Job 24

1“Why aren’t times laid up by the Almighty? Why don’t those who know him see his days?Cross-references: Gen 7:4 · Gen 18:17 · Gen 18:20 · Ps 9:10 · Ps 31:15 · Ps 36:10 · +20 more

2There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them.Cross-references: Deut 19:14 · Deut 27:17 · Job 1:15 · Job 1:17 · Job 5:5 · Prov 22:28 · +2 more

3They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.Cross-references: Deut 24:6 · Deut 24:10 · Deut 24:17 · 1Sam 12:3 · Job 22:6 · Job 31:16

4They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves.Cross-references: Job 24:14 · Job 29:12 · Job 30:25 · Job 31:16 · Ps 41:1 · Ps 109:16 · +12 more

5Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go out to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread for their children.Cross-references: Gen 16:12 · Gen 27:40 · Job 5:5 · Job 12:6 · Job 24:14 · Job 39:5 · +9 more

6They cut their food in the field. They glean the vineyard of the wicked.Cross-references: Deut 28:33 · Deut 28:51 · Judg 6:3 · Mic 6:15

7They lie all night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.Cross-references: Gen 31:40 · Ex 22:26 · Deut 24:11 · Job 22:6 · Job 24:10 · Job 31:19 · +3 more

8They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for lack of a shelter.Cross-references: Song 5:2 · Lam 4:5 · Heb 11:38

9There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,Cross-references: 2Ki 4:1 · Neh 5:5

10so that they go around naked without clothing. Being hungry, they carry the sheaves.Cross-references: Deut 24:19 · Amos 2:7 · Amos 5:11

11They make oil within the walls of these men. They tread wine presses, and suffer thirst.Cross-references: Deut 25:4 · Jer 22:13 · James 5:4

12From out of the populous city, men groan. The soul of the wounded cries out, yet God doesn’t regard the folly.Cross-references: Ex 1:13 · Ex 2:23 · Ex 22:27 · Judg 10:16 · Job 9:23 · Ps 12:5 · +10 more

13“These are of those who rebel against the light. They don’t know its ways, nor stay in its paths.Cross-references: Job 23:11 · Prov 4:19 · Luke 12:47 · John 3:19 · John 8:31 · John 8:44 · +13 more

14The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.Cross-references: 2Sam 11:14 · Ps 10:8 · Mic 2:1 · Luke 12:39 · Eph 5:7 · 1Thess 5:2 · +1 more

15The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, ‘No eye will see me.’ He disguises his face.Cross-references: Gen 38:14 · Ex 20:14 · 2Sam 11:4 · 2Sam 12:12 · Job 22:13 · Ps 10:11 · +7 more

16In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don’t know the light.Cross-references: Ex 22:2 · Job 24:13 · Job 38:12 · Ezek 12:5 · Ezek 12:12 · Matt 6:19 · +3 more

17For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, for they know the terrors of the thick darkness.Cross-references: Job 3:5 · Ps 73:18 · Jer 2:26 · 2Cor 5:10 · Rev 6:16

18“They are foam on the surface of the waters. Their portion is cursed in the earth. They don’t turn into the way of the vineyards.Cross-references: Deut 28:16 · Job 9:26 · Job 22:16 · Ps 58:7 · Ps 69:22 · Ps 73:18 · +3 more

19Drought and heat consume the snow waters, so does Sheol those who have sinned.Cross-references: Job 6:15 · Job 21:13 · Job 21:23 · Job 21:32 · Ps 49:14 · Ps 58:8 · +5 more

20The womb will forget him. The worm will feed sweetly on him. He will be no more remembered. Unrighteousness will be broken as a tree.Cross-references: Job 14:7 · Job 17:14 · Job 18:16 · Job 19:26 · Prov 10:7 · Eccl 8:10 · +3 more

21He devours the barren who don’t bear. He shows no kindness to the widow.Cross-references: 1Sam 1:6 · Job 22:9 · Job 24:3 · Job 29:13 · Job 31:16

22Yet God preserves the mighty by his power. He rises up who has no assurance of life.Cross-references: Esth 3:8 · Dan 6:4 · John 19:12 · Rev 16:13 · Rev 17:2

23God gives them security, and they rest in it. His eyes are on their ways.Cross-references: Job 11:11 · Job 12:6 · Ps 10:13 · Ps 11:4 · Ps 73:3 · Prov 5:21 · +14 more

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, and are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.Cross-references: Job 8:22 · Job 14:21 · Job 20:5 · Ps 37:10 · Ps 37:35 · Ps 73:19 · +5 more

25If it isn’t so now, who will prove me a liar, and make my speech worth nothing?”Cross-references: Job 6:28 · Job 9:24 · Job 11:2 · Job 15:2 · Job 27:4