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Job 24 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

Job Says God Seems to Ignore Wrongs

24 “^(A)Why are ^[a]times not stored up by the Almighty,
And why do those who know Him not see ^(B)His ^[b]days?
²People ^(C)remove landmarks;
They seize and ^[c]devour flocks.
³They drive away the donkeys of ^(D)orphans;
They seize the ^(E)widow’s ox as a pledge.
⁴They push ^(F)the needy aside from the road;
The ^(G)poor of the land have to hide themselves together.
⁵Behold, like ^(H)wild donkeys in the wilderness
They ^(I)go out scavenging for food in their activity,
As ^[d]bread for their children in the desert.
⁶They harvest their feed in the field
And glean the vineyard of the wicked.
⁷^(J)They spend the night naked, without clothing,
And have no covering against the cold.
⁸They are wet from the mountain rains,
And they hug the rock for lack of a shelter.
⁹Others snatch an ^(K)orphan from the breast,
And they seize it as a pledge against the poor.
¹⁰The poor move about naked without clothing,
And they carry sheaves, while going hungry.
¹¹Within the walls they produce oil;
They tread wine presses but go thirsty.
¹²From the city people groan,
And the souls of the wounded cry for help;
Yet God ^(L)does not pay attention to the offensiveness.

¹³“^[e]Others have been with those who rebel against the light;
They do not want to know its ways
Nor stay in its paths.
¹⁴The murderer ^(M)arises at dawn;
He ^(N)kills the poor and the needy,
And at night he is like a thief.
¹⁵The eye of the ^(O)adulterer watches for ^[f]twilight,
Saying, ‘No eye will see me.’
And he ^[g]disguises his face.
¹⁶In the darkness they ^(P)dig into houses,
They ^(Q)shut themselves up by day;
They do not know the light.
¹⁷For the morning is the same to him as thick darkness,
For he is familiar with the ^(R)terrors of thick darkness.

¹⁸“They are ^[h]^(S)insignificant on the surface of the water;
Their plot of land on the earth is ^(T)cursed.
They do not turn ^[i]toward the ^(U)vineyards.
¹⁹Dryness and heat ^(V)snatch away the snow waters,
As ^[j]^(W)Sheol snatches those who have sinned.
²⁰A ^[k]^(X)mother will forget him;
The ^(Y)maggot feeds sweetly until he is ^(Z)no longer remembered.
And injustice will be broken ^(AA)like a tree.
²¹He wrongs the ^[l]infertile woman,
And does no good for ^(AB)the widow.
²²But He drags off the mighty by ^(AC)His power;
He rises, but ^(AD)no one has assurance of life.
²³He provides them ^(AE)with security, and they are supported;
And His ^(AF)eyes are on their ways.
²⁴They are exalted a ^(AG)little while, then they are gone;
Moreover, they are ^(AH)brought low, and like everything they are gathered up;
Like the heads of grain they wither.
²⁵Now if it is not so, ^(AI)who can prove me a liar,
And make my speech worthless?”

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