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24 Ilaaha Qaadirka ahu muxuu wakhtiyo u kaydin waayaa?
Kuwa isaga yaqaanse maxay maalmihiisa u arki waayaan?
Waxaa jira kuwa soohdinta dalka durkiya,
Oo waxay xoog ku dhacaan adhyo, kolkaasay daajiyaan.
Oo waxay iska kaxaystaan dameerka agoonta,
Oo waxay rahaamad u qaataan naag carmal ah dibigeed.
Saboolka baahan ayay jidka ka leexiyaan,
Oo masaakiinta dhulkana dhammaantood way wada dhuuntaan.
Bal eeg, sida dameerdibadeedyo lamadegaanka jooga
Ayay shuqulkooda ugu baxaan, iyagoo cunto aad u doonaya;
Cidladuna carruurtooda cuntay u soo bixisaa.
Cuntadooda waxay ka goostaan berrinka,
Oo waxay xaabxaabaan canabka kuwa sharrowyada ah.
Oo habeenkii oo dhan iyagoo qaawan oo aan dhar lahayn ayay jiifsadaan,
Oo dhaxanta waxay ka huwadaanna ma leh.
Waxaa iyaga qoya roobka buuraha,
Oo gabbaadla'aan daraaddeed ayay dhagaxa u dugsadaan.
Waxaa jira kuwa agoonta naaska ka dhufsada,
Oo masaakiintana rahaamad ka qaata,
10 Sidaas daraaddeed waxay warwareegaan iyagoo qaawan oo aan dhar qabin,
Oo iyagoo gaajaysan ayay xidhmooyinka sidaan.
11 Waxay saliid ku sameeyaan nimankaas derbiyadooda gudahooda,
Macsarooyinkoodana way tuntaan, iyagoo harraadsan.
12 Dadku magaalooyinka way ka cabaadaan,
Oo nafta kuwa dhaawacanuna way qaylisaa,
Laakiinse Ilaah nacasnimadaa ma fiiriyo.
13 Kuwaasu waxay ka mid yihiin kuwa nuurka ku caasiyooba,
Oo jidadkiisa ma ay yaqaaniin,
Oo dhabbayaashiisana ma ay sii hayaan.
14 Gacankudhiigluhu kaaha waaberi wuu la soo kacaa, oo wuxuu dilaa miskiinka iyo saboolka baahan,
Oo habeenkiina isagu waa sida tuug oo kale.
15 Oo isha dhillayguna waxay sugtaa fiidka,
Oo wuxuu isyidhaahdaa, Ninna ima arki doono,
Oo wuu hagoogtaa.
16 Oo goor gudcur ah ayay guryaha dhacaan,
Oo maalinnimadana meel bay isku xidhaan,
Oo iftiinka maba yaqaaniin.
17 Waayo, subaxnimadu dhammaantood waxay u tahay sida hooska dhimashada,
Maxaa yeelay, waxay yaqaaniin cabsida hooska dhimashada.
18 Isagu biyaha dushooda wuu ku dheereeyaa,
Qaybtoodii dhulkaa lagu habaaray,
Isagu uma leexdo xagga jidka beeraha canabka ah.
19 Biyaha barafka waxaa dhammaysta abaar iyo kulayl,
Oo sidaasoo kalaa She'oolna u galaa kuwii dembaabay.
20 Uurkii hooyadiis waa illoobi doonaa isaga; jidhkiisana waxaa cuni doona oo macaansan doona dirxiga,
Oo mar dambena isaga lama xusuusan doono,
Oo kii xaqdaranuna wuxuu u jabi doonaa sida geed oo kale.
21 Isagu wuxuu baabbi'iyaa madhashada aan carruurta dhalin;
Oo carmalkana wax wanaagsan uma sameeyo.
22 Oo weliba kii xoog badanna itaalkiisuu ku jiidaa;
Oo markuu kacana nafta waa laga rajo beelaa.
23 Ilaahna wuxuu iyaga siiyaa meel ammaan ah, oo halkaasay isku halleeyaan,
Jidadkoodana ishuu ku hayaa.
24 Iyaga waa la sarraysiiyaa, laakiin in yar dabadeed way wada baabba'aan;
Hubaal iyaga waa la hoosaysiiyaa, oo jidka ayaa looga tuuraa sida kuwa kale oo dhan,
Oo waxaa loo jaraa sida sabuul hadhuudh oo kale.
25 Oo haddayan saas ahayn, yaa igu caddayn kara inaan beenlow ahay,
Oo hadalkaygase yaa ka dhigi kara wax aan waxtar lahayn?

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?