LEB JOB Chapter 24

Job’s Eighth Speech, Continued

• and why do not those who know him see his days?
• 2 [fn] remove border stones; they seize flocks, and they pasture them.
• 3 the donkey of orphans; they take the widow’s ox as a pledge.
• 4 the poor off the road; the needy of the earth hide themselves together.[fn]
• 5 like wild donkeys in the desert they[fn] go out to their labor as searchers for the prey;
• the wilderness is[fn] [fn] food for the young.
• 6 [fn] fodder in the field, and they glean in the vineyard of the wicked.
• 7 [fn] clothing, and they have no garment in the cold.
• 8 [fn] and they cling to the rock[fn] refuge.
• 9 [fn] snatch the orphan from the breast, and they take a pledge against the needy.[fn]
• 10 [fn] go about naked, without clothing, and hungry, they carry the sheaves.[fn]
• 11 they tread the presses, but[fn] they are thirsty.
• 12 the city people groan, and the throat[fn] of the wounded cries for help;
• yet[fn] God does not [fn]
• 13 the ones rebelling against the light; they do not recognize his ways,
• and they do not stay in his paths.
• 14 [fn] the murderer rises; he kills the needy and the poor,
• and in the night he is like a[fn] thief.
• 15 the eye of the adulterer waits for dusk, saying,[fn]
• and he places a covering on his face.
• 16  by day they shut themselves in—
• they do not know the light
• 17  indeed, they know about the terrors of deep darkness.
• 18 [fn] is swift on the water’s surface; their portion is cursed in the land.
• [fn]
• 19 the snow waters, like Sheol snatches away those[fn] who have sinned.
• 20 The womb forgets him. The maggot feasts on him until he is no longer remembered,
• and wickedness is broken like a[fn] tree.
• 21 He feeds on the barren, who does not have a child, and does no good to the widow.
• 22 [fn] he[fn] carries off the tyrants by his strength; if he rises up, then[fn] he[fn] cannot be certain of life.[fn]
• 23 [fn] gives security to him, and he is[fn] supported, but[fn] his eyes are upon their ways.
• 24 [fn] [fn] And they are brought low; they are cut off like all others,
• and like the heads of grain they wither away.
• 25 it is not so, then who can prove me a liar and reduce my word to nothing?”