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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

1. Job 24:11 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.

#### Cross references

1. Job 24:1 : S Job 14:5
2. Job 24:1 : S Job 9:23; 2Pe 3:7
3. Job 24:1 : S Job 15:20; Ac 1:7
4. Job 24:2 : S Dt 19:14
5. Job 24:2 : Ex 20:15; Dt 28:31
6. Job 24:3 : S Job 6:27; S 22:9
7. Job 24:4 : Job 29:16; 31:19
8. Job 24:4 : Job 29:12; 30:25; Ps 12:5; 41:1; 82:3, 4; Isa 11:4
9. Job 24:4 : S Job 20:19; S Pr 28:12
10. Job 24:5 : S Ge 16:12
11. Job 24:5 : Ps 104:23
12. Job 24:5 : Job 30:3
13. Job 24:6 : S Job 6:5
14. Job 24:6 : ver 18
15. Job 24:6 : Ru 2:22; S 1Ki 21:19
16. Job 24:7 : S Ex 22:27
17. Job 24:8 : Da 4:25, 33
18. Job 24:8 : La 4:5
19. Job 24:8 : S Jdg 6:2
20. Job 24:9 : S Dt 24:17
21. Job 24:9 : Job 29:17
22. Job 24:9 : Ps 14:4; Pr 30:14; Isa 3:14; 10:1-2; Eze 18:12
23. Job 24:9 : S Lev 25:47; S 2Ki 4:1
24. Job 24:10 : Dt 24:12-13
25. Job 24:10 : S Lev 19:9
26. Job 24:11 : Isa 5:2; 16:10; Hag 2:16
27. Job 24:11 : Mic 6:15
28. Job 24:12 : S Job 12:19; 30:28; Ps 5:2; 22:24; 39:12; 119:147; Isa 30:19; Jer 50:46; 51:52, 54; Eze 26:15; Rev 6:10
29. Job 24:12 : S Job 9:23
30. Job 24:13 : ver 16; Job 38:15; Jn 3:19-20; 1Th 5:4-5
31. Job 24:13 : Job 17:12; 38:20; Ps 18:28; Isa 5:20; Eph 5:8-14
32. Job 24:14 : Isa 3:15; Mic 3:3
33. Job 24:14 : S Job 20:19; Ps 37:32
34. Job 24:14 : Ps 10:9
35. Job 24:15 : Job 31:9, 27; Pr 1:10
36. Job 24:15 : Pr 7:8-9
37. Job 24:15 : Ps 10:11
38. Job 24:16 : S Ex 22:2; Mt 6:19
39. Job 24:16 : S ver 13
40. Job 24:17 : S Job 18:11
41. Job 24:17 : S Job 15:22; S 18:5
42. Job 24:18 : S Job 9:26; Jude 1:13
43. Job 24:18 : Job 22:16; Isa 57:20
44. Job 24:18 : S Job 5:3
45. Job 24:18 : ver 6
46. Job 24:19 : Job 6:17
47. Job 24:19 : S Job 21:13
48. Job 24:20 : S Job 7:5
49. Job 24:20 : S Job 21:26
50. Job 24:20 : S Job 18:17
51. Job 24:20 : S Job 14:7; Ps 31:12; Da 4:14
52. Job 24:21 : S Job 22:9
53. Job 24:22 : S Job 9:4
54. Job 24:22 : S Job 12:19
55. Job 24:22 : Dt 28:66; Mt 6:27; Jas 4:14
56. Job 24:23 : S Job 9:24; Am 6:1
57. Job 24:23 : S 2Ch 16:9
58. Job 24:23 : S Job 10:4
59. Job 24:24 : S 2Ki 19:35; S Job 4:20; Ps 37:10; 83:13; Isa 5:24; 17:13; 40:24; 41:2, 15
60. Job 24:24 : S Job 3:19
61. Job 24:24 : Isa 17:5
62. Job 24:25 : S Job 6:28; S 16:17

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