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King James Bible |
Youngs Literal Translation |
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| 24:1 | Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days? | Wherefore from the Mighty One Times have not been hidden, And those knowing Him have not seen His days. |
| 24:2 | Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof. | The borders they reach, A drove they have taken violently away, Yea, they do evil. |
| 24:3 | They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge. | The ass of the fatherless they lead away, They take in pledge the ox of the widow, |
| 24:4 | They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together. | They turn aside the needy from the way, Together have hid the poor of the earth. |
| 24:5 | Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children. | Lo, wild asses in a wilderness, They have gone out about their work, Seeking early for prey, A mixture for himself -- food for young ones. |
| 24:6 | They reap every one his |
In a field his provender they reap, And the vineyard of the wicked they glean. |
| 24:7 | They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold. | The naked they cause to lodge Without clothing. And there is no covering in the cold. |
| 24:8 | They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter. | From the inundation of hills they are wet, And without a refuge -- have embraced a rock. |
| 24:9 | They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor. | They take violently away From the breast the orphan, And on the poor they lay a pledge. |
| 24:10 | They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry; | Naked, they have gone without clothing, And hungry -- have taken away a sheaf. |
| 24:11 | Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst. | Between their walls they make oil, Wine-presses they have trodden, and thirst. |
| 24:12 | Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them. | Because of enmity men do groan, And the soul of pierced ones doth cry, And God doth not give praise. |
| 24:13 | They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof. | They have been among rebellious ones of light, They have not discerned His ways, Nor abode in His paths. |
| 24:14 | The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief. | At the light doth the murderer rise, He doth slay the poor and needy, And in the night he is as a thief. |
| 24:15 | The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face. | And the eye of an adulterer Hath observed the twilight, Saying, `No eye doth behold me.' And he putteth the face in secret. |
| 24:16 | In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light. | He hath dug in the darkness -- houses; By day they shut themselves up, They have not known light. |
| 24:17 | For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death. | When together, morning `is' to them death shade, When he discerneth the terrors of death shade. |
| 24:18 | He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards. | Light he `is' on the face of the waters, Vilified is their portion in the earth, He turneth not the way of vineyards. |
| 24:19 | Drought and heat |
Drought -- also heat -- consume snow-waters, Sheol `those who' have sinned. |
| 24:20 | The 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. | Forget him doth the womb, Sweeten `on' him doth the worm, No more is he remembered, And broken as a tree is wickedness. |
| 24:21 | He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow. | Treating evil the barren `who' beareth not, And `to' the widow he doth no good, |
| 24:22 | He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no man is sure of life. | And hath drawn the mighty by his power, He riseth, and none believeth in life. |
| 24:23 | Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways. | He giveth to him confidence, and he is supported, And his eyes `are' on their ways. |
| 24:24 | They are exalted for a little while, but |
High they were `for' a little, and they are not, And they have been brought low. As all `others' they are shut up, And as the head of an ear of corn cut off. |
| 24:25 | And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth? | And if not now, who doth prove me a liar, And doth make of nothing my word? |