# Job 24 (New King James Version)
Job Complains of Violence on the Earth

##### Chapter 24
###### 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;_  

###### 3 They drive away the donkey of the fatherless;  
They take the widow's ox as a pledge.  

###### 4 They push the needy off the road;  
All the poor of the land are forced to hide.  

###### 5 Indeed, _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.  

###### 6 They gather their fodder in the field  
And glean in the vineyard of the wicked.  

###### 7 They spend the night naked, without clothing,  
And have no covering in the cold.  

###### 8 They 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.  

###### 10 They cause _the poor_ to go naked, without clothing;  
And they take away the sheaves from the hungry.  

###### 11 They press out oil within their walls,  
And tread winepresses, yet suffer thirst.  

###### 12 The 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.  

###### 14 The murderer rises with the light;  
He kills the poor and needy;  
And in the night he is like a thief.  

###### 15 The eye of the adulterer waits for the twilight,  
Saying, 'No eye will see me';  
And he disguises _his_ face.  

###### 16 In the dark they break into houses  
Which they marked for themselves in the daytime;  
They do not know the light.  

###### 17 For 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.  

###### 19 As drought and heat consume the snow waters,  
_So_ the grave _consumes those who_ have sinned.  

###### 20 The 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.  

###### 21 For 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.  

###### 23 He gives them security, and they rely _on it;_  
Yet His eyes _are_ on their ways.  

###### 24 They 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?"