Job 24
Berean Standard BibleTranslation
Berean Standard Bible
Clementine Vulgate, 1598
1“Why does the Almighty not reserve times for judgment? Why may those who know Him never see His days?
1[Ab Omnipotente non sunt abscondita tempora: qui autem noverunt eum, ignorant dies illius.
2Men move boundary stones; they pasture stolen flocks.
2Alii terminos transtulerunt; diripuerunt greges, et paverunt eos.
3They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widow’s ox in pledge.
3Asinum pupillorum abegerunt, et abstulerunt pro pignore bovem viduæ.
4They push the needy off the road and force all the poor of the land into hiding.
4Subverterunt pauperum viam, et oppresserunt pariter mansuetos terræ.
5Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go to work foraging for food; the wasteland is food for their children.
5Alii quasi onagri in deserto egrediuntur ad opus suum: vigilantes ad prædam, præparant panem liberis.
6They gather fodder in the fields and glean the vineyards of the wicked.
6Agrum non suum demetunt, et vineam ejus, quem vi oppresserint, vindemiant.
7Without clothing, they spend the night naked; they have no covering against the cold.
7Nudos dimittunt homines, indumenta tollentes, quibus non est operimentum in frigore:
8Drenched by mountain rains, they huddle against the rocks for want of shelter.
8quos imbres montium rigant, et non habentes velamen, amplexantur lapides.
9The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.
9Vim fecerunt deprædantes pupillos, et vulgum pauperem spoliaverunt.
10Without clothing, they wander about naked. They carry the sheaves, but still go hungry.
10Nudis et incedentibus absque vestitu, et esurientibus tulerunt spicas.
11They crush olives within their walls; they tread the winepresses, but go thirsty.
11Inter acervos eorum meridiati sunt, qui calcatis torcularibus sitiunt.
12From the city, men groan, and the souls of the wounded cry out, yet God charges no one with wrongdoing.
12De civitatibus fecerunt viros gemere, et anima vulneratorum clamavit: et Deus inultum abire non patitur.
13Then there are those who rebel against the light, not knowing its ways or staying on its paths.
13Ipsi fuerunt rebelles lumini: nescierunt vias ejus, nec reversi sunt per semitas ejus.
14When daylight is gone, the murderer rises to kill the poor and needy; in the night he is like a thief.
14Mane primo consurgit homicida; interficit egenum et pauperem: per noctem vero erit quasi fur.
15The eye of the adulterer watches for twilight. Thinking, ‘No eye will see me,’ he covers his face.
15Oculus adulteri observat caliginem, dicens: Non me videbit oculus: et operiet vultum suum.
16In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves in, never to experience the light.
16Perfodit in tenebris domos, sicut in die condixerant sibi, et ignoraverunt lucem.
17For to them, deep darkness is their morning; surely they are friends with the terrors of darkness!
17Si subito apparuerit aurora, arbitrantur umbram mortis: et sic in tenebris quasi in luce ambulant.
18They are but foam on the surface of the water; their portion of the land is cursed, so that no one turns toward their vineyards.
18Levis est super faciem aquæ: maledicta sit pars ejus in terra, nec ambulet per viam vinearum.
19As drought and heat consume the melting snow, so Sheol steals those who have sinned.
19Ad nimium calorem transeat ab aquis nivium, et usque ad inferos peccatum illius.
20The womb forgets them; the worm feeds on them; they are remembered no more. So injustice is like a broken tree.
20Obliviscatur ejus misericordia; dulcedo illius vermes: non sit in recordatione, sed conteratur quasi lignum infructuosum.
21They prey on the barren and childless, and show no kindness to the widow.
21Pavit enim sterilem quæ non parit, et viduæ bene non fecit.
22Yet by His power, God drags away the mighty; though rising up, they have no assurance of life.
22Detraxit fortes in fortitudine sua, et cum steterit, non credet vitæ suæ.
23He gives them a sense of security, but His eyes are on their ways.
23Dedit ei Deus locum pœnitentiæ, et ille abutitur eo in superbiam: oculi autem ejus sunt in viis illius.
24They are exalted for a moment, then they are gone; they are brought low and gathered up like all others; they are cut off like heads of grain.
24Elevati sunt ad modicum, et non subsistent: et humiliabuntur sicut omnia, et auferentur, et sicut summitates spicarum conterentur.
25If this is not so, then who can prove me a liar and reduce my words to nothing?”
25Quod si non est ita, quis me potest arguere esse mentitum, et ponere ante Deum verba mea?]
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