Book of Job, Chapter 24
Chapter 24 of Job
and why do those who know him never see his days?
they seize flocks and pasture them.
they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
the poor of the earth all hide themselves.
they go forth to their toil,
seeking prey in the wilderness
as food[a] for their children.
and they glean the vineyard of the wicked man.
and have no covering in the cold.
and cling to the rock for want of shelter.
and take in pledge the infant of the poor.)
hungry, they carry the sheaves;
they tread the wine presses, but suffer thirst.
and the soul of the wounded cries for help;
yet God pays no attention to their prayer.
who are not acquainted with its ways,
and do not stay in its paths.
that he may kill the poor and needy;
and in the night he is as a thief.
saying, ‘No eye will see me’;
and he disguises his face.
by day they shut themselves up;
they do not know the light.
for they are friends with the terrors of deep darkness.
their portion is cursed in the land;
no treader turns toward their vineyards.
so does Sheol those who have sinned.
their name[f] is no longer remembered;
so wickedness is broken like a tree.’
and do no good to the widow.
they rise up when they despair of life.
and his eyes are upon their ways.
they wither and fade like the mallow;[h]
they are cut off like the heads of grain.
and show that there is nothing in what I say?”FOOTNOTES
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