nsb - Job:24

nsb@Job:24:1 @ »Why does the Almighty not keep time? Why do those who know him never see his days?

nsb@Job:24:2 @ »The wicked remove landmarks. They seize flocks and pasture them.

nsb@Job:24:3 @ »They drive away the donkey of the orphan. They take the widows ox for a pledge.

nsb@Job:24:4 @ »They force the needy to yield the road. The poor of the earth all hide themselves.

nsb@Job:24:5 @ »Like wild donkeys in the desert they go out to their toil. They search in the wasteland food for their young.

nsb@Job:24:6 @ »They reap in a field not their own and they glean in the vineyard of the wicked.

nsb@Job:24:7 @ »They lie all night naked, without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.

nsb@Job:24:8 @ »They are wet with the rain of the mountains. They cling to the rock in search of shelter.

nsb@Job:24:9 @ »There are those who snatch the orphan child from the breast. They take as a pledge the infant of the poor.

nsb@Job:24:10 @ »The needy go about naked, without clothing; though hungry, they carry the sheaves.

nsb@Job:24:11 @ »Between their terraces they press out oil. They tread the wine presses, but suffer thirst.

nsb@Job:24:12 @ »The dying groan from the city. The throat of the wounded cries for help. Yet God pays no attention to their prayer.

nsb@Job:24:13 @ »There are those who rebel against the light. They are not acquainted with its ways, and do not stay in its paths.

nsb@Job:24:14 @ »The murderer rises at dusk to kill the poor and needy, and in the night is like a thief.

nsb@Job:24:15 @ »The eye of the adulterer also waits for the twilight. He says: No eye will see me. Then he disguises his face.

nsb@Job:24:16 @ »In the dark they dig through houses. By day they shut themselves up. They do not know the light.

nsb@Job:24:17 @ »For deep darkness is morning to all of them. They are friends with the terrors of deep darkness.

nsb@Job:24:18 @ »Swift are they on the face of the waters. Their portion in the land is cursed! No treader turns toward their vineyards.

nsb@Job:24:19 @ »Drought and heat snatch away the snow waters! In the same way the grave takes those who have sinned.

nsb@Job:24:20 @ »The womb forgets them. The worm finds them sweet. They are no longer remembered. Wickedness is broken like a tree.

nsb@Job:24:21 @ »They harm the childless woman, and do no good to the widow.

nsb@Job:24:22 @ »Yet God prolongs the life of the mighty by his power and they rise up when they despair of life.

nsb@Job:24:23 @ »He gives them security and they are supported. His eyes are upon their ways.

nsb@Job:24:24 @ »They are exalted a little while, and then are gone. They wither and fade like everything gathered up. They are cut off like the heads of grain.

nsb@Job:24:25 @ »If it is not so, who will prove me a liar, and show that there is nothing in what I say?«