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Job 24:20 (ERVEN) Easy to Read - English

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.
3 They steal a donkey that belongs to an orphan. They take a widow's cow until she pays what she owes them.
4 They force the poor to move out of their way and 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.
6 They have to work in the fields, harvesting grain. They work for the rich, gathering grapes in their vineyards.
7 They must sleep all night without clothes. They have no covers to protect them from the cold.
8 They are soaked with rain in the mountains. They stay close to the large rocks for shelter.
9 They take a nursing baby from its mother. They take a poor person's child to guarantee a loan.
10 They have no clothes, so they work naked. They carry piles of grain for others, but they go hungry.
11 They press out olive oil and walk on grapes in the winepress, but they have nothing to drink.
12 In 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.
14 A murderer gets up at dawn and kills poor, helpless people. And at night he becomes a thief.
15 A man who commits adultery waits for the night to come. He thinks, 'No one will see me,' but still, he covers his face.
16 When it is dark, evil people go out and break into houses. But during the day they lock themselves in their homes to avoid the light.
17 The darkest night is their morning. They are friends with the terrors of darkness.
18 "{You say,} 'Evil people are taken away like things carried away in a flood. The land they own is cursed, so no one goes to work in their vineyards.
19 As hot, dry weather melts away the winter snows, so the grave takes away those who have sinned.
20 Their own mothers will forget them. Only the worms will want them. No one will remember them. They will be broken like a rotten stick!
21 These evil people hurt women who have no children to protect them, and they refuse to help widows.
22 By his power God removes the powerful. Even if they have a high position, they cannot be sure of their lives.
23 They might feel safe and secure, but God is watching how they live.
24 They might be successful for a while, but then they will be gone. Like everyone else, they will be cut down like grain.'
25 "I swear these things are true! Who can prove that I lied? Who can show that I am wrong?"
1 Why H4069 IPRO , seeing times H6256 NMP are not H3808 NADV hidden H6845 VNP3MP from the Almighty H7706 M-EMS , do they that know H3045 W-VQCMS-3MS him not H3808 NADV see H2372 VQP3MP his days H3117 CMP-3MS ?
2 Some remove H5381 VHY3MP the landmarks H1367 NFS ; they violently take away H1497 VQQ3MP flocks H5739 NMS , and feed H7462 W-VQY3MP thereof .
3 They drive away H5090 VQY3MP the ass H2543 CMS of the fatherless H3490 NMP , they take the widow\'s ox for a pledge H2254 VQY3MP .
4 They turn H5186 VHY3MP the needy H34 NMP out of the way H1870 M-NMS : the poor H6041 of the earth H776 GFS hide H2244 VUQ3MP themselves together H3162 ADV .
5 Behold H2005 IJEC , as wild asses H6501 NMP in the desert H4057 BD-NMS , go they forth H3318 VQQ3MP to their work H6467 B-CMS-3MP ; rising quickly H7836 VPCMP for a prey H2964 LD-NMS : the wilderness H6160 NFS yieldeth food H3899 NMS for them and for their children H5288 LD-NMP .
6 They reap H7114 VHY3MP every one his corn H1098 CMS-3MS in the field H7704 B-NMS : and they gather H3953 VPY3MP the vintage H3754 W-NMS of the wicked H7563 AMS .
7 They cause the naked H6174 AMS to lodge H3885 VQY3MP without H1097 M-NPAR clothing H3830 NMS , that they have no H369 W-NPAR covering H3682 NFS in the cold H7135 BD-NFS .
8 They are wet H7372 VQY3MP with the showers H2230 M-CMS of the mountains H2022 NMP , and embrace H2263 VPQ3MP the rock H6697 NMS for want H1097 WM-ADV of a shelter H4268 NMS .
9 They pluck H1497 VQY3MP the fatherless H3490 NMS from the breast H7699 M-NMS , and take a pledge H2254 VQY3MP of H5921 the poor H6041 AMS .
10 They cause him to go H1980 VPQ3MP naked H6174 AMS without H1097 ADV clothing H3830 NMS , and they take away H5375 VQQ3MP the sheaf H6016 NMS from the hungry H7457 ;
11 Which make oil H6671 VHY3MP within H996 PREP their walls H7791 CFP-3MP , and tread H1869 VQQ3MP their winepresses H3342 NMP , and suffer thirst H6770 W-VQY3MP .
