24:1 全能者既定期罰惡，為何不使認識他的人看見那日子呢？
24:2 有人挪移地界，搶奪群畜而牧養。
24:3 他們拉去孤兒的驢，強取寡婦的牛為當頭。
24:4 他們使窮人離開正道；世上的貧民盡都隱藏。
24:5 這些貧窮人如同野驢出到曠野，殷勤尋找食物；他們靠著野地給兒女糊口，
24:6 收割別人田間的禾稼，摘取惡人餘剩的葡萄，
24:7 終夜赤身無衣，天氣寒冷毫無遮蓋，
24:8 在山上被大雨淋濕，因沒有避身之處就挨近磐石。
24:9 又有人從母懷中搶奪孤兒，強取窮人的衣服為當頭，
24:10 使人赤身無衣，到處流行，且因飢餓扛抬禾捆，
24:11 在那些人的圍牆內造油，醡酒，自己還口渴。
24:12 在多民的城內有人唉哼，受傷的人哀號；上帝卻不理會那惡人的愚妄。
24:13 又有人背棄光明，不認識光明的道，不住在光明的路上。
24:14 殺人的黎明起來，殺害困苦窮乏人，夜間又作盜賊。
24:15 姦夫等候黃昏，說：必無眼能見我，就把臉蒙蔽。
24:16 盜賊黑夜挖窟窿；白日躲藏，並不認識光明。
24:17 他們看早晨如幽暗，因為他們曉得幽暗的驚駭。
24:18 這些惡人猶如浮萍快快飄去。他們所得的分在世上被咒詛；他們不得再走葡萄園的路。
24:19 乾旱炎熱消沒雪水；陰間也如此消沒犯罪之輩。
24:20 懷他的母（原文是胎）要忘記他；蟲子要吃他，覺得甘甜；他不再被人記念。不義的人必如樹折斷。
24:21 他惡待（或譯：他吞滅）不懷孕不生養的婦人，不善待寡婦。
24:22 然而上帝用能力保全有勢力的人；那性命難保的人仍然興起。
24:23 上帝使他們安穩，他們就有所倚靠；上帝的眼目也看顧他們的道路。
24:24 他們被高舉，不過片時就沒有了；他們降為卑，被除滅，與眾人一樣，又如穀穗被割。
24:25 若不是這樣，誰能證實我是說謊的，將我的言語駁為虛空呢？
“Why does the Almighty not set times for
judgment?
Why must those who know him look in vain for such days?
2 There are those who move boundary stones;
they pasture flocks they have stolen.
3 They drive away the orphan’s donkey
and take the widow’s ox in pledge.
4 They thrust the needy from the path
and force all the poor of the land into hiding.
5 Like wild donkeys in the desert,
the poor go about their labor of foraging food;
the wasteland provides food for their children.
6 They gather fodder in the fields
and glean in the vineyards of the wicked.
7 Lacking clothes, they spend the night naked;
they have nothing to cover themselves in the cold.
8 They are drenched by mountain rains
and hug the rocks for lack of shelter.
9 The fatherless child is snatched from the breast;
the infant of the poor is seized for a debt.
10 Lacking clothes, they go about naked;
they carry the sheaves, but still go hungry.
11 They crush olives among the terraces[a];
they tread the winepresses, yet suffer thirst.
12 The groans of the dying rise from the city,
and the souls of the wounded cry out for help.
But God charges no one with wrongdoing.
13 “There
are those who rebel against the light,
who do not know its ways
or stay in its paths.
14 When daylight is gone, the murderer rises up,
kills the poor and needy,
and in the night steals forth like a thief.
15 The eye of the adulterer watches for dusk;
he thinks, ‘No eye will see me,’
and he keeps his face concealed.
16 In the dark, thieves break into houses,
but by day they shut themselves in;
they want nothing to do with the light.
17 For all of them, midnight is their morning;
they make friends with the terrors of darkness.
18 “Yet
they are foam on the surface of the water;
their portion of the land is cursed,
so that no one goes to the vineyards.
19 As heat and drought snatch away the melted snow,
so the grave snatches away those who have sinned.
20 The womb forgets them,
the worm feasts on them;
the wicked are no longer remembered
but are broken like a tree.
21 They prey on the barren and childless woman,
and to the widow they show no kindness.
22 But God drags away the mighty by his power;
though they become established, they have no assurance
of life.
23 He may let them rest in a feeling of security,
but his eyes are on their ways.
24 For a little while they are exalted, and then they are gone;
they are brought low and gathered up like all others;
they are cut off like heads of grain.
25 “If
this is not so, who can prove me false
and reduce my words to nothing?”
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約伯在這裡雖然說道：那些作惡的人因為亨通，就影響了許多的人也要像他們的行徑，要藉由作惡來使自己的財富增加，讓自己變成財大勢大的人！然而這樣的人要小心，因為他們圖謀的最後也是和一般人依樣是虛空的，人一走甚麼也沒有了！
其實約伯要表達的是，在這個世界沒有甚麼公平正義，有的只是人靠自己努力想建立一些豐功偉績，不管是用正當或不正當的方式。然而這一些最後的結果都是虛空，人走了什麼也就沒有了，連上帝的懲罰也看不見，哪來的「惡有惡報、善有善報」呢？
當然我們不一定要持約伯的觀點，但是對我們而言，若不是耶穌基督的救贖，人本就是走向滅亡，這是無可異議的！也因此，我們要脫離一般的「惡有惡報、善有善報」，而是要信耶穌才能得永生，信耶穌之後才有能力行善蒙上帝喜悅，快來信靠耶穌基督吧！
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