1 Why are not times treasured up with the Almighty? why do not they that know him see his days? DBY — Job 24:1
2 They remove the landmarks; they violently take away the flocks and pasture them; DBY — Job 24:2
3 They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow’s ox for a pledge; DBY — Job 24:3
4 They turn the needy out of the way: the afflicted of the land all hide themselves. DBY — Job 24:4
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. DBY — Job 24:5
6 They reap in the field the fodder thereof, and they gather the vintage of the wicked; DBY — Job 24:6
7 They pass the night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold; DBY — Job 24:7
8 They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and for want of a shelter embrace the rock DBY — Job 24:8
9 They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor: DBY — Job 24:9
10 These go naked without clothing, and, hungry, they bear the sheaf; DBY — Job 24:10
11 They press out oil within their walls, they tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst. DBY — Job 24:11
12 Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out; and God imputeth not the impiety. DBY — Job 24:12
13 There are those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof. DBY — Job 24:13
14 The murderer riseth with the light, killeth the afflicted and needy, and in the night is as a thief. DBY — Job 24:14
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. DBY — Job 24:15
16 In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves in; they know not the light: DBY — Job 24:16
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. DBY — Job 24:17
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. DBY — Job 24:18
19 Drought and heat consume snow waters; so doth Sheol those that have sinned. DBY — Job 24:19
20 The womb forgetteth him; the worm feedeth sweetly on him: he shall be no more remembered; and unrighteousness is broken as a tree, DBY — Job 24:20
21 He that despoileth the barren that beareth not, and doeth not good to the widow: DBY — Job 24:21
22 He draweth also the mighty with his power; he riseth up, and no [man] is sure of life. DBY — Job 24:22
23 [God] setteth him in safety, and he resteth thereon; but his eyes are upon their ways. DBY — Job 24:23
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. DBY — Job 24:24
25 If it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth? DBY — Job 24:25