Job 24
Job Continues: Why Are Times Not Set by the Almighty?
1 Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days? Parallel theme: Psalms 9:10, 36:10, Ecclesiastes 3:17, Isaiah 2:12, 60:22, Jeremiah 46:10, Matthew 24:38, Acts 1:7, 17:26, Romans 2:5 +5
2 Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof. Parallel theme: Deuteronomy 19:14, 27:17, Proverbs 22:28, 23:10
3 They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge. Parallel theme: Deuteronomy 24:6
4 They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
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. Parallel theme: Psalms 104:23
6 They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked. Parallel theme: Micah 6:15
7 They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold. Parallel theme: Job 22:6
8 They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter. Parallel theme: Lamentations 4:5
9 They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor. Parallel theme: Nehemiah 5:5
10 They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;
11 Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst. Parallel theme: Jeremiah 22:13, James 5:4
12 Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them. Parallel theme: Ecclesiastes 4:1
13 They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof. Parallel theme: Proverbs 4:19, 1 John 2:19, Jude 1:6
14 The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief. Parallel theme: 1 Thessalonians 5:2, Revelation 3:3
15 The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face. Parallel theme: Psalms 10:11
16 In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
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. Parallel theme: Job 3:5
18 He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.
19 Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned.
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. Evil: Proverbs 10:7. Parallel theme: Daniel 4:14
21 He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow. Parallel theme: Job 29:13
22 He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no man is sure of life.
23 Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways.
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. Parallel theme: Job 8:22, 14:21, 20:5, Psalms 37:10, 73:19, 92:7, James 1:11 +2
25 And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth? Parallel theme: Job 9:24