English / ERV
Job 24
Easy-to-Read Version, 2006
- 1“Why doesn’t God All-Powerful set times for judgment? And why can’t his followers know when those times will be?
- 2“People move property markers to get more of their neighbor’s land. People steal flocks and lead them to other grasslands.
- 3They steal a donkey that belongs to an orphan. They take a widow’s cow until she pays what she owes them.
- 4They take a nursing baby from its mother. They take a poor person’s child to guarantee a loan. They force the poor to move out of their way and to get off the road.
- 5“The poor are like wild donkeys that go out to the desert to find food. From morning to night they work to gather food for their children.
- 6They have to work in the fields, harvesting grain. They work for the rich,[2] gathering grapes in their vineyards.
- 7They must sleep all night without clothes. They have no covers to protect them from the cold.
- 8They are soaked with rain in the mountains. They stay close to the large rocks for shelter.
- 10They have no clothes, so they work naked. They carry piles of grain for others, but they go hungry.
- 11They press out olive oil and walk on grapes in the winepress, but they have nothing to drink.
- 12In the city you can hear the sad sounds of dying people. Those who are hurt cry out for help, but God does not listen.
- 13“Some people rebel against the light. They don’t know what God wants. They don’t live the way he wants.
- 14A murderer gets up at dawn and kills poor, helpless people. And at night he becomes a thief.
- A man who commits adultery waits for the night to come. He thinks, ‘No one will see me,’ but still, he covers his face.