Job: Judgment for the Wicked 1 AKJV Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days? BSB BSB: “Why does the Almighty not reserve times for judgment? Why may those who know Him never see His days?
2 AKJV Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof. BSB BSB: Men move boundary stones; they pasture stolen flocks.
3 AKJV They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow’s ox for a pledge. BSB BSB: They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widow’s ox in pledge.
4 AKJV They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together. BSB BSB: They push the needy off the road and force all the poor of the land into hiding.
5 AKJV Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yields food for them and for their children. BSB BSB: Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go to work foraging for food; the wasteland is food for their children.
6 AKJV They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked. BSB BSB: They gather fodder in the fields and glean the vineyards of the wicked.
7 AKJV They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold. BSB BSB: Without clothing, they spend the night naked; they have no covering against the cold.
8 AKJV They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter. BSB BSB: Drenched by mountain rains, they huddle against the rocks for want of shelter.
9 AKJV They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor. BSB BSB: The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.
10 AKJV They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry; BSB BSB: Without clothing, they wander about naked. They carry the sheaves, but still go hungry.
11 AKJV Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst. BSB BSB: They crush olives within their walls; they tread the winepresses, but go thirsty.
12 AKJV Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded cries out: yet God lays not folly to them. BSB BSB: From the city, men groan, and the souls of the wounded cry out, yet God charges no one with wrongdoing.
13 AKJV They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof. BSB BSB: Then there are those who rebel against the light, not knowing its ways or staying on its paths.
14 AKJV The murderer rising with the light kills the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief. BSB BSB: When daylight is gone, the murderer rises to kill the poor and needy; in the night he is like a thief.
15 AKJV The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguises his face. BSB BSB: The eye of the adulterer watches for twilight. Thinking, ‘No eye will see me,’ he covers his face.
16 AKJV In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light. BSB BSB: In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves in, never to experience the light.
17 AKJV 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. BSB BSB: For to them, deep darkness is their morning; surely they are friends with the terrors of darkness!
18 AKJV He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholds not the way of the vineyards. BSB BSB: 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 AKJV Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so does the grave those which have sinned. BSB BSB: As drought and heat consume the melting snow, so Sheol steals those who have sinned.
20 AKJV 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. BSB BSB: The womb forgets them; the worm feeds on them; they are remembered no more. So injustice is broken like a tree.
21 AKJV He evil entreats the barren that bears not: and does not good to the widow. BSB BSB: They prey on the barren and childless, and show no kindness to the widow.
22 AKJV He draws also the mighty with his power: he rises up, and no man is sure of life. BSB BSB: Yet by His power, God drags away the mighty; though rising up, they have no assurance of life.
23 AKJV Though it be given him to be in safety, where on he rests; yet his eyes are on their ways. BSB BSB: He gives them a sense of security, but His eyes are on their ways.
24 AKJV They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn. BSB BSB: 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 AKJV And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth? BSB BSB: If this is not so, then who can prove me a liar and reduce my words to nothing?”
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