Job 24
Study sheet, King James Version, with the original-language words this chapter turns on.
The text
1Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?
2Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.
3They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
4They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
5Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.
6They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.
7They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.
8They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
9They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
10They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;
11Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.
12Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.
13They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
14The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
15The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.
16In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
17For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.
18He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.
19Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned.
20The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.
21He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.
22He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no man is sure of life.
23Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways.
24They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.
25And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?
Words in this chapter
Definitions are Strong's own wording from his Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Counts are how often each word appears in this chapter, from the tagged text.
- לֹאlôʼH380813× in this chapter
not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
- דֶּרֶךְderekH18704× in this chapter
a road (as trodden); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb
- בְּלִיbᵉlîyH10973× in this chapter
properly, failure, i.e. nothing or destruction; usually (with preposition) without, not yet, because not, as long as, etc.
- גָּזַלgâzalH14973× in this chapter
to pluck off; specifically to flay, strip or rob
- אוֹרʼôwrH2163× in this chapter
illumination or (concrete) luminary (in every sense, including lightning, happiness, etc.)
- עַיִןʻayinH58693× in this chapter
an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
- עַלʻalH59213× in this chapter
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
- שׂוּםsûwmH77603× in this chapter
to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
- הָיָהhâyâhH19612× in this chapter
to exist, i.e. be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
- חָבַלchâbalH22542× in this chapter
to wind tightly (as a rope), i.e. to bind; specifically, by a pledge; figuratively, to pervert, destroy; also to writhe in pain (especially of parturition)
- יָדַעyâdaʻH30452× in this chapter
to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including observation, care, recognition; and causatively, instruction, designation, punishment, etc.)
- יַחַדyachadH31622× in this chapter
properly, a unit, i.e. (adverb) unitedly
- אֶבְיוֹןʼebyôwnH342× in this chapter
destitute
- יָתוֹםyâthôwmH34902× in this chapter
a bereaved person
- כִּיkîyH35882× in this chapter
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
- אַיִןʼayinH3692× in this chapter
a non-entity; generally used as a negative particle
- כֶּרֶםkeremH37542× in this chapter
a garden or vineyard
- לְבוּשׁlᵉbûwshH38302× in this chapter
a garment (literally or figuratively); by implication (euphemistically) a wife
- מַיִםmayimH43252× in this chapter
water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen
- אַלְמָנָהʼalmânâhH4902× in this chapter
a widow; also a desolate place
- נָכַרnâkarH52342× in this chapter
properly, to scrutinize, i.e. look intently at; hence (with recognition implied), to acknowledge, be acquainted with, care for, respect, revere, or (with suspicion implied), to disregard, ignore, be strange toward, reject, resign, dissimulate (as if ignorant or disowning)
- עָנִיʻânîyH60412× in this chapter
depressed, in mind or circumstances
- עָרוֹםʻârôwmH61742× in this chapter
nude, either partially or totally
- פָּנִיםpânîymH64402× in this chapter
the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposition (before, etc.)
- צַלְמָוֶתtsalmâvethH67572× in this chapter
shade of death, i.e. the grave (figuratively, calamity)
- קוּםqûwmH69652× in this chapter
to rise (in various applications, literal, figurative, intensive and causative)
- רָעָהrâʻâhH74622× in this chapter
to tend a flock; i.e. pasture it; intransitively, to graze (literally or figuratively); generally to rule; by extension, to associate with (as a friend)
- אֶרֶץʼeretsH7762× in this chapter
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
- בַּיִתbayithH10041× in this chapter
a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
- בַּלָּהָהballâhâhH10911× in this chapter
alarm; hence, destruction
- בְּלִילbᵉlîylH10981× in this chapter
mixed, i.e. (specifically) feed (for cattle)
- בֹּקֶרbôqerH12421× in this chapter
properly, dawn (as the break of day); generally, morning
- גְּבוּלָהgᵉbûwlâhH13671× in this chapter
a boundary, region
- גַּםgamH15711× in this chapter
properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and
- גַּנָּבgannâbH15901× in this chapter
a stealer
- דָּרַךְdârakH18691× in this chapter
to tread; by implication, to walk; also to string abow (by treading on it in bending)
- הוּאhûwʼH19311× in this chapter
he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demonstrative) this or that; occasionally (instead of copula) as or are
- הָלַךְhâlakH19801× in this chapter
to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)
- הֵםhêmH19921× in this chapter
they (only used when emphatic)
- הֵןhênH20051× in this chapter
lo!; also (as expressing surprise) if