Job 24

1'Why have the times escaped the Lord's notice?

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2Why have the ungodly stepped over the boundary, Snatching away the flock with the shepherd?

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3They have led away the donkey of the orphans And have taken the widow's ox as a pledge.

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4They have turned aside the weak from the right way; The gentle of the land have hidden themselves together.

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5They departed like donkeys in the field. Contrary to me, they went forth to their own pursuits. Their bread was sweet to their little ones.

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6For they harvested a field that was not their own before the time, And the weak worked the vineyard of the ungodly Without pay or food.

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7They caused many naked to sleep without clothing, And they took away the covering of their life.

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8They are wet with the showers of the mountains And have huddled around the rock for want of shelter.

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9They have snatched the orphan from the breast And have humiliated the banished.

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10They have unjustly caused them to sleep without clothing, And they have taken away the morsel from the hungry.

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11They have wrongfully laid snares in narrow places And have not known the way of righteousness.

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12They have cast the weak out of the city and their own houses, And the soul of the infants sighed greatly. Why then has He not visited them?

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13'They are ones on the earth who do not know the Lord, And they do not understand the way of righteousness, Nor do they walk in His paths.

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14But He knows their works and delivered them into darkness; And one shall be like a thief in the night.

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15For the eye of the adulterer watches for the darkness, Saying, 'No eye will perceive me'; And he puts a covering on his face.

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16In the dark he breaks into houses; In the daytime they seal themselves up; They do not know the light.

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17For in due time, the shadow of death will be the same to them, Because they shall know the troubles of the shadow of death.

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18'He is swift on the face of the waters; May his portion be cursed on earth.

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19May their plants wither on earth, For they have taken away from the orphans Even the smallest portions.

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20Then his sin is recalled to memory, And he vanishes like a mist of dew; But what he has done, may it be recompensed to him, And may every wrongdoer be crushed like rotten wood.

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21For he has not treated the barren woman well, And showed no mercy to the feeble woman.

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22'In his anger, he overturns the weak; Therefore when he rises up, No one believes his own life is safe.

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23When he falls sick, let him not hope to recover, But let him perish by disease.

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24For his exaltation mistreated many, But he has withered as mallows in the heat, Or as an ear of corn falling on its own from the stalk.

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25'If it is not so, who says I speak falsely And will make my speech worth nothing?'

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