Job 24

KING JAMES BIBLE	NEW JERUSALEM
1 Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?	1 Why does Shaddai not make known the times he has fixed; why do his faithful never see his Days?
2 Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.	2 The wicked move boundary-marks away, they carry off flock and shepherd.
3 They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.	3 They drive away the orphan's donkey, as security, they seize the widow's ox.
4 They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.	4 The needy have to keep out of the way, poor country people have to keep out of sight.
5 Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.	5 Like wild desert donkeys, they go out to work, searching from dawn for food, and at evening forsomething on which to feed their children.
6 They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.	6 They go harvesting in the field of some scoundrel, they go pilfering in the vineyards of the wicked.
7 They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.	7 They spend the night naked, lacking clothes, with no covering against the cold.
8 They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.	8 Mountain rainstorms cut them through, unsheltered, they hug the rocks.
9 They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.	9 The orphan child is torn from the breast, the child of the poor is exacted as security.
10 They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;	10 They go about naked, lacking clothes, and starving while they carry the sheaves.
11 Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.	11 Two little wal s, their shelter at high noon; parched with thirst, they have to tread the winepress.
12 Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.	12 From the towns come the groans of the dying and the gasp of the wounded crying for help. Yet Godremains deaf to prayer!
13 They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.	13 In contrast, there are those who reject the light: who know nothing of its ways and who do notfrequent its paths.
14 The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.	14 When all is dark the murderer leaves his bed to kil the poor and needy. During the night the thiefgoes on the prowl,
15 The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.	15 The eye of the adulterer watches for twilight, 'No one wil see me,' he mutters as he masks his face.Inthe daytime they keep out of sight, these people who do not want to know the light.
16 In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.	16 breaking into houses while the darkness lasts.
17 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.	17 For al of them, morning is a time of shadow dark as death, since that is when they know what fear is.
18 He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.	18
19 Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned.	19
20 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.	20
21 He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.	21
22 He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no man is sure of life.	22
23 Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways.	23
24 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.	24
25 And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?	25 Is this not so? Who can prove me a liar or show that my words have no substance?