246Or, Why is it, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, That they who know him see not his days?
24: 2 There are that remove the landmarks; They violently take away flocks, and feed them.
24: 3 They drive away the ass of the fatherless; They take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
24: 4 They turn the needy out of the way: The 247poor of the earth all hide themselves.
247Or, meek
24: 5 Behold, as wild asses in the desert They go forth to their work, seeking diligently for 248food; The wilderness yieldeth them bread for their children.
248Hb. the prey;
24: 6 They cut 249their provender in the field; And they glean the vintage of the wicked.
249Or, his
24: 7 They lie all night naked without clothing, And have no covering in the cold.
24: 8 They are wet with the showers of the mountains, And embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
24: 9 There are that pluck the fatherless from the breast, And 250take a pledge of the poor;
250Or, take in pledge that which is on the poor;
24: 10 So that they go about naked without clothing, And being hungry they carry the sheaves.
24: 11 They make oil within the walls of these men; They tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.
24: 12 251From out of the populous city men groan, And the soul of the wounded crieth out: Yet God regardeth not the folly.
251Hb. From out of the city of men do men groan,
24: 13 These are of them that rebel against the light; They know not the ways thereof, Nor abide in the paths thereof.
24: 14 The murderer riseth with the light; He killeth the poor and needy; And in the night he is as a thief.
24: 15 The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, Saying, No eye shall see me: And 252he disguiseth his face.
252Or, he putteth a covering on his face.
24: 16 In the dark they dig through houses: 253They shut themselves up in the daytime; They know not the light.
253Or, Which they had marked for themselves in
24: 17 For the morning is to all of them as thick darkness; For they know the terrors of the thick darkness.
24: 18 254Swiftly they pass away upon the face of the waters; Their portion is cursed in the earth: They turn not into the way of the vineyards.
254Or, Ye say, Swiftly they etc. Hb. Swift is he etc.
24: 19 Drought and heat 255consume the snow waters: So doth Sheol those that have sinned.
255Hb. violently take away the snow waters:
24: 20 The womb shall forget him; The worm shall feed sweetly on him; He shall be no more remembered: And unrighteousness shall be broken 256as a tree.
256Or, as a tree; even he that devoureth the barren etc.
24: 21 He devoureth the barren that beareth not, And doeth not good to the widow.
24: 22 Yet God preserveth the mighty by his power: He riseth up that hath no assurance of life.
24: 23 God giveth them to be in security, and they rest thereon; 257And his eyes are upon their ways.
257Or, But
24: 24 They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone; 258Yes, they are brought low, they shall be 259taken out of the way as all others, And shall be cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.
258Or, And when they are brought low,
259Or, gathered in the way as all others,
24: 25 And if it be not so now, who will prove me a liar, And make my speech nothing worth?
