Le Livre de Job

Chapître 24

1
Why, seeing times are not hidden8 from the Almighty, do they that know6 him not see1 his days?

2
[Some] remove55 the landmarks; they violently take away1 flocks, and feed4 [thereof].

3
They drive away4 the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.4

4
They turn55 the needy out of the way: the poor 6035 of the earth hide27 themselves together.

5
Behold, [as] wild asses in the desert, go they forth1 to their work; rising betimes18 for a prey: the wilderness [yieldeth] food for them [and] for [their] children.

6
They reap4 7114 55 [every one] his corn in the field: and they gather17 the vintage of the wicked.

7
They cause the naked to lodge55 without clothing, that [they have] no covering in the cold.

8
They are wet4 with the showers of the mountains, and embrace14 the rock for want of a shelter.

9
They pluck4 the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge4 of the poor.

10
They cause [him] to go14 naked without clothing, and they take away1 the sheaf [from] the hungry;

11
[Which] make oil55 within their walls, [and] tread1 [their] winepresses, and suffer thirst.4

12
 Men groan4 from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out:17 yet God layeth4 not folly [to them].

13
They are of those that rebel6 against the light; they know52 not the ways thereof, nor abide1 in the paths thereof.

14
The murderer6 rising4 with the light killeth4 the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.

15
The eye also of the adulterer6 waiteth1 for the twilight, saying,2 No eye shall see4 me: and disguiseth 7760 4 [his] face.

16
In the dark they dig through1 houses, [which] they had marked14 for themselves in the daytime: they know1 not the light.

17
For the morning [is] to them even as the shadow of death: if [one] know55 [them, they are in] the terrors of the shadow of death.

18
He [is] swift as the waters; their portion is cursed29 in the earth: he beholdeth4 not the way of the vineyards.

19
 Drought and heat consume4 the snow waters: [so doth] the grave [those which] have sinned.1

20
The womb shall forget4 him; the worm shall feed sweetly1 on him; he shall be no more remembered;11 and wickedness shall be broken11 as a tree.

21
He evil entreateth6 the barren [that] beareth4 not: and doeth not good55 to the widow.

22
He draweth1 also the mighty with his power: he riseth up,4 and no [man] is sure55 of life.

23
[Though] it be given4 him [to be] in safety, whereon he resteth;11 yet his eyes [are] upon their ways.

24
They are exalted1 for a little while, but are gone and brought low;90 they are taken out of the way11 as all [other], and cut off4 as the tops of the ears of corn.

25
And if [it be] not [so] now, who will make me a liar,55 and make4 my speech nothing worth?