16 In the dark, thieves break into houses,(AL)
but by day they shut themselves in;
they want nothing to do with the light.(AM)
17 For all of them, midnight is their morning;
they make friends with the terrors(AN) of darkness.(AO)
18 “Yet they are foam(AP) on the surface of the water;(AQ)
their portion of the land is cursed,(AR)
so that no one goes to the vineyards.(AS)
19 As heat and drought snatch away the melted snow,(AT)
so the grave(AU) snatches away those who have sinned.
20 The womb forgets them,
the worm(AV) feasts on them;(AW)
the wicked are no longer remembered(AX)
but are broken like a tree.(AY)
21 They prey on the barren and childless woman,
and to the widow they show no kindness.(AZ)
22 But God drags away the mighty by his power;(BA)
though they become established,(BB) they have no assurance of life.(BC)
23 He may let them rest in a feeling of security,(BD)
but his eyes(BE) are on their ways.(BF)
24 For a little while they are exalted, and then they are gone;(BG)
they are brought low and gathered up like all others;(BH)
they are cut off like heads of grain.(BI)
25 “If this is not so, who can prove me false
and reduce my words to nothing?”(BJ)
Footnotes
- Job 24:11 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
Job 24
The Message
Job 24
The Message
An Illusion of Security
24 1-12 “But if Judgment Day isn’t hidden from the Almighty,
why are we kept in the dark?
There are people out there getting by with murder—
stealing and lying and cheating.
They rip off the poor
and exploit the unfortunate,
Push the helpless into the ditch,
bully the weak so that they fear for their lives.
The poor, like stray dogs and cats,
scavenge for food in back alleys.
They sort through the garbage of the rich,
eke out survival on handouts.
Homeless, they shiver through cold nights on the street;
they’ve no place to lay their heads.
Exposed to the weather, wet and frozen,
they huddle in makeshift shelters.
Nursing mothers have their babies snatched from them;
the infants of the poor are kidnapped and sold.
They go about patched and threadbare;
even the hard workers go hungry.
No matter how backbreaking their labor,
they can never make ends meet.
People are dying right and left, groaning in torment.
The wretched cry out for help
and God does nothing, acts like nothing’s wrong!
13-17 “Then there are those who avoid light at all costs,
who scorn the light-filled path.
When the sun goes down, the murderer gets up—
kills the poor and robs the defenseless.
Sexual predators can’t wait for nightfall,
thinking, ‘No one can see us now.’
Burglars do their work at night,
but keep well out of sight through the day.
They want nothing to do with light.
Deep darkness is morning for that bunch;
they make the terrors of darkness their companions in crime.
18-25 “They are scraps of wood floating on the water—
useless, cursed junk, good for nothing.
As surely as snow melts under the hot, summer sun,
sinners disappear in the grave.
The womb has forgotten them, worms have relished them—
nothing that is evil lasts.
Unscrupulous,
they prey on those less fortunate.
However much they strut and flex their muscles,
there’s nothing to them. They’re hollow.
They may have an illusion of security,
but God has his eye on them.
They may get their brief successes,
but then it’s over, nothing to show for it.
Like yesterday’s newspaper,
they’re used to wrap up the garbage.
You’re free to try to prove me a liar,
but you won’t be able to do it.”
Job 24
King James Version
Job 24
King James Version
24 Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?
2 Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.
3 They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
4 They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
5 Behold, 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.
6 They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.
7 They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.
8 They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
9 They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
10 They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;
11 Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.
12 Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.
13 They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
14 The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
15 The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.
16 In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
17 For 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.
18 He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.
19 Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned.
20 The 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.
21 He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.
22 He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no man is sure of life.
23 Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways.
24 They 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.
25 And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?
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