Job 24:1 (BSB)
“Why does the Almighty not reserve times for judgment? Why may those who know Him never see His days?

Job 24:2 (BSB)
Men move boundary stones; they pasture stolen flocks.

Job 24:3 (BSB)
They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widow’s ox in pledge.

Job 24:4 (BSB)
They push the needy off the road and force all the poor of the land into hiding.

Job 24:5 (BSB)
Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go to work foraging for food; the wasteland is food for their children.

Job 24:6 (BSB)
They gather fodder in the fields and glean the vineyards of the wicked.

Job 24:7 (BSB)
Without clothing, they spend the night naked; they have no covering against the cold.

Job 24:8 (BSB)
Drenched by mountain rains, they huddle against the rocks for want of shelter.

Job 24:9 (BSB)
The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.

Job 24:10 (BSB)
Without clothing, they wander about naked. They carry the sheaves, but still go hungry.

Job 24:11 (BSB)
They crush olives within their walls; they tread the winepresses, but go thirsty.

Job 24:12 (BSB)
From the city, men groan, and the souls of the wounded cry out, yet God charges no one with wrongdoing.

Job 24:13 (BSB)
Then there are those who rebel against the light, not knowing its ways or staying on its paths.

Job 24:14 (BSB)
When daylight is gone, the murderer rises to kill the poor and needy; in the night he is like a thief.

Job 24:15 (BSB)
The eye of the adulterer watches for twilight. Thinking, ‘No eye will see me,’ he covers his face.

Job 24:16 (BSB)
In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves in, never to experience the light.

Job 24:17 (BSB)
For to them, deep darkness is their morning; surely they are friends with the terrors of darkness!

Job 24:18 (BSB)
They are but foam on the surface of the water; their portion of the land is cursed, so that no one turns toward their vineyards.

Job 24:19 (BSB)
As drought and heat consume the melting snow, so Sheol steals those who have sinned.

Job 24:20 (BSB)
The womb forgets them; the worm feeds on them; they are remembered no more. So injustice is like a broken tree.

Job 24:21 (BSB)
They prey on the barren and childless, and show no kindness to the widow.

Job 24:22 (BSB)
Yet by His power, God drags away the mighty; though rising up, they have no assurance of life.

Job 24:23 (BSB)
He gives them a sense of security, but His eyes are on their ways.

Job 24:24 (BSB)
They are exalted for a moment, then they are gone; they are brought low and gathered up like all others; they are cut off like heads of grain.

Job 24:25 (BSB)
If this is not so, then who can prove me a liar and reduce my words to nothing?”
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