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The Bible: Old Testament Chapter 24
Chapter 527 of 1,075
Canonical reference Job 24
English
World English Bible editorial project · World English Bible, Catholic book order (2020)
1. “Why aren’t times laid up by the Almighty? Why don’t those who know him see his days?
2. There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them.
3. They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
4. They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves.
5. Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go out to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread for their children.
6. They cut their food in the field. They glean the vineyard of the wicked.
7. They lie all night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.
8. They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for lack of a shelter.
9. There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,
10. so that they go around naked without clothing. Being hungry, they carry the sheaves.
11. They make oil within the walls of these men. They tread wine presses, and suffer thirst.
12. From out of the populous city, men groan. The soul of the wounded cries out, yet God doesn’t regard the folly.
13. “These are of those who rebel against the light. They don’t know its ways, nor stay in its paths.
14. The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.
15. The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, ‘No eye will see me.’ He disguises his face.
16. In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don’t know the light.
17. For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, for they know the terrors of the thick darkness.
18. “They are foam on the surface of the waters. Their portion is cursed on the earth. They don’t turn into the way of the vineyards.
19. Drought and heat consume the snow waters, so does Sheol those who have sinned.
20. The womb will forget him. The worm will feed sweetly on him. He will be no more remembered. Unrighteousness will be broken as a tree.
21. He devours the barren who don’t bear. He shows no kindness to the widow.
22. Yet God preserves the mighty by his power. He rises up who has no assurance of life.
23. God gives them security, and they rest in it. His eyes are on their ways.
24. They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone. Yes, 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.
25. If it isn’t so now, who will prove me a liar, and make my speech worth nothing?”
French
Fraternite de Tiberiade · Sainte Bible neo-Crampon Libre (2022)
1. Pourquoi n’y a-t-il pas de temps réservés par le Tout-Puissant, et ceux qui le servent ne voient-ils pas son jour ?
2. On voit des hommes qui déplacent les bornes, qui font paître le troupeau qu’ils ont volé.
3. Ils poussent devant eux l’âne de l’orphelin, et retiennent en gage le bœuf de la veuve.
4. Ils forcent les pauvres à se détourner du chemin ; tous les humbles du pays sont réduits à se cacher.
5. Comme l’onagre dans la solitude, ils sortent pour leur travail, dès le matin, cherchant leur nourriture. Le désert leur fournit la subsistance de leurs enfants ;
6. ils coupent les épis dans les champs, ils maraudent dans la vigne de leur oppresseur.
7. Nus, ils passent la nuit, faute de vêtements, sans couverture contre le froid.
8. La pluie des montagnes les pénètre ; à défaut d’abri, ils se blottissent contre le rocher.
9. Ils arrachent l’orphelin à la mamelle, ils prennent des gages sur les pauvres.
10. Ceux-ci, tout nus, sans vêtements, portent, affamés, les gerbes du maître ;
11. Ils expriment l’huile dans ses celliers ; ils foulent la vendange, et ils ont soif.
12. Du sein des villes s’élèvent les gémissements des hommes, et l’âme des blessés crie ; et Dieu ne prend pas garde à ces forfaits !
13. D’autres sont parmi les ennemis de la lumière, ils n’en connaissent pas les voies, ils ne se tiennent pas dans ses sentiers.
14. L’assassin se lève au point du jour ; il tue le pauvre et l’indigent, il rôde la nuit comme un voleur.
15. L’œil de l’adultère épie le crépuscule ; « Personne ne me voit, » dit-il, et il jette un voile sur son visage.
16. La nuit, d’autres forcent les maisons, le jour, ils se tiennent cachés : ils ne connaissent pas la lumière.
17. Pour eux, le matin est comme l’ombre de la mort, car les horreurs de la nuit leur sont familières.
18. Ah ! l’impie glisse comme un corps léger sur la face des eaux, il n’a sur la terre qu’une part maudite, il ne se dirige pas sur le chemin des vignes !
19. Comme la sécheresse et la chaleur absorbent l’eau des neiges, ainsi le schéol engloutit les pécheurs !
20. Ah ! Le sein maternel l’oublie, les vers en font leurs délices ; on ne se souvient plus de lui, et l’iniquité est brisée comme un arbre.
21. Il dévorait la femme stérile et sans enfants, il ne faisait pas de bien à la veuve !...
22. Mais Dieu par sa force ébranle les puissants, il se lève, et ils ne comptent plus sur la vie ;
23. il leur donne la sécurité et la confiance, et ses yeux veillent sur leurs voies.
24. Ils se sont élevés, et en un instant ils ne sont plus ; ils tombent, ils sont moissonnés comme tous les hommes ; ils sont coupés comme la tête des épis.
25. S’il n’en est pas ainsi, qui me convaincra de mensonge ? Qui réduira mes paroles à néant ?
Latin
Biblia Vulgata Clementina (1598), Migne witness (1880)
1. [Ab Omnipotente non sunt abscondita tempora: qui autem noverunt eum, ignorant dies illius.
