# Job 24 ## Job 24:1 - [KJV] Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days? - [ASV] Why are times not laid up by the Almighty? And why do not they that know him see his days? - [YLT] Wherefore from the Mighty One Times have not been hidden, And those knowing Him have not seen His days. ### Notes on Job 24:1 - ## Job 24:2 - [KJV] *Some* remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed *thereof*. - [ASV] There are that remove the landmarks; They violently take away flocks, and feed them. - [YLT] The borders they reach, A drove they have taken violently away, Yea, they do evil. ### Notes on Job 24:2 - ## Job 24:3 - [KJV] They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge. - [ASV] They drive away the ass of the fatherless; They take the widow's ox for a pledge. - [YLT] The ass of the fatherless they lead away, They take in pledge the ox of the widow, ### Notes on Job 24:3 - ## Job 24:4 - [KJV] They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together. - [ASV] They turn the needy out of the way: The poor of the earth all hide themselves. - [YLT] They turn aside the needy from the way, Together have hid the poor of the earth. ### Notes on Job 24:4 - ## Job 24:5 - [KJV] 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. - [ASV] Behold, as wild asses in the desert They go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food; The wilderness *yieldeth* them bread for their children. - [YLT] Lo, wild asses in a wilderness, They have gone out about their work, Seeking early for prey, A mixture for himself -- food for young ones. ### Notes on Job 24:5 - ## Job 24:6 - [KJV] They reap *every one* his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked. - [ASV] They cut their provender in the field; And they glean the vintage of the wicked. - [YLT] In a field his provender they reap, And the vineyard of the wicked they glean. ### Notes on Job 24:6 - ## Job 24:7 - [KJV] They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that *they have* no covering in the cold. - [ASV] They lie all night naked without clothing, And have no covering in the cold. - [YLT] The naked they cause to lodge Without clothing. And there is no covering in the cold. ### Notes on Job 24:7 - ## Job 24:8 - [KJV] They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter. - [ASV] They are wet with the showers of the mountains, And embrace the rock for want of a shelter. - [YLT] From the inundation of hills they are wet, And without a refuge -- have embraced a rock. ### Notes on Job 24:8 - ## Job 24:9 - [KJV] They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor. - [ASV] There are that pluck the fatherless from the breast, And take a pledge of the poor; - [YLT] They take violently away From the breast the orphan, And on the poor they lay a pledge. ### Notes on Job 24:9 - ## Job 24:10 - [KJV] They cause *him* to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf *from* the hungry; - [ASV] *So that* they go about naked without clothing, And being hungry they carry the sheaves. - [YLT] Naked, they have gone without clothing, And hungry -- have taken away a sheaf. ### Notes on Job 24:10 - ## Job 24:11 - [KJV] *Which* make oil within their walls, *and* tread *their* winepresses, and suffer thirst. - [ASV] They make oil within the walls of these men; They tread *their* winepresses, and suffer thirst. - [YLT] Between their walls they make oil, Wine-presses they have trodden, and thirst. ### Notes on Job 24:11 - ## Job 24:12 - [KJV] Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly *to them*. - [ASV] From out of the populous city men groan, And the soul of the wounded crieth out: Yet God regardeth not the folly. - [YLT] Because of enmity men do groan, And the soul of pierced ones doth cry, And God doth not give praise. ### Notes on Job 24:12 - ## Job 24:13 - [KJV] They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof. - [ASV] These are of them that rebel against the light; They know not the ways thereof, Nor abide in the paths thereof. - [YLT] They have been among rebellious ones of light, They have not discerned His ways, Nor abode in His paths. ### Notes on Job 24:13 - ## Job 24:14 - [KJV] The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief. - [ASV] The murderer riseth with the light; He killeth the poor and needy; And in the night he is as a thief. - [YLT] At the light doth the murderer rise, He doth slay the poor and needy, And in the night he is as a thief. ### Notes on Job 24:14 - ## Job 24:15 - [KJV] The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth *his* face. - [ASV] The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, Saying, No eye shall see me: And he disguiseth his face. - [YLT] And the eye of an adulterer Hath observed the twilight, Saying, 'No eye doth behold me.' And he putteth the face in secret. ### Notes on Job 24:15 - ## Job 24:16 - [KJV] In the dark they dig through houses, *which* they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light. - [ASV] In the dark they dig through houses: They shut themselves up in the day-time; They know not the light. - [YLT] He hath dug in the darkness -- houses; By day they shut themselves up, They have not known light. ### Notes on Job 24:16 - ## Job 24:17 - [KJV] 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. - [ASV] For the morning is to all of them as thick darkness; For they know the terrors of the thick darkness. - [YLT] When together, morning *is* to them death shade, When he discerneth the terrors of death shade. ### Notes on Job 24:17 - ## Job 24:18 - [KJV] He *is* swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards. - [ASV] Swiftly they *pass away* upon the face of the waters; Their portion is cursed in the earth: They turn not into the way of the vineyards. - [YLT] Light he *is* on the face of the waters, Vilified is their portion in the earth, He turneth not the way of vineyards. ### Notes on Job 24:18 - ## Job 24:19 - [KJV] Drought and heat consume the snow waters: *so doth* the grave *those which* have sinned. - [ASV] Drought and heat consume the snow waters: *So doth* Sheol *those that* have sinned. - [YLT] Drought -- also heat -- consume snow-waters, Sheol *those who* have sinned. ### Notes on Job 24:19 - ## Job 24:20 - [KJV] 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. - [ASV] The womb shall forget him; The worm shall feed sweetly on him; He shall be no more remembered; And unrighteousness shall be broken as a tree. - [YLT] Forget him doth the womb, Sweeten *on* him doth the worm, No more is he remembered, And broken as a tree is wickedness. ### Notes on Job 24:20 - ## Job 24:21 - [KJV] He evil entreateth the barren *that* beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow. - [ASV] He devoureth the barren that beareth not, And doeth not good to the widow. - [YLT] Treating evil the barren *who* beareth not, And *to* the widow he doth no good, ### Notes on Job 24:21 - ## Job 24:22 - [KJV] He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no *man* is sure of life. - [ASV] Yet *God* preserveth the mighty by his power: He riseth up that hath no assurance of life. - [YLT] And hath drawn the mighty by his power, He riseth, and none believeth in life. ### Notes on Job 24:22 - ## Job 24:23 - [KJV] *Though* it be given him *to be* in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes *are* upon their ways. - [ASV] *God* giveth them to be in security, and they rest thereon; And his eyes are upon their ways. - [YLT] He giveth to him confidence, and he is supported, And his eyes *are* on their ways. ### Notes on Job 24:23 - ## Job 24:24 - [KJV] 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. - [ASV] They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone; Yea, they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as all others, And are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain. - [YLT] High they were *for* a little, and they are not, And they have been brought low. As all *others* they are shut up, And as the head of an ear of corn cut off. ### Notes on Job 24:24 - ## Job 24:25 - [KJV] And if *it be* not *so* now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth? - [ASV] And if it be not so now, who will prove me a liar, And make my speech nothing worth? - [YLT] And if not now, who doth prove me a liar, And doth make of nothing my word? ### Notes on Job 24:25 -