KJ3 Literal Translation
Job 24
1 Wickedness goes often unpunished. 17 There is a secret judgment for the wicked.
1¶ Why since times are not hidden from the Almighty, even those knowing Him do not see His days?
2They move the landmarks; they seize and pasture flocks;
3they drive away the ass of orphans; they take the widow's ox for a pledge;
4they turn the needy ones out of the way; the afflicted ones of the earth have hidden together.
5Behold, like wild asses in the desert, they go out in their work, seeking early for prey; the desert yields food for him for their young.
6They reap his fodder in the field, and they glean the vineyard of the wicked one.
7They lodge naked ones without clothing, and there is no cover against the cold.
8They are wet with the showers of hills, and embrace the rock for lack of shelter.
9They seize the orphan from the breast, and lay a pledge on afflicted ones.
10They make them go without clothing, and are hungry; they take up a sheaf.
11They press out oil between their walls; they tread winepresses, but are thirsty.
12Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded cries for help; yet God does not charge unseemliness.
13¶ They are among ones rebelling against light; they do not recognize His ways, and not do they stay in His paths.
14The murderer rising with the light kills the afflicted and needy ones, and in the night he is a thief.
15And the eye of the adulterer keeps watch for twilight, saying, No eye will see me; and he puts a covering on his face.
16In the dark he digs through houses; they shut themselves up by day; they do not know the light.
17For alike are morning and death-shadow to them; for he knows the terrors of death-shade.
18¶ He is swift on the face of the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth; he does not face the way of the vineyards.
19Drought and heat tear away the snow waters, and Sheol those who have sinned.
20The womb shall forget him; the worm sucks on him; he shall be remembered no more; and injustice shall be broken like a tree.
21He feeds the barren that do not bear, and does no good to the widow.
22He also draws the mighty one with his strength; He rises up, and no one is made sure in life.
23He gives security to him, and he leans on it; yet His eyes are on their ways.
24They are lifted up for a little while, but they are not; and they are brought low; they are gathered in like all others, and wither like the heads of ears of grain.
25And if not, then who will prove me a liar and make my speech into nothing?
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