Job 24:1-25
Job continues to speak
I do not know why he will not decide.
In the end, he will
But good people will have to wait a long time to see this happen.
They do this to take fields that belong to other people.
Then they take the sheep that belong to those people.
And they bring them to eat the grass in their own fields.
They will take a cow from a woman who has no husband.
She may have to pay them some money.
So they keep the cow until she pays that money to them.
And poor people have to hide because they are afraid of such bad men.
There is nowhere else that they can go to find food for their children.
They pick the plants and the fruit that grow there.
They do not have anything with which to cover themselves.
So they hide among the rocks where they try to keep dry.
These men also take the children of poor people who cannot pay their debts.
They may be hungry. But they cannot eat the plants that they pick from the fields.
But they still do not have anything to drink.
But God does not do anything to the people who have hurt them.
He does not understand it. Nor does he follow where it leads him.
In the night, he goes out to take things that belong to other people.
He waits until it is dark.
Then he thinks that no one will see him.
And he covers his face so that no one will recognize him.
But in the day, they stay in their homes and sleep.
And they are not afraid of things that happen at night.
Bad people go from the earth as quickly as that.
Nothing grows in their fields.
And there are no
And people who do wrong things soon die.
No one remembers people who have done wrong things.
Like a dead tree, they will never live again.
And they are not kind to women whose husbands have died.
They may be important. But they do not know when they will die.
But he always watches them. And he sees the things that they do.
They are not different from anyone else and they soon die, like weeds in the ground.
Then the words that I speak will be as good as nothing.’