24 “Why are ^(A)not times of judgment ^(B)kept by the Almighty,
    and why do those who know him never see his ^(C)days?
² Some move ^(D)landmarks;
    they seize flocks and pasture them.
³ They drive away the donkey of the fatherless;
    they ^(E)take the widow's ox for a pledge.
⁴ They ^(F)thrust the poor off the road;
    the poor of the earth ^(G)all hide themselves.
⁵ Behold, like wild donkeys in the desert
    the poor^{[a] (H)}go out to their toil, ^(I)seeking game;
    the wasteland yields food for their children.
⁶ They gather their^[b] fodder in the field,
    and they glean the vineyard of the wicked man.
⁷ They ^(J)lie all night naked, without clothing,
    and have no covering in the cold.
⁸ They are wet with the rain of the mountains
    and ^(K)cling to the rock for lack of shelter.
⁹ (There are those who snatch the fatherless child from the breast,
    and they take a pledge against the poor.)
¹⁰ They go about naked, without clothing;
    hungry, they ^(L)carry the sheaves;
¹¹ among the olive rows of the wicked^[c] they make oil;
    they tread the winepresses, but suffer thirst.
¹² From out of the city the dying^[d] groan,
    and the soul of ^(M)the wounded cries for help;
    yet God charges no one with ^(N)wrong.

¹³ “There are those who rebel ^(O)against the light,
    who are not acquainted with its ways,
    and do not stay in its paths.
¹⁴ The murderer rises before it is light,
    that he ^(P)may kill the poor and needy,
    and in the night he is like a thief.
¹⁵ The eye of the adulterer also waits for ^(Q)the twilight,
    saying, ‘No ^(R)eye will see me’;
    and he veils his face.
¹⁶ In the dark they ^(S)dig through houses;
    by day they shut themselves up;
    they do not know the light.
¹⁷ For ^(T)deep darkness is morning to all of them;
    for they are friends with the terrors of deep darkness.

¹⁸ “You say, ^(U)‘Swift are they on the face of the waters;
    their portion is cursed in the land;
    no treader turns toward their vineyards.
¹⁹ Drought and heat snatch away the snow waters;
    so does ^(V)Sheol those who have sinned.
²⁰ The womb forgets them;
    the worm finds them sweet;
they are ^(W)no longer remembered,
    so wickedness is broken like ^(X)a tree.’

²¹ “They wrong the barren, childless woman,
    and do no good to the widow.
²² Yet God^[e] prolongs the life of the mighty by his power;
    they rise up when they despair of life.
²³ He gives them security, and they are supported,
    and his ^(Y)eyes are upon their ways.
²⁴ They are exalted ^(Z)a little while, and then ^(AA)are gone;
    they are brought low and gathered up like all others;
    they are ^(AB)cut off like the heads of grain.
²⁵ If it is ^(AC)not so, who will prove me a liar
    and show that there is nothing in what I say?”

² “Dominion and fear are with God;^[f]
    he makes peace in his high heaven.
³ Is there any number to his ^(AE)armies?
    Upon whom does his ^(AF)light not arise?
⁴ How then can man be ^(AG)in the right before God?
    How can he who is ^(AH)born of woman be ^(AI)pure?
⁵ Behold, even the moon is not bright,
    and the stars are not pure in his eyes;
^6 (AJ)how much less man, who is ^(AK)a maggot,
    and ^(AL)the son of man, who is a worm!”

² “How you have ^(AM)helped him who has no power!
    How you have saved ^(AN)the arm that has no strength!
³ How you have ^(AO)counseled him who has no wisdom,
    and plentifully declared sound knowledge!
⁴ With whose help have you uttered words,
    and whose breath ^(AP)has come out from you?
⁵ The ^(AQ)dead tremble
    under the waters and their inhabitants.
⁶ Sheol is ^(AR)naked before God,^[g]
    and ^(AS)Abaddon has no covering.
⁷ He ^(AT)stretches out the north over ^(AU)the void
    and hangs the earth on nothing.
⁸ He ^(AV)binds up the waters in his thick clouds,
    and the cloud is not split open under them.
⁹ He covers the face of the full moon^[h]
    and ^(AW)spreads over it his cloud.
¹⁰ He has inscribed ^(AX)a circle on the face of the waters
    at the boundary between light and darkness.
^11 (AY)The pillars of heaven tremble
    and are astounded at his ^(AZ)rebuke.
¹² By his power he ^(BA)stilled the sea;
    by his understanding he shattered ^(BB)Rahab.
^13 (BC)By his wind the heavens were made fair;
    his hand pierced ^(BD)the fleeing serpent.
¹⁴ Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ^(BE)ways,
    and how small ^(BF)a whisper do we hear of him!
    But the thunder of his power who can understand?”

⁵ All day long they injure my cause;^[b]
    all their thoughts are against me for evil.
⁶ They ^(G)stir up strife, they ^(H)lurk;
    they ^(I)watch my steps,
    as they have waited for my life.
⁷ For their crime will they escape?
    ^(J)In wrath ^(K)cast down the peoples, O God!

⁸ You have kept count of my tossings;^{[c]
    (L)}put my tears in your bottle.
    ^(M)Are they not in your book?
⁹ Then my enemies will turn back
    ^(N)in the day when I call.
    This I know, that^{[d] (O)}God is for me.
¹⁰ In God, whose word I praise,
    in the Lord, whose word I praise,
¹¹ in God I trust; ^(P)I shall not be afraid.
    What can man do to me?

¹² I must perform my ^(Q)vows to you, O God;
    I will ^(R)render thank offerings to you.
^13 (S)For you have delivered my soul from death,
    yes, my feet from falling,
^(T)that I may walk before God
    ^(U)in the light of life.