JobJudaism / Hebrew BibleAccepted ScriptureBiblical Hebrew / AramaicShareJob 24Webster - EnglishMoreVersion - 9 availableWorld English BibleKing James VersionAmerican Standard VersionDarby BibleYoung's Literal TranslationWebster BibleGeneva BibleDouay-Rheims ChallonerReina-Valera 1909WEBKJVASVDarbyYLTWebsterGenevaDouayRV1909LanguageEnglishEspañol‹Job 1Job 2Job 3Job 4Job 5Job 6Job 7Job 8Job 9Job 10Job 11Job 12Job 13Job 14Job 15Job 16Job 17Job 18Job 19Job 20Job 21Job 22Job 23Job 24Job 25Job 26Job 27Job 28Job 29Job 30Job 31Job 32Job 33Job 34Job 35Job 36Job 37Job 38Job 39Job 40Job 41Job 42›Job 24ListenPlay this chapter in spoken English.Save chapterListen to chapter1Why, seeing times [are] not hid from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days? 2[Some] remove the landmarks: they violently take away flocks, and [their] feed. 3They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge. 4They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together. 5Behold, [as] wild asses in the desert, they go forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness [yieldeth] food for them [and] for [their] children. 6They reap [every one] his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked. 7They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that [they have] no covering in the cold. 8They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter. 9They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor. 10They cause [him] to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf [from] the hungry; 11[Who] make oil within their walls, [and] tread [their] wine-presses, and suffer thirst. 12Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly [to them]. 13They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not its ways, nor abide in its paths. 14The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief. 15The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth [his] face. 16In the dark they dig through houses, [which] they had marked for themselves in the day-time: they know not the light. 17For the morning [is] to them even as the shades of death: if [one] knoweth [them], [they are in] the terrors of the shades of death. 18He [is] swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards. 19Drouth and heat consume the snow-waters: [so doth] the grave [those who] have sinned. 20The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree. 21He oppresseth the barren [that] beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow. 22He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no [man] is sure of life. 23[Though] it is given him [to be] in safety, on which he resteth; yet his eyes [are] upon their ways. 24They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all [others], and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn. 25And if [it is] not [so] now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech of no worth? ‹Previous chapterJob 23Next chapterJob 25›Similar passagesBy tradition and source labelFind similarCompare selectedCompare with similarAsk Deep ThoughtSelect passages to search for parallels.VersionsJob 24 across 9 versionsShow all 9WEB - World English BibleKJV - King James VersionASV - American Standard VersionDarby - Darby BibleYLT - Young's Literal TranslationWebster - Webster BibleGeneva - Geneva BibleDouay - Douay-Rheims ChallonerRV1909 - Reina-Valera 1909Tap any verse to select it, then compare selected passages or ask Deep Thought. Public Domain