Job: Judgment for the Wicked 1 UDB "Why does Almighty God not set a time when he will judge evil people? The people who obey God never seem to see him judge the evil people. BSB BSB: “Why does the Almighty not reserve times for judgment? Why may those who know Him never see His days?
2 UDB Some evil people remove the boundary markers of other people's land, in order to take their land; they seize other people's sheep and put them in their own pastures. BSB BSB: Men move boundary stones; they pasture stolen flocks.
3 UDB Some take away the donkeys that belong to orphans, and they take widows' oxen to guarantee that the widows will pay back the money that they loaned to those widows. BSB BSB: They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widow’s ox in pledge.
4 UDB Some shove poor people off the road, and they force poor people to find places to hide from them. BSB BSB: They push the needy off the road and force all the poor of the land into hiding.
5 UDB The result is that poor people have to search for food in the desert plain like wild donkeys do. 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 UDB The poor people harvest leftover grain in other people's fields, and gather leftover grapes from vineyards that belong to wicked men. BSB BSB: They gather fodder in the fields and glean the vineyards of the wicked.
7 UDB During the night they have nothing to cover their bodies, nothing to keep them warm. BSB BSB: Without clothing, they spend the night naked; they have no covering against the cold.
8 UDB When it rains in the mountains, they become very wet, so they huddle under the rock ledges to protect themselves from the rain. BSB BSB: Drenched by mountain rains, they huddle against the rocks for want of shelter.
9 UDB Some evil men snatch poor, fatherless infants away from their mothers; they say 'I will return your babies to you when you repay the money that I lent to you.' BSB BSB: The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.
10 UDB But the poor people walk around with no clothes on; they are hungry while they are working to carry other people's bundles of grain to the places where their grain will be threshed. BSB BSB: Without clothing, they wander about naked. They carry the sheaves, but still go hungry.
11 UDB Poor people are hired by these wicked people to make olive oil for them; they tread on grapes to make juice for wine, but they are not allowed to drink any of it when they are thirsty. BSB BSB: They crush olives within their walls; they tread the winepresses, but go thirsty.
12 UDB In the cities, people who are wounded and dying cry out to God for help, but God ignores their prayers. BSB BSB: From the city, men groan, and the souls of the wounded cry out, yet God charges no one with wrongdoing.
13 UDB Some wicked people avoid the light because they do evil things in the dark; they do not walk on roads that are lit. BSB BSB: Then there are those who rebel against the light, not knowing its ways or staying on its paths.
14 UDB Murderers steal things during the night, and then they rise before dawn in order that they may go out again and kill poor and needy people. BSB BSB: When daylight is gone, the murderer rises to kill the poor and needy; in the night he is like a thief.
15 UDB Those who want to commit adultery wait for evening to come; they say, 'I do not want anyone to see me,' so they keep their faces covered. BSB BSB: The eye of the adulterer watches for twilight. Thinking, ‘No eye will see me,’ he covers his face.
16 UDB It is during the night that robbers break into houses to steal things, but during the day they hide because they want to avoid being seen in the light. BSB BSB: In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves in, never to experience the light.
17 UDB All of those people want to do their evil deeds at night, not in the morning when it is light, because they are not afraid of the things that happen during the night that terrify others. BSB BSB: For to them, deep darkness is their morning; surely they are friends with the terrors of darkness!
18 UDB However, those wicked people will disappear very quickly, and God will curse the land that they owned; no one will go any longer to work in their 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 UDB Just as the snow melts away when it is hot and there is no rain, those who have sinned will disappear into the place where the dead people are. BSB BSB: As drought and heat consume the melting snow, so Sheol steals those who have sinned.
20 UDB Not even their mothers will remember them; wicked people will be destroyed like trees that are cut down, and maggots will eat their corpses. BSB BSB: The womb forgets them; the worm feeds on them; they are remembered no more. So injustice is broken like a tree.
21 UDB The wicked mistreat women who have been unable to give birth to children who would have grown up to take care of them; the wicked they never help widows. BSB BSB: They prey on the barren and childless, and show no kindness to the widow.
22 UDB But God, by his power, gets rid of mighty people. He causes the wicked people to die. BSB BSB: Yet by His power, God drags away the mighty; though rising up, they have no assurance of life.
23 UDB God allows them to think that they are secure and safe, but he is watching them all the time. BSB BSB: He gives them a sense of security, but His eyes are on their ways.
24 UDB They prosper for a little while, and then suddenly they are gone; God will make them die like all the other people; they will be like stalks of grain that the farmers have cut off. 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 UDB If this is not true, is there anyone who will show that I am a liar and prove me wrong?" BSB BSB: If this is not so, then who can prove me a liar and reduce my words to nothing?”
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