Job 24 (NET)

Job 24:1¹“Why are times not appointed by the Almighty? Why do those who know him not see his days?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 24:2²Men move boundary stones; they seize the flock and pasture them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 24:3³They drive away the orphan’s donkey; they take the widow’s ox as a pledge.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 24:4⁴They turn the needy from the pathway, and the poor of the land hide themselves together.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 24:5⁵Like wild donkeys in the wilderness, they go out to their labor seeking diligently for food; the arid rift valley provides food for them and for their children.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 24:6⁶They reap fodder in the field, and glean in the vineyard of the wicked.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 24:7⁷They spend the night naked because they lack clothing; they have no covering against the cold.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 24:8⁸They are soaked by mountain rains and huddle in the rocks because they lack shelter.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 24:9⁹The fatherless child is snatched from the breast, the infant of the poor is taken as a pledge.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 24:10¹⁰They go about naked, without clothing, and go hungry while they carry the sheaves.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 24:11¹¹They press out the olive oil between the rows of olive trees; they tread the winepresses while they are thirsty.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 24:12¹²From the city the dying groan, and the wounded cry out for help, but God charges no one with wrongdoing.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 24:13¹³There are those who rebel against the light; they do not know its ways and they do not stay on its paths.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 24:14¹⁴Before daybreak the murderer rises up; he kills the poor and the needy; in the night he is like a thief.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 24:15¹⁵And the eye of the adulterer watches for the twilight, thinking, ‘No eye can see me,’ and covers his face with a mask.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 24:16¹⁶In the dark the robber breaks into houses, but by day they shut themselves in; they do not know the light.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 24:17¹⁷For all of them, the morning is to them like deep darkness; they are friends with the terrors of darkness.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 24:18¹⁸“You say, ‘He is foam on the face of the waters; their portion of the land is cursed so that no one goes to their vineyard.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 24:19¹⁹The drought as well as the heat snatch up the melted snow; so the grave snatches up the sinner.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 24:20²⁰The womb forgets him, the worm feasts on him, no longer will he be remembered. Like a tree, wickedness will be broken down.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 24:21²¹He preys on the barren and childless woman, and does not treat the widow well.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 24:22²²But God drags off the mighty by his power; when God rises up against him, he has no faith in his life.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 24:23²³God may let them rest in a feeling of security, but he is constantly watching all their ways.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 24:24²⁴They are exalted for a little while, and then they are gone, they are brought low like all others, and gathered in, and like a head of grain they are cut off.’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 24:25²⁵“If this is not so, who can prove me a liar and reduce my words to nothing?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions