Job 24

NEW JERUSALEM	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 Why does Shaddai not make known the times he has fixed; why do his faithful never see his Days?	1 Times are not hid from the Almighty: but they that know him, know not his days.
2 The wicked move boundary-marks away, they carry off flock and shepherd.	2 Some have removed landmarks, have taken away flocks by force, and fed them.
3 They drive away the orphan's donkey, as security, they seize the widow's ox.	3 They have driven away the ass of the fatherless, and have taken away the widow's ox for a pledge.
4 The needy have to keep out of the way, poor country people have to keep out of sight.	4 They have overturned the way of the poor, and have oppressed together the meek of the earth.
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.	5 Others like wild asses in the desert go forth to their work: by watching for a prey they get bread for their children.
6 They go harvesting in the field of some scoundrel, they go pilfering in the vineyards of the wicked.	6 They reap the field that is not their own, and gather the vintage of his vineyard whom by violence they have oppressed.
7 They spend the night naked, lacking clothes, with no covering against the cold.	7 They send men away naked, taking away their clothes who have no covering in the cold:
8 Mountain rainstorms cut them through, unsheltered, they hug the rocks.	8 Who are wet, with the showers of the mountains, and having no covering embrace the stones.
9 The orphan child is torn from the breast, the child of the poor is exacted as security.	9 They have violently robbed the fatherless, and stripped the poor common people.
10 They go about naked, lacking clothes, and starving while they carry the sheaves.	10 From the naked and them that go without clothing, and from the hungry they have taken away the ears of corn.
11 Two little wal s, their shelter at high noon; parched with thirst, they have to tread the winepress.	11 They have taken their rest at noon among the stores of them, who after having trodden the winepresses suffer thirst.
12 From the towns come the groans of the dying and the gasp of the wounded crying for help. Yet Godremains deaf to prayer!	12 Out of the cities they have made men to groan, and the soul of the wounded hath cried out, and God doth not suffer it to pass unrevenged.
13 In contrast, there are those who reject the light: who know nothing of its ways and who do notfrequent its paths.	13 They have been rebellious to the light, they have not known his ways, neither have they returned by his paths.
14 When all is dark the murderer leaves his bed to kil the poor and needy. During the night the thiefgoes on the prowl,	14 The murderer riseth at the very break of day, he killeth the needy, and the poor man: but in the night he will be as a thief.
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.	15 The eye of the adulterer observeth darkness, saying: No eye shall see me: and he will cover his face.
16 breaking into houses while the darkness lasts.	16 He diggeth through houses in the dark, as in the day they had appointed for themselves, and they have not known the light.
17 For al of them, morning is a time of shadow dark as death, since that is when they know what fear is.	17 If the morning suddenly appear, it is to them the shadow of death: and they walk in darkness as if it were in light.
18	18 He is light upon the face of the water: cursed be his portion on the earth, let him not walk by the way of the vineyards.
19	19 Let him pass from the snow waters to excessive heat, and his sin even to hell.
20	20 Let mercy forget him: may worms be his sweetness: let him be remembered no more, but be broken in pieces as an unfruitful tree.
21	21 For he hath fed the barren that beareth not, and to the widow he hath done no good.
22	22 He hath pulled down the strong by his might: and when he standeth up, he shall not trust to his life.
23	23 God hath given him place for penance, and he abuseth it unto pride: but his eyes are upon his ways.
24	24 They are lifted up for a little while and shall not stand, and shall be brought down as all things, and shall be taken away, and as the tops of the ears of corn they shall be broken.
25 Is this not so? Who can prove me a liar or show that my words have no substance?	25 And if it be not so, who can convince me that I have lied, and set my words before God?