Job 约伯记24

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24"Why does the Almighty¹ not set times for judgment³? Why must those who know him look in vain for such days?
2Men move boundary stones; they pasture flocks they have stolen.
3They drive away the orphan's donkey and take the widow's ox in pledge.
4They thrust the needy⁴ from the path and force all the poor of the land into hiding.
5Like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go about their labor⁵ of foraging⁶ food; the wasteland provides food for their children.
6They gather fodder⁷ in the fields and glean⁸ in the vineyards of the wicked.
7Lacking clothes, they spend the night naked; they have nothing to cover themselves in the cold.
8They are drenched⁹ by mountain rains and hug the rocks for lack of shelter.
9The fatherless child is snatched from the breast; the infant of the poor is seized for a debt.
10Lacking clothes, they go about naked; they carry the sheaves, but still go hungry.
11They crush olives among the terraces ; they tread the winepresses, yet suffer thirst.
12The groans¹⁰ of the dying rise from the city, and the souls of the wounded cry out for help. But God charges no one with wrongdoing.
13"There are those who rebel against the light, who do not know its ways or stay in its paths.
14When daylight is gone, the murderer rises up and kills the poor and needy; in the night he steals forth¹¹ like a thief.
15The eye of the adulterer watches for dusk; he thinks, 'No eye will see me,' and he keeps his face concealed¹².
16In the dark, men break into houses, but by day they shut themselves in; they want nothing to do with the light.
17For all of them, deep darkness is their morning ; they make friends with the terrors of darkness.
18"Yet they are foam¹³ on the surface of the water; their portion of the land is cursed, so that no one goes to the vineyards.
19As heat and drought snatch away the melted snow, so the grave snatches away those who have sinned.
20The womb forgets them, the worm feasts on them; evil men are no longer remembered but are broken like a tree.
21They prey¹⁴ on the barren and childless woman, and to the widow show no kindness.
22But God drags away the mighty² by his power; though they become established, they have no assurance of life.
23He may let them rest in a feeling of security, but his eyes are on their ways.
24For a little while they are exalted¹⁵, and then they are gone; they are brought low and gathered up like all others; they are cut off like heads of grain.
25"If this is not so, who can prove me false and reduce my words to nothing?"