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Nagpamangkot si Job Kon Ngaa Wala Ginasilutan sang Dios ang Malaot nga mga Tawo

24 “Ngaa wala nagatalana ang Makagagahom nga Dios sang tion sa paghukom sa malaot nga mga tawo? Ngaa wala makita sang mga nagakilala sa iya inang tion sa paghukom? Nagapanguha sang duta ang malaot nga mga tawo paagi sa paghalin sang mga muhon.[a] Nagapangawat sila sang mga sapat kag ginaimpon nila sa ila mga sapat. Ginakawat nila ang mga asno sang mga ilo, kag ginakuha nila bilang garantiya sa utang ang baka sang balo nga babayi. Ginapigos[b] nila ang mga imol, gani napilitan ini nga magpanago. Nagapangita sila sang ila pagkaon sa kamingawan pareho sa talunon nga mga asno. Halos wala na sing iban nga lugar nga mapangitaan nila sang pagkaon para sa ila mga anak. Nagapanipot sila sang mga patubas sa uma, pati sa talamnan sang ubas sang malaot nga mga tawo. Nagatulog sila kon gab-i nga ginatugnawan, kay wala sila sing habol kag kulang ang ila bayo. Nagakabasa sila sang ulan nga nagatupa sa mga kabukiran, kag nagadasok sila sa higad sang mga bato tungod kay wala sila sing pasilungan.

“Ginakuha sang malaot nga mga tawo ang bata sang balo kag imol nga babayi bilang bayad sa utang. 10 Nagalakat ang mga imol nga kulang sing bayo; ginapapas-an sila sang mga inani nga uyas pero gutom sila. 11 Ginapapuga sila sang olibo kag ubas, pero indi sila makatilaw sini. 12 Mabatian sa siyudad ang mga pag-ugayong sang mga tagumatayon kag ang pagpangayo sang bulig sang mga napilasan sing grabe, pero wala gid pagbalusi sang Dios ang naghimo sing malain sa ila.

13 “May mga tawo nga nagakontra sa kasanag. Wala sila nagalakat sa kasanag kag wala nila ini naintiendihan. 14 Ang manugpatay nagabangon aga pa sa pagpatay sang mga imol, kag kon gab-i nagapangawat siya. 15 Ang nagapanginbabayi nagahulat magdulom agod wala sing may makakita sa iya. Ginatabunan niya ang iya nawong agod wala sing may makakilala sa iya. 16 Kon gab-i nagasulod ang mga kawatan sa mga balay, pero kon adlaw nagapanago sila, kay nagalikaw sila sa kasanag. 17 Ginakabig nila ang kadulom nga kasanag, kay mas gusto nila ang makahaladlok nga kadulom.

Ang Sabat sang Abyan ni Job

18 “Pero indi magadugay ang malaot nga mga tawo pareho sa bukal sang tubig. Ang duta nga ila ginapanag-iyahan ginapakamalaot sang Dios. Gani wala sing may nagakadto sa ila talamnan sang ubas. 19 Subong nga ang snow nagakatunaw kag nagakadula sa init, ang mga makasasala madula man sa kalibutan. 20 Indi na sila pagdumdumon pa kundi kalimtan na sila bisan sang ila iloy. Laglagon sila pareho sa kahoy nga gin-utod, kag kaunon sila sang mga ulod. 21 Kay wala nila pagtratara sing maayo ang mga baw-as nga babayi. Kag wala nila ginakaluoyan ang mga balo nga babayi.

22 “Ginalaglag sang Dios ang gamhanan nga mga tawo paagi sa iya gahom. Bisan malig-on sila, wala sing kasiguruhan ang ila kabuhi. 23 Posible nga tugutan sila sang Dios nga magkabuhi nga wala sing katalagman, pero ginabantayan gid sang Dios ang tanan nila nga hulag. 24 Sa malip-ot nga tion nagauswag sila, pero sa indi madugay magakawala sila pareho sa bulak nga nagakalaya ukon pareho sa uhay nga gin-garab. 25 Kon indi husto ang akon ginasiling, sin-o ang makapamatuod nga nagabutig ako? Sin-o ang makasiling nga sayop ako?”

Footnotes

  1. 24:2 muhon: Tanda ini sang dulunan sang duta. Kon sa English, landmark ukon boundary markers.
  2. 24:4 Ginapigos: sa literal, Ginatikwang sa dalan.

24 “Why does the Almighty not set times(A) for judgment?(B)
    Why must those who know him look in vain for such days?(C)
There are those who move boundary stones;(D)
    they pasture flocks they have stolen.(E)
They drive away the orphan’s donkey
    and take the widow’s ox in pledge.(F)
They thrust the needy(G) from the path
    and force all the poor(H) of the land into hiding.(I)
Like wild donkeys(J) in the desert,
    the poor go about their labor(K) of foraging food;
    the wasteland(L) provides food for their children.
They gather fodder(M) in the fields
    and glean in the vineyards(N) of the wicked.(O)
Lacking clothes, they spend the night naked;
    they have nothing to cover themselves in the cold.(P)
They are drenched(Q) by mountain rains
    and hug(R) the rocks for lack of shelter.(S)
The fatherless(T) child is snatched(U) from the breast;
    the infant of the poor is seized(V) for a debt.(W)
10 Lacking clothes, they go about naked;(X)
    they carry the sheaves,(Y) but still go hungry.
11 They crush olives among the terraces[a];
    they tread the winepresses,(Z) yet suffer thirst.(AA)
12 The groans of the dying rise from the city,
    and the souls of the wounded cry out for help.(AB)
    But God charges no one with wrongdoing.(AC)

13 “There are those who rebel against the light,(AD)
    who do not know its ways
    or stay in its paths.(AE)
14 When daylight is gone, the murderer rises up,
    kills(AF) the poor and needy,(AG)
    and in the night steals forth like a thief.(AH)
15 The eye of the adulterer(AI) watches for dusk;(AJ)
    he thinks, ‘No eye will see me,’(AK)
    and he keeps his face concealed.
16 In the dark, thieves break into houses,(AL)
    but by day they shut themselves in;
    they want nothing to do with the light.(AM)
17 For all of them, midnight is their morning;
    they make friends with the terrors(AN) of darkness.(AO)

18 “Yet they are foam(AP) on the surface of the water;(AQ)
    their portion of the land is cursed,(AR)
    so that no one goes to the vineyards.(AS)
19 As heat and drought snatch away the melted snow,(AT)
    so the grave(AU) snatches away those who have sinned.
20 The womb forgets them,
    the worm(AV) feasts on them;(AW)
the wicked are no longer remembered(AX)
    but are broken like a tree.(AY)
21 They prey on the barren and childless woman,
    and to the widow they show no kindness.(AZ)
22 But God drags away the mighty by his power;(BA)
    though they become established,(BB) they have no assurance of life.(BC)
23 He may let them rest in a feeling of security,(BD)
    but his eyes(BE) are on their ways.(BF)
24 For a little while they are exalted, and then they are gone;(BG)
    they are brought low and gathered up like all others;(BH)
    they are cut off like heads of grain.(BI)

25 “If this is not so, who can prove me false
    and reduce my words to nothing?”(BJ)

Footnotes

  1. Job 24:11 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.

24 Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?

Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.

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

They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.

Behold, 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.

They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.

They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.

They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.

They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.

10 They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;

11 Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.

12 Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.

13 They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.

14 The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.

15 The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.

16 In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.

17 For 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.

18 He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.

19 Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned.

20 The 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.

21 He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.

22 He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no man is sure of life.

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

24 They 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.

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