Jó 24— comparação

1“Por que os tempos não são reservados pelo Todo-Poderoso?

2Há pessoas que removem os marcos de divisa.

3Eles levam embora o jumento do órfão,

4Eles desviam os necessitados do caminho.

5Eis que, como jumentos selvagens no deserto,

6Eles cortam a sua comida no campo.

7Eles passam a noite nus, sem roupas,

8Eles se molham com as chuvas das montanhas,

9Há os que arrancam o órfão do peito,

10de modo que andam nus, sem roupas.

11Eles fazem azeite dentro dos muros desses homens.

12De dentro da cidade populosa, os homens gemem.

13“Estes são dos que se rebelam contra a luz.

14O assassino se levanta com a luz.

15O olho do adúltero também aguarda o crepúsculo,

16No escuro eles arrombam as casas.

17Pois a manhã é para todos eles como densas trevas,

18“Eles são espuma na superfície das águas.

19A seca e o calor consomem as águas da neve,

20O ventre se esquecerá dele.

21Ele devora a estéril que não dá à luz.

22Contudo, Deus preserva os poderosos com o seu poder.

23Deus lhes dá segurança, e eles descansam nela.

24Eles são exaltados; mas um pouco de tempo, e já não existem.

25Se não é assim agora, quem provará que sou mentiroso,

1“Why aren’t times laid up by the Almighty? Why don’t those who know him see his days?

2There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them.

3They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.

4They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves.

5Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go out to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread for their children.

6They cut their food in the field. They glean the vineyard of the wicked.

7They lie all night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.

8They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for lack of a shelter.

9There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,

10so that they go around naked without clothing. Being hungry, they carry the sheaves.

11They make oil within the walls of these men. They tread wine presses, and suffer thirst.

12From out of the populous city, men groan. The soul of the wounded cries out, yet God doesn’t regard the folly.

13“These are of those who rebel against the light. They don’t know its ways, nor stay in its paths.

14The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.

15The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, ‘No eye will see me.’ He disguises his face.

16In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don’t know the light.

17For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, for they know the terrors of the thick darkness.

18“They are foam on the surface of the waters. Their portion is cursed in the earth. They don’t turn into the way of the vineyards.

19Drought and heat consume the snow waters, so does Sheol those who have sinned.

20The womb will forget him. The worm will feed sweetly on him. He will be no more remembered. Unrighteousness will be broken as a tree.

21He devours the barren who don’t bear. He shows no kindness to the widow.

22Yet God preserves the mighty by his power. He rises up who has no assurance of life.

23God gives them security, and they rest in it. His eyes are on their ways.

24They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone. Yes, they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as all others, and are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.

25If it isn’t so now, who will prove me a liar, and make my speech worth nothing?”