12 Men H4962 NMP groan H5008 VQY3MP from out of the city H5892 M-NFS , and the soul H5315 W-CFS of the wounded H2491 NMP crieth out H7768 VQY3FS : yet God H433 W-EMS layeth H7760 VQY3MS not H3808 NADV folly H8604 NFS to them .
13 They H1992 PPRO-3MP are H1961 VQQ3MP of those that rebel H4775 VQCMP against the light H216 NMS ; they know H5234 VHQ3MP not H3808 ADV the ways H1870 CMP-3MS thereof , nor H3808 W-NADV abide H3427 VQQ3MP in the paths H5410 B-CFP-3MS thereof .
14 The murderer H7523 VQPMS rising H6965 VQY3MS with the light H216 L-NMS killeth H6991 VQY3MS the poor H6041 AMS and needy H34 W-AMS , and in the night H3915 WB-AFS is H1961 VPY3MS as a thief H1590 KD-NMS .
15 The eye H5869 W-CMS also of the adulterer H5003 VQPMS waiteth H8104 VQQ3FS for the twilight H5399 NMS , saying H559 L-VQFC , No H3808 NADV eye H5869 NMS shall see H7789 VQY3FS-1MS me : and disguiseth H5643 W-CMS his face H6440 NMP .
16 In the dark H2822 BD-NMS they dig through H2864 VQQ3MS houses H1004 NMP , which they had marked H2856 VPQ3MP for themselves in the daytime H3119 ADV : they know H3045 VQQ3MP not H3808 NADV the light H216 NMS .
17 For H3588 CONJ the morning H1242 NMS is to them even as H3162 ADV-3MS the shadow of death H6757 NMS : if H3588 CONJ one know H5234 VHY3MS them , they are in the terrors H1091 CFP of the shadow of death H6757 NMS .
18 He H1931 PPRO-3MS is swift H7031 AMS as PREP the waters H4325 OMD ; their portion H2513 CFS-3MP is cursed H7043 VUY3FS in the earth H776 B-NFS : he beholdeth H6437 VQY3MS not H3808 ADV the way H1870 NMS of the vineyards H3754 NMP .
19 Drought H6723 NFS and H1571 CONJ heat H2527 NMS consume H1497 VQY3MP the snow H7950 NMS waters H4325 CMP : so doth the grave H7585 NMS those which have sinned H2398 VQQ3MP .
20 The womb H7358 NMS shall forget H7911 VQY3MS-3MS him ; the worm H7415 NFS shall feed sweetly H4988 VQQ3MS-3MS on him ; he shall be no H3808 ADV more H5750 ADV remembered H2142 VNY3MS ; and wickedness H5766 NFS shall be broken H7665 W-VNY3FS as a tree H6086 KD-NMS .
21 He evil entreateth H7462 VQPMS the barren H6135 AFS that beareth H3205 VQY3FS not H3808 NADV : and doeth not H3808 NADV good H3190 VHY3MS to the widow H490 W-NFS .
22 He draweth H4900 W-VQQ3MS also the mighty H47 AMP with his power H3581 B-CMS-3MS : he riseth up H6965 VQY3MS , and no H3808 W-NPAR man is sure H539 VHY3MS of life H2416 BD-NMP .
23 Though it be given H5414 VQY3MS him to be in safety H983 L-NMS , whereon he resteth H8172 W-VNY3MS ; yet his eyes H5869 W-CMD-3MS are upon H5921 PREP their ways H1870 CMP-3MP .
24 They are exalted H7426 VQQ3MP for a little while H4592 AMS , but are gone H369 W-ADV-3MS and brought low H4355 W-VOQ3MP ; they are taken out of the way H7092 VNY3MP-3FP as all H3605 KD-NMS other , and cut off H5243 VQY3MP as the tops H7218 WK-CMS of the ears of corn H7641 CFS .
25 And if H518 W-PART it be not H3808 NADV so now H645 CONJ , who H4310 IPRO will make me a liar H3576 VHY3MS-1MS , and make H7760 W-VQI3MS my speech H4405 CFS-1MS nothing H408 L-NADV worth ?