Job 24章 ESV | 微读圣经

1“Why are 24:1 Eccles. 9:12; Isa. 13:22; Jer. 27:7; Ezek. 22:3; 30:3not times of judgment 24:1 ch. 15:20kept by the Almighty,

and why do those who know him never see his 24:1 Isa. 2:12; 13:6, 9; Joel 1:15; 2:1; Amos 5:18; See ch. 18:20days?

2Some move 24:2 See Deut. 19:14landmarks;

they seize flocks and pasture them.

3They drive away the donkey of the fatherless;

they 24:3 See ch. 22:6take the widow’s ox for a pledge.

4They 24:4 Amos 2:7; 5:12; Mal. 3:5thrust the poor off the road;

the poor of the earth 24:4 Prov. 28:28; [ch. 30:5, 6]all hide themselves.

5Behold, like wild donkeys in the desert

the poor24:5 Hebrew they24:5 Ps. 104:23go out to their toil, 24:5 Ps. 104:21seeking game;

the wasteland yields food for their children.

6They gather their24:6 Hebrew his fodder in the field,

and they glean the vineyard of the wicked man.

7They 24:7 [Ex. 22:26, 27; Deut. 24:12, 13]lie all night naked, without clothing,

and have no covering in the cold.

8They are wet with the rain of the mountains

and 24:8 Lam. 4:5cling to the rock for lack of shelter.

9(There are those who snatch the fatherless child from the breast,

and they take a pledge against the poor.)

10They go about naked, without clothing;

hungry, they 24:10 [2 Tim. 2:6; James 5:4]carry the sheaves;

11among the olive rows of the wicked24:11 Hebrew their olive rows they make oil;

they tread the winepresses, but suffer thirst.

12From out of the city the dying24:12 Or the men groan,

and the soul of 24:12 Jer. 51:52; Ezek. 30:24the wounded cries for help;

yet God charges no one with 24:12 ch. 1:22wrong.

13“There are those who rebel 24:13 John 3:19, 20against the light,

who are not acquainted with its ways,

and do not stay in its paths.

14The murderer rises before it is light,

that he 24:14 [Ps. 10:8]may kill the poor and needy,

and in the night he is like a thief.

15The eye of the adulterer also waits for 24:15 Prov. 7:9the twilight,

saying, ‘No 24:15 Ps. 10:11eye will see me’;

and he veils his face.

16In the dark they 24:16 Ex. 22:2; Matt. 6:20; [ch. 31:9]dig through houses;

by day they shut themselves up;

they do not know the light.

17For 24:17 See ch. 3:5deep darkness is morning to all of them;

for they are friends with the terrors of deep darkness.

18“You say, 24:18 [ch. 9:26; Hos. 10:7]‘Swift are they on the face of the waters;

their portion is cursed in the land;

no treader turns toward their vineyards.

19Drought and heat snatch away the snow waters;

so does 24:19 See ch. 21:13Sheol those who have sinned.

20The womb forgets them;

the worm finds them sweet;

they are 24:20 [Prov. 10:7] no longer remembered,

so wickedness is broken like 24:20 [ch. 18:16]a tree.’

21“They wrong the barren, childless woman,

and do no good to the widow.

22Yet God24:22 Hebrew he prolongs the life of the mighty by his power;

they rise up when they despair of life.

23He gives them security, and they are supported,

and his 24:23 See Ps. 11:4; Prov. 15:3eyes are upon their ways.

24They are exalted 24:24 Ps. 37:10a little while, and then 24:24 [ch. 27:19] are gone;

they are brought low and gathered up like all others;

they are 24:24 ch. 14:2cut off like the heads of grain.

25If it is 24:25 [ch. 9:24]not so, who will prove me a liar

and show that there is nothing in what I say?”

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