Catholic Public Domain Version

Job 24:9-18 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

9. They have used violence to deprive orphans, and they have robbed the poor common people.

10. From the naked and those who do not have enough clothing, and from the hungry, they have taken away sheaves of grain.

11. They take their midday rest among the stockpiles of those who, though they have trodden the winepresses, suffer thirst.

12. In the cities, they caused the men to groan and the spirit of the wounded to cry out, and so God does not allow this to go unpunished.

13. They have been rebellious against the light; they have not known his ways, nor have they returned by his paths.

14. The killer of men rises at first light; he executes the destitute and the poor, but, in truth, he is like a thief in the night.

15. The eye of the adulterer waits for darkness, saying, "No eye will see me," and he covers his face.

16. He passes through houses in the nighttime, just as they had agreed among themselves in the daytime; and they are ignorant of the light.

17. If sunrise should suddenly appear, it is treated by them like the shadow of death; and they walk in darkness, as if in light.

18. He is nimble on the surface of water. His place on land is to be accursed. May he not walk by way of the vineyards.