Job 24

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¹“Since times are not hidden from the Almighty, Why do those who know Him see not His days? ✦ ²“Some remove landmarks; They seize flocks violently and feed on them; ✦ ³They drive away the donkey of the fatherless; They take the widow’s ox as a pledge. ✦ ⁴They push the needy off the road; All the poor of the land are forced to hide. ✦ ⁵Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert, They go out to their work, searching for food. The wilderness yields food for them and for their children. ✦ ⁶They gather their fodder in the field And glean in the vineyard of the wicked. ✦ ⁷They spend the night naked, without clothing, And have no covering in the cold. ✦ ⁸They are wet with the showers of the mountains, And huddle around the rock for want of shelter. ✦ ⁹“Some snatch the fatherless from the breast, And take a pledge from the poor. ✦ ¹⁰They cause the poor to go naked, without clothing; And they take away the sheaves from the hungry. ✦ ¹¹They press out oil within their walls, And tread winepresses, yet suffer thirst. ✦ ¹²The dying groan in the city, And the souls of the wounded cry out; Yet God does not charge them with wrong. ✦ ¹³“There are those who rebel against the light; They do not know its ways Nor abide in its paths. ✦ ¹⁴The murderer rises with the light; He kills the poor and needy; And in the night he is like a thief. ✦ ¹⁵The eye of the adulterer waits for the twilight, Saying, ‘No eye will see me’; And he disguises his face. ✦ ¹⁶In the dark they break into houses Which they marked for themselves in the daytime; They do not know the light. ✦ ¹⁷For the morning is the same to them as the shadow of death; If someone recognizes them, They are in the terrors of the shadow of death. ✦ ¹⁸“They should be swift on the face of the waters, Their portion should be cursed in the earth, So that no one would turn into the way of their vineyards. ✦ ¹⁹As drought and heat consume the snow waters, So the grave consumes those who have sinned. ✦ ²⁰The womb should forget him, The worm should feed sweetly on him; He should be remembered no more, And wickedness should be broken like a tree. ✦ ²¹For he preys on the barren who do not bear, And does no good for the widow. ✦ ²²“But God draws the mighty away with His power; He rises up, but no man is sure of life. ✦ ²³He gives them security, and they rely on it; Yet His eyes are on their ways. ✦ ²⁴They are exalted for a little while, Then they are gone. They are brought low; They are taken out of the way like all others; They dry out like the heads of grain. ✦ ²⁵“Now if it is not so, who will prove me a liar, And make my speech worth nothing?” ✦

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Where this chapter connects

Ps 73 ·6 Job 22 ·5 Job 24 ·5 Deut 24 ·5 Luke 12 ·5 Eccl 8 ·4 Job 31 ·4 Ps 10 ·3

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Job's cry for a mediator who can lay his hand on both God and man, and his confidence that 'my Redeemer lives' and will stand on the earth, reaches forward to Jesus the living Redeemer.

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