Darby's English Translation

Job 23

The Book of Job

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Chapter 24

1

 

  Why are not times treasured up with the Almighty? why do not they that know him see his days? 

 

 


2

 

  They remove the landmarks; they violently take away the flocks and pasture them; 

 

 


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 afflicted of the land all hide themselves. 

 

 


5

 

  Lo, [as] wild asses in the desert, they go forth to their work, seeking early for the prey: the wilderness [yieldeth] them food for [their] children. 

 

 


6

 

  They reap in the field the fodder thereof, and they gather the vintage of the wicked; 

 

 


7

 

  They pass the night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold; 

 

 


8

 

  They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and for want of a shelter embrace the rock ... 

 

 


9

 

  They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor: 

 

 


10

 

  These go naked without clothing, and, hungry, they bear the sheaf; 

 

 


11

 

  They press out oil within their walls, they tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst. 

 

 


12

 

  Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out; and +God imputeth not the impiety. 

 

 


13

 

  There are those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof. 

 

 


14

 

  The murderer riseth with the light, killeth the afflicted and needy, and in the night is as a thief. 

 

 


15

 

  And the eye of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me; and he putteth a covering on [his] face. 

 

 


16

 

  In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves in; they know not the light: 

 

 


17

 

  For the morning is to them all [as] the shadow of death; for they are familiar with the terrors of the shadow of death. 

 

 


18

 

  He is swift on the face of the waters; their portion is cursed on the earth: he turneth not unto the way of the vineyards. 

 

 


19

 

  Drought and heat consume snow waters; so doth Sheol those that have sinned. 

 

 


20

 

  The womb forgetteth him; the worm feedeth sweetly on him: he shall be no more remembered; and unrighteousness is broken as a tree, -- 

 

 


21

 

  He that despoileth 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

 

  [God] setteth him in safety, and he resteth thereon; but his eyes are upon their ways. 

 

 


24

 

  They are exalted for a little, and are no more; they are laid low; like all [other] are they gathered, and are cut off as the tops of the ears of corn. 

 

 


25

 

  If it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth? 

 

 


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