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# Job 24

Job 24 is chapter 24 of 42 in the Book of Job. Here are all 25 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> God's providence often suffers the wicked to go on a long time in their sins: but punisheth them in another life.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Job 24 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. The times are not hidden from the Almighty; even those who know him, do not know his days.
2. Some have crossed the boundaries, plundered the flocks, and given them pasture.
3. They have driven away the donkey of orphans, and have taken the cow from the widow as collateral.
4. They have undermined the way of the poor, and have pressed together the meek of the earth.
5. Others, like wild asses in the desert, go forth to their work; by watching for prey, they obtain bread for their children.
6. They reap a field that is not their own, and they harvest a vineyard that they have taken by force.
7. They send men away naked, having taken the clothing of those who have no covering in the cold;
8. these are wet with the mountain rain, and, having no covering, they embrace the rocks.
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.
19. May he cross from the snowy waters to excessive heat, and his sin, all the way to hell.
20. Let mercy forget him. His charm is worms. Let him not be remembered, but instead be broken like an unfruitful tree.
21. For he has fed on the barren, who does not bear fruit, and he has not done good to the widow.
22. He has pulled down the strong by his strength, and, when he stands up, he will not have trust in his life.
23. God has given him a place for repentance, and he abuses it with arrogance, but his eyes are upon his ways.
24. They are lifted up for a little while, but they will not continue, and they will be brought low, just like all things, and they will be taken away, and, like the tops of the ears of grain, they will be crushed.
25. But, if this is not so, who is able to prove to me that I have lied and to place my words before God?

## Job 24 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Ab Omnipotente non sunt abscondita tempora: qui autem noverunt eum, ignorant dies illius.
2. Alii terminos transtulerunt; diripuerunt greges, et paverunt eos.
3. Asinum pupillorum abegerunt, et abstulerunt pro pignore bovem viduæ.
4. Subverterunt pauperum viam, et oppresserunt pariter mansuetos terræ.
5. Alii quasi onagri in deserto egrediuntur ad opus suum: vigilantes ad prædam, præparant panem liberis.
6. Agrum non suum demetunt, et vineam ejus, quem vi oppresserint, vindemiant.
7. Nudos dimittunt homines, indumenta tollentes, quibus non est operimentum in frigore:
8. quos imbres montium rigant, et non habentes velamen, amplexantur lapides.
9. Vim fecerunt deprædantes pupillos, et vulgum pauperem spoliaverunt.
10. Nudis et incedentibus absque vestitu, et esurientibus tulerunt spicas.
11. Inter acervos eorum meridiati sunt, qui calcatis torcularibus sitiunt.
12. De civitatibus fecerunt viros gemere, et anima vulneratorum clamavit: et Deus inultum abire non patitur.
13. Ipsi fuerunt rebelles lumini: nescierunt vias ejus, nec reversi sunt per semitas ejus.
14. Mane primo consurgit homicida; interficit egenum et pauperem: per noctem vero erit quasi fur.
15. Oculus adulteri observat caliginem, dicens: Non me videbit oculus: et operiet vultum suum.
16. Perfodit in tenebris domos, sicut in die condixerant sibi, et ignoraverunt lucem.
17. Si subito apparuerit aurora, arbitrantur umbram mortis: et sic in tenebris quasi in luce ambulant.
18. Levis est super faciem aquæ: maledicta sit pars ejus in terra, nec ambulet per viam vinearum.
19. Ad nimium calorem transeat ab aquis nivium, et usque ad inferos peccatum illius.
20. Obliviscatur ejus misericordia; dulcedo illius vermes: non sit in recordatione, sed conteratur quasi lignum infructuosum.
21. Pavit enim sterilem quæ non parit, et viduæ bene non fecit.
22. Detraxit fortes in fortitudine sua, et cum steterit, non credet vitæ suæ.
23. Dedit ei Deus locum pœnitentiæ, et ille abutitur eo in superbiam: oculi autem ejus sunt in viis illius.
24. Elevati sunt ad modicum, et non subsistent: et humiliabuntur sicut omnia, et auferentur, et sicut summitates spicarum conterentur.
25. Quod si non est ita, quis me potest arguere esse mentitum, et ponere ante Deum verba mea?

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).