Job 24:2 - Prayer Tents

Job Says God Seems to Ignore Wrongs

24WHY [seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty] does He not set seasons for judgment? Why do those who know Him see not His days [for punishment of the wicked]?H6256H6845H7706H3045H2372H3117 2Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks and pasture them [appropriating land and flocks openly].H5381H1367H1497H5739H7462 3They drive away the donkey of the fatherless; they take the widow's ox for a pledge.H5090H2543H3490H2254H490H7794H2254 4They crowd the poor {and} needy off the road; the poor {and} meek of the earth all hide themselves.H5186H34H1870H6041H6035H776H2244H3162 5Behold, as wild asses in the desert, [the poor] go forth to their work, seeking diligently for prey {and} food; the wilderness yields them bread for their children [in roots and herbage].H6501H4057H3318H6467H7836H2964H6160H3899H5288 6They reap each one his fodder in a field [that is not his own], and they glean the vintage of the wicked man.H7114H7114H1098H7704H3953H3754H7563 7They lie all night naked, without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.H6174H3885H3830H3682H7135 8They are wet with the showers of the mountains and cling to the rock for want of shelter.H7372H2230H2022H2263H6697H4268 9[The violent men whose wickedness seems unnoticed] pluck the fatherless infants from the breast [to sell or make them slaves], and take [the clothing on] the poor for a pledge,H1497H3490H7699H2254H6041 10So that the needy go about naked for lack of clothing, and though hungry, they must carry [but not eat from] the sheaves.H1980H6174H3830H5375H6016H7457 11Among the olive rows [of the wicked, the poor] make oil; they tread [the fresh juice of the grape from] the presses, but suffer thirst.H6671H996H7791H1869H3342H6770 12From out of the populous city men groan, and the very life of the wounded cries for help; yet God [seemingly] regards not the wrong done them.H4962H5008H5892H5315H2491H7768H433H7760H8604 13These wrongdoers are of those who rebel against the light; they know not its ways nor stay in its paths.H4775H216H5234H1870H3427H5410 14The murderer rises with the light; he kills the poor and the needy, and in the night he becomes as a thief.H7523H6965H216H6991H6041H34H3915H1590 15The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me, and he puts a disguise upon his face.H5869H5003H8104H5399H559H5869H7789H5643H7760H6440 16In the dark, they dig through [the penetrable walls of] houses; by day they shut themselves up; they do not know the sunlight.H2822H2864H1004H2856H3119H3045H216 17For midnight is morning to all of them; for they are familiar with the terrors of deep darkness.H1242H3162H6757H5234H1091H6757 18[You say] Swiftly such men pass away on the face of the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth; [no treader] turns into their vineyards.H7031H6440H4325H2513H7043H776H6437H1870H3754 19Drought and heat consume the snow waters; so does Sheol (the place of the dead) those who have sinned.H6723H2527H1497H7950H4325H7585H2398 20The womb shall forget him, the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered, and unrighteousness shall be broken like a tree [which cannot be healed].H7358H7911H7415H4988H2142H5766H7665H6086 21[The evil man] preys upon the barren, childless woman and does no good to the widow.H7462H6135H3205H3190H490 22Yet [God] prolongs the life of the [wicked] mighty by His power; they rise up when they had despaired of life.H4900H47H3581H6965H539H2416 23God gives them security, and they rest on it; and His eyes are upon their ways.H5414H983H8172H5869H1870 24They are exalted for a little while, and then are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all others are and are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.H7426H4592H4355H7092H1870H5243H7218H7641 25And if this is not so, who will prove me a liar and make my speech worthless?H645H7760H3576H7760H4405H408