Job 24 (NET)

Job 24:1¹“Why are times not appointed by the Almighty? Why do those who know him not see his days?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 1:7Eccl 3:172 Pet 3:7-8Eccl 8:6-7Matt 24:38Ps 36:10Ps 73:16-191 Tim 4:11 Tim 6:15Acts 17:26

Job 24:2²Men move boundary stones; they seize the flock and pasture them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 19:14Deut 27:17Prov 23:10Prov 22:28Hos 5:10Job 1:15Job 1:17Job 5:5

Job 24:3³They drive away the orphan’s donkey; they take the widow’s ox as a pledge.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 24:61 Sam 12:3Deut 24:10-13Deut 24:17-21Job 22:6-9Job 31:16-17

Job 24:4⁴They turn the needy from the pathway, and the poor of the land hide themselves together.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 28:28Job 24:14Amos 2:7Ezek 22:29Amos 8:4-6Ezek 18:12Ezek 18:18Isa 10:2Jas 5:4-6Job 29:12

Job 24:5⁵Like wild donkeys in the wilderness, they go out to their labor seeking diligently for food; the arid rift valley provides food for them and for their children.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 39:5-7Job 5:5Mic 2:1Ps 104:23Acts 23:12Gen 16:12Gen 27:40Hos 7:6Hos 8:9Jer 2:24

Job 24:6⁶They reap fodder in the field, and glean in the vineyard of the wicked.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mic 6:15Deut 28:33Deut 28:51Judg 6:3-6

Job 24:7⁷They spend the night naked because they lack clothing; they have no covering against the cold.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 22:26-27Job 22:6Deut 24:11-13Acts 9:31Gen 31:40Isa 58:7Job 24:10Job 31:19-20Prov 31:21

Job 24:8⁸They are soaked by mountain rains and huddle in the rocks because they lack shelter.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lam 4:5Heb 11:38Song 5:2

Job 24:9⁹The fatherless child is snatched from the breast, the infant of the poor is taken as a pledge.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Neh 5:52 Kgs 4:1

Job 24:10¹⁰They go about naked, without clothing, and go hungry while they carry the sheaves.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Amos 2:7-8Amos 5:11-12Deut 24:19

Job 24:11¹¹They press out the olive oil between the rows of olive trees; they tread the winepresses while they are thirsty.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jas 5:4Jer 22:13Deut 25:4

Job 24:12¹²From the city the dying groan, and the wounded cry out for help, but God charges no one with wrongdoing.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Eccl 4:1Eccl 8:11-12Mal 2:17Mal 3:15Ps 50:21Rom 2:4-52 Pet 3:15Exod 1:13-14Exod 2:23-24Exod 22:27

Job 24:13¹³There are those who rebel against the light; they do not know its ways and they do not stay on its paths.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 3:19-20Prov 4:19Jude 1:62 Thess 2:10-121 John 2:192 Pet 2:20-22John 9:39-41Jas 4:17John 12:35John 12:40

Job 24:14¹⁴Before daybreak the murderer rises up; he kills the poor and the needy; in the night he is like a thief.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Thess 5:2Mic 2:1-2Ps 10:8-10Rev 3:32 Sam 11:14-17Eph 5:7-11Luke 12:39

Job 24:15¹⁵And the eye of the adulterer watches for the twilight, thinking, ‘No eye can see me,’ and covers his face with a mask.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 10:11Prov 7:9-10Ezek 8:12Ezek 9:9Prov 6:32-35Ps 94:72 Sam 11:4-132 Sam 12:12Exod 20:14Gen 38:14-15

Job 24:16¹⁶In the dark the robber breaks into houses, but by day they shut themselves in; they do not know the light.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 3:20Eph 5:11-13Exod 22:2-3Ezek 12:12Ezek 12:5-7Job 24:13Job 38:12-13Matt 24:43Matt 6:19

Job 24:17¹⁷For all of them, the morning is to them like deep darkness; they are friends with the terrors of darkness.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 3:52 Cor 5:10-11Jer 2:26Ps 73:18-19Rev 6:16-17

Job 24:18¹⁸“You say, ‘He is foam on the face of the waters; their portion of the land is cursed so that no one goes to their vineyard.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 28:16-20Isa 23:10Job 22:16Job 9:26Mal 2:2Prov 3:33Ps 58:7Ps 69:22Ps 73:18-20

Job 24:19¹⁹The drought as well as the heat snatch up the melted snow; so the grave snatches up the sinner.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 49:14Job 21:13Luke 16:22Prov 14:32Eccl 9:4-6Luke 12:20Ps 68:2Job 21:23Job 21:32-34Job 6:15-17

Job 24:20²⁰The womb forgets him, the worm feasts on him, no longer will he be remembered. Like a tree, wickedness will be broken down.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 10:7Dan 4:14Job 18:16-17Eccl 8:10Isa 26:14Job 14:7-10Job 17:14Job 19:26Matt 3:10

Job 24:21²¹He preys on the barren and childless woman, and does not treat the widow well.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 1:6-7Job 22:9Job 29:13Job 24:3Job 31:16-18

Job 24:22²²But God drags off the mighty by his power; when God rises up against him, he has no faith in his life.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Dan 6:4-9Esth 3:8-10John 19:12-16Rev 16:13-14Rev 17:2

Job 24:23²³God may let them rest in a feeling of security, but he is constantly watching all their ways.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 15:31 Thess 5:3Rev 2:23Amos 8:7Amos 9:2Eccl 5:8Eccl 8:11Hab 1:13Isa 10:8-11Isa 56:12

Job 24:24²⁴They are exalted for a little while, and then they are gone, they are brought low like all others, and gathered in, and like a head of grain they are cut off.’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 37:10Jas 1:11Jas 5:1-3Ps 37:35-36Ps 92:7Isa 17:5-6Job 14:21Job 20:5Job 8:22Ps 73:19

Job 24:25²⁵“If this is not so, who can prove me a liar and reduce my words to nothing?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 9:24Job 11:2-3Job 27:4Job 6:28Job 15:2