# Job 24

- Translation: Berean Standard Bible
- Canonical: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/24
- License: Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. Source: Scriptoria (scriptoria.digital).

## Text

[1] “Why does the Almighty not reserve times for judgment?
Why may those who know Him never see His days? [2] Men move boundary stones;
they pasture stolen flocks. [3] They drive away the donkey of the fatherless
and take the widow’s ox in pledge. [4] They push the needy off the road
and force all the poor of the land into hiding. [5] Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert,
the poor go to work foraging for food;
the wasteland is food for their children. [6] They gather fodder in the fields
and glean the vineyards of the wicked. [7] Without clothing, they spend the night naked;
they have no covering against the cold. [8] Drenched by mountain rains,
they huddle against the rocks for want of shelter. [9] The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast;
the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt. [10] Without clothing, they wander about naked.
They carry the sheaves, but still go hungry. [11] They crush olives within their walls;
they tread the winepresses, but go thirsty. [12] From the city, men groan,
and the souls of the wounded cry out,
yet God charges no one with wrongdoing. [13] Then there are those who rebel against the light,
not knowing its ways or staying on its paths. [14] When daylight is gone, the murderer rises
to kill the poor and needy;
in the night he is like a thief. [15] The eye of the adulterer watches for twilight.
Thinking, ‘No eye will see me,’ he covers his face. [16] In the dark they dig through houses;
by day they shut themselves in,
never to experience the light. [17] For to them, deep darkness is their morning;
surely they are friends with the terrors of darkness! [18] They are but foam on the surface of the water;
their portion of the land is cursed,
so that no one turns toward their vineyards. [19] As drought and heat consume the melting snow,
so Sheol steals those who have sinned. [20] The womb forgets them;
the worm feeds on them;
they are remembered no more.
So injustice is like a broken tree. [21] They prey on the barren and childless,
and show no kindness to the widow. [22] Yet by His power, God drags away the mighty;
though rising up, they have no assurance of life. [23] He gives them a sense of security,
but His eyes are on their ways. [24] They are exalted for a moment,
then they are gone;
they are brought low and gathered up like all others;
they are cut off like heads of grain. [25] If this is not so, then who can prove me a liar
and reduce my words to nothing?”

## Each verse

- Job 24:1 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/24/1
- Job 24:2 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/24/2
- Job 24:3 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/24/3
- Job 24:4 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/24/4
- Job 24:5 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/24/5
- Job 24:6 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/24/6
- Job 24:7 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/24/7
- Job 24:8 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/24/8
- Job 24:9 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/24/9
- Job 24:10 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/24/10
- Job 24:11 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/24/11
- Job 24:12 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/24/12
- Job 24:13 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/24/13
- Job 24:14 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/24/14
- Job 24:15 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/24/15
- Job 24:16 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/24/16
- Job 24:17 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/24/17
- Job 24:18 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/24/18
- Job 24:19 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/24/19
- Job 24:20 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/24/20
- Job 24:21 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/24/21
- Job 24:22 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/24/22
- Job 24:23 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/24/23
- Job 24:24 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/24/24
- Job 24:25 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/24/25