2. Alii terminos transtulerunt; diripuerunt greges, et paverunt eos.
3. Asinum pupillorum abegerunt, et abstulerunt pro pignore bovem viduæ.
4. Subverterunt pauperum viam, et oppresserunt pariter mansuetos terræ.
5. Alii quasi onagri in deserto egrediuntur ad opus suum: vigilantes ad prædam, præparant panem liberis.
6. Agrum non suum demetunt, et vineam ejus, quem vi oppresserint, vindemiant.
7. Nudos dimittunt homines, indumenta tollentes, quibus non est operimentum in frigore:
8. quos imbres montium rigant, et non habentes velamen, amplexantur lapides.
9. Vim fecerunt deprædantes pupillos, et vulgum pauperem spoliaverunt.
10. Nudis et incedentibus absque vestitu, et esurientibus tulerunt spicas.
11. Inter acervos eorum meridiati sunt, qui calcatis torcularibus sitiunt.
12. De civitatibus fecerunt viros gemere, et anima vulneratorum clamavit: et Deus inultum abire non patitur.
13. Ipsi fuerunt rebelles lumini: nescierunt vias ejus, nec reversi sunt per semitas ejus.
14. Mane primo consurgit homicida; interficit egenum et pauperem: per noctem vero erit quasi fur.
15. Oculus adulteri observat caliginem, dicens: Non me videbit oculus: et operiet vultum suum.
16. Perfodit in tenebris domos, sicut in die condixerant sibi, et ignoraverunt lucem.
17. Si subito apparuerit aurora, arbitrantur umbram mortis: et sic in tenebris quasi in luce ambulant.
18. Levis est super faciem aquæ: maledicta sit pars ejus in terra, nec ambulet per viam vinearum.
19. Ad nimium calorem transeat ab aquis nivium, et usque ad inferos peccatum illius.
20. Obliviscatur ejus misericordia; dulcedo illius vermes: non sit in recordatione, sed conteratur quasi lignum infructuosum.
21. Pavit enim sterilem quæ non parit, et viduæ bene non fecit.
22. Detraxit fortes in fortitudine sua, et cum steterit, non credet vitæ suæ.
23. Dedit ei Deus locum pœnitentiæ, et ille abutitur eo in superbiam: oculi autem ejus sunt in viis illius.
24. Elevati sunt ad modicum, et non subsistent: et humiliabuntur sicut omnia, et auferentur, et sicut summitates spicarum conterentur.
25. Quod si non est ita, quis me potest arguere esse mentitum, et ponere ante Deum verba mea?]
Concepts in this passage
Anger
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Care of the soul
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Craving
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Death
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Ether and field
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Family
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God
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Humility
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Impressions and assent
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Justice
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Justice and care for the vulnerable
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Law
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Memory
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Mercy
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Messiah
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Philosophical eros
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Poverty and wealth
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Ressentiment
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Roles and relationships
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Service
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Sin
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Suffering
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Time
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Virtue
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Wisdom
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Verses in this chapter
- Verse 1“Why aren’t times laid up by the Almighty? Why don’t those who know him see his days?
- Verse 2There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them.
- Verse 3They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
- Verse 4They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves.
- Verse 5Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go out to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread f…
- Verse 6They cut their food in the field. They glean the vineyard of the wicked.
- Verse 7They lie all night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.
- Verse 8They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for lack of a shelter.
- Verse 9There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,
- Verse 10so that they go around naked without clothing. Being hungry, they carry the sheaves.
- Verse 11They make oil within the walls of these men. They tread wine presses, and suffer thirst.
- Verse 12From out of the populous city, men groan. The soul of the wounded cries out, yet God doesn’t regard the folly.
- Verse 13“These are of those who rebel against the light. They don’t know its ways, nor stay in its paths.
- Verse 14The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.
- Verse 15The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, ‘No eye will see me.’ He disguises his face.
- Verse 16In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don’t know the light.
- Verse 17For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, for they know the terrors of the thick darkness.
- Verse 18“They are foam on the surface of the waters. Their portion is cursed on the earth. They don’t turn into the way of the vineyards.
- Verse 19Drought and heat consume the snow waters, so does Sheol those who have sinned.
- Verse 20The womb will forget him. The worm will feed sweetly on him. He will be no more remembered. Unrighteousness will be broken as a t…
- Verse 21He devours the barren who don’t bear. He shows no kindness to the widow.
- Verse 22Yet God preserves the mighty by his power. He rises up who has no assurance of life.
- Verse 23God gives them security, and they rest in it. His eyes are on their ways.
- Verse 24They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone. Yes, they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as all others, …
- Verse 25If it isn’t so now, who will prove me a liar, and make my speech worth nothing?”